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,…
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*…
Why aren’t more sports cars like this? Granted, there is zero chance that I will ever end up the owner of even a bottom-end sports car, much less a Lamborghini or a McLaren, but I’d be much more interested if I knew that the car could at least take a pot hole.
Eleven days ago I set up this “backup blog” in case the main blog went goofy again. Well, guess what… both the main Unwanted Blog and the Aerospace Projects Review blogs are gone goofy, not letting me make new posts and showing errors. Wheeeee.
Yow: Just saw in this GCN Circular: https://t.co/qWZD6hLQ7w that the huuuuuge Gamma Ray Burst GRB221009A which is the brightest ever detected, has triggered detectable ionospheric disturbances in our own atmosphere. pic.twitter.com/DbGd0eEXDM — Dominique Boutigny (@AlvindeDiaspar) October 14, 2022
Photos of a physical copy, fresh from the printer, somewhere in the wilds of Britain. UK/EU buyers should start receiving them shortly, I’d imagine. The ordering link straight from the publisher: US Supersonic Bomber Projects And the updated Amazon link: US Supersonic Bomber Projects Paperback – December 23, 2022 As previously mentioned, if you are…
From the BBC: Overcrowding: School doesn’t understand why I fall asleep in class The argument is made that a 16-year-old falls asleep in class because his house is too small and is over-crowded, and that his family has been unable to find a bigger one. But… nowhere in the story does it say that the…
A circa 1983 illustration of the Bell JVX tiltrotor concept, folded for storage aboard an aircraft carrier. The JVX would be developed into the V-22 Osprey. The differences between this concept and the final vehicle are relatively minor, with the sponsons on the side, shape of the nose and apparently less-lifted tail being the most…
