Did you ever hear about the Lavochkin-250 Anakonda? Well, I didn't - until this evening.
Here is its story:
It was quite a beast, almost 27 m long, with a wingspan of 13.9m and a height of 6.5m, and powered by 2 Lyulka AL-7F-1 afterburning turbojet engines, 73.55 kN (16,535 lbf) thrust each dry, 98.06 kN (22,045 lbf) with afterburner. More here.
MFBB.
Friday, October 25, 2024
Sunday, October 20, 2024
FERMILAB SHORT LESSON: MUON TO ELECTRON CONVERSION.
On X, formerly twitter, I discovered Fermilabs (very) short educational videos, all the more reason to follow Fermilab's account!
First some background. An electron, with a mass of 0.511 megaelectron volts (MeV), is the lightest of the charged leptons (leptons are elementary particles of half-integer spin, i.e. spin 1/2, that don't not undergo strong interactions).
The next-heavier charged lepton is the muon. It has a mass of 106 MeV, which is some 200 times greater than the electron's mass but is significantly less than the proton's mass of 938 MeV (I recall from my physics lessons in high school that an electron's mass is about 1/2000th, to be precise 1/1854th or so, of a proton's mass, so 1,854 times 0.511 will indeed give you something in the neighborhood of 938 MeV). Apart from the great mass discrepancy, muons are elementary particles similar to electrons, with the same electric charge of −1 e and spin of -1/2. As with other leptons, the muon is not thought to be composed of any simpler particles. A muon is an unstable subatomic particle with a mean lifetime of 2.2 μs, which is however much longer than many other subatomic particles.
Be that as it may, that up quarks can become down quarks and one kind of neutrino another, I can understand. After all, the mass stays the same. However, what this video fails to tell me is how a muon could morph into an electron when it's some 200 times heavier??? Where would all the surplus mass go?
MFBB.
First some background. An electron, with a mass of 0.511 megaelectron volts (MeV), is the lightest of the charged leptons (leptons are elementary particles of half-integer spin, i.e. spin 1/2, that don't not undergo strong interactions).
The next-heavier charged lepton is the muon. It has a mass of 106 MeV, which is some 200 times greater than the electron's mass but is significantly less than the proton's mass of 938 MeV (I recall from my physics lessons in high school that an electron's mass is about 1/2000th, to be precise 1/1854th or so, of a proton's mass, so 1,854 times 0.511 will indeed give you something in the neighborhood of 938 MeV). Apart from the great mass discrepancy, muons are elementary particles similar to electrons, with the same electric charge of −1 e and spin of -1/2. As with other leptons, the muon is not thought to be composed of any simpler particles. A muon is an unstable subatomic particle with a mean lifetime of 2.2 μs, which is however much longer than many other subatomic particles.
#ExplainIn20Seconds Curious about muon-to-electron conversion? This short video explains it. Mu2e experiment @Fermilab is looking for such conversion, which would point us towards new physics beyond the standard model. pic.twitter.com/lVQ5EjyPFp
— Fermilab Education Office (@FermilabEd) October 3, 2024
Be that as it may, that up quarks can become down quarks and one kind of neutrino another, I can understand. After all, the mass stays the same. However, what this video fails to tell me is how a muon could morph into an electron when it's some 200 times heavier??? Where would all the surplus mass go?
MFBB.
Saturday, October 19, 2024
SATURDAY NIGHT DONNA SUMMER, HOT CHOCOLATE.
Donna Summer with Lady of the Night. From the eponymous 1974 album, actually her debut.
Iconic American singer/songwriter from Boston, MA, who became known as the Queen of Disco.
Hot Chocolate with It Started with a Kiss. From the 1982 album Mystery.
Hot Chocolate are a British soul band popular who came to prominence during the 1970s and 1980s. It was formed in 1968 by Errol Brown and Tony Wilson and, despite some hiccups, still around, although frontman Errol Brown died in 2015 from liver cancer.
Goede nacht.
MFBB.
Iconic American singer/songwriter from Boston, MA, who became known as the Queen of Disco.
Hot Chocolate with It Started with a Kiss. From the 1982 album Mystery.
Hot Chocolate are a British soul band popular who came to prominence during the 1970s and 1980s. It was formed in 1968 by Errol Brown and Tony Wilson and, despite some hiccups, still around, although frontman Errol Brown died in 2015 from liver cancer.
Goede nacht.
MFBB.
Sunday, October 06, 2024
WATCH: DOMINIK TARCZYNSKI (PiS) LECTURES EU GOONS IN EP ON ACCEPTING "REFUGEES".
Dominik Tarczyński is a Polish politician for the Law and Justice Party (PiS) and a journalist, who is making a name for himself as a firebrand Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2020. Previously, he was a member of the Sejm (MP) from 2015 to 2020. Here he lectures EU apparatchiks and co-MEPS who want to dump illegals into Poland:
Here is hoping that Polands new PM, Donald Tusk (PO), who has publicly pledged not to accept the EU migration quotas, will neither budge on this nor soften the conditions for granting citizenship for asylum seekers. The pressure is mounting.
MFBB.
Polish MEP Dominik Tarczynski silences EU politicians who wanted to dump third world immigrants in Poland.
— iamyesyouareno (@iamyesyouareno) October 6, 2024
WATCH: pic.twitter.com/7WGnzAINoB
Here is hoping that Polands new PM, Donald Tusk (PO), who has publicly pledged not to accept the EU migration quotas, will neither budge on this nor soften the conditions for granting citizenship for asylum seekers. The pressure is mounting.
MFBB.
Saturday, September 07, 2024
SATURDAY NIGHT DON McLEAN, MELEE.
Don McLean with Castles in the Air. From the 1981 album Believers, although it was actually released a decade earlier as a single.
American folk rock legend from La Rochelle, New York. This year the 'King of the Trail', who is 78, has been active for a staggering 60 years!
Mêlée with Built to Last, from their 2007 album Devils and Angels.
American rock band from Orange County in California, which formed in 2000. The band consisted of Ricky Sans, Chris Cron, Ryan Malloy and Derek Lee Rock.
Goedenacht.
MFBB.
American folk rock legend from La Rochelle, New York. This year the 'King of the Trail', who is 78, has been active for a staggering 60 years!
Mêlée with Built to Last, from their 2007 album Devils and Angels.
American rock band from Orange County in California, which formed in 2000. The band consisted of Ricky Sans, Chris Cron, Ryan Malloy and Derek Lee Rock.
Goedenacht.
MFBB.
Sunday, August 25, 2024
POLICE STATE GREAT BRITAIN.
The Starmer government has been in power for about two months, and it shows. Boys are being arrested for waving a British flag and grandmothers for Facebook posts.
There's a red thread - no pun intended - running from Alexandre de Moraes banning X in Brazil over Maduro, over the weaponization of justice by Dems in the US, to the arrest of Telegram founder Durov in France, the imprisonment of Dries Van Langenhove in Belgium over memes by members of his organization, the suspension of Compact Magazine in Germany by Nancy Faeser, to the downright fascist behaviour of Britain's new Labour government. In almost all of the Western world, the left has embarked on an offensive against freedom of speech. And perhaps no case is more shocking than Great Britain's:
Make no mistake, those arrests - shameful as they are in themselves - serve a purpose. This is PSYOPS, this is intimidation of native Britons. It's telling them that they, too, if they don't accept the Umvolkung of their country, risk being arrested.
Be all that as it may, the new Labour government is resorting only to state terror and is doing NOTHING to investigate the unrest among British people; an unrest that is the logical result of seeing their country being flooded day and night by Third World wreckage, of learning for the umpteenth time that here and there a man, or a kid, or a grandmother has been murdered by an illegal immigrant, of having to cope financially in a harsh economy while the government is spending more than 8 MILLION £ a day to house the tsunami of welfare seekers in luxury hotels...
The next riots will see Britons use firearms against their government. And who could blame them?
MFBB.
There's a red thread - no pun intended - running from Alexandre de Moraes banning X in Brazil over Maduro, over the weaponization of justice by Dems in the US, to the arrest of Telegram founder Durov in France, the imprisonment of Dries Van Langenhove in Belgium over memes by members of his organization, the suspension of Compact Magazine in Germany by Nancy Faeser, to the downright fascist behaviour of Britain's new Labour government. In almost all of the Western world, the left has embarked on an offensive against freedom of speech. And perhaps no case is more shocking than Great Britain's:
🚨BREAKING
— Europe Invasion (@EuropeInvasionn) August 24, 2024
British boy who waved England flag outside North Yorkshire Islamic centre jailed.
UK is falling pic.twitter.com/C9Ut9CW200
Left: Killed 14-year-old British boy with a machete. Sent to prison in March, to be released in 6 months.
— Europe Invasion (@EuropeInvasionn) August 20, 2024
Right: He was jailed after shouting at a police dog during riots.
UK has fallen. pic.twitter.com/ixmcdjITM8
🚨BREAKING
— Europe Invasion (@EuropeInvasionn) August 19, 2024
A 67-year-old man has been jailed for 20 months after chanting "you're not English any more" at police officers during a violent demonstration in London.
If he had killed a 14 year old British boy with a machete, he would have been released after 6 months. pic.twitter.com/MdniioPpj2
A 26-year-old boy has been sentenced to 3 years and 2 months in prison for inciting hatred towards immigrants in the UK riots. pic.twitter.com/kZLH5yqjZH
— Europe Invasion (@EuropeInvasionn) August 10, 2024
Left: Killed 14-year-old British boy with a machete. Sent to prison in March, to be released in 6 months.
— Europe Invasion (@EuropeInvasionn) August 10, 2024
Right: Commented on Facebook during riots. Will be in prison for 20 months.
UK is falling. pic.twitter.com/4LpNw7O9w9
Make no mistake, those arrests - shameful as they are in themselves - serve a purpose. This is PSYOPS, this is intimidation of native Britons. It's telling them that they, too, if they don't accept the Umvolkung of their country, risk being arrested.
Be all that as it may, the new Labour government is resorting only to state terror and is doing NOTHING to investigate the unrest among British people; an unrest that is the logical result of seeing their country being flooded day and night by Third World wreckage, of learning for the umpteenth time that here and there a man, or a kid, or a grandmother has been murdered by an illegal immigrant, of having to cope financially in a harsh economy while the government is spending more than 8 MILLION £ a day to house the tsunami of welfare seekers in luxury hotels...
The next riots will see Britons use firearms against their government. And who could blame them?
MFBB.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF UKRAINES INCURSION IN RUSSIA - BY JACK WATLING.
Jack Watling, Senior Research Fellow - Land Warfare, Military Sciences, posits that Ukraine, fearing a not so unlikely scenario of a 2nd Trump Administration and what it implies for Ukraine per recent statements by Mr Trump - tying negotiations with Russia to end the war as a condition for further help - invaded a chunk of Russia in order to obtain a bargaining chip.
Personally, when the 'invasion' started on August 6, I only thought it was a raid as only elements of two brigades were involved. Primarily meant in the context of a psychological war, to give the Russians a taste of discomfort, the feeling that a supposedly far weaker adversary is, in the third year of the 'special operation', still capable not only of defending itself but even of attacking its foe on its own soil. I even thought that they were not going to hold on to their gains for long.
But in the meantime, at least 6 brigades are involved and it is indeed beginning to look like the Ukrainians plan to hold on to the conquered territory - something to bargain with if indeed a Trump Administration forces the two warring parties to the negotiation table. Per Mr Watlings column in The Guardian, Saturday August 17, 2024:
Also, don't miss these videos, per Rob Lee, to get an idea of what front operations look like:
One of the units involved is the 82nd Air Landing Brigade. Apparently the basic operational unit in the UA Army is the brigade. Nowhere have I seen divisions mentioned.
Good night.
MFBB.
Ukraine’s extraordinary incursion into Kursk has changed the narrative of the war – but is a high-risk strategy - I write for @ObserverUK https://t.co/wVoqeriZe2 @RUSI_org
— Jack Watling (@Jack_Watling) August 17, 2024
Personally, when the 'invasion' started on August 6, I only thought it was a raid as only elements of two brigades were involved. Primarily meant in the context of a psychological war, to give the Russians a taste of discomfort, the feeling that a supposedly far weaker adversary is, in the third year of the 'special operation', still capable not only of defending itself but even of attacking its foe on its own soil. I even thought that they were not going to hold on to their gains for long.
But in the meantime, at least 6 brigades are involved and it is indeed beginning to look like the Ukrainians plan to hold on to the conquered territory - something to bargain with if indeed a Trump Administration forces the two warring parties to the negotiation table. Per Mr Watlings column in The Guardian, Saturday August 17, 2024:
"Politically, the purpose of the operation is to build leverage ahead of possible negotiations. If Donald Trump wins the US presidency in November, the threat of withdrawing military-technical assistance is likely to force Kyiv to negotiate. The Ukrainian government wants to make sure that if it has to enter that process, it has things that Russia wants to trade for concessions. The Ukrainian military, therefore, must take and hold a sizeable chunk of Russian land for the duration of potential negotiations.
Another important element of the offensive is that Ukraine succeeded in maintaining operational security before launching the assault. This has been a significant problem with past Ukrainian operations, and the competence in the preparation and planning demonstrates lessons being learned from last year’s offensive that will encourage partners about the prospects for future operations.
It helped that Russian military intelligence appears to have suffered once again from a chronic lack of curiosity or imagination as Ukrainian forces were withdrawn from the line in Donbas.
So far Ukrainian forces in Kursk have been tactically successful. Undertrained Russian infantry have again performed poorly when lacking command and control, and confronted by a manoeuvring opponent without fixed points of reference. Surrendering Russian platoons are a symptom of the poor cohesion that exemplified the Russian collapse in Kharkiv in 2022.
While the Kursk operation is politically significant, a parallel series of Ukrainian strikes targeting Russian airfields is more militarily advantageous. Russian aircraft have been central to both the long-range strikes on Ukraine’s critical national infrastructure, and the glide bomb attacks on frontline positions that are inflicting heavy losses on Ukraine. Damaging planes is vital in reducing pressure on Ukraine’s defences.
There is a limit to how successful Ukraine can be. It was suffering from a shortage of troops to rotate and hold the line prior to its operation in Kursk. Now it has pulled together what was available as an operational reserve and committed it to a new axis. There is a limit to how far this force can push before it overextends, meaning it will need to dig in soon if the Ukrainians are to hold the ground until negotiations. But as soon as the front stops being dynamic, the Russians will dig defences and then bring up artillery, electronic warfare complexes and fresh troops. In the short term, the operation has diverted the weight of Russian air-delivered bombs away from Donbas, but this will be temporary. Russia has enough personnel and equipment to fight both fronts. It is less clear that this is true for Ukraine.
The military risks build with time. Having committed its operational reserve, Ukraine will struggle to plug gaps in the line, and it has not yet managed to resolve the threat posed by Russian reconnaissance drones, glide bombs, artillery, electronic warfare and operational-tactical missile complexes. Collectively these capabilities are allowing Russia to continue a steady advance to Pokrovsk, Toretsk and other towns in Donbas. These towns will soon be depopulated, and defending them will be resource-intensive...."
Also, don't miss these videos, per Rob Lee, to get an idea of what front operations look like:
Video of the breach on August 6 with a UR-77 MICLIC.https://t.co/vttpNoKnNq pic.twitter.com/25iGLXJ778
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) August 17, 2024
One of the units involved is the 82nd Air Landing Brigade. Apparently the basic operational unit in the UA Army is the brigade. Nowhere have I seen divisions mentioned.
Video from Ukraine's 82nd Air Assault Brigade of the beginning of the Kursk operation. It shows a Russian Ka-52 helicopter being shot down.https://t.co/duiJ3rKPdY pic.twitter.com/IYlgDbNJiV
— Rob Lee (@RALee85) August 17, 2024
Good night.
MFBB.
Sunday, August 11, 2024
INSANITY IN THE UK.
A truly frightening evolution in the UK, where you can now be ARRESTED and IMPRISONED over social media posts deemed 'offensive' by the government. This is the head of London Police, "Sir" Mark Rowley. If it's up to him, Keir Jong Un's goons can grab you from behind your computer even if you are posting from abroad.
Meanwhile, on London's streets:
MFBB.
Met Police Commissioner Mark Rowley threatens to EXTRADITE and imprison American citizens over online posts.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 9, 2024
He does not rule out Elon Musk. pic.twitter.com/AUJhEgTTtJ
Meanwhile, on London's streets:
This is Sadiq Khan's London. In two years there will be no British people left. pic.twitter.com/ccx0OYVxyP
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) August 10, 2024
MFBB.
Saturday, August 10, 2024
SATURDAY NIGHT WENDY AND BONNIE, AIR.
Wendy and Bonnie with I realized you. From their sole album Genesis (1969).
Wendy and Bonnie Flower were Californian singing sisters from Millbrae, San Francisco Bay Area.
Air with Playground Love. From the soundtrack of The Virgin Suicides (2000).
Air is a French music duo from Versailles, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel. Formed in 1995, still around.
Hat tip for both OutlawDaughter. Good night.
MFBB.
Wendy and Bonnie Flower were Californian singing sisters from Millbrae, San Francisco Bay Area.
Air with Playground Love. From the soundtrack of The Virgin Suicides (2000).
Air is a French music duo from Versailles, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel. Formed in 1995, still around.
Hat tip for both OutlawDaughter. Good night.
MFBB.
Friday, July 12, 2024
DREADFUL STAT OF THE DAY.
Per @cdrsalamander, our longtime ally, this appalling stat which sheds light on US women's fertility:
I don't have similar stats for Europe but there's no doubt that they tell a comparable story. Also, I'm not sure about the US, but what I am sure of is that these stats highlight the fertility status of WHITE women. If the examples I can witness firsthand are anything to go by, it may be even worse.
Excessive consumerism and rejection of conservatism - read, embracing of leftist adages - having already taken their toll, in recent decades other factors have manifested themselves which torpedo a white woman's desire for motherhood even more. They are:
* incessant propaganda for gay lifestyles
* third wave feminism
* gender insanity, which is catastrophically telling very young boys and girls that they can be girls and boys by mutilating them - thereby blocking forever the path towards being a parent
* climate lunacy, which essentially is telling young people that humans are the problem and the less there are, the better it is for Mother Gaia (think Extinction Rebellion)
* economic hardships. Indeed, as the European nannystate increasingly diverts resources to welcome and settle gargantuan imports of Third World welfare seekers, taxes and prices have gone up, and the first victims thereof are whites, who have to pay for it. Your typical euro couple which despite everything still thinks of having one and perhaps two children, postpones that wish until things get better. But it doesn't look like they will.
It makes me SICK, seeing how we are wiping out ourselves.
How will this all end? Well, do the math. Take e.g. the example of Ukraine, a country that faces the additional burden of a devastating war which, very unfortunately, wipes away cohorts of young men and women in their prime who should actually be starting families:
MFBB.
I don't have similar stats for Europe but there's no doubt that they tell a comparable story. Also, I'm not sure about the US, but what I am sure of is that these stats highlight the fertility status of WHITE women. If the examples I can witness firsthand are anything to go by, it may be even worse.
Excessive consumerism and rejection of conservatism - read, embracing of leftist adages - having already taken their toll, in recent decades other factors have manifested themselves which torpedo a white woman's desire for motherhood even more. They are:
* incessant propaganda for gay lifestyles
* third wave feminism
* gender insanity, which is catastrophically telling very young boys and girls that they can be girls and boys by mutilating them - thereby blocking forever the path towards being a parent
* climate lunacy, which essentially is telling young people that humans are the problem and the less there are, the better it is for Mother Gaia (think Extinction Rebellion)
* economic hardships. Indeed, as the European nannystate increasingly diverts resources to welcome and settle gargantuan imports of Third World welfare seekers, taxes and prices have gone up, and the first victims thereof are whites, who have to pay for it. Your typical euro couple which despite everything still thinks of having one and perhaps two children, postpones that wish until things get better. But it doesn't look like they will.
It makes me SICK, seeing how we are wiping out ourselves.
How will this all end? Well, do the math. Take e.g. the example of Ukraine, a country that faces the additional burden of a devastating war which, very unfortunately, wipes away cohorts of young men and women in their prime who should actually be starting families:
So, Ukraine has a fertility rate of 1.16 children per woman.
— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) July 9, 2024
There are other nations who have less, but let's say they maintain their independence, but don't increase, or decrease their fertility rate.
How long until the Ukrainian people disappear?
233 years it seems.
/1 pic.twitter.com/araPZbW5tD
MFBB.
Friday, July 05, 2024
REQUIEM FOR ALBION.
The UK elections are over. As expected, the Tories got - rightly so - a clobbering, and Farage's Reform did well. However, the UK electoral system being some kind of first past the post variety, the big winner is Labour, and Keir Starmer is the new PM.
Starmer did not lose time in announcing the new top jobs. They spell disaster.
Angela Rayner is Deputy PM and Minister for Housing:
Yvette Cooper becomes Home Secretary:
Shabana Mahmood is the new Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice:
etc
The most dangerous demographic subgroup in the West is formed by white 'progressive' women, of which there is no shortage in the new Starmer government. The UK is as good as dead.
But make no mistake: the Tories are responsible for this. Had they governed in a conservative way, the UK would be fine and dandy. It is NOT. They got punished for betraying conservatism, of which the migration tsunami which could on unchecked for years is but one aspect. The Tories got deservedly clobbered.
Unfortunately, Labour got undeservedly rewarded.
And now Britain, and Britons, will pay the price. A very hefty one.
MFBB.
The British pound will soon convert to the British Bolivar pic.twitter.com/SbV3Hb2NXM
— BowTiedMara (@BowTiedMara) July 5, 2024
Starmer did not lose time in announcing the new top jobs. They spell disaster.
Angela Rayner is Deputy PM and Minister for Housing:
Labour's @AngelaRayner has been appointed Deputy Prime Minister & Minister for Housing.
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) July 5, 2024
She has promised migrants in every town, and is looking to build for them 250,000 new homes. No Brits need to apply. pic.twitter.com/0bJ7GephHU
Yvette Cooper becomes Home Secretary:
If you thought the tories had bad home secretary’s. You ain’t seen nothing yet pic.twitter.com/YoInhFQdM9
— Sick Of It 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@WayneGb88) July 5, 2024
Shabana Mahmood is the new Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice:
Meet the UK’s new Justice Minister.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) July 5, 2024
🇬🇧🇵🇸
Shabana Mahmood has become the new Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice.
The ‘Free Palestine’ activist will be in charge of the administration and reform of core parts of the British justice system. pic.twitter.com/YschXz4oaC
etc
The most dangerous demographic subgroup in the West is formed by white 'progressive' women, of which there is no shortage in the new Starmer government. The UK is as good as dead.
But make no mistake: the Tories are responsible for this. Had they governed in a conservative way, the UK would be fine and dandy. It is NOT. They got punished for betraying conservatism, of which the migration tsunami which could on unchecked for years is but one aspect. The Tories got deservedly clobbered.
Unfortunately, Labour got undeservedly rewarded.
And now Britain, and Britons, will pay the price. A very hefty one.
MFBB.
Wednesday, July 03, 2024
FORMULA OF THE DAY: THE FINE-STRUCTURE CONSTANT.
Fine-Structure Constant (approx. 1/137) is a dimensionless constant that characterizes the strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles. Its value is approximately 1/137, and it's one of the fundamental constants of nature whose origin remains… pic.twitter.com/VIteZcu4K2
— Physics In History (@PhysInHistory) January 31, 2024
* e is the elementary charge (1.602176634×10−19 C);
* h is the Planck constant (6.62607015×10−34 J⋅Hz−1);
* ħ is the reduced Planck constant, ħ = h/2π (1.054571817...×10−34 J⋅s)
* c is the speed of light (299792458 m⋅s−1);
* ε0 is the electric constant (8.8541878188(14)×10−12 F⋅m−1).
So the Fine-Structure Constant is essential in defining the electromagnetic force, one of the four fundamental forces in nature.
MFBB.
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