1) Think those guns might get spread around, were a civ v. gov situation develop in earnest?

1. The barriers to carrying a gun are not insubstantial. One must usually buy a full day’s worth of training at the cost of about $150, pay to get fingerprinted at a private facility for $30, fill out paperwork, pay a state fee of around $100, and wait at least several weeks for approval and the production of the…

I’m afraid you are mistaken about the ability of an armed citizenry to resist a standing army. The armed forces of the United States is about 2.25 million personnel, not nearly all combat troops. Law enforcement in the USA is about 1.25 million personnel, not nearly all duty officers. Compared to the 300 million…

When operational, these UAV delivery copters might have a great side-effect: product manufacturers will minimize packaging to save weight and volume. I would love to see my stuff arrive in a padded, vacuum sealed, plastic bag rather than triple-boxed and blister packed.

Wouldn’t it be just as effective to dumpster dive behind the barber shop and get a great big bag of hair, run it through the shredder, and then sprinkle it around. Then, go buy some inexpensive cuts of meat, drain their juices into a spray bottle, and spray a bit of that everywhere?

A jet will only turn in the horizontal if the jet, itself, is imparting flight control forces on the airstream and making itself turn. If a 5oo lb missile hits a 25,000 lb jet, the impact and or explosion will not change the velocity vector of the jet significantly.

Well, it’s about time. I loved him in T.J. Hooker.

You’re mixing your metaphors.

You’re soooo wrong. What jet did you fly in the fleet?

Cool article. Grammar Nazi comment: “more unique” is incorrect. “Unique” is a singular condition; either something is one-of-a-kind, or it is not. There are no degrees of uniqueness. Carry on.

“Good” driving requires safe, predictable, and expeditious driving. Unfortunately, too many people believe one only needs to not crash to be good. The women in my neighborhood, weaving around their lanes at 5 MPH below the speed limit in their mini-vans and talking on their cell phones, are by no means good drivers,…

Wouldn’t it make more sense to ban the effects of alcohol (and other drugs)? A simple reaction time tester would cover all the bases. Picture a device shaped like a revolver with an LED for the rear sight. When the LED illuminates, pull the trigger. Average ten responses. Reaction time averages greater than, say, 600…

Just for clarification, AOA is measured in “units” of AOA, which do not directly correlate to degrees of nose up attitude.

To further clarify:

I flew the A, not the D, but my understanding was that the D would not launch off the cat in burner, since a single engine off the cat emergency would be impossible to fly due to the asymmetric thrust generated by the remaining good engine overcoming the ability of opposite rudder to keep the jet pointed forward.…

Actually, E-2s are in very good shape if they bolter: their big, straight, low-wing-loaded wings and turboprop engines really dig into the thick air at sea level. So, when necessary, they climb away nicely. Now, if they do go in the water, their crews are SOL, lacking ejection seats and occupying a cramped tube that’s…

It’s not just gravity holding a heavy hook down; the hook is pneumatically driven down and pressurized there via a nitrogen charge (at least it was in the Tomcat), to prevent hook skips. They still happened, though.

It’s as simple as it looks: the wheels roll over the wires; the hook catches them.

Also, her go-to move is the arm bar, which works because she is considerably stronger than most other women. She is not stronger than Mayweather. One almost never sees the arm bar as the winning submission in evenly-matched MMA fights.

Seems akin to victim blaming, holding Geller responsible for the INSANE response of the jihadists to a cartoon contest of shooting up the joint.