The difference between the US presidential election and any nation’s parliamentary elections are profound. Our Congressional elections are not that much different from parliamentary elections; they’re short campaigns because they are local. But the presidential election is a national campaign (in a nation of over 300…

I believe top government officials collude to create fake conspiracy theories which portray them as hyper-competent and powerful, when in fact most are just of ordinary intelligence and power and couldn’t keep a secret to save their lives.

Yes, most likely. Orion would be used to rendezvous with a transfer vehicle that will be assembled in low earth orbit or trans-lunar space, tag along for the ride to and back from Mars, and then be used to re-enter the earth’s atmosphere.

Keep in mind though, that while a physician must provide the bullshit website to a patient, nothing is stopping them from saying “I’m required to provide the URL of this bullshit website but you don’t have to look at it”

Existing train service between actual cities (not a gift shop in the desert) is faster, easier, and cheaper than flying. Take, for example, DC to NY. You can go from city center to city center in 3 hours for $150-200. You don’t have to go out to the suburbs of Virginia, deal with the awesome TSA, take a $250> flight,…

Trains are not the perfect form of transportation in every instance, but there are many areas in our country where they make sense, and are profitable. Freight rail is the most cost effective way to move freight across long distances, and passenger rail makes sense between close cities (Boston-NY-DC, Dallas-Houston,…

It’s not a coincidence that Pete Souza was previously the official White House photographer for Reagan.

The problem is the cab companies have fought tooth and nail against every one of those regulations. Here in DC, they fought against having meters, having to pick up the handicapped, against having more visible signs, against taking credit cards (though the ‘broken’ readers always seem to fix themselves when you…

I apologize for the pedanticism, but that’s actually a second stage S-IVB from a Saturn IB, not a third stage S-IVB from a Saturn V (you can tell because the interstage it’s being mounted on is a constant width).

Doesn’t the 3-series badge take care of that?

But it’s 2015, there’s little to no need to physically go to a bank. You can sign up online and deposit checks through mobile apps with real non-fly-by-night banks.

I think the bigger danger was that the pilot was eyeballing the vertical separation from the helicopter, and forgot how tall his tail was.

There is very little that can be done. Eastern Ukraine is a war zone, and Russia has veto power at the UN.

The evidence is not circumstantial. There are video and audio recordings taken moments after the aircraft was hit where the pro-Russian forces took credit, thinking they had hit a Ukrainian Air Force plane, and then realizing their tragic mistake.

The service module is being provided by the European Space Agency, but generally, yes.

We do! That’s what the International Space Station has a cannon for.

You mixed up the first US and the first Soviet spacewalk. The first spacewalk, achieved by Alexey Leonov, was done through an airlock and it was his suit that ballooned up and nearly didn’t get back inside. The first US spacewalk, done by Ed White, was mostly flawless. The Gemini craft didn’t have an airlock, they…

Fantastic story. Utter bullshit, but a great story. http://www.livescience.com/33177-npr-stor…

Well, after he started criticizing the leadership he did die in an “accident.”

Yes, there are many more warning labels on products than there used to be. But when was the last time you were injured by a product in a way that wasn’t your fault?