“Send Us Thine Asteroid, o Lord” is a hymn I would kind of expect to hear in increasing frequency in this new era of intentionally electing the brain-damaged to the Senate and White House and letting absolute weirdos corrupt kids in school and turning STEM upside down in favor of “other ways of knowing.” …
Atlas launch to test inflatable heat shield A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 4:25 a.m. Eastern Nov. 10. The primary payload of the rocket is the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) 2 weather satellite … A secondary payload on the launch…
Guillermo del Toro has released some -re-viz video created by ILM for his cancelled 2011 “At The Mountains of Madness.” There is a fairly creepy critter here, but it does not seem to match the descriptions in the novella. It’s *certainly* not an Elder Thing; all it can be is either a Shoggoth (which should…
I’ve seen a number of YouTubers react to “2001.” A common thread is a general dull-wittedness… confused by what they’re seeing, and unable or unwilling to try to think it through, certainly unable to come up with intelligent suppositions. These two guys, however, seem to get it. Well… as much as *anyone* can “get it”…
A video tour of the Hughes H-4 Hercules, the “Spruce Goose.” This would have been a hell of a plane had it been made available several years earlier, but by the time it flew it was not only no longer needed, it was obsolete. being made largely of wood, its durability out in the world…
A guy who was known as a anti-gun-violence activist attacked a woman in public in broad daylight and got shot by the police for his troubles. That’s straightforward enough… but this headline is a little grammatically *off*. Man Killed by Officer Known for Anti-Gun Violence Campaign See, it wasn’t the police officer known for…
Disgraced former Senator Al Franken worrying that if the Republicans take over the House and/or Senate, not only will the Democrats plans not be allowed to pass, but there might actually be investigations of the many valid criminal accusations that have been made against his side of the aisle. While that outcome would be great,…
The worlds of Design Engineers and Machinists are very different… but they have to meet up at some point, or things don’t get done. I saw a lot of the sort of problems described here back when I was in aerospace; similarly, the worlds of Engineers and Draftsmen were well separated, which was an issue…
Due to repeated and ongoing issues with the original Unwanted Blog that has been running since 2008, *this* is now the official blog, and the old one is the backup blog. New posts will appear here first, there later (if at all, if the problems persist). So far this blog seems to be working. However,…
