Another reason to limit coverage of arguments is that, unlike Congress, the process of reaching a final decision (an opinion or law, respectively) doesn’t matter. Legislative history—debates, hearings, and speeches on the floor—are used to understand the meaning of a bill. But the same isn’t true of oral arguments;…

The Catholic Church did actually destroy a lot of ‘pagan’ art, especially in Italy.

They replaced a building whose design was a subtle homage to the Twin Towers with this fucking pile of Jenga sticks!?

The TSA has a budget of over $7 billion, about $5.7 billion of which comes from the government. That absolutely has an effect on the economy. (Source: http://budget.house.gov/news/documents…_

There have been two attempts to bomb American airliners post-9/11 (the shoe and underwear bomber), both failed entirely due to the fortunate incompetence of the bombers.

Everyone does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.

The crazy thing is that actually has happened in real life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_…. Short version: pilots decided to play around with circuit breakers, engine fan blades blew apart, window ruptured, passenger got sucked out.

There are vents between the passenger cabin and the cargo hold underneath which are designed to allow a quick equalization in pressure in case a cargo door blows out; otherwise the pressure difference could cause the passenger floor to collapse.

If that’s the situation, I’m not sure why he would want to acknowledge it. Continuing to drive after knowing that you are susceptible to passing out would void just about any insurance policy (or at least serve as a reason to deny a claim) and open you up to liability if you get into any sort of accident.

NASA’s solution to overheating was genius. A water-based radiator would have been way too heavy, so instead they surrounded the batteries with wax. As they heated up, the wax would melt. When fully melted, the astronauts would stop and open up panels on top of the wax blocks exposing the wax to the atmosphere. Since…

Space X has been successfully launching re-supply missions to the International Space Station and launching satellites for several years with a near perfect record.

The Orion launch abort system, like Apollo, includes a protective cover for the capsule in addition to the tower. Orion resembles Apollo because physics haven’t changed much in 40 years.

You’d be strapped in pretty tight so you wouldn’t be moving around much, and again this is for emergency situations so some knocking around would be acceptable. All capsules that are landing on the water come down at an angle; by hitting the water on an edge you soften the blow.

So there’s only been one use of launch escape system in real-life. In 1983 a Soyuz capsule was saved from a rocket that legitimately exploded two-three seconds after the abort system fired. The passengers were subjected to 14-17gs, and had to turn of the voice recorders because they were cursing so much. They were…

She didn’t do that.

Well, stick a rocket on the back and acceleration won’t be much of a problem.

Corey Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Deval Patrick, Michael Bennet, John Hickenlooper, Martin O’Malley, and the list goes on. There are good people out there, but the Clintons have been working hard the last few years to make sure they keep their heads down this campaign season.

The Comet went well past the prototype stage. Later generation Comets served as passenger planes through the 1970s and the military version, the Nimrod (not the best name), wasn’t retired until 2011.

Wouldn’t you be totally screwed if you lost an engine?

I think you’re overstating the problem here. A huge chunk of Nevada may be owned by the federal government, but then again a huge chunk of Nevada is uninhabited desert so no one’s really loosing out on anything. As for control, of course people feel like the federal government has more control than local elected…