Comments on: The world was under the impression that the Russians held the record for airspeed https://www.isegoria.net/2024/04/the-world-was-under-the-impression-that-the-russians-held-the-record-for-airspeed/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:25:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Gaikokumaniakku https://www.isegoria.net/2024/04/the-world-was-under-the-impression-that-the-russians-held-the-record-for-airspeed/comment-page-1/#comment-3681731 Gaikokumaniakku Wed, 24 Apr 2024 21:45:54 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=51583#comment-3681731 Tangentially related: 3M22 Zircon: Debunking Misconceptions.

At the link, a military expert criticizes Russian hypersonic weapons.

]]> By: Phileas Frogg https://www.isegoria.net/2024/04/the-world-was-under-the-impression-that-the-russians-held-the-record-for-airspeed/comment-page-1/#comment-3681690 Phileas Frogg Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:12:50 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=51583#comment-3681690 History is a gift and its study a blessing; even the people whose effects I have come to despise are so obviously superior to our present milieu that one can’t help but feel a sort of scruffy abashedness in the presence of their biographies.

And, of course, it gets worse the further back you go. One wonders at the impression a fully fledged Adam in the Garden, before the Fall, would have had on us scampering apes.

Darwin got it backwards, we didn’t evolve from an ape-like ancestor, we’re devolving towards one.

]]> By: Bob Sykes https://www.isegoria.net/2024/04/the-world-was-under-the-impression-that-the-russians-held-the-record-for-airspeed/comment-page-1/#comment-3681687 Bob Sykes Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:35:46 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=51583#comment-3681687 LBJ also kept a cooler of beer in that Caddy, and he usually was drinking a beer while he drove around.

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