Friday Ephemera
Ring of Fire. || In post-civilisation San Francisco, the relocation of handbags by fashion enthusiasts. (h/t, Darleen) || For the woman who has everything. (h/t, Things) || Also, layers of London. || Another accident in the lab. || Cats in microgravity. || Attention, amorous ladies. || “How dare you not desire me?” said the green-haired bedlamite. || “I kind of view myself as a doll.” || At last, paper drill bits. || Parental pushback. || Meanwhile, in the Independent. || Meanwhile, in the Guardian. || Hush now, our betters are speaking. || Something error happen. || Yes, there will be a test. || Dull truth. || “Does anything radioactive actually glow bright green?” || And finally, persuasively, some aggressive rattling.
Redbridge Labour reading project.
Nothing says “parents will be pleased” quite like the words “monkey dildo.”
Redbridge Labour reading project.
Interesting that second picture at the link where the monkey shows its ass to all the burkas walking by. I wonder how tolerant BAME are of stuff like that. There’s one religion that hasn’t rolled over and played dead for the Stonewall mafia, and both groups are used to getting their way.
Redbridge Labour reading project.
Apparently now deleted tweets of Redbridge and Exeter having a good LOL at the rubes, …when you’ve got it flaunt it…
Apparently the test flight for Golgafrincham Ark Fleet Ship B was successful. Maybe things are looking up.
Apparently the test flight for Golgafrincham Ark Fleet Ship B was successful.
10,000 or so feet higher than the highest manned balloon, and 200,000+ less than an X-15 in 1963 – wouldn’t get your hopes up…
It looks rather roomy relative to any other spacecraft… or “spacecraft” that I have seen. All we need to do is get them inside.
200,000+ less than an X-15 in 1963 – wouldn’t get your hopes up…
? Highest X-15 flight was 67 miles. Today’s Virgin Galactic flight is claimed to have reached 52.5 miles. That said, there is something to be said for making efficient use of our woke commissars here on earth–cleaning solar panels and pedaling electric generators, perhaps.
Related, you may laugh, but it hurts worse to be stabbed with a spoon, and I’ve seen someone sliced up with a pizza cutter.
Looks like they got one of those long wandy things off the streets as well! Good work, Coppers!
…Suddenly, the father calls out the the daughter, “Bring out the chimp!” at which point a rainbow colored man in a monkey suit with a strap on dildo and assless chaps appears and starts dancing and gyrating in front of the little children, exposing his anus to them. Then both parents, the dog, the monkey, and now even the daughter all jump simultaneously and land perfectly, smiling, jazz hands shimmering.
The agent is appalled at the callous obscenity of this final moment. He stares, mouth agape, at the family, the dog, and the monkey, “What the fuck do you call that?”
“The Aristocrats!”
…ok, it’s funnier if you hear Gilbert Gotfried tell it.
Today’s Virgin Galactic flight is claimed to have reached 52.5 miles.
Yeah, I misread the report, still far off from 1963, and well short of the Karman line, so not into space, just a high altitude airplane.
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but it hurts worse to be stabbed with a spoon
“Because it’s dull, you twit, and will hurt more.”
Yeah, I misread the report…just a high altitude airplane.
Yes, and that continues to puzzle me, as I wonder whether the technologies that work for suborbital flight will scale well for true spaceflight. If not, the hype does not match the reality. (But to be fair I have not even tried to investigate this.)
… I wonder whether the technologies that work for suborbital flight will scale well for true spaceflight.
I think if it did, someone would have done it by now. To put something in orbit you need a velocity north of 14,000 mph, best an X-15 could do with a 70,000 lb thrust motor was 4,500. Branson’s toy I doubt has the same thrust and has only reached about half that speed.
Gross weight of an X-15 34,000 lbs, Branson’s mess, 21,000. Bottom line either would need a much more powerful motor to get to 14,000+mph, which means either some radically new design, or a much bigger vehicle, which means a larger launch plane, rinse and repeat.
Wernher von Braun & Saturn V FTW, hornorable mention to Энергия.
That has been going on forever especially in the movie industry
Oh, I’m not talking about simple product placement. I mean multiple shows where one of the characters stops the plot to deliver a 10-30 second monologue extolling the virtues of a particular product while the camera slow pans around it. OnStar, Kia, and Microsoft were all especially bad for this. A&E’s The Glades had a particularly egregious example of this, lampshaded by another character replaying “Geez, Carlos, you sound like a car commercial.”
whether the technologies that work for suborbital flight will scale well for true spaceflight
Airbreathing engines and non-airbreathing engines are mutually exclusive, although I recall reading in the 1990s about a proposed design for an engine that worked as a conventional jet engine at rest and could reconfigure its intake to become a scramjet at supersonic speeds and ultimately a liquid-propellant rocket for the final boost to orbit by closing off its intake entirely.
James Lindsay explains the need for a rainbow monkey with his cock and anus out in your local children’s library.
Airbreathing engines and non-airbreathing engines are mutually exclusive
I have wondered about the engine, and whether the chosen fuel might give significantly less performance than SpaceX’s Falcon 9 which uses kerosene and liquid oxygen. Dunno; I am content to wait and see what happens.
“Gross weight of an X-15 34,000 lbs, Branson’s mess, 21,000. Bottom line either would need a much more powerful motor to get to 14,000+mph, which means either some radically new design, or a much bigger vehicle, which means a larger launch plane, rinse and repeat.”
Even Branson recognises that. And they’re still only launching cubesats (for which I’m sure there’s a market, but it’s hardly the “galactic” scope promised by the older company).
I’ve said all along that, for Branson at least, VG is about suborbital point-to-point travel, not spaceflight.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_line#Alternatives_to_the_definition (wikipedia footnote markers removed)…
Good to know that the US Government always rounds down rather than up.
Commiserations to the England football team. Is there any truth in the rumor that the Italian football team will now go on to Tokyo for the Olympics with its members participating in the diving and wrestling competitions?
Of HM. Princes and princesses are Royal Highnesses, a monarch is a Majesty.
Good to know that the US Government always rounds down rather than up.
Bah. Next thing you know they’ll be awarding Purple Hearts to everyone who works in the Department of Health and Human Services.
I wonder whether the technologies that work for suborbital flight will scale well for true spaceflight.
They should just put more solar panels on the top. Duh.
They should just put more solar panels on the top. Duh.
[ slaps forehead ] Now why didn’t I think of that?