Dolphins, too must always have a sense of depth, especially as air-breathing mammals, they have to always have an awareness of where and how far the surface is.

That should've been; "You got time on me.' I can't seem to edit that post...

That referred to an item by Malcolm Brenner. See his book 'Wet Goddess' for more.

You time got me, I was only 24 then...

Nah, this is more nearly Sid and Marty Krofft on acid...

So did I. August 1970. The interview with Paul Ehrlich. (at the ripe old age of 16...it happens I'm as old as the magazine itself)

I had that issue for many years. the 'Science and the Future' was a headline I couldn't miss (and 'sex with a dolphin' pretty much sealed the deal)

So it does.

"...or even letting it scoot out to interstellar space with one long steady burn pointed toward the galactic center?"

And 9/11 showed us you can turn a wide-bodied jet into a manned cruise missile. Your point?

A shame they'll 'become one with The Force' when, at the ultimate end of Juno's mission, it'll be de-orbited into Jupiter as Galileo was, because neither were sterilized, and no one wants to risk the then-uncontrolled craft possibly impacting and contaminating Europa at some unlikely but not impossible time later...

Well, it's a 'military booster' in the sense that it has launched a great many 'military payloads.,' Mil communications, recon, intelligence gathering, etc. But but this version has never been a ballistic missile weapon. It's a long and serious way from the original 50's Atlas ICBM, or the 'human-rated' version for…

I remember it well. (I was once acquainted with Erica Abt, one of the trainers on that film) I was, for the most part, more interesting than the novel by Robert Merle...

Actually Orca was Moby Dick, turned inside-out...

District 9?

You mean like this...?

No Black widow? Catwoman?? Emma Frost???

Like too much armor on a tank, many 'countermeasures' reduce the capability of that which they're trying to protect. You still gain something. (And decoys are a good idea against other weapons...especially those with limited shots. How limited is that laser?)

Here's what one provider says:

"But if he owned the place..."