...and then the article goes on to detail how they went over budget and Congress addressed the problem by completing the overall project in about the least efficient big-picture, long-term way they could figure out how. “Plus ça change...”

Come on, we all know that the Canadians would have apologized for being a lighthouse and therefore unable to change heading...

For those that don’t know it, I submit the “transcript” of their conversation.

I’ll say we were not going as fast as many people on here think. Basically what we do here is get up to speed and go hard rudder until the ship turns about 90° then we let the ship settle then go the opposite direction. We do this for about an hour or so. I wasn’t in combat at the time so I don’t know how much roll…

Tell me more! How was were you going?

Can attest to the coolness of this as this is my current command and I was on board.

Don’t you have some kids to yell at for being on your lawn

Lets say I missed an episode of Better Call Saul and didn’t record it on my YouTube TV DVR. Can you log into AMC’s (or any channels’) mobile app using your YouTube TV login credentials (similar to the way you might log in with your Comcast credentials as a cable subscriber)? If not, would there be any way to watch it…

Steam catapults drove a lot of the design of the last half century of naval aircraft. And they have relatively short service lives because they have to have an airframe limit on total number of catapult launches before there’s risk of something actually breaking on launch. Ever been to the NASA Langley visitor center?…

But the EMALS!

In Mozambique, passports are generally navy blue. Work and diplomatic passports are green and maroon, respectively.

Do other countries have a similar system, or do they employ a one size fits all scheme?

I need a Trabant just reading this.

In some history books in 2150 it would read “The second cold war was started by a strange group of people that loved rusted Volkswagen Beetles and brown station wagons”

oh.... damn. I’m Canadian so our subs basically just use messenger geese and smoke signals from the flames off their engines.

Sorry, but they already do that. VLF buoy wire and a C-130 acting as a flying relay station will deliver messages to submarines at rate comparable to a telegraph.

What’s wrong with driving more whales to extinction if it means we can drop freedom bombs underwater now!

“We want to use signals that propagate very well underwater,” says Niedzwiecki. “And it turns out that acoustic signals propagate extremely well.” 

It was at this point I started to worry about wildlife.

It’s crazy, because the first time I saw the preview, I thought it was some elaborate prank, like an SNL skit. But, apparently, it’s getting rave reviews. I get uncomfortable just watching the trailer, and it sounds like that’s the point.

I loved this actor in Black Mirror too, really excited for this.