Your Bag of Nothing for Thursday, March 13, 2025

  • Randomly thinking about the cars left on the moon by the Apollo missions. There are three up there. The rovers were designed with a top speed of about eight mph (13 km/h), although Eugene Cernan recorded a maximum speed of 11.2 mph (18.0 km/h), giving him the (unofficial) lunar land-speed record. They ran on batteries, which have vastly improved since the early Seventies. I wonder how easy it would be to swap out the old batteries and replace them with new ones.

 

  • Every now and then I’ll start to analyze stuff I’ve always been familiar with and become astonished and upset I’ve overlooked the significance for so long. Most recently, it was World War II and the European Theater. The time between D-Day (June 6, 1944) and the fall of Berlin and Hitler’s suicide is basically 11 months. I guess I thought from D-Day to the end of that part of the war was a few years. But taking back all of Europe in less than a year is mightily impressive. Just think of all the planning and logistics it took for that to happen in a relatively short time. It makes me admire Eisenhower ever more.

 

  • I wanted to watch Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and saw it is only available to stream for free on PlutoTV. So, I downloaded the app and started the movie, and it’s all in Spanish!? All the menu options were in English, but the audio was all Spanish. There was nothing in the settings to change the language. Confused, I looked online and found it’s a common problem. Luckily I uninstalled it and the reinstall fixed the issue. And no, I wasn’t using a VPN and since there was only one option for the app, I know I didn’t accidentally download the Spanish version.
    • When I was in college, we didn’t have cable television and it was hard to get a signal over the air, so we watched a lot of movies on VHS over and over again. None more for me than The Fugitive. I say all that because I often use the name of the made-up drug in the movie around my close friends as an inside joke. So, I had a huge laugh when I saw this watching Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Interestingly, when I looked it up online, it seemed that no one had ever made the connection. Other fans have bought the URL to the fictional company in the movie and honor the made-up drug – DevlinMacgregor.com/Provasic

 

  • “Right now the economy is so bad, Elon Musk is thinking about laying off Donald Trump.” — Jimmy Fallon

 

  • President Trump, here’s a wild suggestion. When it’s time for a new press secretary, hire Matt Laurer. Here’s not doing anything. I double-dog dare you.

 

 

  • I haven’t had time to research this website for any legitimacy, but thought y’all might like to check it out. Congress Live Net Worth Tracker – We used our data on politicians’ stock portfolios to calculate live net worth estimates for members of Congress.

 

  • I can’t believe so many people are okay with the President using the White House to advertise cars.

 

  • Robert J. Moriarty, a retired U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot, who in 1984 illegally flew his Beechcraft Bonanza under the Eiffel Tower, a stunt inspired by his extensive combat experience and record-setting aviation achievements, including being the youngest naval aviator in the Vietnam War.This audacious act, performed on March 31, 1984, during a trans-Atlantic ferry flight from Paris, led French authorities to install bars at the base of the Eiffel Tower to prevent similar incidents, highlighting the structure’s history as a target for aviation challenges since the early 20th century.

    Moriarty’s motivation was simply “for fun,” as he stated, connecting his stunt to a historical precedent set during World War II, when a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 pilot flew under the Eiffel Tower to evade an American fighter, showcasing the tower’s role in aviation daring.

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