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2 Aug 2025 21 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Emma originally planned on staying here 3 weeks. Then decided on another week, and then had to stay here another week beyond that, because Maddie and Jill came down with COVID. So it’s been an awesome and longer than expected summer visit here f...
1 Aug 2025 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
Remote sensors would help lay the foundations for mass automation. In a world full of remote sensors and IOT devices, it can be hard to think of a time when we did things in a completely different way from how we do it today. But there was a time whe...
30 Jul 2025 6 minute read 2 comments Investigator515
This ship would be involved in a Cold War era race to recover a sunken submarine. Some of the best espionage tales contain elements that, in some instances, are far stranger than fiction. And today, we’ll be taking a look at one of these interesting...
26 Jul 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
A picture says a thousand words, and these pictures say plenty. Aviation is pretty cool. In mere decades, we went from the biplane to the Jet Engine right through to the Saturn 5 rocket that would help land man on the moon. Over this time, we would s...
20 Jul 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515
Height was might thanks to the U-2, but the SR-71 had true speed. Sometimes, things become cultural icons without that ever being the intent. And while in today’s world, spy satellites have made the concept of a reconnaissance platform somewhat outda...
19 Jul 2025 3 minute read 0 comments rah
Please note the eye witness account that inspired this post was (obviously - I wasn't there) not originally mine, but in this increasingly polarising and dangerous world it is a timely reminder of where hate and intolerance can take us. Images are r...
14 Jul 2025 5 minute read 1 comment Investigator515
The humble BBS was the precursor to Forums and Social Media. The internet is everywhere today, and we’re now evolving the internet of things, which gives us remote sensors that are able to change the way we tackle certain problems. There was a time,...
11 Jul 2025 2 minute read 1 comment Ship Shard
Publication in Russian on the Zen bloghttps://dzen.ru/a/aHDcAmO5F0FYdouY In Russia, they are once again talking about some incredible assistance that the "Russian Empire" provided to the young United States during the War of Independence. Trump shoul...
10 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet
I think the time has come to wrap up my series on undesigned coincidences, and lay them to rest, at least for now. This is in no way a definite last ever post on the subject from me, but I intend to move on to other topics for now at least. What I ha...
5 Jul 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Yttrandefrihet
I have previously covered some undesigned coincidences from the Gospels, specifically four from the narratives that describe the feeding of the five thousand miracle, and also an undesigned coincidence from the Old Testament. Next I would like to cov...
