No, it's just a REALLY good corset...it will suck in space and time as well as your waistline.

If art is NSFW, your employer basically needs to fuck off.

Vonnegut doesn't get enough love around these parts. Too political to be sci-fi or what?

Tralfamdorians are bad ass multi-dimensional beings.

To be fair, that whole Saigon thing was because the French gave up after Dien Bien Phu.

WE SURRENDER!

Driving, Dallas. You're doing it wrong.

I think this image gives a good idea just how big the area is. It is just about a whole hemisphere worth of ocean down there.

former P-3 pilot here. I just want to clear up some misconceptions about our mighty Maritime Patrol Hunter.

MAD is a secondary or tertiary method at best. It requires a metal object to influence the magnetic lines of force created by the earth, so it needs a target that is made of ferrous metal. A Boeing 777 has…

sorry, I guess I'm so used to people basking us for ANYTHING we do, I assumed sarcasm was in full force, heh

Completely agree. No sarcasm was intended at all and I'm upset that I must not have phrased that right.

and since I am a former Southerner

That's really frustrating because men are allowed to scream and lose their shit all the time. Cry out of frustration once, and everyone sees you as the hysterical crybaby that can't control their emotions or handle how life works.

Or the people hijacking the thread to discuss male circumcision.

I've read the scientific paper and no sea cucumbers are going extinct. So this title is just a highly misleading hook to get more readers interested. The truth: while some fished species have indeed declined greatly, only 7 of 377 species are endangered, and none are critically endangered or extinct.

We are Russian.

I could sense your restraint and I do applaud it. I can't begin to imagine how the lack of not knowing adds to the stress of the families of those on board. Then compound that with the wack job conspiracy theorists…those poor families. Prayers and thoughts to them.

Don't know. In fact, there's a lot we don't know. I only try to write about what we do know, or what's likely. And even when it is likely, I try to hedge that by saying it's not definite.

"Exceptional" data cost is a relative thing. Sure, for normal internet use $1/MB is insane, but if you're just sending tiny (sub-1kB) update packets for the most part every 30 seconds to a minute that's only a couple of bucks per flight worth of data transfer.

Hardware cost is a few grand in actual parts, plus a few…

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