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If you take the pilots out, you also get to remove the ejection seats, human-centric instrumentation and control systems, life support, voice radios...it all adds up to a lot of weight and volume in an airframe where weight and volume are the enemy of performance.

I don't understand people who go to the Olive Garden when there are so many similarly priced but infinitely tastier mom and pop Italian restaurants in northern NJ. Probably not much healthier, but way more worth the occasional caloric splurge than what you'd get at OG.

Sophie stood at the foot of what was once the Parliament House as smoke rose from its hulking remains. She opened her lungs to the smell of charred wood, asphalt, and flesh and grinned.

"...when the Assad regime does finally turn over its chemical munitions..."

Better idea: stop insisting on having green lawns where none grow naturally.

American does not have a drought problem, it has a people trying to live in the desert problem.

The lines are nice and the car looks more cohesive than the outgoing 200, but it's not going to be real competition to the Fusions, Mazda6s, Optimas, Sonatas, Passats, Camrys, Accords and maybe Malibus that are already on the lots. A pretty acceptable rental car for sure. I guess I'll make final judgement when I see…

"It's the Rift. The Crystal Cove Oculus Rift that we added to the personal computers. It was supposed to entertain the population, weed out boredom. Well, it works. The people here stopped watching TV. And then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work, they stopped breeding, talking, eating. There's 30…

Water vapor is an extremely potent greenhouse gas. This is not a point that should be glossed over.

Your argument is invalid.

I really don't understand the Google acquisition of Boston Dynamics, and how the government allowed it to happen.

Honestly, what the fuck? Stupid bots, wasting our bandwidth.

Here's an idea to prevent future catastrophes. Allow NEW reactors to be built so that old ones like these can be properly dismantled and put to pasture. Newer reactors are safer and far more efficient.