COTD

FWIW, I’ve seen him in Church every Easter the last three years (Church of Bethesda by the Sea, Palm Beach FL).

Honestly, this seemed pretty genuine to me. It also really hit home:

“Crusty” is *the* perfect adjective.

No joke it looks like that plane *belongs* in Star Wars. Well done.

That’s the other thing: nuclear weapons are $$$ to maintain. It’s not like they have an unlimited shelf life. This is especially true of thermonuclear weapons. Fission bombs are easy. If we ever see a terrorist use a nuclear weapon it would likely be a fission weapon very similar to Fatman/Little Boy. Even then, the…

The thing with nuclear weapons is that even if you know HOW to make them they're super super expensive to make especially if they're going to be miniaturized warheads which you need for something like an ICBM. Refining your feedstock takes a very expensive capital base and a ton of energy. It's not like a gun where a…

I still don’t get why they didn’t build and focus the team around Sagan and, instead, catered to Contador. It just doesn’t make sense. Shouldn’t matter in the long run though (hopefully). Talent like Sagan’s will be recognized and he’ll be picked up by a team that wants to win (like Sky).

First time I’ve seen this. I’m not sure to what degree form follows function in Naval architecture but hats off to whoever designed this. Very good looking boat.... just eyeballing the front it seems like it was designed for heavy seas.

.... and WAY more than that if they were to start borrowing money and use their reserves to pay interest on said debt. The KSA is doing just fine. The rest of the oil producing world will have to give up the ghost long before they do.

A very good friend of mine works for Disney here in Orlando. Apparently early last week the FBI showed up to review the park’s security. They also stationed trailers with “response teams” throughout the parks (out of site obviously). The mouse isn’t messing around.

“It’s great to be in the EMPIRE today! It’s great to be in the....”

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

So dolphins see.... Ninja Turtles?

The craziest thing about that graphic is that it is probably accurate.

Interesting. It just occurred to me that all of those super-sonic “carrier killers” are impotent if they can’t be guided to a target. You’re not going to hide something like a carrier but I genuinely wonder how you’d guide something into something like a Zumwalt that you genuinely might not be able to see unless you…

Hopefully this operation will be a big success.

*ba dum tis*

I’ll see myself out.

That’s the AGM 129. It was designed as a stealthy nuclear cruise missile with an operational range of ~2,000miles. Not only was it stealthy but it also was electronically silent as it used inertial navigation and terrain contour following for guidance. Special measures were also taken to minimize its thermal…

Yeah, they’re making so much money that a domestic industry stalwart and renowned firearms manufacturer, Kalashnikov, filed for bankruptcy.