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Yeah! He’s great, and usually on point with his humorous reflections.

Saw that, really cool. Impressed with the effort that went into reconstructing it into an airbnb.

The Starliner mission was a lot more dramatic than Boeing and NASA was letting on at the time, some scary stuff in this interview with the crew: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/t ... rs-failed/

Are the spikes replaceable? Yeah, they’re mounted with some pins. Supposed to shear off if the helmet is smashed into the ground, but can also be disassembled by hand. I was just wondering how long before we see some video, shot late at night in barracks, of a parade helmet with the spike replaced ...

Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Sun Mar 30, 2025 9:31 am Are the spikes replaceable?

Yeah, they’re mounted with some pins. Supposed to shear off if the helmet is smashed into the ground, but can also be disassembled by hand.

As the article implies, good to not jump to conclusions with this one. Still, it’s possible that they’ve stumbled on something, and I do believe that humanity will eventually crack the anti-gravity enigma, though perhaps not anytime soon. An Engineer Says He’s Found a Way to Overcome Earth’s Gravity...

It does look a reasonable design, and with a good deal of practicality in mind. However, it still does look a bit squished, like it’s just a little smaller than the standard pickelhaube. As I understand it it’s a bit bigger than the original helmets, but with the proportions changed a bit so that t...

Well it’s taken a while to develop this, but it’s now looking like the new helmets will be introduced in June of this year. As planned the helmet is on the inside a modern riding helmet with MIPS tech (yellow part in the photo below), and the exterior essentially looks like the original Prussian sty...

Uh, was German translation correct ? Seemed to be Polish / in-fix rather than Reverse-Polish / post-fix, so verbs / adjectives weren't all piled up at end... ( Half a century along, I still get goose-bumps at sight of 'Formal German'... ) Yes, it is correct. I read it before I saw the German transl...

Sukhoiman wrote: ↑Wed Mar 26, 2025 10:46 pm yeah I just watched the Jackson Crawford vid on it just now too heh,

Two other videos to watch:
https://youtu.be/dmY7xC4_08Y

https://youtu.be/64ZcmML8Zps

Yep, that’s the one. It does have some similarity with Icelandic and Faroese but it’s a separate language branch so to speak. It has retained some aspects from old Norse, and one or two things from proto-Germanic that even old Norse didn’t keep. Other aspects are a mix of old east and west Norse tra...

Bit interesting information dropped by Larry Lemke in a online video discussion. He’s an aerospace engineer at NASA Ames Research Center. He says that his father once confided in him that he had worked on crash retrieval materials, and that he was able to verify that to some extent: Peter Skafish @h...

I have a parcel due... For reasons I cannot yet grok, it has turned 'Schrodinger'. Amazon claim is out for delivery TODAY . Yodel, the courier, claims is still at depot, not yet 'travelling'. Yes it is, no it isn't. Yes it is, no it isn't. Yes it is, no it isn't. Iterate unto breathless... And Yode...

jemhouston wrote: ↑Sun Mar 23, 2025 1:23 pm I thought they only went that hard in LA.

There’s some stuff like that in general in some European countries. But I’ve never seen something like this where three cop cars smash into one another in this fashion.

So they had an intense car chase in Paris, it ended with the car being chased crashing into a street light. But then one, two, and finally three police cars winds up crashing into the chased car. With some notable time intervals between crashes. Video: https://x.com/jbaptistemarty/status/19033986790...

Good to get some more info confirming earlier indications of a bottleneck event, now we just have to figure out what it was that caused it. I think that there’s potentially some interesting aspects to that answer.

Another piece to the puzzle, but accompanied by more questions. One day we’ll figure out enough details to paint a clear picture of our origins. I hope. Ancient Genetic Discovery Challenges Single-Lineage Theory of Human Origins The evolutionary path of modern humans is more complex than previously ...

Pippa Malmgren made a couple of substack posts about her dad. I’ve snipped the portion pertaining to USPs. That’s when Dad fully realized that the events had been influenced by a missile test that he helped run during the Cuban Missile Crisis: Operation Blue Gill Triple Prime. This refers to “the fo...

Congrats, best of luck.

Funny, but they already paid for that booze. Now they have to pay to store it, and they also have to pay for secure storage to support additional booze purchases from non-American suppliers. Performative idiocy for the masses. I actually saw something that claimed that for the Jack Daniels stuff at...