Month: July 2018

Bigfoot Erotica?

Markosun Animals, Sex

Talk about bestiality.

The fact is, Bigfoot erotica is no joke. Tawdry tales of Sasquatch sex have been around for a long time — online, in print, and in old-fashioned porn. Take, for example, the 1977 erotic paperback, Nights with Sasquatch, an “explosive ordeal of rape and revenge,” written by John Cotter and Judith Frankle, or the 1981 short porn film, The Geek, about a group of hitchhikers who have an unexpected and sexy encounter with Bigfoot.

Bigfoot erotica has flourished on the Internet in recent years: author Virginia Wade was inspired to write her 16-installment series, Cum for Bigfoot, after noticing that “the ultimate alpha male,” as she described the hirsute hunk, had yet to be fully explored in erotic writing, despite the popularity of Cryptozoological porn, which features sex with mythical creatures like leprechauns and minotaurs.

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“He smelled of animal hide, which was heady and pungent…. Then he touched my face with the pads of his black fingers,” Wade writes in one sex scene from the series, which, according to The Daily Beast, at one point earned her approximately $30,000 per month through Kindle Direct Publishing.

After taking a brief Bigfoot hiatus to focus on writing erotica about Tarzan and vampires, Wade released three new installments of Sasquatch porn in January 2018. The Namaste with Sasquatch series is about a group of friends who go on a yoga retreat in the Rocky Mountains, where Bigfoot and his lusty appetite await.

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Wade isn’t the only Bigfoot erotica writer — there’s the adorably named Ann L. Probe, author of Boffing Bigfoot; Candy Banger, who proved Sasquatch swings both ways with Bigfoot’s Gay!; and Robyn Blackbird, writer of Bigfoot Did Me From Behind and I Liked It, to name just a few.

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The Mad Mad Mad World of North Korean Military Medals

Markosun Offbeat

The MarkoZen Blog

The North Korean military likes to give out medals. The country hasn’t been at war since the early fifties, yet photos show generals and colonels with dozens of big, ostentatious medals on their uniforms.

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To get a medal, maybe all a colonel has to do is stay awake during a speech by Kim Jong-un.

Other possibilities:

Partners in Peace Award—this popular award is given to those who had any contact with Denis Rodman while he was in North Korea during several trips. Since Kim Jong-un worships Denis Rodman for appearing like the average American (facial jewelry, tattoos, sunglasses worn inside buildings, bleached hair, odd behavior) and he uses Denis’s image a lot to show North Koreans what average Americans look like.

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Amazing Execution Award—this little known award is given to military officers who come up with interesting and creative ways to execute North Koreans. It has also been…

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China’s Waterfall Skyscraper

Markosun Buildings

In a country where new buildings rise up every single day, it’s a challenge for architects to come up with original designs that stand out among the crowd of skyscrapers choking the skyline of Chinese cities. This has pushed some architects towards refreshingly new designs such as the moving façade of Shanghai’s Bund Finance Center. But nobody expected a waterfall.

So when the 397-foot-tall Liebian Building in Guiyang, China, turned the faucet for the first time, panicked residents called local newspapers to report a catastrophic water leak. The “leak” turned out to be an artificial waterfall incorporated into the building’s facade. The 350-foot tall waterfall cascading down the side of the building is probably the tallest artificial waterfalls in the world.

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Keeping the monstrous column of water running will cost the building’s owners about $118 per hour, which isn’t very eco-friendly, and has upset some forward-thinking citizens.

“Whose idea was it to put a waterfall on the building? It’s a terrible idea,” one resident told Kanka News. “They should really conserve energy instead of wasting it like that.”

In response, the building’s managers said that the waterfall will run only on special occasions—for just 10-20 minutes at a time—and will use recycled water from rain or the tap.

Still, a waterfall that runs only 10 to 20 minutes for a handful of special occasions a year, maybe, and which costs more than a hundred dollars per hour is such a waste.

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Roughing it at the Teepee Hotel

Markosun Geography

This resort has teepee and chuck wagon hotel rooms.

Situated along Highway 24, the Capitol Reef Resort is the ideal place to stay for Utah visitors seeking a unique outdoor adventure. When you stay at our Torrey, UT hotel, the one-of-a-kind geological features of Capitol Reef National Park are just outside your door waiting for you to experience them through our hiking and four-wheel drive tours.

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The interior, not really that rough.

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The chuck wagons:

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Great big bed in that chuck wagon.

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NASA contest finalists show off their Mars habitat models

Markosun Space

They’ll now have to build a one-third-scale version of their designs.

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Yes, we’ve yet to successfully send humans to Mars, but we already need to start thinking how we can stay there for long stretches of time — or even for good. NASA launched the 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge back in 2015 to find a suitable artificial housing for the first wave of Martian residents, and now the agency has narrowed the contestants down to five after seeing the realistic virtual models they created. The agency and its project partner, Illinois’ Bradley University, judged 18 teams’ models created using a specialized software.

According to TechCrunch, the software requires various details about the structures creators are designing. In other words, the teams couldn’t just come up with a concept that looks good — they had to make sure their habitats’ wall thickness, heating, pressure sealing and other elements can actually withstand harsh Martian conditions.

The five teams split a $100,000 cash pot earmarked for this stage of the competition, with the two top teams taking home $20,957.95 each. One of the top teams, Zopherus from Arkansas, has envisioned a habitat built by moving 3D printers that can deploy rovers to retrieve local materials for construction.

AI. SpaceFactory of New York designed a cylindrical habitat for max space usage.

Team Kahn-Yates of Jackson, Mississippi, which got third place, features a design with translucent dots to let the light in. It was also created to withstand Mars’ massive dust storms.

SEArch+/Apis Cor from New York prioritized creating a habitat that lets the light in but can provide strong radiation shielding.

Finally, Team Northwestern University from Illinois has conjured up a design that features a spherical shell with an outer parabolic dome. They also want to make building one as easy as possible by using an inflatable vessel as base for a 3D printer, so it can quickly print out a dome with cross beams.

The five teams now have to prove their ideas are feasible by 3D printing — autonomously, that is — part of their structures and to create a one-third-scale version of their design. Monsi Roman, NASA’s Centennial Challenges program manager, said: “We are thrilled to see the success of this diverse group of teams that have approached this competition in their own unique styles. They are not just designing structures, they are designing habitats that will allow our space explorers to live and work on other planets.”

Engadget.com