Pretty dumb idea when it could only deliver a tonne of explosive somewhere in SE England - doubly dumb when it drained resources from building fighter aircraft to combat the RAF and USAF which were by then dumping thousands of tonnes of high explosives and incendiaries on German cities.

For folks in the UK - this excellent series is currently running on BBC FOUR and can be accessed using iPlayer.

Pretty sure this is laser-etched steel rather than true Damascus steel. The price alone suggests its not the real stuff.

Pretty sure this is laser-etched steel rather than true Damascus steel. The price alone suggests its not the real…

With disgraced former Defence Secretary (now Trade Minister) Liam Fox lurking in the dustbin behind Trump and his nattily tailored KKK outfit.

The cups are made of fur - fur cups - fuck ups. They’ve been a feature of Martin Rowson’s cartoons for a long time.

The Soviet Union was much less reliant on German scientists than the US - mostly because the Americans had scooped up all the leading rocket engineers. The only significant contributions came from Helmut Gröttrup who helped design the R-1 missile; a near perfect clone of the V2 from the fragments left at Peenemünde…

There were so many problems with the N1. Korolev’s death crystallised them, but they go way back. When Khrushchev was deposed, Korolev lost his main sponsor in the Politburo, which combined with a general lack of direction meant the space programme stalled.

If you’ve never seen it; the episode ‘Spider’ in HBO’s ‘From the Earth to the Moon’ is a superb hour of television that makes a terrific job of explaining the LM and how it got to where it is. It’s a fine tribute to incredible engineers doing something that was practically impossible.

Just in case people don’t know - the BBC World Service has been running a series by Kevin Fong* called ‘13 Minutes to the Moon’ explaining key parts of the Apollo programme such as the Lunar Module, the computers and how to actually get to the Moon’ as well as explaining Eagle’s descent to the Moon’s surface. The…

Showing his legendary stability; can you guess who said

Not all churches - the Roman Catholic church operates one of the world’s premiere observatories and many of its astronomers are also priests since they see no contradiction between the Bible and evolution and the Big Bang:

Guess that now his transatlantic catamite, Boris Johnson, effectively fired the UK ambassador, Trump can claim another notch on that enormous belt.

Also worth mentioning the complete meltdown in the Foreign Office after presumed next PM, Boris Johnson, refused to support the UK’s ambassador to Washington DC. Sir Kim Darroch resigned Wednesday after realising that Johnson would throw any diplomat under a bus to save his own skin.

Iran has long been secretly “enriching,” in total violation of the terrible 150 Billion Dollar deal made by John Kerry and the Obama Administration.

Yep - Trump is ranting and raging on Twitter about the ambassador’s reports that the President is thin-skinned and petty.

You-know-who ‘Iran was violating the 150 Billion Dollar (plus 1.8 Billion Dollar in CASH) Nuclear Deal with the United States, and others who paid NOTHING, long before I became President’

‘One former defence minister called it the worst procurement program in Canadian history.’

If Pence saw that, he’d think he’s missing the Rapture.

You-know-who: ‘The Pentagon & our great Military Leaders are thrilled to be doing this’

Have we had this one?