Quick Hits

Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_

BREAKING: A just-disclosed Aug. 4, 2022, FBI email reveals two DOJ officials involved in the Russiagate hoax--George Toscas and Jay Bratt--were pushing the Mar-a-Lago raid hard despite FBI WFO objections: "We heard Mr. Toscas say yesterday in the call that 'he frankly doesn't give a damn about the optics' [of raiding a former president's home] and Mr. Bratt already has built an antagonistic relationship with FPOTUS's attorney Mr. Corcoran just prior to the execution of the warrant," guaranteeing the raid "will not go well."

Paul Sperry
@paulsperry_

BREAKING: Newly released July 13, 2022, email b/t FBI field agents reveals they didnt think probable cause existed to search Mar-a-Lago but were "rebuffed" by Biden DOJ: "WFO does not believe we have established probable cause for the search warrant at Mar a Lago. DOJ has opined they do, requesting a wide scope including residence, office, storage space." Judicial Watch obtained the email thru FOIA.

Fabulous!

Gunther Eagleman
@GuntherEagleman
BOOM! Kayleigh just dropped TRUTH:
There are over 500 firms in China helping CCP members come here to give birth in the US, all thanks to Obama’s 2009 loopholes.
That could mean 1 million new “anchor baby” voters by 2030.

Justice Alito wasn't having it.

Leading Report
@LeadingReport
BREAKING: Justice Sam Alito explains that unlimited birthright citizenship means a Chinese, Iranian or Russian foreigner can have a child in America, and that US citizen owes military allegiance to a foreign adversary.

Justice DEI wanted to prove that it's no big deal if millions of Fake American Citizens actually owe their primary allegiance to a hostile foreign country, so she embarrassed herself again. She claimed that if you're in Japan and subject to Japan's laws, that means you "locally owe your allegiance" to Japan so what does it matter if we have 10 million Chinese anchor babies planted here by the CCP? We all owe our allegiance to some other country sometimes, baby.

Jasmine Crockett
@JasmineForUS

The meltdown over Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is truly something EVERYONE needs to pay attention to. You see, as the first & only black woman to ever serve on the court, she had to be 10 times better than most... She continues to flex her brilliance in oral arguments & many dissents.
Please note that by the time a black woman ascends to a powerful position, she Definitely Earned It... if you have any questions... let's talk about Senator, now Secretary Mullin... or please pull the resumes of some of the other justices before entering this chat... actually just don't, it's not a debate, these are FACTS (alternative facts = LIES).

Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
I think we're long over "Don't listen to her words, just pay attention to her skin color."
You of all people should have just learned that lesson in Texas.

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@christopherrufo
4h
EXCLUSIVE: Multiple senior HHS officials estimate that, under Gavin Newsom, California's state Medicaid program has lost 25 percent of its budget to fraud. This would mean it is currently losing $50 billion a year to scammers, fraudsters, and organized crime rings.

Brandon Straka #WalkAway
@BrandonStraka
JD VANCE: "ICE arrested an illegal immigrant from Mauritania who's voted in 7 federal elections since 2008!"
"Even if you take the Democrats at their word, even if illegal aliens voting is very rare, then why don't we ban it anyway?"

Video here.

The internet did something it was supposed to do but never does: It actually brought together different people in a positive way.

Andrew Branca Show
@TheBrancaShow
1/6 Something remarkable just happened on X -- and almost nobody in legacy media noticed. A tweet about Japanese BBQ went viral in the US. What came next was completely unexpected. 🧵

2/6 X quietly launched automatic Japanese-to-English translation on posts.
The result? American and Japanese users started reading each other -- many for the first time.
And they immediately discovered something: they like the same things.
Andrew Branca Show
3/6 It started with meat.

It always does.

Japanese users were posting about wagyu, yakiniku, and grilling culture. Americans responded with their own BBQ passion. The two audiences went absolutely wild for each other.
A shared love of quality meat kicked off an international friendship movement in real time.
4/6 But it didn't stop at meat.
As the conversation deepened, both groups realized the connection ran much further.
Shared pride in their cultures.
Shared values around family, work, and national identity.
A shared worldview that the globalist left has spent decades trying to erase.
16h
5/6 This is what happens when the language barrier falls and ordinary people actually talk to each other -- without journalists, NGOs, or government officials in the way.
Japanese and Americans aren't supposed to like each other this much. The globalists need them divided.

Thanks to @Zakn.

Iryna should have crossed the border illegally, committed several felonies, preferably violent, instead of dying at the hands of a cold-blooded murderer on a bus if she wanted to be cared about in a blue city. https://t.co/LEDaASmBwR
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) April 1, 2026

I’m all for dunking on Democrats for normalizing crazy, stupid, and ideologically dangerous, jackasses. It’s a fair and legitimate point. But to pretend or even imply this is just a problem with one of our parties is crazy, stupid, ideologically dangerous jackassery. https://t.co/KiaEjsEujB
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) March 31, 2026

A Dem Senate candidate campaigns with a guy who says America deserved 9/11 and Jonah’s take is that we don’t attack enough Republicans lol https://t.co/1ha6CZge9j
— Michael Duncan (@MichaelDuncan) March 31, 2026

Because Jonah Goldberg does not read actually-conservative media and never did, he is completely unaware that in fact there is a major and brutal pushback against the Nazis and fake conservatives who push socialism and Russian Imperialism. So no, it's not the same as Democrat senate candidates campaigning with Hasan "Let's face it, America deserved 9/11" Piker, an outright cheerleader for anti-American terrorist attacks. The left continues hugging its antifa and Islamic terrorists closer.

🚨 HOLY CRAP! A fraud scandal is BLOWING UP at Newark, New Jersey schools

Over a quarter BILLION federal dollars surged to the district meant to address learning loss, but it had basically NO IMPACT

"This person received the no-show contract, and this person was a close friend… pic.twitter.com/IjRWHIWH6m
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 1, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:48 PM

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1 Something happening in space today ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 01, 2026 06:50 PM (eANu3)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 01, 2026 06:51 PM (LdBR/)

3 There are over 500 firms in China helping CCP members come here to give birth in the US

How many *US* firms are doing the same thing, for *any* immivaders?

Posted by: just one more question at April 01, 2026 06:52 PM (ULPxl)

4 Jonah is doubling up on the stupidium

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 01, 2026 06:52 PM (bXbFr)

5 Jonah gets fatter and sadder every day.

Posted by: steevy at April 01, 2026 06:53 PM (YwEeS)

6 We already knew he was gay for Iran, what difference does it make?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 01, 2026 06:54 PM (nDXEV)

7 Integrity is reporting a momentary ooopsie of some type. MC is looking at it.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 01, 2026 06:54 PM (3uBP9)

8 Willowed on the previous thread :

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I was in the army at the time, Signal Corp. I recorded the landing and the first walk on the moon on 2" video tape on an Ampex VR-1000 video tape recorder at the TV Division at Fort Gordon, GA. Any TV broadcast old guys will remember those Ampex machines. Yeah, I'm over 29.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 01, 2026 06:49 PM (5xuJ/)

I was in the Air Force a few years after that, and we had VR-1200s. The VR-1200 was all solid state, I think the VR-1000 and VR-1100 had tubes. Did you go to school at Fort Monmouth?

Posted by: a.moron at April 01, 2026 06:53 PM (X5Jzz)

Posted by: a.moron at April 01, 2026 06:55 PM (X5Jzz)

9 Watching a successful rocket launch never gets old. Especially a manned launch. That gigantic f'in thing was haulin' ass after 7 seconds.

/bunk

Posted by: 13times at April 01, 2026 06:56 PM (JB8gf)

10 3/6 It started with meat.

It always does.
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Indeed.

Posted by: The Paolo at April 01, 2026 06:56 PM (Fi81e)

11 Jonah is long overdue to have a stroke and collapse on the floor of the local Taco Bell where he lives

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 01, 2026 06:56 PM (REq0p)

12 Doesn't seem like an issue whatever it was. Some update on time when somesuch doohickey handover should occur.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 01, 2026 06:56 PM (3uBP9)

13

Yay, NASA can still launch rockets! I want our govt to do the right thing, and do it well. Shame about the DEI grifting....

Posted by: imp at April 01, 2026 06:58 PM (g6TN6)

14 Any way we can switch out the chinese babies for some jap babies?

Hell, even some Vietnamese would be better.

Posted by: Moo Goo Gai Pan at April 01, 2026 06:58 PM (AknkO)

15
ICPS is firing, seems good. This is the perigee raise maneuver that gets in actual LEO, raising perigee out of the atmosphere.

They'll dick around a bit there, then do a big apogee raise burn, putting Orion in a very high elliptical earth orbit with a period of about 24 hours.

They'll then check systems out for a day, then the SM will do the final TLI push to the Moon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 06:58 PM (w6EFb)

16 This is why I voted for President Trump.

Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2026 06:58 PM (LHPAg)

17 The issue was a temp reading on the line message and they are fixing the issue by,... suppressing the message. ENGINEERING!!

Posted by: banana Dream at April 01, 2026 06:58 PM (3uBP9)

18 I feel bad for ace that it was such a slow News day.
At least it's over now.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 13 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 01, 2026 06:59 PM (Sco7b)

19 >>> if you're in Japan and subject to Japan's laws, that means you "locally owe your allegiance" to Japan

That is retarded.

Non-citizens are not subject to the draft nor charges of treason. Espionage maybe...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 01, 2026 06:59 PM (/lPRQ)

20 Hes approaching mr creosote dumensions

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 01, 2026 06:59 PM (bXbFr)

21

"Definitely Earned It" la-fucking-mao

Posted by: imp at April 01, 2026 07:00 PM (g6TN6)

22 That was the coolest thing I’ve seen in a very long time.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 01, 2026 07:01 PM (A5RD0)

23 >>> Justice Sam Alito explains that unlimited birthright citizenship means a Chinese, Iranian or Russian foreigner can have a child in America, and that US citizen owes military allegiance to a foreign adversary.

It also means those same people are subject to being drafted into the US military w/o ever setting foot into the USA.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 01, 2026 07:01 PM (/lPRQ)

24 Mr. Toscas in in prison now, right?

Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at April 01, 2026 07:01 PM (vFG9F)

25 Godspeed, Artemis II.

Posted by: PabloD at April 01, 2026 07:01 PM (8sD0/)

26 Were any of these facts about the 500 CCP firms doing baby business in America for nefarious purposes argued before the SCOTUS during the hearings today?

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 01, 2026 07:03 PM (qBdHI)

27 One thing I like better about the NASA coverage of this launch vs SpaceX is that there weren't a bunch of 20-something dweebs squealing and clapping in the background every time some little thing happened during the launch. Although about ten minutes in they switched to a couple of chicks who sounded like they were on helium, at which point I closed that window.

Posted by: a.moron at April 01, 2026 07:03 PM (X5Jzz)

28
SOunds like there was some clock synchronization problem between two different clocks that MC saw. It looked good on the spacecraft, Wiseman said, so it's some problem on the ground.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 07:04 PM (w6EFb)

29 >>14 Any way we can switch out the chinese babies for some jap babies?

Hell, even some Vietnamese would be better.
Posted by: Moo Goo Gai Pan at April 01, 2026 06:58 PM (AknkO)

Charlie don't surf.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 01, 2026 07:04 PM (nDXEV)

30 I hope they all have an unbelievably boring mission.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 01, 2026 07:04 PM (3uBP9)

31
She continues to flex her brilliance

Flex for me, baby!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 01, 2026 07:04 PM (Cqx++)

32 in they switched to a couple of chicks who sounded like they were on helium, at which point I closed that window.

*************

Same, i get enough of this at my job

Ill be nice though, I do hope the female astronaut is making nice sammiches right about now for the other astronauts for their road trip

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 01, 2026 07:05 PM (REq0p)

33 >>> SOunds like there was some clock synchronization problem between two different clocks that MC saw. It looked good on the spacecraft, Wiseman said, so it's some problem on the ground.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 07:04 PM (w6EFb)

Time Lords. It's always Time Lords.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 01, 2026 07:05 PM (3uBP9)

34 But to pretend or even imply this is just a problem with one of our parties is crazy, stupid, ideologically dangerous jackassery.

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The Democrats are just as sane as you and I!
- Mr. Bryon Noem

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 01, 2026 07:05 PM (ndZc7)

35
NASA' graphic is showing the ICPS engine burning. It's not. The perigee raise burn hasn't happened yet.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 07:05 PM (w6EFb)

36 >>Ill be nice though, I do hope the female astronaut is making nice sammiches right about now for the other astronauts for their road trip

Maybe she'll provide some Tang. To drink, of course.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 01, 2026 07:06 PM (nDXEV)

37 An upside to the lone dissent on the speech decision just released -- KJB is so off the wall, so stupid, and so embarrassing that she might have a *positive* effect of making other justices move away from her arguments and positions because "if KJB thinks this way, it must be stupid."

I kind of Supreme Court Jim Cramer.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 01, 2026 07:06 PM (Fg7bI)

38 ICPS is firing, seems good. This is the perigee raise maneuver that gets in actual LEO, raising perigee out of the atmosphere.

They'll dick around a bit there, then do a big apogee raise burn, putting Orion in a very high elliptical earth orbit with a period of about 24 hours.

They'll then check systems out for a day, then the SM will do the final TLI push to the Moon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 06:58 PM (w6EFb)

There is an old program - Kerbal Space Program - that lets you design build and launch rockets with little critters in them and simulate these orbital maneuvers.

There is a replacement under development that uses kittens as the critters - Kitten Space Agency I think it is.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:06 PM (8avO+)

39 I'm enjoying the Japanese Xitter. I think I started seeing some Swedish posts, too. It's as if a wall has come down, and everyone is running toward each other with hugs and gifts.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at April 01, 2026 07:08 PM (zYpTz)

40 Watching the Artemis cam, almost 1000 miles away from earth already

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 01, 2026 07:08 PM (REq0p)

41 Oldcat: KSP2 turned out to be a massive grift. The original devs I think moved to the Kitten one.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 01, 2026 07:08 PM (gKWVE)

42 "Non-citizens are not subject to the draft"

Au contraire, permanent residents have to register for the draft.

Posted by: Harun at April 01, 2026 07:09 PM (IuIym)

43 3/6 It started with meat.

It always does.
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Indeed.
Posted by: The Paolo at April 01, 2026 06:56 PM (Fi81e)

Vegans are too hungry to enjoy anything

Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:09 PM (8avO+)

44
Note that the SLS-Orion is no Apollo-Saturn V. SLS/Orion does not have the delta-v fuel margin to put Orion in low lunar orbit and get back out.

This is why it's just a free-return flyby. The ICPS doesn't have the energy, and the final TLI has to be done by Orion itself.

Why you ask? Read up on the history of the boondoggle known as SLS.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 07:10 PM (w6EFb)

45 It's good that the roggets worked, but those are going to be replaced with the Superheavy booster.
Zimmerman is saying the real test will be with the life support system. SpaceX hasn't designed anything like this (the Dragon is just a shuttle to LEO).
Zimmerman is least hopeful for the return. The heat shields failed in 2022. NASA's response was "yolo" to that. The new trajectory is supposed to put less pressure on the shields.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 01, 2026 07:11 PM (gKWVE)

46 One thing I like better about the NASA coverage of this launch vs SpaceX is that there weren't a bunch of 20-something dweebs squealing and clapping in the background every time some little thing happened during the launch. Although about ten minutes in they switched to a couple of chicks who sounded like they were on helium, at which point I closed that window.
Posted by: a.moron at April 01, 2026 07:03 PM (X5Jzz)

I believe you’re thinking of a Blue Origin launch. I was embarrassed for them. Cheering was contrived, excessive, and obnoxious.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at April 01, 2026 07:11 PM (NZIuw)

47 One alleged controversial element of SCROTUS eliminating 'birthright citizenship' - "But, but, but what about all those anchor babies losing their citizenship?"

Happens en masse several times before.
When Philippines was cut lose from being a Territory they had a deadline to get ass into what would in the future be the US proper by a deadline or they would lose citizenship. If Puerto Rico goes independent, the same. When certain island nations of the Pacific Trust Territory went independent, same.

Nothing remarkable about it other than some people freaking out about "It cannot happen"

It happens and has happened to tens of millions in the past WRT US citizenship.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 01, 2026 07:11 PM (/lPRQ)

48 And it also got revealed that Americans and Japanese dislike immigrants who refuse to assimilate. No wonder the globalists are pissed off.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 01, 2026 07:12 PM (+NIRm)

49 Brandon Straka #WalkAway @BrandonStraka

JD VANCE: "ICE arrested an illegal immigrant from Mauritania who's voted in 7 federal elections since 2008!"

"Even if you take the Democrats at their word, even if illegal aliens voting is very rare, then why don't we ban it anyway?"
===========

if we used the Democrats "It's so rare why worry about it?" thinking, since bank robberies are rare these days, why should banks waste money on safes and armed guards? And why spend money for a missile defense system for any parts of the US? No one has ever launched a long-range ballistic missile at us!!!

Posted by: Gref at April 01, 2026 07:12 PM (5rh/l)

50 Oldcat - yes, throwing rock. That is air defense if you throw it at anyone else who tried to land you our Moon.

"Hey you kids - get off of my Moon!"

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 01, 2026 07:12 PM (Fg7bI)

51 19 >>> if you're in Japan and subject to Japan's laws, that means you "locally owe your allegiance" to Japan

That is retarded.
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It will take a lot of retardation to decide that the 14th actually DOES confer birthright citizenship to children born of parents that are subject to the jurisdiction of a foreign country, but I think of at least 5 people who can come up with all sorts of retarded reasoning to make it happen!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 01, 2026 07:12 PM (Dv3i1)

52 Zimmerman is saying the real test will be with the life support system. SpaceX hasn't designed anything like this (the Dragon is just a shuttle to LEO).

***************

As long as nothing was made by Boeing Im not worried

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 01, 2026 07:12 PM (REq0p)

53 >> almost 1000 miles away from earth already

They aren't technically in orbit now, in a more ballistic missile like sub-orbital trajector. The orbit is about 15 x 1300 miles. The upcoming ICPS perigee raise burn will raise that to 100 x 1300 miles. Then they'll be in orbit.

Note this is quite elliptical, unlike Apollo's circular parking orbits.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 07:13 PM (w6EFb)

54 We already knew he was gay for Iran, what difference does it make?
Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 01, 2026 06:54 PM (nDXEV)

Well, until January they were hanging homos, and now their favorite son is one, so . . .

I am not seeing a lot of forgiveness in the near future to paper over this

I am also suspicious of some serious mindf___ery anti government agitprop going on, and it smells like violets

Posted by: Kindltot at April 01, 2026 07:13 PM (rbvCR)

55 I hope they all have an unbelievably boring mission.
Posted by: banana Dream

They could create the 100,000 Mile Club and knock boots.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 01, 2026 07:13 PM (/lPRQ)

56 This person received the no-show contract, and this person was a close friend of an assistant superintendent of Newark Public Schools."

Funds have flown to a "literary consultant," partly using federal dollars, yet 1 year later, "THE WORK NEVER BEGAN"

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JD Vance should look into this.

Posted by: runner at April 01, 2026 07:13 PM (GD0B3)

57 A modest proposal: draft all illegal aliens into the military, into special "hard manual labor" units to build housing and infrastructure. Tens of millions put to use, with court-martials waiting if they attempt to flee. Then watch as their actual countries rise to their defense, asserting -- correctly -- that they were never under our jurisdiction.

Posted by: SciVo at April 01, 2026 07:13 PM (Sy6m/)

58 >>> There is an old program - Kerbal Space Program - that lets you design build and launch rockets with little critters in them and simulate these orbital maneuvers.

There is a replacement under development that uses kittens as the critters - Kitten Space Agency I think it is.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:06 PM (8avO+)

Kerbal is old? It came out in '15. I'M 29!!!!

Anyway KS2 is already in early release on steam at least.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 01, 2026 07:13 PM (3uBP9)

59 Note that the SLS-Orion is no Apollo-Saturn V. SLS/Orion does not have the delta-v fuel margin to put Orion in low lunar orbit and get back out.

This is why it's just a free-return flyby. The ICPS doesn't have the energy, and the final TLI has to be done by Orion itself.

Why you ask? Read up on the history of the boondoggle known as SLS.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 07:10 PM (w6EFb)

Even with the Saturn V that rocket could not lift everything far, -- the second stage had to fire to get the package all the way up. The third stage got it a bit farther but the rest of the transfer was done by the small command module the rest of the way.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:13 PM (8avO+)

60 They could create the 100,000 Mile Club and knock boots.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

The claim is that zero gravity and zero privacy means zero boners (or ladyboners).

Posted by: gKWVE at April 01, 2026 07:14 PM (gKWVE)

61 How do Americans know they are talking to Japanese people and not some chatbot? And vice versa?

Posted by: guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at April 01, 2026 07:14 PM (vFG9F)

62 "Non-citizens are not subject to the draft"

Au contraire, permanent residents have to register for the draft.
Posted by: Harun

Some people do not do context.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 01, 2026 07:14 PM (/lPRQ)

63 39 I'm enjoying the Japanese Xitter. I think I started seeing some Swedish posts, too. It's as if a wall has come down, and everyone is running toward each other with hugs and gifts.
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This is awful news! We simply cannot let this happen, shut down X now!
-Most World 'Leaders'

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 01, 2026 07:15 PM (Dv3i1)

64 if you're in Japan and subject to Japan's laws, that means you "locally owe your allegiance" to Japan

Actually, from recent videos, foreigners who screw up can be ejected by force, with comments like "you are lucky we have a plane"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 01, 2026 07:15 PM (rbvCR)

65 Revolver News - Austria President says " A day will come when all women should wear a hijab"

Posted by: Skip at April 01, 2026 07:15 PM (Ia/+0)

66 Note this is quite elliptical, unlike Apollo's circular parking orbits.

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I wonder what the flat earthers are thinking right now...

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 01, 2026 07:15 PM (REq0p)

67 Is Pres Trump gonna give a speech or did I miss it?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 01, 2026 07:16 PM (eZ5tL)

68 if you're in Japan and subject to Japan's laws, that means you "locally owe your allegiance" to Japan

That is retarded.

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Say what you will about Justice Jackson, her wallet stealing analogy makes a lot of sense. I mean, look at the Somalis in Minnesota.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 01, 2026 07:16 PM (ndZc7)

69 The claim is that zero gravity and zero privacy means zero boners (or ladyboners).
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Paging Zombie Bob Dole, Mr. Zombie Bob Dole to the white courtesy phone!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 01, 2026 07:16 PM (Dv3i1)

70 There is an old program - Kerbal Space Program - that lets you design build and launch rockets with little critters in them and simulate these orbital maneuvers.
Posted by: Oldcat

A game from 2015 is old? If you weren't called Oldcat, I'd ask you to remove yourself from my lawn.

The game was the source of some good euphemisms. It didn't coin the phrase, but it popularized "rapid unplanned disassembly" for "exploded."

I also like "lithobraking"--using a planet's surface to slow your spaceship down--for "crashing."

Posted by: mikeski at April 01, 2026 07:16 PM (VHUov)

71 >> The third stage got it a bit farther but the rest of the transfer was done by the small command module the rest of the way.

The third stage had two burns. First one to complete parking orbit, and then TLI, which did the spacecraft fully on the way to the Moon.

The Apollo SM had to do the lunar orbit insertion burn (and return to earth burn), but the 3rd stage did all the TLI burn.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 07:16 PM (w6EFb)

72 Revolver News - Austria President says " A day will come when all women should wear a hijab"

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Not just the fugly ones?!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 01, 2026 07:17 PM (ndZc7)

73 I understand that Artemis 11 has a fully functional toilet.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 01, 2026 07:18 PM (+nEug)

74 60 They could create the 100,000 Mile Club and knock boots.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

The claim is that zero gravity and zero privacy means zero boners (or ladyboners).
Posted by: gKWVE at April 01, 2026 07:14 PM (gKWVE)

Enough about Katy Perry's spaceflight already.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 01, 2026 07:18 PM (nDXEV)

75 Is Pres Trump gonna give a speech or did I miss it?
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 01, 2026 07:16 PM (eZ5tL)

Last I saw it was scheduled for 9:00 tonight.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at April 01, 2026 07:18 PM (NZIuw)

76 > Jasmine Crockett @JasmineForUS

I thought we were rid of this scrunt.

> She continues to flex her brilliance in oral arguments & many dissents.

"Brilliance" compared to who? You? Well, maybe so.

A retarded cocker spaniel could get away with cheating her in a poker game.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2026 07:18 PM (IG3/x)

77 A day will come when all women should wear a hijab

Guessing the Austrian President, deep down, is contemptuous of women and hopes for revenge against them.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 01, 2026 07:18 PM (gKWVE)

78 China is about to explode into violence, starvation and death on a large scale. The rich and well to do have been planning on an exit plan for years, especially for the issue of their loins.

Expect a large wave of chinese American citizens to flood into the country in the next decade escaping their war torn land.

Posted by: Rice Bowl at April 01, 2026 07:18 PM (AknkO)

79 Hey Japan, we go the meats!

Posted by: JackStraw at April 01, 2026 07:18 PM (viF8m)

80 I hate it when people stop talking.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 01, 2026 07:19 PM (3uBP9)

81 Oldcat - yes, throwing rock. That is air defense if you throw it at anyone else who tried to land you our Moon.

"Hey you kids - get off of my Moon!"
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 01, 2026 07:12 PM (Fg7bI)

I'd think a cargo mass drive would have a limited ability to move its target and fire in all directions.

I have read an SF story, though, where a work team on the moon tells the AI computer controlling things the position of a ridge blocking the projected path of a new mass driver. The response came back - completion time, 40 minutes.

They park for lunch and are nearly killed when the kinda smart AI fires ore from a mass driver at the ridge, blowing apart the obstacle and nearly killing them. It seemed like a good idea to the AI!

Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:19 PM (8avO+)

82 They could create the 100,000 Mile Club and knock boots.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Private shows streaming on OrbitFans today!

Posted by: mikeski at April 01, 2026 07:19 PM (VHUov)

83 53 >> almost 1000 miles away from earth already

They aren't technically in orbit now, in a more ballistic missile like sub-orbital trajector. The orbit is about 15 x 1300 miles. The upcoming ICPS perigee raise burn will raise that to 100 x 1300 miles. Then they'll be in orbit.

Note this is quite elliptical, unlike Apollo's circular parking orbits.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 07:13 PM (w6EFb)

I beg to differ. Orion is in an Earth orbit. Problem is, the perigee is below ground. CRUNCH!

Sorry, publius, I couldn't resist using some lame physics trivia.

Posted by: Gref at April 01, 2026 07:20 PM (5rh/l)

84 Thanks Buzz

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 01, 2026 07:20 PM (znREB)

85 Chkna alread have numerous police stations to collect information from their spys and control their citizens

Posted by: Skip at April 01, 2026 07:21 PM (Ia/+0)

86 > Actually, from recent videos, foreigners who screw up can be ejected by force, with comments like "you are lucky we have a plane"
Posted by: Kindltot at April 01, 2026 07:15 PM (rbvCR)

Allow me to suggest helicopters instead.

Posted by: Generalissimo Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte at April 01, 2026 07:21 PM (IG3/x)

87 "I understand that Artemis 11 has a fully functional toilet.
Posted by: Ben Had"

The entire spacecraft was designed around that toilet.

Posted by: fd at April 01, 2026 07:21 PM (vFG9F)

88 >> I wonder what the flat earthers are thinking right now...

It's all CGI, they say. All these billions and billions, private companies, ELon, Rooskies, Chicoms, it's all a big fake Satanic conspiracy to hide the truth of the flat earth.

Nothing will convince these loons.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 07:21 PM (w6EFb)

89 "does not reflect our values"
Then your values suck. And you suck for promoting them.

Posted by: GWB at April 01, 2026 07:21 PM (tIv/K)

90 I would miss a toilet after a few days in space too.

Posted by: fd at April 01, 2026 07:22 PM (vFG9F)

91 if you're in Japan and subject to Japan's laws, that means you "locally owe your allegiance" to Japan

Actually, from recent videos, foreigners who screw up can be ejected by force, with comments like "you are lucky we have a plane"
Posted by: Kindltot at April 01, 2026 07:15 PM (rbvCR)

A Youtuber who went about annoying the locals on stream live was recently given a long sentence in Korea for various crimes done for the views. Good.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:22 PM (8avO+)

92 I would miss a toilet after a few days in space too.

Nope. Experts say your aim would improve over time.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 01, 2026 07:23 PM (8ty7h)

93 The Japanese twitters I saw were asking about open spaces, and the responses were of yards and trips and tilling up gardens

Posted by: Kindltot at April 01, 2026 07:23 PM (rbvCR)

94 Nothing will convince these loons.

**************

Theyre just mad and butt hurt that all the conspiracy theories have been proven lately except for theirs

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at April 01, 2026 07:23 PM (REq0p)

95 > It's all CGI, they say.

Little-known fact: the moon landings were faked by Stanley Kubrick.

However, notorious perfectionist that he was, he insisted that the filming be done on location.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2026 07:23 PM (IG3/x)

96 90 I would miss a toilet after a few days in space too.
Posted by: fd at April 01, 2026 07:22 PM (vFG9F)

Wobbly legs?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2026 07:24 PM (VR4+k)

97 I wonder if our astronauts will see the MOON NAZIS

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 01, 2026 07:24 PM (n5tGW)

98 A retarded cocker spaniel could get away with cheating her in a poker game.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2026 07:18 PM (IG3/x)

Having raised cocker spaniels I have to say "Ouch."
Very smart dogs in some ways, but too often at Golden Retriever levels.

Posted by: GWB at April 01, 2026 07:24 PM (tIv/K)

99 >> The third stage got it a bit farther but the rest of the transfer was done by the small command module the rest of the way.

The third stage had two burns. First one to complete parking orbit, and then TLI, which did the spacecraft fully on the way to the Moon.

The Apollo SM had to do the lunar orbit insertion burn (and return to earth burn), but the 3rd stage did all the TLI burn.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 07:16 PM (w6EFb)

I'd forgotten the exact burn sequence for the stages by now, being pretty young and not following it up after the program ended. Thanks.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:24 PM (8avO+)

100 "I understand that Artemis 11 has a fully functional toilet.
Posted by: Ben Had"

It has a toilet that was fully functional in ground tests. Soon the astronauts will learn if it also works in zero-gee.

And if they need more toilet paper, they are now SOL!

Posted by: Gref at April 01, 2026 07:24 PM (5rh/l)

101
g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 01, 2026 07:24 PM (tljrc)

102 92 I would miss a toilet after a few days in space too.

Nope. Experts say your aim would improve over time.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 01, 2026 07:23 PM (8ty7h)

KEIN STEHPINKELN!!

Posted by: The German solution to the problem at April 01, 2026 07:25 PM (PiwSw)

103 > A Youtuber who went about annoying the locals

The so-called "Johnny Somali".

Worthless shitstain from a worthless country.

He's up for sentencing in South Korea this month.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2026 07:25 PM (IG3/x)

104 >> I beg to differ. Orion is in an Earth orbit. Problem is, the perigee is below ground. CRUNCH!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought these typical orbit number, n x m, were not geocentric, but relative to the surface. So, a 15 x 1300 mile orbits means a low point of 15 miles about the mean surface and apogee of 1300.

It has to be because earth's radius is about 4000 miles. If those numbers were geocentric, the whole thing would be unground. :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 07:25 PM (w6EFb)

105 >>> The Japanese twitters I saw were asking about open spaces, and the responses were of yards and trips and tilling up gardens
Posted by: Kindltot at April 01, 2026 07:23 PM (rbvCR)

There were tours in Kansas, might still be, where Japanese people would be bussed out to the middle of the prairie to see what big spaces look like.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 01, 2026 07:27 PM (3uBP9)

106 Nothing will convince these loons.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 07:21 PM (w6EFb)

Seriously, cui bono? Why would anyone sink so much institutional effort into something completely useless?

Nobody is cashing in on Round Earth Theory.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2026 07:27 PM (VR4+k)

107 A Youtuber who went about annoying the locals on stream live was recently given a long sentence in Korea for various crimes done for the views. Good.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:22 PM (8avO+)

We need more prank videos from Detroit and Oakland.

My friends' cat Snowflake is always in and out with the dog. I gave her flea medication with permission. Anyways, I lost track today because the dog has been in and out, I'm lifting him, a lot going on.

About 4 hours later, I hear a meow and she's sleeping on a chair. I was completely surprised. She went home to get food and is sleeping upstairs now. I'll put her out later...

Posted by: Stateless - Day 13 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 01, 2026 07:27 PM (Sco7b)

108 30 I hope they all have an unbelievably boring mission.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 01, 2026 07:04 PM (3uBP9)
Me too.

Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2026 07:27 PM (LHPAg)

109 96 90 I would miss a toilet after a few days in space too.
Posted by: fd at April 01, 2026 07:22 PM (vFG9F)

Wobbly legs?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2026 07:24 PM (VR4+k)

Depends.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 01, 2026 07:27 PM (nDXEV)

110 4 Jonah is doubling up on the stupidium

like a double-stuffed oreo of stupid

Posted by: anachronda at April 01, 2026 07:28 PM (oY6Yp)

111 Trump will be on TV tonites to lye about all the childrin of coller twonite in that's Irang place !•

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at April 01, 2026 07:28 PM (dNEfJ)

112 Penguins are native to the Southern Hemisphere, particularly Antarctica, and do not inhabit space or participate in space missions like Artemis. The Artemis missions focus on human exploration of the Moon and beyond, not on wildlife.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at April 01, 2026 07:28 PM (vFG9F)

113 Data transmission problems.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 01, 2026 07:29 PM (3uBP9)

114 I would miss a toilet after a few days in space too.
Posted by: fd at April 01, 2026 07:22 PM (vFG9F)

Wobbly legs?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2026 07:24 PM (VR4+k)

Depends.
Posted by: Dr. Varno

Floaters.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 01, 2026 07:29 PM (/THgZ)

115 > He's up for sentencing in South Korea this month.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2026 07:25 PM (IG3/x)

He's looking at > 40 years.

He won't get it, but one may hope he serves SOME time.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2026 07:29 PM (IG3/x)

116 There were tours in Kansas, might still be, where Japanese people would be bussed out to the middle of the prairie to see what big spaces look like.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 01, 2026 07:27 PM (3uBP9)

Pfft. I had a friend who had family come out from Germany, so he drove them up the Columbia gorge. They couldn't get over the fact that it just. Kept. Going.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 01, 2026 07:30 PM (rbvCR)

117 I think the ICP is Boeing.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 01, 2026 07:30 PM (3uBP9)

118 Nothing will convince these loons.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 07:21 PM (w6EFb)

Seriously, cui bono? Why would anyone sink so much institutional effort into something completely useless?

Nobody is cashing in on Round Earth Theory.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2026 07:27 PM (VR4+k)

Hollow Earth theory is where the big money is.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:30 PM (8avO+)

119 90 I would miss a toilet after a few days in space too.

i think they strap you down to improve your aim.

Posted by: anachronda at April 01, 2026 07:30 PM (oY6Yp)

120 Revolver News - Austria President says " A day will come when all women should wear a hijab"

-
Not just the fugly ones?!!!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at April 01, 2026 07:17 PM (ndZc7)

Translated from the original Austrian:

"Ein volk, ein reich, ein hijab!"

Posted by: Minuteman at April 01, 2026 07:30 PM (47/pr)

121 111 Trump will be on TV tonites to lye about all the childrin of coller twonite in that's Irang place !•
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at April 01, 2026 07:28 PM (dNEfJ)

Why don't your city just become part of Canada and get it over with !!!

Take your Fat Ass and go to Homo land in Canada !!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at April 01, 2026 07:30 PM (38587)

122 118 Hollow Earth theory is where the big money is.

hello, kitty > hollow earth

Posted by: anachronda at April 01, 2026 07:31 PM (oY6Yp)

123 115 > He's up for sentencing in South Korea this month.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2026 07:25 PM (IG3/x)

He's looking at > 40 years.

He won't get it, but one may hope he serves SOME time.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2026 07:29 PM (IG3/x)

His time might be as little as 3-5 years, but it *will* involve hard labor.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 01, 2026 07:31 PM (nDXEV)

124 Yeah let's all listen to an Austrian politician making strident and racist claims about what everyone else has to do.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2026 07:31 PM (VR4+k)

125 I'm not a gamer, but I'm familiar with Kerbal Space Program from watching the "Life of Boris" channel on YouTube. I found his play-throughs to be quite amusing (YMMV).

Posted by: PabloD at April 01, 2026 07:31 PM (8sD0/)

126 Gunther Eagleman @GuntherEagleman
BOOM! Kayleigh just dropped TRUTH:

There are over 500 firms in China helping CCP members come here to give birth in the US, all thanks to Obama�s 2009 loopholes.

That could mean 1 million new �anchor baby� voters by 2030.
____________________________

I mentioned this oddity before. In Southern California there a number of mobile birthing centers. They move around to different motels along the border. And, while you might assume that most of the non-citizens using these birthing centers to be hispanic, you'd be very wrong. Most users are Chinese "tourists". I'd go so far as to guess that the CCP is providing some funding for these ad hoc set ups.

Posted by: Orson at April 01, 2026 07:32 PM (dIske)

127 104 >> I beg to differ. Orion is in an Earth orbit. Problem is, the perigee is below ground. CRUNCH!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought these typical orbit number, n x m, were not geocentric, but relative to the surface. So, a 15 x 1300 mile orbits means a low point of 15 miles about the mean surface and apogee of 1300.

It has to be because earth's radius is about 4000 miles. If those numbers were geocentric, the whole thing would be unground. :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 07:25 PM (w6EFb)

Welp, I don't know. It would make my retired brain hurt a lot if I tried to recall serious orbital mechanics, which I knew a little about but never applied it. In the Shuttle program everything I worked on was on-orbit stuff. The SRBs, ET, and OMS engines were things that I wanted to work but had no involvement with.

Posted by: Gref at April 01, 2026 07:32 PM (5rh/l)

128 So have we kinda figured out the actual question before the Court today?

A) deny automatic citizenship for all noncitizens born in the US, after January 1, 2024.
B) grant automatic citizenship for all noncitizens born in the US forever.

Those are the only actual options before the Court.

See, as others noted, the ACLU option is the most extreme.
And they don't grant any lesser option--all citizens forever, no exceptions, no restrictions.

OTOH, Trump is saying, the accepted interpretation has no legal basis. But, we're not going to punish those already here. We only want to start enforcing the law as written.

So, you can say Roberts and ACB are spineless weasels--and they are--but there is a reasonable option and an extreme option before them.

Now go back and look at their questioning in that light.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 01, 2026 07:32 PM (HXT0k)

129 Hollow Earth theory is where the big money is.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:30 PM (8avO+)

That is only part of the secret. The whole secret encompasses Vril.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 01, 2026 07:32 PM (rbvCR)

130 113 Data transmission problems.

should'a stuck with the stick shift

Posted by: anachronda at April 01, 2026 07:32 PM (oY6Yp)

131 They just don't get it.

One hears stories of tourists who think they're going to see the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls on the same weekend, traveling by car.

Oregon is larger than the UK.
Texas is larger than France.
Alaska is larger than all of Western Europe.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2026 07:32 PM (IG3/x)

132 Maybe NASA would not have had to scrounge around for used shuttle parts if California and Minnesota hadn't ripped the country off of millions and millions of dollars. Another reason why those people should rot in jail.

Posted by: Case at April 01, 2026 07:32 PM (pvf3X)

133 Houston "in the blind". Data transmission problems.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 01, 2026 07:32 PM (3uBP9)

134 He's up for sentencing in South Korea this month.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2026 07:25 PM (IG3/x)

He's looking at > 40 years.
He won't get it, but one may hope he serves SOME time.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

40 years in a ROK "beat your obnoxious ass daily" prison sounds like a fair life sentence.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 01, 2026 07:32 PM (/lPRQ)

135 My friends' cat Snowflake is always in and out with the dog. I gave her flea medication with permission. Anyways, I lost track today because the dog has been in and out, I'm lifting him, a lot going on.

About 4 hours later, I hear a meow and she's sleeping on a chair. I was completely surprised. She went home to get food and is sleeping upstairs now. I'll put her out later...

Posted by: Stateless - Day 13 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 01, 2026 07:27 PM (Sco7b)

Growing up there were a few cats that obtained spare owners to get a few extra dinners and pets.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:33 PM (8avO+)

136 A Youtuber who went about annoying the locals on stream live was recently given a long sentence in Korea for various crimes done for the views. Good.

Had to look it up. You warmed my black and bitter heart.

Ismael's sentencing is scheduled for April 15, 2026, in which he may face a fine of ₩150,000 (US$131.12), the possibility of having to register as a sex offender, and three years of prison labor.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 01, 2026 07:33 PM (+NIRm)

137 Artemis II > Artemis 11

Posted by: Max Power at April 01, 2026 07:33 PM (q177U)

138 Does the new Ayatollah Spit or Swallow ???

Posted by: Mike Hunt at April 01, 2026 07:33 PM (/Uzmo)

139 127 Welp, I don't know. It would make my retired brain hurt a lot if I tried to recall serious orbital mechanics, which I knew a little about but never applied it.

would you like to more about kerbal space program?

Posted by: elder jebediah at April 01, 2026 07:34 PM (oY6Yp)

140 In space, no one can smell mephitic penguin droppings.

That's because there aren't any.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 01, 2026 07:34 PM (0sNs1)

141 105 - I did a road trip with a Japanese friend back in the 90s. We drove into Kansas in the dark, so when we exited the motel in the morning he got his first look at the prairie. He couldn't believe his eyes. There's no terrain in Japan remotely like that.

Posted by: PabloD at April 01, 2026 07:34 PM (8sD0/)

142 Pfft. I had a friend who had family come out from Germany, so he drove them up the Columbia gorge. They couldn't get over the fact that it just. Kept. Going.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 01, 2026 07:30 PM (rbvCR)

In high school I was pen pals with a girl from England. She had never been to America, and she was mystified at the sheer size of our country, especially regarding weather. In the UK, pretty much the same weather nationwide.

BTW, she was a cutie. I wish we could have met.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 01, 2026 07:35 PM (0aYVJ)

143 138 Does the new Ayatollah Spit or Swallow ???
Posted by: Mike Hunt at April 01, 2026 07:33 PM (/Uzmo)

You know what they say. "When in Qom..."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2026 07:35 PM (VR4+k)

144 Simple: suicide for the country to let our enemies become citizen.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 01, 2026 07:35 PM (bzCQS)

145 a PS to my 127 - I also never worked on what was called flight design - all the flight trajectory stuff from clearing the tower to wheels stop.

Posted by: Gref at April 01, 2026 07:36 PM (5rh/l)

146
JM,

Exactly

Posted by: fourseasons at April 01, 2026 07:36 PM (3ek7K)

147 I can't say that the MC talk sounds good. I haven't heard an Integrity reply.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 01, 2026 07:36 PM (3uBP9)

148 should'a stuck with the stick shift
Posted by: anachronda at April 01, 2026 07:32 PM

That's misogynist!

Posted by: KJB at April 01, 2026 07:36 PM (0sNs1)

149 127 Welp, I don't know. It would make my retired brain hurt a lot if I tried to recall serious orbital mechanics, which I knew a little about but never applied it.

would you like to more about kerbal space program?
Posted by: elder jebediah at April 01, 2026 07:34 PM (oY6Yp)

There are some counter-intuitive features of orbitals. If you come near a station and want to dock, blasting forward gives you a higher orbit and you slow down and lose ground.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:36 PM (8avO+)

150 140 In space, no one can smell mephitic penguin droppings.

That's because there aren't any.

hmmm.... *scribbles note* space cures mephitis

Posted by: anachronda at April 01, 2026 07:36 PM (oY6Yp)

151 I've never been anywhere as disturbingly flat as Indianapolis.

I can't imagine what the *really* flat mirror finish atomically smooth states like Kansas are like.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2026 07:37 PM (VR4+k)

152 149 There are some counter-intuitive features of orbitals. If you come near a station and want to dock, blasting forward gives you a higher orbit and you slow down and lose ground.

yeah, i found docking to be about the hardest thing to do in ksp. even harder than landing on minmus.

Posted by: anachronda at April 01, 2026 07:37 PM (oY6Yp)

153 OTOH, Trump is saying, the accepted interpretation has no legal basis. But, we're not going to punish those already here. We only want to start enforcing the law as written.

So, you can say Roberts and ACB are spineless weasels--and they are--but there is a reasonable option and an extreme option before them.

Now go back and look at their questioning in that light.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

But, we're not going to punish those already here.

That is key and how it has been done in the past when misc. territories were cut lose. It also gives those currently outside the US proper time to relocate... and vice versa.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 01, 2026 07:37 PM (/lPRQ)

154 In space, no one can hear you.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 01, 2026 07:37 PM (nDXEV)

155 I watched the launch on Tousi and he mentioned something about there being no communication for 50 minutes.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 01, 2026 07:38 PM (+nEug)

156 The Japan flood on Twixxer is pretty excellent, but it has brought the thirst trap Japanese 304s and content farmers from Japan too, sadly

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 01, 2026 07:38 PM (El6/E)

157 There are some counter-intuitive features of orbitals. If you come near a station and want to dock, blasting forward gives you a higher orbit and you slow down and lose ground.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:36 PM (8avO+)

Feh. Lock SAS to target retrograde and punch it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2026 07:38 PM (VR4+k)

158 In high school I was pen pals with a girl from England. She had never been to America, and she was mystified at the sheer size of our country, especially regarding weather. In the UK, pretty much the same weather nationwide.

BTW, she was a cutie. I wish we could have met.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 01, 2026 07:35 PM (0aYVJ)

My sister was pen pals with a dude in Thailand. He mentioned going to a brothel in Bangkok and had to do some 'story revisioning' when she asked him about it.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:38 PM (8avO+)

159 3/6 It started with meat."

It's all about the angle of the dangle and the heat of the meat

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 01, 2026 07:38 PM (NtVYv)

160 >> I can't say that the MC talk sounds good

This happened with the Apollo mission several times. Iw was listening to some of the accelerated mission audio for Apollo 8, 9, 10, 11 a while back.

They would lose the ground link some time during the hand over to another ground station (in low earth orbit, a given ground station can't see the spacecraft for but a small window).

This sounds exactly like that. They're still getting other data, just lost the link to the astronauts.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 07:39 PM (w6EFb)

161 Or make MechJeb do it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2026 07:39 PM (VR4+k)

162 As someone who grew up in Hawaii, l can confirm that the Japanese do a nice BBQ. Koreans too.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 01, 2026 07:39 PM (k8Vnt)

163 They are still getting data from the ICP. Oh fucking good good good they have integrity again. Damn. Damn. nerve racking.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 01, 2026 07:40 PM (3uBP9)

164 Thank you, Joyenz, for maintaining the tradition.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 01, 2026 07:40 PM (NcvvS)

165 I can't imagine what the *really* flat mirror finish atomically smooth states like Kansas are like.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Check out the Salt Flats.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 01, 2026 07:40 PM (/lPRQ)

166 I've never been anywhere as disturbingly flat as Indianapolis.

I can't imagine what the *really* flat mirror finish atomically smooth states like Kansas are like.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2026 07:37 PM (VR4+k)

Kansas is a bit rolling for most of it. East Colorado and Nebraska are more purely flat.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:40 PM (8avO+)

167 I can't imagine what the *really* flat mirror finish atomically smooth states like Kansas are like.

I went to visit a cousin in Nebraska last year, and it was different. I live in a valley between two mountain ranges, and am used to hills and such.

Nebraska may have hills, but nowhere near were I was. You could see to Canada. And I never got the whole "feeling exposed and isolated, lost in the endless horizon" thing but staying at a farm house near a tiny tiny little hamlet made me understand all those horror movies.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 01, 2026 07:40 PM (El6/E)

168 If they return to Spacedock, the assassins will surely find a way to dispose of their incriminating footwear.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 01, 2026 07:40 PM (nDXEV)

169 Simple: suicide for the country to let our enemies become citizen.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 01, 2026 07:35 PM (bzCQS)

Well, we should not be so hasty. After all, there is a lot of money to be made from all those anchor babies.

Posted by: The Deep State, Democrats and Federal Judges at April 01, 2026 07:41 PM (AknkO)

170 Seattle to Miami is farther than London to Tel Aviv

Posted by: Accomack at April 01, 2026 07:41 PM (/Chlc)

171 I can't imagine what the *really* flat mirror finish atomically smooth states like Kansas are like.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Check out the Salt Flats.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 01, 2026 07:40 PM (/lPRQ)

The land may be flat, but when I drove a truck with a balloon payload over it the road was NOT. mini potholes every inch from Salt Lake to Nevada.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:42 PM (8avO+)

172 >>> Kansas is a bit rolling for most of it. East Colorado and Nebraska are more purely flat.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:40 PM (8avO+)

It's mostly flat, flint hills are rolley. But mid through CO border is flat.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 01, 2026 07:42 PM (3uBP9)

173 Kansas is a bit rolling for most of it. East Colorado and Nebraska are more purely flat.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:40 PM (8avO+)

It's mostly flat, flint hills are rolley. But mid through CO border is flat.
Posted by: banana Dream at April 01, 2026 07:42 PM (3uBP9)

Drove my car and 2 kitties over it to So Cal from Chicago.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:43 PM (8avO+)

174 In southern Louisiana, the only hills we have are man made and we call them levees.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 01, 2026 07:43 PM (k8Vnt)

175 I was listening to the SCOTUS arguments this morning, and after KJB's words of wisdom I had a splitting two Aleve headache, coupled with joint pain worse than usual. I had a District Justice back inPA, retired cop, better qualified than her. And then there was Bob. Used to give Bob a hot cup of coffee when I was up early and he was picking up the dumpster. Associate Justice Bob.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 01, 2026 07:44 PM (gm9Sb)

176 When you go over the Delaware Memorial Bridge, off to the right, you can see the fall line of the Atlantic seaboard.
Take a picture because that’s the last time you’ll see a hill on the Delmarva.

Posted by: Accomack at April 01, 2026 07:45 PM (/Chlc)

177 Kansas and Nebraska have a lot of regions with nice hills and valleys, and nice folks. The freeways (I80 & I70) do not necessarily reflect this. Both were on our list of bugout states to escape Colorado. Ended up in Idaho.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at April 01, 2026 07:45 PM (0aYVJ)

178 In southern Louisiana, the only hills we have are man made and we call them levees.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 01, 2026 07:43 PM (k8Vnt)

South side of Chicago is like that. There was a road called "Ridge Road". It was about 6 foot above the surrounding terrain.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:45 PM (8avO+)

179 I remember reading that, to scale, Kansas is actually flatter than a typical pancake.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 01, 2026 07:45 PM (IG3/x)

180 Rare sighting....
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The U.S. Air Force Materiel Command’s secretive NT-43A has been spotted in Florida, taking part in the preparations for the launch of NASA’s long-delayed Artemis II lunar space mission. This highly unique and notoriously shy plane, a converted militarized Boeing 737-200 variant (T-43) also commonly known by the callsign RAT55, has long been used as an airborne signature measurement platform to support work related to stealthy military aircraft. However, during a high-stakes space launch, its two huge radar arrays, modular electro-optical and infrared sensors, and other capabilities would likely be well-suited to gathering telemetry and other valuable data.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 01, 2026 07:46 PM (AkEZC)

181 There are people who appreciate flat terrain, you know.

Posted by: Brie Larson at April 01, 2026 07:46 PM (0sNs1)

182 I hate com loss on modern digital telemetry systems because they will just echo/repeat last values and for voice that's the last things the crew says, sometimes their words echoing over and over. Very disconcerting when you are on ground monitoring. There was a Dr Who episode where the crew's coms would do that ehco and they must have consulted a test crew because it happens just like that. Echos from ghosts.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 01, 2026 07:46 PM (3uBP9)

183 There are people who appreciate flat terrain, you know.
Posted by: Brie Larson at April 01, 2026 07:46 PM (0sNs1)

What's the proper antonym for "corn fed"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2026 07:47 PM (VR4+k)

184 288 Just have to say that when space x launched rocket man in a tesla they gave us full colored tv of the the earth for quite a long time. NASA gave us graphics that aren’t even as good as kerbal space program

I’ve changed my mind. It’s all fake and ghey

My memory of the original landing was me asking my dad where Kirk and Spock were because in my child’s mind it was obvious the enterprise should be here.

Posted by: The Dog at April 01, 2026 07:47 PM (XodLO)

185 Saskatchewan should have tours for foreigners who want to lose their minds.

I'm debating whether to dvr or watch President Trump tonight. There's no crowd so it's probably under 1.5 hours.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 13 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at April 01, 2026 07:47 PM (Sco7b)

186 I can't imagine what the *really* flat mirror finish atomically smooth states like Kansas are like.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Kansas is a bit rolling for most of it. East Colorado and Nebraska are more purely flat.
Posted by: Oldcat

Other than Bonneville, the Red River (of the North) Valley is probably the flattest place in the USA. Northeast ND, Northwest MN.

There's a little notch where the river runs, then its flat for miles and miles. Not level; it gains about 1 foot of elevation for every mile you get away from the river. But the only "hills" are the ones that we built for highway overpasses.

Fire up Google Maps and drop the Street View guy anywhere north-ish of Fargo. Spin in a circle. Try to find any topology anywhere. It ain't there.

Posted by: mikeski at April 01, 2026 07:48 PM (VHUov)

187 Born in northern Indiana, it’s flat with lots of corn. FLAT! Don’t miss it at all.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 01, 2026 07:48 PM (2NHgQ)

188
I hear they're talking about "seeing more motion on the SAW" than expected, so they're recycling the "brake on the SAW". Whatever the hell that means.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 07:48 PM (w6EFb)

189 There's a few spots on I 40, crossing the TX panhandle, where you can look to your left, look to your right, and see nuttin but the horizon.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 01, 2026 07:48 PM (gm9Sb)

190 I once watched a Shuttle launch from the periscope of a nuclear submarine off the coast of FL. Suck on that, Euroweenies!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 01, 2026 07:48 PM (k8Vnt)

191 174 In southern Louisiana, the only hills we have are man made and we call them levees.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at April 01, 2026 07:43 PM (k8Vnt)
Mount Trashmore in Virginia Beach.

Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2026 07:49 PM (LHPAg)

192 >>> I hear they're talking about "seeing more motion on the SAW" than expected, so they're recycling the "brake on the SAW". Whatever the hell that means.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 07:48 PM (w6EFb)

I think the SAW is a deployed solar array. Their e-power.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 01, 2026 07:49 PM (3uBP9)

193 I remember reading that, to scale, Kansas is actually flatter than a typical pancake.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

If the Earth were the size of a bowling ball, its surface would be smoother (minus the finger holes, of course.)

Posted by: mikeski at April 01, 2026 07:50 PM (VHUov)

194
Jada Pinkett Smith is to play Kurt Russell's character in next year's remake of "The Thing".

This has to be a write off project.

Or they're just that high.

Posted by: Auspex at April 01, 2026 07:50 PM (Y8DZL)

195 Nebraska may have hills, but nowhere near were I was. You could see to Canada. And I never got the whole "feeling exposed and isolated, lost in the endless horizon" thing but staying at a farm house near a tiny tiny little hamlet made me understand all those horror movies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 01, 2026 07:40 PM (El6/E)

West Nebraska is on a tilt for about half the state. Coming back there was a blizzard that shut down the highway for a day or so so we were stuck near Salt Lake. As we went into Nebraska they had plowed the highway first then plowed the overpasses down onto the highway so there was a ridge of snow and ice the trucks had bulldozed mostly clear. It was bumper to bumper at night with trucks going about 40 no stopping. Our truck blew a tire and we just had to run on the one tire of the pair for hours before we could find a hotel and service station.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:51 PM (8avO+)

196 The view from DU:

"So, about that space launch...

My husband says, what a relief to have something else dominating the news besides Trump.

It's true, when they ask me what it was like during the Trump years, I would have to say that every day felt like we were dealing with a new Constitutional crisis and it wore us down."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 01, 2026 07:52 PM (0sNs1)

197 Fun fact.The highest building in NE is the Woodmen Tower in Omaha. Second highest is any rando silo.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 01, 2026 07:52 PM (gm9Sb)

198
The girl astronaut had to use the toilet. There is an apparent malfunction. She's got a blinking amber light and no flow.

Uh-oh. Abort time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 07:52 PM (w6EFb)

199 What, Queen Latifah couldn't clear her schedule?

Fecks sakes.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 01, 2026 07:52 PM (VR4+k)

200 Toilet blinking lights! They are trouble shooting. Houston will have to think about it for a while but they can use CCUs in the meantime.

Posted by: banana Dream at April 01, 2026 07:53 PM (3uBP9)

201 My Chink friend was roasting a pangolin
i had a half shell possum on the bar B
He was sipping a Snow
I had a Lone Star
He was like Ill come see you next year for the brit milah
I was like game on when you coming
He said the month of June, they will do 3 a day.
And I was like dude that almost 100
He said 1 of them will be US President in 2072.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 01, 2026 07:53 PM (/+uur)

202 Nood. Café.

The Nood abides.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 01, 2026 07:53 PM (0sNs1)

203 Nood cafe

Posted by: Methos at April 01, 2026 07:53 PM (vSvIl)

204 We be Hope's that Idiotte Trump addresses the country on what help he gots from Presdent Obomaer to win the war in that's Irun place.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at April 01, 2026 07:54 PM (dNEfJ)

205 I hear they're talking about "seeing more motion on the SAW" than expected, so they're recycling the "brake on the SAW". Whatever the hell that means.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 01, 2026 07:48 PM (w6EFb)

Squad Automatic Weapon, designated as M239 or M249 depending on caliber. They might run into hostile extraterrestrials, so can't be too careful.

Posted by: Mars might attack at April 01, 2026 07:54 PM (TbWk/)

206 There's a few spots on I 40, crossing the TX panhandle, where you can look to your left, look to your right, and see nuttin but the horizon.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 01, 2026 07:48 PM (gm9Sb)

The highest point in Odessa/Midland is the old dump. You can see the curvature of the earth.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 01, 2026 07:55 PM (NtVYv)

207 Fun fact.The highest building in NE is the Woodmen Tower in Omaha. Second highest is any rando silo.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 01, 2026 07:52 PM (gm9Sb)

The Woodmen tower is now 2nd highest. There is a 45 story building in Omaha now.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:55 PM (8avO+)

208 200 Toilet blinking lights! They are trouble shooting. Houston will have to think about it for a while but they can use CCUs in the meantime.

How to you take piss in Zero G ????
The flow does not go downward .....

Posted by: Mike Hunt at April 01, 2026 07:56 PM (/Uzmo)

209 200 Toilet blinking lights! They are trouble shooting. Houston will have to think about it for a while but they can use CCUs in the meantime.

How to you take piss in Zero G ????
The flow does not go downward .....
Posted by: Mike Hunt at April 01, 2026 07:56 PM (/Uzmo)

Into a baggie.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2026 07:57 PM (8avO+)

210 I have used a Pittle Pack when I flew FB-111s and that was challenging enough !!!!

Trying pissing during heavy turbulence .....

Posted by: Mike Hunt at April 01, 2026 07:59 PM (/Uzmo)

211 I was in the Air Force a few years after that, and we had VR-1200s. The VR-1200 was all solid state, I think the VR-1000 and VR-1100 had tubes. Did you go to school at Fort Monmouth?
Posted by: a.moron at April 01, 2026 06:53 PM (X5Jzz)

We retired the 1000's about a week after the landing and I helped install the new VR-1100's The VR-1100's were solid-state monochrome machines'. The VR-1200's were solid-state color machines. We also had 15 RCA TR -3 playback machines as well as one TR-4 in the record room. No school. I was awarded my MOS, 26T20, after Basic in Fort Dix. I was drafted in Sept '67 and had previous experience in TV and electronics. Surprised me that the Army actually read my history! Especially being a draftee.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 01, 2026 07:53 PM (5xuJ/)

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at April 01, 2026 08:04 PM (5xuJ/)

212 My late older brother made the mylar canister that they carried the flag to the moon in on the Apollo 11 mission. He took the left over scrap material - cut it up and gave a piece of it to each of his siblings. It is my proudest possession: its like having a piece of material that Columbus' sail was made from.

That Mylar canister can be seen lying on the surface of the moon in some of the photos that Armstrong took. I like the idea that there is some litter from my family on the moon.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at April 01, 2026 08:05 PM (Da7Vv)

213 Not flat here. Elevation is 2100 ft. There are flat places, just not all of KS

Posted by: Notsothoreau at April 01, 2026 08:07 PM (gQ15S)

214 I work at a national training center, had you told me in 1986 when my grandfather died that one of my happiest memories of my four decades around the military machine and understanding it after a fashion would have been our Japanese allies being allowed to take the simple joy of soldiering with their American allies and the smiles and love between them my other grandfather who died in 79 would have rolled over in his grave.

Dad's dad fought the Germans, mom's dad had fought the Japanese....one day perhaps too soon we will fight the Chinese together.

Posted by: sven at April 01, 2026 08:30 PM (Int1s)

215 Space is the place-Sun Ra

ACE is the place- John Madden

Posted by: Vic Romano at April 01, 2026 09:06 PM (xNy4G)

216 I had cousin and his wife drove out to Glacier National Park via the highline in Northern Montana. Highline is the far north area of Montana that borders Alberta and Saskatchewan. It's as flat as a table top compliments of the ice age.

Anyway, my cousin said they actually got terrified at the shear emptiness. You could probably see a grain elevator 10+ miles away.

Posted by: Beartooth at April 01, 2026 09:16 PM (tYGL3)

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