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So perfectly relevant today. Hover your mouse over for the alt text, which made me smile out loud.

I think we used to play miflball when I was a kid.

Little known fact, “tomorrow” is spelled with eight letters in Arizona, but eleven letters in Colorado.

Shut up, Ted!

This movie is Rocky 4 for Cars.

I forgot about the Rich history of scientifically accurate cartoons.

Probably Hydrazine, commonly used in spacecraft for maneuvering thrusters.

To get nerdy - this bill is using the reconciliation instructions from the FY 2017 budget, which is required to get around a filibuster. That’s probably what you heard. You get one shot at that per fiscal year (which is the reason why they were insistent on doing healthcare first, the plan is to use the FY 2018 budget

Tell me sir, what advantages does this train have over an automobile, which I could also afford?

I bet Flynn or Manafort sold it to the Russians.

That letter reads like it’s coming from someone who long since stopped seeing passengers as customers, or even real people, and instead as just some random piece of cargo to maximize profit off of hauling around the country.

Sorry to be “that guy” but this is a representation of a geode. Singular. A geode is a cavity filled with crystals. If it had multiple cavities inside it then, yes, it’d be the plural geodes.

Am i doing this right?

I am very guilty of this.

Here are some pet AND car photos from a time when my little Portia was barely bigger than her little Porsche.

I’m just excited to see a new “Space Race”, and one that isn’t hinged around nationalistic chest beating and bravado. These guys are literally doing almost EVERYTHING I dreamed should be happening when I was a kid:

“[I]f you really think about it from a landscape of the way we travel, the way we move...”

Thomas Dolby? Really? Although I guess I can understand, with what happened with his eyesight, why he’d be anti-science.

Besides the distinct sound of another phone getting picked up (the “click” that others have mentioned), the sound quality of the call tends to change a bit...you hear more dead air, there are new/different background noises, etc.