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In this issue: pretty pics, a smokey colorful skeleton guy not to miss, DO NOT SLEEP ON HARRY MACK, and the thermochromic paint is unreal!

  • Vote for my friend’s written AI song… it’s the easiest voting I’ve ever done! Please help Jason!!

https://www.aisongcontest.com/participants/jasonbrancazio-2021

Even listen to the song! =)

 

  • This may have been buried in a past newsletter, but time to revisit because California.. SHE A GO.

I cannot wait to see stand up comedy.

“I Miss Being Part of an Audience Crowds can be mindless, even dangerous. But that feeling of losing yourself as you experience art together hasn’t been replicated since live entertainment went online”. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/09/arts/television/live-audience-pandemic.html

 

  • Also… don’t laugh, she was trying.

SPACE

 

 

  • Shhh… we’re the aliens:

Aliens Wouldn’t Need Warp Drives to Take Over an Entire Galaxy, Simulation Suggests It’s also further evidence that extraterrestrials should’ve settled the entire Milky Way by now. So where are they? https://gizmodo.com/aliens-wouldnt-need-warp-drives-to-take-over-an-entire-1847101242

White dots are unsettled stars, magenta spheres are settled stars, and white cubes are starships in transit.

 

 

  • Tilt Shift shot of the shuttle leaving the atmosphere, source is a NASA photo, but someone anon added tilt shift effects:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/space-shuttle-tilt-shift-photo/

 

 

CLICK THROUGH TO SEE THE GIF:

 

 

  • October 24th 1946 – First photograph from space

This is the first photo ever taken from space. Shot on October 24, 1946 from a cool 65 miles up, it was taken with a 35mm camera mounted on a V-2 missile launched from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The pre-NASA picture might look a little grainy by today’s standards — but it was, and still is, revolutionary. All earlier shots of the planet were taken from high altitude balloons. Here was a never-before seen view: our world thrown into stark relief by space. https://time.com/3810721/first-photo-from-space

r/interestingasfuck - « First photograph of Earth from space » - October 24th 1946.

 

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

  • What do you do with this information?

Global warming may have already passed irreversible tipping point After the biggest-ever expedition to the Arctic, scientists warn point of no return on global warming may have already been reached. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/15/global-warming-may-have-already-passed-irreversible-tipping-point

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wider applications for the ‘unboil an egg’ machine https://phys.org/news/2021-06-wider-applications-unboil-egg-machine.html

 

 

 

 

  • I’ve a couple people I grew up loving: Carl Sagan, Hunter S. Thompson. Mr. Rogers was incredible. Voltaire was nifty. But Dick Feynman was pretty big for me. This “FUN TO IMAGINE” set of clips is a delight, and everything he talks about instills me with awe and wonder. I miss this dude. His “Surely you must be joking, Mr. Feynman is a bonkers enjoyable read about a curious mind that is literally a genius.

 

 

  • I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS TECHNOLOGY

 

 

  • A drone buster that celebrates with confetti!

 

 

  • OH MY GOSH A DRONE HAD A BABY! HI KENT! [Waves]

Stealthy Valkyrie Drone Uses Weapons Bay For First Time To Launch Smaller Drone On its sixth test flight, Kratos’ low-cost stealthy drone launched a drone of its own via a tube launcher in its weapons bay. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40068/xq-58a-valkyrie-uses-weapons-bay-for-first-time-to-launch-smaller-drone

 

KRatos Valkyrie drops drone

 

 

  • HOW ABOUT BIO-ENGINEERING REPLACEMENT HUMAN SKIN TO WITHSTAND SPACE TRAVEL? Vascular tissue challenge where we grow complex tissues to build a whole, impacting all levels of medical science, from transplants to bio-modification and more.

 

 

  • Driving in VR w/ a drone following so you are driving in 3rd person, like Grand Theft Auto.

 

 

  • DAMN NATURE YOU SCARY – the volume of ice and water here is incomprehensible. Delightful shows of nature at the end of time. Wish we hadn’t killed the planet.

Iceberg breaks off and rises, forming a huge pillar before crashing down

 

MUSIC

  • I can

not

stop

with

Harry.

Here’s the nicest guy ever rapping to an Egyptian dude about needing feminism, about toxic masculinity, and understanding it’s all fluid. I love this man.

 

 

  • If you’ve not seen Bo Burnham’s new darkly musical comedy sadness… this was the 3rd most brilliant song.

 

 

  • Blue Music, this isn’t even the most sly of wordplay. LOL:

https://www.discogs.com/Various-My-Pussy-Belongs-To-Daddy/master/802114

 

 

  • If you know the song and the background, it’s hard enough…. But Warren Zevon’s “Keep me in your heart for awhile” has a comment section that broke me down… oh my god. Be warned if you click through.

 

 

  • Thanks Joe… this is BONKERS.

 

FUNNY

  • This is so painfully accurate, it’s funny not funny.

 

 

 

 

  • I love this old engineering / technical joke. I think I said 70 years, but maybe more like 50.

The Turbo Encabulator, and the long running inside wink and nod for engineering and technical firms.

 

 

  • How to deal with bears:

 

 

  • NOT SURE WHAT BUSEY IS DOING, but he used to be a rock n roll drummer and actually played the music in Buddy Holly, so there’s that. sure. Then there’s this:

 

 

 

SOCIETY AND CULTURE

 

 

  • “There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.”

David M. Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/336070-there-are-three-deaths-the-first-is-when-the-body

 

 

  • California Running Large-Scale Trucking Operation to Save Salmon From Drought-Stricken Rivers
Telling yourself to just keep swimming can only get you as far as the water takes you. Beyond that point, it’s time to keep on trucking.
  • Laolongtou Great Wall (Old Dragon’s Head) – Where the Great Wall of China meets the sea.

Could you imagine going around the wall? Fish in a barrel has a new saying… Like horses coming around a wall in the ocean!

Laolongtou is where the Great Wall of China meets the sea and was once considered as where the Great Wall of China starts. Laolongtou means Old Dragon’s Head, so named because the Great Wall here resembles a dragon drinking water from the sea. Located three miles (five kilometers) south of Shanhaiguan and about 190 miles (305 km) away from Beijing; travelers can easily make a side trip from Beijing to Laolongtou Great Wall and Shanghaiguan by high speed train. The Laolongtou Great Wall was built in 1381 under the supervision of Qi Jiguang, a general of the Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644). It was an important line of defense against enemies coming from both the land and the sea. After the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1911), its military function faded, and it turned into a great tourist destination, attracting numerous visitors to enjoy the seascape and surrounding constructions. Even emperors were regular visitors. https://www.travelchinaguide.com/china_great_wall/scene/hebei/shanhaiguan/laolongtou.htm

 

 

This guy is doing great work: https://www.instagram.com/unnecessaryinventions/

 

 

  • BEHOLD THE ATHEIST’S NIGHTMARE! Kirk Cameron and people like this dude putting their brazen stupidity on display is something I can’t wait to die. Religion needs a firmware upgrade, and I can’t wait til cancel culture comes for it. It’s the elephant in the room, because it underpins all the disingenuous nonsense, and is used as mind control on constituents… the opiate of the masses indeed. These people are really this damned stupid, and they get to parade it around flagrantly without real comeuppance. We need to hold morons accountable to move forward, and call them out on everything:

 

 

  • Alan Rickman rescued Robin Hood; Prince of Thieves (if anything could have been said to have rescued it, but he’s a lost gemstone to us and I miss him):

Alan Rickman admits editing ‘terrible’ script with friends in Pizza Hut behind backs of writers on Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/alan-rickman-admits-editing-terrible-script-friends-pizza-hut-behind-backs-writers-robin-hood-prince-thieves-a95481.html

 

His Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/butch_locsin_from_la/

 

 

  • Mads Stan account:

Watch “Druk / Another Round” and “Riders of Justice”. Both just superb. And his recent Arctic and Polar are stellar for what they are. Like… what actor other than Liam Neeson can do two cold snowy movies in a row?

IT DOESN’T MATTER. THE WOLVES DON’T CARE ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK [Liam “the Grey” voice]

If I were to ask all emotionally secure heterosexual men who their famous boy crush is, it’s Mads. It’s always been Mads since “oops” in Casino Royale. Our household adores him and celebrates his entire catalog. The film “Riders of Justice” is phenomenal, but it is DARK AS NIGHTTIME FUCKS. Someone said it’s not a dark comedy, it’s pitch black. But it’s about the human condition, and that’s all that matters. Druk / Another Round and this are some of the best cinema in 18 months, and I didn’t understand a word. But after we watched, the wife told me to turn on subtitles so the 2nd round was even better!

Mads Mikkelsen Is Not Aware the Internet Loves Him. And That’s Why the Internet Loves Him. The star discusses his new movie Riders of Justice, the possible Leonardo DiCaprio remake of Another Round, and a fourth season of Hannibal. https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a36411304/riders-of-justice-interview-leonardo-dicaprio-another-round-remake-hannibal-season-4/

VEHICLES

  • Ambivalence – This Bonhams Auction is just bonkers. These cars selling for $10s of Millions bothers while literally aspiring to it. I hope to pick up cars for pennies on the dollar in the future… there’s a crash coming with the fact NO ONE CAN AFFORD THESE in the future… and they can’t go on the road. I’m planning an EV Swap of my 95 Wrangler. I think. Gotta keep this stuff on the road.

https://images1.bonhams.com/original?src=Images/live/2020-01/15/S-26005-0-1.pdf

 

 

 

 

  • Cornhub

 

some political shit, but why is it even a thing because history is fine, we can all be okay in talking about it:

 

  • If you hadn’t realize Neil Young is still writing new version of classics of incredible folk songs, this rocks:

 

 

ME, the reporter in front of her thinking I should leave:

Awkward Look Monkey Puppet

 

 

  • Just shows the inanity and insanity created by cynical bitches cashing in and ruining the world:

 

the article:

Critical race theory battle invades school boards — with help from conservative groups In towns nationwide, well-connected conservative activists, and Fox News, have ramped up the tension in fights over race and equity in schools. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/critical-race-theory-invades-school-boards-help-conservative-groups-n1270794

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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