Just another retired engineer wandering around the cold, cold wilderness trying to find whatever's left of my witless country.
I realize this is basically a promotional video for a wooden boat-building company, but it’s a fascinating 10-minute look at building an awesome sailboat. Not within my budget, though…
Is there anything Americans won’t try? And succeed at?
The following is a piece of fiction that I wrote in 2011 for a private contest that had a requirement for a precise 1500-word length. I thought I would see how fiction was received around here. Yes, I kept my day job. The Mayflies Sunshine came from high above when the nymph finished its molt. […]
Asteroid 6478, discovered in 1988 by the Shoemaker’s at Palomar Observatory (yes, the comet is named after them), was just imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. A6478 is named “Gault”, after Donald Gault, a scientist who studied impact cratering processes. This is one of the few “active” asteroids that have been found. It is spinning […]
Rush Limbaugh reminds us that this war isn’t over, not by a long shot. The effort to eliminate Trump continues.
“Well before President Donald Trump’s election the Democratic Party’s self-proclaimed ‘democratic socialists’ characterized anyone who opposes them as Nazis. The irony is that members of that contingent have more in common with Nazis than they would care to admit.” Joseph D’Hippolito, writing in American Thinker, reminds us yet again that our current crop of radical […]
“A report published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology claims that white people’s eating habits are contributing more to climate change than their black and Latino counterparts.” Penny Starr, writing in Breitbart this morning, has found yet another whacky call from academics who are ashamed of their civilization. Yes, they say that white people’s eating […]
Electron lifted the Pentagon’s Radio Frequency Risk Reduction Deployment Demonstration (R3D2 — get it?) satellite to orbit yesterday evening at 4:27 PT. From Geekwire: The company’s Electron launch vehicle lifted off from Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula right on time, at 4:27 p.m. PT March 28 (12:27 p.m. local time March 29). […]
Ernest Rutherford, considered the father of nuclear physics, was born in Brightwater, New Zealand. It is fitting then that the radically new rocket engine from the small aerospace company founded by New Zealander Peter Beck, which powers the Electron rocket that launches from the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand, bears his name. Peter Beck, founder […]
Is it any wonder why the Left is winning? Conservatives can’t even agree on something as basic as the plain meanings of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Exhibit A is a pissing match between Edward J. Erler, a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute, and Mark Pulliam, playing out […]
This has been around for awhile, but it gave me a chuckle again this morning, so I thought I’d post it here.
An article penned by Leonard David at Space.Com makes the claim that Moon mining might actually work, and reviews the findings of a number of experts in the field, who finally seem to be getting some traction. A recent report — “Commercial Lunar Propellant Architecture: A Collaborative Study of Lunar Propellant Production” — has cut […]
But sometimes I can’t help myself. Libbies are so fun to trigger!
