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Are You Ready For Some ONT?
Well, tonight is opening night of the NFL season, Ravens at Chiefs. And if football season is upon us, that means that something else is coming up fast. Something...ominous.
Ship Of Fools
There is Dysfunction, and then there's USS Manchester (LCS 14) Gold Crews in 2023
As the ship prepared for a West Pacific deployment in April 2023, the enlisted leader onboard conspired with the ship’s chiefs to install the secret, unauthorized network aboard the ship, for use exclusively by them. So while rank-and-file sailors lived without the level of internet connectivity they enjoyed ashore, the chiefs installed a Starlink satellite internet dish on the top of the ship and used a Wi-Fi network they dubbed “STINKY” to check sports scores, text home and stream movies.
Led by the senior enlisted leader of the ship’s gold crew, then-Command Senior Chief Grisel Marrero, the effort roped in the entire chiefs mess by the time it was uncovered a few months later.
Marrero was relieved in late 2023 after repeatedly misleading and lying to her ship’s command about the Wi-Fi network, and she was convicted at court-martial this spring in connection to the scheme.
She was sentenced to a reduction in rank to E-7 after the trial and did not respond to requests for comment for this report.
Bet you a dollar she was charging sailors to download porn. And she only got reduced one rank? The Navy should adopt a new recruiting song.
Spy Vs Spy “Havana Syndrome” is the Greatest Scandal in the History of American Intelligence
What the hell is going on here? wondered the American spies who proposed interdicting the GRU hit team and seizing their secret weapon. Clearly, the local COS was “just following orders” from CIA headquarters, what’s termed the “seventh floor” at Langley. Biden’s IC was determined not to have the weapon fall into American hands. Because if that happened, it would only be a matter of time before Congress found out and started asking questions. Such can’t be allowed, since that would require Biden’s intelligence bosses and their masters in the White House to admit that they’ve known the truth about AHI for years and chose to aggressively cover it up, as hundreds of Americans fell victim to this outrageous Moscow-Havana operation. Many are crippled for life. Others are dead. Team Biden doesn’t want to know the truth. Indeed, they refuse to. One more time for the seats in the back: They don’t want to know.
This reads like a Tom Clancy novel, except that the bureaucrats in a Clancy novel are usually not incompetent/evil.
Ugly Barack Obama's Monument to Himself Is a Hideous Eyesore
Located on a sprawling 19-acre campus in Jackson Park on the city's south side, the half-finished construction site is dominated by a 225-foot "museum tower" that looks like a brutalist tomb designed to house the remains of some tinpot oil sheikh or dictator from one of the ex-Soviet "stan" countries. The horrendous design was approved by a committee of experts including Caroline Kennedy's husband, Meryl Streep's ex-husband, and Democratic megadonor Fred Eychaner. A large portion of the self-monument will be engraved with words from one of Obama's speeches so that all may marvel at Dear Leader's eloquence. It certainly feels like a place where mere citizens are expected to make pilgrimage and weep in awe; one of the first things rebel forces would destroy after seizing power in a revolution.What is it about Marxists and brutalism? Ugly inside, ugly outside?
If You Can Keep It Biden’s Disappearing Act Reveals the Real Power in Washington
The executive branch now drives policy while Congress acts as an occasional, flaccid check on its actions. This is a total reversal of how our constitutional system was supposed to operate. From domestic matters to issues of war and peace, everything now flows through the presidency first and foremost. But what we have isn’t quite Caesarism, at least not in the classic sense. One man doesn’t run the show. In fact, it appears that the position atop the executive branch is more and more a ceremonial formality. Right now, it has been granted to Biden, who is being rewarded for his more than half-century of service to the Democrat Party with a career capper. No, what we have is a different kind of Caesarism than that of classical Rome. We have little Caesarism, with apologies to the pizza chain. We are now ruled by millions of little apparatchiks burrowed in our Byzantine executive and legislative agencies. It’s a vast interlocking web of government bureaucracies that dictate federal policy more than our elected officials, whether members of Congress or the president.The founders' genius was in recognizing that the only way to preserve liberty is to sharply limit exactly what government can do. If its reach is not limited, it will eventually encompass everything. We have failed utterly at preserving that vision, and unless we somehow regain it, this country will slide further and further into despotism.
RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY: The RFK Jr I know is a unifier, and just proved it
Simply put, it was immediately clear that he was a blessing: a man of principle committed to his values; a man who walked his talk; and a person infused in his personal faith and his faith in what this nation can be. Time went by, and Kennedy announced his candidacy for President. It was frustrating to see how he was blocked out of the Democratic Party, which, in collusion with the mainstream media, was committed to reelecting a senile Joe Biden without any contest. It was clear that he had a great internal struggle about running as an independent, and that there was immense personal pain at the thought of leaving the party whose identity had been tied to his father and uncle. But Kennedy is a dreamer and a man of faith, and so he chose to try to climb the “glass mountain” of running for President as an independent. And he was attacked in every way for doing so.
Ehh. I don't buy the RFK hagiography. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate that he removed his name from the ballot in swing states (those that would let him), but he's a committed leftist on all but a couple of issues (MRNA Vax and corruption). If Trump gives him a place in his administration, it should be one that is narrowly focused on one of those subjects, and he should be ignored on everything else.
Jihad
You Can’t Defend Israel Unless You Talk About Islam
After Oct 7, Israel, like the Bush administration, called on a liberal consensus that no longer existed, and tried to rally public opinion against “barbarism” and “savagery”. But neither of those are motives. Rather than acknowledging what the enemy was and trying to build a coalition with other countries struggling against Islamic terrorism, Israel tried to appeal to liberals. And lost.Islam does not play well with others. It's great to be tolerant and freedom of religion is a founding principle of the US that I agree with, however it is not unlimited. Freedom of speech does not include inciting violence. Limitations on any of our core freedoms must be rare, and extremely narrowly written, but they are necessary. Perhaps it's time to discuss how such restrictions might be applied to a movement that hides behind its status as a religion in order to be a destructive force. I'm not sure we're mature enough as a culture anymore to have that discussion. Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by cow products:
Israel had failed to define the enemy. Terrorist supporters stepped into that vacuum. Their narrative, easily familiar from even the briefest exposure to media and social media, is that Israel was oppressing a minority that had struck back as an act of resistance and liberation. This is the same excuse used to justify religious violence by Islamic groups around the world against not only Jews, but Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and numerous cultures and religions. The big lie that Islamic violence is socioeconomic and not religious, local not global, only works when no one talks about Islam or recognizes the larger pattern of Islamic violence for a thousand years that is being perpetrated on nearly every continent and against every culture. Are Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and Atheists all the problem? Or is Islam the issue? When we fail to ask this fundamental question, we lose the argument.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 05, 2024 10:00 PM (KaJ0/)
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, un judice che ha molto bisogno del ferro rovente #24 at September 05, 2024 10:00 PM (qfLjt)
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Posted by: Emmie at September 05, 2024 10:01 PM (Sf2cq)
Thanks for the ONT WD!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 05, 2024 10:01 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at September 05, 2024 10:01 PM (kOluj)
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Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at September 05, 2024 10:01 PM (kOluj)
Posted by: Piper at September 05, 2024 10:02 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Tonypete at September 05, 2024 10:03 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Piper at September 05, 2024 10:03 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at September 05, 2024 10:04 PM (yh31E)
Posted by: cattle at September 05, 2024 10:04 PM (FnneF)
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 05, 2024 10:05 PM (CEzQx)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2024 10:06 PM (1Nxff)
Any Morons live near here who want to get together?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at September 05, 2024 10:06 PM (yh31E)
Oh. I thought you were going to go with "NFL broadcasters awkwardly name-dropping Taylor Swift lyrics during coverage of Chiefs games."
But this also works.
Posted by: Dr. T at September 05, 2024 10:06 PM (lHPJf)
He was being interviewed by some aggressive leftist bimbo. She "asks" him a question that is her claiming that border crossing are down because Harris/Biden have closed the border and after making this claim then asks him why he going to break up families.
Vance tries to interrupt her as she starts in on the lie but her eyes bug out of her head and she will not stop.
So he waits until she is done and says, "Border crossings are down because he is flying the people in at taxpayer expense."
The Bimbo interrupts and says "so they are processing people more efficiently!" and Vance waits...takes a breathe and says "I don't want a border czar that processes illegals across the border more efficiently" and...boom the bimbo looks like she is going to have an aneurysm. https://tinyurl.com/mr466p6a
Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2024 10:07 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened at September 05, 2024 10:07 PM (gscQ1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 05, 2024 10:07 PM (L/fGl)
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Initiative. Poorly applied, but still. I'll bet it worked better than the comms installed on that piece of shit anyway.
Maybe take a lesson USN?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2024 10:07 PM (Q4IgG)
And the meme at top, I simply don't get.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2024 10:07 PM (9mAoJ)
If Obola has to have a monument it might as well be hideous. His presidency was.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 05, 2024 10:08 PM (3wi/L)
It's the nihilism inherent in Marxism/Progressivism.
Posted by: GWB at September 05, 2024 10:09 PM (CrXxA)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 05, 2024 10:09 PM (w6EFb)
They are the real threat.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 05, 2024 10:09 PM (TDvv2)
Now to take a break from the headache and see what WeirdDave has for us tonight.
Posted by: mindful webworker - bitter latte then nerver at September 05, 2024 10:10 PM (T9/Kf)
If Obola has to have a monument it might as well be hideous. His presidency was.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 05, 2024 10:08 PM (3wi/L)
It looks like the towers fire departments use to dry fabric fire hose. Or maybe a shot tower.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2024 10:10 PM (9mAoJ)
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Halloween ? Kamala mask!
Posted by: runner at September 05, 2024 10:11 PM (V13WU)
Georgia school shooters father arrested for murder
Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2024 10:11 PM (3eKCA)
Part of it is to let the peons know they are nothing compared to the power of the state.
And part of it is because they've reject broad swaths of the human experience...including traditional notions of beauty.
The old man looked at cathedrals and examples of natural beauty with awe. The new socialist man? He is "above" that. They mean nothing to him.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2024 10:12 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: runner at September 05, 2024 10:12 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: runner at September 05, 2024 10:11 PM (V13WU)
New product idea: Kamala masks for Roombas.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2024 10:12 PM (9mAoJ)
Posted by: Emmie at September 05, 2024 10:13 PM (Sf2cq)
Georgia school shooters father arrested for murder
Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2024 10:11 PM (3eKCA)
Sounds like the whole damned family needs some quality time in a wood chipper.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2024 10:13 PM (9mAoJ)
One of the fascinating things about our science worshiping leftist elite is that failure is never an indictment of whatever ideas they've come up with. It just means they need more of our money, our rights, or our freedoms to bring about utopia.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2024 10:13 PM (oZhjI)
What is it about Marxists and brutalism? Ugly inside, ugly outside?
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It is meant to intimidate and depress you. Dear Leader needs his monuments and you, peasant, need to know your place.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2024 10:13 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Emmie at September 05, 2024 10:13 PM (Sf2cq)
The assholes go to Congress.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2024 10:14 PM (9mAoJ)
The possibility that I get induced tomorrow has gone up drastically in the last 36 hours. That would put Lil Pooky at 37 weeks, 6 days for gestation, but we're probably out of the NICU danger zone.
I really, really don't want to be induced because I want Lil Pooky to be as healthy as possible when he makes his (probably overly) dramatic entrance. However, if induction's the healthiest option, then it's the only option.
Trying to stay calm but it's not easy.
Posted by: pookysgirl, being good and elevating her feet at September 05, 2024 10:14 PM (dtlDP)
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 05, 2024 10:14 PM (TGPs7)
Georgia school shooters father arrested for murder
If the stories of the son threatening to shoot up his school before he bought him the gun are true the father should hang.
And it should be televised because for some reason there appears to be a cohort of parents that don't seem to get that if your kid is violent and crazy you shouldn't buy him or her a weapon.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2024 10:15 PM (oZhjI)
The election to president was never intended to have such great impact on governance. The office is now unconstitutionally too powerful.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 05, 2024 10:15 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2024 10:15 PM (oZhjI)
"Pre-Kameltoe Debate."
Plan -C is on the books for sure. But how will it be manifested is still a mystery.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 05, 2024 10:15 PM (TDvv2)
And guess how many baseball gloves you can make out of one steer hide?
They hope to get nine.
Posted by: f at September 05, 2024 10:15 PM (CV8a5)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 05, 2024 10:15 PM (WBro8)
Trying to stay calm but it's not easy.
Posted by: pookysgirl, being good and elevating her feet at September 05, 2024 10:14 PM (dtlDP)
You know we are are all pulling for you. Keep your chin up.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2024 10:16 PM (9mAoJ)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 05, 2024 10:16 PM (0eaVi)
After V-E Day, my dad's unit became POW guards at a bakery where the POWs were the workforce. His platoon leader, Lieutenant Armour of the hot dog family, got orders to go home on 30 days leave and report to San Francisco to be shipped out to the Pacific. LT Armour sat there and cried, saying that he had already won one war and now they were sending him to go die in another. My dad felt bad for him, but was kind of glad that the Army didn't need PFCs in the Pacific. As Paul Fussell wrote, thank God for the atom bomb.
Posted by: Marcus Garvey at September 05, 2024 10:16 PM (r5tfK)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at September 05, 2024 10:17 PM (r5tfK)
'It is meant to intimidate and depress you. '
Obama's continued existence depresses me more than a monument ever could.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 05, 2024 10:17 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 05, 2024 10:17 PM (TGPs7)
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 05, 2024 10:05 PM (CEzQx)
Oh, the Gaul!!!
Posted by: Caesar at September 05, 2024 10:18 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 05, 2024 10:07 PM (L/fGl
I see you got there first.
Posted by: Emmie at September 05, 2024 10:18 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 05, 2024 10:18 PM (TDvv2)
As Paul Fussell wrote, thank God for the atom bomb.
Posted by: Marcus Garvey at September 05, 2024 10:16 PM (r5tfK)
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More Americans should have died so that self-regarding Lefists could feel morally superior.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2024 10:19 PM (1Nxff)
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It's called "working toward the Potato."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 05, 2024 10:19 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: Marcus Garvey at September 05, 2024 10:16 PM (r5tfK)
He is truly fortunate that the Wehrmacht did not have a lot of Armour-piercing bullets.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2024 10:19 PM (9mAoJ)
Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 05, 2024 10:19 PM (JrYM1)
Posted by: pookysgirl, being good and elevating her feet at September 05, 2024 10:14 PM (dtlDP)
Prayers up, dear, for peace and strength. Let us know how you are. You are precious to us here.
Posted by: sal at September 05, 2024 10:19 PM (bx3Km)
The federal government was never intended to be so powerful.
When the country was founded the feds were in charge of war and peace and little else they did was likely to effect most people. Hell, they didn't even have the ability to levy taxes on individuals.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2024 10:19 PM (oZhjI)
And it should be televised because for some reason there appears to be a cohort of parents that don't seem to get that if your kid is violent and crazy you shouldn't buy him or her a weapon.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2024 10:15 PM (oZhjI)
Or even a cellphone.
Posted by: RickZ at September 05, 2024 10:20 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Marcus Garvey
Some asshoe in college whined that we should have shown Japan an example of what the bomb could do. It would only be fair, said he.
I told him that's what Hiroshima was.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 05, 2024 10:21 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Don Black at September 05, 2024 10:21 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at September 05, 2024 10:21 PM (r5tfK)
Any Morons live near here who want to get together?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at September 05, 2024 10:06 PM (yh31E)
I live a stone's throw away but I'm currently in a travel trailer in central Utah...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at September 05, 2024 10:22 PM (0BWUp)
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We have a granddaughter born at around 28-30 weeks. I believe she may still have a feeding tube, but otherwise is fairly normal. Months in the NICU.
Oh... and likely on O2. All temporary.
I know she liked to chew on my fingers.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2024 10:22 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at September 05, 2024 10:23 PM (r5tfK)
The possibility that I get induced tomorrow has gone up drastically in the last 36 hours. That would put Lil Pooky at 37 weeks, 6 days for gestation, but we're probably out of the NICU danger zone.
I really, really don't want to be induced because I want Lil Pooky to be as healthy as possible when he makes his (probably overly) dramatic entrance. However, if induction's the healthiest option, then it's the only option.
Trying to stay calm but it's not easy.
Posted by: pookysgirl, being
Prayers, friend. My middle one was born at 33 weeks. I understand your stress, but you need to be calm as possible, try to breathe deeply, listen to classical music and remind yourself that after 34 weeks, the survival rate is the same as full term. You’ve got this, mama. You really do.
Posted by: Piper at September 05, 2024 10:23 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 05, 2024 10:05 PM (CEzQx)
Oh, the Gaul!!!
Posted by: Caesar at September 05, 2024 10:18 PM (0eaVi)
You rang?
Posted by: Charles de Gaulle at September 05, 2024 10:23 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 05, 2024 10:23 PM (63Dwl)
Go for the Gold Pooky...when your totally efaced...push push push like a Banshee on a rock slide!!!
Wait...let me think about that...
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 05, 2024 10:24 PM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2024 10:16 PM (9mAoJ)
No, no, no! You don't pull, you push!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 05, 2024 10:25 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: pookysgirl, being good and elevating her feet at September 05, 2024 10:14 PM (dtlDP)
Prayers up for all of you!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 05, 2024 10:26 PM (hOUT3)
Or words to that effect.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at September 05, 2024 10:26 PM (TGhji)
Some asshoe in college whined that we should have shown Japan an example of what the bomb could do. It would only be fair, said he.
I told him that's what Hiroshima was.
Posted by: Tonypete
And evidently they were insufficiently impressed.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 05, 2024 10:27 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: tankdemon at September 05, 2024 10:27 PM (FpZ7Q)
'More Americans should have died so that self-regarding Lefists could feel morally superior.'
Leftists managed to feel morally superior all the same. It's their super power.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 05, 2024 10:27 PM (3wi/L)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2024 10:19 PM (oZhjI)
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The fed's power to shake taxes from individuals is one of the prongs that empower it to overreach. By using block grants made up of our money, the federal government can coerce the adoption of federal standards in areas where it has no constitutional power.
Education is one glaring example. What used to be a state function has been coopted by the feds, who require compliance with the curriculum standards devised by federal apparatchiks on pain of being denied federal education block grants.
The power to tax individuals is what powers the federal leviathan.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 05, 2024 10:27 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: Piper at September 05, 2024 10:27 PM (pZEOD)
Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2024 10:27 PM (3eKCA)
78-82 shore station at a Naval Hospital in Oakland of all places. Lots of senior enlisted at my station...quite a few Vietnam lifers just counting days.
They had some stories though.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 05, 2024 10:29 PM (TDvv2)
No doubt because Saint Barack wants it to be visible to as many people in Chicago as possible, to constantly remind them of his greatness. I expect the tower will be brilliantly illuminated at night. An eyesore to people living near it? He couldn't care less. His vanity knows no limit.
Posted by: Gref at September 05, 2024 10:29 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: pookysgirl, being good and elevating her feet at September 05, 2024 10:14 PM (dtlDP)
There are a lot of people here who would be there (metaphorically, if not in reality), to hold your hand during the birth - even if it means you're applying bone crushing force.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 05, 2024 10:30 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 05, 2024 10:30 PM (dZVON)
Why would I believe anything the government or the media told me about the case?
Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic . . . at September 05, 2024 10:31 PM (TX4bP)
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 05, 2024 10:31 PM (NMT5x)
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"America's Sennacherib"
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 05, 2024 10:32 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 05, 2024 10:33 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: PaleRider at September 05, 2024 10:33 PM (UKUm3)
Posted by: Gref
That's my boy!
Posted by: Ozymandias at September 05, 2024 10:33 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 05, 2024 10:30 PM (VNX3d)
Good news: I have terrible upper-body strength.
Pooky says for Pookette's delivery that he never worried I'd hurt his hand.
Posted by: pookysgirl, being good and elevating her feet at September 05, 2024 10:34 PM (dtlDP)
SpaceX - Falcon 9 - NROL-113 - SLC-4E
Vandenberg SFB, CA - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: September 5, 2024 (PDT)
Launch Time: 8:20 p.m. PDT - (September 6 03:20 UTC, 05:20 CEST)
https://www.youtube.com/live/IEHplxmatco
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, la Sienza e bella #01 at September 05, 2024 10:34 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 05, 2024 10:35 PM (NMT5x)
Just found out the price of a small, one scoop ice cream at a little ice cream joint in the teeming metropolis of Fountain Inn, SC: $4.50.
And they tried to a push a tip on top of that.
I was gobsmacked when Miley told me that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 05, 2024 10:35 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: pookysgirl, being good and elevating her feet at September 05, 2024 10:14 PM (dtlDP)
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Prayer for peace in your house.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 05, 2024 10:35 PM (RIvkX)
Remember inflation is a right wing conspiracy theory comrade
Posted by: The FNM at September 05, 2024 10:37 PM (oZhjI)
Dude!!! Thanks for the HEADS UP!!!
The just after dusk launches are always the best out here on the west coast!
The vapor trails are sublime!
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 05, 2024 10:38 PM (TDvv2)
From WBAY.com: https://tinyurl.com/6r6n2bzk
Posted by: techsan at September 05, 2024 10:38 PM (uNveu)
Posted by: 18-1
Gun control won't work because new laws won't fix the problem of parental stupidity.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 05, 2024 10:38 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2024 10:38 PM (W/lyH)
https://tinyurl.com/4tad4tkb
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
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Good show.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 05, 2024 10:38 PM (2O5Io)
I'm going to start moving stuff to Odyssey.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 05, 2024 10:38 PM (CHHv1)
They are going to attempt to undock the Starliner Space Edsel from the ISS tomorrow.
That ought to be a hoot.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 05, 2024 10:39 PM (w6EFb)
I expect the tower will be brilliantly illuminated at night.
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All the copper will be stolen first.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2024 10:39 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic . . . at September 05, 2024 10:31 PM (TX4bP)
Concur. Hard not to form an opinion but you're right. Form an opinion based on new reports? Sure, Jan.
Posted by: RickZ at September 05, 2024 10:41 PM (gKDq2)
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All the copper will be stolen first.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2024 10:39 PM (1Nxff)
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But in a year the tagging should be magnificent.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 05, 2024 10:41 PM (jdHxK)
That ought to be a hoot.
Posted by: publius
"Well, one of us is gonna have to get out and push."
Posted by: If it were a Far Side cartoon at September 05, 2024 10:41 PM (DgGvY)
That is a "national security" launch, some spy satellite, I see, and while they'll show the launch, they will not show the second stage burn cameras.
I don't know what you could possibly see that would reveal anything much, but that's the rule. No looky at the second stage burn.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 05, 2024 10:41 PM (w6EFb)
Launch Time: 8:20 p.m. PDT - (September 6 03:20 UTC, 05:20 CEST)
https://www.youtube.com/live/IEHplxmatco
Posted by: Ciampino
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T -25. What time is Boeing going to bring that little suppository back through the atmosphere?
Posted by: Braenyard at September 05, 2024 10:42 PM (2O5Io)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2024 10:07 PM (9mAoJ)
https://tinyurl.com/bdedc9um
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 05, 2024 10:42 PM (Rbu5d)
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I think it was more honest, at one time. Although that isn't saying much. One of the problems is what was alluded to earlier. Obviously there is a sort of arbitrary thing where you have to start somewhere.
On YouTube you can watch historical footage from the DOD where in the 1950s they marched US troops out into the desert and detonated nuclear bombs off, and they played wargames. Upshot Bunghole or whatever it was called.
Now all the bleeding hearts lament just how horrible that was, and how evil our government was to do that.
Are you sure about that? They can perhaps be forgiven for this conclusion, if only because they have NO IDEA what the Soviets were actually doing at the same time. Soviet doctrine was, you lose 10 per cent in a training exercise, that's probably good training right? That wouldn't work in the USA.
But the US nuclear testing and training showed the Soviets that the American government was serious about it. And were willing to fight. Sometimes that's what it takes.
Posted by: The Hell With Scope or Cepacol It's Fucking Ten High All The Way at September 05, 2024 10:42 PM (oU40p)
Both my boys were born at 38 weeks. You and baby will be fine. If they are inducing you early, there's a reason. Pre-eclampsia? It's all good.
Baby is fully developed. Try not to worry.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 05, 2024 10:42 PM (TC7Gi)
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All the copper will be stolen first.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2024 10:39 PM (1Nxff)
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But in a year the tagging should be magnificent.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
Will illegal aliens be allowed to camp with impunity on the grounds.
Posted by: Some Rat at September 05, 2024 10:42 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Megthered at September 05, 2024 10:42 PM (XR9vR)
That ought to be a hoot.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 05, 2024 10:39 PM (w6EFb)
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Watch. Boeing will find a way to screw up gravity.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 05, 2024 10:43 PM (jdHxK)
Education is one glaring example. What used to be a state function has been coopted by the feds, who require compliance with the curriculum standards devised by federal apparatchiks on pain of being denied federal education block grants.
The power to tax individuals is what powers the federal leviathan.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 05, 2024 10:27 PM (jdHxK)
...and to his everlasting regret, Milton Friedman was instrumental in developing the concept of tax withholding.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 05, 2024 10:44 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: pookysgirl, being good and elevating her feet at September 05, 2024 10:14 PM (dtlDP)
I'll pray, pookysgirl.
All will be well.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 05, 2024 10:45 PM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: The FNM at September 05, 2024 10:37 PM (oZhjI)
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No, no, it's Russian disinformation!
-Department of Justice
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 05, 2024 10:45 PM (RIvkX)
On YouTube you can watch historical footage from the DOD where in the 1950s they marched US troops out into the desert and detonated nuclear bombs off, and they played wargames. Upshot Bunghole or whatever it was called.
Now all the bleeding hearts lament just how horrible that was, and how evil our government was to do that.
The government and bleeding hearts that forcibly injected all of our servicemen with poison doesn't give a flying f*ck about their health.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2024 10:45 PM (oZhjI)
Prayers for you.
I've set aside a particularly good cigar to smoke in celebration of the birth.
we look forward to great news!
Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2024 10:46 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Robert at September 05, 2024 10:47 PM (F9o4P)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2024 10:47 PM (W/lyH)
Such a sad episode for BOEING...they once were the best in everything aviation (Second only to Kelly Johnson at LOCKHEED)
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 05, 2024 10:48 PM (TDvv2)
Now all the bleeding hearts lament just how horrible that was, and how evil our government was to do that.
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The bleeding hearts don't care about the people they say their hearts bleed for. They're just a prop they use to attain their real goal, power.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2024 10:48 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Tonypete at September 05, 2024 10:49 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Reforger at September 05, 2024 10:49 PM (xcIvR)
Posted by: Robert Oppenheimer at September 05, 2024 10:50 PM (oZhjI)
That ought to be a hoot.
Posted by: publius
"Well, one of us is gonna have to get out and push."
Posted by: If it were a Far Side cartoon
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Buying Boeing puts?
Posted by: Braenyard at September 05, 2024 10:50 PM (2O5Io)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at September 05, 2024 10:50 PM (SpgZO)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 05, 2024 10:38 PM (0Htd1)
We've also been cultivating mental illness among children like a cash crop for a couple of decades now. It's a nasty brew with nasty results. It wouldn't be terrible if somebody shined a big ol' light on the results of medicating millions of kids. We should have enough longitudinal data to get a clear picture by now.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at September 05, 2024 10:50 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Braenyard at September 05, 2024 10:42 PM (2O5Io)
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Undocking will be late afternoon and re-entry and landing during the evening. I'll post some schedule later tonight.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, la Sienza e bella #02 at September 05, 2024 10:50 PM (qfLjt)
I've got an idea.
Posted by: Robert Oppenheimer
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I don't want to see that son of a bitch in my office again.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2024 10:51 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Tonypete
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Capture it between the grease and the dough.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 05, 2024 10:51 PM (2O5Io)
And they tried to a push a tip on top of that.
I was gobsmacked when Miley told me that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 05, 2024 10:35 PM (w6EFb)
Queens bagel price, for one bagel: $1.50. Up from $1.25 not two years ago, and it was $1.10 just a year before that. $1.50. For a bagel! With nothing. Just an everything bagel. Sliced and buttered at home. Fresh rolls in the grocery stores are now between $.40 and $.75 each. In a grocery store. A few years ago, fresh rolls were 4/$1.00. (.25 to .40 is a 60% increase.)
While everything is nuts, fresh bread has truly crazy prices.
Posted by: RickZ at September 05, 2024 10:51 PM (gKDq2)
Before tax witholding, individuals filed quarterly just like businesses. What was interesting, the revenues that came in once it was enacted exceeded expectations by quite a lot, supposedly. Ruml also gave a speech right after the war, declaring that income taxes aren't really necessary any longer, because the government has a printing press. It became just a way of punishing people, or near enough. The government giveth, and the government taketh away, I guess.
Posted by: The Hell With Scope or Cepacol It's Fucking Ten High All The Way at September 05, 2024 10:52 PM (oU40p)
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 05, 2024 10:52 PM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2024 10:53 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Tonypete
You have to freeze it solid, first.
Wait, there's fried beer. You should only have to liquefy it.
Posted by: mikeski at September 05, 2024 10:53 PM (DgGvY)
What is it about Marxists and brutalism? Ugly inside, ugly outside?
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I wonder... will the self-monument let him be clear? Oh, I do hope they name it the "Let Me Be Clear" tower. Poor Obama really struggled with us because we just wouldn't let him be clear. Bad us.
Posted by: LASue at September 05, 2024 10:53 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Kindltot - ask me about the septentrional ecomomy at September 05, 2024 10:53 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at September 05, 2024 10:50 PM (pIfcn)
You will never see that data. Too much money in "curing" what was never a disease. Boy can't sit still? Rambunctious? Teacher says get that kid on something so I don't have to tell him to run up and down the hall twice and then do his math.
They demanded it of my kid in 2nd grade. Assholes. Notwithstanding my son is wired wrong, the meds did nothing except make him learn less. He might as well have been a drooling idiot.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at September 05, 2024 10:54 PM (sRfrW)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 05, 2024 10:38 PM (0Htd1)
They don't care about shootings. They welcome them. It's the only way they can create enough pressure to start confiscation. Private gun ownership is one of the few defenses we have left against tyranny.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2024 10:54 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: LASue at September 05, 2024 10:53 PM (lCppi)
I don't know why he had to be so cloudy, but there ya go.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at September 05, 2024 10:55 PM (sRfrW)
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 05, 2024 10:48 PM (TDvv2)
True. The passing of an era and of a giant in aviation.
Posted by: LASue at September 05, 2024 10:55 PM (lCppi)
All the copper will be stolen first.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2024 10:39 PM (1Nxff)
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But in a year the tagging should be magnificent.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
Will illegal aliens be allowed to camp with impunity on the grounds.
Posted by: Some Rat
None of that matters. All of that money should be spent feeding the poor. *sob
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 05, 2024 10:55 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: pookysgirl, being good and elevating her feet at September 05, 2024 10:14 PM (dtlDP)
Prayers up!
Sounds like he's eager to get going in life.
Posted by: GWB at September 05, 2024 10:55 PM (CrXxA)
The government and bleeding hearts that forcibly injected all of our servicemen with poison doesn't give a flying f*ck about their health.
Posted by: 18-1
And if they bring back the draft a lot of people will be induced.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 05, 2024 10:55 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: LASue at September 05, 2024 10:53 PM (lCppi)
Just call it "Barack's Final Erection."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2024 10:55 PM (9mAoJ)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2024 10:54 PM (W/lyH)
Meanwhile DH is trying to figure out how to mount a .50 cal on the Juliet balcony of our new house.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at September 05, 2024 10:56 PM (sRfrW)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 05, 2024 10:56 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: pookysgirl, feeling Lil Pooky trying to push off a cat at September 05, 2024 10:56 PM (dtlDP)
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 05, 2024 10:56 PM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 05, 2024 10:56 PM (63Dwl)
Has a name been selected or do we get a Great Horde Naming Contest?
Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2024 10:57 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: pookysgirl, feeling Lil Pooky trying to push off a cat at September 05, 2024 10:56 PM (dtlDP)
You were made for this. God's hand is everywhere.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at September 05, 2024 10:57 PM (sRfrW)
Has a name been selected or do we get a Great Horde Naming Contest?
Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2024 10:57 PM (W/lyH)
\
Oh crap. Here we go.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at September 05, 2024 10:58 PM (sRfrW)
Here the streaming page for the Starliner undocking:
https://tinyurl.com/24qk5zyq
They are going to televise it. It starts in 18 hours according to that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 05, 2024 10:58 PM (w6EFb)
How does one fry air?
Posted by: Tonypete at September 05, 2024 10:49 PM (WXNFJ)
Beats the plasm otta me.
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 05, 2024 10:58 PM (NMT5x)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at September 05, 2024 10:50 PM (pIfcn)
Europe seems to be pulling away from transitioning kids. In England, The Cass Review was critical of such medical treatments. The review led to a UK ban on prescribing puberty blockers to those under 18 (with the exception of existing patients or those in a clinical trial).
Here, though, we seem to be full speed ahead with this shit.
Posted by: RickZ at September 05, 2024 10:58 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 05, 2024 10:58 PM (TDvv2)
6 months?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 05, 2024 10:56 PM (VNX3d)
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Impossible. All engineering calcs were performed by marginalized oppressed people who checked every DEI box.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 05, 2024 10:58 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: Marcus Garvey
Some asshoe in college whined that we should have shown Japan an example of what the bomb could do. It would only be fair, said he.
I told him that's what Hiroshima was.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 05, 2024 10:21 PM (WXNFJ)
Eggzackle. Showing a few Japanese the Trinity test and its aftermath in the bare desert - the steel tower gone, some burned and eviscerated jackrabbits, and some wooden poles and temporary structures blown-down - would not have convinced them it could devastate a large area of a Japanese city, killing tens of thousands. Build a realistic copy of a Japanese city for a demo to some Bushido Boy Emperor Worshippers? Insanity. It would take years and still wouldn't have convinced them. No bodies. No radiation victims.
Leftists are all insane.
Posted by: Gref at September 05, 2024 10:59 PM (aBgBM)
In a knowledge vacuum, one looks at those films and thinks our government was insane. Maybe, but it was in response to the REALLY cray cray Mfer on the other side of the planet, Ivan. See where I'm goin' with that?
Posted by: The Hell With Scope or Cepacol It's Fucking Ten High All The Way at September 05, 2024 10:59 PM (oU40p)
https://tinyurl.com/24qk5zyq
They are going to televise it. It starts in 18 hours according to that.
Posted by: publius
If one of 'em yells "hold my beer and watch this" we'll know there are Morons in orbit.
Posted by: mikeski at September 05, 2024 10:59 PM (DgGvY)
I guess I am worth something. The local airport is doing an open house sort of thing this weekend. I (cough) volunteered to do whatever about two weeks ago.
Didn't hear back. Wrote it off as fuck me.
They just called.
I'm doing parking. I'll rock it like never seen in their history.
Or whatever, it's an in on a place I want to work at since I was seven.
Bucket list item soon to be crossed off.
Posted by: Reforger at September 05, 2024 10:59 PM (xcIvR)
https://tinyurl.com/58u8rfch
Posted by: Robert
I have an air fryer. I should actually use it sometime.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 05, 2024 10:59 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 05, 2024 10:56 PM (63Dwl)
What am I bet that it falls down on its own, because crooked contractors doubled up on the sand and shorted the cement?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2024 11:00 PM (9mAoJ)
God be with you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 05, 2024 11:00 PM (xSO/X)
Has a name been selected or do we get a Great Horde Naming Contest?
Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2024 10:57 PM (W/lyH)
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If you like Biblical names might I suggest "Brad"?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 05, 2024 11:00 PM (jdHxK)
I got interested in the Polaris Dawn mission, but they've been pushing it back, and it's now schedules for around midnight Monday morning.
That's going to be the highest crewed flight since Apollo (some idiots play games with that and try to say the highest LEO ever, breaking Gemini 11's record, but they define "LEO" to exclude lunar trajectories).
Anyway, with two she-astronautettes on board, this will set the "highest woman" record.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 05, 2024 11:00 PM (w6EFb)
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As it backs up.... beep.... beep.... beep
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2024 11:01 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2024 10:57 PM (W/lyH)
Sorry, name's already picked out, printed on a sheet with spaces for date, time, weight and length at birth.
Posted by: pookysgirl, overprepared as always at September 05, 2024 11:01 PM (dtlDP)
For a girl
Anna Bertha Cecilia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Hypatia Inez Jane Kate Louise Maud Nora Ophelia Prudence Quince Rebecca Sarah Teresa Ulysis Venus Winifred Xenophon Yetty Zeno
for a boy
Louis George Maurice Adolphe Roche Albert Abel Antonio Alexandre Noe Jean Lucien Daniel Eugene Joseph-le-brun Joseph-Bareme Thomas Thomas Thomas-Thomas Pierre Arbon Pierre-Maurel Barthelemi Artus Alphonse Bertrand Dieudonne Emanuel Josue Vincent Luc Michel Jules-de-la-plane Jules-Bazin Julio Cesar Jullien
Posted by: Robert Oppenheimer at September 05, 2024 11:02 PM (oZhjI)
Anyway, with two she-astronautettes on board, this will set the "highest woman" record.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 05, 2024 11:00 PM (w6EFb)
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That makes it super extra special amazing.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2024 11:02 PM (1Nxff)
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Kamala whines.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2024 11:02 PM (Q4IgG)
Trying to stay calm but it's not easy.
Posted by: pookysgirl, being good and elevating her feet at September 05, 2024 10:14 PM (dtlDP)
I was induced -- Daughter made it thru just fine: she's now a beautiful woman, successful attorney and married to a great guy. It's hard to do , but try to enjoy this (or at least not panic). IMO, giving birth is the biggest miracle we can experience on this earth.
Posted by: LASue at September 05, 2024 11:02 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 05, 2024 10:27 PM (jdHxK)
The Fed acting as a central bank is the other, by running deficit spending and continual debt the federal leviathan can spend what it wants without worrying about anything but inflation, and the richest in the economy like inflation.
Posted by: Kindltot - ask me about the septentrional ecomomy at September 05, 2024 11:03 PM (D7oie)
Polaris Dawn is going to test a laser link using Starlink's satellite laser network. While the satellites use this for their backbone, this will be the first test of an in-space "end station link".
This should allow very high communication bandwidth, much higher than existing communication systems.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 05, 2024 11:03 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: RickZ
Before age 21, death penalty for all pushing for it. (except the kid). After? Don't care, they're a genetic dead end.
Posted by: Some Rat at September 05, 2024 11:03 PM (vJiyU)
Here the streaming page for the Starliner undocking:
https://tinyurl.com/24qk5zyq
They are going to televise it. It starts in 18 hours according to that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 05, 2024 10:58 PM (w6EFb)
Scheduled undocking time is 6:04 PM EDT tomorrow, the 6th.
If that occurs on time, landing at White Sands, NM, should be 12:03 AM EDT, Saturday the 7th.
Posted by: Gref at September 05, 2024 11:03 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: pookysgirl, overprepared as always at September 05, 2024 11:01 PM (dtlDP)
Well phooey.
*puts away Pun Names Book*
Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2024 11:03 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here
I knew a woman who was a school social worker. The impression I got from listening to her was that Ritalin solved all kids' behavior problems. I would have sworn that she owned stock in whatever company produced that shit. I had a nephew who was on it. I swear, it thickened his gums.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 05, 2024 11:04 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Kindltot - ask me about the septentrional ecomomy at September 05, 2024 10:53 PM (D7oie)
Check out fainá, a chickpea flatbread (from Argentina/Uruguay) which I've had as a sliced topping on top of a slice of pie (pizza for you heathens). Sounds terrible but surprisingly good as a topping. It's like a double slice at once. Very filling.
Posted by: RickZ at September 05, 2024 11:04 PM (gKDq2)
I'm doing parking. I'll rock it like never seen in their history.
Or whatever, it's an in on a place I want to work at since I was seven.
Bucket list item soon to be crossed off.
Posted by: Reforger
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Awesome! You got a friend who can get a little video, set it to music maybe? Reforger the Parking Man!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 05, 2024 11:05 PM (sIJ1S)
Posted by: Gref at September 05, 2024 11:03 PM (aBgBM)
Watch out for the stump of that old tower...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2024 11:05 PM (9mAoJ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 05, 2024 11:05 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Kindltot - ask me about the septentrional ecomomy
They're collect interest on every cent of that debt. and buying real assets with that profit.
Posted by: Some Rat at September 05, 2024 11:05 PM (vJiyU)
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As it backs up.... beep.... beep.... beep
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2024 11:01 PM (Q4IgG)
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Imagine the look on their faces when suddenly it goes:
Beep... Beep... Beep.... BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2024 11:05 PM (W/lyH)
"Tell Conrad he's lost his record" was the way Frank Borman put it after TLI
I think the absolute furthest human beings have been from earth was on .... hm... "working" .... as the computer used to say on Star Trek
I want to say Apollo 13? Either that, or Apollo 10 sticks in mind.
Posted by: The Hell With Scope or Cepacol It's Fucking Ten High All The Way at September 05, 2024 11:06 PM (oU40p)
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, la Sienza e bella #03 at September 05, 2024 11:06 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: RickZ
In a store near me, a good loaf of rye bread is close to 6 bucks. I still splurge at the beginning of the month because I love ham and Swiss on rye.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 05, 2024 11:07 PM (0Htd1)
Beep... Beep... Beep.... BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Posted by: Diogenes
Watch em forget to undo the safety chains.
Posted by: Some Rat at September 05, 2024 11:07 PM (vJiyU)
My vote for baby name: Sparkles
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 05, 2024 11:05 PM (RIvkX)
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Girl: Salome
Boy: Adolf
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2024 11:07 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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It may be Barak's only erection.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 05, 2024 11:07 PM (2O5Io)
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, la Sienza e bella #03 at September 05, 2024 11:06 PM (qfLjt)
Sell spray cans out of the trunk of a low rider.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2024 11:07 PM (9mAoJ)
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As it backs up.... beep.... beep.... beep
Posted by: Martini Farmer
... beep ... BOOOOM!!!
Actually, it might be safer to separate, then move the ISS.....
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 05, 2024 11:08 PM (VNX3d)
*puts away Pun Names Book*
Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2024 11:03 PM (W/lyH)
Eh, I'll still read 'em and giggle.
Posted by: pookysgirl, overprepared as always at September 05, 2024 11:09 PM (dtlDP)
Girl: Venus
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 05, 2024 11:09 PM (xSO/X)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 05, 2024 11:05 PM (RIvkX)
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Girl: Salome
Boy: Adolf
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2024 11:07 PM (1Nxff)
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Boy: Diogenes
Girl: Diogenes
Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2024 11:09 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 05, 2024 11:09 PM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 05, 2024 11:08 PM (VNX3d)
Bottle rockets, duct-taped to the Starliner's hull.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2024 11:09 PM (9mAoJ)
I'm getting an air fryer.
https://tinyurl.com/58u8rfch
Posted by: Robert at September 05, 2024 10:47 PM (F9o4P)
that is an innovative take on Nachos
Posted by: Kindltot - ask me about the septentrional ecomomy at September 05, 2024 11:10 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 05, 2024 11:10 PM (xSO/X)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 05, 2024 11:10 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 05, 2024 11:05 PM (sIJ1S)
I'm about as photogenic as a pile of dirt.
Posted by: Reforger at September 05, 2024 11:11 PM (xcIvR)
"Tell Conrad he's lost his record" was the way Frank Borman put it after TLI
No, it wouldn't. The people trying to claim "highest LEO" (and this isn't Elon nor spacex) are playing games with the definition of earth orbit, excluding lunar trajectories. It's just stupid.
The "highest altitude record" was indeed Apollo 13, with a peak of 248, 655 mi.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 05, 2024 11:11 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Some Rat at September 05, 2024 11:05 PM (vJiyU)
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No, I own some of that debt and I collect the interest.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 05, 2024 11:11 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, la Sienza e bella #04 at September 05, 2024 11:12 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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Just get a broom handle and push it away.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 05, 2024 11:12 PM (2O5Io)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 05, 2024 11:12 PM (xSO/X)
Besides, when boys are raised by women there's gonna be trouble. They are treated today like defective girls. The fact there is a tranny epidemic going on is part of that. It took a while, but it's here. I think going back to segregation by sex will be necessary to rebuild education. Teen boys and girls especially are way too much distraction for each other for efficient learning to take place. Probably get away with it up to about 1st grade or so.
Then track people by aptitude, and track them into where they show promise. That might be "the trades" or a machine shop, instead of the rarefied air of academe. The notion that everybody could, should, and would go to College is retarded and was in retrospect a fatal error.
Posted by: The Hell With Scope or Cepacol It's Fucking Ten High All The Way at September 05, 2024 11:12 PM (oU40p)
Has a name been selected or do we get a Great Horde Naming Contest?
Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2024 10:57 PM (W/lyH)
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If you like Biblical names might I suggest "Brad"?
Posted by: Cicero
Nah. It you're going to name the kid after an actorm, go with Clint. That's a manly name.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 05, 2024 11:13 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Braenyard at September 05, 2024 11:12 PM (2O5Io)
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Coke and Mentos propulsion. Reliable, yet tasty.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 05, 2024 11:14 PM (WBQfF)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 05, 2024 11:05 PM (RIvkX)
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Girl: Salome
Boy: Adolf
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2024 11:07 PM (1Nxff)
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Boy: Diogenes
Girl: Diogenes
Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2024 11:09 PM (W/lyH)
Girl: Hadria the First
Boy: Hadrian the Eighth
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 05, 2024 11:14 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 05, 2024 11:14 PM (S6gqv)
Boeing, Boeing (1965)
Robert (Jerry Lewis) visits his philandering friend Bernard (Tony Curtis) just as Bernard's scheme of being secretly simultaneously engaged to three international flight attendants goes awry. Hilarity ensues.
Thelma Ritter as Bertha, the put upon housekeeper.
Suzanna Leigh as British United
Dany Saval as Air France
and Christiane Schmidtmer as Lufthansa
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 05, 2024 11:15 PM (Aqu9a)
Posted by: The Hell With Scope or Cepacol It's Fucking Ten High All The Way at September 05, 2024 11:15 PM (oU40p)
It’ll be kinda funny if the empty Starliner burns up on reentry.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 05, 2024 11:14 PM (S6gqv)
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And lands on Boeing HQ.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2024 11:15 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 05, 2024 11:12 PM (xSO/X)
At least Howard Cosell could announce boxing properly. I don't know that Chrissy has ever done anything satisfactorily.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at September 05, 2024 11:15 PM (sRfrW)
This may be gross to the 'ettes, but it's amazing how a guy can watch a women give birth and see everything, and I mean everything, and in about 5 minutes be like "sooo, ya wanna do it?".
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 05, 2024 11:16 PM (NMT5x)
Posted by: Braenyard at September 05, 2024 11:16 PM (2O5Io)
For a boy: Cletus.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at September 05, 2024 11:16 PM (sRfrW)
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Was that while using the LEM's descent stage motor to power around the moon?
Pretty impressive if so.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2024 11:16 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 05, 2024 11:17 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 05, 2024 11:16 PM (NMT5x)
I believe the correct response would be "Fuck off."
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at September 05, 2024 11:17 PM (sRfrW)
Looking, it's Apollo 10 that set the manned velocity (relative to earth's center) record.
That's 11.082 km/s or 24,791 mph. Thus those 3 are the fastest humans ever so far.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 05, 2024 11:17 PM (w6EFb)
Girl: Diogenes
Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2024 11:09 PM (W/lyH)
This would be Diogenes's answer
Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2024 11:17 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Some Rat
Or, have the people pushing for it, get the same genital mutilation. So, women who promote it get a penis sewn on, and men who promote it get their dicks removed, and get a vagina.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 05, 2024 11:17 PM (0Htd1)
Leftists are all insane.
Posted by: Gref at September 05, 2024 10:59 PM (aBgBM)
an alternate argument was that the Japanese had most of the German data and their own research on Uranium bombs, and were pretty aware of the technical process of generating sufficient U235, and figured the US could only make enough U for one bomb. The second bomb, the Pu, convinced them there was a lot more bombs on the way and there was no defense.
Some officers still wanted to try to gut it out.
Posted by: Kindltot - ask me about the septentrional ecomomy at September 05, 2024 11:18 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 05, 2024 11:07 PM (0Htd1)
I don't buy bagels now except when I've already bought Philly cream cheese on sale before. I also buy some smoked salmon. If I'm going to have a bagel, I'm going to have a bagel. Smoked salmon, lemon zest, cream cheese, capers, thin sliced red onion on a salt or everything bagel. Tasty, but The Breakfast of Champions in the Bad Breath category.
Posted by: RickZ at September 05, 2024 11:18 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 05, 2024 11:19 PM (NMT5x)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 05, 2024 11:17 PM (0Htd1)
Give 'em all cloacas.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2024 11:19 PM (9mAoJ)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 05, 2024 11:12 PM (xSO/X)
That's why NBC keeps inflicting him on real football fans year after year. He is non-threatening to the women viewers NBC needs to attract for Sunday Night Games to amp the ratings. He doesn't have a gruff voice, and doesn't yell, "BAM!", or "Number 35 knocked Number 88 into the next county, that's real football!"
Posted by: Gref at September 05, 2024 11:19 PM (aBgBM)
Boeing, Boeing (1965)
Robert (Jerry Lewis) visits his philandering friend Bernard (Tony Curtis) just as Bernard's scheme of being secretly simultaneously engaged to three international flight attendants goes awry. Hilarity ensues.
Thelma Ritter as Bertha, the put upon housekeeper.
Suzanna Leigh as British United
Dany Saval as Air France
and Christiane Schmidtmer as Lufthansa
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 05, 2024 11:15 PM (Aqu9a)
With Special Guest Star Brian Dennehy as the Boeing 707.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 05, 2024 11:20 PM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2024 11:21 PM (1Nxff)
Not sure how a man could have a better legacy.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 05, 2024 11:21 PM (hKoQL)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Um, a lifetime of people pronouncing her name as "Salami".
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 05, 2024 11:21 PM (0Htd1)
Has a name been selected or do we get a Great Horde Naming Contest?
Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2024 10:57 PM (W/lyH)
My step mom's name was Patience.
Posted by: Kindltot - ask me about the septentrional ecomomy at September 05, 2024 11:21 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at September 05, 2024 11:15 PM (sRfrW)
Many attempts, few completions, no extra yardage.
Posted by: Mrs. Collinsworth at September 05, 2024 11:21 PM (Aqu9a)
There are times I wish for an up-vote button because I can't really add anything but want to make sure it's known this is good stuff.
Posted by: GWB at September 05, 2024 11:22 PM (CrXxA)
Posted by: pookysgirl, overprepared as always at September 05, 2024 11:01 PM (dtlDP)
I hope it is a boring, common name. I used to do database searches for people and the unique and exciting names were always easy to pick out, where I had to work for the boring ones.
Do your kid a favor, I say, give him a common name, he can have an exciting nickname that never makes the databases. It is hard to be the grey man when you have a name like Habakkuk
Posted by: Kindltot - ask me about the septentrional ecomomy at September 05, 2024 11:24 PM (D7oie)
They are showing the second stage engine burn! ("Mvac" she calls it). Just no payload view at the "request of our customer". Which is the spooks at NRO.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 05, 2024 11:25 PM (w6EFb)
I grew up on Ray Scott as the announcer. "Starr... Dowler... Touchdown."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
I'd quote some Myron Cope but there isn't enough room here and the spell checker would be angered.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 05, 2024 11:25 PM (WBro8)
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Thanks. Your virtual upvote gets me one step closer to the coveted asphalt-level membership.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 05, 2024 11:25 PM (WBQfF)
Posted by: nerdygirl
And Clint Howard is so dreamy!
Posted by: Need Glasses at September 05, 2024 11:27 PM (CV8a5)
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 05, 2024 11:17 PM (0Htd1)
Give 'em all cloacas.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Outdoor faucets. If they're that confused, they don't deserve sex; just waste removal.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 05, 2024 11:27 PM (VNX3d)
Do your kid a favor, I say, give him a common name, he can have an exciting nickname that never makes the databases. It is hard to be the grey man when you have a name like Habakkuk
Posted by: Kindltot
Boring, common, Biblical. You can never have enough Mikes.
Posted by: mikeski at September 05, 2024 11:28 PM (DgGvY)
For a girl
Anna Bertha Cecilia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Hypatia Inez Jane Kate Louise Maud Nora Ophelia Prudence Quince Rebecca Sarah Teresa Ulysis Venus Winifred Xenophon Yetty Zeno
for a boy
Louis George Maurice Adolphe Roche Albert Abel Antonio Alexandre Noe Jean Lucien Daniel Eugene Joseph-le-brun Joseph-Bareme Thomas Thomas Thomas-Thomas Pierre Arbon Pierre-Maurel Barthelemi Artus Alphonse Bertrand Dieudonne Emanuel Josue Vincent Luc Michel Jules-de-la-plane Jules-Bazin Julio Cesar Jullien
Posted by: Robert Oppenheimer at September 05, 2024 11:02 PM (oZhjI)
That Airwolf actor's parents must have seen this post before choosing his name.
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 05, 2024 11:29 PM (NMT5x)
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 05, 2024 11:30 PM (NMT5x)
Posted by: RickZ at September 05, 2024 11:04 PM (gKDq2)
that was the recipe I was looking at. I am letting the flour soak right now, but I took half after an hour to fry up some. It is tastier than I thought, though it is too hot today to be really hungry.
Posted by: Kindltot - ask me about the septentrional ecomomy at September 05, 2024 11:30 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 05, 2024 11:31 PM (9mAoJ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 05, 2024 11:31 PM (WBQfF)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 05, 2024 11:32 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: nerdygirl
And Clint Howard is so dreamy!
Posted by: Need Glasses at September 05, 2024 11:27 PM (CV8a5)
That's enough tranya for you.
Posted by: Bones McCoy at September 05, 2024 11:32 PM (Aqu9a)
That was slick as usual -- that was the 20th flight of that first stage.
I'll agree that announcer gal was pretty good -- pleasant to listen to, and did a good job of 'splaining everything.
I love how she pronounced the name of the drone ship, "*Of course* I still love you!", putting the emphasis on "of course".
Now, I want to see the face that goes with that voice.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 05, 2024 11:32 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard at September 05, 2024 11:32 PM (2O5Io)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 05, 2024 11:11 PM (RIvkX)
Yeah, but they can live handsomely on it and you can go to Whole Foods on it.
Posted by: Kindltot - ask me about the septentrional ecomomy at September 05, 2024 11:33 PM (D7oie)
That did show the second stage fire up, but didn't show any more after that. They usually have a split-screen, booster coming back down and the second stage going to orbit.
They showed a bit of it briefly, but no more.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 05, 2024 11:33 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 05, 2024 11:34 PM (VNX3d)
There was a specific and deliberate effort to pre-empt, in a way, what Kindltot described as Japanese assumptions that while an atomic bomb might be feasible, production of more than one in a timely fashion was unlikely.
The glitch-soaked Nagasaki mission had its first stumble on the ramp, where the engineer discovered the most lavishly maintained aircraft in history had a blocked reserve fuel line (no small matter for a mission at the limits of the plane's range). Sweeney got out of the cockpit, went down and talked to Tibbets, who was on the ramp. He said to go. Timing was critical. Not just that weather was closing in on the target cities over the next few days. But the need to create the perception by the enemy that we had plenty of these things. "I can stop this any time you like."
Posted by: rhomboid at September 05, 2024 11:35 PM (GcNJ2)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 05, 2024 11:37 PM (GcNJ2)
They wanna earn that trust back, they're going to have to take on the role of the Cargo Dragon for a half-dozen or more flights. By which time, Space X is going to remote-pilot the ISS on it's Kamikaze Mission.
Funny, by now, I thought that PanAm would be flying Boeing Space Liners to a whole chain of Space Stations, per 2001?
*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 05, 2024 11:37 PM (kQgoX)
Posted by: LASue at September 05, 2024 11:38 PM (lCppi)
Do your kid a favor, I say, give him a common name, he can have an exciting nickname that never makes the databases. It is hard to be the grey man when you have a name like Habakkuk
Posted by: Kindltot - ask me about the septentrional ecomomy at September 05, 2024 11:24 PM (D7oie)
Yup, pretty boring names for Pookette and Lil Pooky. Both of their middle names are/will be my maternal grandparents'. If Lil Pooky is even half as smart as my grandpa, he'll go pretty far in life.
Posted by: pookysgirl misses the chemistry professor and the head librarian at September 05, 2024 11:38 PM (dtlDP)
Pygmalion if its a boy.
Greek themes are best.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 05, 2024 11:31 PM (WBQfF)
Electra is good. But leave off the 225.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 05, 2024 11:38 PM (S6gqv)
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Bet you thought that Howard Johnsons would still be around to run hotels on the space stations too.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 05, 2024 11:39 PM (WBQfF)
Pygmalion if its a boy.
Greek themes are best.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 05, 2024 11:31 PM (WBQfF)
Ah, that must be the origin of Euphegenia. Anglicized version of the Greek name maybe?
This might be a contender for the art thread:
Link goes to wikipedia picture of art (NSFW-bewbs)
https://tinyurl.com/5n99jb69
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 05, 2024 11:39 PM (NMT5x)
Posted by: Space Johnson at September 05, 2024 11:41 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Space Johnson at September 05, 2024 11:41 PM (63Dwl)
So is Clint Johnson!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 05, 2024 11:42 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Kindltot - ask me about the septentrional ecomomy at September 05, 2024 11:43 PM (D7oie)
Still, fun to watch an actual rocket streak into the night sky.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 05, 2024 11:43 PM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, la Sienza e bella #05 at September 05, 2024 11:45 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 05, 2024 11:46 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, la Scienza e bella #06 at September 05, 2024 11:47 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, la Sienza e bella #05 at September 05, 2024 11:45 PM (qfLjt)
Go green. Sun-baked air bread, now with more odors.
Posted by: RickZ at September 05, 2024 11:47 PM (gKDq2)
Link goes to wikipedia picture of art (NSFW-bewbs)
https://tinyurl.com/5n99jb69
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 05, 2024 11:39 PM (NMT5x)
That picture makes me think of the “Hefty Hefty Hefty!” trashbag song.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 05, 2024 11:47 PM (S6gqv)
Polaris Dawn crew, showing the soon-to-be highest gals:
https://tinyurl.com/29dfgmfa
Jug-ears there is Jared Isaacman, mission commander. He's a billionaire, well a poor billionaire, only worth maybe $2B.
He and the brunette are going to do a spacewalk, and this will be the first private crew such spacewalk.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 05, 2024 11:48 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 05, 2024 11:39 PM (WBQfF)
I knew as a kid, that Howard Johnson's was doomed, soon as I read of the extinction of the Orange Nauga on the African Plains.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 05, 2024 11:48 PM (kQgoX)
Posted by: haffhowershower at September 05, 2024 11:39 PM (NMT5x
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She's sturdily built.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 05, 2024 11:48 PM (WBQfF)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2024 11:49 PM (at820)
Ya gotta be kidding, right? this is the kind of shit that starts fragging, and "friendly fire".
E1, hard labor. And every one of the chiefs that turned a blind eye should be horse whipped in public.
This, shit is why mutiny happens.
Posted by: BifBewalski at September 05, 2024 11:49 PM (MsrgL)
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Heart valves.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 05, 2024 11:46 PM (XeU6L)
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I thought that pigs' valves were used?
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, la Scienza e bella #07 at September 05, 2024 11:50 PM (qfLjt)
Electra is good. But leave off the 225.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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One of my ancients was named Electa St. John. An elegant name I think.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 05, 2024 11:51 PM (XeU6L)
Space Daddy got the contract to deorbit the ISS, at cost of $843M. NASA will spend a total of $1.5B for the whole decommissioning and deorbiting process.
Send it down to Point Nemo.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 05, 2024 11:51 PM (w6EFb)
I thought that pigs' valves were used?
Posted by: Ciampino
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Both. Porcine or Bovine.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 05, 2024 11:51 PM (XeU6L)
https://t.co/mG3pFsjPb0
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #01 at September 05, 2024 11:52 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2024 11:53 PM (at820)
Did Marrero blow the JAG a few times?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2024 11:53 PM (at820)
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Her odds of making Rear Admiral just went to zero.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 05, 2024 11:54 PM (WBQfF)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 05, 2024 11:55 PM (w7b8o)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
Electra is good.
Posted by: Tom Servo
Cojones (noun): naming your daughter after a girl who plotted to kill her own mother.
Posted by: mikeski at September 05, 2024 11:55 PM (DgGvY)
https://tinyurl.com/bddm4stk
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #02 at September 05, 2024 11:56 PM (qfLjt)
That Polar Dawn mission is using the storied LC-39A (where all the Apollo moon missions, save Apollo 10) launched from.
The launch window for the upcoming Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter and Europa starts on Oct. 10, which will be from LC-39A.
It takes three weeks to turn around the pad from a Falcon to Falcon Heavy, so if they don't get Polaris launched soon, they'll be pressed for time there.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 05, 2024 11:56 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2024 11:56 PM (TAGym)
So, if they 'mess' up the burn duration or even the start what would happen? Will the ISS fully burn up or will it do a Skylab but much bigger? What large population areas does the ISS pass over?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2024 11:56 PM (at820)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 05, 2024 11:57 PM (dZVON)
https://tinyurl.com/ys6nzey6
Boo Hoo.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #03 at September 05, 2024 11:58 PM (qfLjt)
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Europa. Ruled Tyre. Raped by Zeus. Got an entire continent named after her.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 05, 2024 11:59 PM (WBQfF)
https://tinyurl.com/bddm4stk
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore,
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The treasury puts national security at risk.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 05, 2024 11:59 PM (2O5Io)
https://tinyurl.com/bddm4stk
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore,
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The treasury puts national security at risk.
Posted by: Braenyard
I'd say the Federal Government does that quite well.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 06, 2024 12:00 AM (VNX3d)
So, if they 'mess' up the burn duration or even the start what would happen? Will the ISS fully burn up or will it do a Skylab but much bigger? What large population areas does the ISS pass over?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 05, 2024 11:56 PM (at820)
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DC, NYC, Baltimore, Philly? Are we hoping more?
/s
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #04 at September 06, 2024 12:01 AM (qfLjt)
https://tinyurl.com/ys6nzey6
Boo Hoo.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #03 at September 05, 2024 11:58 PM (qfLjt)
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Face it. We have failed them.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 06, 2024 12:01 AM (WBQfF)
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #05 at September 06, 2024 12:02 AM (qfLjt)
I told him that's what Hiroshima was.
Hell, the Japanese military didn't even want to surrender after Nagasaki, to the point of almost staging a coup against their emperor.
Posted by: Chuck C at September 06, 2024 12:02 AM (yOPBE)
Just have to have the 'right' mathematical goof and well Operation British becomes real.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 06, 2024 12:02 AM (at820)
https://tinyurl.com/ys6nzey6
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Just dump it at the consulate. Let 'em pick it up there.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 06, 2024 12:03 AM (XeU6L)
https://mol.im/a/13812803
Time such places are nuked from orbit.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #06 at September 06, 2024 12:04 AM (qfLjt)
The Army didn't want to 'endure the unendurable.'
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 06, 2024 12:05 AM (at820)
https://mol.im/a/13818549
If your kid is a tranny or a democrap then no guns. There!!
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #07 at September 06, 2024 12:05 AM (qfLjt)
My Costco has Christmas trees up already.
Posted by: Chuck C at September 06, 2024 12:05 AM (yOPBE)
lol
Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 06, 2024 12:06 AM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at September 06, 2024 12:07 AM (yh31E)
Didn’t every lunar mission exceed that? (Curious) Shouldn’t the record exceed this figure, or maybe it is approximate. What’s weird to think, is earth gravity will start pulling you faster and faster up to that speed on the way back or downhill run.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 06, 2024 12:08 AM (BptJg)
They're going down.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 06, 2024 12:08 AM (2O5Io)
https://tinyurl.com/3az8yzr5
Better revise that to 65-80 million. It was already 11 million in Reagan's days.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #08 at September 06, 2024 12:09 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 06, 2024 12:09 AM (at820)
If not done correctly, it could be a disaster. If Boeing were try it, for instance.
Elon will send up a specially built Dragon vehicle with enough fuel. It will dock, then fire to slow it down and cause reentry.
The trajectory will end at Point Nemo in the South Pacific, the spacecraft graveyard. Point Nemo is the point in the ocean the greatest distance from any land mass.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 06, 2024 12:09 AM (w6EFb)
Robert Oscar Sam Edward Benjamin Ulysses David
Posted by: Richie Petrie at September 06, 2024 12:10 AM (yOPBE)
Posted by: Richie Petrie at September 06, 2024 12:10 AM (yOPBE)
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*fistbump*
Posted by: C.F. Kane at September 06, 2024 12:11 AM (WBQfF)
https://mol.im/a/13812803
Time such places are nuked from orbit.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #06
Landing zone for Starliner, at orbital velocity? Kills two birds with one stone.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 06, 2024 12:11 AM (VNX3d)
https://mol.im/a/13817037
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #09 at September 06, 2024 12:12 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Pompatus of Love at September 06, 2024 12:12 AM (FpZ7Q)
Cleansing fire of a nuclear explosion. Unless they have the Andromeda Strain.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 06, 2024 12:13 AM (at820)
That's earth escape velocity. LEO orbital velocity is about 17,000 mph. There's a simple relation between (circular) orbital velocity and escape velocity at a given radius: escape is the square root of two times orbital velocity, or 1.41.
Apollo didn't quite make escape velocity -- the first missions used a free return trajectory for safety. If the service module engine didn't fire, the spacecraft would just whip around the Moon and come back to earth.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 06, 2024 12:15 AM (w6EFb)
https://t.co/x7WLEemdew
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #10 at September 06, 2024 12:17 AM (qfLjt)
Shouldn’t the world speed record actually exceed escape velocity?
Posted by: Common Tater at September 06, 2024 12:17 AM (BptJg)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 06, 2024 12:19 AM (BptJg)
Doubt I am expecting to have work today yet and we are a bit slow right now.
Either way a long ride home
Posted by: Skip at September 06, 2024 12:21 AM (TAGym)
These records are for *manned* space flight missions. The probes have exceeded earth escape which they had to do to get out of earth's gravity well.
The New Horizon's mission set the speed record relative to earth, 36,400 mph. It got to the Moon's orbital distance in 9 hours, and then off to Pluto via Jupiter gravity assist.
Once you get out of Erf's influence, you start thinking in terms of the sun, solar escape velocity and all that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 06, 2024 12:21 AM (w6EFb)
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Beauty is proof of God. Marxism is satanic.
Posted by: ... at September 06, 2024 12:21 AM (lX8VI)
24,000 mph is the commonly accepted ESCAPE velocity, if you're wanting to DEPART Earth Orbit, and assume a spaceward trajectory to the Moon, Stars or our other Planets.
Gotta keep in mind. Even at 24kmph, Apollo missions slowed to barely 3,000mph speeds at the midway point. Earth's gravity kept up the struggle, before the Moon's gravity began to re-accelerate the spacecraft towards the Lunar Intercept and Orbit.
Same aspect on the return trip, albeit Escape Velocity from Lunar Orbit was, of course, a much lower speed.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 06, 2024 12:21 AM (kQgoX)
0.26% % of Shares Held by All Insider
90.87% % of Shares Held by Institutions
91.11% % of Float Held by Institutions
Posted by: Braenyard at September 06, 2024 12:23 AM (2O5Io)
What’s cool about those missions, they rarely saw the moon on the way out. Not till they were right up on it. And then by all appearances, it looked like, it seemed like they were going to crash into it. They knew the numbers were correct but you still have to have faith nobody misplaced a decimal or somethhing.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 06, 2024 12:23 AM (BptJg)
Price (T.Rowe) Associates Inc 19.61M
Vanguard Group Inc 18.59M
Blackrock Inc. 13.75M
State Street Corporation 8.51M
Wells Fargo & Company 3.9M
Invesco Ltd. 3.82M
Geode Capital Management, LLC 3.54M
Massachusetts Financial Services Co. 2.73M
Capital Research Global Investors 2.42M
Morgan Stanley 2.39
Posted by: Braenyard at September 06, 2024 12:26 AM (2O5Io)
Posted by: tankdemon at September 06, 2024 12:26 AM (FpZ7Q)
Are you kidding me?!
"TRUMP: “At the suggestion of Elon Musk — I will create a Government efficiency Commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms. Elon.. has agreed to head that task force”
This is the sort of thing we... talk about on the ONT. The sort of thing no one would ever do this side of the Pearly Gates.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 06, 2024 12:27 AM (sIJ1S)
https://tinyurl.com/4n4h88sd
I wonder if he used that huge teleprompter font we saw in CBD's art offering?
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #11 at September 06, 2024 12:27 AM (qfLjt)
The fastest spacecraft yet, relative to the Sun, is the Parker Solar probe. That thing is a high elliptical orbit, and whips very close to the Sun, very fast.
The last pass had a velocity of 394,736 mph at perihelion.
In 2025, at its closest such approach, speed is projected to be 430,000 mph. That's 0.0064% c. A non-zero percentage in the 3rd digits, which is getting pretty fast.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 06, 2024 12:27 AM (w6EFb)
Slower, and altitude decays, drag increases, velocity decreases, and re-entry occurs.
Slightly faster, and one's orbit can be lifted to a higher orbit.
But you're not breaking AWAY from the Earth, till you break through 24,000 mph. That's ESCAPE velocity, and nothing less will do.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 06, 2024 12:29 AM (kQgoX)
That Parker probe heliocentric speed is equivalent to NYC to Tokyo is less than 1 minute.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 06, 2024 12:29 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #12 at September 06, 2024 12:29 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Common Tater
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Quick, hand me the slide rule!
Posted by: Braenyard at September 06, 2024 12:30 AM (2O5Io)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Then time goes backward and someone steals all the humpback whales …
Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic . . . at September 06, 2024 12:32 AM (TX4bP)
Posted by: Joe Biden at September 06, 2024 12:32 AM (aj3Iu)
Posted by: publius
But it'll still take 45 minutes to deplane, and another 15 to wait at the baggage carousel.
Posted by: mikeski at September 06, 2024 12:33 AM (DgGvY)
The mission of Parker is to get really, really close to the Sun and make measurements and stuff, figure out the corona and stuff.
But as our late Astronomer-Royal Sheila Jackson Lee famously noted, "The Sun is a mighty powerful heat", so one needs to be going really, really fast...
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 06, 2024 12:36 AM (w6EFb)
https://mol.im/a/13816949
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #13 at September 06, 2024 12:37 AM (qfLjt)
Are you kidding me?!
"TRUMP: “At the suggestion of Elon Musk — I will create a Government efficiency Commission tasked with conducting a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government and making recommendations for drastic reforms. Elon.. has agreed to head that task force”
Grace Commision 2 - Economic Boogaloo
Posted by: Space Johnson at September 06, 2024 12:38 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: tankdemon
So the fastest thing we've made is named "stays in one place."
We're funny critters.
Posted by: mikeski at September 06, 2024 12:39 AM (DgGvY)
After Motorcade Involved In Fender Bender, Tim Walz Adds Purple Heart To Resume
https://buff.ly/3XtSa5M
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #14 at September 06, 2024 12:39 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: publius
But it'll still take 45 minutes to deplane, and another 15 to wait at the baggage carousel.
Posted by: mikeski at September 06, 2024 12:33 AM (DgGvY)
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And watch that large, black dildo circling all alone on that carousel, after everyone has left.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #15 at September 06, 2024 12:41 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Gref at September 05, 2024 11:19 PM (aBgBM)
It's likely that the team that scores more points will eventually win the game!
Posted by: John Madden on SEGA Genesis! at September 06, 2024 12:42 AM (2xCPU)
Parker is named after Eugene Parker, who predicted the solar wind (he was ridiculed at the time, BTW -- they just didn't believe it was possible. His paper was flawless, but they just didn't believe it).
This was the first spacecraft named after a living person. Parker passed away in Mar. 2022, but attended the launch in 2018.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 06, 2024 12:42 AM (w6EFb)
https://mol.im/a/13817351
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #16 at September 06, 2024 12:44 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at September 06, 2024 12:45 AM (hBG3V)
https://t.co/YD8GHIjjAz
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #17 at September 06, 2024 12:47 AM (qfLjt)
https://tinyurl.com/mstj6k7w
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #18 at September 06, 2024 12:49 AM (qfLjt)
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Sounds like junk science to me.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 06, 2024 12:51 AM (+o2mc)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 06, 2024 12:51 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 06, 2024 12:51 AM (BptJg)
https://mol.im/a/13817351
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #16 at September 06, 2024 12:44 AM (qfLjt)
I wonder if there will be anything left worth buying once I get to Arizona in December?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 06, 2024 12:52 AM (Jj3ts)
https://mol.im/a/13811743
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #19 at September 06, 2024 12:53 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310
This is most kind. Werner is now at the point where he must do math to ascertain his age. I spend my natal day as most do, taunting the Void for its failure to overwhelm me, sneering at the Cosmos for see if Werner can succeed in deflating its bubble of uncaring and indifference. Ja, Cosmos, take that. Werner invites the space-time continuum to "come at me, Bro." Oh, and of course, a festive occasion where mein friends and associates are invited to celebrate another year of existence. Ric Flair, Pope Francis, Ghost-Faced Killah, among others, honored Werner with their presence. Werner's cake holds multiple candles, and each year there is the risk of a visit by the Fire Marshel.
Also have we purchased a Piñata for Kinski. It is most amusing when Klaus, after many dizzling spins, launches himself at the Piñata. Bets are made. Last year, he whacked the Dalai Llama in the groin. Ach.
Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 06, 2024 12:53 AM (tcQGp)
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We could all reflect on it, unburdened by what has been.
Posted by: Kommula Harris at September 06, 2024 12:54 AM (+o2mc)
Posted by: Common Tater
If he does, the flight should be called "The Red Baron". "Charlie Brown" would also work, going after his beagle.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 06, 2024 12:56 AM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 06, 2024 12:57 AM (Jj3ts)
Paul Mcartney wonderful christmas time and Bruce Springsteen Santa Claus is coming to to town have entered the chat
Posted by: a dude in MI at September 06, 2024 12:57 AM (+I6Y/)
https://tinyurl.com/5n6em9dk
I remember some of these fly-by-night institutions and some did a great job to appear legitimate for many years. I remember all the TV ads for U of Phoenix and also ITT Tech Institute.
Is this something that the Government needs to pay out on?
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #20 at September 06, 2024 12:59 AM (qfLjt)
https://mol.im/a/13816279
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #21 at September 06, 2024 01:00 AM (qfLjt)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 06, 2024 01:00 AM (kQgoX)
https://mol.im/a/13817007
Stray cats hardest hit.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #22 at September 06, 2024 01:01 AM (qfLjt)
https://mol.im/a/13814531
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #23 at September 06, 2024 01:03 AM (qfLjt)
Hunting Snoopy:
https://tinyurl.com/2mgqqu6o
The object is officially "2018 AV2".
Its orbit is about the same as earth's around the sun, a little higher and more elliptical.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 06, 2024 01:04 AM (w6EFb)
Interesting, but since Asia = Iran & Vessel = drinking cup, it’s not as interesting as find a Chinese boat that made it all the way to Scotland.
Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic . . . at September 06, 2024 01:04 AM (TX4bP)
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici Francesi sono tutti bugiardi #24 at September 06, 2024 01:05 AM (qfLjt)
https://tinyurl.com/5n6em9dk
I remember some of these fly-by-night institutions and some did a great job to appear legitimate for many years. I remember all the TV ads for U of Phoenix and also ITT Tech Institute.
Is this something that the Government needs to pay out on?
Posted by: Ciampino
Great. Now do those 'non-profit' universities and colleges. Seems anything with 'non-profit' attached to it makes lots and lots of coin for those running it.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 06, 2024 01:05 AM (WBro8)
https://mol.im/a/13818821
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #24 at September 06, 2024 01:06 AM (qfLjt)
https://tinyurl.com/3fsnc923
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #25 at September 06, 2024 01:10 AM (qfLjt)
Interesting, but since Asia = Iran & Vessel = drinking cup, it’s not as interesting as find a Chinese boat that made it all the way to Scotland.
Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic . . .
So, this is proof that Michael Chrichton's "The 13th Warrior" is true?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 06, 2024 01:10 AM (VNX3d)
Imagine how bad Chicago would be today if it were not for all that God-like 'Organizing' that Obama performed in the 20th century. Gosh, there would be hundreds of homicides each year, rampant corruption and a city slowly turning into a 21st century Detroit if not for HIM!
Posted by: JB1000 at September 06, 2024 01:12 AM (xrOL9)
But as our late Astronomer-Royal Sheila Jackson Lee famously noted, "The Sun is a mighty powerful heat", so one needs to be going really, really fast...
Posted by: publius
Parker is named after Eugene Parker, who predicted the solar wind (he was ridiculed at the time, BTW -- they just didn't believe it was possible. His paper was flawless, but they just didn't believe it).
This was the first spacecraft named after a living person. Parker passed away in Mar. 2022, but attended the launch in 2018.
Posted by: publius
I saw Eugene Parker open for Outrun The Sunlight at The Orbit Room in 2019.
https://youtu.be/geOQAluMvqA
Posted by: mikeski at September 06, 2024 01:18 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Skip at September 06, 2024 01:20 AM (TAGym)
They knew the numbers were correct but you still have to have faith nobody misplaced a decimal or somethhing.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 06, 2024 12:23 AM (BptJg)
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or that nobody had mixed US/Imperial with metric units eh!
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #26 at September 06, 2024 01:21 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Skip at September 06, 2024 01:21 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Jim at September 05, 2024 11:48 PM (
I was surprised to learn there are still some high fence Nauga farms where you can hunt them.
In Texas
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 06, 2024 01:23 AM (3Glim)
Then time goes backward and someone steals all the humpback whales …
Posted by: Adriane the Cynical Critic . . . at September 06, 2024 12:32 AM (TX4bP)
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I read that as 'Then time goes backward and someone steals all the hubcaps'.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #27 at September 06, 2024 01:25 AM (qfLjt)
Grace Commision 2 - Economic Boogaloo
Posted by: Space Johnson
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Maybe MAYBE this time a few recommendations will be implemented?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 06, 2024 01:29 AM (sIJ1S)
That Parker probe has some serious thermal engineering. At the closest distances that thing gets to the Sun, the total insolation is a 0.65MW/m^2. That's a might powerful heat indeed.
They got one hell of a heat shield on that thing, whose surface temperature will hit 2500F. The interior of the spacecraft remains at about 85F.
It couldn't maintain that indefinitely, it has to get out of there quickly, but that's quite impressive.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 06, 2024 01:31 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Space Johnson
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Maybe MAYBE this time a few recommendations will be implemented?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Perhaps the useless federal employees will be used to populate Venus while testing Starship.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 06, 2024 01:32 AM (VNX3d)
One of the biggest solar mysteries is just the corona is heated. The corona is much, much hotter than the "surface" of the Sun, and it's still unknown how that works, how the sun heats that up.
The Parker probe is trying to figure that out.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 06, 2024 01:33 AM (w6EFb)
It couldn't maintain that indefinitely, it has to get out of there quickly, but that's quite impressive.
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Publius, you did say "But as our late Astronomer-Royal Sheila Jackson Lee famously noted, "The Sun is a mighty powerful heat", so one needs to be going really, really fast..."
See, she knew her stuff!
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #28 at September 06, 2024 01:37 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Has anyone posited a reason why Venus spins 'backwards'?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 06, 2024 01:40 AM (IG4Id)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 06, 2024 01:41 AM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Adriane the Astronomically Cynical Critic . . . at September 06, 2024 01:42 AM (TX4bP)
That's another good question. Theories include a big ass collision, and also some interesting tidal dynamics. Don't ask, that is getting way over my head.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 06, 2024 01:45 AM (w6EFb)
And, after many, many years of using Opera, I have just installed Vivaldi, successfully importing too many bookmarks going back ages. Some habit adjustment needed, tons of options and switches set, but mostly happy with it so far.
Successful as the evening has been, I detest switching computers almost as much as I hate moving.
If the machines are so smart, why would anyone have computer problems?
https://youtu.be/GJrcJ6UprV8
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - mint conditioning at September 06, 2024 01:45 AM (T9/Kf)
Different units of measurement I remember the PAO guys talking about on Apollo were nautical and statute miles, feet per second, kilometers per second. I remember my dad was these guys ages, and translating speeds for me into understanding. “Right now about 5000 miles per hour” or whatever. He was a diesel submarine guy so he understood risk in an unforgiving environment. I looked up the timeline for 11 and it is basically like I remember. They landed about 3 PM central, and Armstrong hit the surface about 10PM, had to get special dispensation to stay up way past bedtime.
In hindsight, I think the public interest in the program didn’t so much taper off, but there were heavy political pressures applied in terms of funding. It wouldn’t be a stretch to think the networks, in turn could choose to de-emphasize the missions to some degree as well if they wanted. Apollo itself was a dead-end, and it seemed like it was only a matter of time before they lost a crew. I remember when Al Bean roasted the vidicon tube on the color camera. It looked fricking perfect color for a second or two. &$%%
Posted by: Common Tater at September 06, 2024 01:46 AM (BptJg)
Uranus also has a crazy spin, lying nearly on its side. "Big collision" is one of the main theories about that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 06, 2024 01:46 AM (w6EFb)
But the entire planet IS upside down, you know.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 06, 2024 01:48 AM (kQgoX)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)
Perhaps someone was playing planetary pool, and put some wicked English on both planets.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 06, 2024 01:50 AM (VNX3d)
But the entire planet IS upside down, you know.
Posted by: Jim
A distinction without a difference.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 06, 2024 01:50 AM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 06, 2024 01:50 AM (BptJg)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 06, 2024 01:52 AM (BptJg)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 06, 2024 01:52 AM (IG4Id)
A zero inclination orbit, exactly equatorial, over the equator, would just be a straight line. Remember, however in those map projections, you're in a *rotating frame* of reference, spinning with the earth. So, the track would be slower relative to the surface.
That also changes the ellipses a bit in that rotating frame.
For example, a satellite in a geosynchronous orbit, unless exactly on the equator (and it can't stay there long due to perturbations), traces out a figure-8 on the surface of the rotating earth.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 06, 2024 01:55 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 06, 2024 01:55 AM (BptJg)
How would one map in a 2D page or screen the orbits of the planets relative to the plane formed by the orbit of the earth around the sun?
Apologies to the planetary relativists here but that should be our frame of reference if we are making the map.
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 06, 2024 01:59 AM (3Glim)
Posted by: Skip at September 06, 2024 01:59 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 06, 2024 02:01 AM (IG4Id)
Saturn opposition is Sept 8, directly overhead at local apparent midnight. Ring angle will just be 3 degrees or so, IIRC.
They will be edge-on exactly in March, 2025, an completely invisible.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 06, 2024 02:02 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Common Tater at September 06, 2024 02:02 AM (BptJg)
It pretty much is. The earth's orbital plane is known as the ecliptic (coming from the word for eclipses -- the Moon must be crossing that plane for an eclipse).
See the ecliptic coordinate systems. All the major planets are very close to that plane in inclination, so they'll all be pretty close.
The maps are made on the "celestial sphere" and the on can do a flat projection of that if you like.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 06, 2024 02:06 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i politici sono tutti bugiardi #30 at September 06, 2024 02:09 AM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Kepler at September 06, 2024 02:15 AM (XeU6L)
The trouble with the ecliptic is the earth's spin axis is tilted about 23.5 degrees currently. If you're interested in these astronomical coordinate systems, see the Equatorial Coordinate system.
The sun's path relative to that is just one of those sine wave looking curves. That's the ecliptic projected on the surface of the "celestial sphere" of the equatorial coordinate system .
The equinoxes are when the ecliptic crosses the equator and the solstices are the peaks.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 06, 2024 02:18 AM (w6EFb)
Your two coordinates on that sphere, angular ones (similar to theta and phi of spherical coordinates) are dubbed "right ascension" (longitude, phi), and declination (latitude, angle from the equator, not the pole as the theta in spherical coordinates usually is).
"Right ascension" is measured from the vernal equinox point (which itself is slowly moving, due to precession), and is one of the coolest sounding coordinate names.
It sounds ancient and mysterious.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 06, 2024 02:22 AM (w6EFb)
Saw this and immediately thought of this.
https://youtu.be/XP5oHL3zBDg?si=cLVeNtHUv9xsq2F_
In one of the weirder collaborations in music;
KLF and Tammy Wynette. A gig's a gig I guess. KLF was popular in the UK dance clubs.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 06, 2024 02:36 AM (WBro8)
There are many, many different projections of the celestial sphere on flat surfaces, like our computer screens. Mercator is not one usually used for this, because you want to see the North and South poles.
The Stereographic is a common one, which Stellarium, for instance uses as the default. But you've got many others you can use.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 06, 2024 02:38 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Adriane the Musical Cynical Critic . . . at September 06, 2024 02:42 AM (TX4bP)
Posted by: Jimmy Doolittle at September 06, 2024 02:47 AM (qQQw6)
Holy shit, I wasn’t hallucinating all those years ago!!!
Posted by: Adriane the Musical Cynical Critic
Almost my reaction when I saw it on Euro MTV many years ago, in a pub near RAF Croughton. Thought someone spiked my ale. It was far out, man.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 06, 2024 02:50 AM (WBro8)
Another time he was testing a new plane, the company test pilot wouldn’t do a barrel roll in it. Chuck comes flying by low level doing barrel rolls, that kind of thing.
My favorite story, Chuck was a good ole boy from West by God Virginia. Fishing and exploring the woods. So later in life he went backpacking a lot. Seems strange, but OK. He would guide people to a lake in northern California about 10 miles in and go fishing for a week. Then, he would get resupplied by parachute drop from Air Force buddies. More beer, and steaks. One time they decided to play a joke on him, and dropped frozen fish sticks off.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 06, 2024 02:51 AM (BptJg)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work
Holy shit, I wasn’t hallucinating all those years ago!!!
Posted by: Adriane the Musical Cynical Critic
Almost my reaction when I saw it on Euro MTV many years ago, in a pub near RAF Croughton. Thought someone spiked my ale. It was far out, man.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work
I've never seen this before. Far out, man.
But the name KLF did jog an "ancient" memory. "3AM Eternal" got some MTV airtime here in the USA, too. I recognize the video on youtube. At least the guy using the old 1G cell phone as a keyboard instrument.
Posted by: mikeski at September 06, 2024 02:59 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 06, 2024 03:05 AM (WBro8)
Posted by: PAM HOYT at September 06, 2024 03:09 AM (lk7ia)
Posted by: Skip at September 06, 2024 01:21 AM (fwDg9)
Rosasharn should be here soon.
Posted by: m at September 06, 2024 03:39 AM (64Zez)
Posted by: m at September 06, 2024 04:00 AM (64Zez)
Posted by: m at September 06, 2024 04:12 AM (64Zez)
Posted by: m at September 06, 2024 04:12 AM (64Zez)
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Real Clear Politics
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Paul Anka Haiku Contest Announcement
Integrity SAT's: Entrance Exam for Paul Anka's Band
AllahPundit's Paul Anka 45's Collection
AnkaPundit: Paul Anka Takes Over the Site for a Weekend (Continues through to Monday's postings)
George Bush Slices Don Rumsfeld Like an F*ckin' Hammer
Democratic Forays into Erotica
New Shows On Gore's DNC/MTV Network
Nicknames for Potatoes, By People Who Really Hate Potatoes
Star Wars Euphemisms for Self-Abuse
Signs You're at an Iraqi "Wedding Party"
Signs Your Clown Has Gone Bad
Signs That You, Geroge Michael, Should Probably Just Give It Up
Signs of Hip-Hop Influence on John Kerry
NYT Headlines Spinning Bush's Jobs Boom
Things People Are More Likely to Say Than "Did You Hear What Al Franken Said Yesterday?"
Signs that Paul Krugman Has Lost His Frickin' Mind
All-Time Best NBA Players, According to Senator Robert Byrd
Other Bad Things About the Jews, According to the Koran
Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care Anymore
Examples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery
Signs Andy Rooney Is Going Senile
Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance
Collective Names for Groups of People
John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets
Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle
Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy
Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive"
Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments
John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)