WHAT WAS THEIR FIRST CLUE? Americans blame shootings on poor mental health care.
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March 25, 2018
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VICTORY GIRLS: #FutureDavidHoggCareer As We See It. I think he wants to be a Red Guard.
WELL, MOST PEOPLE HAVE FIGURED OUT THAT “CELEBRITIES” ARE IDIOTS, AND NOW WE KNOW THEY’RE OFTEN RAPISTS OR RAPIST-ENABLERS, TOO: “A new study showed that the more celebrities talk up gun control, the more people support the Second Amendment.”
OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Even short bursts of exercise can reduce Americans’ risk of disease and death, study says. I favor interval training because (1) it seems to work; and (2) I find cardio boring, but kinda like to run flat-out.
HMM: Common infections raise risk of heart attacks in same way as obesity and high blood pressure, major study suggests. “Researchers suggested that the infections may cause inflammation, which has recently been found to be linked to heart disease.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The University Of Denial — Aggressive Suppression Of The Truth Is A Central Feature Of American Higher Education.
USA TODAY wants to hear from Trump supporters.
WELL, IT’S BARRETT CUSTOMER SERVICE: A Marine’s M107 Sniper Rifle Failed During A Firefight — So He Called Customer Service.
Don Cook, a Marine veteran who’s been maintaining M107s for more than two decades, told National Geographic in 2011 that he one day received a call to Barrett’s workshop from a harried young Marine. During maintenance of the unit’s M107, the Marine had bent the ears of the rifle’s lower receiver; the next day, after engaging the enemy, they discovered the rifle wouldn’t fire consistently.
Despite the unit’s lack of tools (and time), Cook knew exactly what to do. The armorer instructed the Marines to use the bottom of the carrier to bend the ears back down. Within 45 seconds, the weapon was firing properly. “Thank you very much,” Cook says they told him, then he heard a dial tone. They had a firefight to get back to.
“It’s probably one of the biggest highlights of my life, to be able to help a Marine unit during a firefight,” Cook told National Geographic.
Video at the link.
SPACE: Relativity Space reveals its ambitions with big NASA deal.
Even in an era during which the aerospace industry faces significant disruption from myriad new competitors, Relativity Space stands out. The company, led by a pair of twenty-somethings who used to work for Blue Origin and SpaceX, seeks to 3D print rocket engines and the boosters themselves, reducing the number of parts in an orbital rocket from 100,000 down to fewer than 1,000.
Founded in late 2015, Relativity remained in stealth mode until last year, but now it is starting to come out of the shadows. And in doing so, the California-based company is revealing some pretty outsized ambitions. One day, in fact, the company intends to 3D print a rocket on Mars for a return trip to Earth. “We have a pretty broad long-term vision,” Tim Ellis, a co-founder of Relativity, admitted in an interview with Ars.
Faster, please.
QUESTION ASKED: Was gun control rally just a big voter registration drive?
Plus a warning about Texas.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Sarah Hoyt on How to Speak Girl.
I’VE NOTICED: American Adults Just Keep Getting Fatter.
JUST A BUCK, TRY YOUR LUCK: Steve Bannon is serious about buying Newsweek.
What could go wrong?
IN THE NEW YORK TIMES: It’s Time To Break Up Facebook. Also Google, et al.
NUKE THE SITE FROM ORBIT; IT’S THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE: Twitter, in four sentences.
LEFTISTS: High on dopamine?
MICHAEL WALSH: Manhunt on in Rome for Tunisian Terrorist.
REVIEW: 2018 Infiniti QX30.
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21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Moment 61-year-old limo driver blasts himself off the ground on a homemade rocket at 325mph to prove that the earth is ‘shaped liked a Frisbee’ — before coming back down to Earth with a bang.
‘Do I believe the Earth is shaped like a Frisbee? I believe it is,’ he said. ‘Do I know for sure? No. That’s why I want to go up in space.’
That’s his project for down the road. He wants to build a ‘Rockoon,’ a rocket that is carried into the atmosphere by a gas-filled balloon, then separated from the balloon and lit. This rocket would take Hughes about 68 miles up.
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‘My story really is incredible,’ Hughes said. ‘It’s got a bunch of story lines – the garage-built thing. I’m an older guy. It’s out in the middle of nowhere, plus the Flat Earth.
The problem is it brings out all the nuts also, people questioning everything. It’s the downside of all this.’
His future plans are simple: Fill out the paperwork to run for governor.
‘This is no joke,’ Hughes said. ‘I want to do it.’
A debate between ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes and Jerry Brown, dubbed “Gov. Moonbeam” way back in 1976 by Mike Royko, would be awesome to watch.
How do we get Nestle’s or the Rothschilds to sponsor it…?