The 240 Z Phenomenon

The 240 Z car Phenomenon.

    Introduction as a light weight affordable spirited car with beautiful design.

    Then in the ensuing years it got more powerful and more luxurious and heavier. Went on to become the 400 Z.

      This evolutionary arch is the blue print for many other consumables.

    The part that drives tonight's essay is the trajectory of two of my favorite Comedians. Those being Liza Schlesinger and Taylor Tomlinson. both started out without too much attention to fashion and were pretty broadly edgy. Then like most 'sequels' they homed in on some particular aspect of their comedy and dialed that up a bit. And their fashion sense evolved as well.

    In the case of Ms. Schlesinger she started out in well worn black denim and a semi-tucked in red T-Shirt and 'combat' boots. And her act was a bit frenetic in nature, covering the stage walking back and forth with great zeal. With each subsequent special her sartorial choices became more upscale until in her most recent special it was difficult to see past her fashion sense through to her comedy.

    In the case of Ms. Tomlinson she started out with the same worn black denim a simple white shirt under a black leather jacket. There is a story behind her choices of jackets. And the jackets became more Flashy with each new special as did the stage settings. It too, became difficult to see past the stage and fashion choices to hear her comedy.

    And I believe that their comedy pulled back from the 'edge' that they once had. No doubt in fear of cancel Culture. This opinion is mine and mine alone. Comedy being what it is is totally subjective. The automotive evolution's are not opinions they are demonstratively true. 

    I find that to be sort of sad. In the case of the Datsun Z car we eventually lost the affordable spirited little sports car. Several other car manufacturers have fallen for this chase. Triumph had the Spitfire MG went from the MG-A to the -B... Each successive iteration took a step or two away from the original.

    The Ford Mustang is a similar case. 'Officially' Introduced in the spring of 1964. It was a departure from the at that time line up of cars which were personal econo-boxes. The first Mustang was a Flash new design dropped onto a Falcon chassis. But on looks alone it took off then in '65 '66 it was basically the same chassis but with increasingly larger motors. In 1967 the Mustang got its own chassis and a nice little V8 in the case of the 289 cubic inch. All of the flashy details like the Horse and Coral grill ornament were actual 3-D bits and the rear break cooling vents like the Ferrari Testa Rosa were Claw marks in the side. In 1968 the Horse and Coral were turned into flat stamped pieces and the brake vents were 'smoothed' over and a piece of Chrome plated trimmed was added. They "Cheaped Out" on those bits possibly for weight conservation possibly for cost cutting. I believe it was the latter. Watching the movie Ford VS Ferrari you can sort of see the mentality of those in charge at ford at that time.

    The Honda Pilot is another example. It started out as a cheapy light weight "SUV" and has evolved into a plush Up Scale automobile. Far from its roots.

The End of the Cupid Bow lip shape.

     I dont know when this happened but once seen I can unsee it now. Women are now literally "Painting Outside the Lines" with their makeup. Specifically lip color and couture. In general facial lips have a "Cupid Bow" shape on the upper lip. This Cupids Bow generally follows the shape of the philtrum. The philtrum is the two raised lines that descend from the nasal folds of the nose above the lip.  (I think that is how you describe the philtrum  Anatomy of lips) It seems that women are now painting out side the Vermilion border in an attempt at making their lips look fuller and plumper. Ala Angelina Jolie.

I mention this because a woman Youtuber has particularly lovely lips. But she applies lip color (lip stick) and covers over the vermilion border that follow the philtrum couture.

     Why aren't the Left Wing NUT JOBS bitching about how the French stole All of the land in Canada or how the Spanish stole much of Central and South America. Or Portugal for ALL of Brazil?

    Why are they having stolen land notification announcements before ceremonies that have NOTHING What So Ever to do with stolen lands.

    I think it was the late Great George Carlin who said that "There isn't a square foot of land in possession of the rightful owners." or words to that effect.

    Why is it that America U.S.A. gets hit with ALL of the Shit people can dream up that is wrong with humanity and Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Honduras, ALL of Europe skate with no mention.

    Of course there is something going on in many European countries with the MASS migration of muslims into the Western World. Italy, Sweden and some others are outlawing many of the Muslim practices and for the GOOD! And it's not just Europe feeling the bite of the muslim invasion. America, All of the Americas are feeling it and in some States governments are PUSHING Back. Again for the good. Outlawing sharia law and practices.

    The West has always prided itself of it's welcoming attitude. But the muslims have broken that attitude.

 I have discovered some new "Pet Peeves".

The first is a question about armpits / underarm deodorants / antiperspirants commercials.

    When did a commercial for these products include closeups of men's hairy armpits with the stuff being smeared into the hair. I think my first recognition of this occurrence was an Old Spice commercial. As I recall it was a restaurant chef applying the stuff right there in the kitchen. Now there are several of these product commercials getting the same treatment.

    And there is a New product classification. Not just armpit / underarm but All over deodorant sprays. The little airline traveler woman telling us that long distance travel (in an airliner) can leave you smelling "Kind'a funky" So now it's "Middle seat Approved."

    The companies Bent on having a Scent to cover up ALL of your own Oh So Offensive natural bodily oders, And to keep your armpits / underarms from being wet with sweat (Never let'm see you sweat was a tagline some years ago.) are very popular on the youTube these days.

     There was an inflection point where men's hairy armpits became the norm. Women's underarms are still hairless. 

    There is still the question about hairy chest or not hairy chest? 

    Just a side note Men have armpits and women have underarms. I learned that on the youTube.

    As you may have notice I watch the youTube frequently and I cant afford to ad-free

    There came an other inflection point where laser hair removal became safe enough for home use and now there are several companies selling hair zappers.

    Many years ago there was another inflection point when cigarettes were no longer allowed to advertise on tv and Pharmaceutical companies stepped in with their Billion Dollar ad budgets and filled that gap. The Pharms are advertising drugs / medications with out even telling you what they do, "Ask your physician if 'XXX' is right for you." Pharma is cutting out the medication sales force altogether. I guess gone are the days of the sexy pharma rep 'giving out freebee samples of Oxycodone and "Hooking" vast swaths of Americans on the stuff. And if your Dr. person stops your "subscription" to Oxy monthly. You can step Up to Fentanyl Weekly. Of course there is some small risk involved in that. And if President Donald J Trump has anything to do about it that will cease to be an option soon I hope he can manage that and the cocaine and the, and the , and the...

 

Science exploration and the search for Origins.

 Science and it's various exploits in the search for origins. Origins of life on earth, origins of the universe.

    How much money is being spent on scientific exploration for the sake of exploration. If scientists had an end goal in their explorations that would shed some actual benefit to humanity that would be great.

    We as a species seem to be nearing a precipice, a tipping point, an inflection point where we need to be studying things that will reign in runaway issues concerning our planet's ability to sustain us now and in the future.

    I do not say that we need to develop a method of preventing global weather patterns or preventing volcanic activity and by extension earth quakes or other natural disasters. I dont believe those matters are actually achievable. Though there have been some wacky ideas put forth. 

    But the steps that we can make towards climatic issues where they pertain to acid rain and horrible air and water pollution seem gravely important. I do believe that we can get a grip on air and land and water pollution. Out of control wild fires are at some level avoidable. Baring the Idiot Fire Bug who wants to see his work on the TV.

     Scientists make breakthrough in solving the mystery of life's origin

     This article caused me to write on this topic today. What is the end goal of figuring out the origins of life? This help humanity how? Will 'The' scientist who finally nails down the origins of life on Planet Earth get some sort of Nobel prize? Will this discovery somehow advance drug discovery and manufacture? Will it help us in any measurable way? I do recall the same questions posed about the moon landing programs. The same with the Space Shuttle and the ISS. (International Space Station) and it's predecessor Skylab. I dont have the stats and specifics on that answer but there have been payoffs from those efforts. We all know about Velcro and Tang and freeze-dried ice cream.

    But to what good end is the James Webb telescope and its predecessor the Hubble telescope. Cool we can now apparently see back in time to with in 280 million years after the Big Bang. That picture cost 10 Billion dollars. The Hubble cost 1.5 billion. Are we (the royal we) now going to spend 100 billion of the next super telescope? The Hubble got us back to 13.4 billion years ago. The next 100 billion dollar super-scope better take an 8 by 10 color glossy of God himself reaching out his hand towards us and I hope it's not him flipping us the high hard one.

    Every week or so scientists declare that they have found yet another planet in the "Goldilocks" zone around some star some light-years from here. Currently the nearest is Proxima-b, 4.2 light-years away in the Proxima Centauri system. Now I do know that a light year, any light year is too far away for us to get excited about colonizing/destroying our next rental property. This quest to find a new apartment feels like Jeff Goldblum's Apartments.com. We know they are out there but they are in an entirely different solar system, in an entirely different galaxy. So not much good to us currently, or ever if my understanding of physics and approaching the speed of light is correct. We accelerate protons to 99.9999991% of the speed of light and that is 11 km/h (6.8 mph) short of the speed of light. That is 1 (one), A, Singular Proton. Not A person and not even an entire atom. 

    We go from looking back 280 million years ago to smashing particles looking for what? We at some point recently found the Higgs Boson. As I recall we called that the God particle. There is talk about the Cern creating a black hole somehow. Wont that be interesting when they create a black hole and it swallows up a great crater in the earth where Switzerland used to be. I dont know if black holes can get fill. I hope so. It would be a problem if it didn't leave a crater in the planed but a void in space where our solar system used to be. Its my understanding that black holes are the sorts things that involve themselves in the tradition of the Muckbang. I did read an article where the Cern Collider spontaneously shut down because something had happened that the operators of the collider didn't understand. Now in the age of AI generated nonsense this may and in all probability is a case of that nonsense. I got tricked by a YouTube story regarding the (I think) Google effort towards a quantum computer chip. Something about its spontaneously working on a problem of rearranging atoms in material allowing "It" to render matter mass less or something like that. It was late/early in the night/morning, so there is that. This may have been it or something like it.  

    Is this pursuit of the next smallest thing going to have follow on benefits for humanity? If there is some goal in finding the next smallest thing? Will it will allow us (the royal us) figure out reasonable fusion reactor power sources?