We’ve already donated nuclear weapons in space, but there is a treaty against that now. This has become a problem in that we will eventually need to turn to nuclear power for space travel, but we can’t send anything up without violating the treaty... and there is no reason for other countries to let us do it for…

Nuclear weapons are designed and tested in simulators now.

My - admittedly - limited understanding of nuclear protocol, even for the Russians, is that they would first target US ICBM sites and radar stations. In formal military operations, indiscriminately killing non-combatants doesn’t really serve any purpose.

For anyone that is awed by atomic bombs, “Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie” is a must-watch.

Holy crap, I think you’re right about the myth with diapers and beer!

Sounds legit.

fuck yeah.

If it was necessary to make a dictionary because standards weren’t set, I imagine there might be some level of disagreement going in... but antipathy towards the British makes for a much more interesting story.

I got a FOIA returned from the USDA that looked like that, with the black stripes and reference letters to a code book for the stated reason for the redaction. It took 3 years to get 300 pages of black stripes, denied for “national security” concerns.

Was just wondering the exact same thing.... and that one dude by himself going towards the storm.

Fun fact: in a pending emergency where there’s time to prepare, first things to go are beer and strawberry pop-tarts.

What exactly does it take to be an F1 driver these days? I can’t imagine this is all just on the job training, because how could you qualify to drive one of those things without understanding all of that stuff to begin with?

Not to make light of the deaths and injuries ... but I’ve long said that nothing good every comes out of New Jersey.

According to that animation, it propels the ammo casing like a rocket ship. Far out.

I’m finishing a PhD ... and as of this semester, the freshman are literally half my age. Sigh.

$37.5k for perpetual licenses is actually pretty cheap.

Well, Excel can hold about 1,048,000 records... but it’ll be a horrible and soggy POS. Not even sure what the point would be... worlds easier to get out of Excel and start coding at that point.

I’ve filed FOIAs and have had similar rejections; once for “national security” reasons when I was looking into health inspection records for meat processing. It took 3 years to fulfill the FOIA request, and I got back 300 pages of blacked our reports. It was weird.

Think of these investigations and reports more like investments into future that prevent rampant fraud, waste and abuse: it stops the current fraud from growing any larger, then it sends a message to other people in government that they can’t get away with this kind of stuff.

Contrary to your statement, we’re not looking at averages ... we’re looking at medians.