guy rides up next to me and points at the sunset "you see those contrails in the sky?" oh boy... "ALIENS! it's a holographic projection, man! the government's trying to hide what's going on up there! i've been living in palo alto since 1970 and... hey wait up!" sorry man i got a train to catch

Forty Below Sean William Randall 2024

forgot the most important of the genre

happy friday everyone

do you ever think about the so-called “golden age of hijacking” or are you normal

fellas, there's still time

Found an incredible image

Like “krab” or “cheez,” Double Stuf Oreos are intentionally misspelled because the filling doesn’t meet the minimum legal requirements to be called “stuff.”

really not liking the LLM smell creeping into more and more test reports and design docs and such that cross my desk for review and comment

NIST Reference Homie

TFR expert here. This is not funny, federal aviation agencies only do this when extremely distressed by CBP firing a fucking 20 kW laser into the sky without regard for civilian aircraft.

According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

hahaha and is it going to only be a single Vulcan in 2026 as well? one of the four SRBs had a serious issue on today's launch (yeeted a nozzle?); eerily similar to the issue on the Oct '24 launch that had them down for 10 months afterward.

no thank you

if you're not completely fatigued by Minneapolis articles, I'm proud of how my friend and I represented our community here

cleared my afternoon of meetings and it's just me and solidworks and designing cursed structural adapters that also need to be aerosurfaces

This is "history of technology", we count these posts as ours

entirely too much stuff going on where the only possible response is "man, what?"

High-speed car chase involving federal agent ended with multi-car crash at Nina’s in St. Paul.

SPACE/LICK_OBS.GIF

Yeah I'll prepare for "it"... a freaking cold beer at quittin time. I'm researching it now

Shot, and one-hell-of-a-chaser.

look man, we're ALL decreasingly hinged, it's not a competition

Video of the ICE-kidnapping victim under a sheet. You will also hear the officer say he saw them moving. I am inclined to believe the person was alive.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

According to a poster on Reddit who identifies as El Paso city council member Chris Canales, no one has any idea what’s going on, even the military which is trying to figure out if they can fly. The airport is closed for 10 days by this. There was no advanced warning. This is not normal.

What the heck? This is a big airspace closure in New Mexico for no known reason. It doesn’t help that the guy answering the provided FAA phone number for questions is telling the press (from the article) that he has no idea what’s going on. elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/u...

Marx failed to anticipate [trumpet noises]

iodized road salt

Prince of Persia was an experiment in rotoscoping. It put lifelike animation on '80s home computers. Designer Jordan Mechner converted VHS tapes and movie footage into pixels -- and went way beyond the tech of his time. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-the-li...

I’m gonna become a regional man of mystery

boeing were cowards for following through with their original proposal for the E-3

re: discord drama if double-secret bike dork forum has taught me anything, it's that the best (and really only) way to keep a specific group of people together on the internet long-term is "make your own web site".

hardware store clerk brough up politics and i was subjected to a driveby conversation with another customer that i'm still trying to process. key points: * hates elon * thinks elon is a democrat * DESPISES trump * confused but gleeful that elon is a trump supporter because he can hate elon more

5/ I think the summary is, we already strongly suspected that the USSS was behind the spoofing, and these researchers did a good job of analyzing the attack. It's less clear why the Secret Service tested it next to DCA and (to me, at least) how effective spoofing Mode C is for counter drone work.

1/ Last week the Italian researchers who have been looking at vulnerabilities in the TCAS system put out a press release about their analysis of the "phantom" resolution advisories that happened near KDCA last March. (Image via Google Translate.) life.unige.it/comunicati-s...

Rejoice!

oh that's right you know what day it is: new helmet day (do not go 8+ years between getting new helmets)

more work wildlife

evergreen post, apparently www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/v...

the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

It’s Trislander time. lfgooooo

Airport security detected an ancient curse on my best talisman and the only Shaman available doesnt speak Pict. Unbelievable.

Watch as a massive crack forms in the ice on Lake Erie. An impressive view captured by GOES-19 earlier on Sunday.