History, Politics And Current Affairs

And it’s a doozy!

https://youtu.be/sN_QaFrgRN4?si=xCjlX8sk9vH4mOki

Death has had a Chuck Norris experience.

RIP to a really, really nice guy.

Deliberately or by accident? :D By accident. It was a Rocket Society job; they’d tried to launch from a golf course, except the Heddlu (police) turned up and after asking, “Ello Ello Ello, what’s occurin’ ‘ere then?”… they were instructed to take the whole kit & caboodle to Aberporth, where the...

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2026 6:07 pm I think one of the sites I was thinking of is seen in this film from 4:46 and 9:42 minutes. Anyone recognise it?

I <think> that’s my brother’s old Commanding Officer!

Thank you. I have seen pics of gun mounts on shore pointing out to sea, but can’t find them now. A friend’s dad, when a member of the Welsh Rocket Society, managed to blow up a Sea Slug launcher at Aberporth… Deliberately or by accident? :D By accident. It was a Rocket Society job; they’d tried to ...

WITH Wash.

Bernard Woolley wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2026 7:17 pm Thank you. I have seen pics of gun mounts on shore pointing out to sea, but can’t find them now.

A friend’s dad, when a member of the Welsh Rocket Society, managed to blow up a Sea Slug launcher at Aberporth…

...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...

...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...

This is why RVs often have *two* batteries of oft-similar appearance and nominal AH capacity but very different internals. The 'vehicle' has huge CCA-provider for 'cold start on a cold day' or 'jump start' cranking. The 'recreational', like 'off-grid' battery, provides for steady loads: Often seale...

Not The Chin!!

Did I just hear “All Along the Watchtower”?

This is why RVs often have *two* batteries of oft-similar appearance and nominal AH capacity but very different internals. The 'vehicle' has huge CCA-provider for 'cold start on a cold day' or 'jump start' cranking. The 'recreational', like 'off-grid' battery, provides for steady loads: Often seale...

I should also add that it was time to change out the wipers, they wanted a bit over $140 to do that. Bought new ones for about $23 and swapped those out myself in about 20 seconds. Equally ludicrous overcharge. The battery swap took 20 minutes mostly because I didn’t want to risk breaking any of th...

Nemiga is your friend..!!!

The analogy I have been using is that it can reliably make patches for a quilt, but it can’t reliably make the quilt. I like using it for coding patches and debugging, doing things like deep mining and generating a summary, editing text snippets and generating tables. Where I have repeatedly run in...

I really don’t trust AI for anything! I have been using it for work quite heavily recently. It IS absolutely useful, and in fact very good, where the inputs are known and quantifiable, or at the very least qualifiable to a significant extent- and the outputs can then be verified enough times to bui...

Hmmmmm….. Why? It was an RV that went into orbit and then de-orbited just like any other RV. Now the reliability of Soviet era equipment in general was debatable. What was also unsaid a lot of the time was that by orbiting the long way around is that it could have just been a full orbital “NUKES IN...

Sukhoiman wrote: ↑Wed Feb 25, 2026 7:06 pm RIP to Shane. I remember a number of his posts fondly.

This makes me think, we MUST save The Big Omnipedia before it’s too late. Much of that was his work (I believe).

Belushi TD wrote: ↑Wed Feb 25, 2026 1:45 pm I must regretfully inform one and all that Shane Rogers, a denizen of a few of the former incarnations of the board, has passed on, due to cancer.

Belushi TD

Oh no!!!! Oh bless him.