Twisted

That's Me
Yes yes yes, I know what you're thinking: "A constant diet of weird fiction, too many zombie films and an unhealthy interest in nuclear weapons - most definitely twisted!" and in one sense you are correct (though you missed out TANK).
     However, I refer to actually being physically twisted, having to contort myself through 450 in order to type, my trusty laptop being awkwardly positioned to one side.
     The reason for this is - Art?

Madame, in her chosen spot
(laptop out of  shot)

     Now, this experience is one I've whinged about before as I recall, and I don't do it lightly, as it rather devalues my Flinty-Hearted Villain image, that has taken many years to cultivate.  "Trapped By Dog" is the expression I use, and it took the intervention of the postie to get our girl off and away.
     Okay, that's today's very short Intro done with, let us wheel on the big nukes!

A Bigger, Better, Badder Bang
If you have been reading BOOJUM! with any regularity, then you know he is a fan of Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer, who is always throwing up interesting items over on the SyFy website.  His most recent one covers a significant threat to All Life On Earth <which should be said in an impressive Lord Olivier-style voice with lots of gravitas>: asteroid impact.  The threat of this happening next Wednesday is miniscule, yet still there.

Can we count on Bruce to save us?

     Phil takes a dig at Armageddon without actually naming it, though how can you fail to love a film that has "space madness" as a plot point?  Anyway, PP points out that blowing an asteroid to bits with a nuke or two is bad practice in real life, as you end up with a lot of radioactive debris, some of which will still be on the same trajectory.
     Ooops.
     So, NASA has been running the numbers on how to deflect an asteroid and came to a general conclusion: for those of 300 yards diameter or less, hitting it at high speed with something massy and unyielding is the best option.

Like this, except further away

     Above that limit, a nuclear detonation above the surface of the asteroid is deemed the most efficient way of deflecting it, as the explosion will instantly vapourise the nearby surfaces to several yards deep, which acts as a crude variety of rocket, altering the asteroid's path, without the risk of fracturing it into little bits.  Given 4 years lead time, we can successfully knock a known impactor off course sufficiently that it misses Earth entirely.  Hooray!

"Phew!" said Earth, when asked for a comment

     One comment on the article shows profound levels of ignorance by calling NASA and "The government" incompetent fools and that we can only hope to die quickly.  Ah - sir, you are aware that there are other astronomical organisations besides NASA?  No, you didn't, did you?  Nor that there are many, many governments out there that are not South Canadian?  No to that one, too.  The perils, sir, of typing before thinking and with Brain in neutral.

Watch out!  The Stupid is spreading!

What Have I Stumbled Into? - Iteration Two
No, this is not about Lego, though we may come back to that.  Ah, who am I kidding, we're definitely coming back to it.
     No, instead I refer to a website and sub-culture that has been around for 10 years without me ever coming across it, until I spotted a title on the "5 Scariest -" Youtube channel that mentioned "5 Scariest SCP".

Hmmmm.

     Of course, having viewed an entirely different Youtube video, I couldn't find the other one, which of course - obviously! - meant I had to dig around and find out what "SCP" was.
     The initials refer to "Secure, Contain, Protect" which is the mission brief of a covert global organisation that hunts down things like those pictured above.  They have a website with an unbelievably long list of SCP entities (the best word I can think of), all described in very scientific jargon.  Do we have a link for them?

http://www.scp-wiki.net/

     There you go.  Be warned, there's a lot of content there, and it's probably not suitable for those under 21.
     Only kidding!  Under 18.
     I suspect Darling Daughter would know all about this, as it seems right up her street, yet I'm still not sure how it completely passed me by for 10 years.  

Er - this is a created scene,  right?

     Not recommended for the faint of heart, and probably best read in daylight where there are lots of humans around.  Don't blame me for the heart attack brought on by a door suddenly slamming shut, whilst you are alone in the house, it's after midnight and you've been reading SCP files for the past hour!

A Case Of Life Imitating Art
Your Humble Scribe came across a video advert on the "Popular Mechanics" website for an article called a "Seabreacher", and was mightily impressed with it.  Art?

Very sleek

     These things are miniature two-person submarines that go like stink.  As is immediately obvious, they mimic a dolphin in overall design, although being rather faster in the water - 47 knots, which is nearly 60 miles per hour.  If you are brave (or foolish!) enough then you can hold onto the rear "fin" and waterski on the thing, and we might have a picture of same - Art?

Not quite what I had in mind.  Still -

     Er, yes.  Although that might be truer than you think, as these things are so fast and nippy Conrad can see people like the US Marine Corps buying a couple for trials, as a kind of very fast scout craft.  With, no doubt, a very long line of marines desperately keen to volunteer on testing them.

     And with that, we are done!