True Story: my grandfather worked as an engineer on the original Phalanx design.

They go there to convert non-believers and spread the Holy word of Elon, hallowed be Thy name.

“What the hell did you guys do to this thing? It looks like you blew up a bomb on it”.

That was a hypothesis floated in our Gizmodo chat

When I see Kip Thorne mentioned, I keep on thinking Rip Torn, so I imagine this physicist is actually Agent Zed from Men in Black.

Elsa asked, curious and awestruck: "It never launched?"

There, I fixed it. Now its safe.

Here in Arizona you get thrown in jail for NOT having spent shell casings in the bed of your pickup.

I would guess my your screen name that your IQ is not very high but since this is my son you are talking about, I feel I should give you a few details for you to chew over about your very rude comment.

I won't try to deny that you're the toughest tough guy hard man around, but ranching isn't as much of a sheltered occupation as you might think. People who deal with scared 1200+ lb animals for a living may have experienced pain before.

I find that most people with this viewpoint (which they're entitled to) have never been within 50 feet of a live cow/bull/calf/steer. They see a calf get branded and think that it is equivalent to what happens when human skin gets burned. They're skin is what becomes leather. Leather. I gave shots to calves much…

I'm not going to highlight your selective hypocrisy, you already did that, but I'll assure these are not bad people. Different that you, sure. Bad, absolutely not. And believe me, these people know about pain. In fact, part of their acceptance of this practice comes from their own tolerance and experience with pain.

Al…

As a guy who suffers from IBS, and spends lots of time in airplanes, this is like my worst nightmare.