JamesSavik

I love google earth. I remember when would get shot for knowing the name of Novaya Zemlya or having a map of the place. Or Vozrozhdeniya island or Star City or Balaklava or Arcangel or Semipalatinsk or Vladivostok...

Saratoga Labs The Physical Sciences Labs were located forward above the launch tubes with access to the probe bay and near the forward and lateral sensor equipment bays. A deck below the labs were several large storage rooms filled with spare parts and heavy equipment in crates. Danny was astonished by the space and equipment that were set aside for the Science Section. He had at his disposal well-stocked labs for physical and chemical analysis. There were mass spectrometers, gas

Saratoga Flag Bridge Lt. Commander Rankin looked at his instruments and said, “According to the NavCom beacons, we’re right where we’re supposed to be- 30 light days out from the Dahlgren 63 system.” Lt. Taggert read the status board and reported, “All ships accounted for. Jump successful.” A cheer erupted in plot. After all the preparation, training and waiting, they were finally on their way. Keller said, “Congratulations ladies and gentlemen. We just made history. Ou

What does it say? It came from Novaya Zemlya in the Kara Sea.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3krjPWs_7E Give 'em hell AirCav- see you on the other side Uncle Will.

I'm an old fart but far from helpless. My wit and disposition (usually nasty) make me either a sweet old geezer or your worst nightmare. Your choice.

Fun stuff from the vaultz of the intenets

There can be only one! Queen & David Bowie

Citation please. I have never heard of "Cannabis" causing death. It's non-toxic. You can smoke it until you pass out. (Believe me. I have.) The worst side effect I've ever seen is nausea and that was a "virgin". The synthetic kind, perhaps. Dumb asses doing something stupid and getting killed while they are high doesn't count. That's just natural selection at work. I question the seizures claim too. Never heard or seen anything to support that claim and I do tend to keep up with the subject. There are huge questions about the induced schizophrenia claims. Is the cannabis responsible or was it inevitable? The onset of schizophrenia happens to occur during adolescence and early adulthood- exactly the same time people are fooling around with Pot... err excuse me, cannabis. There are numerous researchers over the years that have gotten busted for exaggerating their claims, fudging their research and out right lying. Finding something actually wrong with cannabis would be like hitting the lottery. Anyone who does will be showered in government grants. Objectively- there is no evidence that cannabis deserves its reputation for a killer drug; no justification for the billions spent on prohibition, the hundreds of thousands jailed and the millions with criminal records for simple possession. Generations of government propaganda has done it job quite well.

There are tons of songs about the end of summer. I encourage others to share.

Ummm... I didn't see pot on that list.

Nobody on the road nobody on the beach I feel it in the air the summer's out of reach Empty lake, empty streets, the sun goes down alone I'm drivin' by your house Though I know you're not home I can see you Your brown skin shinin' in the sun You got your hair combed back and your sunglasses on, baby And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong after the boys of summer have gone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwCw6jXo84o Yeah, it's almost gone Where will we be When the summer's gone? Morning found us calmly unaware Noon burned gold into our hair At night, we swam the Laughing sea When summer's gone Where will we be Where will we be Where will we be

Ball cancer? Really!? Hysterical BS much? I've been seeing "small" studies like this for decades attempting to pin something awful to justify the billions we're spending for prohibition. The follow on "large" study never seems to back up the first. Besides- if there was any truth to it, I would have been dead 30 years ago.

You wanted eighties? You got it.

More from the disco era...

Might as well be aliens from the Cantina scene from Star Wars.

Just for fun...

Some dance club hits from the distant past...

Between 1952-89, the Soviet Union lost 16 subs. Of that number, 10 were nuclear powered. Fourteen were armed with nuclear weapons- nuclear tipped torpedoes and/or missiles. Most are in waters greater than 10,000 feet.

your distinctiveness has been assimilated into our collective.

I'm not sure if that dance was safe at all...

Disinterested in kiddie games. They stuff I wanted to play had nothing to do with hedgehogs or Italian plumbers. I'm more interested in the stuff below: Advanced Gaming Systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpoon_%28series%29 Shrapnel Games http://www.shrapnelgames.com Lately I've been running simulations of a new Egyptian-Israeli conflict. Egypt has been buying American weapons for 30 years and has just undergone a significant change in government. Egyptian M1A1 tanks vs Israeli Merkva tanks is a bloody, awful mess. Israel prevails in most of the sims but not without taking significant damage. Another very scary simulation is the US vs China in the Western Pacific. Our fleet is shrinking and the Chinese fleet and air force is growing exponentially. If things continue going in this direction, China will be able to dominate the region by the mid 2020s and we will be unable to protect our key allies in the region- Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia and the Philippines.

I was one of the first generation of gamers. I don't play on consoles anymore- just PC but I've played a lot of games from TRS-80, Commodore 64, IBM PC, ninetindo, PS.