Thursday Night Open Thread

Never really got into Hanson. But, I do gotta say, they have a sense of humor. Even about themselves. And that’s a good thing.

[The YouTube]

Did you recognize the tambourine player?

Do you have something you’d like to share? A link? A joke? Some words of wisdom? A topic to discuss? It’s our nightly Open Thread, and you have the floor.

A must watch, especially before it gets “Community Standardized”

A must watch video that the left wants to censor because it presents facts and truths that harshes their narrative.

Hope it isn’t pulled, again. Go to…

Powerline

For the story.

“Now, Look, Any More Posts About Emus Tonight, and I’ll Shut This Site Down. I Mean It!”

Un-Passengered, Too, In My Case

NASA Chief: Uncrewed Aircraft ‘Safer’
AINonline / Mark Hube / July 27, 2020

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine shared the agency’s vision for urban air mobility (UAM) at last week’s EAA Spirit of Aviation virtual event.

“You can actually make the argument that in the future it’s going to be safer to fly an uncrewed aircraft than crewed aircraft,” he said while outlining NASA’s related programs. Bridenstine, a former congressman and U.S. Navy F-18 pilot, pointed out that sophisticated detect-and-avoid technologies, including 360-degree sensors aboard future autonomously piloted aircraft, will provide “better capabilities than what a human has” when it comes to avoiding midair or terrain collisions. “I know it sounds crazy, but it is absolutely true,” he said. 

— Eerily echoing a proposed Biden campaign slogan.

Bridenstine said current air traffic control infrastructure “is not going to be able to manage” UAM—which he called “advanced air mobility”—as currently envisioned with “thousands of unmanned aerial systems operating [at] 400 feet and below and each of those…systems doing dozens of missions in a given day. That’s a very congested airspace. So what you’re looking for here is the development of an autonomous system.”  We need to develop the autonomous system that factors in air space, traffic corridors, route planning, interaction with manned aircraft, terrain avoidance, wind and weather, and the ability not only for the aircraft to be capable of dynamic rerouting, but also use of dynamic airspace, where the boundaries change to accommodate traffic, he said.  

— Ignoring the track record humans have had with trains, so far. . .

. . . computer glitches, malicious hackers . . .

Bridenstine said NASA’s continuing investment in and advancing of  “leap-ahead” technologies such as UAM, more fuel-efficient propulsion, advanced aerodynamics, and low-boom supersonic research were essential components for keeping “American aeronautics preeminent in the world” . . .

By way of example, he said the X-59 low-boom demonstrator, developed in cooperation with Lockheed Martin, is intended to prove the efficacy of supersonic flight over land with “such a little boom that it doesn’t disrupt anybody on Earth.”

— Eerily describing the latest Biden press release.

America Bans Cats for ‘Bad Behavior’

(Well, it could happen.)

‘Emus Have Been Banned’ For Bad Behavior, A Hotel In Australia’s Outback Says
NPR | July 28, 2020 | Bill Chappell

“Emus have been banned from this establishment for bad behavior,” a sign now states at the stairs leading to the hotel’s pub. The message asks any human visitors to replace the “emu barrier” when they enter.

“We put the sign up, but we’re not quite sure whether they’re able to read or not,” hotel co-owner Gerry Gimblett says in an interview with 10 News First Queensland. “So, we’ve had to put a bar across there, as well.”

I Don’t Care if it Turns Out To Be Fake News; It’s Far Better Than the News From Portland

Australian Pub Bans Emus for ‘Bad Behavior’
UPI | July 28, 2020| Ben Hooper

July 28 (UPI) — A pub in the Australian outback has banned a pair of beloved local emus from the establishment for improper acts, including stealing food and defecating on the floor.

The owners of the Yaraka Hotel in Yaraka (permanent population 18), Queensland, posted a sign at the entrance of the pub stating that the town’s local emus, Kevin and Carol, no longer are allowed inside.

“Emus have been banned from this establishment for bad behavior,” a sign at the door reads.Gerry and Chris Gimblett, the business’ owners, said they had to ban the emus after the large birds learned to climb the front steps.

“They’ve been stealing things from the guests, especially their food. They’d stick their heads in and pinch toast out of the toaster,” Gerry Gimblett told Guardian Australia.

“But the main reason we’ve banned them is their droppings. They’re enormous, very large and very smelly, and they created great stains,” she said.

The Gimbletts said they installed a rope barrier outside the pub and a sign asks customers to remember to close the rope after entering to prevent the emus from following.

“They still hang around each gate, hoping that they’ll be able to slip in when someone opens it up,” Chris Gimblett told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. “But so far we are winning the war.”

Song Parody: Tell Me What To Think

A less-played song by the Beatles on the British “Help” album, but not on the American album, and not in the movie: “Tell Me What You See”

♩♩♪

If you let me take your arms

I will prove to you

We will never let gendarmes

Be apart from you

.

Open up your eyes now

Tell me what you see

“It should be no surprise now”

— MSDNC

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Big and black the crowds may be

This will pass away

I’m afraid that Antifa

Will make white affray


Pepper-spray these eyes now

Hell, we closed U.C.

Pepper-spray away now

What you call “Zhe” is me

.

Tell Me What To Think!

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♫  ♫ ♫  ♫

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Look at all these barricades

How can I get through?

Can’t you try to see that I’m

Tryin’ to ghetto you?

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Hopin’ to arise now

Chicks don’t seem to see

No element of surprise now

Won’t you CS me?

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Tell Me What To Think!

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♩♩♪ ♩♩♪

If You Have Lawyers

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PC or Not PC? Lone Ranger Safe for Now, Because “Masked” and “Man” Cancel Each Other Out

SJWs pause and scratch their heads: Clarifying his relationship with Tonto should tip the scales in one direction or the other.

Straight Line of the Day: So Just Exactly What IS Joe Biden Doing in the Basement?

Straight Line of the Day: So just exactly what IS Joe Biden doing in the basement?

Welcome to IMAO: Looks Like You Missed the Orientation Lecture, But It’s All Covered in This Pamphlet

Cartoons and Memes

Hopefully the submitters haven’t beaten me to it.

Does It Still Fly O’er the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave? (Play Ball!)

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