Seriously, until we can get our heads out of our asses with weapons procuremet (LCS, JSF, every other boondoggle since 2000), just buy some Alvaro de Bazan’s or Fridtjof Nansens.

A lot of America’s success in the Pacific theatre was due to the somewhat unexpected higher survivability of American ships. The Japanese were way ahead on carrier aircraft, Long Lance torpedoes, night fighting tactics and more at the beginning of the war. But American ships had this tendancy to not sink, which meant…

It is fantasy until it happens. It is just irresponsible to build ships that aren’t survivable; and survivability uses the same techniques whether it is against a big navy or small navy.

If you take a look at Wikipedia, you will note that the story was written by a Frenchman from oral sources he allegedly heard in Syria (from a Maronite Christian, no less) and that Aladdin himself is supposed to be Chinese, as is Badroulbadour, original name of Jasmine. So you could probably get away with casting…

+1. Those claws are beary disappointing.

It doesn’t matter how sophisticated the malware is, there is nothing to hack. Nuclear safety and controls don’t have anything resembling what you would call software. There is no way to ‘hack’ electrical relays, unless you physically go into the plant and inject false signals directly into the control equipment. But…

Title still too inflamatory. How about “Lol, someone thinks hackers are targeting nuclear power plants, doesn’t understand how hacking works.”

The Iranians had an ‘air gap’ between the wide open internet and their own internal network. Once you get some super-spy (or traitor) to get the malware into the internal network, game over.

Houston isn’t America’s fourth largest city; it is America’s first largest suburb.

Lol $150k

Darn that league, supressing player freedom. It is almost as if the players should unionize and do something about it. Oh, wait....

You are missing the elephant in the room: TV Money. Without a salary cap, the owners of the rich teams (Lakers, Knicks, Bulls, Celtics) will never agree to split TV money with the hicks from Indianapolis, OKC, and Orlando. Most of the TV money is being generated by fans of the big franchises; the big owners will…

The Owen and Beru Lars movie is not going to be good...other than the Blue Milk product placement.

Can you point me to a liger that was able to breed?

As a person who likes to buy and sell houses every 3-5 years, I like Zillow, and would prefer to see the realtors raking in the state-mandated 6% jump off the cliff...

No one on the bridge is no unusual for big merchants. However, that applies in the middle of the ocean...it is pretty unusual for the bridge to be unmanned within 12 miles of land in a busy waterway.

In addition to using both active radars, the ship should have also been tracking AIS. AIS is an invaluable tool for tracking the surface picture, and one of the big advantages of the Navy’s new(-ish) digital navigation system is that you can overlay AIS tracks on your Nav plot. Between AIS, radar, the starboard…

Thanks Aristotle, but all your theorizing from reading the genes comes to naught when Galileo actually tests your results. These behavioral studies are just as important as genetic studies, and are necessary to prove that the genetic explanations are actually correct. From the scope of this experiment (its been going…

That is a bit too reductive. You are clearly a different species when you can no longer bone and produce (fertile) offspring. Lions and tigers are different species, horses and donkeys, us and the apes, etc. So yeah, species do exist. 

One of those things is not like the others. Almost a millenia not like the others...