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“If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.” -Thomas Jefferson So as a follow-up, Society has deemed certain marijuana laws to be unjust. Therefore people who broke those unjust laws were right and obligated to do so. I would argue that the criminal […]
Confirmed today by a tweet directly from Elon Musk, the winged water tank that looks like a 1950s science fiction rocket with a nose job fired its engine and pushed off the ground: “Starhopper completed tethered hop. All systems green.” It was a very short test, but apparently the single Raptor engine was able to […]
This is an incredible story, and goes to show that you never know what you can do, until you do it. On purpose, or not. UPDATE: Troy Stephens has this video in a comment below. I thought it deserved to be up here. Beautiful song, beautiful bird.
The Gaelean Chronicles: Heroes 4 Hire Hell in Hellespont: Ambushed! Published 30 April 2016 The Heroes 4 Hire awoke in the middle of the night, startling at the sound of the horns that Sheriff Thorbald’s deputies carried for signalling, blaring a desperate warning across darkness. They grabbed their weapons, most leaving their armor […]
NASA’s Insight probe landed successfully on Mars on November 26th, 2018, after journeying across space for six and a half months. Its name is yet another horrible mashup of word salad that NASA is famous for, the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. There were two main instruments the lander was to […]
Has anyone heard about the latest glitches aboard the International Space Station? It appears India just intercepted a low orbit satellite with a missile, but the debris now threatens the ISS. Meanwhile, NASA is preoccupied trying to quell the bad optics they endured from not having enough properly sized spacesuits for an all-female space walk. […]
Conversations in life at work. You have a regular job making okay money and your work responsibilities are adequate for what you get paid. How this conversation should work: An authority person comes to speak with you and asks you to take on some extra tasks as you’re a hard worker and they […]
You’ve probably heard about how the 2016 Presidential Election has been called “The Flight 93” election. Check this article in The Spectator from just a few months ago: What happens when Americans sense that there is a contempt for God, marriage, children, morality, free speech, free association, hard work, individualism and decency and the contempt […]
Here is another singer who was ubiquitous on the radio in the late-60s/early 70s, and has since been largely forgotten. This is the song she is most remembered for: But, this is the one that bugged me my entire adult life, until the advent of a well-populated YouTube allowed me to finally remember who sang […]
My go-to guy for good ol’ fashioned common sense along with thousands of years of history that he knows like the back of his hand, bringing the past and present together in one breath! Amazing man. I do miss Thomas Sowell, though. aign=135e79dda4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_02_05_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-135e79dda4-73057225
“Taint my cup of tea, song-wise, but love the message and the ending: ENJOY!
Here is a fascinating video that shows just how advanced Werner von Braun and the German Nazi state were 75 years ago. In some ways, we are still catching up. One thing we have learned, however, is that it isn’t really a good idea to steer the rocket thrust by putting vanes in the exhaust […]
As far as I know, this is the first robot that Boston Dynamics has actually designed to play a useful and salable role in industry. From Boston Dynamics (appears under the YouTube on its native page): Handle is a mobile manipulation robot designed for logistics. Handle autonomously performs mixed SKU pallet building and depalletizing after […]
I’ve had this floating around in a folder for awhile now, and apparently I had forgotten to post it. Read on to find the true secret of the sky. The estimable xkcd, of course.
Following on his Defending Marriage, Esolen returns, this time in defense of boys and an experience of boyhood that is on the wane, if not extinguished in many quarters of the modern world. He masterfully illuminates the threats our precious sons face from all manner of purveyors and promoters of political correctness, too often hiding in […]