Monday, March 18, 2024

Stabilized the rotation

From ophello on X:





Could this kind of rotation be a factor in the demise of the latest Starship test?











Sunday, March 17, 2024

More AGW nonsense is rejected by international group of geologists



If science were truly respected, the people citing it as a magic word to end all discussion, would know what they were talking about when they used the term.

Do people really know what science actually is?







The only way to lose this fight is to refuse to fight it



3:14 PM

Health and Fitness is said to be "right-wing extremism". Joe Rogan calls that assertion stupid. But of course it is.







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11:00 AM

When you see something, it gets hard not to see it. Stupidity is everywhere!

Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit has a theory of how the government became more stupid.





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10:37 AM CST

The latest stupidity from Stupidity Inc: Trump used the word "bloodbath". Oh no! Another January 6th!

They had two years to convince the public that there was an insurrection. They failed. Isn't it stupid that they keep pulling out the same playbook over and over again? Even more stupid to listen to the stupidity. The stupidity of it is that it isn't what the truth of the matter actually is, and they damned well know it.

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Nobody should misunderstand my meaning here. The promoters of the stupid intend to disarm you into your chains. It is rather stupid to acquiece in your own shackling. That is precisely what is happening today.

The war between knowledge and stupidity is won if you train your mind to seek the truth. For the seeking of truth is the basis of science. I have wondered why people so blindly follow what they don't understand. If you refuse to do your own thinking, how can you possibly escape the slavery of blindly following someone who claims to know everything?

The authors of this piece are correct in that people are mesmerized by the magic word of "science" while not actually trying to understand what it truly is.











Starship Flight 3, Aftermath

NASA Spaceflight



The best part of this video is the launch--at the beginning. It appears to be in slow-motion. The movement of the cloud approaches the location of the camera in a manner not unlike the pyroclastic flows of a volcanic eruption. It probably wouldn't be healthy to be standing there when that ship launched. It's hard to tell how far away this was, but it could have been several hundred yards.









Saturday, March 16, 2024

Chaos in Haiti may result in avalanche of illegals hitting Florida



14 pt lead in Florida









Terrorists accuse others of hating them



Well, boo-freakin'-hoo. Get me a freakin' violin and I'll play a sad, sad song.









Nirvana Come As You Are



My apartment flooded out one evening, and as I waited for the apartment manager to set me up with another place to stay while it was being repaired, this song was playing in the lounge. Funny how this video captures a lot of scenes with water flowing around. Quite the "coinky-dink". In those days, I swear, I didn't have a gun. Anudder coinky-dink.

I'm goofing around with songs about now. That's how I came upon this "memoria". Funny how the mind works. Or doesn't.











McAfee called it an "odor of mendacity"



"Ooo, ooo, that smell."









Pence breaks promise to endorse the eventual GOP nomination, as did Haley





What purpose did his candidacy serve, and what purpose does his non-endorsement serve?

This isn't even news, but what IS news is that it is reported as news. Why? To continue to feed divisions?









Friday, March 15, 2024

Slipping into darkness



6:51 PM, 3/15/24:

The kind of people that the Democrats need to get themselves elected... Tsk, tsk







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An old story.







Politico: "Bloodbath at RNC"



3/15/24:

More info about the recent changes at the RNC.





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Going to be neutral on this development. Why? The results aren't in as to the significance of the firings. If the GOP becomes more attentive to the public,and in particular the base of the GOP, then it could be a good thing. Otherwise, who knows?







Thursday, March 14, 2024

Scientia Plus: Starship lost



7:48 PM CDT



Here's another video by Scott Manley, who breaks it down a bit further. Not too much to add, except for the attitude of the Starship was not maintained. Something may have failed as it was coming down through the atmosphere. Even if the tiles held up well, it wasn't going to stay together coming down like that.











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Debris comes off the Starship at the part of the video where it is started in the replay. I saw that in real time, and it was no surprise when the ship broke up. Upon replay, it isn't entirely conclusive that it is the heat tiles, but what else could it have been? The ship may have broken up when it hit the dense part of the atmosphere as it came in for the splashdown.





As for the booster, it seemed to be coming down pretty hot. The engines lit up, but it didn't seem to be enough of them, or they were lit up too late, and the vehicle appears to have hit the water at high speed. Maybe close to supersonic speed. There was a picture right up to the end. If there was anything else significant, I couldn't tell at this point. Note: it was about 6 and 7 minutes into the video, so by the time the above was cuing up, the booster had already crashed.



Jihad and the consequences

Biden made a protected class of this.











Lots of ignorant people in the world

Just watched the Starship launch, and saw some ignorant comments about Musk's "failure". There's a lot of talk about "Democracy" and "equality", but there's a downside to that. The downside is that ignorant people also get a say about how things are to proceed. Unfortunately, a good portion of the population are ignorant dumbasses, and it shows in their comments. Anyway, congrats to Spacex for their achievements, and a downward pointing thumb for the critics. That is all.

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Looming Dystopia





There seems to be a lot of this sentiment out there. Doesn't matter which side of the aisle you favor. There is this persistent feeling that things are just not right, and are heading in the wrong direction.