Motivational Poster Thread (warning content)

I got an '03-A3 Springfield from Kleins for $40, sent to my front door and it never hurt anybody, Wish I still had it.

 

March 1960

 

I was working security at a gun show, my job was checking firearms as they came in to make sure they were unloaded. A guy came walking up with a violin case. I thought to myself "Surely not.... "
He opened it to reveal a beautiful
Thompson with a vertical foregrip, the buttstock removed fitted into a separate compartment, 1 stick magazine, and 1 drum magazine. Legendary gangster style, and I sure wanted it, but no way I could afford it at my pay scale!

 

SpaceX Rocket Launches 1st Private Moon Lander for Israel

Kinda cool -- Beresheet- the first moon mission privately funded.

Minimum fuel boost and landing (and some other space stuff)


Hughes saved a GEOSAT by using a lunar slingshot
The Space Review: An alternative view of the HGS-1 salvage mission

 

Speaking of space...

Today (well, Nov 2018) SpaceX have successfully launched and deployed the Es'hail-2 satellite which is now in geostationary orbit. This launch is special for amateur radio enthusiasts because it is the first geostationary satellite that contains an amateur radio transponder on it. The satellite is positioned at 25.5°E which is over Africa. It will cover Africa, Europe, the Middle East, India, eastern Brazil and the west half of Russia/Asia. Unfortunately, North America, Japan, most of South America, Australia and NZ miss out.
(Es'hail-2: First Geostationary Satellite with Amateur Radio Transponders Successfully Deployed)


EU can play - we don't have a chance. Still, a new model for getting ham radio packages into GEO.

 

Its Fur Rondy time in Anchorage. Which means snow carving.....


I'm catering for the teams that took 1st and 2nd place last year... Always great fun.