The flying spaghetti monster boiled for our sins! Your message of extremism is not the true path to eternal garlic breadstick heaven my friend! May you be touched by his noodley appendage of love and forgiveness.

Damn you beat me to it

Oh... of terrorist organizations... Okay yeah that’s a we bit clueless. Point taken.

In grand scheme of things.... Yes, ISIS is rather JV. A bunch of middle school psychopaths trying to wage an international popularity contest. That’s not to say they’re not dangerous, or a threat, or not worth worrying about. But when compared to the potential of Iran and North Korea (should they boil over into active…

There was a good article about the Russian removal of the native Crimean population, the Tartars (if I remember correctly) after WW2. After the liberation of Crimea in 1944 about 250,000 tartars were deported for for alleged collaboration with the Nazi forces. The Crimean Oblast has always held a high degree of…

Very good point about the cabinet. I probably should have clarified that any serving president will get their military intelligence from the exact same set of intelligence apparti. Who is president doesn’t change the people processing and distributing the information. What the president DOES with that information is…

He’s just as clueless as any other person would be in that position. Any person in that office will get all their Intel from the same apparatus. To say that the current president is “clueless” is a gross misunderstanding of the actual processes involved. I would imagine what you actually mean is “ the current…

Interesting. I wonder about the specifics and actual mechanics of such a device. Does said microwave gun actually interfere with the onboard electronics (programing, servo signals, on board I/O data etc) that render the device inoperable, or does it interfere with the data transmission with the device to/from its…

For the record there is a Far Side of the Moon (the hemisphere that faces away from Earth since it is tidaly locked) but both sides of the moon receive equal sunlight so there is no Dark Side of the moon.

That’s interesting. I doubt the actual installed piece would hold my attention for more than a few minutes (i might be wrong... I imagine its a lot more dynamic and kinetic in person...but still don’t think it’d interest me for more than a few). I’d wager that the construction and preparation for the piece, especially…

That’s the great thing about art. Its subjectivity, the reactions to it are completely dependant on the person viewing it.

Star Spangled sheet metal? I thought this bad boy was carbon fiber

No...they build super hornets. Which for all intents and purposes is completely different aircraft

In the side air intake’s style/shape and placement it looks like a modern version of the 208/308/328. Or if you take a step farther back in their history is looks like a larger version of the 206/246 Dino.

While going into a few details, you should. While not hard under the right conditions it certainly won’t be as simple as you make it sound. A few issues stem from your analogy of a flashlight. Most of the time global hawk is working passively, its intaking video, IR, radio signals. The only time it emits is when it…

Ahh...congratulations Islam, you have now learned how to commercialize and capitalize your religious principles. If you need any pointers I am sure a quick study of mega-church and televangelist Christianity can give you some pointers. Welcome to the 21st century.

The wings do not rotate, they are fixed in a normal horizontal configuration. Only the engine nacelles at the wing tips rotate up 90 degrees. If the wings look rotated with the engines it’s because she’s landing and her flaps are down. However.... the wing/engine assemble WILL rotate 90 degrees along the Z axis to…

Why go for an outright sale? Wouldn’t a Lend/Lease arrangement be better? Go under the terms of something like Cost up unit upgrade leases the airframe for 5/10 years. With the option to renew at the end of the lease for the cost of refurbishment For another set time period. I’m sure something could be written in that…

Excellent choice! One of my favorite authors.

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