#feg

[azleo71]

[roughridingrednecks]

Mr. Ferg

[baronneutron]

The Saracen Saber

by AdamKop

This is the Saracen Saber, the ship of my team from the first RPG game I played, using West End Games. My character, Baron, was a pilot and the only Officer in the group and so I was placed in charge. Quite a surprise for me as a young teen in my first RPG playing with mostly adults and experienced gamers, half of them Active Duty Military, one of them I had known since I was 3. So it was indeed trial by fire! We were a Special Ops group, acting as smugglers, performing extractions, infiltrations, and other missions. She was a great ship! Originally a stock YT-1300 (Center Cockpit, obviously), with dorsal and ventral quads like the Falcon. The modification you notice in the stern was to add more cargo room was designed of all people by my sister. I thought it was cool that my sister was gaming with us, and she was a good player. However, we found out years after she quit and the game had ended that she was an Imperial spy and had led to the deaths of nearly every PC or allied NPC that had been killed!!!

[vintagerpg]

When I finally got around to posting about classic Traveller, half a dozen people messaged me with some variation of, “Hey, Slough Feg has an album based on this game.” To those people I say: thank you.

This album fucking rips. It’s a concept album, telling the story of the time the spore-generating space pirate Baltec Budapest got turned into a dog person as part of Professor Rickets’ plan to use gene splicing to create a warrior race with which he can conquer the galaxy. The drama of the story is sky high, there are laments galore but in the truest of RPG fashions, despite all the travails and tumultuous changes, the state of the galaxy is restored to “normal” at the end of the saga. It is obviously non-canon, but comes from a place of deep love for the game — there is a song called “High Passage/Low Passage,” for Pete’s sake!

Slough Feg (previous The Lord Weird Slough Feg) is essentially the work of one man, Mike Scalzi. I’ve casually enjoyed a song here and there before, but this is the first time the band really grabbed me and shook me by the collar. The album has riffs galore, but while there are repeating refrains, I don’t think there is a single chorus in the whole album. And yet it is catchy as hell. I haven’t listened to it in a couple months but I can instantly call some of the melodies to mind. Scalzi’s got a strange sound, too, that lies a little outside my usual metal interests. I can hear the influence of Iron Maiden and Manilla Road, sure, but also…Thin Lizzy and maybe even a baseline of musical theater? It’s very dramatic. Go listen! I dare you to listen to “The Final Gambit” and not feel like your spirit is soaring the stars.

[qhazomb]

we need more scifi lookin' armor like the segmented sets (and some of the recent-ish lightning fest apparel)

[feggings]

Moto Biker Sexy Hot Tight Shiny Leather Leggings by Feggings.com

[themidcenturyscene]

Feg Murray, 1940s

Found in Greenbriar Picture Shows blog.

[scorchedsurvivors]

IM GOING TO CRY IM WRITING THE GENERAL OUTLINE FOR THE STORY BEFORE I DRAW ANYTHING AND IM STUCK ON CH7 WRITERS BLOCK IS A FUCKIGN PAIN NGLDSLNDGGLSDGSCVXEFS

[total-drama-takes]

am I crazy or were there like a bunch of posts on this blog talking about fred figglehorn. I searched the blog and nothing came up but like I swear on this blog there were a bunch of posts talking abt him at some point

im confused too now because it sounds familiar but i have no recollection of it. was it on real td takes ???

[iateyourburrito]

Okay I'm getting back into my Traveller phase. Excuse me while i make a half-life, Traveller AU

[travellingnews]

Στη Ρόδο τον Νοέμβριο η 23η Ευρωπαϊκή Συνάντηση Ξεναγών της FEG και η Ετήσια Γενική Συνέλευση των Εκπροσώπων των χωρών-μελών της FEG

Η 23η Ευρωπαϊκή Συνάντηση Ξεναγών της FEG και η Ετήσια Γενική Συνέλευση των Εκπροσώπων των χωρών-μελών της FEG θα πραγματοποιηθούν από τις 19 έως τις 24 Νοεμβρίου 2024 στη Ρόδο. Η ετήσια αυτή εκδήλωση είναι ανοιχτή σε πιστοποιημένους ξεναγούς από την Ελλάδα και από τα Σωματεία-μέλη της FEG σε όλη την Ευρώπη και είναι μια εξαιρετική ευκαιρία για τους συναδέλφους να συναντηθούν, να δικτυ��θούν, να…

[xtruss]

NASA Flew a Modified U-2 Spy Plane Into Thunderstorms to Study Super-Energetic Gamma-Rays

An international group of researchers captured 'the most detailed' data on gamma-rays and thunderclouds ever.

— By Brett Tingley | Space.Com

NASA Pilots flew a high-altitude science aircraft directly into thunderstorms and recorded incredible data on gamma-ray flashes.

Thunderstorms can create powerful updrafts and downdrafts of wind that accelerate air and water to high speeds. As ice crystals collide in these swirling air currents, electrons are stripped away from them, generating the electric fields that produce lightning. Under certain conditions, these free electrons can also create flashes of gamma rays, the shortest and most energetic waves in the electromagnetic spectrum. Thunderstorms can emit two different types of gamma-ray radiation: Short gamma-ray flashes and longer gamma-ray glows that can last from minutes to hours.

To better understand these phenomena, an international group of scientists flew NASA's high-altitude ER-2 (Earth Resources 2) aircraft as close as safely possible to thunderclouds that stretched as high as 10 miles (18 kilometers), according to a statement from NASA's Marshall Flight Center in Alabama. Doing so allowed the team to gather "the most detailed airborne analysis of gamma rays and thunderclouds ever recorded," according to the statement.

A NASA ER-2 aircraft flies a mission for ALOFT mission to study gamma-rays in thunderclouds. (Image credit: NASA/Carla Thomas)

Researchers from the University of Bergen in Norway, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and three different NASA centers participated in the study, known as Airborne Lightning Observatory for Fly's Eye GLM Simulator and Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, or ALOFT. The data the program has gathered could "help scientists see when storms are strengthening and provide extra lead time of information to keep the public safe from the threat of lightning," NASA's Timothy Lang said in the statement.

The joint team that worked on the Airborne Lightning Observatory for Fly's Eye GLM Simulator (FEGS) and Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (ALOFT) field campaign takes a break in front of NASA Armstrong's ER-2 aircraft following its safe return from a mission on July 24, 2023. (Image credit: NASA)

The aircraft flew out of Tampa, Florida and conducted over 60 hours of observations. A unique gamma-ray detector developed at the University of Bergen enabled researchers to collect data in real-time, enabling them to direct pilots towards thunderclouds that actively glowed with gamma-ray radiation.

Another instrument aboard the aircraft, the Fly's Eye GLM Simulator (FEGS), captured data in the near-infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum that are emitted by lightning yet are invisible to current satellites. "These smaller, less dense flashes are known as precursors of when storms are turning severe," Lang said.

NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center's ER-2 aircraft flies just above the height of thunderclouds over the Floridian and Caribbean coastlines to collect data about lightning glows and terrestrial gamma ray flashes. (Image credit: NASA/Carla Thomas)

The high-altitude NASA ER-2 aircraft used in the study is one of only two in the agency's possession. The aircraft can fly extremely high in the sky, above 99% of Earth's atmosphere. They were based on the Lockheed U-2 spy plane and were acquired by NASA in 1981 and 1989, respectively.

NASA's two ER-2 aircraft have flown more than 4,500 missions to date, and one of them set an extreme altitude record for its weight class in 1998 when it got 68,700 feet (21 kilometers) above Earth, according to a NASA fact sheet. (For perspective: Commercial airliners generally cruise at altitudes around 35,000 feet, or 11,000 m.)

NASA's ER-2 aircraft have been used to conduct studies on new satellite sensors, global warming and ozone levels, atmospheric phenomena and even snowfall.

[travsd]

Feg Murray: Seein' Stars

It’s interesting to me that Frederick “Feg” Murray (1894-1973) shares a birthday with Clifton Fadiman, whom we only just wrote about. Both men had hosted radio shows, and Murray turned out a newspaper comic not unlike Ripley’s Believe It or Not, which Fadiman had published in book form. But there the resemblance stops. Murray was initially renowned as an athlete. While studying art at Stanford,…