You read my mind, well said sir!

CGI in today's movies is "starting" to look great. It's looked like a painful mess until recently.

While they make quite deadly submarines, they've consistently been behind the US in the most important aspect of any submarine—it's quietness.

Make me think twice about ever buying a refurb phone or tablet.

Those new drones ain't got sh*t on this 1970's Soviet classic:

I'm the same way, I'm not afraid of heights per say, just the vertigo I feel when I look down from a high place. I've been with friends hanging their feet off the top of Half Dome in Yosemite but I wouldn't get within 10 feet of the edge.

Oh my!

CGI is getting better, but it still seems the real models have an edge in detail and realism that CGI has not quite achieved yet. It'll get there soon though.

A far better map of course:

Texas.

The SR-71 was an amazing aircraft, born of the Cold War at its zenith, embodying all that aircraft engineering could accomplish. It was however, a machine designed to ever so slightly, tilt the strategic advantage in our favor. It was one of thousands of machines, tactics and strategies developed to do so. …

This article is so 2005.

Although widely assumed, the SR-71 never flew deep into the Soviet Union. It would sometimes fly short overflights along certain borders but it was too valuable to be lost deep in the Soviet interior. While nearly impossible to shoot down, it may have been with enough advance notice (i.e. getting enough interceptors…

This isn't new and has been studied by Western navies for the last 10-15 years. While the Sunburn and Radruga can make it very difficult for carrier groups to operate in constrained spaces like the Strait of Taiwan, new naval tactics have been modified for just such a case.

Phalanx isn't effective stopping high mach-speed weapons like the Raduga or the Sunburn, that's what the RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile is for.

Having worked in Gov't for a number of years before private industry, I can attest that you're spot on. It's crazy but it's the most orderly "crazy" we've been able to come up with.

I can't wait for the day when computers totally replace drivers in racing. In fact, I look forward to the day when racing doesn't even use physical cars but is entirely done in a computer—and we humans just watch.

No wonder it took so long for the WOPR to figure it out.

Nothing like great expectation management.