Dornier Do 26A V1 prototype D-AGNT "SEEADLER" in Deutsche Luft Hansa service catapulted from a support vessel circa 1938. The flying boat was powered by four Junkers Jumo 205C diesel engines with the pusher pair on mounts that could swing upwards for taking off from water.

How am I just now learning that Boeing built an entire fake neighborhood on top of one of their factories in order to hide it from Japanese bombers!?

The people who've lived under socialism will risk barbed wire, bullets, and oceans to escape it. Meanwhile, the loudest advocates for socialism live in capitalist nations, sipping Starbucks, tweeting from iPhones, and whining about “late-stage capitalism” while enjoying its

“Degrowthers drive me nuts. In my experience, they almost always come from energy-rich societies and yet somehow romanticize poverty, like it's some kind of spiritual awakening.”

Sharif Shameem Related active form, I recall a quote along the lines of: "If you can't make yourself happy, make someone else happy" Has been influential for me, pretty powerful for when feeling down.

Static test of a Pratt & Whitney F100 engine.

libgen.is has been letting me down lately. glad to have found annas-archive.org instead

O hey, a 3d printed “Hellfire”. Americans sure are peculiar.

Might be cool if students were graded based on their questions too, rather than just their answers.

work is worship, and i love god

These remastered photos of Gemini and Apollo are incredible!

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Senator Roland Gutierrez You are a taker, not a maker. All you’ve done your whole life is take from the makers of the world. The zero-sum mindset you have is at the root of so much evil. Once you realize that civilization is not zero-sum and that it is about making far more than one consumes, then it