Ryan Wadle

#RIP naval aviator and astronaut Jim Lovell who passed away on Thursday at the age of 97. A 1952 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Lovell flew F2H Banshee fighters before being selected for NASA’s Gemini program. In 1970, he commanded the near-tragic Apollo 13 mission.

Acting NASA Administrator Reflects on Legacy of Astronaut Jim Lovell - NASA The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy on the passing of famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. He passed away Aug. 7, in Lake

Godspeed, Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander

There are now 4 humans alive who've walked on the Moon, and 1 who orbited it.

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Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

What If Japan Hadn't Surrendered in WWII? A Look at the Horrifying 'Operation Downfall' Eighty years after the bombing of Hiroshima, a look back at Operation Downfall, the massive and bloody U.S. invasion of Japan that was planned for 1945 but never happened.

For all the horror of August 1945, at least we avoided Operation Downfall nationalsecurityjournal.org/what-if-japa...

The film adaptation is pretty solid, too

Of all of the things I could manifest, there are far worse options than protein chips

Excited to see #howthefewbecametheproud as one of the 4 recommended general histories by the Corps’ History Division in its new history of the Corps! Link to the book to download in the comments

Check out the most recent edition of The Naval Review for a dive into the fruits of my research for the Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre on Putin's push for investment into the Russian Navy.

CPA Bateau Guerre U S S Iowa New York 1906

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#CPA #Postcard #Warship #Battleship #USS #Iowa #USSIOWA #NavyShip #USNavy #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #1906 #AntiquePostcard #MilitaryShip #HistoricVessel

YouTube video by Kyuss - Topic Asteroid

sometimes you gotta overpower the staticky trach in the brain & in the general atmosphere with Kyuss

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Sadly, I do not

Ways that the performance of the Russian Black Sea Fleet could deteriorate even further are few…

man I don't think "they make their bombers insanely large" is all that good of a dunk

Forged in War: Joint Professional Military Education and Great Power Competition | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University JPME gives U.S. military officers the edge by sharpening joint planning, domain integration, and strategic thinking for future conflict.

What is the value of joint PME? Since a new piece just came out from some Naval War College profs, I thought I’d post my piece with some ACSC profs and a SAMS prof smallwarsjournal.com/2025/05/23/j...

photo of Mr. Rogers that looks almost exactly like The Onion sickos meme guy

Obsessed with this photo of Mr. Rogers that looks almost exactly like The Onion sickos guy.

Space limitations forced me to cut the "Battle of the Pips" from Learning War, but the evidence is strong that the radar echos were a flock of seabirds.

Reminded of Rhody cronyism yesterday when checking on whether I could ship wine from CA to my home.

#RIP Francis Ganley who passed away on Monday at the age of 98. Ganley enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1943 and served aboard USS Texas (BB-35), manning one of the battleship's 3” anti-aircraft guns during the invasion of Normandy.

Out soon … 🥸

Lone Star (1996): No Wild and Aberrant Star The driving force of Lone Star isn’t the suspense of discovery, but the moral weight of what’s already known—and what people choose to do with it.

"John Sayles sees America as unfinished work, though his focus is often on the broken machinery churning out the myth. His films are explorations of the American underside, portraits of communities where race, class, gender, and power intersect, collide, and quietly endure."

#otd Operation Cobra gets underway in Normandy. True combined arms warfare

Tinted postcard of shonky French wonder Masséna. It's like somebody decorated a cupcake using an entire box of sprinkles marked "naval ordnance"

The UK is getting age verification to stop you viewing dirty french postcards like this

July 23, 1925: Eight of the U.S. Navy's largest warships pay a goodwill visit to Australia, with large crowds turning out to see their arrival at Sydney Harbor. The battleship Colorado (second photo) and a march by Marines through Martin Place.

❝I thought America was fabulous. Take pizza for example. For years I’d been thinking, I wish someone would invent a new kind of food. In England it was always egg and chips, sausage and chips, pie and chips … anything and chips. After a while it just got boring, y’know? But you couldn’t exactly order a shaved Parmesan and rocket salad in Birmingham in the early ’70s. If it didn’t come out of a deep-fat fryer, no one knew what the fuck it was. But then, in New York, I discovered pizza. It blew my mind wide fucking open. I would buy ten or twenty slices a day. And then, when I realized you could buy a great big pizza all for yourself, I started ordering them wherever we went. I couldn’t wait to get back home and tell all my mates: ‘There’s this incredible new thing. It’s American and it’s called pizza. It’s like bread, but it’s better than any bread you’ve tasted in your life.’ I even tried to recreate a New York pizza for Thelma once. I made some dough, then I got all these cans of beans and pilchards and olives and shit and put them on top—it must have been about 15 quid’s worth of gear—but after ten minutes it just came dribbling out of the oven. It was like someone had been sick in there. Thelma just looked at it and went, ‘I don’t think I like pizza, John.’ She never called me Ozzy, my first wife.❞ —Ozzy Osbourne, from ‘I Am Ozzy’ (Grand Central Publishing, 2010)

Ozzy on pizza: