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History of the World Part II

I will be surprised if History of the World Part II is very good.  Mel Brooks is involved with the TV series, but his best movies are considered unacceptable by whomever is running our culture.  Perhaps Mel Brooks can still bring the fun in these prudish times.  The series airs tomorrow.

China’s Shenzhou-15 astronauts conduct secretive second spacewalk

Brave or reckless astronauts to take second EVA wearing spacesuits made in China.  I won’t even buy batteries or saw blades from Harbor Freight.  There is no way I’d go into a near absolute vacuum at 3 degrees above absolute zero in a Chinese spacesuit, unless I had no other choice.  Communist China may not have given them any other choice.

Side Note:  I always liked that the Russians are called cosmonauts and are from Star City.  Kind of poetic.   In Mandarin, what are astronauts called and did they invent a new character to represent “astronaut”?  Or is it a sequence of characters, like “man turtle bubble”

Questions for the Covid Commission

The way the Covid-19 pandemic was handled was a shit show.  It’s over, but we have to do better than just never speak of it again.  Questions should be openly discussed so we learn.  The Norfold Group put together a reasonable set of questions.  I don’t care who funded them or the background of the doctors.  The report is so reasonable, it may become hard to find, so I’m backing the Questions for Covid Commission by Norfolk Group Full Report .

The executive summary provides ten concise questions, and they are:

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