It was to determine if the opposite sex was attracted to you or your car.

He reacts. That’s it. Provide a stimulus, and he reacts to it, usually in the worst imaginable fashion. He can’t link cause and effect any more (if he ever could) so cognitively, he’s no longer a tool-wielding animal. 

This.

“The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft were the most sluggish, fuel-thirsty 747s you would ever see— when an Orbiter was attached.”

Please take your well deserved grammar Star. 

I once took a puddle jumper from Cedar Rapids IA to Chicago IL. I had the front row seat in a plane of 20 passengers. The cockpit (pre 9/11) was separated from the cabin by a curtain, which the sole flight attendant left open on the approach.

Germany’s fighter fleet was “high-tech” in 1939 but became quickly dated...and they were not a “low-volume” producer of aircraft. They built north of 70K planes ahead of/during WW II. Their production capacity remained robust, with fighter production peaking in 1944. They didn’t lose because their planes were fancy…

Say what you will, but I’m thinking he’s going to beat Hillary again in 2020. 

Now I finally understand why Kanye identifies with him so much.

Unfortunately for Trump, removing term limits on Presidents would result in Obama being elected for a third term.

Toyota's actually been doing this for quite a while now.

On contact from a foreign government, yes even Norway:

Is Mars going to pay for it?

isn’t “heliocentrism” when you have Marine One all to yourself?

Also:

I was stationed at Ft. Sill in ‘66, (Jesus I’m old!), home of an Atomic Cannon, where I learned that in artillery-speak a circle is composed of 6400 ‘mils’ (milliradians, although that’s actually 2 x pi x 1000). The circle is subdivided into two halves of 3200 mils each, and the story was that when the cannon was…

This is a classic areal combat maneuver named after WWII’s highest scoring U.S. ace, Dick Bong. : P

The 737 is more effective at killing than the F-35, and costs much less! I hearby appoint the 737 Max as the new Air Force One!

FFS...HE HAD BONE SPURS!!! BONE FUCKING FUCK SPURS!!!

Pat Shanahan is the acting Secretary of Defense? As a former Boeing employee, that scares me very deeply.