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Article is about the ISS, shows an artist rendering of Mir with the space shuttle attached, brilliant.

The commercial diesel from the VW LT is a lousy engine. Loud, agrarian, not that reliable, not particularly frugal either.

Actually, the US isn’t party to the Convention on the Law of the Sea, and Iran is only a signatory (not ratified). The US tends to abide by UNCLOS anyway, but Iran being only a signatory is because they have amended certain sections of UNCLOS, namely innocent passage. Iran does not recognize the right of innocent

“Pretty sure we got everything right, baby.”

100 times yes. Why do I constantly read comments by people like us yet no OEMs can read this? We don’t want a subpar Moto G just to get a smaller phone. We want the mutha effin Moto X sub-5”

Here’s what I don’t like: I don’t want a huge phone. The 4.7 inch Moto X was awesome. The 5.2 was also awesome, but just a teeeeeny bit big for my taste. But this? No. I want this phone, just shrunk down to 5.2 again. I’d even pay more for that. I said it last year and I’ll say it again: Bigger != Better.

In the parlance of their time a Boston newspaper printed OK for all correct (oll korect) because mispelling and acronyms were cool. Martin Van Buren had an allegiance/following/supporters that identified him and themselves as being OK for Old Kinderhook (kind of like a football supporter’s club I take it?). Finally,

That’s monoethanolamine for you. The stuff gets soaked into EVERYTHING. Worst part is you get used to it and don’t realize you smell like that when you get back from an underway until people ask you what that smell is.

Notice that the parachute lines are on fire.

I applaud engineers at Duke for buying a copy of the Boy Scouts Handbook.

I loved Wool.

OMFG, FRACKING FLUID!!! EVERYBODY PANIC!!!
Yeah, um, no. They found 2-butoxyethanol. From the wikipedia entry on the substance:

John Young is one of the best astronauts the public knows very little about. The more popular Apollo astronauts get all the attention, but he did it all.

John Young is the most badass astronaut ever! Two Gemini missions, two Apollo missions, two space shuttle missions (including the very first one), and he brought a fucking sandwich to space.

Pebble! Pebble! Pebble!

So going off the mom/dad segments (both great bits) I gather the idea is a teenager's mood swings are their emotions learning how to deal with controlling the body?

He dropped it on the runway like a load of bricks, so hard it bounced.

I SWEAR i thought she was made of CGI on this scene.