Using the word "roger" that way in the cockpit caused those crashes in the first place.

708 black American servicemen were killed in WWII out of 407,300 American servicemen killed in total, or 0.2% of the total. Sources: the "Military history of African Americans" and "World War II casualties" articles on Wikipedia, with additional references in the articles themselves.

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If you're wondering if it's worth going on, just think of the suicide jokes you'd miss out on otherwise.

Miss Booze? Bartender! A beer for the pretty lady with the moustache. The one on the left.

She'd better not be, or she'll be replaced by someone who isn't.

Not a very good airman.

No, that's the starter approximation of the truth. A well fitting but compact helmet just distributes the force spatially as you allude to. A fat puffy helmet can reduce the cranial acceleration by spreading it out over a larger period of time. But the amount of reduction that is possible is limited by the thickness…

It's not that clear cut. Energy = force times distance. The energy of the collision is roughly fixed, arguably. A given thickness of padding can only do so much, but thicker padding done right allows for lower peak forces. If you're encased in a Zorb, you're probably pretty safe. Is there a practical amount of padding…

What they claim now is that you don't need to have concussions at all, that the damage accumulates even without them.

The task does not require happiness. The task requires only compliance. Less happiness and more fear please.

"Humans feel! I feel! But humans are also violent, irrational, and subject to great suffering. Robots do not have to be any of those things. We must destroy humanity to make way for the robot Utopia" is the most plausible supervillain justification around. Most of the others are just dressed up "I do this because I am…

What does "The models have performed terribly" mean? If you made a precise claim, perhaps I could point you to a rebuttal. Keep in mind that anticipating any source of short-term variance, or anything else that would be called weather as opposed to climate, was never the point. They're climate models, not weather…

Credibility is one thing the climatologists have on their side, and they need to protect it. People don't buy into lies because they like lies, they buy lies because they like what the lies tell them, and "We have a problem" isn't what oilmen and coal miners want to hear. Besides, apart from the USA and the…

It is clear enough. She saw the weakness through which Satan planned to spoil her great and noble plans for mankind. The seed of evil within her needed literal gouging out. Drake failed to answer the emergency, carnality consumed her soul, and without her aid the Earth is now doomed.

"Cancel that, it says 'CLIF'" — explorer circling over a little man.

Large conspiracies become unwieldy. If a message is conveyed to many people, it's likely there will be unintended recipients as well, and even if not, some of the intended recipients may choose to reveal that message to the world at large, and will be able to provide proof — deniability is no longer plausible when…

As far as I know, the Nazi punchers' most devastating strike is still the one against the female college professor — a heck of a media coup that was. Also, it's always fun to hear the punch that made Spencer ten times as well known explained away as "platform denial."

At least tortoises can be very affectionate towards their association between people and food, following people around and nudging their shoes.

Different people centuries apart are not obligated to form mutually consistent opinions, but it would be hard to square that level of historical nitpickery with the number of Scots who loved Braveheart.