There's no way we could switch to the planned economy you'd need to radically overhaul the country and radically rebuild the state capacity we spent decades destroying. Imagine trying to run a wartime economy when your primary goal is making sure venture capitalists can still profit from water.

The Mirage 2000-01, first prototype in test flight in the late 1980s.

© Ecpad

Bunnies in a raft pull up next to a spaceship capsule, which has just splashed down and is floating in the open sea. Visible in the capsule, two bunnies wave at the ones in the boat.

Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely

A bit of color over this doodle.

The wild thing is Iran isn't a signatory of UNCLOS, the West decided Iran is beholden to things they didn't sign while the US & Israel are not beholden to things regardless of whether they did sign - including the very law of navigation Iran is now not participating in. Israel has illegal nukes.

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"AFSC 35mm presentation slides," slide 9 of 24 [gallery]

something I wish was depicted in more science fiction is the fact that every account I've read about maneuvering a spacecraft makes RCS sound like anything from a man hitting the capsule with a sledgehammer to a mild car accident. Zero gee doesnt mean zero inertia and those helmets look heavy

Photos of Iran I recently discovered from scanning old negatives.

I am full of so much grief and anger. I don’t have the right words.

one more launch drawing b4 splash down tomorrow

now on something with a bit more heft

This was taken in the shadow of the Moon by the crew of Artemis II.
The Sun's light was blocked, revealing a sky bursting with stars and our own Milky Way.
A view of the universe rarely seen by human eyes.

Nikon Z9, 35mm lens, 10sec exposure.

space shuttle orbiter sketches

shuttle sketches

This is not AI
It was taken by one of us
Let that sink in

When did Gemini get so trash?

I don’t believe the US rescued a downed pilot. It’s becoming more and more obvious that this was a cover for a failed operation.

Vibe coding is when you send every http request and database query through claude in real time, obviously

military droid, mostly used as a replacement for sentries and some light bush patrol

If you work for the CIA I hope you get captured and tortured to death.

Sony PlayStation 2.

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"SOVIET MILITARY CAPABILITIES S-100-18-85 BOX 1 OF 2," slide 22 of 40 [gallery]

people with robot girl pfps posting 'datacenters are destroying the planet' from their cyberpunk aesthetic accounts. bestie my culture is not your costume

"The only thing you can't buy is time" is kind of a lie. Like, labor time is precisely what the bourgeois buys from the worker.

Change the term "data center" to "nuclear power" and this could be a post from any point in the past 50 years

A colossal project for a transatlantic seaplane, first studied in 1937 by the engineer Hamel.
This 400-tonne behemoth was to have three passenger decks, with each propeller driven by four 3,000-horsepower engines. Scale models were produced, but no prototype was ever built.