Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Fifty Years of Weather Satellites

It was been fifty years since the first weather satellite, TIROS-1, was launched.



(H/T)

1 comment:

BadTux said...

Sadly, it appears there will be only a few more years before the last weather satellite watching out for Atlantic hurricanes falls out of the sky. Then the lower Atlantic coast and Gulf coast are *really* fscked...

Late Roman empire, where the infrastructure was falling apart all over the place as the tax base evaporated due to the nobles deciding to use their tax money to build their own private armies rather than submitting it to the central government. History repeats itself...

- Badtux the History Penguin