Archive for October 29th, 2019
Air Force finally retires 8-inch floppies from missile launch control system
“Solid state storage” replaces IBM Series/1’s floppy drive. Ex forwarded this article to me via a couple of her ninjas (We Admins are sharing like that. I’ll hold safe her ninjas as if they were my very own). Despite the grin-factor, I imagine 8 inch floppies are a pretty robust format to last the test […]
Joe Biden Denied Communion
During the last decade, there was some talk among some bishops to deny then-Senator Kerry communion due to his support for abortion rights. In Catholicism, one must be “in good standing” to take part in the eucharist. This requires beliefs consistent with the church administering communion. Joe Biden learned this hands-on when Reverend Robert Morey […]
USS John McCain Gets Underway Two Years After Collision
The USS John McCain went back to sea in order to conduct sea trials. One goal for these trials is to test the repairs and another goal is to test the ship’s ability to conduct operations. This includes navigation, combat information center functions, communications, etc. This process will take months. Before getting underway, crewmembers conducted […]
Unmanned Space Plane Sets 780 Day Record
The Air Force’s mystery space plane landed at the Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility. It broke the record by orbiting for 780 days. This completed its fifth mission. Originally posted by NPR: As in previous missions, many of the details about the vehicle’s activities in the past two years are being kept under wraps. […]
At the Syrian-Turkish Border
Turkey has announced that its troops will fire on any Kurds remaining near the Turkish border: https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2019/10/28/turkey-will-attack-kurdish-fighters-who-remain-near-border-with-syria/ ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s foreign minister said Monday that his country’s military will attack any Syrian Kurdish fighter that remains along the border area in northeast Syria after a deadline for them to leave expires. Mevlut Cavusoglu […]
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