YES. NEXT QUESTION? Is Russia’s Su-57 the worst stealth fighter on the planet? “It’s not just with stealth and propulsion that the Su-57 continues to lag behind the competition. One of the aircraft’s selling points has also been its sensor suite and advanced avionics — with the Russian government claiming the fighter is capable of full 360-degree sensor coverage much like the flying supercomputer F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. To date, it does not appear that any such system is online in the Su-57, with the Rand Corporation analysis positing that sanctions placed on Russia after its military annexation of Crimean in 2014 have further hindered the system’s development.”
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June 4, 2021
FASTER, PLEASE: The U.S. Military Could Have A Working Hypersonic Missile In Record Time. “Both the Navy’s CPS and the Army’s LRHW programs aim to field a boost-glide hypersonic weapon, a type of hypersonic missile that like intercontinental ballistic missiles, requires a rocket booster to reach altitude, at which point the rocket payload — a glide body — would release and glide down to Earth. Gliding is a bit of a misnomer, however, as hypersonic glide bodies achieve blisteringly high terminal velocities in excess of Mach 5.”
VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Sweden Was Right, Lockdowns Were Wrong.
Also:
- ‘Come on, baby, light my fire’ is the new ‘Fill’er up!’
- White House stands by their disgraced man
- A reptilian twist on ‘stand your ground’ laws
So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.
CORRECTION: EMBARRASSMENT REQUIRES A SENSE OF SHAME. Reuters Embarrasses Self, Fact Checks Babylon Bee Satire. “In the Fact Checkers’ defense, the Bee’s satire often hits very close to home. That’s what the best satire does. Still, we’re not seeing similar fact checks for The Onion, the liberal fake news site which offers a similar brand of humor.”
ROUTINE BUT FAR FROM BORING: SpaceX launches new solar arrays to space station, nails rocket landing at sea. “SpaceX launched its 17th rocket of the year today (June 3), sending a robotic Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station before nailing a landing at sea.”
This is only the 22nd week of the year, putting SpaceX on a launch cadence of one every nine days.
THIS IS CNN: CNN’s Take on the Fauci Emails Is REALLY Disturbing. “While many federal government staffers prefer the phone to email, this correspondence offers a rare glimpse into Fauci’s frantic schedule and polite, to-the-point demeanor during the time he emerged as a rare source of frank honesty within the Trump administration’s Covid-19 task force.”
IT’S A FLOOR WAX AND A DESSERT TOPPING: Meet the Daymak Spiritus, the World’s First EV That Mines Cryptocurrency.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Kill Your Facebook. “Facebook was a primary driver of the nonsense that Fauci was spouting. Maybe the primary driver. The platform has almost three billion users and wields a kind of power we’ve not witnessed in media before.”
ALL BUBBLES POP: The NFT Market Has Officially Crashed. “On may May 3, the NFT market reached a peak with $102 million USD worth of Non-Fungible Tokens sold just that day. But looking at sales data from the last week of May, only $19.4 million USD in NFT sales was processed. Compared to the $170 million USD in NFTs transacted the week of the peak, the market saw a 90 percent drop.”
STAY ON TARGET: Steve Scalise Is Gunning for Dr. Fauci. “Americans deserve answers from the doctor whose every utterance was treated as that of an Olympian deity by the left and much of the media, and who benefited from social media censorship against anyone questioning him.”
FASTER? PLEASE! United Airlines is buying 15 supersonic aircraft from Boom Supersonic.
United Airlines has agreed to purchase 15 supersonic aircraft from Boom Supersonic, with an option to increase that order to 50 jets, the companies announced Thursday. That agreement, though, is still subject to change depending on the outcome of United’s safety testing and also Boom’s ability to deliver on its promises despite never having built or flown a full-scale supersonic jet before.
If Boom’s Overture jets pass inspection, the plan is for them to be rolled out in 2025, fly in 2026, and expected to carry passengers by 2029.
That’s a lot of ifs, depends, and expectations, but it will be at least interesting to watch how it pans out.
THAT 70S SHOW: Under Biden, Brace Yourselves For ‘Shrinkflation.’ “Consumers are paying more for a growing range of household staples in ways that don’t show up on receipts — thinner rolls, lighter bags, smaller cans — as companies look to offset rising labor and materials costs without scaring off customers.”
That only works for so long.
June 3, 2021
SAD: I’m Not Scared to Reenter Society. I’m Just Not Sure I Want To. “I’ve always loved weekends and summers, those officially sanctioned respites from productivity. This year was like one long Sunday afternoon: society suspended, life on hiatus. It felt like being offstage, or hanging out in the kitchen at a party. My circadian cycle ran amok; I stayed up long after midnight, when the world wasn’t watching, and tried to sleep through the mornings, when I used to write. I liked listening to the warm, amniotic thrum of the dishwasher, like the sound of the car engine when you were a kid, nodding off in the back seat, knowing the grownups would get you safely home. I was grateful for debilitating blizzards and cold snaps, when no sane person would venture outdoors. Recently it was oppressively nice out, 75 and sunny, and I never left my apartment. I’ve come to love the darkness, snug in my cocoon.”
Virtue-signaling for the proudly despondent.
SPACE: Virgin Galactic announces another human-tended science flight. “We’re going to finish our test flight program this year.”
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: New York Taxpayers Paying Andrew Cuomo’s $2.5 Million Legal Fees For Sexual Misconduct Allegations, Pandemic Probe.
COLORADO: Boulder shooting victim’s husband wants audit of non-profits collecting funds. “Mackenzie started a group called Stand Up Bolder that advocates for the state to audit non-profits, create a specific fund for victims and appoint a special administrator to determine how to expeditiously and properly distribute the money.”
THE SUICIDE OF EXPERTISE: ‘Too Long for Me to Read’: Fauci Dismissed Expert’s Email About Chinese Disinformation on COVID-19.