America

America Greatest Hits (Full Album) [Official Video]
RHINO

We flew to Las Vegas last weekend to see an America concert. The concert was fine, but Las Vegas is nuts. We stayed in a room on the 39th floor of the Resort Worlds Hilton. The room was pretty nice, but finding a place to eat at 9PM was a bit of a pain. There are probably a dozen restaurants on the main floor, but it's a long walk from one end to the other and we were already beat. There was a food court that looked like it might have some decent food, but you need to order off of touch screen that wants your name, your number, and a laundry list of bullshit. Or you could use the app on your phone. Fuck that. We already tried using the phone to check in and that did not work at all. We ended up at the Dawg House where giant burgers were $20 and beers were $15. There was a giant (30 feet wide?) TV screen showing a football game between the Buffalo Bills and the Detroit Lions. What the heck is this? I am used to people watching sporting events involving teams the people care about. Did we have a big influx of people from the midwest? No, dummy, nobody here cares about the teams, all they care about it whether they can beat the odds and win some money. And of course, most of them won't. The only winner is the house, but they still manage to suck in a zillion fools every day.

Submarines

HMS Vanguard (S28), a Royal Navy nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine

Russian Navy Yasen-class (Project 885) nuclear-powered attack submarine Severodvinsk (K-329)

USS Annapolis (SSN 760) rests in the Arctic Ocean after surfacing through three feet of ice during Ice Exercise 2009

Smithsonian Model of Poseidon Ballistic Missile Submarine Cross Section

Tam got me started.

10 Short Videos #6264

10 Short Videos #6264

1. TWO V16s?! This Boat Had 3,600 HP 😳
2. Wait until it fills the frame - SpaceX Falcon 9 booster landing
3. Terrifying moment brakes fail on steep descent down I-70 - Truck uses emergency ramp
4. Inside the wheel well of a Boeing 737 MAX, the hidden complexity revealed
5. Zhang Shupeng's wingsuit flight training at Tianmen Mountain - one-shot sequence
6. CARCAM camping trailer demonstration, in the rain
7. Diwali Sparkler Making🔥| Fuljhadi Factoy
8. Inside the forging factory Workers Race Against Cooling Steel Every Second
9. Glider winch - powered by pickup truck
10. The Making of Heavy-Duty Aluminium Power Wire | High-Load Wire Manufacturing

Funnies

Remote Surgery in Africa

Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy (RAPN)
European Association of Urology

Nigeria performs first remote robotic surgery
A Nigerian medical team has performed West Africa’s first tele-robotic surgery, remotely operating on a cancer patient from around 500 kilometers away.

Just goes to show me that my idea of what Nigeria is like is all wrong, er, partly wrong.

10 Short Videos #6263

10 Short Videos #6263

1. Florence built a cathedral with a hole no one knew how to close. For a century.
2. They Built This Tunnel in a Shipyard, Floated It Down the River, and Sank It
3. Five Reasons Nobody's Answering: Something Got Here First — Professor Edmund Whitmore - Video only shows first one
4. Putting a Twin-Turbo V8 Engine on a Boat! 🤯🚤
5. Avoiding Its Own Quills
6. She’s insane 😳🪽 - Circus acrobats
7. Boom Supersonic’s high pressure compressor turbine rotor
8. An apple a day keeps the wheels away (from the road surface). - Wheelie Yellow
9. SOUNDS LIKE TAKEOFF DOES THE OPPOSITE - McMurtry Spéirling PURE electric vacuum race car
10. High-G Precision: Master the Tailslide! ✈️💥 - Sailplane aerobatics

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