THE LUNACY CONTINUES: NETFLIX TRANSGENDERS VIKING WARRIOR INTO BLACK WOMAN.

In a world where normals start to think, 'Now I've seen it all re transgender lunacy' Netflix says 'Hold my soya latte':

Haakon Jarl was a Viking warrior who ruled Norway from 975-995. He earned the title Hakon the Powerful.

So naturally, Netflix made him a black woman. pic.twitter.com/XPQSsjUFMS

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 8, 2023

Checked it out, it's true:

"In the new series Vikings: Valhalla, the diverse city of Kattegat might seem like an outlier to those who aren’t familiar with Viking history. But fact is closer than fiction. In the show, a war rages between the Vikings and the English over political indifferences rooted in intolerance of religious worship and other cultural practices. In the midst of the fray is a seaside province ruled by Jarl Estrid Haakon, a Black Scandinavian ruler who manages to strike a balance between the tense intermingling of religions and the vibrant intercultural exchanges in the port city's open-air marketplace. In real life, and as depicted on the show, Vikings often traveled and settled down all around the globe in the Middle Ages, stretching across Constantinople, Russia, North Africa, Spain and even Canada. While other characters are based on real people, Estrid Haakon is an invented character, whose Viking grandfather met her royal African grandmother while in the great trading city of Alexandria, Egypt. They fell in love and returned to Kattegat, eventually passing on ruling duties to her..."

"Diverse". Check.
"intolerance of religious worship and other cultural practices" Check.
"vibrant intercultural exchanges" Check.


Netflix. You STINK.



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WEEKEND MOVIE TIP: SCREAMERS.

If you are looking for a decent sci-fi flick that sites like 101 Science Fiction Movies You Must See Before You Die won't ever list, watch Screamers, from 1995. Directed by Christian Duguay, it's based on the 1953 short story Second Variety by acclaimed author Philip K. Dick, whose prodigious output also inspired movies like Total Recall, Minority Report, Blade Runner etc, so that's saying something.





The protagonist is played by the underrated Peter Weller (Robocop, Robocop 2, Naked Lunch). Jennifer Rubin also stars. I'm aware Rotten Tomatoes gives it 29% approval, but that's bullcrap. Screamers is OK. Grand cinema it is not, but it is worth your time.


Only recently did I learn that in 2009 a sequel was made, Screamers: The Hunting, but I haven't seen it yet, can't comment. If one of you gents or ladies have, you can always leave a review in the comments. Nite.



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PRAGER UNIVERSITY CONTENT BECOMING AVAILABLE IN OKLAHOMA PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

This is actually GREAT news:

BREAKING: Oklahoma’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, @RyanWaltersSupt, welcomes PragerU Kids to schools! 🙌 Together we will offer students the opportunity to learn from our wholesome, patriotic, and age-appropriate supplementary content. You can help get PragerU in more… pic.twitter.com/g6Z7Lw943d

— PragerU (@prageru) September 5, 2023

Big Announcement: PragerU Kids is Partnering with Oklahoma!https://t.co/09uRibvmm0

— PragerU (@prageru) September 5, 2023

Over here in Europe we could use a healthy dose of Prager U in our universities and high schools too, but the mere mention of a rightwing politician ballsy, original and creative enough to propose it would unleash hell!



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THE REAL HATE CRIMES.

It goes further than a hate crime. If as a parent you allow THIS to happen to your child, you deserve to be put behind bars.


Some people who may indeed feel like they were born a male in a female body and vice versa, face a callous, genuine struggle. I'm convinced it's not a fad. They need a listening ear, compassion, good advice...

Historians will study pictures like this in horror & wonder how people did nothing pic.twitter.com/EG0omX9E86

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 5, 2023

...Children however cannot reasonably be trusted when they claim their supposed inclination is strong enough to allow this most drastic of 'solutions' to go through. Genital mutilation depraves them for the rest of their lives of the possibility to procreate. Lunatics who allow this to happen are responsible for ruined lives and worse - I'm thinking of these poor kids growing up, realizing the enormity of what has been done to them, and somewhere down the line flipping - possibly murdering others. In this insane time and age, count on things like that to happen more and more.



I never once gave Charlize Theron the benefit of the doubt...

Imagine adopting 2 little black boys and dressing them up as girls.

It’s the ultimate hate crime. pic.twitter.com/h1DlapkaR2

— Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis (@DrLoupis) September 5, 2023

...to me, she was an obnoxious, annoying twat from the very beginning.



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SATURDAY NIGHT TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB, BON JOVI.

Two Door Cinema Club with What you know. From their 2011 debut album Tourist History.





Blokes from Bangor, Northern Ireland. Formed in 2007, still around, which is quite a feat for the generation involved. They are Alex Trimble (vocals, rhythm guitar, beats, synths), Sam Halliday (lead guitar, backing vocals), and Kevin Baird (bass, synths, backing vocals).



Bon Jovi with Livin' on a Prayer. Album Slippery When Wet (1986).





Formed in Sayreville, New Jersey, in 1983. That's... 40 years ago this year. Really.


Slaap wel.



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DENMARK CAVES IN FOR ISLAMIC HATEBEARDS, PROPOSES JAIL TERM FOR BURNING QURAN.

Tweep Unpleasant Truths, like yours truly a Fleming:


"The Islamization of the West accelerates. 5 years ago this was still unthinkable, now one caves in out of fear for terrorists and violence from radical muslims. In a couple of years, kuffars in Belgium will also be lynched for blasphemy.

De islamisering van het westen versnelt.
5 jaar geleden was dit nog ondenkbaar, nu gaat men overstag uit angst voor terroristen en geweld door radicale moslims.
Binnen enkele jaren worden ook bij ons 'ongelovigen' gelyncht wegens blasfemische uitspraken.https://t.co/8miHLUohYy

— Unpleasant Truths (@UnpleasantTrut2) September 1, 2023

That's a very real predicament. I myself was thrown off Twitter some 2 months ago after responding to a muslim woman who had posted a photo of an IDF soldier and a Palestinian boy, aged perhaps 8 or 9. Her tweet? The accompanying text was "Unimaginable horror" or some such. Which was ridiculous, because the boy was smiling at the soldier and the soldier himself clearly didn't strike a threatening pose and indeed seemed to smile back. I remarked to the muslim woman that I failed to see what exactly was so 'horrible' about the scene and, it is true, used the expletive 'Paleostinians' - imho not too far off the mark since Palestinians still haven't evolved much beyond ineffectively toting Kalashnikovs just as they did in 1970, while Israel is now sending spacecraft to the Moon. Moreover, I added that the *real* danger for the boy wasn't so much the Israeli military but Hamas, which deliberately fires crude Qassam rockets from civilian areas in the hope that Israeli retaliatory fire will make Palestinian victims: it's good propaganda.


Next thing you know, that muslim woman reported me to Twitter and I got thrown off it. There was no attempt to engage me with arguments, no sir, I said something she didn't like, BAM, shut up you! Twitter complied, claiming that I had broken the twitter rules. I thought Musk had weedled out the leftwing crazies but apparently I was mistaken:





There is a very real danger that, as our own demographic death spiral continues - and it does, more than ever - and the demographic consequences of Europes islamization manifest themselves in our executive, legislative and judicial areas, laws will be applied more and more to stifle any opposition to said islamization. Muslims worldwide have made it abundantly clear, time and again, that Allahs laws are above those made by humans. Yet they will embrace those very same human-made laws, in particular if they come from kuffars, if they can help them to silence those criticizing their evil 'faith'.


The Danish Minister of Justice proposing the ban - and jail term - for those burning the Quran is one Peter Hummelgaard.


He's a socialist.


But, I suspect you suspected that already.



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THE DELIBERATE DESTRUCTION OF OUR SOCIETIES GOES ON DAY AFTER DAY...

And on both sides of the Atlantic. In Western Europe as in North America, "progressives" - can someone tell me why they aren't called "regressives"??? - are feverishly importing Third World wreckage with the deliberate intention of watering down, over time, the authochton vote.


Filip Dewinter, Vlaams Belang: "Paris was once a city of culture, civilization, fashion, exquisite dining, elegance and refinement... now it is mostly this... the great levelling thanks to mass immigration and multiculturalism!"

#Parijs was ooit een stad van cultuur, beschaving, mode, gastronomie, elegantie en verfijning… Nu is het vooral dit… de nivellering naar beneden dankzij de massa-immigratie en de multicultuur! pic.twitter.com/n0Mv3R0rWh

— Filip Dewinter (@FDW_VB) August 30, 2023

I might add a comment made by my daughter last Spring, after visiting Paris for a couple of days with several of her co-students: "Paris stinks."



And via James Woods, here's a "sanctuary city", read, a vehicle invented by leftists to keep our usurpers here so that they can continue their destructive handiwork.

Sanctuary city. And there is no end in sight.

The globalists destroyed western civilization before we even knew it was happening. pic.twitter.com/BzRC2BpKHK

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) August 31, 2023

Next year there's parliamentary elections in Belgium. If by some miracle we are able to boot the socialists and greens out of office, I contend that the electoral punishment is NOT ENOUGH ANYMORE. They should face trial. For treason and the deliberate destruction of prosperity.



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SATURDAY NIGHT THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT, ENNIO MORRICONE.

The Alan Parsons Project with Don't Answer Me. Album Ammonia Avenue (1984).





The band's last big hit.



Ennio Morricone's Deborah's Theme. From the soundtrack of Once Upon A Time in America (1984).





Sergio Leone's last movie. Deborah's Theme was actually written for another movie in the 70s, but it was rejected for that one.



Dobranoc.



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THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH LEFTISTS' GOOD INTENTIONS.

It should be a no brainer.

These people in California are robbing in a free-for-all because of this law: 🚨🚨🚨

🔊

Proposition 47 changed the law so that theft of $950 and below is a misdemeanor. In reality, nobody is prosecuted even if caught. This has created a free for all in California with no… pic.twitter.com/BanDQd8nmH

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) August 21, 2023

Scary scenes coming out of Philadelphia.

Drug epidemic is spreading throughout the United States. These new cheap drugs put people into a zombie like trance. 🚨🚨🚨

🔊 pic.twitter.com/3HhoWsODEl

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) August 22, 2023

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SUNDAY NIGHT ART SNACK: JAMES PROUDFOOT, SAMUEL JOHN LAMORNA BIRCH, ROCKWELL KENT.

Sunlight on a building (1937), by the Scottish artist James Proudfoot.



Morning Sun, by Samuel Birch.



Monhegan Island, by Rockwell Kent.



All three paintings courtesy of Richard Morris, art historian and art journalist. His knowledge about precious late 19th Century/early 20th Century paintings which have thus far escaped attention of the broader public - and even many people rather knowledgeable in art - is encyclopedic. If you are on twitter, follow him: https://twitter.com/ahistoryinart.

If you are not yet on twitter, making an account for the sole purpose of reading only his tweets is worthwhile!


Good night. Oh yes, I think I should tell you... August 20, 2023 is an historic date for this here humble blog...


...since today we passed the magical treshold of 2,000,000 pageviews. Since 2003! Which means that on average, DowneastBlog attracted over the years some 100,000 PVs per year, or about 273 a day. Very modest of course, but still... it means that I do not intend to stop just yet!


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SATURDAY NIGHT ELTON JOHN, GENESIS.

Elton John with Song for Guy. From the 1978 album A Single Man.





The guy in question was a certain Guy Burchett, a 17-yo messenger boy who worked for Elton John's Rocket Records label and who was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident on the day John wrote the song. The artist was so moved by this that he named the song in Burchett's honor.



Genesis with It. From their concept album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (1974).





Many moons ago, while still an engineering student in Ghent, I bought it in one of the two foremost LP/CD shops in that city, either Bilbo or Music Man, can't remember anymore which one. TLLDOB had been recommmened to me - feverishly, if I may say so - by a colleague by the name of Marnix B. He was completely smitten by it. Discovering it was a weird experience, to say the least. But here we are, almost half a century after release, and it still sounds good.



Goede nacht.



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RECOMMENDED READS: NOEL S. WILLIAMS' "TOXIC BARBIE TAKES A ROAD TRIP."

Over at American Thinker, an excellent take by Noel S. Williams on the ludicrous Barbie movie now wreaking havoc in theaters across the planet:

"I weep for our youth — confoundingly, the movie Barbie did well at the box office. Apparently, the little pink lady goes on a journey of self-discovery, a road trip to the real world. Since Barbie likes road trips, let's help her exit an existential crisis. Let's help her escape Barbie-Land toxicity by chaperoning her on a coast-to-coast trip that will enlighten her about the benefits of so-called toxic masculinity.


There are many routes for this toxic lady to take, and they all represent astonishing achievements of men with a can-do spirit who surmounted forbidding challenges as they wrestled comfort from nature's grip.


She is mostly going to take the iconic Lincoln Highway from New York to San Francisco, about 80% of which is part of the old route. The historic trans-continental highway predates Route 66 and runs approximately 3,142 miles From New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco. It was overwhelmingly conceived, engineered, and built by industrious men. Women may have done some time-keeping paperwork as the men shed blood, toil, tears and sweat to forge this continent-taming artery.


Barbie passes Times Square and chooses the Lincoln Tunnel, critical to the free flow of goods and people. It hasn't dawned on her, yet, but the tunnel she takes for granted was very dangerous to build; in fact, 15 men died constructing the first two tunnels, though Newsweek describes them as "workers." Please! By that contorted lexicography, I suppose the Saturn V rocket that launched men toward the moon was "crewed."


After a slight detour, Barbie transits from New Jersey into Pennsylvania via the Ben Franklin Bridge, the engineers and architects of which were men. Tragically, 15 workers-cum-men died building the thing. However, she remains Pretty-in-Pink clueless.



Pushing onward, if not upward, Barbie crosses the mighty Mississippi on Mark Morris Memorial Bridge, which replaced the iconic Lyons-Fulton Bridge. The ironwork for the original started in March 1891, employing 50 workers-cum-men manipulating around 1,200,000 pounds of iron. Not toxicity, but a lot of testosterone-fueled energy and strength was exerted to cast, shape, deploy, and weld that much iron.


On to Nebraska — as quickly as she can pass through what she considers to be dreary Iowa — Barbie drives under the Great Platte River Road Archway Monument, which memorializes the adventurers who helped to build America. The 300-foot span above interstate 80 wasn't built by those with a Lazy Girl Job, work-from-home ethic. Nope. It required testosterone-induced manpower.


Not at home in the hinterlands, Barbie is now speeding through Telephone Canyon in Wyoming. Here's another consideration the pampered pink lady should entertain: it took industrious men, not "Lazy Boy" job-seekers, to run that telephone line that facilitated development between Cheyenne and Laramie.


Too bad her self-discovery is proving elusive, because Barbie is now approaching the Lincoln Highway Terminus in Lincoln Park, San Francisco. The park overlooks the iconic, International Orange–adorned Golden Gate Bridge. San Francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, so this bridge is critical in connecting to Marin County in the north.


The awe-inspiring suspension bridge spans turbulent waters. Its towers rise an impressive 746 feet into the gusty, fog-laden troposphere — over twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, and higher than the Washington Monument. Though a net was erected to catch men of the "Halfway-to-Hell Club," eleven workers-cum-men died during construction. Their sacrifices are unbeknownst to self-absorbed Barbie..."

Read it all.



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IMPORT THE THIRD WORLD, BECOME THE THIRD WORLD.

From Filip Dewinter's twitter account, images from Brussels South, which is Brussels most important railway station since most lines from around the country and the most important international railway connections (including the Eurostar to and from London) converge here:

Een marginale sloppenwijk in een Afrikaanse derde wereldstad? Nee gewoon het station #Brussel-Zuid in de hoofdstad van #Europa… pic.twitter.com/5ZiJYwlSVw

— Filip Dewinter (@FDW_VB) August 13, 2023

Cursed be our politicians.



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SATURDAY NIGHT GEORGE HARRISON, JUDY COLLINS.

George Harrison with the Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp. From his 1970 album All Things Must Pass.





Harrison wrote it as a tribute to Frank Crisp, a nineteenth-century lawyer and microscopologist as well as the original owner of Friar Park, the Victorian Gothic residence in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, that Harrison bought in early 1970.



Judy Collins with Both Sides Now. From her 1967 album Wildflowers.





American singer/songwriter from Seattle, Washington. "Both Sides, Now" was actually written by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, but it was Collins who recorded it first. It appeared on the US singles chart during the fall of 1968.


Hat tip for both OutlawDaugher, 21!


Goede nacht.



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RECOMMENDED READS: GINA LOUDON'S "THE DARK, UNTOLD TRUTH OF TRANSGENDERISM".

Over at Townhall, a must read by Gina Loudon:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” — Quote commonly attributed to Joseph Goebbels

There is a new stock-in-trade in the American domain today – human beings.
Even children are being used in Mengelian experimentations that might have given Hitler pause.
The tragedy of sexual-reassignment surgery has a terrifying history.
The popularization of medically sanctioned sexual mutilation began with well-known sexual perversion advocate, Alfred Kinsey.
Kinsey contended that people are “sexual from birth” and experimented on babies in the 1940s and 50s. His legacy stands largely unchallenged today by the American Medical Association, despite his advocacy of bestiality, pedophilia, sadomasochism, and incest.
His experiments largely led to the so-called Sexual Revolution.
In 1967, a student of Kinsey named John Money was asked by a set of desperate parents to repair a botched circumcision on their baby boy, David, who was a twin. Rather than repair the damage, Money advised the couple to raise the baby as a girl and remove his genitalia.
By age 12, David was struggling mentally in addition to his physical malformities. By 14, he begged to be made male again. Throughout his teens, he became severely depressed. Ultimately, both brothers ended their own lives.

It was later reported that Money sexually molested both boys, and forced them to have incestuous relations with one another at age 7.
This tragic case prompted further study, and the not-yet-corrupted medical establishment opted to largely end sanctions of the mutilation experiments, for a time.
So if we, as a nation, researched this and even the left agreed to end such studies because the outcomes were so grim, why have the powers that be reinvented this cause at this point in time?
The American Medical Association stands to gain millions of dollars between surgeries and medicines from each transition. The American Psychological Association will have its membership explode when all of these children and their parents and families need a lifetime of therapy and drugs for what they have done. Big Pharma can’t even calculate the money that will rush to them. And the Democrats have taken up their cause calling it “gender affirming care,” (as if there were anything “caring” about it, considering the real data). The Democrats will be richly rewarded by all of those profiting off of these children, and the cycle will continue.
They will hire their own corporate “scientists” to conduct “research” to confirm their propaganda, and just like that – a total fraud will be imposed on the American people.

Those imposing this horror will clutch their pearls and deny their collusion or a profit motive, and sadly many Americans and others who stand to be bilked (or worse) will overlook the undeniable truth of this. But data exposes their profit motive.
Vanderbilt University and London’s Portman Clinic tracked those who forewent gender reassignment, and found that 70-80% of those who face gender confusion but do not have transition surgery, lost their feelings of confusion over time and ultimately were considered “recovered.”
Johns Hopkins ended their sexual reassignment surgery in 1970 for that reason. Their chief psychiatrist called sex change “biologically impossible” in the Wall Street Journal.
He cited a 2011 study at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden that followed 324 sex reassignment patients for decades. After 10 years, patients had increased mental difficulties. Suicide mortality rose to almost 20 times the rate of those who did not transition.
Why aren’t we reading this or hearing it from the “experts” on our televisions?
Many sober-minded professionals point to the reality that in no other dysmorphic disorder, do professionals advise that we “equip” the disorder by prescribing diets to anorexics, or sharp knives to Borderline Personality “cutting” patients, for example.

If the real concern is suicide, why is the AMA/APA/Democrat party not studying the use of gender affirming hormones rather than prescribing hormones and mutilation contrary to their natural birth gender?
It certainly cannot be the multi-million dollar price tag on the head of every child they transition. Surely not. Because “the truth is the greatest enemy of the state.”


These are dark times, indeed.



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AIR DEFENDER 2023 OVER SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN!

A yearly NATO exercise involving 10,000 personnel and some 250 aircraft. Magnificent images of, a.o., the venerable MRCA Tornado, still in service with the Luftwaffe.





Notice, at the 16:09 mark, the Luftwaffe Typhoon with the stylized portrait of General Johannes Steinhoff on its vertical stabilizer. Steinhoff was a famous ace in WW2's Luftwaffe. In the last weeks of the war, he was a member of the famous, albeit small, JV (Jagdverband) 44, an ad hoc Gruppe of Me262 jets raised and commanded by Adolf Galland and grouping together 'Experten' as well as promising novices. Sometime in mid-April 1945, Galland took off in a Kette (a 3-aircraft formation) from JV44's base at Muenchen-Riem, and burst a tire. His Me262 crashed and, choke full of jet fuel, immediately took fire. Somehow Steinhoff managed to get out of the jet, but engulfed in flames as it was, he suffered severe burns all over his body. Although he maintained his sight, his eyelids, severely singed, died off, and it wasn't until some 20 years later that Steinhoff (by then a General in the postwar Luftwaffe) was operated so that finally he could close his eyes again!


Hat tip Kuruki (twitter handle @Kuruki23882260 ).


Nite.



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SATURDAY NIGHT BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, DEPECHE MODE.

Bruce Springsteen with Brilliant Disguise. From the 1987 album Tunnel of Love.





Single is about his doubts about his marriage to actress and model Julianne Phillips. They divorced in 1989.




Depeche Mode with Policy of Truth. Album Violator (1990).





You wouldn't believe it, but after 43 years the band, though now reduced to Gahan and Gore, is still around (DM formed in Basildon, Essex UK in 1980).



Good night.



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FASCINATING VIDEO OF THE CONVAIR B-36 PEACEMAKER'S INTERIOR!

A legendary intercontinental bomber caught between two eras.





We've shown this clip from the movie Strategic Air Command, starring James Stewart, before:





Nite.



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LEGENDARY ENGINES: THE NAPIER DELTIC.

A magnificent video on yet another brilliant Napier product, the Deltic:





As you heard, before Napier, Junkers too found out there were problems with the correct phasing of the three cilinder banks. Where Junkers abandoned the triangular design and developed a 'square' variant with four banks, which apparently gave no problems, Napier found the solution. Or rather, a senior draftsman at Napier found it: simply making one of the three crankshafts run in the opposite direction to the other two!



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BRILLIANT VIDEO: WHAT HAPPENS IF A STAR EXPLODES NEAR EARTH?

A must watch, even if physics is not right away your strong suit:





Good night.



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