The original design had 3 fins to match Buck Rodgers rockets. Stainless steel was used because of its increased strength at cryogenic temperatures and high melting point (the tanks are very cold to keep the methane liquid, stainless steel actually gets stronger at low temps while aluminum and carbon fiber/composites…

Starship is made out of stainless steel.

South West Iran (invaded from Iraq) would be the only geographical area that would facilitate such a plan. Iran has mountains for most of its borders and isn’t well suited for an armored advance (more Afghanistan than Iraq).

Only if you count both sides as US casualties. 

You’ll know you’re in trouble when things start going sideways.

Time machines have to be very fast spaceships.

The current BRZ revs to 7800rpm (8k rpm is a safe target for tuners). I’ve got videos of me in my BRZ passing all sorts of cars at the track and no one who rides with me comes away thinking my car is slow (most of the other drivers are shocked to learn that it’s only 200hp).

I hope the first sign is that you own guns.

Every school has drills and constant reminders of the threat (probably doing more harm than good).

Or, we could let Saudi Arabia handle its own affairs and send our always helpful “thoughts and prayers”.

Who the perpetrators are matters. That’s the distinction. The US invading a country=act of war, but terrorists comm/itting terrorist attacks=terrorism.

Acts of war are perpetrated by countries, not non-state actor. 9/11 was an act of terrorism, not war.

Well designed, modern Nuclear Reactors are the safest and lowest Carbon Dioxide energy source available (beating out both wind and solar).

“There’s several hundred thousands of defensive gun uses every year that would disagree with you.” Cite your source please, because there are about 1 million total violent crimes in the US per year and you’re claiming that about a third of all potential crime is prevented by guns.

I think you meant to reply to a different post, but I’ll engage anyway.

“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of free state” is curiously absent from the propaganda of the NRA and those who feverishly ‘defend’ the 2nd Amendment.

Is no one going to point out how small his hand looks holding that poster?

So, like the cost of a couple of options on the Porsche. It’ll be impossible to get one without $30k or more in options (like colors, the good seats, and a little mechanical clock on the dash).

The Roadster 2.0 is coming, eventually.

Because infants, especially premature infants have skulls that aren’t entirely fused and are very soft. Burying them, or birth itself, could result in skull fractures. With how terrible the ‘forensic’ examiner was, the “fractures” might just have been the natural skull sutures that hadn’t closed yet. If you can’t tell…