Take your partisan crap and shove off... I see no difference between a Republican or Democratic president, except for some cosmetic differences, in terms of expanding the state, the surveillance state, running up the debt, engaging in impractical romps around the globe, etc. Nice try, but every president since WWII…

thank you... actually knowing what an economic system and its components are... damnit why can't more people be more sophisticated on this issue.

what a nuanced and understandable retort. Taken a step further... citizen soldiers in a democracy volunteered to be on the line... they gave away their freedom and in some cases their lives... it does deserve respect. Imagine if that was my son in that casket and them talking about having fun... it would stick in my…

I work as an OSHA trainer and let me tell you... the amount of certifications I send to Williston, ND is insane... and, I had never heard of it until the fracking boom at the shale deposits... but wow, and when i try to send them certifications... they can't even usually get it b/c of overcrowding, no address,…

yah bro free market or whatever... nobody's holding a gun to your head so you will work there. good post.

THIS... RIGHT... HERE... Those unions seek to protect poor behavior. It's like they want to protect brutality and non-professional behavior of the defenders of law-and-order. In a country of the people, isn't it strange that police unions actively seek to keep citizens in jail for nonviolent crimes... mainly because…

great reference

absolutely agree with your post.

Makes me wonder if one of the reindeer is like... "fucking light... how am I supposed to sleep with my fucking luminescent antlers!"

We use digital encoding... not to mention, the more advanced we become, the more we don't use huge transmitters to inefficiently broadcast signals... and with digital encoding... a signal that looks like "noise" or "garbage" could just require decryption, varied sampling rates, or a signal decoupling that would allow…

These asshats think it isn't that big of a deal... well, I can most assuredly tell you that if they had been brutalized, made to feel powerless, humiliated, and penetrated by another man... I guarantee you that their "not a big deal" tone would change instantly. The lack of empathy and humanity in this tale, coming…

The Air Force has this concept. It is called missile truck, in that B1B bombers would fly just at the edge of a dogfight loaded with Anti-aircraft missiles with either F35's and/or f22's. The fighters would exhaust their missiles but then use their targeting sensors to relay information back to the B1B carrying a…

thank you... was about to say that about contaminants/pollutants especially in that type of urban environment.

exactly thus the sampling rate is 1000x greater not the electron speed.

this or NES with ghosts'n'goblins, ninja gaiden, marble madness, etc. Let him play some impossible for a while LOL.

and on top of that... what about the sedimentation accumulation on the machines and the harmful diversion of sediments away from their traditional deposition. if these are installed in scale, what about the ecosystems and food chains of adjacent areas... sounds like a great way to make giant dead zones on the sea…

Between storage, deployment, the logistics chain, and finally to the soldier on the ground after being transferred countless times... Sometimes 3 years isn't that long of a time... Plus, MRE's are kept on shelves until a disaster or emergency occurs... would organizations really want to buy new stock every other year…

look u already know who Carl Sagan is... so i didn't really think you presented it in crazy terms and you may be on to something... i was building a bit off of the other guy just to the knee jerk reaction of the lay person to black holes. So I didnt mean to make it sound like your assertion was meritless.

to that topical retort I say... true that, high energy physics definitely has more to figure out.

And... thank you for injecting actual science into that... people think black hole, omg, doom! but a micro black hole would evaporate in fractions of a second.