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I will give the guy credit. We haven't even reached the May or July dates for the speeches, and he is already recanting his story. That is more integrity than the vast majority of conspiracy theorists out there. (Heck I will go so far as to say that is more than the average human, as he didn't wait ...

...LOTS of chatter over the last couple days about these videos - Nathan Fillion visiting some of the crew of the Serenity with some cryptic (and funny) back-and-forth. https://sffgazette.com/sci_fi/television/nathan-fillion-teases-firefly-announcement-coming-this-sunday-a9778?utm_source=fark&u...

I'd very much like to know more details about women in uniform being abused in the street. The way its stated makes it seems like ONLY women in uniform are being abused in the street, and that seems so totally out of character for New Zealand that my bullshit meter is hitting the stops. A cursory g...

I routinely listen to these: I’m also working through the following podcasts, but have not caught up completely so can’t vouch for the quality the same way: Revolutions: I am on episode 11 of their first series on the English Civil Wars, and it’s a snarky but entertaining high-level summary. I can ...

I'm going to say something as a military veteran, as a science fiction fan, and as a Star Trek fan: Stories about basic training are going to be one of the following: About as interesting as watching paint dry; Utter shite; Both. Training is dull for anyone not actually going through it. The Camp A...

kdahm wrote: ↑Tue Oct 28, 2025 1:19 pm Might as well saddle and ride a hippopotamus.

Now we are talking! My army of battle hippo will crush everything before us.

I have to admit that is totally cool.

To some extent some of your questions might be answered in this fact file.

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The only one I can remember from Russia was Rasputin. (The knowledge that he was a long lifer drove him insane.) I am almost certain there were others, but that is the only one I can remember. IIRC he listed a whole bunch of people in the thread where someone posted the Keanu Reeves is immortal meme...

Congress has FUBAR NASA's ability to do anything. Trump dumping Jared hasn't helped. The only bright spot is that NASA was able to get it's way with the Human Lander Selection and get two companies competing under firm fixed price contracts. There is a lot of bright people at NASA. I don't think Sp...

Wow, thanks for sharing, that is really cool. He is a very talented painter. In particular, I really like how his painting's feel 3-dimensional. In several of them they have a single person in the foreground who looks like a cardboard cutout sitting on top of the painting.

I just finished Murderbot and I have to say it is premium, quality entertainment in the very best sense. I LOVED this show. Almost as much as I like "The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon".

I know what they want and it’s an absolutely awesome vision. I’m just wondering if it’s achievable at present. That “little scratch” was pretty devastating This is the exact reason that SpaceX isn't a publicly traded company. Musk could have made literal metric tons of 100-dollar bills if he had ta...

Why did I write this? Because I am hate-reading Footfall. I will admit one of my own picadillos I hate is when a creative work is created that celebrates their own group. It doesn't matter if that is a movie celebrating Hollywood, a novel celebrating authors, or a SCIFI book where science fiction a...

On more dumb news the Trump Administration has withdrawn the nomination for Jared Isaacman for NASA Administrator. Laura Loomer isn't very happy, blaming it on Deep space operatives trying to damage ties between Musk and Trump. EXCLUSIVE: Deep State operatives are trying to derail President Trump’s...

Nuclear Weapons Production Model 1561. ----- 1945 (5) Mark 1. ---- 1945 (1), 1949 (4) Mark 2. ---- Program cancelled Mark 3. ---- 1947 (45) 1948 (60) 1949 (15) Mark 4. ---- 1949 (200) 1950 (240) 1951 (110) Mark 5. ---- 1952 (36) 1953 (48) 1954 (48) 1955 (8) Mark 6. ---- 1951 (120) 1952 (300) 1953 (...

Conflict of Interest. It was never turned into a book, so it is still present here. 1941 - Conflict of Interest When I was transcribing all of the material here, there was so much of it that it needed some organization. So I split the stories into 3 categories. 1. The stories less than 10-15 pages a...

"Having a fleet of mobile missiles standing air-borne alert on a Mach 3 CARRIER aircraft would have struck fear......"



Forget the bomber. I want to see how big a carrier they were building to make this possible.

Not enough. The 105mm gun is too big for the desired weight. The amount of armor is too much for the desired weight. The extra crew person probably only accounts for around 500 lbs at most, and an autoloader would weight at least that much. What they needed to do is scale the gun down to something ...

I am starting to lean toward just getting rid of the land based ballistic missile leg of the Triad. 90% of its mission can be performed by the Ballistic missile submarines and they have capabilities that the land-based missiles don't have. Bombers can be the backup to the Navy, and bombers can perf...