Greetings and Lamentations, I AM Lord Malignance and before me you will Crouch!
Villains excepted, of course.
So it has come to pass, this, One's Ninth year in Villainy on this the Eighth anniversary of One's first blog post all these many years ago.
But This is no proper post.
A better post will be forthcoming. In truth, the accolades and parties have taken all the day, the days before, and still more days yet. But a post is due catching up on the goings on.
Nine years is a lot - 5 years, crushing the puny superheroes, and these last four on Malignanceship. Maybe an even 15, and then One will follow Dr. Steel off the stage and back into the shadows. Squeeze in a victory lap and a retrospective at the end.
The Work (what you Don't see) has been enjoyable - but One Does spend too much time on Twitter railing against the NRA, Zuckerberg's Monster, and Trump.
So, a post soon. New chair coming in (One is quite particular about what One spends time with). A stage to set, and maybe some videos.
Until Next Time,
-M
Malignance: Madman. Tyrant. MetaVillain. Dire Ruler of the Mighty Colorado Holdfast, pursuing the unknown in the Malignanceship, an impossible ship of his Will and Imagination. And then - Tragedy. Hurled into the unfathomable deep reaches of outer space. Lost
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
Monday, June 11, 2018
A Disturbance in the Evil
Something IS going on, not certain What, but the minions are Frisky.
That Said, Don't care. Busy in the Fields of Darkness in pursuits One finds more rewarding.
Work towards video is rounding out - maybe something soonish. Content being sparse after scrapping the 11-Story Malignanceship prototype for a less costly smaller version (under construction).
M
That Said, Don't care. Busy in the Fields of Darkness in pursuits One finds more rewarding.
Work towards video is rounding out - maybe something soonish. Content being sparse after scrapping the 11-Story Malignanceship prototype for a less costly smaller version (under construction).
M
Friday, June 1, 2018
Malignanceship Updates
Pageholder for future Evil.
Nothing to see here.
Move along, move along.
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M
Nothing to see here.
Move along, move along.
>8E
M
Friday, May 4, 2018
the Return of Potentate and R.O.A.C.H.
Greetings and Lamentations, I Am Lord Malignance and you will CROUCH! before me.
(Villains excepted, of course.)
Stumbling around on the Internet, One came across the ROACH page and it appears after some time in repairs, that it's back up and in operation. Some modifications - with ROACH being the acronym for "Ruthless Organization Against Citizen Heroes" kind of boxing the Potentate in, he's gone with skipping that part and moving on into "Taking Over the World".
One supports the Potentate, ROACH, and this more viable pursuit (One has been here all along). The heroes are mostly destroyed now, the seeds planted by Villains (not the laughable collection of screwhead hench and minions some organizations had bestowed imprimatur upon...) have entered the Gomorrah that was always intended.
With all that said, The World is Not Enough, and there Are still Villains chasing the crown left for us by Dr. Steel. You may know their names, or you may Not. As a Villain One wishes Success Only to the Victor, for the strongest will lead and the weak will follow.
Just a small note and a token of respect to another Villain at work in the thoughtspace of ideas.
-M.
(Villains excepted, of course.)
Stumbling around on the Internet, One came across the ROACH page and it appears after some time in repairs, that it's back up and in operation. Some modifications - with ROACH being the acronym for "Ruthless Organization Against Citizen Heroes" kind of boxing the Potentate in, he's gone with skipping that part and moving on into "Taking Over the World".
One supports the Potentate, ROACH, and this more viable pursuit (One has been here all along). The heroes are mostly destroyed now, the seeds planted by Villains (not the laughable collection of screwhead hench and minions some organizations had bestowed imprimatur upon...) have entered the Gomorrah that was always intended.
With all that said, The World is Not Enough, and there Are still Villains chasing the crown left for us by Dr. Steel. You may know their names, or you may Not. As a Villain One wishes Success Only to the Victor, for the strongest will lead and the weak will follow.
Just a small note and a token of respect to another Villain at work in the thoughtspace of ideas.
-M.
Friday, April 27, 2018
Gearing Back Up...
Greetings and Lamentations, I AM Lord Malignance and before me you will CROUCH!
(Villains excepted, of course).
So, the Accounting held for the month of March was completed and One Squeezed the Mighty Colorado Holdfast exceptionally ruthlessly this time, and for purpose. It's why the Recovery (and the financial labors have taken such time).
Malignanceship is going back to the shipyards, not merely for a refit, but for a rebuild. You may remember that the Ion Drive (main propulsion system) was found to be Exceedingly dangerous and required additional shielding (high energy photons stream into the fusion reactor and make the whole thing radioactive). That shielding was added, but that extra weight put the lift requirements out of range. Malignanceship as designed, is an 11 story tall vessel with a hydrogen scoop on the bottom, an extendable field ring around the back, and of those 11 stories, fully Half are fuel tanks.
A realization of the problem presented itself on a launch test when the rocket exhausts would melt and explode. You Cannot run the chemical thrusters at full power for more than a very few minutes. Add more rocket engines and then you increase the weight - and on and on. Malignanceship was designed As a spaceship - Launch, Earth Orbital Maneuvers and Reentry and safe landing. Landing was to be accomplished on a Recovery Structure at the Galt's Gulch Space Center here in Colorado, or as a backup, into a nearby large body of water.
Two issues presented themselves Also with those plans. The structure would Also melt when Malignanceship tried to land into it - the rocket engines are numerous and produce an extreme amount of heat, easily conducted by the structure into any and all alloys that did not have an extremely high melting points. The Second was that the ship when burning fuel produces a chemical output that was not welcome in Any body of water large enough to support the ship.
Malignanceship itself Has no aerodynamics - it was built For space - and that's become a problem as well. The heat shielding (ceramic tiles) added weight, which of course at This point was catastrophic to the flight equations. The main propulsion system being Ionic (speed over time in a frictionless vacuum) meant that there Was no speed to atmospheric flight - she Lifted - slowly. Ponderously, burning out the exhaust systems and detonating the engines.
Lastly, this ship is now 5 years old over all - the technology (and you may remember when WindowsX came out, One was - displeased - that it broke the AI SUtech. A reprogramming There as well).
So - design elements at this time for the new Malignanceship 2.0;
The hypothetical Einstein-Rosen Bridge Generator (J-Drive, or "Jump Drive") is a keeper, but the field ring is fragile and must be deployed for use each time. Would like to incorporate that Into the superstructure (there is a Real fear about phasic shifts involving resonating harmonics in materials - in tests objects were fused.) because; One wants to see if there's any potential to a supraluminal Alcubierre Drive (and that's a Ring system by itself).
So the Legendary Squeezing of the Colorado Holdfast this year, is going to afford the opportunity to scrap the existing Malignanceship and to begin construction of Malignanceship 2.0.
One will try and get a video, some pictures, and more posts out as time allows.
Around the Lair, the NRAliens are Upset with these changes, but behaving well as long as they get to follow the shenanigans of Trump. One has removed the explosive charge from the Moe's head and given him the new name "Nugent". That allows them to be identified as LaPierre, Heston, and Nugent. You would believe they would take these names as the insults they Are, but No, they like the names and are trying dress accordingly. They really Do hate humanity.
One has noted some activity in the honeypots - when the fish come to nibble, you pull back to lure them in further. Collect data, discern behaviors, more - would be Telling (heh, heh, heh). That said, some frequent visits from known, Russia, and a circus act.
SUtech is a mess. Truly. Like Malignanceship itself, SUtech was subcontracted to Evil vendors, who used Villainous technology in development. This means Backdoors, there are Many. Non standard and unreliable (Obsidian Labs!) technology, and more than a few stolen technologies from DARPA and Hanger 18. Trying to rebuild Either is proving difficult and time consuming. Rewarding though.
One has some capers in mind for later in the year - have to get the Malignanceship 2.0 project started, and as One does this, my current Henchman and Seneschal "Le Petit Mort" ('Mort) is running the business of the Holdfast. Take your abasements to Him please. That Said, Crouching in my Presence is Still expected - except from Mort and for obvious reasons.
That's it for now, back to the Designs. Oh! Should mention, One is fascinated by the Machine Age, a time around the 1930s which incorporated an artistic design called "Streamline Moderne". If there needs to be some style to my work, One hopes to incorporate small elements to this discipline.
-M
(Villains excepted, of course).
So, the Accounting held for the month of March was completed and One Squeezed the Mighty Colorado Holdfast exceptionally ruthlessly this time, and for purpose. It's why the Recovery (and the financial labors have taken such time).
Malignanceship is going back to the shipyards, not merely for a refit, but for a rebuild. You may remember that the Ion Drive (main propulsion system) was found to be Exceedingly dangerous and required additional shielding (high energy photons stream into the fusion reactor and make the whole thing radioactive). That shielding was added, but that extra weight put the lift requirements out of range. Malignanceship as designed, is an 11 story tall vessel with a hydrogen scoop on the bottom, an extendable field ring around the back, and of those 11 stories, fully Half are fuel tanks.
A realization of the problem presented itself on a launch test when the rocket exhausts would melt and explode. You Cannot run the chemical thrusters at full power for more than a very few minutes. Add more rocket engines and then you increase the weight - and on and on. Malignanceship was designed As a spaceship - Launch, Earth Orbital Maneuvers and Reentry and safe landing. Landing was to be accomplished on a Recovery Structure at the Galt's Gulch Space Center here in Colorado, or as a backup, into a nearby large body of water.
Two issues presented themselves Also with those plans. The structure would Also melt when Malignanceship tried to land into it - the rocket engines are numerous and produce an extreme amount of heat, easily conducted by the structure into any and all alloys that did not have an extremely high melting points. The Second was that the ship when burning fuel produces a chemical output that was not welcome in Any body of water large enough to support the ship.
Malignanceship itself Has no aerodynamics - it was built For space - and that's become a problem as well. The heat shielding (ceramic tiles) added weight, which of course at This point was catastrophic to the flight equations. The main propulsion system being Ionic (speed over time in a frictionless vacuum) meant that there Was no speed to atmospheric flight - she Lifted - slowly. Ponderously, burning out the exhaust systems and detonating the engines.
Lastly, this ship is now 5 years old over all - the technology (and you may remember when WindowsX came out, One was - displeased - that it broke the AI SUtech. A reprogramming There as well).
So - design elements at this time for the new Malignanceship 2.0;
- Wings/Aerofins for lift during launch and reentry - every bit of lift support is needed.
- A chemical rocket engine supplemental forward thruster for atmospheric flight.
- Significant decrease in size - looking at 4 stories (two for crew and mechanical systems, and two for fuel).
- Move the hydrogen scoop to the dorsal aspect, add some kind of landing struts to the ventral.
The hypothetical Einstein-Rosen Bridge Generator (J-Drive, or "Jump Drive") is a keeper, but the field ring is fragile and must be deployed for use each time. Would like to incorporate that Into the superstructure (there is a Real fear about phasic shifts involving resonating harmonics in materials - in tests objects were fused.) because; One wants to see if there's any potential to a supraluminal Alcubierre Drive (and that's a Ring system by itself).
So the Legendary Squeezing of the Colorado Holdfast this year, is going to afford the opportunity to scrap the existing Malignanceship and to begin construction of Malignanceship 2.0.
One will try and get a video, some pictures, and more posts out as time allows.
Around the Lair, the NRAliens are Upset with these changes, but behaving well as long as they get to follow the shenanigans of Trump. One has removed the explosive charge from the Moe's head and given him the new name "Nugent". That allows them to be identified as LaPierre, Heston, and Nugent. You would believe they would take these names as the insults they Are, but No, they like the names and are trying dress accordingly. They really Do hate humanity.
One has noted some activity in the honeypots - when the fish come to nibble, you pull back to lure them in further. Collect data, discern behaviors, more - would be Telling (heh, heh, heh). That said, some frequent visits from known, Russia, and a circus act.
SUtech is a mess. Truly. Like Malignanceship itself, SUtech was subcontracted to Evil vendors, who used Villainous technology in development. This means Backdoors, there are Many. Non standard and unreliable (Obsidian Labs!) technology, and more than a few stolen technologies from DARPA and Hanger 18. Trying to rebuild Either is proving difficult and time consuming. Rewarding though.
One has some capers in mind for later in the year - have to get the Malignanceship 2.0 project started, and as One does this, my current Henchman and Seneschal "Le Petit Mort" ('Mort) is running the business of the Holdfast. Take your abasements to Him please. That Said, Crouching in my Presence is Still expected - except from Mort and for obvious reasons.
That's it for now, back to the Designs. Oh! Should mention, One is fascinated by the Machine Age, a time around the 1930s which incorporated an artistic design called "Streamline Moderne". If there needs to be some style to my work, One hopes to incorporate small elements to this discipline.
-M
Saturday, February 17, 2018
Strange Signals from Beyond the Atmosphere...
Greetings,
Continuing work on Malignanceship - the Cold of Ourey has This year been a Mostly dry Winter (states that use Colorado Rockies Ice Pack are in for Quite a surprise in their upcoming water availability come Springmelt) and has afforded teams to continue their work on the heat shielding installation. Yes - a Lot of Malignanceship is like that - technology that's a little past expiration. In this case, ceramic heat shields for reentry. It's 1980s Space Shuttle technology, but there you have it. It's what a Villain can do on a budget.
But while this work has been going on, One has been tracking the strange signals previously spoken of, and two takes on a New Story has caught my attention. The NRAliens - my enslaved Lizardmen from the Earth's core who Were communicating with something Near Tabby's Star, are saying nothing more than "SSSSlllllaaaar" (translators aside). Which is mostly the only thing they Do say;
Continuing work on Malignanceship - the Cold of Ourey has This year been a Mostly dry Winter (states that use Colorado Rockies Ice Pack are in for Quite a surprise in their upcoming water availability come Springmelt) and has afforded teams to continue their work on the heat shielding installation. Yes - a Lot of Malignanceship is like that - technology that's a little past expiration. In this case, ceramic heat shields for reentry. It's 1980s Space Shuttle technology, but there you have it. It's what a Villain can do on a budget.
But while this work has been going on, One has been tracking the strange signals previously spoken of, and two takes on a New Story has caught my attention. The NRAliens - my enslaved Lizardmen from the Earth's core who Were communicating with something Near Tabby's Star, are saying nothing more than "SSSSlllllaaaar" (translators aside). Which is mostly the only thing they Do say;
What's sending mysterious repeating fast radio bursts in space?
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Story highlights
- A repeating fast radio burst 3 billion light-years from Earth may be coming from a neutron star
- The strong magnetic field around it could be the result of a black hole or powerful nebula
(CNN)The only known repeating fast radio burst in the universe just got more extreme.
These radio flashes usually last a millisecond and have an unknown physical origin. People love to believe that they're from an advanced extraterrestrial civilization, and this hypothesis hasn't been ruled out entirely by researchers at Breakthrough Listen, a scientific research program dedicated to finding evidence of intelligent life in the universe.
Fast radio bursts in space themselves are not rare, but FRB 121102 -- first detected in 2012 -- is the only one that has been known to repeat. And the repetition is sporadic.
Last year, its host galaxy, a star-forming dwarf galaxy 3 billion light-years from Earth, was also identified.
Now, researchers have used the newest detections to learn more about the extreme environment for the source of this mysterious burst. The details were revealed in a study published in the journal Nature as well as at this week's 231st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington.
The radio burst itself releases a "monstrous" amount of energy in each millisecond, comparable to what our sun releases in an entire day, the researchers said.
The newest detections allowed researchers to discover that the radio bursts themselves are polarized and coming from an environment that contains an incredibly strong magnetic field. They were also able to detect the radio bursts at a higher frequency than ever.
When the radio waves pass through the magnetic field, they are twisted in a way known as Faraday rotation. The stronger the magnetic field, the greater the twist. The degree of twist for the latest detections of FRB is among the largest ever measured in a radio source.
"FRB 121102 was already unique because it repeats; now, the huge Faraday rotation we have observed singles it out yet again. We're curious as to whether these two unique aspects are linked," said Daniele Michilli, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Amsterdam and ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy.
The causes of such a strong magnetic field provide two intriguing possibilities: proximity to a massive black hole in the galaxy or within a powerful nebula.
These hypotheses both support some factors of the radio bursts but also raise questions.
Jason Hessels, study author and associate professor at the University of Amsterdam and ASTRON, described the possibilities.
If it's near a massive black hole, that would explain the persistent radio source and create the right kind of environment, but the researchers aren't entirely confident that such a massive black hole would exist in a dwarf galaxy.
If it's within a powerful nebula, an interstellar cloud of gas or dust, it would also explain the persistent radio source and remain consistent with the fact that astronomers believe the source of the bursts is "young." But it's a million times brighter than the Crab nebula in our own galaxy, which is already massively bright. How could the nebula be that bright?
As for the direct source itself, the latest findings support the idea that it's a neutron star or a pulsar, a highly magnetized and rotating neutron star.
The fact that the source throws out short bursts, ranging from 30 microseconds to 9 milliseconds, supports a source that is just over 6 miles across. That's the right size for a neutron star.
Or it could be something undiscovered.
"We can not rule out completely the ET hypothesis for the FRBs in general," said University of California, Berkeley, postdoctoral fellow Vishal Gajjar of Breakthrough Listen and the Berkeley SETI Research Center.
The researchers are eager to use a number of observatories with new radio telescopes coming online to observe more fast radio bursts. They estimate that there are 10,000 fast radio bursts happening per day in each area of the sky that telescopes around the world are able to monitor. That's a radio flash every 10 seconds, and radio telescopes will be able to find them.
They hope to learn whether the bursts have their own periodicity, or intervals at which they recur, as well as discovering the true nature of the persistent radio source.
"We are continuing to monitor how the properties of the bursts change with time," Hessels said. "With these observations, we hope to distinguish between the two competing hypotheses of a neutron star either near a black hole or embedded in a powerful nebula."
Source; CNN
And;
Mysterious Intergalactic Radio Bursts Come From a Truly Alien Environment
First detected in 2002, Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are quick, high-energy pulses originating from galaxies billions of light years away. Scientists still don’t know the true nature of these bursts or what’s causing them, but new observations of the only known repeating FRBs are providing details about the extreme environments in which these pulses are born.
To date, astronomers have only documented a handful of FRBs; their fleeting, unpredictable appearances make observations difficult. A few years ago, however, scientists detected the only known source of repeating FRBs, an object dubbed FRB 121102. A new paper published today in Nature is now the first to provide a description of the environment in which this source is located. We still don’t know the nature of the source or cause of this repeating FRB, but the detection of an immensely powerful magnetic field in its vicinity suggests some tantalizing possibilities.
Using the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, an international team of astronomers led by Jason Hessels from the University of Amsterdam detected and monitored 16 recent bursts from FRB 1211012, which is located three billion light years from Earth in a nebula (a star-forming region) within a dwarf galaxy.
That’s an extreme distance, to say the least. Whatever’s causing these bursts must be releasing enormous amounts of energy with each pulse. Scientists estimate that there’s as much energy packed into a single millisecond of an FRB as our Sun releases over an entire day. Theories as to what’s causing FRBs include everything from magnetized neutron stars and supernovae through to supermassive black holes and the activities of extraterrestrial civilizations (yes, really).
What these researchers found was that these bursts are highly polarized, exhibiting a very high and variable Faraday rotation measure. When polarized waves travel through an area with a magnetic field, the polarization gets twisted by a phenomenon known as Faraday rotation. The stronger the magnetic field, the stronger the twisting. In the case of FRB 1211012, the twists are among the largest ever recorded in a radio source. This led the researchers to conclude that the pulses must be passing through an incredibly strong magnetic field in a dense plasma.
“This leads us to two hypotheses,” Hessels told Gizmodo, “The source is either a neutron star in an environment like [the one] at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, where there is a very massive black hole, or the source is in a dense, powerful, and highly magnetized nebula.”
Neutron stars are the remnants of ancient stars, between 10 to 29 times the size of our own Sun, that exploded in supernovae, where only the core remains. These stars aren’t capable of producing nuclear fusion reactions, so the absence of outward pressure causes the star to collapse in on itself, forming a small, super-dense orb. Neutron stars are so gravitationally heavy that they cause protons and electrons to combine into neutrons (hence their name).
Emily Petroff, an astronomer from the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy who wasn’t involved with the new study, likes the new paper, telling Gizmodo that “the data and analysis are robust and the result has been confirmed with observations at multiple telescopes—that’s good enough for me.”
As for the possible source of the FRB, Petroff said it’s hard to say which scenario is responsible.
“I will say that putting the FRB source close to a black hole makes most sense based on what we already know in the Universe,” she said. “The black hole at the center of the Milky Way is the only place we’ve seen such strong fields, but just because we don’t have anything else similarly strong in our own galaxy (like a newborn magnetar in a dense nebula) doesn’t mean there can’t be other causes in other galaxies. Ultimately more observations are needed.”
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