The fact that it’s in a peninsula right between some major shipping arteries probably has something to do with it as well.

When I’m driving, I tolerate my autistic daughter picking the songs, and my husband. Nobody else. :-)

Maybe it’s because (so far) nothing I’ve ever done since has hurt quite so much as that hot coffee down my arm did?

I like coffee and tea, but I don’t like scalding my mouth, so I always put some ice in it to bring it down to a more reasonable temperature.  Not cold or even lukewarm, but just like 120 F instead of why-can’t-I-feel-the-roof-of-my-mouth-anymore.

“Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious as a post on X.” He later said, “Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text.”

I don’t think you’re intentionally conflating NASA with the nuclear bomb tests, but for what it’s worth, NASA was not involved with those. The nuclear bomb testing was performed by the military. Probably the most visible evidence is if you look at Enewatok Atoll on Google Maps — you can see a number of very round…

Odds are good it won’t be, but even if it is, they’ll have fixed it by then. Or just take lots of Sudafed beforehand to make sure you’ve got really good and open airways ahead of time! :-D

I am nerd. :-p

Thanks to a family friend who was a successful Mary Kay saleswoman, I used to wear a lot of Mary Kay cosmetics when I was a teen and young adult. When I started my career, one of my coworkers was trying out the Mary Kay thing as a side gig since she enjoyed cosmetics and despite also being an engineer with an…

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He brought out the “nuclear weapons” line like he had no real answer so he just brought in the ultimate zinger to shut everybody down. The perfect *ahem* trump card to win all arguments, suitable for anytime you either don’t have an answer or are tired of the debate, perfected by small children playing with action…

Well, I suppose possibly Trump is arguing that if the sea level rises enough, there will be oceanfront property all the way up in Michigan. Not sure if he means the Atlantic sloshing around the Appalachians and actually drowning half the continent, or somehow flooding up the Seaway and turning the Great Lakes salt, or…

Same here, although after both of my cruises, I discovered that I suffer from something I’d never heard of before: mal de debarquement. It’s where you feel totally fine at sea, but after the cruise, you feel as if the ground is moving. It’s rather unsettling, and it lasted significantly longer after the second cruise…

The phrase “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me” comes to mind.

Our kids get older -- we don’t, and neither do our dogs!  (I wish....)

We got our latest dog in 2020, and we keep thinking he’s still the baby of the family. Shocked me when the vet gave us a printout that listed his age.

darthspartan (awesome userid) conveniently gave us the flightradar24 track, which includes the tail number: N916DU. Plugging that into the website airfleets.net gives us the history of the aircraft. This is a Boeing 737-932ER, serial number 64884 LN:7379.  It was delivered January 30, 2019, so it’s about five and a…

Mine too.  I guess we get what we pay for.  ;-)

True, like the Pioneers before them and New Horizons after them. But they will be silent and lost to us, entrusted to the ultimate deep.

The Voyagers are my very favorite spacecraft. ;-) I will be sad when they go. I was a toddler when they launched. My favorite video as a little kid was a video recording of a NOVA special about the Voyager mission. V’Ger was pretty much my introduction to Star Trek.