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Rockets, cats, aircraft, guns, politics, photography, science fiction. You know, the usual stuff

  • Tip Jar

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    This is a copy of an old post from the original blog. Just making sure that these PayPal button things copy over properly. If ya wanna hit the tip jar, hey… I’m not gonna argue.     Tips Small $1.00 USDMedium $5.00 USDLarge $20.00 USDWacky $100.00 USDIn. Sane. $500.00 USD ———– Photo Tips Small $1.00…

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  • This is ridiculous, and I kinda want one

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    A rotary cell phone where a lot of the functionality is mechanical. It’s a real device that is available for pre-order as a kit, for a price that seems remarkably reasonable ($390). Since it is not manufactured by a major phone or electronics company, I imagine that you’ll be SOL if anything goes wrong with…

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  • Recent project

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    Here’s a look at Book 4. Some of the diagrams I do are completed in just a few hours. Some take considerably longer… several to many man-days, sometimes spread out over months as I dial in details. This one was sort of mid-range. The most complex and time consuming are typically the diagrams of aircraft…

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  • this seems a little unwise

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    BU researchers create hybrid COVID virus, causing friction with the government The “new” version is deadlier (at least to mice). Now, I can see value in such work… create a nasty variant so you can *cure* or create a vaccine against said nasty variant before it pops up naturally or is created and weaponized by…

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  • Russia lost another SU-34

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    Russian losses are expanding beyond Ukraine… 13 dead as Russian warplane crashes into apartment building near Ukraine border Russian news agencies have reported that at least 13 people died when a warplane crashed on Monday into a residential area in the Russian port city of Yeysk after suffering engine failure. Gotta admit, this is a…

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  • Lithobraking

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    Over the years there have been suggestions of using “lithobraking” as a means of reducing the cost of transporting payloads to the lunar surface. As the name suggests, the idea is to use the lunar surface itself – the lithosphere – to slow the craft. Meteoroids do this all the time, of course, though in…

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  • SA-203 S-IVB

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    Art from 1966 showing the S-IVB stage as launched on the SA-203 flight of the Saturn Ib, launched July 5, 1966. This flight put an S-IVb stage into orbit and demonstrated engine restart in microgravity, needed on the upcoming Apollo moon missions.

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  • California seems nice

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    Or maybe not… @quarantinedboredom1 #homeless #homelesspeople #oaklandcalifornia #oakland #encampment #living #alfresco #alfrescodining #debris #burned ♬ original sound – Jeffrey Long This is the sort of problem that could be fairly easily fixed. Reinstate loony bins, lock up criminals, deport illegals, enforce the border, and  cities will become far safer, cleaner, healthier places to live and…

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  • Well that’s gotta hurt

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    So “Halloween Ends” opened this weekend. On a budget of $20 million, it has made an estimated $41.25 million domestically in the opening weekend, pushing itself to profitability in a handful of days.   The low budget –  $17 million – horror movie “Smile” has, in just a bit over two weeks, made $71.2 million,…

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  • Just in time for Christmas

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    While scanning for other topics, I also scanned this sizable magazine ad for Toys R Us from 1987. I found it fairly entertaining… there are some things that stood the test of time, a lot that didn’t. For example: the Sega and Nintendo systems are of course horribly obsolete, but these are fondly remembered *and*…

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