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Lazy watchdog. (But he keeps an eye on things, as long as they're directly outside the window.)

Dog decides he's leaving.

Oldster still makes sure his dogs get their exercise.

Kitten tucks herself in.

What did they think was going to happen?

An odd couple but they make it work.

Cats do weird things just to freak us out.

Felalien.

The League of Shadows, but with huskies.

If you need a smile.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/fv6827qvy8
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You called? 😅 pic.twitter.com/l7rLx1A9wu
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Mom, he stole my bed again..🐕🐾😅 pic.twitter.com/raKxJ7r2zX
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) May 21, 2026

Aw:

When her partner passed away, this female stork couldn't feed herself while she incubated her eggs..🪺🥺🙏

Good Samaritans have begun to feed her..❤️ pic.twitter.com/Gq8aETTIvV
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) May 21, 2026

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1 Oh I miss Italy!

Posted by: Piper at May 21, 2026 07:45 PM (hftzA)

2 TRUMP!

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 21, 2026 07:45 PM (Vh9CX)

3 Also, happy cafe, friends!

Posted by: Piper at May 21, 2026 07:45 PM (hftzA)

4 🚨 NOW: Rep. Tim Burchett just angrily STORMED OUT of a committee meeting saying a backroom deal was cut to let Democrats control what they do!

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My Battered Conservative Symptoms -- manic eye twitches and childlike giggles a la Chief Inspector Dreyfus from the Pink Panther movies -- has been reactivated.

Posted by: ShainS at May 21, 2026 07:47 PM (4LEcr)

5
Best of Breed for The Big Dummy at today's Battle Creek KC show. Nothing in the Hound Group but we will take our wins where they come from.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 21, 2026 07:48 PM (HdYcL)

6 Good evening good people.

The same to the rest of you too!

Posted by: Tonypete at May 21, 2026 07:49 PM (vhPr1)

7 I’m watching Tombstone, this must be the most stacked cast ever assembled of current and future stars.

I don’t think anything comes close.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 21, 2026 07:49 PM (XV/Pl)

8 Scanno, Italy, more like Scammo, Italy. Doesn't look very handicap accessible. Not climbing all those old, dang steps. At least install an Acorn Stairlift!

Posted by: Mrs. Morley at May 21, 2026 07:49 PM (oftw2)

9 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 21, 2026 07:50 PM (Ia/+0)

10 Oldster is a fatster.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 21, 2026 07:50 PM (Cqx++)

11 Woot woot, big dummy!

Posted by: Piper at May 21, 2026 07:51 PM (hftzA)

12 OT: Kyle Busch died. Age 41. Cause of death unknown but he had been battling a sinus/cough issue over the last 2 weeks.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 21, 2026 07:51 PM (tOcjL)

13 Roll on, Big Dummy!

Posted by: Zombie Demond Wilson at May 21, 2026 07:51 PM (oftw2)

14 Oh I miss Italy!
Posted by: Piper at May 21, 2026 07:45 PM

I learned here that cheesy pick-up lines work much better when delivered in Italian for some reason.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 21, 2026 07:51 PM (0sNs1)

15
Wang Chung update. He's going to command the first human flyby of Mars aboard Starship, which will flyby the Moon on its way. So, apparently the first mission to Mars will be a flyby.

This will be sometime in the not-so-near future I imagine.

So, if this goes off, Wang Chung will do down as one of the first humans to get to Mars. Did not have that on my Bingo card.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 07:52 PM (w6EFb)

16 a backroom deal was cut to let Democrats control what they do

*yawn*

Democrats fuck shit up. That’s their job, and they are very, very good at it. Republicans job is a little more simple, yet equally important - their job is to make sure it stays that way. Uniparty.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 21, 2026 07:53 PM (qgiNH)

17 14 Oh I miss Italy!
Posted by: Piper at May 21, 2026 07:45 PM

I learned here that cheesy pick-up lines work much better when delivered in Italian for some reason.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 21, 2026 07:51 PM (0sNs1)

I will vouch that anything said in Italian is very effective. 😂

Posted by: Piper at May 21, 2026 07:54 PM (hftzA)

18 I’m watching Tombstone, this must be the most stacked cast ever assembled of current and future stars.

I don’t think anything comes close.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 21, 2026 07:49 PM (XV/Pl)

You probably didn't consider those huge war movies like "The Longest Day" or "A Bridge Too Far" they had tons of then stars and lots of minor cast members made it big.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 07:54 PM (8avO+)

19 Flying by Mars is STUPID. it's a suicide mission with present tech and Elon is unethical to allow Wang Chung to do it.
If he wanted to camp out on the Moon until retrieval - I would not be saying this.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 21, 2026 07:55 PM (gKWVE)

20 When her partner passed away, this female stork couldn't feed herself while she incubated her eggs

Now THAT is a fishstick!

Posted by: Do you like fishsticks in your beak? at May 21, 2026 07:55 PM (TbWk/)

21 We know the Senate will sell us out.

Posted by: Accomack at May 21, 2026 07:55 PM (8jVAy)

22 The only part of Ittly (to use Billy Crystal's pronunciation) that I saw were Trieste and Venice. I was in Portoroz in what was then Yugoslavia. It was a battalion-sponsored trip. Venice should have been more than a day trip, but we had fun. Had some really good food in a little cafe off the beaten path.

Waiter slapped one of my buddies over the head with the menu for ordering a hamburger.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 07:56 PM (0aYVJ)

23 Yeah, that place needs modernization bad. A Dollar General and a couple drug needle exchanges.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 21, 2026 07:56 PM (qgiNH)

24 Moe Howard had good pick up lines.
"Babe, I'd like to cover you in furs and automobiles! The finest furs, mink, skunk, porcupine".

Posted by: Moe On The Make at May 21, 2026 07:57 PM (oftw2)

25 Sinus infection in the triangle of death

Posted by: Accomack at May 21, 2026 07:57 PM (8jVAy)

26
That huskie and cat look like good friends. When one of them dies, the other will grieve.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 21, 2026 07:57 PM (n7rxJ)

27 The only part of Ittly (to use Billy Crystal's pronunciation) that I saw were Trieste and Venice. I was in Portoroz in what was then Yugoslavia. It was a battalion-sponsored trip. Venice should have been more than a day trip, but we had fun. Had some really good food in a little cafe off the beaten path.

Waiter slapped one of my buddies over the head with the menu for ordering a hamburger.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 07:56 PM (0aYVJ)

A Mexican place in Chicago had a menu price of 100 dollars (in the 80s) for a burger, and it said they would send a busboy to a fast food place to buy one there rather than make it.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 07:57 PM (8avO+)

28 “ Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.”

Isaiah 40:26

Posted by: Marcus T at May 21, 2026 07:58 PM (wn0/z)

29 I learned here that cheesy pick-up lines work much better when delivered in Italian for some reason.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Believe it or not,

"How you do'in?!" actually works much of the time.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 21, 2026 07:59 PM (vhPr1)

30 Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 07:54 PM (8avO+

A new WW2 movie being released in June.

Lucky Strike starring the son's of two of the biggest movie stars Eastwood and Hanks.

About a soldier caught behind German lines during the Battle of the Bulge. Allegedly based on true events ( yeah the Battle of the Bulge was a true event)

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:00 PM (qrzX6)

31 “ Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.”

Isaiah 40:26
Posted by: Marcus T at May 21, 2026 07:58 PM (wn0/z)

aside from Supernova 1987A

Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:00 PM (8avO+)

32 @elonmusk
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11m
The hydraulic pin holding the tower arm in place did not retract.

If that can be fixed tonight, there will be another launch attempt tomorrow at 5:30 CT.

Posted by: Don Black & The Experience at May 21, 2026 08:01 PM (ZxPkt)

33 You probably didn't consider those huge war movies like "The Longest Day" or "A Bridge Too Far" they had tons of then stars and lots of minor cast members made it big.
Posted by: Oldcat

Grand Hotel, 1932.

Posted by: Classic Cinema at May 21, 2026 08:01 PM (oftw2)

34 Saw "The Mandalorian and Grogu" today mostly out of curiosity (sorry Ace!). Eh, it's mid/meh, and skews young, but honestly I needed a little slice of Star Wars and it hit the spot. And no fucking Death Star!

Ludwig Göransson's score was great, percussive and synthy.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 21, 2026 08:02 PM (kpS4V)

35 Went to my youngest niece’s Baccalaureate Mass this afternoon. She is graduating from an all girls Catholic school here. There was a choir and a chamber orchestra all from the school. The sound quality in the cathedral was majestic.

Too bad about the homily.

Oh well. Graduation is Sunday. Both my boys will be with me to celebrate their cousin. It will be just wonderf.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 21, 2026 08:02 PM (A5RD0)

36 A new WW2 movie being released in June.

Lucky Strike starring the son's of two of the biggest movie stars Eastwood and Hanks.

About a soldier caught behind German lines during the Battle of the Bulge. Allegedly based on true events ( yeah the Battle of the Bulge was a true event)
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:00 PM (qrzX6)

Dang. Count me as interested.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 08:03 PM (0aYVJ)

37 >> aside from Supernova 1987A

A few more missing in fact. Indeed there was some paper a while back about objects seen in '50s star catalogs that are no longer there. And some things that popped up.

Now, recently, but this was in another galaxy, they think they've seen one of those suspected by not yet seen core-collapses of a massive start where there's no supernova, damn thing just collapses to a black hole with no fireworks.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 08:03 PM (w6EFb)

38 A Mexican place in Chicago had a menu price of 100 dollars (in the 80s) for a burger, and it said they would send a busboy to a fast food place to buy one there rather than make it.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 07:57 PM (8avO+)
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Ha!

There was a swanky restaurant in Georgetown (in the 80's) that had a $500 burger because it was served with a VERY expensive bottle of wine.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at May 21, 2026 08:04 PM (kpS4V)

39 Both my boys will be with me to celebrate their cousin. It will be just wonderf.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Pretty sweet, congrats!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 21, 2026 08:05 PM (eFzxY)

40 I don't know how long he was on the air (seems like forever), but I can honestly say I've never seen one episode of Colbert's show. I think that's healthy.

Also, Eastwood's kid seems more....Eastwood than Hank's kid seems Hanks. I like them both though.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 21, 2026 08:07 PM (l26NL)

41 It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:08 PM (qrzX6)

42 Stork are nasty birds. They purposely kill their younger chicks. Suffocate, then swallow them whole. Or just puncture them with the beak, until they are dead. Throw them out of the nest.

Posted by: runner at May 21, 2026 08:08 PM (GD0B3)

43 12 OT: Kyle Busch died. Age 41. Cause of death unknown but he had been battling a sinus/cough issue over the last 2 weeks.
Posted by: Nova Local

He had just won at Dover last Friday in one of NASCAR's support series (Craftsman Trucks). Sad and odd. No reason given yet on cause of death.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 21, 2026 08:09 PM (W3T6M)

44 >>> I’m watching Tombstone, this must be the most stacked cast ever assembled of current and future stars.

I don’t think anything comes close.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 21, 2026 07:49 PM (XV/Pl)

No trannies tho. You have to have a couple. I wonder what a collection of trannies is called?.... A part store? A swap meet of trannies. I don't know.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 21, 2026 08:09 PM (3uBP9)

45 Also, Eastwood's kid seems more....Eastwood than Hank's kid seems Hanks. I like them both though.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 21, 2026 08:07 PM (l26NL)

Scott Eastwood played a pretty good bad guy in Wrath of Man.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:10 PM (qrzX6)

46 Scanno is nice. But a lot of towns out that way have become very touristy. Overall it’s a nice drive from Naples, and if you take the route through Cassino, it’s very scenic. I really like Popoli and some of the towns further out. If I remember it’s about a 2 1/2-3 hour drive. Worth it.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 21, 2026 08:10 PM (wn0/z)

47 No trannies tho. You have to have a couple. I wonder what a collection of trannies is called?.... A part store? A swap meet of trannies. I don't know.
Posted by: banana Dream

A swap?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 21, 2026 08:10 PM (l26NL)

48 43 12 OT: Kyle Busch died. Age 41. Cause of death unknown but he had been battling a sinus/cough issue over the last 2 weeks.
Posted by: Nova Local

He had just won at Dover last Friday in one of NASCAR's support series (Craftsman Trucks). Sad and odd. No reason given yet on cause of death.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 21, 2026 08:09 PM (W3T6M)

I'm thinking sepsis will ultimately be the cause of death. He just waited too long to treat and recover from something nasty (sitting here with a nasty virus myself, maybe that's why I'm on that...well, that and the announced reason for his hospitalization this morning of severe illness)...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 21, 2026 08:11 PM (tOcjL)

49 "They purposely kill their younger chicks. Suffocate, then swallow them whole. Or just puncture them with the beak, until they are dead. Throw them out of the nest.
Posted by: runner"

That is very penguin-like behavior. Isn't nature fascinating?

Posted by: fd at May 21, 2026 08:11 PM (vFG9F)

50 Me and the Missus are heading for the Oregon coast this weekend. We've been in Idaho for over a year; it's high time we go see the Pacific again. Been a minute, as the kids say. Not sure which town, Florence, Newport, Depot Bay. Whatever.

Now I just gotta focus on one more day of work. Kind of sucks when you have to get billable work done.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 08:12 PM (0aYVJ)

51 >> aside from Supernova 1987A

A few more missing in fact. Indeed there was some paper a while back about objects seen in '50s star catalogs that are no longer there. And some things that popped up.

Now, recently, but this was in another galaxy, they think they've seen one of those suspected by not yet seen core-collapses of a massive start where there's no supernova, damn thing just collapses to a black hole with no fireworks.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 08:03 PM (w6EFb)

I think for those random stars dropping out of visibility the suspicion is a very long term variable star that now is too dim to pick up.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:13 PM (8avO+)

52 Posted by: Nova Local at May 21, 2026 08:11 PM (tOcjL)

Whatever it was I hope he didn't give it to his wife and kids.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:13 PM (qrzX6)

53 Wonder how many thousands of Italian-Amerians in the NY/NJ area took a trip to Italy with Perillo Tours. They advertised on NY TV for decades.

Hah, they're still in business. Three generations.

Posted by: Atsa My Boat! at May 21, 2026 08:13 PM (oftw2)

54 Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:13 PM (8avO+)

I read that the Milky Way isn't creating new stars as expected . I don't know what that means for the long term 😃

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:15 PM (qrzX6)

55 Not sure which town, Florence, Newport, Depot Bay. Whatever.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Hint...
Newport, Rogue brewery.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 21, 2026 08:16 PM (eFzxY)

56 I like Kyle Eastwood, and I also like Colin Hanks. I did see some woke inklings in the trailer, but it might work. Hanks had a small role in Band of Brothers, but he was excellent.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 08:16 PM (0aYVJ)

57 So close ... * fingers crossed *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 21, 2026 08:16 PM (0sNs1)

58 Posted by: Pug Mahon

Too bad you don't golf or do you?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:17 PM (qrzX6)

59 Hint...
Newport, Rogue brewery.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 21, 2026 08:16 PM (eFzxY)

ah, man. Great beer.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 08:18 PM (0aYVJ)

60 Good videos tonight
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 21, 2026 08:18 PM (Ia/+0)

61 Posted by: Pug Mahon

Too bad you don't golf or do you?
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:17 PM (qrzX6)

No. I do not. Are you hinting at Bandon?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 08:19 PM (0aYVJ)

62 >> I read that the Milky Way isn't creating new stars as expected

That is an area of active research, meaning there's a lot of disagreement. But the star formation rate will decline ultimately over time.

There's argument over just what the current rate is.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 08:19 PM (w6EFb)

63 No. I do not. Are you hinting at Bandon?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 08:19 PM (0aYVJ)

Yes pretty nice resort destination now.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:20 PM (qrzX6)

64 That hotstick looks a little iffy to me. Good luck with the fishes.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 21, 2026 08:21 PM (D1E+2)

65 We loved visiting Bandon, in the olden times. Last summer my boss spent an hour on the phone trying to get a spot for his trailer. I know this, because he wears hearing aids and has to have the volume loud.

And he does not shut his door. Heh.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 08:24 PM (0aYVJ)

66 Looking at this, there's some paper claiming that the Milky Way is in the middle of a mini-baby boom, and the current stellar formation rate is 3x what is was 1 billion years ago.

But any rate, the Big Baby Boom was about 10 billion years ago.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 08:24 PM (w6EFb)

67 They advertised on NY TV for decades.

Hah, they're still in business. Three generations.
Posted by: Atsa My Boat! at May 21, 2026 08:13 PM (oftw2)
=====

I membeh Mario Perillo used to advertise on "Rambling with Grambling" on WOR radio.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 21, 2026 08:26 PM (RIvkX)

68 3 goals in just under 5 minutes. Mtl 2 - Car 1. Plus a couple of penalty boxes.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at May 21, 2026 08:26 PM (glnUu)

69 Pug,

I love Lincoln Beach. And the Salishan.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 21, 2026 08:27 PM (A5RD0)

70 Looking at this, there's some paper claiming that the Milky Way is in the middle of a mini-baby boom, and the current stellar formation rate is 3x what is was 1 billion years ago.

But any rate, the Big Baby Boom was about 10 billion years ago.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 08:24 PM (w6EFb)

Interstellar science is like climate science to me in that the real answer is 'we really don't know' .

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:28 PM (qrzX6)

71 Click to hear the soothing tones of nature. :

x.com/MsCiencia2/status/2057251691750158601

Be sure to turn the sound way up! (as they say)

Posted by: banana Dream - It's basically me. at May 21, 2026 08:28 PM (3uBP9)

72 Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:13 PM (8avO+)

I read that the Milky Way isn't creating new stars as expected . I don't know what that means for the long term 😃
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:15 PM (qrzX6)

It means that astronomers have been lazy about serious theories defining star formation rates under various conditions despite having millions of examples to test them against out there.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:28 PM (8avO+)

73 I think for those random stars dropping out of visibility the suspicion is a very long term variable star that now is too dim to pick up.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:13 PM (8avO+)

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Alternate theory--an alien civilization has finished constructing a Dyson sphere around the primary star...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 21, 2026 08:28 PM (gnNyN)

74 Dyson Spheres can't exist anymore than the Ringworld.
Dyson Swarms are where it's at

Posted by: gKWVE at May 21, 2026 08:30 PM (gKWVE)

75 I'm kind of on a capybara kick.

Posted by: banana Dream - I'm on that kind of capybara kick. at May 21, 2026 08:30 PM (3uBP9)

76 A Minnesota fraud suspect who leapt from a 4th-floor balcony to avoid arrest Thursday morning has been captured, FBI Director Kash Patel announced.

His name? – Muhammad Omar. Brother of Mohammed Omar, cousin of Mohammet Omar and Muhammad Mohammed Omar. Distant relation of 11ian Omar.

Posted by: fd at May 21, 2026 08:31 PM (vFG9F)

77 Interstellar science is like climate science to me in that the real answer is 'we really don't know' .
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:28 PM (qrzX6)

But they might have been able to know if they were working on it seriously rather than put up pretty nebula photos or yammer about 'dark X' where X is anything that they've never actually seen.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:31 PM (8avO+)

78 A long time ago, when my sons were lads, we followed the Rogue river, eventually arriving at Gold Beach. We saw the lava tubes where the river goes underneath. I doubt the road we were on had a name.

Dang, you guys, I am getting stoked to see the Pacific Ocean this weekend.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 08:31 PM (0aYVJ)

79 Newport has a fun aquarium. And sea otters!

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 21, 2026 08:31 PM (A5RD0)

80 Depot Bay is lovely.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 21, 2026 08:32 PM (A5RD0)

81 I just find it fascinating that almost all of our SciFi TV and movies limit travel just in our galaxy and that there are 200 billion or more galaxies.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:33 PM (qrzX6)

82 I am much annoy that I spelt Depoe Bay wrongly. *slaps head*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 08:34 PM (0aYVJ)

83 I think for those random stars dropping out of visibility the suspicion is a very long term variable star that now is too dim to pick up.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:13 PM (8avO+)

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Alternate theory--an alien civilization has finished constructing a Dyson sphere around the primary star...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 21, 2026 08:28 PM (gnNyN)

Presumably a Dyson sphere would appear after a time of a larger, infared star with low luminosity as the bright light radiates waste heat over the sphere's surface.

The total would match the original star's output but fat and dim. An infared satellite might pick it up.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:34 PM (8avO+)

84 Interstellar science is like climate science to me in that the real answer is 'we really don't know' .
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

Most people do estimates with "plus or minus....."

Astrophysicists use "times or divided by....."

Posted by: mikeski at May 21, 2026 08:35 PM (VHUov)

85 Manzanita, south of Canon Beach is a gem.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 21, 2026 08:35 PM (A5RD0)

86 Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:34 PM (8avO+

Would microwave mapping detect it?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:35 PM (qrzX6)

87 Autocucumber is a bitch, pug.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 21, 2026 08:36 PM (A5RD0)

88 Montreal 3 - Carolina 1

If this keeps up Montreal is a lock for back to back Stanley Cups provided you ignore the 33 year since their last win in 1993.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at May 21, 2026 08:37 PM (glnUu)

89 wife and I did a whale-watching boat trip from Depoe Bay. Liked it so much that we did it again a few years later.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 08:37 PM (0aYVJ)

90 Seaside is more laid back. Lots of families with young kiddos.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 21, 2026 08:38 PM (A5RD0)

91 Had dinner seaside at Depoe Bay few years ago with old g.f. who lives in Neskowin.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 21, 2026 08:39 PM (RIvkX)

92 New rules for Congressional Debates!

https://youtube.com/shorts/qqpUnAljdlg

(Rock music background. Mute at work.)

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 21, 2026 08:39 PM (qx7Zg)

93
And every element heavier than helium is a metal.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 08:39 PM (w6EFb)

94 48l He requested a medic meet him at his pit area at the end of the Watkins Glen race two weeks ago for a "shot" as he had a raging sinus infection. I'm thinking for a steroid shot and that helped the infection go out of control and cause meningitis. Total guess on my part as I have zero knowledge other than what Nascar has replayed from Watkins Glen of his radio talk with his crew chief at the end of the race.

Posted by: jen the original at May 21, 2026 08:40 PM (dBwtA)

95 Autocucumber is a bitch, pug.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 21, 2026 08:36 PM (A5RD0)

Worst. Thing. ever.

Worse than Clippy, even.
*eyebrow waggle*

"Seems you are having genuine issues with life in general"

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 08:40 PM (0aYVJ)

96 I just find it fascinating that almost all of our SciFi TV and movies limit travel just in our galaxy and that there are 200 billion or more galaxies.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:33 PM (qrzX6)

Unreasonable drives to form a medium sized star empire is one thing, crossing a galaxy with its trillions of stars or the huge gulfs between is something again. Only if your star drive is "jumps" that could end up anywhere does it make sense. You jump, then find where you are. Then the real travel map is by jump routes and not where stars are spatially.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:40 PM (8avO+)

97 But my favorite beach ever is Rialto Beach on the Washington coast.

It is a bitch to get to. And no accommodations on the beach. You have to go to Forks. Or stay at the Mora campground.

But it is magic. Trust me.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 21, 2026 08:41 PM (A5RD0)

98 33 You probably didn't consider those huge war movies like "The Longest Day" or "A Bridge Too Far" they had tons of then stars and lots of minor cast members made it big.
Posted by: Oldcat
______________________________

There's a British actor in The Longest Day named Richard Todd (who was a big deal back in the day)....He happened to have actually participated in D-Day in the group defending Pegasus Bridge holding until relief arrived. I seem to recall Peter Lawford starring in that scene. Todd, on the other hand, played Major Howard in a different scene and location.

Posted by: Orson at May 21, 2026 08:41 PM (dIske)

99 Canucks putting it on the 'Canes 4-1

Posted by: Don Black & The Experience at May 21, 2026 08:41 PM (ZxPkt)

100 Team Massie is right...it doesn't take much to 'buy an election' . In fact , it only takes LESS THAN HALF of what your opponent spends.

//www.fec.gov/data/ spending-bythenumbers/

How much has been spent by:
01/01/2025–12/31/2026

11. MASSIE, THOMAS H. [REP] $5,840,666.14
12. LAUBACHER, EILEEN [DEM] $5,487,524.43
13. CRANE, ELI [REP] $5,443,960.11
14. EMMER, THOMAS EARL JR. [REP] $5,409,563.77
15. JORDAN, JAMES D. [REP] $5,203,298.05
16. CHAKRABARTI, SAIKAT [DEM] $4,972,236.89
17. VINDMAN, YEVGENY 'EUGENE' [DEM] $4,541,406.43
18. WOOD, JORDAN [DEM] $4,437,808.03
19. CONSTANTINO, ANTHONY THOMAS [REP] $4,116,985.84
20. OMAR, ILHAN [DFL] $3,842,103.4
.
.
46. GALLREIN, ED [REP] $2,620,238.75

Posted by: foreign lobbyist at May 21, 2026 08:42 PM (ADssA)

101
I'll just remind that neutrinos were a type of "dark matter", something we couldn't yet see that had to be there. I think it was Pauli who first proposed an invisible particle to account for an observed energy imbalance in some nuclear reactions.

So, he was proposing a type of dark matter. It took 26 years after that before neutrinos were confirmed to exist.

It's been roughly 50 years since the modern dark matter was first proposed. And the case for this missing mass that we can't see just keeps getting stronger.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 08:43 PM (w6EFb)

102 Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:40 PM (8avO+)

What fascinates me is not that the movies don't show travel to other galaxies but that they really can't . And just relatively recently they changed the estimate of the number of galaxies from 200-300 billion to 2 trillion. ( answer : we don't really know😀

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:44 PM (qrzX6)

103 Unreasonable drives to form a medium sized star empire is one thing, crossing a galaxy with its trillions of stars or the huge gulfs between is something again. Only if your star drive is "jumps" that could end up anywhere does it make sense. You jump, then find where you are. Then the real travel map is by jump routes and not where stars are spatially.
Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:40 PM (8avO+)
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I have seen this used in literature at least once, where it led to a somewhat tangled map of territories because of the jump points between systems. Stars may be adjacent in "hyperspace" in a way they are not in "realspace".

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 21, 2026 08:44 PM (gnNyN)

104 There's a British actor in The Longest Day named Richard Todd (who was a big deal back in the day)....
Posted by: Orson

I think he played the professor in the original Haunting, one of my favorite scary movies.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 21, 2026 08:45 PM (l26NL)

105 Here's a cat for the Cafe Thread:

https://tinyurl.com/ypz3xmv5

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 21, 2026 08:46 PM (CHHv1)

106 Canes had 11 days off. Might be hard to wake them up.

Posted by: Prudence Dictates at May 21, 2026 08:46 PM (oftw2)

107 And every element heavier than helium is a metal.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 08:39 PM (w6EFb)

Unlike particle physics guys who loved making up new names for forces and particles, astrophysics dudes are lazy about new names which can be confusing.

Naming the products of fusion past stage 1 H->He something different would be better, since there are plenty of stages up to when you hit Iron and the bottom drops out.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:46 PM (8avO+)

108 And every element heavier than helium is a metal.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 08:39 PM (w6EFb)

Unlike particle physics guys who loved making up new names for forces and particles, astrophysics dudes are lazy about new names which can be confusing.

Naming the products of fusion past stage 1 H->He something different would be better, since there are plenty of stages up to when you hit Iron and the bottom drops out.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:46 PM (8avO+)

109 And every element heavier than helium is a metal.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 08:39 PM (w6EFb)

Unlike particle physics guys who loved making up new names for forces and particles, astrophysics dudes are lazy about new names which can be confusing.

Naming the products of fusion past stage 1 H->He something different would be better, since there are plenty of stages up to when you hit Iron and the bottom drops out.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:46 PM (8avO+)

110
I've seen Event Horizon. I aint' jumping into hyperspace.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 08:46 PM (w6EFb)

111 85 Manzanita, south of Canon Beach is a gem.
Posted by: nurse ratched

there a secret entrance to the beach at Port Orford, between Battle Rock and Cape Blanco. Amazing 6-mile long pristine beach covered in agates and moonstones -- mostly inaccessible excet if you know the hidden path (through a trailer park on private land, but no one really cares). Otherwise, you have to walk miles and miles down from Cap Blanco.

Posted by: zombie at May 21, 2026 08:47 PM (Av6i5)

112 I think we have a video of Lucy the Cat, with her guards

https://youtube.com/shorts/UXrn9Tf_Y2E

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 21, 2026 08:47 PM (qx7Zg)

113 >>>Interstellar science is like climate science to me in that the real answer is 'we really don't know' .
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

Most people do estimates with "plus or minus....."

Astrophysicists use "times or divided by....."

Posted by: mikeski

>Applied math thru optics of events that occurred light-years 'ago'. Nice gig if you can get a grant.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 21, 2026 08:47 PM (D1E+2)

114 I've seen Event Horizon. I aint' jumping into hyperspace.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 08:46 PM (w6EFb)

I like the worm holes in Farscape better.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:48 PM (qrzX6)

115 And now, there's Dark Matter in my pants!

Posted by: Joe from DE at May 21, 2026 08:48 PM (oftw2)

116 105 Here's a cat for the Cafe Thread:

https://tinyurl.com/ypz3xmv5
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

Meow! He would like to speak to the manager!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 21, 2026 08:48 PM (W3T6M)

117 This is gotten out of control
MTL 4 - Car 1

Meanwhile

Mr Breathless
Baby I Don't Care
https://youtu.be/HH-q8rIu6_w

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My president has convictions at May 21, 2026 08:48 PM (glnUu)

118 Me and the Missus are heading for the Oregon coast this weekend. We've been in Idaho for over a year; it's high time we go see the Pacific again. Been a minute, as the kids say. Not sure which town, Florence, Newport, Depot Bay. Whatever.

Now I just gotta focus on one more day of work. Kind of sucks when you have to get billable work done.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 08:12 PM (0aYVJ)

You can see them all, depending on how far you want to drive.
If you take hwy 20 from Ontario and 22 through Salem you will wind up in Lincoln City, and Depot Bay, and on to Florence.

If you take I84 along the Gorge from Boise you can take hwy 30 to Astoria and down to Tillamook and then down to as far as you want to go.

I love Yachats personally.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 21, 2026 08:49 PM (rbvCR)

119 I'll just remind that neutrinos were a type of "dark matter", something we couldn't yet see that had to be there. I think it was Pauli who first proposed an invisible particle to account for an observed energy imbalance in some nuclear reactions.

So, he was proposing a type of dark matter. It took 26 years after that before neutrinos were confirmed to exist.

It's been roughly 50 years since the modern dark matter was first proposed. And the case for this missing mass that we can't see just keeps getting stronger.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 08:43 PM (w6EFb)

Show me a bucket of dark matter if 80 percent of everything is dark matter.

Neutrinos could be seen at once since the traces of particle collisions were bent in ways that would violate conservation of momentum if there was nothing there. Just because the neutral particle didn't make a track didn't make it 'dark'.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:50 PM (8avO+)

120 Event Horizon?

Dr. Rheinhardt waits.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 21, 2026 08:50 PM (2GVsD)

121 As for transgalactic empires or even trade, "faster than light" science fiction accounts for this by requiring "jump gates" (or, for you Mass Effect fans, "relays").
There are space stations around habitable worlds across dozens of galaxies!! but you can't just fly there. You have to use the jump gate and those were created by the Ancients. Nobody is making more of them.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 21, 2026 08:51 PM (gKWVE)

122 I think we have a video of Lucy the Cat, with her guards

https://youtube.com/shorts/UXrn9Tf_Y2E
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 21, 2026 08:47 PM (qx7Zg)

That's me virtually any time going upstairs or downstairs, in the center of that square of cats.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:52 PM (8avO+)

123 I was all wet about Richard Todd being in the Haunting.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 21, 2026 08:53 PM (l26NL)

124 I like the worm holes in Farscape better.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:48 PM (qrzX6)
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Farscape showed us that those could be pretty horrible too if your calculations were not correct.

I remember some ships coming back from an excursion that were filled with the goo that was formerly the pilot of the ship.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 21, 2026 08:53 PM (gnNyN)

125 1. Buying crab directly from the fisherman on the dock at Port Orford.
2. Thrift stores in North Bend.
3. Free cheese sample in Tillamook.
4. View of the sea-stacks at Cannon Beach.
5. Wild elk wandering on the sand at Gold Beach.

Posted by: zombie at May 21, 2026 08:54 PM (Av6i5)

126 I remember some ships coming back from an excursion that were filled with the goo that was formerly the pilot of the ship.

"DC Bosun!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 21, 2026 08:54 PM (2GVsD)

127 Are there multiple singularities?

Just wondering. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at May 21, 2026 08:55 PM (vhPr1)

128 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 21, 2026 08:53 PM (gnNyN)

Heh yes that is true.

I wish it would have had a few more season though the wrap up movie was pretty good.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:55 PM (qrzX6)

129 I wish it would have had a few more season though the wrap up movie was pretty good.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:55 PM (qrzX6)
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Yeah, the Peacekeeper Wars showed us how terrifying a wormhole weapon was.

When it's finally unleashed, everyone--and I mean EVERYONE--who saw it nearly went insane.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 21, 2026 08:57 PM (gnNyN)

130 It's been roughly 50 years since the modern dark matter was first proposed. And the case for this missing mass that we can't see just keeps getting stronger.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 08:43 PM (w6EFb)

When I was in grad school there were lots of goofball theories like 'supersymmetry' - what if there were twice as many particles as we can see, just bloaty for some reason? well why 2, why not eleventy billion? Anyhow that one has failed all its predictions for a generation, but they just retune the model so we can't detect it. There are several of these floating around and they pissed me off back when they might have been true. They never dropped them when they failed their tests.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 21, 2026 08:57 PM (8avO+)

131 Are there multiple singularities?

Just wondering. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at May 21, 2026 08:55 PM (vhPr1)

Are you Steven Wright socking Tonypete?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:57 PM (qrzX6)

132 Dark (Lives) Matter.

Posted by: zombie at May 21, 2026 09:00 PM (Av6i5)

133 Greetings.

Posted by: Grayman27 at May 21, 2026 09:00 PM (AvoqE)

134 If you take I84 along the Gorge from Boise you can take hwy 30 to Astoria and down to Tillamook and then down to as far as you want to go.

I love Yachats personally.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 21, 2026 08:49 PM (rbvCR)

When our sons were kids, we took several trips along that route.

I remember camping in the Blue Mountains, and having a helluva time lighting a campfire. I was used to the Wyoming/Colorado arid climate. Took a bit, but we got it going.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 09:02 PM (0aYVJ)

135 Kyle Bush dead.

WTFO

Posted by: r hennigantx at May 21, 2026 09:02 PM (/+uur)

136 The best beaches that are fun to walk to are Lincoln City, Newport, Cannon Beach (haystack rock) Yachats, Seal Rock and Agate Beach . . . and any of the state parks on the west side of Hwy 101 as you drive along.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 21, 2026 09:04 PM (rbvCR)

137 Originally, the proposed name for the unseen particles than constitute most of the hidden mass of the universe was "darkies," but instead they eventually settled on Neutrino-Electron-Graviton-Reverse-Orbtals.

Posted by: zombie at May 21, 2026 09:05 PM (Av6i5)

138 My Mom grew up where Tillamook was the local dairy.
Dad* grew up in Carnation WA.

We love our dairy.

*Dad did not like milk, until he became a Marine. I believe his body craved it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 09:06 PM (0aYVJ)

139 Oh I miss Italy!

Posted by: Piper at May 21, 2026 07:45 PM (hftzA)

Yeah. I need to go back and see some of the stuff I missed the last time.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 21, 2026 09:07 PM (snZF9)

140 Are there multiple singularities?

Just wondering. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at May 21, 2026 08:55 PM (vhPr1)

Are you Steven Wright socking Tonypete?
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:57 PM (qrzX6)
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This is a great example of why I love this place so much.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 09:09 PM (0aYVJ)

141 >>> I remember some ships coming back from an excursion that were filled with the goo that was formerly the pilot of the ship.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 21, 2026 08:53 PM (gnNyN)

I forget the series, maybe it was Niven's known space, but the limitation with his FTL travel was you had to have a sentient pilot to detect gravity and stars somehow. If you just went on autopilot you would die.

A good scifi might break established laws but it establishes new limits that keep it from just going crazy pants.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 21, 2026 09:09 PM (3uBP9)

142 Originally, the proposed name for the unseen particles than constitute most of the hidden mass of the universe was "darkies," but instead they eventually settled on Neutrino-Electron-Graviton-Reverse-Orbtals.
Posted by: zombie at May 21, 2026 09:05 PM (Av6i5)

Soft Hair on Black Holes

Posted by: Steven Hawking innocently writes at May 21, 2026 09:12 PM (3uBP9)

143 84 Most people do estimates with "plus or minus....."
Astrophysicists use "times or divided by....."
Posted by: mikeski

And then.....

102 And just relatively recently they changed the estimate of the number of galaxies from 200-300 billion to 2 trillion.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

"Times or divided by ten."

Posted by: mikeski at May 21, 2026 09:14 PM (VHUov)

144 A few more missing in fact. Indeed there was some paper a while back about objects seen in '50s star catalogs that are no longer there. And some things that popped up.

Now, recently, but this was in another galaxy, they think they've seen one of those suspected by not yet seen core-collapses of a massive start where there's no supernova, damn thing just collapses to a black hole with no fireworks.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 08:03 PM (w6EFb

------

Some have said they were radioactive particles from atmospheric A-Bomb tests. Current telescopes capture several orders of magnitude more stars without finding the winking out.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 21, 2026 09:14 PM (Vh9CX)

145 I don't post much, but the Hwy 101 posting has me all nostalgic. Free cheese at Tillamook. Haystack Rock. My kids getting pirate gold from the Goonies house back in the day. Do the owners do that anymore? We camped along 101 to the Redwoods. Best trip ever.

Posted by: Quirky bookworm at May 21, 2026 09:15 PM (02o+/)

146 For all you astrophiles

https://youtu.be/udAL48P5NJU?si=nVSkKGjoBT-DWe9q

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 21, 2026 09:17 PM (Vh9CX)

147 Wing Attack Plan R

Posted by: Survival Kit Contents Check at May 21, 2026 09:18 PM (ANbA2)

148 >> since the traces of particle collisions were bent in ways that would violate conservation of momentum

Our bent tracks so to speak are there galore. You've got the first observation, the galactic rotation curves. Either gravity doesn't work at galaxy scale distances, or there's more mass there. That's our first bent track.

The gravitational lensing. Those galaxy clusters bend light a lot more than the "visible" (which just means emitting EM radiation we can detect) matter.

And then the biggest bent track of all was the Bullet Cluster collision. The visible, EM interacting stuff interacted and slowed down, yet the gravitational lensing showed that a whole bunch of mass just continued sailing right there. There's something invisible bending light there that didn't get bogged down by the collision.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 09:21 PM (w6EFb)

149 @116 - he's standing on the manager's chest. He weighs about 15 pounds. The manager is not having a great experience.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 21, 2026 09:23 PM (CHHv1)

150 ugggh 4chan /tv/ is unreadable. every comment is about Homelander in "The Boys" which is a terrible show

Posted by: gKWVE at May 21, 2026 09:24 PM (gKWVE)

151
On the front of "modifying gravity", meaning gravity behaves differently at long distances, MOND being a big example, that was dealt a big blow with the recent survey confirming inverse square behavior at the largest scales.

All the evidence screams there is a lot more mass out there than we can "see", which just means it doesn't interact EM-wise.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 09:24 PM (w6EFb)

152 I forget the series, maybe it was Niven's known space, but the limitation with his FTL travel was you had to have a sentient pilot to detect gravity and stars somehow. If you just went on autopilot you would die.

A good scifi might break established laws but it establishes new limits that keep it from just going crazy pants.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 21, 2026 09:09 PM (3uBP9)
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Dune sort of worked that way. The purpose of the Guild Navigators was to use their awesome psychic power to chart a safe passage through space. That's why they held a monopoly on space travel as traveling without a Guild Navigator was suicide.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 21, 2026 09:25 PM (gnNyN)

153 I wish it would have had a few more season though the wrap up movie was pretty good.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at May 21, 2026 08:55 PM (qrzX6)

I wish it would have lasted long enough to have killed off Dominar Rygel in nasty ways.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at May 21, 2026 09:26 PM (snZF9)

154
That idiot who jumped out a window and tried to limp away from the g-men has been caught.

They ought to tell him there's no money left to treat his injured leg because it all got used up to buy limos and $11,000 sunglasses.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 21, 2026 09:27 PM (n7rxJ)

155 Male model cover boy.

https://tinyurl.com/2nte4x5y

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at May 21, 2026 09:28 PM (ndZc7)

156 Love the stork story!

But you won't catch me within a hundred yards of a monkey. Rip you to shreds.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 21, 2026 09:28 PM (EXZem)

157 >> Some have said they were radioactive particles from atmospheric A-Bomb tests

The project looking at all this is dubbed VASCO (Vanishing and Appearing Sources over a Century of Observations).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 09:28 PM (w6EFb)

158 The project looking at all this is dubbed VASCO (Vanishing and Appearing Sources over a Century of Observations).
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 21, 2026 09:28 PM (w6EFb)

Da Gamma rays?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 21, 2026 09:30 PM (Ot/FD)

159 You probably didn't consider those huge war movies like "The Longest Day" or "A Bridge Too Far" they had tons of then stars and lots of minor cast members made it big.
Posted by: Oldcat

or The Great Escape

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 21, 2026 09:31 PM (BWJUf)

160 @153 Eh, I kind of liked Rigel. Not convincing as a special effect, but very convincing as a character.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 21, 2026 09:31 PM (CHHv1)

161
Justine Bateman is publicly pulling for Spencer Pratt.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 21, 2026 09:31 PM (n7rxJ)

162 Justine Bateman is publicly pulling for Spencer Pratt.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 21, 2026 09:31 PM (n7rxJ)

Funny how Mallory was actually the sane one and Alex was the dirty hippie.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 21, 2026 09:33 PM (Ot/FD)

163 @153 Eh, I kind of liked Rigel. Not convincing as a special effect, but very convincing as a character.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 21, 2026 09:31 PM (CHHv1)
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Yeah, he was a very complex character. One minute he's selling out the party for his own gain, then the next minute he's rescuing them with an awesome plan....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 21, 2026 09:33 PM (gnNyN)

164 Window jumping Somali pirate found

@BillMelugin_ 2hr
UPDATE: FBI Director Kash Patel says Muhammad Omar has now been arrested.

Posted by: CCP at May 21, 2026 09:34 PM (diia5)

165 I forget the series, maybe it was Niven's known space, but the limitation with his FTL travel was you had to have a sentient pilot to detect gravity and stars somehow. If you just went on autopilot you would die.

A good scifi might break established laws but it establishes new limits that keep it from just going crazy pants.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 21, 2026 09:09 PM (3uBP9)

"Gravity Dreams", by L. E. Modesitt, Jr., had similar interstellar navigation.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 21, 2026 09:34 PM (qx7Zg)

166 Lede story cbs news west coast is Ebola.

Are you kidding me?

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 21, 2026 09:35 PM (tHKLd)

167 Justine Bateman is publicly pulling for Spencer Pratt.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 21, 2026 09:31 PM (n7rxJ)

She is awesome. She needs to kick the shit out of her stupid brother.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 09:36 PM (0aYVJ)

168 ugggh 4chan /tv/ is unreadable. every comment is about Homelander in "The Boys" which is a terrible show
Posted by: gKWVE at May 21, 2026 09:24 PM (gKWVE)

All I've seen in ewetub thumbnails is that they torched (fucked up) the finale and people are pissed. I dunno, who was even still watching the show? I hoped out after the first season.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 21, 2026 09:36 PM (zZu0s)

169 Seems like a lot of people on the thread has a traveling bug working on them. The summer vacation mindset is closing in.

Posted by: Case at May 21, 2026 09:37 PM (8XBuM)

170 Justine and I were born the same year. We are sympatico.

Gen X muddafuckas!!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Metal Head at May 21, 2026 09:37 PM (0aYVJ)

171 That idiot who jumped out a window and tried to limp away from the g-men has been caught.

They ought to tell him there's no money left to treat his injured leg because it all got used up to buy limos and $11,000 sunglasses.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Set it crooked.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 21, 2026 09:38 PM (/lPRQ)

172 I spend good money on sunglasses (the last pair lasted me 20 years.) But not $11k! What the hell?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 21, 2026 09:40 PM (zZu0s)

173
Amputate without anesthesia..

Posted by: four seasons at May 21, 2026 09:40 PM (3ek7K)

174 I got through a few eps of The Boys season two before rolling my eyes and dropping out.

Posted by: gKWVE at May 21, 2026 09:43 PM (gKWVE)

175 172 I spend good money on sunglasses (the last pair lasted me 20 years.) But not $11k! What the hell?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

I have a pair of Maui Jim’s I paid $150 for in 2014.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 21, 2026 09:43 PM (A5RD0)

176
I spend good money on sunglasses (the last pair lasted me 20 years.) But not $11k! What the hell?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

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

I guess you can block out more sun with diamond-studded platinum frames.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 21, 2026 09:45 PM (n7rxJ)

177 76 A Minnesota fraud suspect who leapt from a 4th-floor balcony to avoid arrest Thursday morning has been captured, FBI Director Kash Patel announced.

His name? – Muhammad Omar. Brother of Mohammed Omar, cousin of Mohammet Omar and Muhammad Mohammed Omar. Distant relation of 11ian Omar.
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You can tell they are related by the same misshapen heads.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2026 09:47 PM (OArx3)

178

A story from I, Robot -

US Robots and competitors race to develop a faster-than-light engine that can take people quickly to faraway planets. The first super-brain machine to research it found that no one can live through the space-warp experience, and the machine, unwilling to create something lethal, breaks down. Dr. Calvin talks a US Robot super-brain into gently approaching the problem and quickly reporting in the moment it encounters a dilemma. The brain completes the calculations, builds a hyper-space ship, and sends Powell and Donovan all the way out of the galaxy and back. It turns out that anything that enters a space warp disappears from reality but reappears again after leaving the space warp. Thus, passengers die but then return to life, so there is no lasting harm.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 21, 2026 09:47 PM (Cqx++)

179 Scanno, Italy, needs a pressure washer.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at May 21, 2026 09:49 PM (OArx3)

180
Lede story cbs news west coast is Ebola.

Are you kidding me?
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Hey, nurse! Long time no.

I think I read that some passenger plane was diverted mid-flight to another country -- like, we're landing NOW, not later. Rumor was someone on the plane had ebola or hanta, can't remember.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 21, 2026 09:49 PM (n7rxJ)

181 174 I got through a few eps of The Boys season two before rolling my eyes and dropping out.
Posted by: gKWVE at May 21, 2026 09:43 PM (gKWVE)

It only gets worse and the ending is complete ass. Don't get waste your time. It's hard to believe the same people involved in Invincible run The Boys.

Posted by: Absolute steaming pile at May 21, 2026 09:50 PM (TbWk/)

182 Blonde!

Yeah. I saw that. Some of my cow workers are predicting a nationwide shutdown in July.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 21, 2026 09:53 PM (A5RD0)

183
I have a pair of Maui Jim’s I paid $150 for in 2014.
Posted by: nurse ratched

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I had to stop looking at pricey sunglasses. I bought a pair of Gianfranco Ferres and lost them. Replaced them and someone stepped on them. Bought another pair by YSL and left them at a restaurant (never found).

Three strikes and you're out. Now it's nothing but cheapos.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 21, 2026 09:54 PM (n7rxJ)

184
Some of my cow workers are predicting a nationwide shutdown in July.
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Grrrrooooooannnnnn.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 21, 2026 09:54 PM (n7rxJ)

185 Great Blue Herons are semi-prehistoric and have a lot of stork-like behavior. They will spear and swallow any animal they can stuff down their gullet. Fish, crabs, frogs, salamanders, mice, rats, gophers, chipmunks, squirrels, small muskrats, etc.

Posted by: Bloodthirsty Boids at May 21, 2026 09:55 PM (oftw2)

186 184
Some of my cow workers are predicting a nationwide shutdown in July.
Posted by: nurse ratched

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Grrrrooooooannnnnn.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 21, 2026 09:54 PM (n7rxJ)

All folks who have spent time in the affected countries within 21 days of travel now must route through Dulles airport (NoVA) for enhanced medical screening if they want to enter the US. That went into effect today.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 21, 2026 09:56 PM (tOcjL)

187 I have a pair of Maui Jim’s I paid $150 for in 2014.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 21, 2026 09:43 PM (A5RD0)

*fistbump*

Maui Jim's. Best sunglasses made by man. I bought a pair in 1999. Gave maybe 180 at the sunglass hut in the mall. Used them forever. Then in 2020, I pull them out of my pocket and an arm had fallen off. The screw broke. Could not find the arm.

I finally bought a new pair and they are awesome as well. They make the frames out of this nylon composite and they are light as anything.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 21, 2026 09:57 PM (zZu0s)

188 All folks who have spent time in the affected countries within 21 days of travel now must route through Dulles airport (NoVA) for enhanced medical screening if they want to enter the US. That went into effect today.
Posted by: Nova Local

And shame on us if we fall for it again.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 21, 2026 09:58 PM (A5RD0)

189 5
Best of Breed for The Big Dummy at today's Battle Creek KC show. Nothing in the Hound Group but we will take our wins where they come from.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 21, 2026 07:48 PM (HdYcL)

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Congratulations, Hadrian!

Posted by: KT at May 21, 2026 10:00 PM (rdeQO)

190 Just watched the felalien link. Cat is not freaky but the girl having her head back like that skeeves me out.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 21, 2026 10:02 PM (PV+Zw)

191 Best of Breed for The Big Dummy at today's Battle Creek KC show. Nothing in the Hound Group but we will take our wins where they come from.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 21, 2026 07:48 PM (HdYcL)

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Wait, you've got a show dog named "Lamont?"

/Congratulations to you and Her Majesty!

Posted by: ShainS at May 21, 2026 10:02 PM (4LEcr)

192 Oh, ONT is nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 21, 2026 10:03 PM (zZu0s)

193 I had a nice pair of green-glass Serengetis years ago. Lost them on a beach. I am still sad.

Posted by: CCP at May 21, 2026 10:09 PM (diia5)

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