Stupidity Watch 1

     On 4/20/2023 Elon Musk's SpaceX launched the first test flight of a fully assembled Starship with booster rockets. What does the first successful launch of Starship mean? It means that Elon Musk has taken his first major step towards colonizing Mars. The rocket made it off the launch pad with 30 of its 33 engines burning, and flew for over 3 minutes and 30 seconds by which point three more engines had failed. It reached over 2,000 km per hour and 39 km into the sky where it was supposed to separate and go to stage 2, but that failed and after tumbling a few times in the sky SpaceX had to destroy Starship, or as the commentators said, it had a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly or RUD over the Gulf of Mexico.      SpaceX stressed that all of this was just for the purposes of data gathering, as we've seen them do in the past with their other platforms. Just like the Falcon system they will iron out the bugs and Starship will become a reality, which means...

     I've never seen a flying saucer but I've seen many, many UFOs in my life. When I was a kid I used to spend the summers in northern Michigan where you could see the stars very well, and I was used to watching satellites and airplanes pass over, but would occasionally see things that broke the laws of physics. Around 50 years ago I used to see dots of light in the sky that would move along a single trajectory like a satellite, then turn on a dime and go another direction without curving, like they were drawing an acute angle of a triangle. Worth noting is that northern Michigan does have a large military base near where I spent my summers.      Around 35 years ago my friends and I witnessed what appeared to be a meteor that flew over our heads and went down into the swamp nearby, followed by the oddest thing. Starting about five miles away in the direction that the "meteor" had come from we could hear that dogs on several farms started barking, then ...