And while we’re at it: fuck off Ronaldo.

Hate to break it to the arachnophobes, but they sort of don’t need wings because they can already “fly” when they’re small by releasing a bit of silk and letting the wind carry it into the air.

I remember an office fire drill once when a group of us were following our designated escape route. When we got to the exit and opened the door, we were greeted with a web that covered the entire door way. In the middle of the web was this the a big, yellow spider that spans about 7 inches. We all stared at that thing…

Indeed. Spiders are a lot more intelligent than we give them credit for. They’re biologically engineered for stealth, and unfortunately our own instincts to watch for threats out of the corner of our vision gets triggered big time by a spider’s ironic attempt be as unobtrusive as possible.

check your privilege. Sheesh, peopel whose children don’t have horns and razor claws just like to strut around. That triggers me.

A Golden-Orb Weaver. Actually, a very useful spider that will be harmless to you but will devour vermin. Spiders are extremely useful actually.

I had the pleasure of serving with Senior Chief Byers back in 2002. A great man and great operator. Bravo Zulu!!!

[Clarkson] POWER!!!!!! [\Clarkson]

Actually, in WWII, the tanks were indeed over engineered, but suffered from terrible build quality. The German tanks would had such shotty quality that many times, the armor would shatter instead of dent, optics had cracks in them, etc. they were designed by the best engineers, but built by prisoners and pretty much…

Leopard 2c’s (the Canadian Forces version) saw active service in Afghanistan in recent years. The Leo probably rivals the Abrams for number of countries that buy the export version — it’s deployed by tons of NATO countries.

If you had any idea why kind of tactical black hole North Korea is, you would see why the South built a wall and told them to go fuck themselves.

Well, that explains "Kim Jong Un is rumored to have 'taken the stick' while flying before,"

Negative Marine it was a 11 out of 10. Haha. Semper Fi

I'm a Harrier Powerline mechanic, done several deployments on ship with the navy. That is a pretty much a text book landing, other than the nose gear not coming down. The throttle is touchy by itself, on top of having to adjust for pitch, roll, and yaw, on a moving ship. Then there's the fact that you have to rely…

As a kid I never liked the Beetle. It looked too poxy and weird. But as a bribe to get me to finish high school, my dad promised to buy me a car. To my horror, he bought me a Beetle.

Andrew: you say that the TU-144 had "vastly superior" aerodynamics. I've never heard that claim made before. Maybe you could elaborate?

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@rednrowdy: I don't know, I think it has to do with the fact that there is still a male-aggressor, female—pursued paradigm going on. Don't you think?