for some perspective on the size...

“Leave our alliances, fall back on a nuclear first use policy.” Does he understand just how F’ing dangerous that is?

Accurate to US demographics.

Your vocab doesn’t match the geology jargon, but your overall point is correct. Here’s a nerdy reply from a geoscientist.

Simple solution. Make the next movie time travel based, and then just bring back Walter Koenig as a really cranky elder Chekov that gets put back at the helm. Only goes warp 1, always leaves the left blinker on, and shouts at Kirk for talking while he’s trying to drive.

They are educated in political science, government and law: great subjects if you want to run for election, manage, administer or be a lawyer. These people are often quite ignorant about the real world subjects they are in charge of legislating over.

Meh. They’ve been trying to develop a better battery system for soldiers since the 90s.

As the company RTO in an infantry unit, my combat loaded ruck was an alice pack with extra mortar rounds, extra ammo (5.56 and 203), extra food/water, iv bags, NODs, sincgars - sometimes two - an icom, ancd, all the normal shit…

Yes, the goosesteppers are looking for a commission’s seal of approval that back doors in encryption is a “good” thing.

You can’t get more 80's than “Wolfman’s got nards!”

It’s kind of shocking how many gun owners support reasonable gun control. In fact the majority of gun owners do, unfortunately the radicals have the podium. I actually have no problem with someone owning an AR-15.. as long as that person checks out and if they chose to sell it, they are required to register the sale.…

“0% - show your work! See me after class.”

The Para-Olympics will have awesome athletes 20 years from now, thanks to this.

Came here to mention this ... thanks!

Sounds like NBC is bringing back Voyagers.

Who can guess which solutions to modern problems couldn’t be serendipitously solved as byproducts of such a grand endeavor? The journey is often as rewarding as the goal.

I think manned fighters are here to stay for the time being. For all of the military’s insistance to the contrary, flying a plane by data link is not foolproof.

What I do think we might see is something between a SA missile and a drone. A swarm of drones scrambling in addition to a few manned fighters. Since you’re not…