History, Politics And Current Affairs

City of Fresno #125 'Cwm Fahr' retreated to a safer distance while I un-suited, did some urgent tests. Then I presented my initial, deeply un-settling findings to our crew. Holding up my first, small baggy, laden with pale, glassy crumbs and flecks, I said, "I've picked out enough of this 'Brig...

So, I'd ordered yet-another two four-packs of 'Useful' lidded 24-litre storage tubs from Amazon. Usually, they arrive four to a carton, but always minus tracking data. So, courier delivery is a bit 'lucky dip'... Arrived home from weekly shop at local 'Budget Mall' to find front yard's wheelie bin p...

City of Fresno #124 Remembering the lurking 'Mini-Me' at 'Marsette', 'Cwm Fahr' approached that dozen kilometre 'Non-Anomalous' asteroid with due care. Sensors spotted a foot-ball sized 'outrider'. Its loose orbit gave us data for mass, thus density, of both. Silicates ? Yes, silicates. Our slow cir...

FWIW, apparently the 'Hudson Tunnel' project has shaken off the POTUS petulance and resumed assembly of TBM...

City of Fresno #123 Davyd came by to see how my 'Rockery' progressed. "Unremitting fractal grey," he grumbled. "Not even the honest layering of slate ! Boring !" "Sorry," I said. "Unlike the Moon, where I trained, there's no orange soil or green glass beads from an...

Snark: Technically is for 'Loss of Earnings' due debunked position, plus an advance for Ghost Writer's do-over... / I'm still reminded of the US team who'd spent years pleading to work in 'Valley of the Kings'. Eventually, was grudgingly granted a barren dig-site in a small, sad, well-studied corner...

IMHO, a foil-lined hard-hat and a mug of well-brewed 'Builders Tea' are essential for safely negotiating that site...

IIRC, there are sundry sphinxes scattered along the Nile in 'Cataract Country'... Also, that bizarre deep descending gallery to empty chamber in plateau beneath Great Pyramid suggests Giza Plateau was extensively reworked. Instead of 'temple plus underground tomb' pairings, all cleared away and pyra...

Unfortunately, UK is simply not big enough to play with any Tesla Coil or 'Jacobs' Ladder' bigger than 'teeny-weeny'. As considered an 'unlicensed spark-gap transmitter', spamming bandwidth that would awe even tea-room Vikings, official wrath would promptly descend ...
;-(

"Is it a 'solid' lump ? Is it merely a lumpy aggregation ??" Or, worst, a 'Dirty Snowball' comet ?? With more 'outriders' than a big motorcade ?? Remember, 'Rule of Thumb' is that hypersonic bolides gotta traverse a similar mass before they 'notice'. So, like 'tank vs shell', a 'steeper' a...

Had a couple of friends complain their e-books have a nasty tendency to softly vanish away... -- Independent of R-eye's cataract op, its retinal bleed has now sorta-settled thanks to slow-release steroid delivered by an intra-ocular pellet implant. Which floats. So, after a while spent sleeping one ...

There was a 'fair' Neolithic culture in the coastal angle between Atlas & Anti-Atlas ranges. ( Access mostly by sea, as ranges intimidating and Sahara wide... ) IIRC, area would have lost water-table and surface flows as those ranges lost their snow-packs. Also, area is prone to long-cycle quake...

According to 'SpaceWeather', there is a bolide peak around the Spring Equinox.
During March / April, many whatsits arrive, fast and loud...

IIRC, these two were from different directions, of different types.
So, NOT a 'shower'...
https://spaceweather.com/

First Denver, then Houston...

Perhaps the 'Gods of the Copy-Book Headings' are walking-fire onto 'Mar el Lago'...

City of Fresno #122 I talked Olwyn through collecting a head-sized rock sample. Beyond the 'skills' box-tick, diamond-sliced and carefully polished at their Hab, it would amaze and delight the 'Tugger' families. With us back aboard, Davyd, at the controls, lifted 'Cwm Fahr' to low orbit, applied suf...

He's holding it *easily*, so not a nickel-iron ?
Shattering air-burst suggests stony-iron at best...

Um, given a 'New Yorktown' sounds so much like a 'New York Town', against which current POTUS carries yet-another petulant grudge, not gonna happen. Snark: Of course, could just lay keel as 'Item 2026'. And, by the time some-one gets to swing the bottle of bubble, DJT will be dead, buried and safely...

Most clowns are very skilled entertainers, especially those who make it all look accidental...
( Happens I do not like clowns, but I *respect* them...)

Trump seems unable to laugh at himself, only sneer at those he considers lesser folk.

I must wonder about his opinion of cats...

City of Fresno #121 Radar survey complete, with nothing 'unusual' found beyond the recursive palimpsest of overlaid cratering, 'Cwm Fahr' headed for a 'typical' area. Technically, we did not land, but hovered in 'Ground Effect' such the stern air-lock's telescopic ladder / ramp touched the surface. ...

Is this compatible with 'Teleparallel Gravity', whose currently disjointed 'flavours' consider both EM ( gamma <--> radio) and gravity as 'twistors' along orthogonal extra-dimensional axes ??