Just another retired engineer wandering around the cold, cold wilderness trying to find whatever's left of my witless country.
William L. Gensert has an important message to all who would desire to remain Americans: fight now or lose. Writing in American Thinker, he highlights that although we outnumber the Socialists, they are winning the political and media war, and have every intention of stealing the presidency in 2020. After driving two hours to vote […]
It seems the Norwegians have been listening to Monty Python again. These aren’t African swallows, nor are they carrying a coconut, but the principle is the same. Fixed-wing drones are fast and fuel-efficient, but can’t land in a small space. Multi-rotor drones are slow and burn fuel, but they can land on a dime. The […]
This is not a good development. I mentioned earlier that Russian failures in space, showcased by American successes, would bring about a backlash of some kind. I didn’t expect to hear of it this soon. Ed Timperlake, writing in American Thinker, quotes Business Insider (I won’t send you to BI directly because they don’t allow […]
The Little Rover That Could, which fell silent on a lonely plain on Mars on June 10th, 2018, has been declared lost after over a 1000 radio messages were transmitted to it in an effort to wake it up again. It has to be assumed at this point that the massive planetwide duststorm that silenced […]
Just one more post on space and SpaceX’s approach! I promise to discuss Blue Origin at another time. I found this an interesting video about why Elon Musk chose to go back to stainless steel for his new spaceships. You can stop watching when the fellow starts talking about his site (it gets a bit […]
During the glory years of the Soviet Union’s space program in the 1960s, Soviet citizens had above them a highly visible source of national pride. Magnificent machines were launched from Russian soil and traveled round and round the whole planet, through the blackness of space to land again on other Russian soil. As the Americans […]
There is a web comic, part science, part hilarity, and part sheer joy that many haven’t run across yet: xkcd. Here is the latest one: Size Venn Diagram
I am a conservative, but not a Christian. I feel free to say that here, which is one reason “our side” is “better” than “their side” (try telling a progressive that you don’t believe in man-made climate change and see what happens). That said, while I’m still on my personal search for faith I’m very […]
This is a very interesting video. “Mr. Reagan” presents a case that Alexandria Occasional-Cortex is actually only an actress, playing a Congresswoman for a radical group of Democrat activists. Based on the insanity that spews out of her every day, I’d have to give quite a lot of credence to this theory. No one person […]
Hey, everybody, it’s 2019 and we’re in the future now, so I want to know what we’ve wanted to know for the last fifty years: where’s my flying car? Since as least 1970 (and a few even before then) startup companies and magazines have been excitedly showing us their flying car prototypes and promising “you’ll […]
I try not to just point to another article without adding some commentary on it, but it’s late and I thought this article on American Thinker today was a good, concise description of one of the major weapons currently deployed by the Left in our Cold Civil War. The article begins: Hoax hate crimes belong […]
We are only beginning to take advantage of the democratization of aerial photography. The availability of high-quality drones carrying very good lightweight cameras is opening up a world that few ever get to see directly with their eyes. For those interested in architecture, here is a great collection of “views from above” in a gallery […]
Most of the United States, sans Arizona and Hawaii, submit to the indignity of changing their clocks twice a year, whether they need it or not. This foolish practice is scheduled to occur again tonight. Tomorrow I will be tasked with remembering which devices update their own time, climbing up ladders to change electro-mechanical wall […]
Sean Hannity has a tendency to be over-dramatic, but I hope he’s right about this one.
SciNews cobbled together a timelapse of Dragon 2 docking at the ISS, and set it to The Blue Danube. Though it could have used a little help near the end, this was an emotional video for me. I wasn’t aware, without the timelapse, just how much this vehicle wiggled around while waiting for clearance to […]