That was the theory, but I think in practice the expense of overhauling them every time negated most of the cost advantage. Probably would have been cheaper to just through them away everytime, and probably an engine designed for single use would be cheaper in the first place. If nothing else, the economies of scale…
That was a funding flaw, not a design flaw. The two fatal STS flights would not have occured with the Buran/Energia stack.
I wonder if any of those “religious” institutions whined about the 2 page form to be a non-profit religious institution required by the IRS.
I’m no pilot... but wouldn’t one generally do a pre-flight inspection? You know, that may have caught that a cat was sleeping on your plane?
My honest answer is, I don’t know. I had a lot of great girlfriends, romantic and platonic, and it was by learning from them that gave me a vastly different understanding than the one I got growing up in a military family with older brothers. I’d say, for men, surround yourself with strong women friends and take what…
A bit off topic, but I find it rather awesome and oddly perfect that Jon Oliver is married to an American woman who was a trauma nurse (surgeon?) in Iraq and that they met at the Republican National Convention. Oliver is a staunch liberal but he is incredibly respectful to men and women in uniform and he has a way of…
Your annoyance with him (as opposed to, say, the payday loan companies) is really very, very strange.
Yes it does. As a man it took me so long to truly understand this in my bones.
So no one besides poor people can tell poor people that predatory lenders are predatory?
Pastor is the hero of those of us who are awesome and then momentarily lose focus and fuck up completely.
“The Kitchen”
Someone assembling an IKEA kitchen.
Sucks is relative. He still races in Formula 1 while I keep on crashing in Project Cars.
What a great pass. I was like, oh god here it comes. Here comes the boom. 😟 then he sailed away like Pegasus on the Jolly Roger. All mystical and shit.
As a Brazilian leftist myself, I salute this Comrade!
The original communist theorists argued that race was a social construction used to exploit the periphery, and that human progress could only be possible if distinctions based on race (or gender, or ethnic background) were erased. All governments that adopted it were of course racist (and sexist and elitist) as fuck,…