How This And Burevestnik ...

 ... are connected and not in a good way for Elon Musk, Space X and the US in general. It matters after yesterday's comments of Vladimir Putin on Burevestnik's propulsion. 

As strange as it sounds, but Musk's "audience" consists primarily of people with zero serious STEM education, liberal virtue signaling schizoids and zits-ridden soyboys and girls who ejaculate each time some SpaceX thing parks after the flight creating the illusion that Musk's promise of flight to Mars is to be fulfilled. I have news for them--no, SpaceX is not taking you or anyone else "to Mars". Chemical rockets cannot serve as the foundation of manned (as in--having HUMAN crew) missions to Mars, let alone other planets and planetoids of Solar System. Those chemical rockets are good primarily for delivering payloads to near Earth orbits where space stations and REAL starships will be assembled. The ones which will have enough thrust and power to accelerate massive ships to a non-trivial fraction of the light speed, say 600 to 1,000 km per second. 

Enter Burevestnik and Putin's revelation yesterday--a critical revelation:

The missile’s reactor “is comparable in output with a reactor of a nuclear-propelled submarine, but it’s 1,000 times smaller,” Putin said. “But the key thing is that where a regular reactor needs hours, days or weeks to go online, this one launches in minutes or seconds.”

I will be talking about it tomorrow, but this is from 11 moths ago, November 22, 2024. 

Manned flights to Mars may begin in the next 50 years, while Russia will begin to use "nuclear tugs" for deep space exploration within a few decades, Roscosmos Director General Yuri Borisov said in an interview with Solovyov Live. "I think that maybe even faster, in the next 50 years. <... > Appropriate technologies will be accumulated, worked out, new carriers will be created, which will make it possible to get to this distant planet much faster. And, of course, then the mission becomes more realistic. But, at least, [American entrepreneur Elon] Musk will visit Mars in the coming decades," Borisov said, answering a question about the timing of flights to Mars. The head of Roscosmos also said that it is planned to use the Zeus nuclear tug, which is being developed in Russia, for deep space exploration. It is planned to create its prototype in 2030. "We are doing this project on our own, it is going quite successfully. The corresponding reactor capacity has been achieved. And I think that we will not stop work in this direction, and somewhere in the 2030s and 40s, the product will be practically used for deep space exploration, for scientific programs," Borisov said.

It is clear now that a historic breakthrough has been achieved and that overturns our understanding of the REAL space travel with proper acceleration, cruise and deceleration near the target, not "shots" of vehicles with cramped quarters to save space for fuel and supplies. That changes the whole economics of space exploration. Many still cannot wrap their brains around what just happened with Burevestnik, I'll help, it is called technological revolution. Again, look at the size of these Russian ion engines:

These are not your traditional small, palm of your hand, ion engines for orbit correction of satellites, these are huge. All this is designed to push some damn large space vehicles towards Mars and beyond and they will (will? already have) have almost unlimited energy supply. You think it is Russian Rah-rah? I have news for you, Musk doesn't have a legitimate engineering background, people from Kurchatov Institute, however, do, real ones. This is from April this year. 

Mikhail Kovalchuk, President of the National Research Center (NRC) "Kurchatov Institute", told Russian President Vladimir Putin during the visit of the Russian leader on April 16 to the Bauman Moscow State Technical University about the technologies necessary for the conquest of deep space. "Now as for deep space. Deep space, these are, I think, the tales of this very [American billionaire and founder of SpaceX Elon] Musk <.. >Slogans are an important thing, but you can't fly anywhere on a liquid-propellant rocket. <… >We need to put a station on the Moon, test and adjust everything there. And from there to set up as a jump airfield," he said. Kovalchuk added that Russia is superior to the United States in the technology of creating nuclear reactors operating on hydrogen. According to him, this is enough to create an interplanetary tug. In addition, the president of the Research Center proposed a new "nuclear space project 2.0" with an emphasis on the independence of the Russian Federation in near-Earth space.

And let me tell you, we all know that Russians stole this technology from the US. Like they did with hypersonic technology/s. But what can I say, Tesla is a pinnacle of human idiocy and ignorant uneducated people's beliefs in magic. Ah yes, Poseidon was also tested recently. I live at the West Coast, so I have a vested interest in peaceful relations between the US and Russia. Meanwhile, something tells me--this is not the last we heard about Russian technologies. Stay tuned. 

Well, Evidently It Is Not A Circus...

 ... anymore. It is something else altogether. Ah, nah, still circus:

Not long after, Musk’s tension with Trump’s trade team devolved into blows, in an altercation with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, said Stephen K. Bannon, the influential right-wing podcaster and longtime political adviser to Donald Trump. In mid-April, Musk and Bessent had gone into the Oval Office to make their respective cases about their preferences for acting IRS commissioner. Trump decided to support Bessent’s choice. That disagreement was first reported by the New York Times. After Bessent and Musk exited the Oval Office and began walking down the hallway, the two men started to exchange insults, Bannon said he was told, adding that Bessent brought up Musk’s claims that he would uncover more than $1 trillion in wasteful and fraudulent government spending, which Musk had not succeeded at doing. “Scott said, ‘You’re a fraud. You’re a total fraud,’” Bannon said in an interview. Musk then rammed his shoulder into Bessent’s rib cage “like a rugby player,” Bannon said, and Bessent hit him back. Multiple people stepped in to break up the scrum as the two men reached the national security adviser’s office, and Musk was shuffled out of the West Wing.

As stupid as Bessent is, he is not entirely incorrect in his description of Musk. He should have asked me (c) quoting Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite. Meanwhile, our editorial staff obtained documentary of the scuffle. Don't be confused by marmots using Russian profanity. We are as confused as you are, wink, wink. 

Elon Posted Today ...

 ... the US welfare statistics. I have to admit, the United States reached unprecedented heights in life extension. 

Millions of people in the US meet their hundred and even two hundred years anniversaries in joyful mood, since some of them will continue to receive government benefits at the age of 300 years.  This is corruption on unprecedented scale. It is also denying benefits to actual people who need them. 

Yes, Of Course.

How else could it be. 

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk should be investigated over media claims that he communicated with several senior Russian officials in recent years, two top US Democratic senators have demanded in a letter. Jack Reed, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Jeanne Shaheen, a senior member of the Foreign Relations Committee, raised concerns about the media allegations in a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland and Pentagon Inspector General Robert Storch on Friday.

They still continue with this dead-beat shtick of Russiagate. In related news--and I think that that's the route GOP should take--in response to this stream of smut perpetuated by DNC and subservient US MSM, they should declare that male chief-editors of MSM have small, children-size penises and then leave them to prove it otherwise. I am sure, at some point, it may require the creation of the subcommittee to investigate the size of penises of say editorial staff of WSJ or CNN, or DNC staffers, but can you imagine Senate hearings on this shit? I will abstain with my proposals of what kind of accusations worthy of investigation could be leveled at female members of same, but we all know that fuckability index does exist on its own among male American population and that, in the end, what really matters. If you know what I mean, wink, wink...

There Is No "If"...

... there is absolutely no "If", only when. 

Entrepreneur Elon Musk has suggested that the European Union may face the prospect of civil war due to its immigrant-welcoming policies. Two weeks ago, he visited the US southern border, wading into the bitter debate over immigration in his adopted home country. “If current trends continue, civil war in Europe is inevitable,” he claimed in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday. Musk was responding to a thread by Moscow-born British satirist and political commentator Konstantin Kisin. He denounced what he called “people celebrating rape and murder by a proscribed terrorist organisation as the police stand and watch in major European cities.”

Read the whole context of Musk's opinion following this link, BUT...  Kisin citing Murray's book The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam is a bit too late to the party, as is Musk. Warning bells have been ringing long before Murray, Musk or even Houellebecq. I mentioned it many times, it took Russian to warn about it in the most dramatic way in early 2000s. In the end, we suddenly have one of the brains behind Europe's suicide Jacques Attali calls in Figaro for erecting borders... back.

«L’Europe est une passoire» : l’inattendu plaidoyer de Jacques Attali en faveur des frontières

Well, well, well--Europe is a sieve now? But here is the issue--for those who followed this blog in the last 10 years, they may have sensed the change of my position from simply being sad for Europe to present--let them burn. I never said that all Europeans are bad, but I DO NOT buy this excuse which is heard louder and louder from all corners of Europe--we are sorry, but we have no influence, elites sold us out etc. BS! Economic-cultural suicide of Germany and cultural-economic of France are exhibits A and B of a complete fallacy of such an excuse. In the end, before Murray (as applied to basically culturally dead England), even Americans warned:

But now, in reaction to Musk's latest quip, a prominent German observer Alexander Rahr responds today as reported by Vzglyad:

«К высказываниям Илона Маска я бы отнесся серьезно. Он хорошо понимает мир и не стесняется пренебрегать правилами языка «политической корректности». Действительно, протесты и уличные бои ближневосточных мигрантов с полицией во Франции вспыхивают настолько часто, что их уже называют прелюдией к гражданской войне», – сказал германский политолог Александр Рар. «В Германии набирает обороты схожая ситуация. Немало западных мыслителей предсказывают массовое нашествие представителей африканского и арабского мира в южные страны ЕС. При этом выступать они будут уже не в качестве беженцев, но завоевателей. Произойти это может уже в ближайшее десятилетие», – полагает эксперт. «Создание Европейского халифата может стать реальностью. В некоторых государствах Евросоюза уже существуют районы, где правоохранительные органы полностью утратили контроль над происходящим. В таких кварталах жизнь граждан полностью подчинена правилам шариата», – подчеркивает собеседник.

«Массовый и неконтролируемый наплыв мигрантов в скором времени приведет к социальному взрыву в ЕС. Европейские лидеры пытаются предотвратить это, но пока безуспешно. Для качественных изменений нужно урезать социальные пособия иностранцам и перераспределить выплаты в пользу местных бедствующих граждан», – уточняет Рар. «Однако сделать это под давлением идеалов либеральной демократии невозможно. Политика мультикультурализма, продвигаемая западными идеологами, провалилась. Нас ждут столкновения между поборниками «прогрессивных» ценностей и исламистами. Кроме того, демографические особенности двух обществ также выступают на стороне беженцев», – считает собеседник.

Translation: “I would take Elon Musk’s statements seriously. He understands the world well and does not hesitate to flout the rules of the language of “political correctness.” Indeed, protests and street battles between Middle Eastern migrants and police in France break out so often that they are already being called a prelude to civil war,” said German political scientist Alexander Rahr. “A similar situation is gaining momentum in Germany. Many Western thinkers predict a massive invasion of representatives of the African and Arab world into the southern EU countries. At the same time, they will no longer act as refugees, but as conquerors. This could happen in the next decade,” the expert believes. “The creation of a European caliphate can become a reality. In some EU countries there are already areas where law enforcement agencies have completely lost control over what is happening. In such neighborhoods, the life of citizens is completely subject to Sharia rules,” the interlocutor emphasizes. “The massive and uncontrolled influx of migrants will soon lead to a social explosion in the EU. European leaders are trying to prevent this, but so far to no avail. For qualitative changes, it is necessary to cut social benefits to foreigners and redistribute payments in favor of local citizens in need,” Rahr clarifies. “However, it is impossible to do this under the pressure of the ideals of liberal democracy. The policy of multiculturalism promoted by Western ideologists has failed. We are expecting clashes between champions of “progressive” values and Islamists. In addition, the demographic characteristics of the two societies are also on the side of the refugees,” the interlocutor believes.

And here are two points I make constantly: 

1. The death of Europe is in the final stages, we merely observe convulsions. While caliphate is a fait accompli essentially, for now de facto, eventually it will be de jure.

2. I have other news--"champions of "progressive" values" in Europe cannot "clash" with Islamists in principle, the same way petulant spoiled 6-year old child cannot "clash" with its stern 30 years uncle. 

In general, the idea of some "progressive" professor from Sorbonne or some German dude who still cannot figure out if he is he or she, clashing with young, increasingly well organized, and soon to be armed to the teeth "youth" from banlieue is risible. Not only European population in general is emasculated, Rarh should also ask some very serious questions about why certain, and fairly influential, strata of European women was so giddy for welcoming immigration into Europe. I don't think Rarh will like the answer. Now, he also is delusional that some cuts and redistribution of social benefits will do the trick, which, by the way, only shows the level of morals in Europe--the level of aquarium fish. No, for immigrants from Africa it is way more than social benefits--oh no, it is all about conquest. 

I am sure Swedish Armed Forces are ready to face the guys who provided the preview for Europeans in Gaza. This is what Europe WILL become fairly soon, maybe sooner than we think. Judging by combat readiness of Swedish Armed Forces or by British Army, or Bundeswehr--it already passed the point of no return, and we need to merely observe the process of final Africanization and Arabization of Southern France, Lampedusaization of Southern Italy and, I don't know what's the deal with Spain. This is for a warm up. I still don't get it why EU media still cannot notice this peculiar fact that for some reason huge majority of this influx of immigration are very young, healthy men, most, obviously, fit for any type of military activity.      

And then, of course, add this simple fact that Europeans are unarmed and overwhelming majority doesn't know the difference between AKM and AK-74 and will not know how to shoot RPG-7 even if their life depended on that. And now, that the purely military end of SMO is in sight, guess the insane volume of additional weapons, and who will get them from the battlefield in 404, is coming to Europe. I doubt this guy knows how to handle even the simplest firearm. Hey,this is Miss. Portugal 2017--a gorgeous girl. 

And here is Miss. Portugal 2023. 

This man, Maria Machete, is definitely gorgeous in a Quagmire perverted sort of way. Imagine her, him, it, they, whatever with AKM. So, we now know who European elites are, and how increasingly aggressive "immigrants" look at Europeans, especially European man who is essentially extinct. I have news too, this is how majority of Russians looks at this decomposing culture and I never saw so much contempt, even previous years when I was visiting, toward combined West, but especially Europe which is now dead. Last time, a month ago--there was more than just contempt. 

Hey, at least we are armed to the hilt here in the US and, at least, we elected Trump in 2016--he turned out to be a BSer, but at least he BSed things which in Europe would be considered a thought-crime. That is coming too, BTW. But then again, for years I said--ONLY three geopolitical entities matter so far in the world and Europe ain't one of them. So, the question thus is "When" will Europe implode to the state we observe now in Gaza and Israel? I cannot predict the date, of course, but it is coming and when it comes no "redistribution" of "social benefits" will help because emasculated, brainwashed, unarmed, soft European population is no match for the guys who DO know how to shoot, how to organize into squads and platoons and they have Islam on their banners. European infidels, get ready--the time ticks to 9:29.

Delightful.

You know, I don't like Musk but, boy, making this low life BBC cretin--there are no normal people in BBC--stutter and sweating was good.  

Yes, Elon, they lie, non-stop, shamelessly and every single establishment media "journalist" in the West is a whore with no ethics, integrity and morals. But here is another delightful humiliation of yet another whore from BBC. 

This was two years ago. Not only they are liars, most of them are very uncultured and ignorant people. And I mean uncultured in the broadest sense, and they get lost in the sea of facts once come face-to-face with them. But I am on record--real journalism is a calling above all, and not the studying of pseudo-academic BS at "journalism" departments in some degree mill.

Sergei Viktorovich, Help!

You know what's coming, right? 

Elon Musk's ventilator giveaway may do more harm than good. After weeks of brushing off the COVID-19 pandemic as "dumb," the billionaire Tesla founder earlier this week announced he had 1,000 "FDA-approved ventilators" and ended up donating 40 to New York City's hospital system. Except the devices Musk gave away aren't powerful enough to use in the ICU, and health officials have actually warned against using them on COVID-19 patients because they could spread the virus further. What Musk purchased and gave to New York's hospitals were BiPAP machines made by ResMed, a photo shared by the hospital system reveals. ResMed CEO Mick Farrell later confirmed Musk's purchase of 1,000 5-year-old "bi-level, non-invasive ventilators" known as BiPAPs to CNBC, and said it was "fantastic" that Tesla could transport ResMed's product like it did.

Start you watches, ladies and gentlemen, before possible (I am not saying that it will necessarily happen, at least I hope not) Elon Musk Witnesses Cult starts its "defense campaign" of their "engineering genius". 

Let me now show how CPAP/BiBap machines differ from actual artificial ling machines. Here is a one by Philips, you can get this device for around $3,500 and can use it yourself. This is an expensive one, you can own one for around $1,100. Now, observe, what Russia delivered yesterday (you can see markings of Aventa clearly on the boxes) to the United States--a professional artificial lungs with not only the ability to provide required pressure and delivery of oxygen to damaged lungs but also monitor (and diagnosing) up to 40 different parameters, crucial for survival of the patient. This is one of the models of Aventa--a Russian brand developed and produced at Urals Instrumentation Plant, the one which recently stated that it is ready to drastically increase production from 300 units a month to 3,000. Russia has three such companies manufacturing these lung machines.

These are expensive machines which cost in excess of $16,000 and require professional nurses to operate them. There is an Aventa model which actually provides, through innovative design (especially filters), the plug-in for four patients simultaneously, those machines also provide critical support to toddlers too. Those, I recon, are even more expensive. I know, I know, Elon Musk is a space-time continuum thinker and may not know the difference between CPAP machines and serious professional medical equipment for critical patients, but to attach Tesla's sticker on something Tesla didn't produce--that is rich, my friends. It is also pathetic. It is so embarrassing for any normal human that one is left without words when looking at this snake-oil peddler carpetbagger's posturing pretending that he is more than just a figurehead for Obama Admin's attempt, by recruiting NASA and Military-Industrial Complex engineers and designers, to peddle its suicidal "green" agenda by promoting new "Steve Jobs" for the consumption of physics-mathematics challenged Public Relations, Communications and other office plankton academic majors, who would buy any of Musk's (and Tesla's) BS about upcoming saving of the world.... ah, wait, Bureau of Labor Statistics on-line. What do you say? No demand for majors in Communications or PR? Nobody can afford overpriced homicidal Tesla? Say it ain't so. Well, it is what it is, another day, another Musk's "genius moment" for the consumption of the same type of idiots who camp in a front of Apple stores before the release of the new model of... whatever the fvck Apple manufactures NOT in the United States. Hey, at least they have the right to attach their own stickers to an overpriced junk they sell.   

What Elon Musk Experienced While Getting High.

He is a fraud, but for dopamine high generation of office plankton who never worked a day on productive job he is a  god... So, this imbecile gets high:

But what all those news agencies staffed with... illiterate office plankton forgot to mention what this (tax) leech on American technological genius experienced was this.

Unlike Musk, however, Kyary Pamuy Pamuy  has an actual talent and, btw, she has some damn impressive Jap Pop music to her credit. 

Postoponed! Again?

By now you probably figured it out that I consider Elon Musk and most what he peddles as some wonder technology a glamorous fraud. But now it becomes really ridiculous and I wonder if these two news-pieces are related. 

First, of course, being yet another, now indefinite, delay of Falcon Heavy static tests. This was going on now for many days. As article states:

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket — described as “the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two” — is in position on a launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center, but the static-fire engine test set for today has been postponed indefinitely due to logistical and safety concerns. An Atlas 5 rocket will roll out to a nearby launch pad on Thursday.

But what caught my attention was a yesterday's piece on reputable Space.Com which reads as an indictment of Musk's faulty engineering: 

Safety Panel Raises Concerns about SpaceX Falcon 9 Pressure Vessel for Commercial Crew Missions 

Could these two be connected and could it be a start of a long overdue process of unmasking Musk as a fraudster that he is? It is one thing to produce some shitty electric jalopy which exists mostly for satisfaction of tender egos of some rich liberal boys, who are still stuck in infancy--but dealing with serious space vehicles, especially ones carrying manned missions is a totally different universe altogether.  And even if Falcon Heavy's tests finally commence at some point of time, there are already serious doubts about Musk and his "company", whose financial records are guarded better than Fort Knox, are adequate for the immense task of space exploration. But, I guess, for a generation (or two) of iPhone users who think that it is real hi-tech, the idea that some Tesla will be launched to Mars seems quite attractive, despite total imbecility of the concept. 

In related news: Tesla Model 3 now will be (at some point) able to follow voice commands. Yes, all my life I was waiting for this "feature", that is granted that those who would want that thing will have to continue waiting for years before their car will be delivered. As Ben Stein used to say:

UPDATE: Finally. 

Following a successful SpaceX Falcon Heavy test, a real launch is imminent 

I Don't Know How To Live Anymore, LOL!!

About a year ago I had a spirited discussion with some liberal urbanites who were trying to convince me that their deity, also known in this sinful world as fraudster Elon Musk, was about to unleash on the world a new, super-pooper, affordable and long-range capable Tesla which, in their mind, will immediately change the world for the better. He "unleashed" it alright. Now he ununleashes it back, leaving us with only one "affordable" vehicle, that is $75,000 base price for 7D whatever model. 

Tesla will discontinue its most affordable Model S this Sunday 

Do I have an acute case of schadenfreude? You bet I do. Each time I observe all those tech gurus (most of them are professional suckers of government's financial teat) such as late (another deity) Steve Jobs or, already mentioned by me Musk, who continue to BS the world of mostly baby boomers and students of liberal arts colleges in coastal cities into paying for all kind of shiny crap, I always ask the question--do you really need all this, supposedly hi-tech, junk? It is a not very easy question to answer for those who never worked productively a day in their life and who treasure style over substance 90% of the time.  But here is one thing which I want to share: fast receding American civil liberties, which for some time were the envy of the world, were based on two quintessential American things: good highways and a car, which could take one, say, from Seattle to L.A. or from Phoenix to Houston, if one wished, with no problem at all. In the end, I myself took very long drives, well in excess of 1,000 miles, not for once. It was always an adventure.  Now, for any normal person the very notion that you can get in the car and just go is this very notion which is in the foundation of one of those liberties. Try to get from Seattle to Phoenix in one full day, as I did several times (being exhausted, of course by the end) on any Tesla model--good luck with that. 

Remember this?

During an interview with Danish media, Elon Musk revealed that he estimates Tesla will be able to offer a model with a 600-plus-mile electric range by 2017. Tesla’s CEO was attending the opening of Tesla’s first factory in Europe when he disclosed that, within a year or two, the EV automaker should have the right battery and powertrain technology to equip models for 1,000 kilometers or 620 miles per charge. Now before you call it “game over” for the internal combustion engine, it’s worth noting that Musk’s 600-plus range claim was based on the fact that a Tesla Model S P85D just managed to travel 452 miles on a single charge by hovering at 24.2 miles per hour for its entire journey. Real-world range will be substantially less, but the point is this: range anxiety will slowly be less of an issue for electric vehicle consumers and prospects.

So, you know now how fraud sounds. In America where civil liberties, once being a given, are being infringed upon every day, who wants to join some company which has a very good track record of exaggeration and, well, under-performing and lose yet another essential American liberty--to drive as far as one wants when one wants. Yes, yes, I am readying myself for the flight to Mars on Musk's reusable rocket, you know the one he promised will cut costs 50%... oops, it never did actually, not even close. As for rich progressive snobs--let them spend their money any way they want, as long as they don't try to convince me that a piece of crap is a viable alternative.