The Unwanted Blog (2)

I can’t say that this is a headline I expected

October 14, 2022

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Black Hole Pukes Up Star Years After Eating It It seems that a black hole tore a star apart, trapped the tattered gaseous remains in an accretion disk, held onto it for three years, then blatted it back out into space at half the speed of light. The mechanism for this seems a little unclear.

If he can hold off paying for six months or so…

October 14, 2022

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Crazy, Hmm…, News, Politics

Alex Jones ordered to pay $965 million for Sandy Hook lies $965 million sure *seems* like a lot of money. But Jones has one ray of hope: Bidenomics. If he can hold off paying for a few more months, the magic of inflation will turn that kingly sum into the cost of a loaf of…

DERP

October 13, 2022

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scottlowther

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Art, Humor, rockets, spacecraft

Someone messed up the NASA logo on the recent SpaceX launch. The derpified logo “Nick B” created in response fills me with joy: https://t.co/ZriD22ndBh pic.twitter.com/XfZoCatumQ — Nick B 📸🚀 (@_AstroGuy_) October 2, 2022

CAD Diagrams

October 13, 2022

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Aircraft, Art, Awesomeness, Drawings, history, Nukes, projects, rockets, spacecraft

I’m at work on a new series of CAD diagrams (see HERE for the first run) to be released as PDFs formatted for printing at 18X24. For example, here are first drafts of a few: Boeing Space Sortie (3 sheets) Saturn C-8/Nova Jules Verne’s “Columbiad” A-12 Avenger II (2 sheets) Lockheed CL-400 “Suntan” All of…

“2001” verified!

October 13, 2022

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Art, Awesomeness, science, spacecraft, youtube

One might argue that an ESA astronaut doing cosplay while on the Space Station is a waste of time. I would counter with: “you’re an idiot. Watch this awesomeness.” 2022 A Space Odyssey. Turns out, yes, you can walk with Velcro shoes. Slowly, very very slowly 😉#ASpaceOdyssey #MissionMinerva @esa @esaspaceflight @Space_Station pic.twitter.com/WI69RXmObE — Samantha Cristoforetti…

Irrecoverable Losses

October 13, 2022

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Crazy, Dumbassery, Gah, News, Politics, Russian Empire, ಠ_ಠ

Russia’s ‘irrecoverable losses’ in Ukraine: more than 90,000 troops dead, disabled, or AWOL This estimate appears to come from the FSB. Normally you’d expect them to underestimate the losses in order to try to make things look not quite so bad. So… is this an underestimate? Is it reasonably accurate? Or is it in the…

I guess this means Ukraine getting nuked is inevitable

October 12, 2022

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Hmm…, News, Nukes, Politics, Russian Empire, youtube

Biden believes Putin won’t use nuclear weapons on Ukraine

Man-portable anti-missile systems

October 12, 2022

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scottlowther

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Aircraft, Awesomeness, News, rockets, Russian Empire, Weapons, youtube

Assuming the video is accurate (these days, who knows), it appears that a Ukrainian soldier swatted a Russian cruise missile on its way to a war crime using a standard shoulder-launched short range missile. It’s unclear to me what system was used, as the video is pretty potato in quality. Doesn’t look to me…

Why do rockets crackle?

October 11, 2022

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scottlowther

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rockets, science, youtube

A straightforward explanation of why rockets sound the way they do: Many years ago there was some random internet crackpot arguing that active sound cancellation systems could be added to the tail end of a rocket to make it virtually silent. Watch this and see if you can figure out how to use a point-generated…

Political tests in science

October 11, 2022

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AARRRGH, Crazy, Dumbassery, Forward, News, Politics, science, Worldwreckers, ಠ_ಠ

A political test in any science other than “political science” is an abomination. So, of course, here comes the United States Federal Government instituting political tests: you have to pledge allegiance to a scientifically irrelevant political ideology *and* do a performative written struggle session explaining just how much you love Dear Leaders wise policies and…

I can’t say that this is a headline I expected

If he can hold off paying for six months or so…

DERP

CAD Diagrams

“2001” verified!

Irrecoverable Losses

I guess this means Ukraine getting nuked is inevitable

Man-portable anti-missile systems

Why do rockets crackle?

Political tests in science

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