Martian dust devils

The Martian mission carries on after four years ... quite a record since NASA paid for the equipment and rockets, while anticipating that the dust on Mars would block the solar power panels after 90 days and end the mission's usefulness!

The Mattel real $10 radar gun

The Mattel real $10 radar gun: "My pal Dave Ruigh sends along a note that Mattel is selling a real-live working radar gun for 10 bucks."

This 'toy' measures real-time speed OR clocks your HotWheels toy in scaled relative time (64X real time) ...
Query: what does your PD pay for their scanners?

Deneuement

Greetings!
This is an experiment for me: a blog that isn't a dated diary, but an indexed [labeled] place for me to sort out thoughts and share them ... and for you to find and return to your favorites and share your own thoughts with me.
I consider that I'm about at the peak of my life: lots of experiences and history [enough perhaps to comment on what's happening again, and why 'they' don't want you to learn from 'real' history ...] and old enough to speak out without worrying what 'they' may want to do about it!
So you can expect changes from time to time: additions, revisions and comments from readers; new research and viewpoints, some controversial or merely odd; and I'll do my very best to make it easy to navigate through the list of LABELS over there on the right.
More later ...