Anti-matter, does it matter?

Before my computer decided to take a dump, I was checking out something about the Van Allen belts. The idea was to collect propellant from these belts, if feasible. It seems that there was a write up about that, and I was checking it out, then boom.

It seems that there's a possibility of retrieving anti-matter in the Van Allen belts. How interesting. Anyway, anti-matter propulsion is far more powerful than even nuclear power. It may be feasible to travel to the nearest star with this stuff. Just another possibility that might be opening up, ya'll.

Yes, it does matter.  Maybe a lot.

This would enable missions to Mars in 45 days. This study wasn't done by amateurs, ya'll.

Technical difficulties

This may not be a big problem or anything. So I just moved over to another browser and operating system. Seems that Linux isn't always stable. Well, knock me over with a feather.

If it isn't one thing, it is another.

Smokey and the Bandit --- quotes

12/19/24:

Also, "that was an attention getter".

Are we the attention-getter, or the attention-gettee? It too often seems to be the latter, when it oughta be the former. Know what I mean, Vern?



8/21/16:
"You can think about it, but don't do it?"

Ask stupid questions, get stupid answers

What about the poll that expresses approval of what Mangione did?

Polls are manipulative and stupid. Why ask a question in a poll which doesn't qualify the act being discussed? By qualifying, I mean to generalize it to a broader application. In short, the question should be something like: "Is it okay to kill people that you don't like"? I'd betcha you'd get a far different result than what this one was. It was a stupid answer to a stupid question. It is stupid because it has no thinking behind it.

It should be obvious that nobody should want the right to kill somebody that displeases them. Well, duh! If you disagree with someone, does that give you the right to shoot somebody for it? How would you like to be shot, you dummies?

No way a policy like this could last for long. Dead bodies all over the place is likely to have an outcry for it to stop. But that is what an unthinking approval of this act of violence amounts to. Nobody is using their brains on this one.

You might forgive the responses to the poll. The poll takers should ask better questions. It's a stupid poll that intended to make you feel something or do something equally stupid. Maybe they ought to give a poll that goes like this: "Should stupid poll takers be shot for asking stupid questions?"

I'd say that one deserves to be ignored. But here I am responding to it. What a world.

 

Release of the Gaetz file

Why would the GOP, who still controls the House, do this???

The Murkowski fake Reaganites don't play nice. Nor do they play by the rules, even though they like to claim to be all about rule of law and such things. They might as well be Democrats.

The Biden/Garland DOJ spent years reviewing allegations that I committed various crimes.

I was charged with nothing: FULLY EXONERATED. Not even a campaign finance violation. And the people investigating me hated me.

Then, the very “witnesses” DOJ deemed not-credible were…

— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) December 18, 2024

An adverse opinion of Elon Musk's Plans for Mars

Sabine Hossenfelder YouTube video, titled, "Why Musk is Wrong about Mars"

Comment:

There's been a lot of opinions about the subject, including my own. One thing to consider, however, is that many things once considered impossible are now commonplace. The trouble with those who argue that it is impossible are the ones who not always correct.

For now, it isn't possible. But advances keep getting made, and the answer isn't the slam dunk it was just a few short years ago. One of these days, it just might be possible. The real question isn't whether it is possible or not, but rather, if there's a will to do it. If there's a will to do it, there just may be a way.

Musk is going to do this on his own dime, so who's business is this anyway?

Oh, I forgot. Everything these days is everybody's business. We're all communists now. There's no private sector and no freedom.

Hunt for Red October

Cool customer who worried about cowboys, da?

Homer Hickam Interview

Ellie in Space on YouTube

Comment:

The interview is a bit long. I embedded it because I learned something new from it, and this blog is getting a bit stale. Two things that I learned: 1) I didn't know this guy, and 2) the movie being referred to "October Sky". There's always new things to learn about.









Here's a trailer for the flick "October Sky". Never saw it. Don't think I will. Too mushy.









Here's the short but sweet stuff.

Ideology was not part of Reagan's formula

In order to hold Reagan's mantle, one has to refer to the Speech.

Does today's Republican Party come closer to this speech, or does it resemble more of the things that Reagan criticizes? I think that it is the latter. Does not Trump represent Reagan better than Murkowski?

It is true that Trump does not have the style of Reagan, but he does have more of the substance of Reagan than many of the GOP.

The "moderates" of Reagan's day did not think he could win, but he did. Reagan won big, and so can Trump.

One thing is sure. Reagan didn't have to fight tooth and nail with the GOP. The GOP has decided that Trump is the enemy more than the Democrats. That couldn't have been true during Reagan's time. One could ask what has happened to the Republican party that this is so? Could it be that so many of them think this is the choice between right versus left? Well Reagan didn't think so. Neither do I. Watch the speech and see for yourself.

Murkowski will claim the mantle of "moderation" as well as Reagan's. But the Gerald Ford didn't think a man as conservative as Reagan could win. President Ford was a "moderate", and what did it get him? If Murkowski truly claimed the mantle of Reagan, she wouldn't have needed Democrat votes. She'd win as big as Reagan did. But Murkowski owes her position to the Democrats. She lost a Republican primary years ago, and used Democrats votes to retain her position. How then can she claim to be a Reagan republican?

Who does Murkowski thinks she's fooling?

Chain reaction crash on bridge in Louisiana

 

Reminds me of the time when I got stuck behind a wreck on IH10 a bit east of LaFayette. No place to go. You just have to wait till things get sorted out. Must've been stuck there for a couple hours. After getting free to move, I had another problem just outside Baton Rouge. It took me forever to get that delivery down.

 

Harrowing scenes from the Causeway Bridge which is closed in both directions due to multiple crashes involving over a dozen vehicles. https://t.co/FLpmvkgr0X pic.twitter.com/wBFRHiyEg4

— FOX 8 New Orleans (@FOX8NOLA) December 17, 2024

 

 

 

A revelation late in coming

 

Just a brief thought here.

 

It has frequently occurred to me that the political left is constantly lying to all of us. But now it has occurred to me that those on the Republican side ( or almost all of them ) are just as bad.

 

This may be an admission of naivete for all I know. But I DID believe these people. Now I am having a great deal of trouble believing ANY of the yayhoos.

 

What set me off is these people who keep using the leftist terminology that refers to themselves as being "on the right". No honest person should be doing this.

 

If someone wants to say "how dare you", then I'll ask if the letters G-F-Y mean anything to you.

 

Nobody should be using leftist ideology. Especially now. Let the left have their own bullshit ideology. But no. "We" got ours doing "their" schtick for them. Well, count me out. There's no more of this "we" shit from me from now on.

 

 

 

Have to call BS on this one

Murkowski has been captured by the far left, but insists that she's a Reagan conservative. She is either lying or she is Delusional.

Reagan was strongly anti-communist. He would never have joined them.

Murkowski says she’s ‘more of a Ronald Reagan Republican’ than a Trump one https://t.co/g7yIxaRFet ---Wrong. Reagan would NEVER have joined the commies for the purposes of overthrowing our own country. That's what Murkowski is doing by joining the commies in the Democrat Party

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) December 16, 2024

What principle is she defending? What principle is she advocating for? I don't see Reagan crumbling in the face of Democrat opposition. That a Bushie type habit.  If Reagan acted this way, the Soviets would have won the Cold War.

Murkowski and her ilk, are losing the Peace that Reagan won.

🚨Sen. Lisa Murkowski laments that there will be accountability to voters for obstructing Trump’s cabinet picks:

“The approach is going to be everybody toe the line, everybody line up. If you want to survive, you better be good. Don't get on Santa's naughty list here because we… pic.twitter.com/pPsVtZqhHS

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 13, 2024

The answer to the question is: "communism"

 

 

Hegseth is said to want meritocracy to return to the military. In the Soviet Union, and in all communist ordered societies, meritocracy takes a back seat to the party line.

 

Like the comedian "Yakov Smirnoff" once quipped, "In America, everyone looks for a party. In Soviet Union, party looks for YOU."

 

There can be no meritocracy in Sovetized America, comrades.

 

 

What the Hell is Happening at West Point?

If you’re not up to speed with the recent SNAFU at West Point around @PeteHegseth's nomination, it’s worth noting. Last Wednesday, ProPublica was on the verge of publishing a bombshell report contradicting Hegseth’s claim that he had… pic.twitter.com/JCnZRHzJnA

— The Real Mike Rowe (@mikeroweworks) December 14, 2024

 

 

 

Black fungus extremophile may aid in space colonization

Studied on the ISS



There may be a fungus in the future of space travel. It uses the radiation to convert it into chemical energy to sustain life. High radiation is a potential hazard for space travelers, so anything that is helpful in alleviating this hazard would be a significant development.

This Black Fungus Might Be Healing Chernobyl By Drinking Radiation—A Biologist Explains via @forbes https://t.co/O4pA33bFwg ---It is being studied for aerospace applications as well.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) December 16, 2024

More of this please....

12/15/24:

It doesn't look like much of an apology. I get the impression that it isn't sincere, either. They're not sorry.

12/14/24:

It is therapeutic to admit error. This could be part of a national reconciliation, but Insty has another point to make. Forced apologies are insincere, I would think.  The political left owes us ALL an apology.  But I won't hold my breath.

 

So the fact that ABC News and George Stephanopoulos have agreed to pay Donald Trump $15 million for defamation with a false claim of rape is going to be a front-page, lead of the evening news story for the next 3 days, right?

Stop laughing.

— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) December 14, 2024