Someone has some explaining to do

This story doesn’t make much sense to me. Given the sophistication of the Saudi military equipment, I would have thought that the Saudis would have a big advantage in this conflict, especially as they are not restrained by western sensibilities about civilian casualties.

Space news

SpaceX is making more progress.  Billionaires interested in space travel has been a blessing to us. (post in memory of Mike Nofsinger)

I learned something new today

Spiders can fly using electricity.

As a modeler….

sometimes I just have to shake my head.

USN submarine plans

The US Navy is apparently planing on a rate increase in submarine production.  This sounds good. Let us hope they can pull it off.  My faith in the USN procurement system has been shaken of late.

First aid training

I’ve thought for quite a while that a program to train up large numbers of volunteers with first aid training to assist in natural disasters and mass casualty events would be a good idea.  Apparently there are programs like this one that are taking things even a step further.  I hope this program spreads.

Badass

Again making the point that there are so many WWII stories that aren’t widely known, here is another one. What brave women.

So much history

There is so much WWII history that I have never heard of.  Here is a small example.

Space news

Some more good space news.  I will be so happy when NASA gets back to putting astronauts back in orbit on our own rockets.  Falcon Heavy will be a big part of that. (post in memory of Mike Nofsinger)

What we don’t know

It turns out that we know and understand almost nothing.

Really, almost nothing.