SHutsonBlount
SHutsonBlount
SHutsonBlount

Wait--Marcie’s not Asian?

The costs don’t work out, because the big carrier benefits from scale. A ship carrying half the aircraft, for example, costs way more than half as much to construct and (especially) operate. Even with UAV proliferation underway, the sizes of combat airframes are not going down any time soon, and the hangar and deck

The medium carrier was a bad idea in the Seventies, when it first emerged as the “CVV,” and it’s still a bad idea now.

I expected them all to be dead since they first showed the cast photo. I was expecting The Dirty Dozen In Space, and that’s what I got.

He’s the Dark Lord of the Sick Burns.

Mapping small variations in current, salinity, and temperature is not sexy, but useful for predicting sonar performance. They’re designed to be left unattended for months and then abandoned to sink, so there’s not a lot of super-hi-tech-bleeding-edge stuff on board.
Seizing one of these is about giving us the finger,

Brutalism refers to the use of unfinished concrete, not because it’s BRÜTAL.

Most important vehicle still Missing In Action:

I listened to the public chat for about five minutes before I decided losing games was preferable.

Fan Gao’s fighter design looks like it would fit right in the films. A new take on the old T-wing?

I’m more concerned about the fact that it’s about three times the size it should be.

I want to see the concept art for how they turned Winona Ryder into Sally Field.

You can probably cut most of the weight of the transmission, as the truck will probably also be a single-speed.

Armored, steam-powered tractors found a use in the Second Boer War in 1899 to move troops and guns, but had no mounted weaponry.

Serves him right for buying a minivan.

When they killed off all the wolves, there were population explosions in caribou herds. If you kill off all the Meis, there will be vast herds of turrets denuding the forests.

It’s really only a matter of time before “douchey, cock-sucking ‘facts’” shows up on a t-shirt.

There’s also a point in ROTJ during a cut to Admiral Akbar ordering an assualt on the Super Star Destroyer and you can see a Mon Calamari Cruiser decimate an Imperial Star Destroyer.

it’s long been established that R-series droids are named simply and sequentially