They release it before its engine fires. Though if that actually happened, like as not the clamps would fail before the plane got going terribly fast.

Virtually all of your acceleration in a rocket is done horizontal to the ground(or close to horizontal). Remember, just to orbit the rocket needs to be going 17,000 mph relative to the ground. Rockets only travel in the vertical direction during the early stages to get through the more dense lower atmosphere faster.

It sounds counterintuitive, but the plane will likely dive slightly before dropping the rocket just as the L1011 does when launching the Pegasus. I’m not exactly sure why they do this, but they do. I’ve always assumed it’s more about aircraft stability when your weight and center of mass suddenly change rather than…

“comes with six turbo engines,”

sounds to me like she was a bad-ass mother who don’t take no crap off of nobody

Damn, Brady lost another championship?

Yeah that’s mostly what I meant. It’s not life threatening, just career damaging. Poor kid but he’ll be okay if he can keep out of his own head.

...Dave & Busters?

The second book hadn’t even been written when Garland started adapting the first book. So it’s possible he did ask the author, and the author had no idea because he hadn’t gotten around to fleshing that part out yet.

This is like telling the US-born child of immigrants that they’re not really American because of their lineage.

“smashed up”? They lost 1-0 lol #FireHaisley

Let me get this straight: Arsenal are fucked due to Laca being out 4-6 weeks. Few sentences later:

Pretty sure most “conservatives” are violently against the principles expressed by the Statue of Liberty

Whaaa? It’s more than a little weird that a competition whose key appeal is the national pride inherent in cheering on athletes precisely because they share your nationality would have a rule saying you can’t have displays of nationalism.

He made some nice cars, though.

So you’re saying they’d only outlawed two-footed landings, and then when Bonaly did it on one, they banned that too?

What the fuck are you talking about? Did you even read the article. Did you even read the headline? Here’s a hint: the inaccuracy being pointed out is not whether the flip was landed on one blade.

Fake news on twitter? Is that even allowed?

Because.... Believe it or not, the Netherlands recognizes only Dutch as its official language! Such a thing does not exist in the US, so why would be English the reference ?