Why not a she. There are woman astronauts you know. I'll admit, it caught me off-guard too, but then I realized I was the one f'd up for being surprised.

That's why as a man, I could never teach women's gymnastics, or cheerleading, or anything.

Holy Cow! My son is allergic to tree nuts and shellfish. There are so many baked goods he cannot have. And my favorite food is shellfish which I can not share with him. What an exciting breakthrough!

I really don't think so. See my response to smartgal above. Men have the same pressures. When I see a guy on a magazine cover, I usually say...hmmm I need to lose a couple (or more) pounds. Need to make time to get to the gym. If I see a ridiculously hot guy on a cover, I usually say. Wow, that dude is…

I disagree. There's male schlubs all over TV, but they are all in comedies. No one really takes them seriously. Us guys all know that the fat slob is not going to get the hot girl. Why do you think so many of us work out all the time. Hint, it's not because we like the smell of gyms.

This all seems hooey to me. As a male, I am not concerned about trying to live up to the standard male ideal. Look at the guys from the movie 300. Look at the guys on all the romance novels. Look at Ken (Barbie). Will I ever be as good looking as them...no. Look at football players, soccer players, etc. Will I…

I've been a Netflix customer for at least 6 years. I'm on the 3 DVD plan, so when the price increase occured, I barely winced. 4 extra dollars a month wasn't going to break me.

Actually, I work in this field for the Navy. The following things are true. China has used ground based lasers on U.S. satellites. The U.S. satellites were temporarily "blinded".

I fly for a living, and I'm much more worried when I get into a plane...whether I'm at the controls or not. I think it comes down to the fact there you have no real alternatives when flying. Im most cases, if something goes wrong with your car, you can simply pull over...even if the malfunction is drastic. However,…

It looks like that's exactly what the second stage does. YOu can't do that with the first stage because its not in a circular orbit...so it wouldn't make it all the way around.

Actually I fly an E-2C Hawkeye. Which is an Radar observation plane / command and control platform. We are literally up to our gills in electronics. That's why I don't buy the FAA's ridiculous rules. I use my cell phone all the time while in the plane. And I carry it everywhere...even on combat missions. Haven't…

My 4 yr old son has the same problem. He has had extensive physical therapy all his (short so far) life and it has done wonders. I too immediately thought of my child when reading this post.

One time we were doing landing practice at Whitehouse field near Jacksonville, FL. Anyway, one yahoo started spotlighting the planes in the pattern. One plane called back to Jax Tower...they called the police. Then the co-pilot of that plane used his cell phone to talk to a policeman and literally guided the police…

The newest Robotech box sets use the original openings of their respective shows. And I hate it. The Robotech intro seamlessly meshed all 3 shows into a awesome spectacle. It had a bigger scope IMHO.

I don't know, there were a lot of nations and businesses that did absolutely nothing about Y2K and experienced narry a hicup. It was the 21st century version of the world coming to an end at the millenium...nothing more.

I don't know. I've always been a windows user (well, since my Apple IIc days anyway), and I felt that Vista was not good at all. I had old hardware running XP that ran circles around Vista machines whose hardware was 3-4 times more powerful. (in terms of graphic cards, RAM, CPU speed, etc.)

Actually, just studied the Challenger problem in my National Strategic Policy class. The solid rocket boosters actually failed across a wide range of temperatures...but only catastrophically when it was very cold. The O-ring actually experienced low-20's temps before launch and and the SRBs were only at 33 degrees…

Actually it was down in all the sports bars in Newport, RI until about 3:30 too.

Everyone needs to relax.

It makes no sense to enter another gravity well on the way to another. Go to Mars or go to the moon. There's not enough comonality between the the two destinations to use the Moon as a "practice run".