It's gonna make it look like DC is preparing for a WWII era bombing attack.

I would agree. I guess I didn't read about the Italians.

I'm not sure what your point is.

Let's keep it civil here until the second pilot is found safe. No need for disrespectful jokes.

I think you mean we suffered only 5% aircraft lost on those raids. European daylight raids often lost much more than that. Those losses were low over Tokyo since the only counter the Japanese had (at that stage of the war) were small anti-aircraft guns.

I'm ready to see that San Antonio based arsenal ship. Something to rival the Kirov Class.

I certainly think so. We could just tell Putin to go home and good luck. Plus we could finally bring the ISS up to full capacity again. There have only been 6 crew members on board since the Shuttle was retired even though it was designed for 7.

You kid, but fisherman routinely pull ordinance up out of the North Sea. Sometimes chemical weapons.

The whole Black Sea Fleet is in rough shape. Most of those ships were seriously neglected during the 1990's.

Hurry up SpaceX and get the Dragon 2 crew rated!

Yeah if the anti-ship configuration was ever used, I assume it would be alongside a P-8 or two. The P-8 has way better sensor capabilities, so it would be used to initially detect enemy shipping. Then the B-52 would use the P-8's data to detect the target and unleash Harpoon hell. Here's the original article.

Beautiful is a stretch, but it does have a pleasingly beefy and formidable look to it.

It has rotating launchers that fit in the internal bay for cruise missiles. It also has hard points to carry even more, in 3 missile clusters. It can also carry the radar decoy missiles in some of its cruise missile slots. They can be programmed to look like a B-52 on radar, so it becomes much more difficult for SAM…

Even then it varies somewhat based on genetics. I think the record was from a Russian who came into the ER with a BAC in excess of 1.0. That's insane.

The French don't buy oil and gas from the Russians. French power is almost all nuclear, and they get their oil elsewhere.

To LEO, yes. But the Orion is not designed for LEO. Weight savings become increasingly more important as you travel farther, and the Orion is intended to travel very far.

But the Orion capsule is not meant to be a vehicle to LEO. Both the Skylon, which is kind of a pipe dream, and Spacex, which is much more realistic, are both intended as orbital vehicles only. The problem that plagues the Skylon is safety. You'd be sitting in a passenger compartment wedged between two massive and…

I was just highlighting another technical challenge, one that would be more difficult to solve than just to add more fuel.

The current thinking is to send a lander ahead of the crew. The lander can land using its fuel, and then it can convert Martian CO2 into methane and O2 using a small amount of hydrogen left over from landing. It's called the Sabatier process.

Math and physics have not changed since 2012.