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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: nurse ratched at February 09, 2026 07:29 PM (QMfMe)
Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2026 07:29 PM (Wmg4n)
Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2026 07:30 PM (Wmg4n)
And contrary to popular belief, there were no riots or looting or dumpster fires last night. That’s not how we celebrate.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 09, 2026 07:31 PM (QMfMe)
Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 07:31 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 09, 2026 07:31 PM (zYpTz)
And I will repeat this again.
The British Museum has a new exhibit running until May 4th about an aspect of Japan.
Namely they say half of the Samurai were female.
Now who is doing cultural imperialism again?
Posted by: Anna Puma
"Samurai" as in katanas and lacquered armor?
Or "samurai" as in the social class?
The former is dumb on its face, and the museum curator should commit seppuku forthwith.
The latter might be true in an Obi-Wan Kenobi sort of way..... was a samurai's wife given the same deference as her husband by the underclasses?
Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 07:20 PM (VHUov)
Well, they're probably confusing things a bit with the naginata, which was a Japanese noble woman's weapon.
If the town or castle was over taken, the noble women were expected to fight. And, in fact, they trained on the use of the weapon.
If you saw the recent remake of "Shogun", you saw the noble women using it when the castle was over-run.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 09, 2026 07:33 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 07:33 PM (Ia/+0)
Based on an exaggerated sandwich making implement.
Posted by: fd at February 09, 2026 07:34 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 09, 2026 07:35 PM (QMfMe)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 09, 2026 07:35 PM (ESVrU)
Have you stopped shivering yet?
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 09
Yes! 66 tomorrow, 70 Wednesday. Congratulations on the Seahawks. I didn’t watch, but it wouldn’t have mattered who was playing.
I did watch the peeps game and that was really funny.
Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2026 07:36 PM (Wmg4n)
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Congratulations on the SB win, nurse! How did the locals celebrate?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 09, 2026 07:36 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 09, 2026 07:37 PM (0KSrI)
Her Majesty and The Big Dummy are home after nearly two weeks on the road. I immediately blotted my copybook by the discovery that I entered TBD in the wrong shows. There are two consecutive weekends of shows at the same location and I entered the wrong weekend. Can't undo the mistake.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 07:39 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2026 07:41 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Paco at February 09, 2026 07:41 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 07:41 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 07:42 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 07:43 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2026 07:44 PM (cYBz/)
Don't worry about it, its our secret
Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 07:44 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 09, 2026 07:44 PM (3uBP9)
Top pic: Can I have your stuff when you die? Except the mountain climbing gear. Won't be needing that. Nope."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 07:44 PM (8zz6B)
So that's what the kids are calling it these days.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 09, 2026 07:45 PM (u5LSF)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 09, 2026 07:45 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 09, 2026 07:46 PM (0KSrI)
Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 07:46 PM (Ia/+0)
I actually have a friend -- old co-worker -- who is a "Q Anon" (he pedantically & frequently reminds me that there's "Q" and "Anons" but no "Q Anon"), and believes NASA never went to the moon.
Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 07:47 PM (0Eh0f)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 07:39 PM (tgvbd)
Could you bonsai him into a Chihuahua?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 07:47 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 09, 2026 07:47 PM (u5LSF)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 07:47 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 07:48 PM (u82oZ)
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So that's what the kids are calling it these days.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 09, 2026 07:45 PM
You learn things here, man.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 07:48 PM (0sNs1)
Have a good night everyone
Posted by: Skip at February 09, 2026 07:48 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Paco at February 09, 2026 07:48 PM (2L+MU)
I actually have a friend -- old co-worker -- who is a "Q Anon" (he pedantically & frequently reminds me that there's "Q" and "Anons" but no "Q Anon"), and believes NASA never went to the moon.
Posted by: ShainS -- Democrats Push For Death Certificates To Be Accepted As Voter ID at February 09, 2026 07:47 PM (0Eh0f)
*sigh*
Tell that dummy that we did too go to the Moon.
We used technology reverse-engineered from the crashed Roswell saucer!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 09, 2026 07:49 PM (ULPxl)
Could you bonsai him into a Chihuahua?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 07:47 PM (8zz6B)
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Wouldn't make a difference. The shows I should have entered him in closed for entries last week.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 07:50 PM (tgvbd)
It's obviously a hippotato. Or Adam Schiff.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 09, 2026 07:50 PM (ywU9+)
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Assist#3 at February 09, 2026 07:51 PM (vUhDf)
Posted by: Paco at February 09
My understanding is they turn into couch potatoes once they come down from racing.
Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2026 07:51 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 09, 2026 07:51 PM (diia5)
Posted by: Ben Had at February 09, 2026 07:52 PM (0KSrI)
I was bailing hay one summer years ago and happened to run over a mallard duck's nest. One egg survived so I took it home and incubated it off of a heating pad. Cutest little shit.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 09, 2026 07:52 PM (xFfhU)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 09, 2026 07:52 PM (zYpTz)
Are they known for being like that, or is old Jones, here, atypical of the breed?
Posted by: Paco at February 09, 2026 07:48 PM (2L+MU)
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Greys really are a sweet breed. Excellent house dogs because they're only hyper outdoors. Spend most of their time sleeping, so soundly you have to check to make sure they're alive.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 07:52 PM (tgvbd)
Does this mean Her Majesty will stay home more?
So you two lovebirds can "Blot the Copybook" more?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 07:52 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at February 09, 2026 07:52 PM (oftw2)
He's about to get another opportunity. Musk, not NASA, recently announced that he is temporarily putting Mars on hold and focusing on going to the moon instead. Says he can build a base there in half the time it would take to build one on Mars.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 09, 2026 07:53 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 09, 2026 07:53 PM (JbyEi)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 07:54 PM (J+Psw)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 09, 2026 07:52 PM (xFfhU)
Did you teach it the Mallard Reaction when it grew up? Ask CBD. he know de wey.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 09, 2026 07:55 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 07:55 PM (u82oZ)
Does this mean Her Majesty will stay home more?
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Yes, I won't be a grass widower for the next couple of weeks.
I think she spends so much time on the road to get away from me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 07:56 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 09, 2026 07:56 PM (XMwZJ)
==
He's about to get another opportunity. Musk, not NASA, recently announced that he is temporarily putting Mars on hold and focusing on going to the moon instead. Says he can build a base there in half the time it would take to build one on Mars.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 09, 2026 07:53 PM (viF8m)
It's about 3 days to the moon vs a year or so to Mars...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 09, 2026 07:56 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. at February 09, 2026 07:57 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 07:57 PM (u82oZ)
Are we quite certain that they're not cruising around on concealed Roombas?
Posted by: Paco at February 09, 2026 07:57 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: fd at February 09, 2026 07:58 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good
Awwwwww
Posted by: Piper at February 09, 2026 07:58 PM (OoFl2)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 07:58 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: DaveA at February 09, 2026 07:58 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 07:59 PM (u82oZ)
Yes, the neighbor tells us that Jones sleeps an awful lot!
Posted by: Paco at February 09, 2026 07:59 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 09, 2026 07:59 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 08:00 PM (u82oZ)
Reality set in against his very optimistic ideas about Mars.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:01 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JackStraw
"To the Moon, Elon!"
Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 09, 2026 08:01 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 09, 2026 07:56 PM (ULPxl)
Plus he can prove techniques for rad shielding and construction there.
I remember seeing something that said the moon sucks ass. The soil/rock/gravel is insanely abrasive and gets in everything.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 08:01 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
>I suppose I could have fattened him up and kill him and ate him, but at that time is was illegal to 'own' or possess a wild species. As soon as he could fly he was free to go.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 09, 2026 08:02 PM (xFfhU)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 09, 2026 08:02 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 09, 2026 07:56 PM (ULPxl)
Moon would not be a bad place to assemble a station/ship to go to the moon. You need something better than an apollo capsule to go to Mars.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 08:02 PM (8avO+)
Elon needs to get his Starship HLS and the whole orbital refueling thing with multiple Starship tanker launches actually working.
The current NASA plan to get boots back on the lunar ground depends on Starship HLS. If we're gonna do that, then his Mars pie in the sky needs to wait.
Once we've got the Moon base working, the Mars pie in the sky is much closer.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:03 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 08:01 PM (zZu0s)
You could probably roll it in a water tank like they do for jewelry and abrade the sharp bits off pretty quickly. No water erosion on the moon.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 08:04 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: JackStraw
"To the Moon, Elon!"
Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 09, 2026 08:01 PM (KAi1n)
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The Moon really will be the proving ground for the human race. If we can figure out how to make the moon livable for any extended period of time, then we have a chance--and only a chance--of colonizing the rest of the Solar System. Reaching the stars may still be several centuries away, if it's even possible.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 09, 2026 08:04 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 09, 2026 07:44 PM (3uBP9)
Y s m r.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 09, 2026 07:52 PM
LIB. MR Ducks!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 09, 2026 08:04 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
Maybe Sparkle Beach Ken can build high speed rail to Mars.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 08:04 PM (J+Psw)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 08:05 PM (u82oZ)
The lunar south pole is the target for the manned missions and possible base. That's where water is. Also, near month round sunlight at the top of some peaks down there.
It's also very cold, surface temperatures in the permanently shadowed regions get pretty damned low.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:06 PM (w6EFb)
The Moon really will be the proving ground for the human race. If we can figure out how to make the moon livable for any extended period of time, then we have a chance--and only a chance--of colonizing the rest of the Solar System.
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I don't know how we can pull it off without Grievance Studies professors, marketing fags and HR girlbosses.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 08:06 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone
Like Vegas.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 08:07 PM (J+Psw)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 09, 2026 08:09 PM (ESVrU)
It's also very cold, surface temperatures in the permanently shadowed regions get pretty damned low.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:06 PM (w6EFb)
Their are weird gravity anomalies there, the Indians tried to land there and something confused the robo lander and it crashed a while back.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 08:09 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 09, 2026 07:59 PM (XMwZJ)
We could get there way sooner, but the public's ability to accept loss is completely screwed up. We accept higher rates of death for demo pilots who are basically just recruitment ads, than bona fide explorers. Even unmanned rockets exploding seem to get more bad press than fatal air show mishaps.
Posted by: Sjg at February 09, 2026 08:10 PM (aqZN1)
Posted by: SMOD at February 09, 2026 08:10 PM (GITLP)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 09, 2026 08:09 PM (ESVrU)
well we might not exist in that case.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 08:10 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 08:12 PM (rbvCR)
If we didn't have our big ass Moon, we might not even be here at all, much less think about going anywhere. :-)
The Moon stabilizes earth's axial tilt against chaotic resonances. Also the tidal basins are thought to be a crucial thing for getting life on land going.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:12 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: SMOD at February 09, 2026 08:10 PM (GITLP)
FML. It will take weeks after that for my circadian rhythm to adapt.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 09, 2026 08:12 PM (zYpTz)
·
4h
SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon.
This will so insanely cool 🚀💫🤩
Posted by: JackStraw at February 09, 2026 08:12 PM (viF8m)
Some of the woo-woo types I look at were going on about some "mysterious anomaly" they found a while back, talking big cover-up.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:13 PM (w6EFb)
They guarded the Women's quarters of castles & large estates.
At places like Hakone, were everyone was searched before being allowed to proceed ... men searched men & women (samurai) searched women.
Did women fight on the battle field? A few, especially archers. But mostly women samurai were last line of defense of the home / estate.
During the last battles of the Meiji restoration, pretty much the rebel male samurai were dead. So the last charges against the new Imperial forces were women. Soon they were dead too.
Posted by: Adriane the Ethnic Wisdom & Folksy Sayings Critic . . . Old Wives Tales Kicked In for Free at February 09, 2026 08:14 PM (3ZUWJ)
FML. It will take weeks after that for my circadian rhythm to adapt.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 09, 2026 08:12 PM (zYpTz)
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I never recovered when we went to Standard. My sleep cycle is still messed up.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 08:14 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at February 09, 2026 08:15 PM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Paco at February 09, 2026 08:15 PM (2L+MU)
This will so insanely cool 🚀💫🤩
Posted by: JackStraw
I don't like leaving my neighborhood.
Posted by: Shut-In By Choice at February 09, 2026 08:16 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 09, 2026 08:16 PM (bxiOq)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 09, 2026 08:16 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 09, 2026 08:17 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: JackStraw
Living in microgravity is really bad on people, not only the radiation, but the effects on the body is hard. Even harder is the changes in pressure that can mess old broken up people like me on Earth.
Also, there has to be a better way of maintaining the habitat and hygene. ISS is reportedly smells like a sewer with BO and Mir reportedly was like living in a sewer with BO that was built by Soviet industry.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 08:17 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
That stiff-legged way they sometimes sleep looks like rigor mortis, which doesn't help.
Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 08:18 PM (VHUov)
I think the rescues are just so grateful to retire, they share their joy with everybody.
Posted by: Paco at February 09, 2026 08:18 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 08:17 PM (rbvCR)
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And then, there's the Wolowitz Waste Distribution System...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 09, 2026 08:18 PM (bxiOq)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
Lots of fireworks and the younguns went to Pioneer Square near the stadium to party in the streets till the wee hours. No busted windows. No looted stores. No overturned cars. There was a fair number of beer cans and bottles strewn about, but no damage. No shootings. No assaults.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 09, 2026 08:18 PM (IhIKR)
Re moon dust. Some people, and Harrison Schmitt was one are quite "allergic" to it. Lunar hay fever, they call it, and it's a bitch. Some of the people in the lunar receiving lab who got a whiff of it got that as well.
It is crazy abrasive. Smells like gunpowder. If interested read how the Apollo astronauts described the smell once they got back inside the LM, and exposed that dust to the oxygen atmosphere inside.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:18 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 09, 2026 08:19 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: ErikInTexas at February 09, 2026 08:19 PM (4b7CV)
I think the rescues are just so grateful to retire, they share their joy with everybody.
Posted by: Paco at February 09, 2026 08:18 PM (2L+MU)
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Greyhounds were very common around Portland when the dog track was active.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 09, 2026 08:19 PM (bxiOq)
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Under the current system, I don't want to fly to Denver. If ANY of those same assclowns are involved in flights to the Moon, I'll pass.
Posted by: Crusader at February 09, 2026 08:20 PM (Cjcf6)
Posted by: AoSHQ Cafe Janitoria Staff at February 09, 2026 08:21 PM (nnW9Q)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 09, 2026 08:21 PM (dhHpw)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 08:21 PM (zZu0s)
The reason for the creation of this bizarre hybrid are still unknown, as Penguin Facts' inquiries to the Canadian scientists were met with the cryptic response "Take off, you hoser".
Posted by: Penguin Facts at February 09, 2026 08:22 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: mikeski
Just remembered; greyhound owners call it "roaching." Image search "greyhound roaching" and you'll see pictures of dogs sleeping in postures that make all my joints hurt.
Despite being hot-climate dogs, there are a few in MN. One of the injun casino/racetracks has greyhound races. I guess it's not exploiting the animals when the injuns do it.
Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 08:23 PM (VHUov)
Had we kept up with the Apollo plans, we would have a Moon base by now, and likely have already had manned missions to Mars.
We'd probably be gearing up for long term missions to the outer solar system now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:23 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:18 PM
So, evidence that penguins came from the moon?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 08:23 PM (0sNs1)
Two interviews stand out to me.
1.) A bourgeois Afghan shopkeeper lamenting that once these Russian troops leave, nobody will be left to buy the Western goods he stocks in his store.
2.) A Russian soldier lamenting that Afghan regime troops were just as worthless as the mujahideen, that he had no sense of who would win and didn't care, because he'd lost a bunch of pals, including two close friends, and just wanted to go home - this closely resembles things I heard from friends who went there later.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 08:25 PM (BI5O2)
L, M No Puppers
Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 09, 2026 08:28 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:23 PM
Go here: https://wilderwealthywise.com/music-collection/
and scroll down near the bottom for:
We Gave Up The Stars For This
It encapsulates how many of us feel.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 08:29 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 08:30 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Duncanthrax"
With Nazi collaboration, they have certainly been there.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at February 09, 2026 08:32 PM (vFG9F)
Elon needs to get to work on the Epstein Drive. Constant thrust trajectories using insanely high specific impulse engines.
That would be the game changer indeed.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:32 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius
Is it powered by underaged girls, or unexplained suicides?
Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 08:34 PM (VHUov)
I hope he dedicates it to Epstein's mom.
Posted by: Putashack at February 09, 2026 08:35 PM (vFG9F)
The name *is* most unfortunate.
https://is.gd/g2hAVL
Solomon, not Jeffrey.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:37 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:13 PM (w6EFb)
It just means some dense rocks or something. The moon is kinda wierd, its hard to keep things in orbit because it more like a balloon of rocks than a solid billiard ball gravitationally.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 08:38 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at February 09, 2026 08:38 PM (xFfhU)
At a 1g acceleration/deceleration trajectory, travel time to Mars would be just 1.5 days.
That gets so fast it's almost straight line trajectories, as the target would curve so little in the short time to get there. Point and shoot almost.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:39 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 08:40 PM (zZu0s)
We'd probably be gearing up for long term missions to the outer solar system now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:23 PM (w6EFb)
There was an old SF story where the US Army landed on the moon, but soon detected another base. They knew it wasn't other nations, was it aliens? No, it was a US Navy base.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 08:40 PM (8avO+)
That gets so fast it's almost straight line trajectories, as the target would curve so little in the short time to get there. Point and shoot almost.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:39 PM (w6EFb)
a 1 G drive would take absurd amounts of fuel.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 08:41 PM (8avO+)
Jupiter would be about 6 days. #2 weeks to Neptune and 21 days to Pluto.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:42 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 08:40 PM
And in the latrines within their base could be found "FTA" incribed upon the walls.
This, of course, stands for "Fun, Travel, and Adventure", an Army recruiting slogan beloved by junior enlisted.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 08:43 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 08:43 PM (zZu0s)
The problem is not merely that the gallimaufry of obsessions, delusions and manias contained within the wormy frames of the thought boxes possessed by anti-penguin fanatics disturbs the peace of their rational and well-adjusted neighbors; nay, we must also consider that their soi-disant expertise rests upon a fundament of mendacity from which emanates a miasma of intellectual mephitis that corrupts bona fide discourse - as noxious in its various manifestations as is the stench in their own nostrils that the Spheniscidaphobes would have us believe is generated by the objects of their hatred.
Fearing the laws of neither God nor man, respecting neither the persons nor the sensibilities of honest citizens, a more wayward and ill-disposed parcel of contumelious bastards has rarely been seen within the environs of civil society. As you value your equanimity, countenance them not.
Posted by: Junius at February 09, 2026 08:44 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 08:25 PM (BI5O2)
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Family, clan, tribe.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 08:44 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 08:44 PM (J+Psw)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:42 PM
Why go to a non-planet?
Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson at February 09, 2026 08:44 PM (0sNs1)
We'd probably be gearing up for long term missions to the outer solar system now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:23 PM (w6EFb)
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In spades. The stupidest thing they could come up with was the shuttle. Oh, we're going to go up to low/mid earth orbit and dick around until we figure out.
WTF? Figure out what? Asshoe. We've been there, we know how to get there. Do something there. Fool.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 08:45 PM (6W1vz)
That's the whole idea. Accelerate at 1g. Then, roughly half way, flip around, and decelerate at 1g, maintaining nice "artificial gravity" the whole time.
With chemical propellants this is impossible. However, with nuclear fusion engines, the physics works, it's just the engineering is far beyond anything we're capable of. There's a few fusion reactions that produce mostly charged particles as products, which could be steered by EM fields, which would act as the thrust plate to push the exhaust against.
Specific impulses at 10% c are possible.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:46 PM (w6EFb)
they way tried to portray space travel, and living in space, realistically.
Especially the need for something like an Epstein Drive and how it changed everything.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 08:47 PM (6ydKt)
1.
youtube.com/watch?v=_iV4mol-Otw
2.
youtube.com/watch?v=9s_oAV9LtJE
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 08:48 PM (6W1vz)
A federal judge in Los Angeles just blocked a new California law that was supposed to force ICE agents to unmask.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2026 08:48 PM (Cqx++)
Of course, you would not light off a 0.1c exhaust velocity rocket in earth's atmosphere on the ground -- it would be space only, with a nice 100km safe radius around the tail pipe.
That thing would be like a continuous tactical nuke going off.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:49 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at February 09, 2026 08:49 PM (J+Psw)
WTF? Figure out what? Asshoe. We've been there, we know how to get there. Do something there. Fool.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 08:45 PM
Orbital bases, from which we could launch missions to the rest of the system are necessary.
"If you can get your ship into orbit, you're halfway to anywhere."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 08:50 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Gonna keep that one in my waistcoat pocket for future use, old chap.
Posted by: mikeski at February 09, 2026 08:50 PM (VHUov)
Posted by: Bulg at February 09, 2026 08:51 PM (77rzZ)
i hear it’s a good show in regards to what could have been had we not changed course with the end of Apollo going to Skylab and then the Space Shuttle.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 08:51 PM (6ydKt)
Well... funded.
Posted by: gKWVE at February 09, 2026 08:52 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 08:51 PM (6ydKt)
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I was told I would fly to Tokyo in 20 minutes.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 08:53 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Good yardbird for the uninvited.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 08:53 PM (6W1vz)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 08:53 PM (0sNs1)
Specific impulses at 10% c are possible.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 09, 2026 08:46 PM (w6EFb)
Ion drives usually figure to be great for distance, but the acceleration rates are low.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 08:54 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: fd at February 09, 2026 08:54 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Don Black at February 09, 2026 08:56 PM (ZxPkt)
"If you can get your ship into orbit, you're halfway to anywhere."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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We have a pre-fab orbital base, - m o o n.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 08:56 PM (6W1vz)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 09, 2026 08:53 PM (0sNs1)
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I think you mean polyamorous?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 08:56 PM (RIvkX)
I was told I would fly to Tokyo in 20 minutes.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
Well by '76 we'll be A-OK
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2026 08:56 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 08:53 PM (RIvkX)
We stopped hearing about sub-orbital air flight as soon as the Global Warming craze started.
I remember seeing Boeing designs for sub-orbital planes years ago, then poof, never hear about them again.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 09, 2026 08:56 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: fd at February 09, 2026 08:54 PM
One man's waste is another's rice bowl.
Posted by: (D)emocrats at February 09, 2026 08:56 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 09, 2026 08:56 PM
That's just one of their documented perversities. Truly, if it's perverse, penguins do it.
Posted by: (D)emocrats at February 09, 2026 08:58 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: fd at February 09, 2026 08:54 PM
One man's waste is another's rice bowl.
Posted by: (D)emocrats at February 09, 2026 08:56 PM (0sNs1)
Learing Centers
Posted by: Oldcat at February 09, 2026 08:58 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: (D)emocrats
And ... the Human Centipede has entered the chat ...
Posted by: Adriane the Ethnic Wisdom & Folksy Sayings Critic . . . Old Wives Tales Kicked In for Free at February 09, 2026 09:02 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Eromero at February 09, 2026 09:04 PM (LHPAg)
"Buon Appetito! Athletes rave about Olympic Village food in Milan and Cortina"
Italy, Food, Good. What else would you expect?
Posted by: Gref at February 09, 2026 09:04 PM (5rh/l)
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
Well by '76 we'll be A-OK
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2026 08:56 PM (Cqx++)
Don't forget the spandex jackets.
Posted by: Eromero at February 09, 2026 09:06 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Gref
If they made a souvenir tiramisu, they'd be making bank!
Posted by: Adriane the Ethnic Wisdom & Folksy Sayings Critic . . . Old Wives Tales Kicked In for Free at February 09, 2026 09:07 PM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: fd at February 09, 2026 08:54 PM (vFG9F)
But if Learing Centers helped one child...that's worth more than any space program!
Posted by: Libtards at February 09, 2026 09:08 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: fd
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Cover the money some people whine about SS.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 09, 2026 09:08 PM (6W1vz)
Posted by: Oldcat
Project Hush, by William Teen. One of his first SF stories.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 09:08 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 09:10 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Libtards at February 09, 2026 09:08 PM (5rh/l)
What my Grandma said back in the 80s. By the same token her line on immigration would be... harsh by today's standards.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 09:11 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Penguin Facts at February 09, 2026 09:12 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 09, 2026 09:13 PM (n5tGW)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 09:13 PM (u82oZ)
Count Dankula:
https://youtu.be/pr89Tr4COac?
si=0P14CwEhSjM8NluU
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 09:13 PM (zZu0s)
There was an old SF story where the US Army landed on the moon, but soon detected another base. They knew it wasn't other nations, was it aliens? No, it was a US Navy base.
Posted by: Oldcat
Did they play football?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 09, 2026 09:13 PM (Cqx++)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 09, 2026 09:14 PM (u82oZ)
22-year-old daughter of Republican Minnesota gov candidate Jeff Johnson stabbed to death
Posted by: Don Black at February 09, 2026 09:14 PM (ZxPkt)
22-year-old daughter of Republican Minnesota gov candidate Jeff Johnson stabbed to death
It was her husband. Terrible.
Posted by: gKWVE at February 09, 2026 09:15 PM (gKWVE)
22-year-old daughter of Republican Minnesota gov candidate Jeff Johnson stabbed to death
Posted by: Don Black at February 09, 2026 09:14 PM (ZxPkt)
Fucking commie sons a bitches.
Too soon?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 09:16 PM (zZu0s)
RIP, in any event. 22yo.
*shakes head*
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 09, 2026 09:20 PM (BI5O2)
The top photo spine looks almost as bad...twice as wide. Not as high at 10k feet, however high enough to die if you slipped and fell down either side. Only wide enough to follow the tracks made ahead of you.
I did not dare look down on either side of that path once we got to that part, which was about 100yds across.
I think we got to someone's cabin (this is how I rolled, as I was not into details) about 4pm. Could have been a serial killers's cabin; but I knew my apt mates well & they generally took care of me.
I remember changing into dry clothing & collapsing in front of the fireplace til the next day. No bed, the floor and a pillow and blanket are fine, thanks. I don't recall eating dinner.
We drove home the next morning & did not return to where we started that adventure. I was thankful for that small mercy and being alive.
I was once one crazy college girl.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 09, 2026 09:27 PM (WONhk)
Granted I don't know if hippos even lie down like this or not.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 09, 2026 09:30 PM (WONhk)
I think the reason we're not respected is we call our planet the Earth (dirt, land) and we call our moon the Moon and we call our sun the Sun. (It's like how primitive tribes have a word for their people which basically translates to The People.) Even SF only has us using words like Terra, Luna, and Sol. Yeah, Latiny; real creative species.
The United Civilized Peoples of the Universe have a name for us. It translates to "Morons."
Naturally.
https://bit.ly/exploring-the-foreword
Posted by: mindful webworker - mind, the final frontier at February 09, 2026 09:30 PM (kqXjy)
Count Dankula:
https://youtu.be/pr89Tr4COac?
si=0P14CwEhSjM8NluU
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 09:13 PM (zZu0s)
Count Dankula was arrested for a hate crime because he taught his pug to give the Roman salute and then posted it.
Then he was fined by the Scottish courts, and he told them he wouldn't pay, and so he started calling them once a week for the cops to come pick him up. Eventually they asked him to stop
Posted by: Kindltot at February 09, 2026 09:33 PM (rbvCR)
Damn.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 09:34 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 09:34 PM (g47mK)
I knew he had divorced his first wife. Per the comments, they think this is his form of dating.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 09:38 PM (zZu0s)
OMG. Yum.
You wan' mustard?
$40 per but one feeds four.
Posted by: M. Gaga at February 09, 2026 09:47 PM (KiBMU)
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My silly Cat does that too! Flat on his back, with all fours in the air. I chuckle every time.
Posted by: JQ at February 09, 2026 09:47 PM (rdVOm)
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The world was different then...
Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 09:34 PM (g47mK)
.....................................
Indeed it was...and a lot of fun!
I look back and at least twice think these two apt mates,older male grad students with girlfriends and other friends thought,"Let's see if THIS will kill her!"
All I know is that ski trip and later a hike, that should be with a ranger in a National Park due to difficulty and the chance of getting lost, but, nooooooooooo, they knew the back way! They could have killed me, age 20yrs.
The hike in a National Park included, but it was not all, climbing down a 40' "chimney." I watched one guy, then I came down with them encouraging me (I guess first guy could have sort of broken my fall), and the other one coming after me. Yay! Continued hiking and trusting these nitwits. Did not think much about the insanity at the time.
Watch this! You can do it! And I did.
I would never advise it for anyone now that I am grown and normal.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 09, 2026 09:50 PM (WONhk)
Both granddaughters are now fast asleep, our first time having both of them for a sleepover.
Why on a weeknight? Because their Mom is having morning sickness due to #3 being on the way, she has an early dr. Appt with her OB, so we said "we'll take the kids, so you can get a good sleep."
God is good.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 09, 2026 09:57 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 09, 2026 09:57 PM (8AONa)
Indeed. Wife and I hope to be grandparents. Elder son is marrying a wonderful young lady in April. They want lots of kids.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 09, 2026 10:06 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 09, 2026 10:06 PM (0aYVJ)
Thats wonderful, Pug.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 10:10 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 09, 2026 10:12 PM (dhHpw)
I knew he had divorced his first wife. Per the comments, they think this is his form of dating.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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I was wondering what had become of Dankula. Glad to see he's still clowning around out there.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 09, 2026 10:13 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 09, 2026 10:12 PM (dhHpw)
Very. It's worth a watch, but it has many flaws.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 09, 2026 10:14 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: The AoSHQ House Dick at February 09, 2026 10:14 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at February 09, 2026 10:12 PM (dhHpw)
First couple of seasons are good. It went bad very abruptly (exactly the same time as one of the actors got me tood and they immediately killed him in the show.)
He may be an asshole, but the difference after that was stark.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 10:15 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 09, 2026 10:15 PM (SRRAx)
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The world was different then...
Posted by: runner at February 09, 2026 09:34 PM (g47mK)
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Our streakers were actually nekid!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 09, 2026 10:15 PM (1VKLJ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 09, 2026 10:17 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 09, 2026 10:18 PM (8AONa)
Posted by: Diogenes
Ah yes, spring quarter of '74. Twas a grand time.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 09, 2026 10:18 PM (cYBz/)
Jacob Lofland is a great young actor. He was Neckbone in "Mud," an excellent movie about boys being raised well by men.
He was also in one of the Justified seasons, the one with the execrable Michael Rappaport.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Rock 'n' Roll Martian at February 09, 2026 10:20 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at February 09, 2026 10:22 PM (/WQyy)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 09, 2026 10:22 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Joemarine at February 09, 2026 10:23 PM (y171U)
Wings were a fetish for the A.F. guys, hence the shuttle.
The starship case is far from being made.
Posted by: Auspex at February 09, 2026 10:23 PM (Y8DZL)
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