Saturday, November 26, 2005

Tamburlaine the Great, Part I :Post 2

Dramatis Personae.

MYCETES, king of Persia.
COSROE, his brother.
MEANDER, >
THERIDAMAS, >
ORTYGIUS, > Persian lords.
CENEUS, >
MENAPHON, >
TAMBURLAINE, a Scythian shepherd.
TECHELLES, >
USUMCASANE, > his followers.
BAJAZETH, emperor of the Turks.
KING OF FEZ.
KING OF MOROCCO.
KING OF ARGIER.
KING OF ARABIA.
SOLDAN OF EGYPT.
GOVERNOR OF DAMASCUS.
AGYDAS, >
MAGNETES, > Median lords.
CAPOLIN, an Egyptian.
PHILEMUS, Bassoes, Lords, Citizens, Moors, Soldiers, and
Attendants.

ZENOCRATE, daughter to the Soldan of Egypt.
ANIPPE, her maid.
ZABINA, wife to BAJAZETH.
EBEA, her maid.
Virgins of Damascus.


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Friday, November 25, 2005

We would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for those darn Canadian Defense Ministers

Paul Hellyer, Canada’s Defence Minister from 1963-67 ...Mr. Hellyer went on to say, "I'm so concerned about what the consequences might be of starting an intergalactic war, ..."

Hellyer warned, "The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning."


From Yahoo, not the Onion.


Found at No Pasaran

Motive #9: Do you buy or sell anything they wish to destroy?














The rioters are closer today.

Tamburlaine the Great, Part I

by Christopher Marlowe

Prologue.

From jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits,
And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay,
We'll lead you to the stately tent of war,
Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine
Threatening the world with high astounding terms,
And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword.
View but his picture in this tragic glass,
And then applaud his fortunes as you please.



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Post 2
Post 3
Post 4
Post 5
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Do not forsake your rights.

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Map of Evil

Flight of the Hotrod: Frame counts











Frames from initial "mortar" pulse (15 Frames per second per the WMV file, check)


# Delay
0 - 0 - Mortar fires
39 - 39 - Pulse 1
57 - 18 - Pulse 2
83 - 26 - Pulse 3
121 - 38 - Pulse 4
149 - 28 - Pulse 5


Click on the image to view the video at NuclearSpace

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

FOBS: McNamara's serious failure













“You [the Americans] do not have 50- or 100-megaton bombs; we have bombs more powerful than 100 megatons. We placed [cosmonauts] in space, and we can replace them with other loads that can be directed to any place on Earth.” - Khrushchev


"time from detection to impact could have been only a few seconds."

Monday, November 21, 2005

Project Orion Hot Rod Revisited

Project Orion Hot Rod Revisited, Part 1
Project Orion Hot Rod Revisited, Part 2
Project Orion Hot Rod Revisited, Part 3
Project Orion Hot Rod Revisited, Part 4

Simulations of the orignal flight by a modern model rocketeer.