Just doing a quick non-virus related post to cheer up a little.
Very nice Mars base here. Love the drone glider thingie.
Fury — The World is Mine
Love this song. Definite Hero Theme.
Well when you put it that way.
Ironflame —Blood Red Cross
Nice Crusader/Templar themed song.
Old school barbarian art is never off topic.
Saxon — Terminal Velocity
Very high energy song. Suitable for paratroopers or space marines.
Just a space hermit with his frens.
I took the classic Prince song from the 1989 Batman movie and put a bunch of Coronachan memes over it.
Good for a laugh and a bit tamer than the Wu Tang Clan stuff.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/JAMPB0xCgXzQ/
Clownworld can be awesome at times. The 120K Banana saga continues to amuse.
https://twitter.com/GiancarloSopo/status/1203875430803087367?s=20
Here’s images for when twitter deletes the post for no reason.
I think that’s one of the security team but that soy beard really stands out.
On scene reporter expresses his approval.
The fourth act: The Canvas of Ages. What lays behind it? You peasants don’t need to know.
Close in of guard’s face (for memes and reaction images)
I recommend Imgflip because of how fast you can spam ideas out as soon as you get them. But I’m sure you all have your own.
https://imgflip.com/memegenerator
First thing that came into my mind.
No doubt you can do better.
It’s a little embarrassing that a friend of the blog Bradford Walker gave this video a shoutout well before I could get around to posting about it on my own blog. But I guess that’s what wingman are for (watching your six.)
This is the third scifi art + music video that I’ve done and definitely the one I’m most happy with.
The art uses is a mix of 70’s era art I found on twitter from the usual sources; and a number of more modern artwork grabbed off of google images. There is a very definite ‘cities and bases’ theme to this video.
Here’s a few of my favorite pictures.
A great landscape piece with only the two starfighters or shuttlecraft giving any hint that this is a sci-fi setting.
An ice moon city made up of crater suburbs and linked by what looks like rail lines.
Giant mech versus some kind of superheavy tank. Hell Yeah!
Heavy duty asteroid mining gear.
Very dark and cyberpunky. Sadly no commies being thrown from the helicopters. Clearly a minor oversight by the artist.
Trex + Uboat = What exactly is going on here?
A beautiful winter spaceport scene. Love the VTOL.
This is a crosshammer.
It’s a piece of jewelry that was worn during the period where the Scandinavians were (very slowly) converting from the Norse faith to the new Christian one.
The key thing is that this icon can be interpreted as either a cross or as Thor’s hammer; depending on what the person viewing it wants to see.
A peacekeeping gesture that no doubt saved many a man from getting hit in the face with an axe.
Plausibly deniability 11th century Norwegian style.
The crosshammer also has a lot of meme potential.
Allow me to demonstrate.
So I got bored and decided to try to learn some basic editing skills, like how to put music over video.
and this is the result… basically a repeat of the last post but cranked all the way up to eleven.
Also I have set up a Bitchute account just as an backup. Although I have noticed that book reviews seem to do very well on there for some reason.
I’ve got a lot on my mind and I’m not sure if any of it is important.
Whatever no reason to ruin everyone’s fun.
So I’ll just do am art dump since you all like that sort of thing.
First some mood music. Space Opera metal from the British band Fury.
Quick eat this before it eats you.
Don’t think they mentioned this in the Bible.
Jack Kerby. ‘Nuff said.
Something I threw together on a whim. The music cuts out halfway because I had twice as many images as I thought I did.
Just a few random thoughts that I can’t quite put together.
I’ve been trying to come up with a justification for building classic O’Neill cylinders and larger space habitats in settings with
A:) Practical widespread fusion power.
B:) Artificial gravity.
and I think I’ve figured it out.
but first a refresher for anyone who needs one.
Megastructures Rotating Habitants By Issac Arthur [31mins]
Well worth your time if you’re a classic Sci-fi fan.
Sci-fi technology like fantasy magic is most interesting when there are limitations on it.
So what sort of limitations make sense for artificial gravity?
The two I can think of off of the top of my head are high power use and the need to periodically shut down the generator for maintenance.
Power use is a non-issue. Particularly on a warship which needs to have large reactors anyway. Shutting down the gravity generators for a short maintenance cycle can be annoying but shouldn’t be an issue for a crew with basic Zero-G training. Besides a ship would usually be doing this sort of overhaul while docked at a repair yard and could therefore be using the shipyards artificial gravity rather than the shipboard systems.
As for space stations, crew even barely trained conscript workers are going to be able to handle a period of Zero-G (especially if maintenance is done on a regular schedule.)
But who wouldn’t handle a period of weightlessness that well?
Small children and animals.
Imagine this but with COWS instead of frogs.
Large livestock in zero gravity is going to be a very bad thing.
So any space habitat large enough to have a permanent population or onboard agriculture is therefore going to have a real incentive to go with a ‘low tech’ spin based gravity system rather the normal gravity generators.
Although combining the systems is also an option since the spin gravity doesn’t need to be a full G as it’s only purpose to hold things down while the artificial gravity generators are being serviced.
I did a quick review of the Anime The Magnificent Kotobuki which is both by the numbers and yet has enough of a unique premise to at least be worth watching.
The show follows an all female (of course) group of mercenary fighter pilots in a strange alternate world that gives off some very pulpish vibes.
But the real stars of the show are the historical Japanese WWII era planes that are used in this setting and which result in plenty of exciting dogfights and action scenes.
All and all it’s a strange odd little show that is quite fun and especially satisfying to warnerds and WW II buffs. One catch however is that the Allied reporting names of the Japanese aircraft are not used and you’ll have to refresh your memory on the original Japanese designations.
Of Wolves and Men 