History, Politics And Current Affairs

Thanks. The choice is between reading this or going out in the wet and the wind to fix the generator. Sadly the latter is non negotiable, we won't be getting much sun today.

Well that's nice. Her future finds will be while excavating mediaeval middens (brother and SIL confirm), mostly bone counts.

and both types of beer- beer and Budweiser.

Wheat, oats etc is called corn in the UK.

That'd be Aloysius I think.

Up for auction. https://www.mecum.com/auctions/larrys-l ... =pin_items

Not exactly top shelf, there are some nice cars, some interesting cars, and some horrors.

Some doodles by an F35 configurator (I don't know what that is). Throw away everything but the front half of the fuselage and the main spar. It's only Aviation Leak https://aviationweek.com/aerospace/airc ... volve-f-35

Neat. I'm always a little puzzled by how they cool these big compact motors, even at 99% efficiency that's a fair bit of heat .

Hmm, holy airframe overheating, Batman! Fun tho.

How much of the emissions stuff are they threatening to toss out? I thought it was just mpg hence CO2/mile.

The speed with which your eyes can adjust is amazing. After my adventure in reconstructive surgery I didn't have an eye socket. Crazy Roy glued a plastic pad under the eyeball to stop it falling into my mouth (one of his little jokes). He obviously didn't get it quite right, when I eventually woke u...

TI 30 - my arthritic knuckles scream at the sight of those clicky buttons. I used some sort of programmable Commodore? through uni, that got nicked a few years later and switched to a TI 81 or 83, which has been used to design solar cars and do the strategy during the race. As a retirement present I...

I'm amazed Ozzy made it to 76, good on him. As to Keef I've just read his (ghosted) autobiography, called Life. Rather a good read.

I had one for 4 years. Great car, which surprisingly save my life. My route to work was along narrow hedgebound country roads, which I would drive along at great rate of knots (yes I was an idiot back then). Go round blind corner and oh, there's a great big removal van parked on my side filling 60% ...

my dad sent his sister (Aunty Maxine) along the roof to lay his aerial for his radio. However this is a tale I've rarely told... So ...walking in Chitwin National Park. The ranger hears a rhino coming along the track, and signs for everyone to climb a tree. We climb. He points to me and says "U...

Fairly short essay. "What I did on the break. Broke."

Wow, well done. What is the design called?

Some of those seem to be near the coast. Container on a cargo ship with fold-back lid, some long range (300 km) drones, instant kharma. 300 km to Ukraina poses problems - you'd probably want to use wings, and liquid fuel, and they'd need to be autonomous not FPV. Truly Skynet.

Prufstand XII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_U-boat

They built a prototype towable launcher but it reads as though they didn't ever load a V2 into it.