Yeah, wouldn't it be super-neat if everybody just rode their rainbow-colored unicorns down to the hug convention and gave each other free cotton candy all day? I'm glad people everywhere are all so nice and gentle.

Terminal velocity on any free-falling bomb will be subsonic, e.g. below about 660 knots indicated airspeed, regardless of the height from which or speed at which it was dropped. So, dropping a bomb from space wouldn't be any better than from 5,000 feet.

The green strips are formation lights. Low in intensity, they are not visible more than a couple hundred yards away. They are to help pilots fly near each other in the darkness.

I've been using Windex and paper towels for thirty years to clean electronics of every sort and have yet to harm a single component: TVs, stereos, computers, Walkmans, flat screens, monitors, modems, keyboards, routers, iPods, tablets, watches, sunglasses; you name it, Windex doesn't hurt it.

I tried this and it worked perfectly. Great app.

That is all.

Ooh Rah, Marine. To pilot UAVs would keep all the stress and difficulty of actual piloting (with more, actually, due to the lack of sensory input) with few of the benefits.

I see. Go ahead and prove the one I stated.

Here's something to think about. When you fire a blank, you have just declared a fight to the death. The bad guy doesn't know it's a blank, and he doesn't know your next shot might only wound him. He just knows he's in a gunfight, and he may now try to save his own life by ending yours.

Because one cannot prove a negative, such as "Personal electronics will never be causal factor in a commercial aircraft mishap."

For the $4.00 a case costs, I'd rather have the convenience of individual servings that each last well over a year. Also, a shrink-wrapped case of water is an efficient use of space, occupying little more volume than the volume of water carried. A jug and bottle system has neither of those attributes.

Is there no function that the .gov beleives it does not need to perform? Under what possible connection to Homeland Security could Thanksgiving fire safety tips fall?

Go to a hardware store and have a copy of your car's key cut. Buy a magnetic case, and store the spare up under the bumper. The new vacation location and altered habit patterns (like loading and unloading luggage, carrying different family members as passengers, etc.) make locking the keys in the car much more…

Also, if one buys Priority postage online, Delivery Confirmation is included for free, vice the $0.70 one pays additionally if one buys the same Priority shipping at the USPO.

TLAM is a hugely expensive way to get 1000 lbs of warhead about 1000 miles, and it lacks much of the flexibility of a real-time controlled vehicle, not to mention the costs of the ships and subs that launches it.

Here's one:

You're partly right. Gun and missile technology is really, really good these days. The problem is, a fixed gun or missile can only cover a piece of sky that is much smaller than an attacking aircraft can come from. You'd need thousands of missile sites and gun embankments, all able to cover altitudes from 100' AGL…

They were also little used in GWII because we destroyed almost all the Iraqi jets in GWI. Wasn't much left to shoot.

History shows that military aggression loves a vacuum. If the US stops fielding the latest and greatest technology, someone else will, axiomatically, will be the tech warfare leaders. I'd rather the US not need to play catch-up while China or Russia operate without opposition.