IIRC, the design also was being floated around 2001, when the airlines experienced a sudden and substantial interruption in revenue. You're already talking about an industry that's very, very careful about technology adoption, then 9/11 happened and sent it into utter chaos. That's part of why the 787 is such an…

Probably stuff like 30-degree yaw crabbed landings or seeing if they can pull 4G in a 90-degree banked turn. I wonder if the 787 got barrel-rolled like the Dash-8 did?

Buckaroo Banzai, I think.

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I told Orville and I told Wilbur, that thing will never fly.

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This is an ongoing trend...part of it has to do with source material (I mean, seriously, when you use Danger Room as your starting point and then compound your own lack of understanding on top of that?), and part of it is a combo of the Giz editors' personal beliefs and leanings. Fact-checking has never come into play…

I'd rather barricade myself in a house with an assault rifle than watch some of these.

I have a friend who was so bothered by the end of the movie that he considered going out into the lobby and telling everyone in line how it ended.

Probably the fact that I point out how routinely Giz screws up articles related to military technology...at least I bring value when I do it.

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Yeah, that was the typical Gizmodo error, although I do think that I've read that within the subsonic zone, it can accelerate pretty effortlessly. It just doesn't go that fast in the end.

Not bad, for a summary article.

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Hardly. The biggest nuclear detonation on Earth was 50MT (Tsar Bomba) and while it was one hell of a blast, it's not like it caved in Novaya Zemlya (the test site). Even with the Moon's reduced gravity and mass, a nuclear explosion there would look vastly different than it would on Earth and probably wouldn't leave a…

Yeah, the prospect of a leading nation actually popping a nuke in anger is so small, it's basically a null issue, but from an engineering/scientific perspective, I've always wondered about more practical uses. I wonder what a 9MT blast on the moon would look like on Earth?

Oh thank goodness. This was an archaic weapon that didn't fit in our modern day arsenal. Its replacement is smaller, can be carried aboard B-2 Spirits (indeed, in much greater numbers) and aboard smaller aircraft, and will most likely be much more reliable and accurate. Sure, the B61-11 might not make as big a hole,…

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If you can drive from your door to your destination's door in 8 hours, you're probably not going to save any time over a typical domestic flight with a connection. Plus, you save money and you have your own ground transportation once you've arrived, not to mention all of the benefits of being able to stop when you…

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