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Massimo
@Rainmaker1973
«Hurry! We can catch the next wave!»
On Waihee Beach Park, Maui, Hawaii, this tree grew by the sea and coastal erosion exposed its roots, making it look like it's running.

An ent bought himself a nice little house in the country.

Nice chapel.

Clear water in New Zealand lets you admire the deadly sharks as they come to eat you.

This kitten overestimates her athleticism almost as absurdly as I do.

Baya weaver weaves an intricate nest.

Robot can walk or "transform" into a sphere and just roll.

Dog wraps himself up like a burrito.

Some kind of very cute weasel.

A big old Indian buffalo.

Metallica in Moscow, 1991. So much disinformation.

Video of the massive glacier collapse and floods from Nepal and Tibet a couple of months back. Upsetting.

RAF fighters attack Nazi shipping in Norway, 1944.

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids.

Looks just like Tattooine. (Which was filmed in Tunisia, if I remember right.) The Skywalker "farm" was built in a hole in the ground like these are.

In Matmata, Tunisia, people have lived in underground homes for hundreds of years, with rooms carved into deep pits and connected by tunnels. https://t.co/BRU9Qyaxjh
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) October 23, 2026

He took the best video of his life https://t.co/3SlA9v5uty
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 26, 2026

Leandro Erlich's "Building" is an interactive installation allowing visitors to enjoy the experience of defying gravity & hang from the facade of a building through a mirror placed on the floor at 45° angles
[📹 Jacqueline Lutier] https://t.co/toWIVQ6Hqf
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 26, 2026

What in the Doctor Doolittle?

This would have been hard to believe if it hadn’t been recorded https://t.co/ppWK7wofvw
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 26, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:10 PM

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1 Cafe! Woohoo!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 26, 2026 07:12 PM (VyBeY)

2 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2026 07:13 PM (Ia/+0)

3 The best underground caves are the Cappadocian caves.
I keep hoping someone will find a journal in one.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 26, 2026 07:13 PM (88C+u)

4 It looks like a streaking Ent.

Posted by: Obscure Automotive Facts at October 26, 2026 07:13 PM (MWfyi)

5 That Ent looks to be in a hurry

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2026 07:14 PM (Ia/+0)

6 ENT cardio. Brilliant!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 26, 2026 07:14 PM (hxMfc)

7 I am cracking up over the kitten

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2026 07:15 PM (Ia/+0)

8 The Fiat Ent failed because it was made of 80% wood, but mostly because it was a Fiat.

Posted by: Obscure Automotive Facts at October 26, 2026 07:15 PM (MWfyi)

9 Some kind of very cute weasel.

That's a juvenile pine martin. They're very elusive. I've only ever observed one, in Utah's Uinta Mountains.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 26, 2026 07:16 PM (0sNs1)

10
An interview with Her Majesty in this month's ShowSight magazine.

https://tinyurl.com/y8ddjnx6

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2026 07:17 PM (eRlcH)

11 "In Matmata, Tunisia, people have lived in underground homes for hundreds of years, with rooms carved into deep pits and connected by tunnels."

I guess you can do that if you live where it never rains.

Posted by: fd at October 26, 2026 07:18 PM (MWfyi)

12 I think that seal died

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2026 07:18 PM (Ia/+0)

13
That Metallica concert looks beyond awesome. Russkie soldiers in uniform attending? In ranks, almost.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2026 07:18 PM (mmrXZ)

14 I know there are snakes as well as moose limbs in those pits, therefore a big no from me.

Seems nasty and dusty. Cool in an unique fashion, but still nope.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 26, 2026 07:18 PM (hzuYO)

15 The Fiat Ent failed because it was made of 80% wood, but mostly because it was a Fiat.
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I saw a Fiat in the parking lot of a Taco Casa yesterday morning and the first thought I had was "How did that get there?".

Posted by: Crusader at October 26, 2026 07:18 PM (TN0g+)

16 I always liked the idea of an underground house. Seemed very cool to me for some reason.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone, LINDSEY GRAHAM WAS GAY?!!? at October 26, 2026 07:19 PM (zZu0s)

17 What? No seal or pelican tags? Throw 'em back? No, they're part of the show.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at October 26, 2026 07:19 PM (hxMfc)

18 Those dugouts in Tunisia look a lot like structures in Chaco Canyon created by the Anasazi.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2026 07:20 PM (iHb8G)

19 I know there are snakes as well as moose limbs in those pits, therefore a big no from me.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 26, 2026 07:18 PM

I'm right here, you know. What do you have against moose limbs?

Posted by: The Moose Out Front at October 26, 2026 07:20 PM (0sNs1)

20 My attempt at semi clear water in a painting. See nic.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 07:20 PM (Ti9vn)

21

Greensburg, Indiana has a tree growing in a tower.

https://t.ly/BJv3x

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 26, 2026 07:20 PM (Cqx++)

22 20 My attempt at semi clear water in a painting. See nic.
Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 07:20 PM (Ti9vn)
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Very nice!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 26, 2026 07:21 PM (XE5AP)

23 Underground housing> early air conditioning.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 26, 2026 07:21 PM (ua/lL)

24 Those videos from Mars all have the same sound backing. Is that from the Rover, is it a artefact from the transmission to Earth, or does Mars actually sound like the Krell Great Machine on Altair IV?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2026 07:21 PM (rbvCR)

25
I should have been doing work today.

But I didn't.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2026 07:22 PM (eRlcH)

26 Mars sure looks like it was a living planet, once. Would not surprise me for one minute if fossils were to be found there.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2026 07:22 PM (hg8Lt)

27 Never before seen in the wild...A hasty Ent!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 26, 2026 07:22 PM (FZ29D)

28 I guess you can do that if you live where it never rains.
Posted by: fd at October 26, 2026 07:18 PM (MWfyi)

IIRC, there was somewhere in Australia that did similar. Opal Miners?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone, LINDSEY GRAHAM WAS GAY?!!? at October 26, 2026 07:22 PM (zZu0s)

29 People will be living underground on Mars if it's ever colonized. That's why Musk started the Boring Company.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 07:22 PM (Ti9vn)

30

And Greencastle, Indiana has a buzz bomb.

https://t.ly/N2hJO

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 26, 2026 07:23 PM (Cqx++)

31 * issues Hadrian a Day Off pass*

Posted by: Ben Had at October 26, 2026 07:24 PM (ua/lL)

32 The Hopi get all buttmad if you call the Chaco guys "anasazi".
The Navaho gave them that name. iirc, they saw the Chaco going full bone-tomahawk from a distance.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 26, 2026 07:24 PM (88C+u)

33 AOP, I have forever believed that Mars was once inhabited and humankind killed themselves and the planet.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 26, 2026 07:25 PM (ua/lL)

34 IIRC, there was somewhere in Australia that did similar. Opal Miners?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone, LINDSEY GRAHAM WAS GAY?!!? at October 26, 2026 07:22 PM (zZu0s)

Coober Pedy?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2026 07:26 PM (hg8Lt)

35 IIRC, there was somewhere in Australia that did similar. Opal Miners?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone, LINDSEY GRAHAM WAS GAY?!!? at October 26, 2026 07:22 PM (zZu0s)
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Coober Pedy.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 26, 2026 07:26 PM (XE5AP)

36 Lot of caves and tunnels on Mars that can be sealed and oxygenated with the existing frozen water on Mars.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 07:27 PM (Ti9vn)

37 Chloe the Bengal Klutz Kitty is attacking the box on the floor of my office.

It must have looked at her the wrong way.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 26, 2026 07:28 PM (FZ29D)

38 IIRC, there was somewhere in Australia that did similar. Opal Miners?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

Coober Peady. Whole town is underground.

Don't know how they avoid digging into their neighbors' living rooms when they decide to expand.

Also, apparently nobody has to fill in the opal mine test holes, so that's a fall hazard.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 26, 2026 07:28 PM (vJrRc)

39 If those Mars videos had mules in the background it could be AZ or UT.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 07:29 PM (Ti9vn)

40 That Metallica concert looks beyond awesome. Russkie soldiers in uniform attending? In ranks, almost.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2026 07:18 PM (mmrXZ)

Adam Curry told a number of times when he attended that concert, he flew in on the jet with Metallica and Black Sabbath and the other headliners.
He is of the opinion that it was an Op to kick off the collapse of the USSR and Warsaw pact.
I have no idea where to find a copy of that story, other than in the No Agenda Show archives, and even there it is not indexed among the 19 years of production

Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2026 07:29 PM (rbvCR)

41 And Greencastle, Indiana has a buzz bomb.

https://t.ly/N2hJO
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 26, 2026 07:23 PM (Cqx++)

They call it a rocket, but it is not. It's a pulse jet, fueled by gasoline, and breathing air.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2026 07:29 PM (hg8Lt)

42
Ugh, watching the Hasan Piker podcast with Ilhan. There's that Omar Fateh. He's still in office. He'll be a US Senator from Minnesota someday.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2026 07:29 PM (mmrXZ)

43 NGL, Mars looks like Utah.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 26, 2026 07:29 PM (vJrRc)

44 What does Uranus look like?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 26, 2026 07:30 PM (P4bJX)

45 That Metallica concert looks beyond awesome. Russkie soldiers in uniform attending? In ranks, almost.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2026 07:18 PM (mmrXZ)

Pantera opened. It was all downhill from there.

Posted by: Reforger at October 26, 2026 07:30 PM (eTtaH)

46 Hobbit hole > Tunisian hole in the ground

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 26, 2026 07:31 PM (ftFVW)

47 "33 AOP, I have forever believed that Mars was once inhabited and humankind killed themselves and the planet.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 26, 2026 07:25 PM (ua/lL) "

a lot of H. Beam Piper's sci fi is based in Earth being colonized from Mars as their civilization's last gasp ... the colonists barely survived, and lost all memory of their origin.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 26, 2026 07:32 PM (VyBeY)

48 The Duchess of Sussex is reportedly heading to Australia to take a starring role on one of the country’s most popular television shows.

Meghan, 45, is expected to spend weeks in Melbourne next year after reportedly signing on to host the next season of Junior MasterChef Australia.

Meghan made a surprise guest appearance on MasterChef Australia earlier this year. The children’s version is understood to be returning six years after it last aired, with Meghan slated to appear alongside MasterChef Australia judge Poh Ling Yeow.

A source close to the production said the duchess would play a key hosting role on the series, which is expected to film in Melbourne over several weeks in early to mid-2027, according to news.com.au.

It is thought that Prince Harry Markle and the couple’s two children, Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, could join her during the production, although no firm plans have been confirmed.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at October 26, 2026 07:32 PM (0sNs1)

49 Dominic lerace had died. Probably recognize his stage name, at least if you're from Western PA. Donnie Iris was 83.

youtu.be/YH5Arbm47IQ

youtu.be/qcbndNeCO-s

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 26, 2026 07:32 PM (sAmhv)

50 What does Uranus look like?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 26, 2026 07:30 PM (P4bJX)

That's a little personal but since you asked . imagine a starfish.

Reminds me of the sitcom Community and the flag they designed for the school. That was a great sitcom.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 07:33 PM (Ti9vn)

51 What does Uranus look like?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 26, 2026 07:30 PM

Fun Fact: in 1986, Uranus emitted a gas bubble 2,600 times the size of Earth.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 26, 2026 07:33 PM (0sNs1)

52 What does Uranus look like?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

That'll cost ya. $20 same as in town.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 26, 2026 07:34 PM (ftFVW)

53 sock_rat, I may have to read some sci-fi.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 26, 2026 07:34 PM (ua/lL)

54 AOP, I have forever believed that Mars was once inhabited and humankind killed themselves and the planet.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 26, 2026 07:25 PM (ua/lL)

Have you read this report?

Evidence for Large Planetary Climate Altering Thermonuclear Explosions on Mars in the Past
by John E. Brandenburg

https://tinyurl.com/2wa9cp2x

500 million years ago was about when the Burgess Shales was being laid down.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2026 07:34 PM (rbvCR)

55 Had to carry a pelican once, weighed about ten pounds. I was jogging on the beach, looked out over the water at a pelican, trying to take off and crashing. It had dived on a bluefish lure and was hooked. I spoke to the old fisherman and he wanted to cut the line. I said no, he'll get tangled and die. So I went out about 200' following the line with really no plan. When I got close, he was snapping at me. I distracted him with my right hand in front of his face and came up from under the water with my left clamping his bill together. Threw my arm around him and swam/walked to shore hoping someone had some pliers to cut the barb off. Pelican had been hooked through his throat.
The guy fishing next to him had a shiny pair of beautiful sidecutters, I snipped off the barb, big lure fell out. i carried pelican back to the water's edge and he flew off like nothing had happened. This was on Hatteras Island.

Posted by: My Pelican Story at October 26, 2026 07:35 PM (EdP2u)

56 I am LMAO over these letters that kinds sent to troops on active deployment:

https://tinyurl.com/bdh86v6m

Goes to Xitter

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at October 26, 2026 07:35 PM (zYpTz)

57 I don’t think there was ever life on Mars. If there had been, it would show up in democrat election totals.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 26, 2026 07:36 PM (P4bJX)

58 There are worse places to start than H Beam Piper!

some of his work is available for free at gutenberg.org

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 26, 2026 07:36 PM (VyBeY)

59 Posted by: My Pelican Story at October 26, 2026 07:35 PM (EdP2u)

You da man. Seriously.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 07:37 PM (Ti9vn)

60 Fishermen from Australia rescue a kangaroo, found swimming two miles out at sea. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/5eukt3r9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2026 07:38 PM (JrHfD)

61 a lot of H. Beam Piper's sci fi is based in Earth being colonized from Mars as their civilization's last gasp ... the colonists barely survived, and lost all memory of their origin.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 26, 2026 07:32 PM (VyBeY)

Pfffft.

Posted by: Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B at October 26, 2026 07:38 PM (XE5AP)

62 some of his work is available for free at gutenberg.org
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 26, 2026 07:36 PM (VyBeY)

It used to be all of his science fiction, his one mystery, and one of his articles on John S Mosby.
He also did catalog work on a gun collection and I don't think that one is there.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2026 07:39 PM (rbvCR)

63
The Duchess of Sussex is reportedly heading to Australia to take a starring role on one of the country’s most popular television shows.

Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau

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Oh for god's sakes will people please quit exhuming her career.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2026 07:39 PM (mmrXZ)

64 59, endorsed!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 26, 2026 07:39 PM (VyBeY)

65 Brazillion Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes look gay, like extremely gay. Like flouncer gay.

Posted by: Crusader at October 26, 2026 07:39 PM (TN0g+)

66 You know, an updated version of the V1 buzz bomb would be a worthy addition to the arsenal. Carried a thousand kilogram warhead. The pulse-jet engine was cheap to build. Nowadays, they could be fitted with GPS navigation, and programmed to take evasive action when they come under fire.

Key is: cheap to build. You can afford to build many thousands of them, and if some fail to get through, oh, well.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2026 07:39 PM (hg8Lt)

67 The guy fishing next to him had a shiny pair of beautiful sidecutters
Posted by: My Pelican Story at October 26, 2026 07:35 PM

Thank you for calling them by their correct name. We hate it when people call them "dikes". You wouldn't believe the confusion it caused around here when we were remodeling.

Posted by: The Last Ditch at October 26, 2026 07:40 PM (0sNs1)

68 I think we've explored the surface long enough (though we still have a long way to go) to find something that would indicate prior intelligent life. So far nothing. Next is to explore below the surface.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 07:40 PM (Ti9vn)

69 Hobbits had that whole hole arrangement sorted out.

Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2026 07:41 PM (LHPAg)

70 Key is: cheap to build. You can afford to build many thousands of them, and if some fail to get through, oh, well.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2026 07:39 PM (hg8Lt)

There is a paper out on detection of the magnetic pulses put out by the electric motors used in drones, just released. I suppose the pulse jets would show up on any thermal scan, but they wouldn't show up on a magnetic scan.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2026 07:42 PM (rbvCR)

71 Thank you for calling them by their correct name. We hate it when people call them "dikes". You wouldn't believe the confusion it caused around here when we were remodeling.
Posted by: The Last Ditch

Ooh. Sting.

Posted by: MkY at October 26, 2026 07:42 PM (ik4bQ)

72 Hobbits had that whole hole arrangement sorted out.
Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2026 07:41 PM (LHPAg)
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Hobbit-holes are the very definition of "comfort."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 26, 2026 07:42 PM (FZ29D)

73 Got to get out early tomorrow for work
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 26, 2026 07:42 PM (Ia/+0)

74 "clippers with comfortable shoes"

Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2026 07:43 PM (rbvCR)

75
I know the rovers have recorded sounds from Mars. The atmosphere is much thinner, barely a wisp, and sound behaves differently compared to Erf, so I think some liberties have to be taken to produce audio of "what it would sound like". I'll have to look all that up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 26, 2026 07:43 PM (w6EFb)

76 60 Fishermen from Australia rescue a kangaroo, found swimming two miles out at sea. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/5eukt3r9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 26, 2026 07:38 PM (JrHfD)

Maybe Kangaroo identified as a shark...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 26, 2026 07:43 PM (l3cgK)

77 "clippers with comfortable shoes"
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I need some sensible shoes...

Posted by: Dave R. at October 26, 2026 07:44 PM (TN0g+)

78 75
I know the rovers have recorded sounds from Mars. The atmosphere is much thinner, barely a wisp, and sound behaves differently compared to Erf, so I think some liberties have to be taken to produce audio of "what it would sound like". I'll have to look all that up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 26, 2026 07:43 PM (w6EFb)

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/
mars-2020-perseverance/sounds-of-mars/

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 26, 2026 07:45 PM (l3cgK)

79 Hobbit-holes are the very definition of "comfort."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 26, 2026 07:42 PM

* nods *

Posted by: Paolo Proudfoot at October 26, 2026 07:45 PM (S9oA5)

80 Hadrian the Seventh

Very nice interview. Thanks for the link.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 26, 2026 07:45 PM (u82oZ)

81 Season 4, episode 1 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds had a nice Mars episode.

And dinosaurs. It was pretty good.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 26, 2026 07:46 PM (Sco7b)

82 RIP Donnie. What a great dude.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 26, 2026 07:47 PM (6vuXd)

83 There is a paper out on detection of the magnetic pulses put out by the electric motors used in drones, just released. I suppose the pulse jets would show up on any thermal scan, but they wouldn't show up on a magnetic scan.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2026 07:42 PM (rbvCR)

Imagine using modern V1's against savages like the Houthis, or against Iran, now that total air superiority has been achieved. You could make them fly high enough to be out of range from shoulder-fired AA missiles. Bigger SAM's could knock them down, but a SAM capable of knocking one down would probably cost much more than the modern V1. Send a whole flock of them against an Iranian target. The SAM's get some, but the rest get through.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2026 07:49 PM (hg8Lt)

84 That Metallica concert looks beyond awesome. Russkie soldiers in uniform attending? In ranks, almost.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Forward..... Mosh!

Posted by: mikeski at October 26, 2026 07:49 PM (VHUov)

85 81 Season 4, episode 1 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds had a nice Mars episode.

And dinosaurs. It was pretty good.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 26, 2026 07:46 PM (Sco7b)

But they were sure slow on the uptake. I mean I figured where the buggos were coming from much, much faster.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 26, 2026 07:49 PM (l3cgK)

86
I'm kicking myself, should have remembered this. Because of the properties of CO2 molecules, which makes up the vast majority of what little atmosphere is there, there are two distinct speeds of sound roughly on Mars. Higher frequencies travel a bit faster than lower frequencies, about 10 m/s difference, with the line being at 240 Hz. So, you get sound dispersion.

And sound attenuation is much greater on Mars. Everyday sounds we make all the time doing our normal routines would drop off in intensity greatly past 30' or so.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 26, 2026 07:49 PM (w6EFb)

87 72 Hobbits had that whole hole arrangement sorted out.
Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2026 07:41 PM (LHPAg)
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Hobbit-holes are the very definition of "comfort."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 26, 2026 07:42 PM
Perfesser, I thought of you yesterday. Mrs. E saw a regular old grey squirrel in our driveway(we call them cat squirrels) with a 6 inch garter snake in his mouth. What say you?

Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2026 07:51 PM (LHPAg)

88 https://science.nasa.gov/mission/
mars-2020-perseverance/sounds-of-mars/
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 26, 2026 07:45 PM (l3cgK)

I expect the only sounds one would hear on Mars, other than those made by oneself, would be the wind interacting with obstacles, either natural or man-made.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2026 07:53 PM (hg8Lt)

89
And there was a marsquake recorded by instruments there a while back and they just published some paper on that:
https://t.ly/nhZ4y

The epicenter was deep under Valles Marineris, which makes the Grand Canyon look like a little gulley.

Mars never had tectonic plate activity like earth does, there are big differences in all this across the solar system. Earth is pretty much unique.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 26, 2026 07:54 PM (w6EFb)

90 "clippers with comfortable shoes"
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I need some sensible shoes...
Posted by: Dave R.

I know some others that like that.

-- Zombie Earl Butz

Posted by: Tonypete at October 26, 2026 07:54 PM (4cqyH)

91 Perfesser, I thought of you yesterday. Mrs. E saw a regular old grey squirrel in our driveway(we call them cat squirrels) with a 6 inch garter snake in his mouth. What say you?
Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2026 07:51 PM (LHPAg)
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It's a little early for killing the snakes for St. Pat's....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 26, 2026 07:56 PM (FZ29D)

92 Perfesser, I thought of you yesterday. Mrs. E saw a regular old grey squirrel in our driveway(we call them cat squirrels) with a 6 inch garter snake in his mouth. What say you?
Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2026 07:51 PM (LHPAg)

Squirrels eat meat. In the spring they raid birds' nests and a friend of mine said that his cat would go hunting with the squirrels. The squirrels would act as beaters around the brush piles flushing field mice out, and the cat would kill a mouse and play with it for a while before the squirrels took the body into the brush.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2026 07:57 PM (rbvCR)

93 I used to tell stupid yankee tourists to make sure they take a Beach Apple home with them when they returned to yankee land when I lived near the water and they were despoiling the beaches.

A keepsake you could say.

Posted by: Southern Gentleman at October 26, 2026 08:00 PM (Ssbab)

94 I visited Thorncrown Chapel in Eurka Springs, predecessor to and inspiration for Anthony Chapel. It's a very pretty part of the country, although the cicadas in those hollers are deafening.

Posted by: mea culpa at October 26, 2026 08:05 PM (iN6fC)

95
The squirrels would act as beaters around the brush piles flushing field mice out, and the cat would kill a mouse and play with it for a while before the squirrels took the body into the brush.
Posted by: Kindltot

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Nature. (shudder)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2026 08:07 PM (mmrXZ)

96 But they were sure slow on the uptake. I mean I figured where the buggos were coming from much, much faster.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 26, 2026 07:49 PM (l3cgK)

They did have an hour to kill.

I really liked the second drunken planet episode. 'Star Trek' doesn't do funny well but that was good.

Third 'ghost ship' episode was nice too. Someone on set was working on horror movies. Pretty good season overall up until they introduced the gay crap in episodes 9 and 10.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 26, 2026 08:10 PM (Sco7b)

97 It's a full moon. Might have been a Weresquirrel.

Posted by: fd at October 26, 2026 08:12 PM (MWfyi)

98 F*ck you, funny hat!

https://tinyurl.com/3265jkwn

45 seconds.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 26, 2026 08:16 PM (ndZc7)

99 Actual response on the ICE X account to the bullshit 60 Minutes report that aired last night about an illegal from Mali who claimed he was being persecuted in Mali for being gay.

>>@ICEgov

>>Fake & Gay!

>>Moussa Diawara, the Malian national featured in this shockingly poorly researched @60Minutes
report, now faces allegations of immigration FRAUD after his asylum application surfaced, revealing that he claimed to be a HOMOSEXUAL man who feared persecution in Mali.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 26, 2026 08:16 PM (viF8m)

100 Wow, I have CURSED A LOT at AI today.

AI deserved it.

Everyone have a good night.
Ball game for those who care I think.

Kylie Cantrall was the pretty girl who sung the anthem in Game two. Very sweet.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 26, 2026 08:20 PM (Sco7b)

101 Oh wow.

Whirled Series
Or
Cowboys Eagles.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2026 08:21 PM (yEz+x)

102
I'm almost certain Mars had micro-life in the ancient past at the least. Something akin to bacteria/archaea.

There might even be something still there, barely surviving, just an echo of the eons. Those "spotted rocks" are pretty good evidence, but you can only know for sure if you could samples back to earth to test with all the lab instruments and techniques we have here on the ground.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 26, 2026 08:22 PM (w6EFb)

103 66 You know, an updated version of the V1 buzz bomb would be a worthy addition to the arsenal. Carried a thousand kilogram warhead. The pulse-jet engine was cheap to build. Nowadays, they could be fitted with GPS navigation, and programmed to take evasive action when they come under fire.

Key is: cheap to build. You can afford to build many thousands of them, and if some fail to get through, oh, well.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2026 07:39 PM (hg8Lt)

No problem, $12,000,000 each, we can deliver the first one in 2038. Or maybe 2041, we're not really sure.

Posted by: Boeing at October 26, 2026 08:24 PM (X5Jzz)

104 10 ... Hadrian,

Thanks for the link to Her Majesty's interview. Interesting information and a lovely photo of her with the pup.

Posted by: JTB at October 26, 2026 08:26 PM (yTvNw)

105 I know y’all hate Boeing. And they are not the company they were in WW II when they made it possible for the US to win. But. Go ahead.

Boeing is going to get its mojo back.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2026 08:27 PM (yEz+x)

106 Oh wow.
Whirled Series
Or
Cowboys Eagles.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2026 08:21 PM (yEz+x)

Game 5 of the Rayciss Lesbo Lip Lickers is tonight also.

The Atlanta Rug Munchers vs. The Golden State Golden Dildos.

Get ya peanuts here! Get ya peanuts!

Posted by: WNBA Peanut Vendor Tranny at October 26, 2026 08:28 PM (Ssbab)

107 There might even be something still there, barely surviving, just an echo of the eons. Those "spotted rocks" are pretty good evidence, but you can only know for sure if you could samples back to earth to test with all the lab instruments and techniques we have here on the ground.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 26, 2026 08:22 PM (w6EFb)
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Wouldn't you have to take extra steps to avoid ground-based contamination to avoid getting a "false positive?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 26, 2026 08:29 PM (FZ29D)

108
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2026 08:21 PM (yEz+x)

___________

The Brewers were the Seattle Pilots in 1969, the expansion year, and left for Milwaukee in 1970. Likely, they will be WS champs before the Mariners.

Just saying.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2026 08:30 PM (eRlcH)

109 105 I know y’all hate Boeing. And they are not the company they were in WW II when they made it possible for the US to win. But. Go ahead.

Boeing is going to get its mojo back.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2026 08:27 PM (yEz+x)

I hope you're right, they were once a great company that made most of the great airplanes of the 20th century. Step one is to get rid of the McDonnel-Douglas bean counters who took over upper management after the merger.

Posted by: Boeing at October 26, 2026 08:31 PM (X5Jzz)

110 underground caves

Posted by: davidt at October 26, 2026 08:32 PM (Q+gd/)

111 105 I know y’all hate Boeing. And they are not the company they were in WW II when they made it possible for the US to win. But. Go ahead.

Boeing is going to get its mojo back.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2026 08:27 PM
No Boeing hate here. America and Americans worked and sacrificed to win WW II. We're all wanting America to get it's mojo back.

Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2026 08:32 PM (LHPAg)

112 I thought Boeing was in South Carolina

Posted by: NCKate at October 26, 2026 08:32 PM (enNUy)

113 >> Wouldn't you have to take extra steps to avoid ground-based contamination to avoid getting a "false positive?"

There were plans for a Mars sample return, and they are technically still on, but sort of in limbo. At any rate, they developed protocols for this, and believe you me, they are quite involved. There are also "Andromeda Strain" concerns about bringing some Martian bug back to earth. Probably overblown, but we would be dealing with a true unknown.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 26, 2026 08:33 PM (w6EFb)

114 So my excitement of the day is that our brand new almost $2k refrigerator, which we've had for 6 weeks, bit the dust already. Frigidaire. Supposed to be a good brand.
Under warranty but they don't know when they can get someone out here . . .

Posted by: TecumsehTea at October 26, 2026 08:33 PM (FGA9/)

115 20 ... "My attempt at semi clear water in a painting."

polynikes,
You really caught the look of rocks seen through shallow water. (I've seen a lot of that.) I assume you have to thin out the oil paint a lot to get that effect.

Posted by: JTB at October 26, 2026 08:34 PM (yTvNw)

116
No Boeing hate here. America and Americans worked and sacrificed to win WW II. We're all wanting America to get it's mojo back.
Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2026 08:32 PM (LHPAg)

___________

The atomic bomb cost $2 billion to develop.

The B-29 cost $3 billion to develop.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2026 08:34 PM (eRlcH)

117 Boeing has or had a wonderful aircraft museum in Seattle.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 26, 2026 08:34 PM (ndZc7)

118 If you like the V1, the sound, and the havoc they caused, watch the 1946 murder mystery "Green For Danger" starring Alistair Sim as a Scotland Yard detective sent to a field hospital in the countryside with the constant threat of V1s throughout. A gripping mystery, done immediately after the War, with a very fine performance by Sim, Trevor Howard, and Sally Gray.

Posted by: Buzz Kill at October 26, 2026 08:35 PM (EdP2u)

119 114 So my excitement of the day is that our brand new almost $2k refrigerator, which we've had for 6 weeks, bit the dust already. Frigidaire. Supposed to be a good brand.
Under warranty but they don't know when they can get someone out here . . .
Posted by: TecumsehTea at October 26, 2026 08:33 PM
Two weeks.

Posted by: Eromero at October 26, 2026 08:35 PM (LHPAg)

120 I thought Boeing was in South Carolina
Posted by: NCKate

Well, Boeing is ALL OVER the place. And yes, they do make 787s in South Carolina. Seattle is still the biggest commercial jet production location. Nowadays their fighters are made in St. Louis.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 26, 2026 08:35 PM (ftFVW)

121
The Viking landers back in the '70s carried a number of biological experiments aboard to test for life in various ways. A couple of them gave positive results, but they were discounted as likely some abiotic chemistry of some sort, due to the apparent total lack of organic compounds in the soil.

That was wrong, and we know now that Mars has many organics. There was a recent paper calling the original conclusions in questions, and concluding the jury is still very much out on just what Viking may or may not have detected.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 26, 2026 08:36 PM (w6EFb)

122 thought Boeing was in South Carolina
Posted by: NCKate

They are. They have sites around the US

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 26, 2026 08:38 PM (6vuXd)

123 I thought there was talk of moving Boeing corporate to South Carolina too

Posted by: NCKate at October 26, 2026 08:39 PM (enNUy)

124 The Boeing 737 that the Jihadi pilot tried to crash just a few weeks ago held together extremely well after his murderous plummet. Experts said it should have busted up and lost it's tail

Posted by: Good Glue, Rivets, Welding? at October 26, 2026 08:41 PM (EdP2u)

125 I thought Boeing was in South Carolina

I'm so old, I remember them being
just around the corner from the Chicago Lyric Opera.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 26, 2026 08:41 PM (zdLoL)

126 Speaking of gay wad sh*t, I see there is a new Oscar favorite film out of Spain about gay love during wartime.

Wasn't there a Spanish tranny film fave a couple of years ago?

It would be hysterical if this film beats out Oppenheimer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 26, 2026 08:42 PM (XV/Pl)

127 120

Well, Boeing is ALL OVER the place. And yes, they do make 787s in South Carolina. Seattle is still the biggest commercial jet production location. Nowadays their fighters are made in St. Louis.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 26, 2026 08:35 PM (ftFVW)

The St. Louis fighter operation is what remains of McDonnel-Douglas after the merger. M-D was always in St. Louis, and I don't believe Boeing built fighters before the merger.

Posted by: a.moron at October 26, 2026 08:42 PM (X5Jzz)

128 I thought there was talk of moving Boeing corporate to South Carolina too
Posted by: NCKate

Methinks not. After the merger with McDonnell Douglas HQ was in Chicago as a sort of neutral ground. A number of years ago HQ moved to DC. Doubt they'd move it to SC cause it would piss off all the wrong people in Seattle.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 26, 2026 08:43 PM (ftFVW)

129 Matmata was, in fact, a shooting location both in the original Star Wars and one of the prequels, some hotel stood in for Luke's home. The planet got its name for an old French garrison, Tataouine.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at October 26, 2026 08:44 PM (ENA4W)

130
Dr. Gilbert Levin was the the principal investigator for one of those Viking life experiments, the Labeled Released experiment, and he got very bitter about the whole thing until his death in 2021. He was dead certain they have found life.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 26, 2026 08:44 PM (w6EFb)

131 The St. Louis fighter operation is what remains of McDonnel-Douglas after the merger. M-D was always in St. Louis, and I don't believe Boeing built fighters before the merger.
Posted by: a.moron

Also true. And there are no more fighters made in legacy Boeing locations.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 26, 2026 08:45 PM (ftFVW)

132 If you like the V1, the sound, and the havoc they caused, watch the 1946 murder mystery "Green For Danger" starring Alistair Sim as a Scotland Yard detective sent to a field hospital in the countryside with the constant threat of V1s throughout. A gripping mystery, done immediately after the War, with a very fine performance by Sim, Trevor Howard, and Sally Gray.
Posted by: Buzz Kill

Although I can't recommend it because of excessive nihilism, Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity' Rainbow has a great premise. An American officer in London marks his romantic conquests on a map of London and those conquests correspond with the fall of V-2s.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 26, 2026 08:45 PM (ndZc7)

133 If you like the V1, the sound, and the havoc they caused, watch the 1946 murder mystery "Green For Danger" starring Alistair Sim as a Scotland Yard detective sent to a field hospital in the countryside with the constant threat of V1s throughout. A gripping mystery, done immediately after the War, with a very fine performance by Sim, Trevor Howard, and Sally Gray.
Posted by: Buzz Kill

Although I can't recommend it because of excessive nihilism, Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity' Rainbow has a great premise. An American officer in London marks his romantic conquests on a map of London and those conquests correspond with the fall of V-2s.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 26, 2026 08:45 PM (ndZc7)

134 "clippers with comfortable shoes"
-----

I need some sensible shoes...
Posted by: Dave R.

I know some others that like that.

-- Zombie Earl Butz
Posted by: Tonypete at October 26, 2026 07:54 PM (4cqyH)

Upon further internet research, I get this reference now.

+1

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 26, 2026 08:46 PM (wVcYX)

135 123 I thought there was talk of moving Boeing corporate to South Carolina too
Posted by: NCKate at October 26, 2026 08:39 PM

There was, unfortunately they handled the announcement very badly and found themselves in a court case where they were accused of union busting, which you cannot do under the NLRA, so they were told they could not move. I am surprised they haven’t made another run at it, but with much better labor relations advice.

Posted by: Piper at October 26, 2026 08:47 PM (ZdaMQ)

136 Well, Boeing is ALL OVER the place.

-
You know, like God.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 26, 2026 08:48 PM (ndZc7)

137 The Boeing move thing was 10 years ago? Maybe even more. I was with HON Labor Relations at the time.

Posted by: Piper at October 26, 2026 08:49 PM (ZdaMQ)

138
Back during the time of Viking in the '70s very little was known about extremophiles. I think a few had been discovered, but they had no idea about the extent of them and the extreme hostile conditions they thrive in.

Had they know that then, they might have looked at those Viking results very differently.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 26, 2026 08:51 PM (w6EFb)

139 the DC 8 and DC 9 were much better airplanes

Posted by: what the cat drug in at October 26, 2026 08:52 PM (jrgJz)

140 Oh yea. WS and Monday Night Football.

Watching a replay of a dirt car race at Volunteer Raceway in Tennessee.

youtu.be/1yganMltKLY

Go Brewers! Or Devil Rays. I'm flexible. I did live in Tampa for a bit.

Go Eagles. I guess. I hate the Cowboys.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 26, 2026 08:53 PM (sAmhv)

141
The Ilhan Omar spot on Omar Fateh's "I'm Your Host Now" show was just the usual "Republicans are racist" blather. At one point, she said that despite Trump's claims, 70% of Somalians are gainfully employed in Minnesota, compared to the 60% state rate overall. What on earth are those statistics?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2026 08:54 PM (mmrXZ)

142 Boeing just opened another 737 production line in Everett, WA. It is impressive. And the workhorse of commercial airline travel.

They are building 777s and 787s like maniacs. I would imagine the military side is going gangbusters as well.

They got rid of the DEI crap. Idiots are being let go. They are going balls to the wall.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2026 08:55 PM (yEz+x)

143 141:What on earth are those statistics?

The kind you make up.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 26, 2026 08:56 PM (sAmhv)

144 It could have also been perchlorates in the regiolith releasing gases as well.
The best solution at this point is to repeat the study, and possibly a few others.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2026 08:56 PM (rbvCR)

145 Bombardier is in SC, however.

Posted by: Piper at October 26, 2026 08:56 PM (ZdaMQ)

146
the DC 8 and DC 9 were much better airplanes
Posted by: what the cat drug in at October 26, 2026 08:52 PM (jrgJz)

_________

The DC-3 (or C-47) and DC-4 (or C-54) helped win the war.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 26, 2026 08:57 PM (eRlcH)

147 70% of Somalians are gainfully employed in Minnesota, compared to the 60% state rate overall. What on earth are those statistics?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

They're inoperative statements.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 26, 2026 08:57 PM (ndZc7)

148 I hate the Cowboys.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come

You know, like God.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 26, 2026 08:59 PM (ndZc7)

149 polynikes,
You really caught the look of rocks seen through shallow water. (I've seen a lot of that.) I assume you have to thin out the oil paint a lot to get that effect.
Posted by: JTB at October 26, 2026 08:34 PM (yTvNw)

I don't know what the 'correct technique' is but the way I did it is how I do all my paintings and that is to look at the 2D image and see and copy the 2D shape and color and don't let my mind see the actual image.

And I don't know if I mentioned before but my paintings may be unique in that I use no other mediums and paint only straight from the tube. No thinning or drying mediums which makes it much harder to paint with oil but I decided not to expose myself to the harmful chemicals when I first started. I don't even use quality brushes because I throw them away after a painting session because I don't want to use thinner to clean them.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 08:59 PM (Ti9vn)

150 Boeing has 10,000?? Employees at Joint Base Miss Lindsey

Posted by: NCKate at October 26, 2026 09:00 PM (enNUy)

151 Formerly Joint Base Charleston

Posted by: NCKate at October 26, 2026 09:00 PM (enNUy)

152 Former President Barack Obama criticized recent White House renovations, mockingly comparing the changes to "Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory"

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent fired back by dining at a Cheesecake Factory in Washington, D.C., and targeting Obama's $850 million Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, stating: "This is the man who built the museum. It looks like Darth Vader's tomb."

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 26, 2026 09:01 PM (NFX2v)

153 Too soon to set that Nepal glacier video to Holiday Road?

Posted by: Chris at October 26, 2026 09:02 PM (hyQrc)

154 My Father was working for Boeing doing work on KC-135s when he passed away from a heart attack.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 09:02 PM (Ti9vn)

155 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent fired back by dining at a Cheesecake Factory in Washington, D.C., and targeting Obama's $850 million Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, stating: "This is the man who built the museum. It looks like Darth Vader's tomb."
Posted by: L - No nic... at October 26, 2026 09:01 PM (NFX2v)

I saw a meme that said, "it looks like Hitler built a Harkonnen citadel"

Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2026 09:04 PM (rbvCR)

156 >> The best solution at this point is to repeat the study, and possibly a few others.

Levin himself proposed the same thing. He wrote some papers on his hypothesis that it was microbial life of some sort, his evidence and reasoning for that conclusion, and then developed an experiment to falsify it that a future mission could conduct.

Like a real scientist. Here's my theory, and here's how you prove me wrong.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 26, 2026 09:05 PM (w6EFb)

157 I flew on a DC-6 from Idlewild to Oslo, with stops in Gander and Iceland on the way, Icelandic Airlines in 1961. It was fun, but took more than twice as long as the SAS 747 flew on in 1972 non-stop Kennedy to Copenhagen.

Posted by: The March of Time at October 26, 2026 09:05 PM (EdP2u)

158 Boeing was part of the F-22. I think they are involved in the next generation fighter.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 09:05 PM (Ti9vn)

159 The little brown tabby kitten was upset that he couldn't make the leap and squeaked in protest. "You moved the damn table!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 26, 2026 09:06 PM (wzUl9)

160 The sixth generation fighter will be the F-47. Seems like yesterday that the F-35 was the next generation fighter.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 09:07 PM (Ti9vn)

161 I flew on a Dreamliner in 2016 from SF to Auckland, NZ. Long flight. Amazing. Quiet. Comfortable. Climate controlled like no airplane I’ve even been on.

And we were in the cheap seats.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2026 09:08 PM (yEz+x)

162 Like a real scientist. Here's my theory, and here's how you prove me wrong.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 26, 2026 09:05 PM (w6EFb)

One of my pet bugaboos is so many "scientists" are not willing to consider what would be falsifying to their theories.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 26, 2026 09:08 PM (rbvCR)

163 I am sorry, Polynikes.

Posted by: Piper at October 26, 2026 09:08 PM (ZdaMQ)

164 >>> 141
The Ilhan Omar spot on Omar Fateh's "I'm Your Host Now" show was just the usual "Republicans are racist" blather. At one point, she said that despite Trump's claims, 70% of Somalians are gainfully employed in Minnesota, compared to the 60% state rate overall. What on earth are those statistics?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2026 08:54 PM (mmrXZ)

They're remote employees of the Quality Learing Center.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 26, 2026 09:09 PM (jb8Ss)

165 Crazy ass Libertarian is behind bars.

Jonathan D. Miller is a Libertarian Party candidate for North Carolina’s 16th State Senate District (Wake County), running in the November 3, 2026 election, and is currently in custody after an armed standoff with Cary police

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 26, 2026 09:10 PM (ndZc7)

166 flew on a Dreamliner in 2016 from SF to Auckland, NZ. Long flight. Amazing. Quiet. Comfortable. Climate controlled like no airplane I’ve even been on.

And we were in the cheap seats.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2026 09:08 PM (yEz+x)

Always will be weary of flying trans Pacific with a two engine plane. I know it's built to fly on one engine without too much stress.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 09:10 PM (Ti9vn)

167 I used both mineral spirits and lacquer thinner when I was doing priming, bodywork on my bus today.

Posted by: On My Way Out at October 26, 2026 09:10 PM (EdP2u)

168 >>> 156 The best solution at this point is to repeat the study, and possibly a few others.
==
Levin himself proposed the same thing. He wrote some papers on his hypothesis that it was microbial life of some sort, his evidence and reasoning for that conclusion, and then developed an experiment to falsify it that a future mission could conduct.

Like a real scientist. Here's my theory, and here's how you prove me wrong.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 26, 2026 09:05 PM (w6EFb)

REEEEEEE!!!!!

Posted by: glowball warmingists at October 26, 2026 09:11 PM (jb8Ss)

169 I am sorry, Polynikes.
Posted by: Piper at October 26, 2026 09:08 PM (ZdaMQ)

Thanks. It was a long time ago and he was a young man relatively speaking.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 09:13 PM (Ti9vn)

170 What on earth are those statistics?

Made up bullshit ones.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 26, 2026 09:13 PM (6vuXd)

171 More on crazy ass Libertarian.

https://tinyurl.com/a869crr5

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 26, 2026 09:13 PM (ndZc7)

172 I don't believe Boeing built fighters before the merger.

Ah, Boeing built the first all metal monoplane fighter, the P-26.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 26, 2026 09:14 PM (zdLoL)

173 My father designed General Electric engines for Boeing and others. We spent a very long year in Egypt when I was a kid.

Posted by: NCKate at October 26, 2026 09:16 PM (enNUy)

174 160 The sixth generation fighter will be the F-47. Seems like yesterday that the F-35 was the next generation fighter.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 09:07 PM (Ti9vn)

Some of us are so old that we remember when the F-15 was the next generation fighter. When I got out of the Air Force, my wing was in the early stages of transitioning from the F-4 to the F-15.

Posted by: a.moron at October 26, 2026 09:16 PM (X5Jzz)

175 I used both mineral spirits and lacquer thinner when I was doing priming, bodywork on my bus today.
Posted by: On My Way Out at October 26, 2026 09:10 PM (EdP2u)

Hard to paint with a respirator on. I'm convinced Bob Ross died of cancer early because of his free use of thinner. He almost swam in it. He would always tell his listeners to get the odor free thinner like it was safe.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 09:16 PM (Ti9vn)

176 my wing was in the early stages of transitioning from the F-4 to the F-15.

Posted by: a.moron at October 26, 2026 09:16 PM (X5Jzz

That was a huge change.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 09:17 PM (Ti9vn)

177 172 I don't believe Boeing built fighters before the merger.

Ah, Boeing built the first all metal monoplane fighter, the P-26.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 26, 2026 09:14 PM (zdLoL)

Did they build any fighters between WW11 and the M-D merger? I don't recall any, but I might be wrong.

Posted by: a.moron at October 26, 2026 09:18 PM (X5Jzz)

178 "This is the man who built the museum. It looks like Darth Vader's tomb."

-
Barack Obama: "They are running scary ads to make you think Democrats are radicals, communists, jihadists, or the woke police. What is radical about wanting everybody to have healthcare? How is that radical?"

Scott Jennings
@ScottJenningsKY
Weird. I thought someone fixed health care. What happened?

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Bazinga!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 26, 2026 09:18 PM (ndZc7)

179 I remember the F-15E Strike Eagles were the cat's pajamas. Not long after the F-117.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 26, 2026 09:19 PM (6vuXd)

180 Did they build any fighters between WW11 and the M-D merger? I don't recall any, but I might be wrong.
Posted by: a.moron at October 26, 2026 09:18 PM (X5Jzz)

Prototypes IIRC. Off to the intertubes to look up.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 09:20 PM (Ti9vn)

181 I don't believe Boeing built fighters before the merger.Baking!

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Boeing built the P-26 "Peashooter" shortly prior to WWII.

https://tinyurl.com/pxu7rfh3

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 26, 2026 09:23 PM (ndZc7)

182 From Wikipedia :

"Although Boeing produced the prototype XF8B in 1944 and the X-32 entry in the Joint Strike Fighter contest in 2000, the P-26 was the last Boeing Company fighter aircraft to enter service until Boeing acquired McDonnell Douglas in 1997 and took over its production and continuing support contracts for the F-15 Eagle and the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet.".

Posted by: a.moron at October 26, 2026 09:24 PM (X5Jzz)

183 I did wear nitrile gloves and was working outside with the solvents and putty.

Posted by: Prudence Dictates at October 26, 2026 09:24 PM (EdP2u)

184 Comey Charged for Alleged Unauthorized Disclosure of National Security Information _EpochTimes
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Let's get down to some basic accuracy here.
Did they charge him with ALLEGEDLY disclosing national security information or did they charge him with disclosing national security information?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 26, 2026 09:24 PM (4tmEn)

185 Intertubes tell me no prototype jet fighters built by Boeing before the merger though they did build a prototype fighter combo in the at the end of WW2.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 09:24 PM (Ti9vn)

186 From the last thread, I got a chuckle out of the comical weasel language...

The ex-prosecutor answered: "Yes, we sought to do things consistent with the law and department policy."

Yeah, hoss, and I sought to bury my face in Sydney Sweeney's glorious boobage.

Guess we both missed the mark.

Posted by: ballistic at October 26, 2026 09:24 PM (oqH4h)

187 I'm unaware of a Spanish tranny film, but the French attempted a tranny film based on Mexico.
The Mexicans delivered such mockery to that film (and to the French) that I doubt the director will make that mistake twice.

Posted by: from penis to vagiiiinaaah at October 26, 2026 09:29 PM (88C+u)

188 Hard to paint with a respirator on. I'm convinced Bob Ross died of cancer early because of his free use of thinner. He almost swam in it. He would always tell his listeners to get the odor free thinner like it was safe.
Posted by: polynikes

That's right, he was always dipping and thinning.

Posted by: Prudence Dictates! at October 26, 2026 09:29 PM (EdP2u)

189 Always will be weary of flying trans Pacific with a two engine plane. I know it's built to fly on one engine without too much stress.
Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 09:10 PM (Ti9vn)
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Eh, ETOPS is a thing. They plan for it.

Posted by: ballistic at October 26, 2026 09:29 PM (oqH4h)

190 159 The little brown tabby kitten was upset that he couldn't make the leap and squeaked in protest. "You moved the damn table!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

SEE!!! SEE!! I HAVE WITNESSES!!! I TOTALLY WOULD HAVE MADE THAT JUMP, BUT THE TABLE MOVED!!!! BAD HOOMAN!!! 😾😾

Posted by: Little Brown Tabby Kitten at October 26, 2026 09:29 PM (sAmhv)

191 Boeing had a prototype entry in the JSF competition and lost in the final round to Lockheed Martin. M-D also had an early bid but didn't make it to the final prototype competition.

Posted by: She Hobbit at October 26, 2026 09:31 PM (igBuc)

192 Bill Alexander lived to 81 and died of stroke/heart.

Posted by: Palette Cleanser at October 26, 2026 09:33 PM (EdP2u)

193
The little brown tabby kitten was upset that he couldn't make the leap and squeaked in protest. "You moved the damn table!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

================

Servant should have picked up the kitty and put her on the table. She was too cute to not get her way.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 26, 2026 09:33 PM (mmrXZ)

194 ETOPS

engines turn or people swim

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 09:35 PM (KC5Lt)

195 I’m no expert about airplane production.

I can relay the mood of the region. Boeing is hiring. They have ramped up production. Manditory OT is coming online. DEI is gone. Engineers just signed a contract without a strike. Folks are gearing up to grind. And we like it that way.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2026 09:37 PM (yEz+x)

196 And the Seattle Pilots are killing it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2026 09:39 PM (yEz+x)

197 A new book, submitted primarily for its portmanteau title.

The Rednexorcist
By: Frank Sloane, Grady Hendrix

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 26, 2026 09:40 PM (ndZc7)

198 Bill Alexander lived to 81 and died of stroke/heart.
Posted by: Palette Cleanser at October 26, 2026 09:33 PM (EdP2u)

Lot of smokers live to their 80’s and 90’s too. But causation is fickle . I choose to eliminate one of the factors.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 09:40 PM (KC5Lt)

199 195 I’m no expert about airplane production.

I can relay the mood of the region. Boeing is hiring. They have ramped up production. Manditory OT is coming online. DEI is gone. Engineers just signed a contract without a strike. Folks are gearing up to grind. And we like it that way.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October

I am excited about growing manufacturing anywhere in the US. On shoring across most sectors would be incredible for our country. We have cost issues, I am not naive. But I would love to see it happen.

Posted by: Piper at October 26, 2026 09:44 PM (ZdaMQ)

200 Boeing had a prototype entry in the JSF competition and lost in the final round to Lockheed Martin. M-D also had an early bid but didn't make it to the final prototype competition.
Posted by: She Hobbit at October 26, 2026 09:31 PM (igBuc)

I knew that they had done a prototype but Google AI told me they didn’t. All I had to do was look up the JSF to confirm my memory. I’ll know better than to trust AI.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 09:45 PM (KC5Lt)

201 The Rednexorcist
By: Frank Sloane, Grady Hendrix
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

So is that about:

Rednecks who get rid of ghosts?

City folk who get rid of rednecks?

Anyone who gets rid of one-hit-wonder Swedish dance bands?

Posted by: mikeski at October 26, 2026 09:49 PM (VHUov)

202 That Boeing JSF prototype wasn’t going to win any beauty contests that’s for sure.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 09:49 PM (KC5Lt)

203 Posted by: polynikes

That's right, he was always dipping and thinning.

Posted by: Prudence Dictates!
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A little fan takes care of that problem.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 26, 2026 09:49 PM (4tmEn)

204 I think there's a P-26 Peashooter-in my pants!

Posted by: Son Of Scranton at October 26, 2026 09:49 PM (EdP2u)

205 Poor Bob Uecker. Didn't make it to see this.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 26, 2026 09:50 PM (6vuXd)

206 Poor Bob Uecker. Didn't make it to see this.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 26, 2026 09:50 PM (6vuXd)

Hopefully he’s watching from the upper upper deck.

Posted by: polynikes at October 26, 2026 09:51 PM (KC5Lt)

207 195 I’m no expert about airplane production.

I can relay the mood of the region. Boeing is hiring. They have ramped up production. Manditory OT is coming online. DEI is gone. Engineers just signed a contract without a strike. Folks are gearing up to grind. And we like it that way.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2026 09:37 PM (yEz+x)

I liked the meme with two heavy black women carry wrenches.

"Beoing. We make planes and shit."

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 26, 2026 09:52 PM (Sco7b)

208 .....should I have socked that "cotton-eyed mikeski" to give it away, or do people remember who they were?

Posted by: mikeski at October 26, 2026 09:53 PM (VHUov)

209 Brewers up 10 - 0.
AI pissing me off.
Dog restless.
Friend's cat upstairs sleeping.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 26, 2026 09:53 PM (Sco7b)

210 ***In Matmata, Tunisia, people have lived in underground homes for hundreds of years,
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yet no records exist

Because they didn't read or write.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 26, 2026 09:54 PM (4tmEn)

211 The Rednexorcist
By: Frank Sloane, Grady Hendrix
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

So is that about:

Rednecks who get rid of ghosts?

-
It's about a redneck preacher who unleashes Hell on demons.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Where's My Cookie? at October 26, 2026 09:56 PM (ndZc7)

212 >>>>I am excited about growing manufacturing anywhere in the US. On shoring across most sectors would be incredible for our country. We have cost issues, I am not naive. But I would love to see it happen.

Posted by: Piper
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Things will become obsolete before they break and
we won't have to worry about ingesting Chinesium.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 26, 2026 09:57 PM (4tmEn)

213 Lot of smokers live to their 80’s and 90’s too. But causation is fickle . I choose to eliminate one of the factors.
Posted by: polynikes

I completely understand. I just didn't remember what took Bill and looked it up. Your caution is rational and I get it.

Posted by: Palette Cleanser. at October 26, 2026 09:59 PM (EdP2u)

214 Sinner's Deux, new cast?

Posted by: L - No nic... at October 26, 2026 09:59 PM (NFX2v)

215 195 I’m no expert about airplane production.

I can relay the mood of the region. Boeing is hiring. They have ramped up production. Manditory OT is coming online. DEI is gone. Engineers just signed a contract without a strike. Folks are gearing up to grind. And we like it that way.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 26, 2026 09:37 PM (yEz+x)

Like I said above, I hope you're right. Boeing was once a great company, doing great things. They lost their way, hopefully they have managed to unfuck themselves. We need more great companies in this country.

Posted by: a.moron at October 26, 2026 10:01 PM (X5Jzz)

216
We just put my mother in the ground this afternoon. Speaking of causes of death, I noticed they had to put something down for her. They chose an item or two from a pretty big list of stuff she had wrong with her. It's really silly.

She was 96, and the true cause of death was simply old age. Her body was just plumb worn out. That's all it was.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 26, 2026 10:03 PM (w6EFb)

217 Excuse me that is College Professor of Ethics James Comey being charged with Violation of the Espionage Act of 1917.

As I have pointed out in the past, hiring Comey to teach ethics is very much like hiring Jeffrey Dahmer to teach haute cuisine.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at October 26, 2026 10:05 PM (WDknQ)

218 She was 96, and the true cause of death was simply old age. Her body was just plumb worn out. That's all it was.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 26, 2026 10:03 PM (w6EFb)

Once more, condolences to you and Miley. You shall always have her memory to treasure.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 26, 2026 10:06 PM (hg8Lt)

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