WAIT NOT YET. ah crap.
You think you had a bad day? Tell that the PFC Johnson who didn't tighten down the straps. A special Friday edition of Net Assessment folks - enjoy, and grab an early cocktail while you are at it.
Well, sure - it’s Europe after all. You can’t tell them to do anything except drink at lunch and nap afterwards.
https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-simulated-asteroid-couldnt-stop-impact-europe-2021-5
I think I speak for everyone that we’re ecstatic the two most advanced fighter jets in the world can finally speak to each other via a 65-year old translator. That’s like having my dad in charge of cross-posting between Snapchat and TikTok.
“The big Pentagon internet mystery now partially solved”. Phew. I am partially relieved.
“Confucius Institutes” sounds like bad cosplay, not a pervasive, subversive plan to influence western educational institutions. Yet here we are.
I just assumed that Q was about to show us something new. Turns out it’s just a regular lighter and he’s bumming a smoke because he’s worried.
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Business/wireStory/uk-spy-chief-west-faces-moment-reckoning-tech-77266142
Judas Drones? E Tu Dronte? Benedict Dronald?
I’m not proud. I’ll say it again. If only I could think of a source of Trusted Capital to meet my working capital needs….
Four-stars demanding “latitude to expose pernicious conduct.” If I didn’t respect the hell out of them, I would have sworn this was from meeting minutes from an HOA in Florida.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/26/spy-chiefs-information-war-russia-china-484723
Making oxygen on Mars. Just how far away are we from Total Recall? Because 13-year old me as some very specific questions about a certain additionally endowed lady-of-the-night.
Don’t lie. You all know exactly what I am talking about.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/22/1023404/mars-perseverance-rover-moxie-oxygen
What? No takers? I would have thought lunar oppression was a sellers market.
Ask the Russians how the Buran is doing…
Disney is going to start coming for it’s royalties if the DoD doesn’t start being careful.
https://taskandpurpose.com/military-tech/army-next-generation-squad-weapon-iron-man-suit/
I’m not so sure about “fastest man-made object” - has NASA ever clocked a slightly-older-than-ideal new father hopped up on coffee but denied ready access to bathroom breaks?
https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa-solar-probe-becomes-fastest-object-ever-built-as-it-touches-the-sun/
Every day we come closer to the Kessler Syndrome and my recurring nightmare.
https://www.inverse.com/science/long-march-5b-uncontrolled-reentry
Meme Corner - Yes, I know this whole thing happened more than ten years ago, but Twitter is just catching up to it, and I can’t help it.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16620-first-liquid-water-may-have-been-spotted-on-mars/
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