The amazing Ingenuity Mars helicopter

There was a time when heavier than air flight was impossible. Now it is being done on another planet.

So many bad things these days. But there are a few good things. It is good to see something like this being done. How much longer will the technological improvements last? Society is being run by a bunch of retards.

Welding the Starship together

Informative video on how that humonguous Starship gets built.

So why focus so much on Starship? Because that is how material progress used to occur in this country. If we leave it up to the socialists, things like this will never happen. That's because it doesn't happen automatically. Somebody has to think it up, and if the government is always blocking the way, these things will never get built.

Throwing a lot of money doesn't necessarily bring results either. It has taken many more years to develop the SLS even though the technology is over 50 years old. More time was spent and a lot more money. But Starship is more advanced than the SLS, which uses Shuttle technology that was meant to be reusable, but failed.

It can happen because of freedom. That freedom is being destroyed systematically. These people, if they had their way, would destroy SpaceX. They would do it because of no other reason than the fact that he took over one of their pet projects on the basis of FREE SPEECH. What a crime! /sarc

I watch Spacex to see if he can realize his dream. All the while, there are people who would spitefully stop him for no other reason than a difference in opinion.

There is much talk of the division in the country. Whose fault is it? Actually, the thought should be who cares? It doesn't hurt anything to disagree. In the end, you might learn something useful during the struggle. Nobody can right all the time.

The Great Pretending and The Big Lie

Bidenomics---Trouble ahead

This article will get linked not for its title and presumed content, but for the term I see there all the time. It is called the "Great Pretending".

In this article, it is brought up in connection with parsing of language. Durable goods aren't selling, so the spin is in the use of the word "destocking".

Whatever language is being used, the basic idea is that the truth is not being told. Whether it is the Great Pretending or the BIG LIE, it is one and the same.

We are told that it is a great economy, but keep in mind all of the spending and the huge deficits.

The numbers seem to indicate that the government spending side of the economy is where the jobs are coming from. It is almost like the government is replacing the private sector. The economy is being socialized.

Figures don't lie, but liars figure. The government can spend vast sums of money and make the economy look better than what it really is. The government can do this because of its unlimited borrowing and money creation tools. But what happens when the dollar collapses?

This is all happening rather slowly, so it may not happen before the next election. But if it does happen, what will be the response from the public?

The Great Pretending or the BIG LIE can be spun for only so long. However, it needs to work only as long as the next election. Then it can continue after the regime is safely in power for awhile longer. If this goes on long enough, the powers-that-be will make themselves a permanent ruling class, and there won't be any way to vote the bums out. That's where it is all headed.

If the ruling class cannot win through propaganda, then they'll turn to cheating. If cheating and propaganda doesn't work, then they'll outlaw all opposition. There is no Democracy without free and fair elections. Seems odd that they want to throw people in jail for questioning election results, that is, if the ruling class was truthful to begin with. Since it isn't, it makes perfect sense that it is all a part of the BIG LIE. The BIG LIE is that the public wants this. The BIG LIE is that it is all inevitable.

It's amazing how many people seem to be falling for it, but how many are really falling for it? We can't ever know, or be allowed to know. Where is the opposition? You won't ever hear from them because they won't be heard. That's how a totalitarian system works. The truth gets smothered, and the BIG LIE rules.

Limitless Fresh Water Lies Right OVER The Ocean - Without Desalination!

Sounds pretty good, but what's the catch?

Call me cynical, but the reason it won't work is that it WILL work. Now, THAT'S cynical.

But it's nice to be optimistic. So why not?

New room temperature superconductor found?

 

8/9/23: Update of Jul 31st post





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If this claim pans out, I'd say its most likely application would be quantum computers. Maybe the first human level intelligence could be around the corner. Not sure that this is good news or not...

Not exactly a good look , but does anybody at the GOP care?

So McConnell and McCarthy don't want to pursue impeachment. This is just plain thuggish behavior.

This is not rule of law. It is rule of the most powerful gang. If the GOP is going to allow themselves to be treated like this, it should respond appropriately. They are going to made to look irrelevant if they don't. They will look that way because they will actually be irrelevant.

Booster 9 rollback to production site

 

Very long video, so this was skipped well along to the point where you can see where it is going.



Still have to test the hot staging ring, and if successful, attach the ring to the booster. Meanwhile, they can service the engines that failed the static fire test.

Dead skunk in the middle of the road, stinking to high heaven

 

This is so, so bad. A blind man can see what's wrong with ALL of DC. She shouldn't even be on a court at all, much less presiding over a case such as this.

Where's the GOP??? Well, you've got Will Hurd claiming that Trump is only running to avoid prosecution. Well, he must be in a cave or something. They're throwing everything but the kitchen sink at the guy. All of it because he should win the GOP nomination. Why else would they be prosecuting him?!?

If this doesn't bother people, they need their heads examined.

By the way, NO TRIAL should be allowed in DC. There's absolutely no way that anyone can get a fair trial there. That place has gone absolutely nuts.

Undercover video involving Nancy Pelosi's daughter discussing January 6th

The video could be downloaded and then uploaded, so I did it because it couldn't be embedded. So now it is. Looks like a Gateway Pundit video. I make no claims to it, of course.

The video has a few notes that are illuminating. That is, it is illuminating for anyone who actually thinks about these things. First, you cannot get a fair trial in DC. Second, the media is hyping it ( Jan 6th). Plus there are other things.

So why would they hold the trials ( plus the upcoming one with Trump ) in DC knowing full well there cannot be a fair trial? Indeed, and why would a change in venue be denied? Obviously, it is a railroad job.

False flag

8/7/23: Update, last post on Mar 7th, 2023

Former US Capitol Police Lt. says "every police officer there on J6th was set up"



The significant thing about this link is that there is no whistleblower protections on the US Capitol Police Force. Sounds like it is ripe for abusive practices, then.

The story also mentions that somebody got rich off this ( who shouldn't have). Yep, and now the Democrats have indicted and are going to jail Trump. Cui bono on that one, eh?

By the way, the only thing the Democrats have to do is to run out the clock, or so it seems. This is well over two and a half years. If justice is coming, it is coming too slow.

This was a "Fedsurrection", and here's the motive



Summary of the explanation for why it was an inside job, and a set up--- Basically, Pelosi and the Democrats needed to keep the challenge off the record, so they set up an "emergency". The emergency pretext was needed so that there would be no challenge. Biden would be "installed", just as Pelosi said previously.

There is no insurrection in a legal challenge, but the challenge was taken away because of the "emergency". So and emergency had to be ginned up. Hence, an "insurrection".

Without a legal challenge, the Supreme Court couldn't intervene because there was no legal standing.

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March 7 2023 reposted after Tucker Carlson exposes lies of January 6th 2021. But no evidence shown yet of false flag. Wouldn't expect them of ever admitting that...

Update:  Sept 1, 2021

More similarities between the whitmer plot and January-6

This Julie Kelly piece finds some uncanny similarities between the Whitmer plot and the so-called "insurrection" on January 6th.

It looks politically motivated, but it always has seemed that way to me. As I wrote at the time, "cui bono"? It was all a set-up.

What I suspected from day one

: Source: Revolver.news

Update:  June 2021

The original post... On 1/6/21

False Flag

It's not looking good. Evidently perps let this get out of control. Even for a few moments, it is still bad. Trump and his supporters get the blame, and the crooks skate again.

It is likely a false-flag op. In fact, I'd say a false-flag is definitely more likely than a Trump-inspired take-over-the-Capitol-Building op. The latter is ridiculous. If Trump just wanted a hearing on his challenge, this effectively stops it. Why would he do that?!

Cui bono? Also, there are calls to forcibly remove Trump. These are coming from the usual suspects. Cui bono to the googleplex.

There's no reason why a simple procedure couldn't be allowed unless there were those who feared it could go against them. If you've got the goods, then why would you stage some- thing goofy like this?!

Yep, I think false-flag. It gives the surrender chorus the opportunity to go belly-up. But they really didn't need any excuse. This helps them do that and the false flag gives them cover for those who would believe that nonsense.

What are these limp-wristed wimps getting for their sell-out? We'll probably never know.

Sunday Reflection: The future will be better than we think if politicians don’t ruin it

8/7/23: Update to post made on Mar 4, 2012

Why no Roman Industrial Revolution?

This post seems more relevant today than it did then. We have a government that is dedicated to destroying its own country. You don't have to ask for many more reasons why a civilization failed. It had way too many people in powerful positions that did not give a damn about the country that they ruled...

As it applies to Rome, so shall it apply to America. There are simply way too many people that are supposedly in its service who care nothing for it, otherwise, they wouldn't be doing what they are doing. Not only what they are doing today, but things that they've done in prior years. The Obama Administration was going to destroy all work on molten- salt reactors, but it was discovered by patriots, so they couldn't. Instead of developing it fully, they gave away the technology to CHINA.

This is not an isolated example of their malevolence towards the people they claim to serve. After all, what the hell did we just go through with the COVID business? That was manufactured to HARM this country for political gain. To think otherwise is to put your heads in the sand. They'll gas light us all forever to cover it up, too. It hasn't given the results they really wanted, so they'll try something else. AGW will be their next excuse. If it isn't that, it will be something else.

It is the Tiberius Syndrome because the Emperor Tiberius had a man executed for inventing something revolutionary that would benefit all of world's people, but not Tiberius himself. That's how a civilization will eventually crumble into dust. It is not a hard thing to understand if you are willing to see things as they really are.

We have a lot of leaders in the GOP who claim to be all for "rule of law". But the Democrats trample all over it, and what do they do? Nothing! What could possibly be the reason for failure to do something when something is indicated? It is either malevolence, or indifference. Given that the GOP loves to run against its own base, I'd say more the former than the latter.

The Democrats are just plain hateful. The GOP COULD do something, but they won't. Yet, people wonder why the Roman Empire didn't have an Industrial Revolution. It didn't have one because the leadership didn't give a shit. History may not repeat, but it was famously said by someone to rhyme. It sure looks like that these days if you care to listen carefully enough.

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washingtonexaminer.com  h/t Instapundit

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Ironically, this point is made by the authors’ opening anecdote. As recounted by Pliny the Elder, a goldsmith proudly displayed to the Roman Emperor Tiberius a shiny plate he’d made from a new metal extracted from clay (aluminum) using a secret method only he understood.

The emperor was indeed impressed: He saw this new shiny metal as a possible threat to the value of his large gold and silver stockpiles, so instead of rewarding the goldsmith, he had him beheaded.

Comment:

My sentiments exactly.

It looks as if the politicians have already screwed up the thorium fuel cycle molten salt reactor.  This would have improved life immensely, but it isn't available now, nor will it be unless something changes soon.

They may well have screwed up the space program and cold fusion.   But that may seem to be a bit over the top, thus the use of the word "may".  If only the thorium reactors were the only way the politicians screw things up.

For example, we get further restrictions on the ability to use energy.  Prices go up, and the standard of living will go down.  This doesn't have to happen, but it will if things continue in the direction that it is going.

Starship Update: 8/6/23, Static Fire of Booster 9 today

Update on 8/6/23 post:

This video shows a different angle. The lower angle of the previous video showed near ground level. The steam cloud obscured the engines lighting up. The higher angle, while looking down, was able to capture the short time that the engines were lit up.

editorial comment:

A lot of these videos show stuff that hasn't got that much to do with Starship. There are others that get pretty ridiculous in their needless repetition. This one got to business, then added a lot of what I considered "fluff".

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There was a static fire that last less than 3 seconds today. It is reported that 4 engines shut down prematurely. The static fire was to last 5 seconds, so the duration was a bit shorter than scheduled.

The test left no visible cloud after about 5 minutes. The pad didn't appear to have any damage, and no damage was reported.



The video below is from SpaceX.