Life's Like A River

This is it, the end of this blog. This journey has finally hit its inevitable finale. I'm sure that it has served its purpose, more or less, over the last five months.

The past five months have proven to be a great hassle for myself. I've realised that life is a process and that forces love to interfere with that process because of a error in their own programming. Life is a lot like a pair of sunglasses; for instance, I have about ten pairs and no matter how many of those are good, none will ever fit like the first pair that I lost years ago. One day I will find the perfect pair of sunglasses, and when I wear them people will look at me and they'll have no need for words to communicate with me.

Icon: Marylin Monroe

In modern times, there are far too many woman posing as icons. There's the hillbilly Brittany Spears, the promiscuous Christian Agulara, and orgy of the Pussycat Dolls, etc. However, when it comes to showbusiness, quality conquers quantity.

Marylin Monroe died at age 36, in the early 60s. Within those 36 years, she used her cunning and strategic mind to catch the eyes and hearts of every heterosexual man alive. She was featured in many movies, and of course in Playboy. Then their was the skirt scene... too risque for the 50s, too pure for the 2000s.

Even though I was physically born in 1990, one single Marylin Monroe movie (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) confirmed my instinctual beliefs that most women in modern pop culture are nothing more than skanks.

Underwater Carriers, Just A Fantasy?

During the boom in aircraft carrier production in WWII, Japan developed the only official submersable aircraft carriers ever to exist. These carriers, while clumsy (the aircraft needed to be reassembled to load/unload), proved to be a working concept. However, surface carriers became the exclusive choice post-war.

However, in the modern day, aircraft carriers are now a symbol of both navy and air supremacy; nuclear submarines remain the stealthiest yet most powerful aquatic vessels. Combining the two concepts could create a weapon system that could, theoretically, be secretly traversed around the globe while able to achieve temporary air supremacy.

Such a weapon could also hold its own inter-continental ballistic missiles (like most subs), which could have the capacity to strike dozens of targets with a strategic nuclear strike (due to MIRV technology). It's aircraft would not be conventional fighters though, most probably VTOL craft (Harriers or F-35) or a tube-launched UCAV (unpiloted combat air vehicle).

The above photo is a CGI of the Hrimfaxi, which is one of two sister ships in the game "Ace Combat 5". In the game, both the Hrimfaxi and Scinfaxi become the most feared Yuktobanian weapon systems because of their ability to deploy anti-aircraft burst missiles from untouchable distances and with stealth. The aircraft on board was used for self-defensive purposes. In reality, the most likely canidate for such a craft would be a Russian Typhoon class nuclear submarine because of their immense size and luxuries.

Why Society Climaxed In the 80s

The 80s were the best years that modern human society will ever experience. No matter how much people continue to delude themselves, they will never witness such ballanced power and culture ever again.
The main thing about the 80s is, of course, the fact that it was, officially, the final decade of the Cold War. The concept of 'red vs blue' dominated almost all other global issues. Military technology was at its most fair and ballanced peak. Half of the civilized world was at the other half's throats in order to secure what they considered to be true freedom. To secure this, their leaders lead their countries to clandestine wars; the Soviets in Afghanistan and the secret American counter offensives. And then the Soviet Union met its communist capacity and Russia evolved into a new capitalist empire, with the US pecking at the "revolution" like vultures.
The 80s also provided the world with the best music it will probably ever see. Rock climaxed with the big four thrash metal bands (Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica) premiering. Nothing will ever replace the music they did, especially not the pathetic offshoots in today's hard rock (otherwise known as "nu-metal"). Metal was not the only music type to flourish either; pop music jumped the shark too. Modern pop is nothing more than visual and audio manipulation.

Maybe when the anti-Christ appears to destroy the world in the next few years, he'll be playing a great guitar while he does it. If we're lucky.

Fürchten Sie den Adler

The eagle is the king of the skies. Within many ancient belief circles, eagles were of the highest symbols. Indeed, they are only rivaled by the serpent, which is the prince of the Earth. Both of these creatures were so contrasting that if they were made into a hybrid, a 'chimera', the result would be the dragon, which is the supreme being of all existence.

In modern occultic beliefs, this symbolism has been expanded to the point of understanding the animal symbols in old prophecies as actual humans. It is said that the 'eagle' is to be feared, and this has been proven over the centuries by national powers that are represented by the eagle. Such include the imperial eagle powers, such as Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Russia (though their eagle has always been their animal symbol even up to now). Of course there's the US as well, which has a bald eagle obsession.

Five Reasons Why Indy 4 Kicks Ass

1 - It has Russians! And not just any Russians, but KGB Spetsnaz GRU infiltrators (including a colonel!). Stalin's been busy continuing with the mass search for powerful artifacts that Hitler had ordered back in the first and second Indy movie.

2 - Harrison Ford may be in his late 50s, but at least he doesn't let his age slow Indiana down. Indy is still the ass-kicking, physically robust archaeologist that he was in the 30s.

3 - Returning characters! I won't say specifically who, but some return only as memories while others come back with major surprises for Indy.

4 - Incredibly long fight scenes. One scene must have spread over three different areas, killed off many Soviet extras, and lasted over 20 minutes!

5 - The ability to pull off a decent Indy movie twenty years later. Mind you that it wasn't perfect, but it was pretty damn good. Indy was not some old cripple and managed to star in almost every scene, as opposed to a specific younger actor taking the spotlight. The storyline was pretty good too and tied many different legends (both modern and ancient) together with a very interesting plot twist at the end.

Russia and Her Glorious Airforce

Russia makes the best fighter planes (along with the best military equipment overall). Their reasoning is simple and involves two strategies:

• Build aircraft that exclusively rival or counter American aircraft
• Design these aircraft to be effective, yet far cheaper and easier to produce

For instance, the above aircraft is an Sukhoi-30MK. This is one of the most modern models of the SU-27 family (which debuted in the 80s) and is popular for export purposes (specifically to India, Iran, Venezuela and China). The SU-35 is another modern model that is used mostly by the Russian Air Force and is their current rival to the newest American air supremacy fighter, the F-22. Indeed, the F-22 is individually superior to the SU-35 in aeronautics, electronics and weapon systems, but the SU-35 victory comes in cost. The SU-35 only costs 35 million to the F-22's 140 million.

So in likely theory, two F-22s in an beyond-visual range (BVR) engagement with a squadron of five Su-35s would lead to the acceptable loss of two-three SU-35s in the first attack. In the counter, the remaining SU-35s would engage in within-visual range dogfighting and, with their superior mobility, probably down two very expenisive American fighters. Of course, this is only theoretical, because there's many factors to consider (pilot skill, AWACS support, SAM/AA systems).

Though even with this strategy, Russia still has to produce the difference in equipment (they are not at full capacity yet). This is why their testing and employing new techniques and features. For instance, while the US bloats about "stealth" aircraft, Russia tests its own versatile stealth features on its long-range bombers and fighters over the Arctic. Though when concerning Russia, stealth is only one of many technological feats that they've played around with over the years.