I find the fact that the victim has been given a complete pass on starting the physical altercation interesting. Did she deserve to be given a concussion? No. Did her violent action warrant a physical response? Yes.

I flew for the Navy, and part of my training was “riding” the hyperbaric chamber.

The low/low group in the upper left corner is actually high accuracy/very low precision. Its group is centered evenly on the bull, just mostly far from it. Slide the whole, big group to the left by an inch, and it will be truly low/low.

After reading about a woman who got the shit beat out of her for “shushing” loud teen girl movie patrons, perhaps the bystanders were afraid of a much worse fate for intervening in an active rape. The brash, unapologetic, public behavior of those animals would seem to be predictive evidence of their probability to…

I would like to challenge you to a high-stakes game of poker.

"Texas: No gravity knives."

As my dad liked to tell me, “Scott, if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?”

Even with all the modern sensors, a long tally on a fighter-sized target will often mean the difference between winning and losing an engagement. Many fighter pilots with 20/20 or near 20/20 vision will wear “cheaters,” glasses made to tune and maximize far vision, for this reason.

Agreed. They're all idiots, reacting to each others quirks and dumb ideas. That's what makes a light show about a post-apocalyptic, human-extinct world *funny* instead of *sad*.

A little piece of mud or a paint chip. All kinds of goo collects on the canopy during the negative G check.

Sure, as long as the diverse body types can wear armor and hump a 70 lb. ruck for ten+ miles.

I was in 4th grade when one of the 8th graders wore a black t-shirt with a white Playboy bunny logo on it. I had no idea what it was or what it meant, but thought it was cool looking. I immediately set to doodling it on my homework, which led to an odd conversation from my teacher, telling me not to draw it anymore,…

I've ridden the centrifuge and also had hundreds of flights in G-pulling jets.

They are trained to shoot to stop, not to kill. While there may be little practical difference, they use their firearms to stop the threat. If the threat has not stopped, they are to continue firing until it does. So, if a person is pointing a tazer/gun at them and they have determined it to be a threat, they are…

Well, I guess your article could have been three words: "Bring a dog." Then, no one would need to "fight a bear and win."

In terms of difficulty, flying this pass would be almost impossible for even the least skilled pilot to screw up. Literally, a monkey could fly it. That bridge is at far greater risk from general aviation pilots wandering off course and hitting it.

As the jet approaches supersonic (it is transonic, here, an appropriate flight regime for San Francisco), a pressure wave builds up around its leading edges. As the pressure wave passes, moisture in the air briefly condenses, forming the conular cloud you see in these sorts of photos. This…

Lame model aircraft pilots...

Yeah, saying you're trying to deescalate the situation without actually being helpful (by just giving the customer choices she clearly doesn't understand) is a subtle form of a power play: You'll order it my way or I'll just stand here and quiz you until you do. Obviously, if the person is saying they want a…

I suppose, from the reactions to it, that cream cheese and eggs is not an intuitive combination.