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You’d think a man and a company devoted to video could do a show with decent levels… but NOOOOOOoooooo. What is your major malfunction that can’t get the sound right. This happens with the Lounge with distressing frequency. Maybe you ought to hire some kid from the Audio-Visual Klub at the local high school to […]
Bill mentioned in Stratosphere Lounge 258 that he plans for his story to take place in 200 years. He had previously mentioned that he wanted to tell the story as happening in more than one generation of time. I wanted to post this figure* that shows the travel time vs technology to various interplanetary and […]
I’m not much of a gambler, but I do like to put my money where my mouth is. A few months out from the 2016 US election I looked up the odds on The Donald winning and was surprised that the best I could get was 4/1 against. I didn’t place the bet in the […]
So… Dad died last Monday. We found this is his papers… Modern airliners have modern avionics. Avionics are certificated with the airframe, and the test equipment and procedures used to test and verify that those avionics are “good to fly with 300 souls on board” are actually part of the airworthiness certificate for the aircraft. […]
Amy Shira Teitel has a fun, Apollo-era-focused YouTube channel titled “That Vintage Space” that I’ve greatly enjoyed for a while now. Last night I ran across this livestream she did from a Spacefest conference 3 years ago that was simultaneously a delightful watch and made me yearn for a time and world in which such […]
Students in the Illinois school district are not allowed to wear hats, Bandannas, sunglasses, pajama pants or slippers in school. All fine and good, but now they are extending this rule to home study as well. They even go further as to say that the student should be sitting up at a desk. All this […]
In the latest Stratosphere Lounge (episode 258), Bill dismissed warp drive as magic. This included the so-called Alcubierre drive that I discussed in part 1. He dismissed it on the basis of it requiring the energy equivalent of “a galaxy” to operate. In the very same episode he regarded artificial gravity as non-magic, and he […]
I have been trying to understand the fundamental reason for leftists thought … I am trying to reconcile two perspectives on this issue; 1. Leftism is a desire to simply gain the immediate dopamine hit of being ‘virtuous’ – and that requires not looking in to the problem more deeply. If someone doesn’t have money […]
It’s nearly unanimous among conservative pundits that yes, Biden was racist when he said yesterday that blacks aren’t diverse in their political views (unlike Hispanics, he claimed). But was he? Meet the Hodge twins, comics and political commentators who say that he wasn’t. They’re black and on the right, something that, if you believe the […]
I hear the Democrats are thinking about increasing the number of justices and then packing the court with Progressive judges. Does these mean we can expect a return to the days of “Separate But Equal”?
I really wish Bill, Scott, and Stephen would make a video about the Twitter discussions on whether two plus two equals four. Yes. You read that right. Twitter is currently debating over whether or not the sum of two and two is actually four. Of course the left isn’t claiming that it’s never four, that […]
Welcome to the “new normal.” What does it even mean? I have an idea. What if life was so idyllic, so peaceful, so perfect, that nothing could ever go wrong? Is it conceivable? Absolutely! Such a place is written about in a book called the Bible. The place is called heaven. That reality is called […]
I don’t recall doing this, but even with the auto-tuning, it’s clearly my voice. Apparently, this ill-conceived experiment happened in 2011. It’s hip to be Scott Ott. Scott Ott · Gettysburg Address Rap [Scott Ott]
Bill et al, I really enjoy your shows and glad to be a member here. (New.) I wonder if you are familiar with Tony Heller’s posts on youtube. If not, please enjoy this one: part 1 for the mind, part 2 for the soul.
Today the Democrats and the left have begun their attack on the first and second amendments. New York attorney general Letitia James announced she has filed a lawsuit against the NRA claiming fraud among other things, with the intention of desolving the NRA. While I don’t believe she can accomplish this, I do believe that […]