Back in the mid 80’s, one of the things I got a kick out of was the FASA Star Trek starship combat game. Not just the game itself, but all the books and miniatures that went along with it. I bought, assembled and painted a number of the little metal ships, and have tried to…
Ummm…. It looks like a lot of things. Like MLK, though, is not one of them. Disembodied limbs doing naughty things, sure. What Starfleet got back from that transporter foulup at the beginning of ST:TMP, sure. But an actual recognizable human? Not so much. Perhaps it was made specifically to get torn…
Along with the various iterations of single-seat tiltrotors (especially a stealthy version shown HERE), Bell also proposed a more conventional helicopter for the Light Helicopter eXperimental program in the early 80’s. The artwork below was published in 1985 and depicts a single seat scout chopper with stealthy features. I have no data on this design;…
Attorney General says if sheriffs won’t enforce gun ban ‘there are other people there to do the job’ The attorney general of the state of Illinois is annoyed that the great majority of the county sheriffs – elected officials who do not report to the Governor, nor can he remove them from office – have…
Comics MATTER w/Ya Boi Zack on YouTube asked this: If AI Art isn’t “real” art then explain THIS. @conor902 3 hours ago It’s crazy that there are people in this world that think a banana taped to a wall is art, but this masterpiece isn’t.
There is, I think, a lot of wishful thinking here, but interesting speculation nonetheless. The benefits of Russia’s coming disintegration The author believes that the Russian Federation will collapse into dozens of independent states, Russia itself will become a minor rump state, and the world will be a happier, safer, more western place, with China…
In general you want your opponent to be dumber and less capable than you. In matters of war and serious geopolitics, you want them to believe things that just ain’t so, to be generally gullible. But at a certain point, those who oppose you can start to believe in false stories that are *so* dumb…
