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  1. 13 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    More Tecovas:

    67b0343199a8909eee402219bc105880416591d2

    I'd wear that around the house on a chilly evening or morning. I probably wouldn't pay what they are asking, and I somehow doubt it is made from quality materials, but I love some good western throwback stuff. 

     

  2. Django is kind of WTF. I watched the first and about half of the second episode. It's a bunch of European actors who don't speak English as a primary language trying and failing to sound American,  much less Texan. And their whole concept of the West is just completely addled. It's like a bunch of Surly posters decided to make a movie about the war in Ukraine based solely on what has been posted in the thread and without any basic knowledge of the geography. 

    I'll probably keep watching because I am a sucker for westerns. 

  3. This show needs its own topic. If you grew up watching Spiderman on Saturday mornings or reading the comic books or trading the cards with your friends in grade school,  then you should be watching this show if you aren't already. I know a lot of you have comic book movie fatigue, but this is very much a throwback to those  good old days and worth watching. 

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  4. 2 minutes ago, troph said:

    Well no, I was agreeing crazy in the eyes is a possible positive trait, I mean it’s done me well. The last time I came across a woman with shit in her eyes I ran for the hills. 

    There's more of them in the hills. The hills is where they come from. They have eyes. Shitty ones. 

  5. On 1/28/2025 at 3:42 PM, Aqua Buddha said:

    Tecovas is mid tier and will blow away on the prairie when this western fad dies down and/or the economy slows. 

    Lucchese will be fine.  Rich people will still be rich and want to cosplay cowboy.

    Ariat will be fine.  Poor rednecks will still want to redneck.   

    Mexicans love then some Ariats and their necks aren't red. 

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  6. https://www.twz.com/air/heres-what-norads-commander-just-told-us-about-the-langley-afb-drone-incursions

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    The incursions of mystery drones over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia – which we were the first to report back in March – has sparked a lot of questions about who flew them and how the U.S. military responded to them and will do so in similar instances in the future. Drone flights over sensitive military installations, warning areas, naval warships, and critical national infrastructure sites is a major issue The War Zone has raised for years. Today we had a chance to ask the general responsible for defending America’s airspace about the issue and the Langley incursions, in particular.

    Speaking to The War Zone along with a small group of reporters at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, the commander of U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and the joint U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Air Force Gen. Gregory M. Guillot offered few specifics about the incursions but talked about some of the steps NORTHCOM is taking in the wake of those incidents.

    “The only thing I can tell you about the Langley drones is roughly the number and roughly the altitude,” he said when we asked him about the exact characteristics and configurations of those drones. He did not elaborate. However, earlier this month, Air Force Gen. Mark Kelly told The Wall Street Journal that at least one of the drones was “roughly 20 feet long and flying at more than 100 miles an hour, at an altitude of roughly 3,000 to 4,000 feet. Other drones followed, one by one, sounding in the distance like a parade of lawn mowers.”

    Replying to our question, Guillot told us he did not know if they were tracked back to their recovery point or whether they could have been launched by a vessel off the coast.

     

  7. https://medium.com/@m.finks/nasas-metallic-orbs-the-surprising-briefing-everyone-missed-70a6ff6a231c

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    On July 1, 2023, a Pentagon official at NASA headquarters calmly stated, ‘We see these metallic spheres all over the world, making maneuvers we can’t explainmoving at Mach 2 against the wind, with no apparent propulsion.”

    This was a government scientist, discussing objects that defy the laws of physics, in a briefing where the Pentagon and NASA were sharing findings like this after a year of study.

    This should have been front-page news. Instead, it barely made a ripple in the mainstream media.

    Link to the video is here — LINK

    NASA’s Briefing: Key Details & Quotes

    You can watch the entire briefing here on Youtube. All of the quotes that I am using will be time-stamped, when possible.

    Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, who is the director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), didn’t beat around the bush.

    Showing a video of a metallic sphere captured by military sensors, he stated matter-of-factly: “This is a typical example of the thing that we see most of…

    Then came the kicker that should have sent shockwaves through the scientific community: “We see these all over the world, and we see these making very interesting apparent maneuvers.” [37:23]

    Wait…what?

    Here is a top government official, speaking at NASA headquarters, describing something that defied our understanding of physics: metallic spheres — as he clearly said in an example — “moving at Mach 2 against the wind with no apparent propulsion.” [1:03:41–1:03:55]

    • That’s twice the speed of sound.
    • Into the wind.
    • With no visible engines.

    Dr. Kirkpatrick noted that they now have over 800 cases, [54:51–55:06] and that of these cases.- “The numbers I would say that we see are possibly really anomalous are less than single digit percentages… maybe two to five-ish percent.

    That sounds like a small number, but there are still at least 20–40 anomalous cases…of metallic spheres, many the size of small cars, that can travel at high speeds with no means of propulsion.

    Examining the Orbs

    This image is from a slideshow that was shared during the public briefing.

     

    1*iD-hJTpSiD15LaM7sEEafw.png The objects have showed up consistently enough, and with such similar characteristics, that they demanded a graph!

    • Size: About as big as a small car (3–13 feet across)
    • Altitude: Flying in the same airspace as commercial planes (10,000–30,000 feet)
    • Appearance: Metallic, spherical, solid
    • Movement: Could hover motionless, then accelerate to incredible speeds
    • Technology: No visible engines, no heat signature, no exhaust

    Here’s what makes this truly strange. They are admitting that these objects, which by all laws of physics known to humans, shouldn’t be able to fly…are able to hover, and then accelerate to speeds up to Mach 2.

    Imagine one of the jets from Top Gun, hovering silent in the sky, and then accelerating to top speed.

    Without any engines.

    Again — “We see these all over the world,” Kirkpatrick said. Notice his choice of words: “We see these.” Present tense. Not “We saw these once” or “Someone reported seeing these.” [37:23]

    He’s describing something happening regularly, consistently, all around the globe.

    The Logical Dilemma
    Could we be witnessing non-human technology?

    Occam’s Razor tells us that the simplest, most elegant explanation is usually the one closest to the truth.

    So, when something this strange appears in our skies, it’s natural to look for simple explanations. Let’s do what NASA’s scientists did: examine each possibility with an open but critical mind.

    Could these be conventional aircraft? No. They need huge engines to fly.

    Natural phenomena? No. NASA’s Dr. Fox emphasized, they’re dealing with solid objects showing “signatures that could be anomalous.” That’s scientist-speak for “things that shouldn’t be able to do what they’re doing.”

    Secret military technology? This is what some people hope it could be. But no country would test their most advanced tech over other nations’ sensitive facilities. And, even more important, these orbs have been appearing for decades. No one had anything close to this kind of technology 40 years ago.

    The Answer Nobody Wants to Discuss

    This brings us to the possibility most scientists are uncomfortable discussing: non-human technology. Here’s where it gets interesting. This explanation actually fits all the evidence:

    • Advanced technology beyond our current capabilities? Check.
    • Global presence? Check.
    • Consistent characteristics over decades? Check.
    • Ability to operate without conventional propulsion? Check.

    Is this a comfortable conclusion? No. Is it where the technological evidence points? Yes.

    A Brief Historical Context

    Here’s what makes NASA’s current study so fascinating: these metallic orbs aren’t new. They match a pattern of observations stretching back decades:

    • WWII pilots called them “foo fighters”
    • Navy crews tracked them underwater in the 1950s
    • Commercial pilots have quietly reported them for years

    The same characteristics keep showing up:

    • Metallic spheres
    • Impossible maneuvers
    • No visible propulsion
    • Strategic locations
    • Apparent intelligence

    It’s not a comfortable conclusion. I look at the evidence, and my mind still thinks, “This is not as much fun as I had thought it would be. If non-human technology does exist, that’s kind of…scary.”

    I have always been curious about the possibility of “non-human technology”, but if it’s actually real….that will change our actual understanding of reality.

    It’s as if all those speculative “what if” debates suddenly got real. No longer is this a fringe rumor or a conspiracy theory; now it’s official data about objects doing the impossible in our skies.

    This is what changes when NASA confirms it is seeing anomalies like these metallic orbs across the globe.

    Where do we go from here?

    So what does NASA plan next? Dr. Spergel, who led Princeton’s astrophysics department, essentially said we need better data — more sensors, more rigorous collection methods — if we want answers.

    Meanwhile, Dr. Nicola Fox admitted scientists studying these phenomena face plenty of harassment, which only deepens the stigma. It’s frustrating because here we have top-tier experts openly saying, “We see anomalies we can’t explain,” yet the public conversation remains stuck in old skepticism.

    For me, that means there’s a window of opportunity to explore these sightings with fresh eyes, free from the usual ridicule.

    If NASA’s data proves something beyond our current technology can exist now, then maybe some ancient technological mysteries aren’t as much of a mystery as the conflicting theories would have us believe. It’s a big leap, but so was NASA going public about impossible flight maneuvers.

    The Pattern

    I’ve spent the past few months investigating this connection between NASA’s modern metallic orbs and historical technological anomalies. The pattern that emerged was so compelling that I’ve documented it in my upcoming book “The Pattern: from ‘Drones’ to NASA’s Orbs to Ancient History.” [Link if interested in checking it out]

    From the precise engineering of Puma Punku in Bolivia to the impossible knowledge embedded in ancient sites, we’re seeing evidence of technological gaps that seemed to exist then…just as they do today with these metallic orbs.

    Using NASA’s current observations as our foundation, we can finally examine these historical mysteries through a new lens.

    If you’ve found these revelations as eye-opening (or as uncomfortable) as I have, you can follow this investigation in several ways:

    • Check out the book to explore the full pattern [link]
    • Follow me here on Medium for regular updates
    • Share this article if you think others should know about NASA’s overlooked briefing

    At this point, I’d rather keep an open mind than miss what could be the biggest story of our time.

     
     

     

     
     

    I apologize for not posting as plain text. Apparently that's no longer a thing that works properly. 

  8. 45 minutes ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

     Pretty much everything the white man did they did as well, but worse.

    And reflecting back on this sentence, it is a wonder why we wonder why immigrant communities tend to prefer to speak their native language instead of mastering the English language. 

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  9. 5 hours ago, F250 said:

    You can't use the Comanche as a baseline for all Native American tribes.

    They were the Vikings of the Southern Plains. They kicked the shit out of the other tribes and kept the Europeans out their territory. Hell, they defeated the Apache and took their territory. The French couldn't expand west or the Spanish north because of the Comanche. Mexico and Texas would get raided regularly by them and pretty much every government's flag that flew over Texas failed to defeat the Comanche.

    They had a very spartan society where they just hunted and waged war.

    Yeah, the Comanche were the ultimate boogeyman of the west and not a true barometer for native Americans as a whole. Pretty much everything the white man did they did as well, but worse. That's not to say that there hasn't been a shift towards James Fennimore Cooper's "noble savage" in recent years, but only that the Comanches are a definite outlier. 

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  10. 10 hours ago, utee94 said:

    All caught up and waiting for the next one.  It's rare that I can get my busy teenage kids to sit down next to me for any length of time, but they love this show and we've had a good time watching it together.  I also love to make them cringe by saying that Jod seems like he's skibidi beta.

    I've been throwing "That's so wizard" into conversations when the kids are around. 

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