All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go

December 20, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Hi-tech, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypochondria, Hysteria Tags: Bureaucracy, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, EU, Hamburg, Vaccination Center, Vaccinations Leave a comment

“Only the green light from the European Union is needed for Germany’s largest single vaccination site to spring into action.”

With a stress on spring. As in maybe by next Spring.

Germany’s largest Covid jab site ready for business – Spaces to queue up are already marked out on the way to the 64 miniature doctors’ offices where thousands of people per day will be vaccinated against Covid-19 in Hamburg.

Only the green light from the European Union is needed for Germany’s largest single vaccination site to spring into action, the brand-new equipment sitting ready in the vast congress centre of the northern port city.

Now Is Your Chance To Become An Über Driver

October 2, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Heconomy, Hi-tech, Home Cooking Tags: Air Shows, German, Germans, Germany, Helicopters, Language, Paris, Taxis, Technology, Uber Leave a comment

Über, get it? Hardy, har, har. That means over or above in German.

German-made Flying Taxi Unveiled in Paris – A German tech company, along with French regional officials, have unveiled a prototype of a flying taxi that could begin demonstration flights in Paris as early as 2024.

At a news conference Wednesday at the Pontoise airport near Cergy, west of Paris, the Volocopter company presented the VoloCity air taxi, an electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle, which the company will begin testing at the airport in June.

Germany To Monitor Space Junk

September 22, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Hi-tech, Home Cooking Tags: Debris, German, Germans, Germany, Junk, Military, Space, Space Junk Leave a comment

By launching more space junk.

Hopefully this rubbish isn’t a waste of time.

German military launches space junk tracking system – The German armed forces want to keep a closer eye on space in the future. A new system to track space junk orbiting Earth and send out early warnings about potential threats has begun work.

“Who you jiving with that cosmik debris?”

See Spot Run

September 15, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Heconomy, Hi-tech Tags: Boston Dynamics, Dogs, Germany, Industry, Merck, Robots Leave a comment

Or at least see him move in a robotic fashion.

Robot dogs take on routine tasks at Germany’s Merck – Pharmaceutical group employs services of Spot to carry out checks at incineration plants.

Warning: Nationwide Warning System Doesn’t Work

September 11, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hi-tech, Humor, Hurt Feelings Tags: Apps, German, Germans, Germany, Sirens, Tests, Warning Systems, Warnings 1 Comment

No sirens sounded all throughout Germany yesterday as the country conducted its first nationwide emergency warning system test since 1990.

Nor did the apps that were supposed to send alerts to people’s phones during the test function.

An anonymous spokesman for the German government was satisfied with the reuslts, however. “Let this be a warning to us all,” he said.

One Twitter user added: “Anyone who didn’t hear any sirens will receive a warning signal by fax or mail in the next 14 days.”

But If We Stop Nord Steam 2…

September 9, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hi-tech, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hostility, Hurt Feelings Tags: Alexei Navalny, Angela Merkel, Dependency, Donald Trump, Gas, German, Germans, Germany, Nord Stream 2, Novichok, Opposition, Pipelines, Poison, Russia, Vladimir Putin Leave a comment

We’ll be agreeing with Donald Trump!

Nord Stream 2: Why Germany may pull plug on Russian pipeline – For the first time since building began almost a decade ago, the future of the pipeline looks threatened.

Ironically, one reason that many Germans support the pipeline is because its greatest critic is US President Donald Trump. He is disliked in Germany and his rants against the pipeline only serve to boost its popularity.

Many voters suspect he wants it scrapped in order to sell American fuel to Germany instead. Mrs Merkel has to avoid the impression that she is giving in to pressure from Mr Trump.

V2.2

September 7, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Hi-tech, History, Home Cooking Tags: Aerospace, German, Germans, Germany, Isar Aerospace, Rocket Technology, Rockets, Satellites, Space 1 Comment

Germany joins space race as Munich start-up begins rocket production – Isar Aerospace bets on boom in small satellites and aims for launch by end of 2021.

Germany will join the commercial space race on Monday as production begins on what could become the first privately built rocket developed in the country to be fired into orbit…

The first German rocket to reach outer space was a version of the V2 in 1942. It crossed the Kármán Line, where space begins 100km above the earth’s surface, but did not reach orbit.

Not To Worry

July 24, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hi-tech, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hypocrisy Tags: 5G, Angela Merkel, China, Communism, Espionage, German, Germans, Germany, Huawei, Spies, Spy Technology, Surveillance Leave a comment

No story here. And certainly no “battleground.” When it comes to the Huawei 5G “issue,” Germany will do whatever China wants it to do.

Standing up and saying no to China’s communist leaders would only hurt their feelings – and German business prospects.

After Britain, Germany Emerges as Next 5G Battleground – Following Britain’s decision to ban Chinese tech firm Huawei from its 5G telecom network, Germany is emerging as the next potential battleground to check China’s expansion of influence in world affairs, which is increasingly seen as a serious challenge to democratic institutions worldwide.

“Does the chancellor really want to be the stumbling block preventing a united EU + transatlantic + 5Eyes stance?”

U-1021 2020

July 22, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Hi-tech, History Tags: Cornwall, Divings, German, Germans, Germany, Submarines, Technology, U-Boats, UK, War, WWII 2 Comments

A German U-boat that sank off the British coast during World War II has been captured on camera in remarkable images.

The pictures were taken by diving contractor Dive Newquay, which took a group of divers to see the remains of U-1021, British news agency SWNS reports. The vessel lies 9 nautical miles off the coast of Cornwall.

“The U1021 lies about nine nautical miles from Newquay Harbour and sits in 55m [180 feet] of water,” a Dive Newquay spokesperson told the news outlet. “Dives of this depth are considered technical, which require special planning and different breathing gasses.”

The wreck is near two other U-boats that also sank during the war.

U-1021 served with 31st U-boat Flotilla before disappearing in March 1945.

Yemen

July 20, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Hi-tech, Home Cooking, Hypocrisy Tags: Business, Exports, Guns, Profit, Studies, Weapons, Weapons industry Leave a comment

Beautiful German weapon sale of the week.

Because somebody has to admire them.

Germany violated arms export regulations for decades, study says – Germany has authorized and exported weapons and military equipment to be used in countries with human rights violations and ravaged by war. Wars, including the Yemen conflict, have been “fought with German weapons.”

Observing Hermann

“Was interessiert mich mein Geschwätz von gestern?”

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