Scrolled down to see if anyone had said it yet. Was not disappointed. Point goes to the ursine.

1 in 35000.

Except every planet in the solar system has an axial tilt. The early solar system was a...kinetic place.

Yea... space plane designs are not really the best idea. There's a reason only the US built them, and they only stuck with it because it would have been both expensive and embarrassing to change it. Amongst other things, they're really good at killing astronauts.

No. The event horizon in the colloquial sense clearly exists. It's really quite simple to show that within a certain area of a black hole, escape velocity exceeds the speed of light. What Hawking means when he says there's no event horizon, is that there is no event horizon in the classical sense (ie nothing can ever…

Where's Willy?

Wow some of these explications are bad.

It does not take several thousand missiles to ensure a MAD strike. It's almost impossible for someone to eliminate the possibility of a MAD strike. Towards the start of the arms race maybe, we weren't particularly good at hardening targets against nuclear strikes, missiles weren't very accurate or reliable, it was…

5,113 warheads operationally deployed, in active reserve, or held in inactive storage, several thousand more that have been tried and scheduled for dismantlement

The US has enough strategic nuclear weapons to destroy every major city in the world including their own and still have several thousand left over. There's literally no need for it. A couple hundred nukes are more than enough to make the point.

OK so, let me understand this.

This is neither based on reported rapes, nor new. This will be a report on a CDC survey conducted about 4 years ago. The study itself was published some time ago.

French word, bastardized spelling of a "ge" word, french, french.

Last time I checked, all major releases are priced around $60 regardless of content.

To launch satellites from Israel you'd need do so westward because Iraq, Saudi Arabia and etc will be less than thrilled at the idea of Israel dropping spent boosters on their heads. This would be fine except most satellites are launched eastwards (short version as to why, the earth rotates in that direction. If you…

Thus proving again that Google Chrome is the best browser.

The 3 laws are actually quite terrible. So many of asimov's stories are driven by how faulty the 3 laws system is.

It was good until Sorbo starting fucking things up.

Binding precedent is not particularly vague. If the cases are identical enough for it to be binding, they are fundamentally identical cases. "You are attempting to do X. X has been ruled on in a comprehensive manner, and none of the fundamentals of that decision have changed in anyway. Go. Away". For that matter a…

The decision isn't equal to the law, the decision is either an interpretation of the law, or an interpretation as to how the law interacts with other laws (ie whether or not it violates the constitution or if it's being applied in a way contrary to the intent of the law.)