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[FlyingVProd]

On the issue of our fighter planes...

They can vector the thrust on the F-104 Starfighter to improve the steering and to help it to pull out of spins, and they can update the technology on the F-104, and they can continue to use the F-104 to help to protect America. The F-104 is way faster than the F-18, and with some modifications then the F-104 can still be of service.

And NASA continues to use the F-104 Starfighter as a chase plane, it is a fast plane, they just need to make some modifications and the plane can still be of service, along with being a chase plane for NASA.

Salute,

Tony V.

[FlyingVProd]

My hometown is pretty famous, when I was a child in Oregon we used to receive a Weekly Reader in school with news for children, and my hometown was in the Weekly Reader because of the Space Shuttle Program, and they had photos of the first Space Shuttle Enterprise, etc. It was pretty cool to see my hometown in the Weekly Reader.

And also the top Motorcycle Racer was from Quartz Hill, Bob Hurricane Hannah; I had pictures of Bob Hannah on my bedroom wall as a kid in Oregon.

The Antelope Valley is more famous than people think.

Salute,

Tony V.

[Hairy Lime]

Barbara Kingsolver has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Which would kill off this discussion if it was not already dead.

[Hairy Lime]

From the Meander Dictionary:

Kingsolver: v. To raise a topic that kills off all conversation in a forum. The mention of Poisonwood Bible absolutely kingsolvered Meander today.

[Hairy Lime]

Little quiz of random fun questions.

Fats Domino, famous R&B musician, inspired the stage name of what other musician?

The Canary Islands are named for what animal?   

What is the animal most dangerous to humans? (Aside from fellow humans)

What was the reason to give Easter Island its name?

Chubby Checkerboard, dogs, Hippos, it was discovered on that date.

Two of those combined reminded me of some research I did in about 2005 into dog bites. Between 1995 and 2005, 2 people were mauled to death by Pekingese. That makes me incredibly happy to think about.

[Oilcandide]

LMAO!

Hippos is wrong.  It's the mosquito.

[FlyingVProd]

SIERRA HOTEL AERONAUTICS

Sadly, on this date in history; May 20th 1971; The Boeing SST 2707 American government-funded contract supersonic swing wing passenger airliner project was cancelled.

Had Boeing continued program development at its facilities in Seattle, Washington, the supersonic transport (SST) design was expected to be capable of reaching cruise speeds of three times the speed of sound (Mach 3), with a load of 250-300 passengers, making her very much larger, and faster than the Franco-British Concorde, and the Soviet Tupolev Tu-144.

By October 1969, there were delivery positions reserved for 122 Boeing SSTs by 26 airlines, including Alitalia, Canadian Pacific Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Iberia, KLM, Northwest Airlines, and World Airways.

It was projected that SSTs would dominate the skies around the world, with inferior subsonic Boeing's 747's being only a passing intermediate fad.

www.Sierrahotel.net

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Lockheed in the Antelope Valley of Southern California is working on a new supersonic passenger jet that has a quieter sonic boom so that it can fly over land. We will have supersonic travel soon, and it will be safe to fly over land, so people can travel from New York to Los Angeles in no time.

Salute,

Tony V.

[Oilcandide]

We were looking at odd stories in medicine and science at another website, and I was happy to add a couple to my list.  I know Hairy Lime likes the rectangular wombat poo and the mauling deaths by Pekingese, among others.  Now I've added the man who died from sticking tampons up his nostrils in an attempt to cure snoring, and a 1920s story where a man was allegedly strangled by his own thymus gland.  Life is good!

[Hairy Lime]

 Apparently it keeps the poo from rolling away. Wombats use their poo to mark their territory. Which somehow makes me think of bambu.

Also vaguely science related is that Francis Bacon died of pneumonia conracted while experimenting with ice and snow as a means of preserving meat. Making him the founder of empiricism and its first prominent victim.

My predictive type keeps dropping the g. It has apparently taken up folk singing.

[Oilcandide]

I have heard this before, about Bacon, from you, and reserved judgment on its authenticity.   I can't now find any evidence that it is true, and simply going outside in the winter does not cause pneumonia.  Nor did Bacon found empiricism.  Many earlier thinkers going back to Ancient Greece, Arabia, and India espoused empiricist concepts.
In Italy, Giordano Bruno and other thinkers were arguing empiricist views well before Bacon.  There was even a prior Middle Ages Bacon, Roger, who developed empiricist ideas, minus the pheasant stuffing.

Sorry to pour cold water on the anecdote.  Or stuff it with snow.  It could still be defended with a circle of wombat briquettes, if needed.

[Hairy Lime]

I have heard this before, about Bacon, from you, and reserved judgment on its authenticity.   I can't now find any evidence that it is true, and simply going outside in the winter does not cause pneumonia.  Nor did Bacon found empiricism.  Many earlier thinkers going back to Ancient Greece, Arabia, and India espoused empiricist concepts.
In Italy, Giordano Bruno and other thinkers were arguing empiricist views well before Bacon.  There was even a prior Middle Ages Bacon, Roger, who developed empiricist ideas, minus the pheasant stuffing.

Sorry to pour cold water on the anecdote.  Or stuff it with snow.  It could still be defended with a circle of wombat briquettes, if needed.

It is like Santa Claus punching an Arian heretic in the face at the Council of Nicaea, transubstantiation or the Russian pee tape. I do not care if it true or not. I believe it.

[Oilcandide]

Heehee.  I'm not one to criticize, having held beliefs about ghosts, UFOs, cats that contain the spirits of dead relatives, and God being a lab nerd who makes bubble universes.  Believe on, Garth.

[Oilcandide]

With Halloween coming, take a tour of the King library in Bangor, Maine.  No one in the King clan can bear to throw away a book. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/interactive/2023/stephen-king-home-library/

[Oilcandide]

In what percentage of cases of people uttering the phrase, "I'm not judging you," is the assertion accurate?

[Hairy Lime]

Happy 400th Birthday to the greatest work of literature ever published, the First Folio, by William Shakespeare, from Stratford upon Avon. A concluding statement that would have started a huge debate 8n the Old Meander.