While I do find these useful to plan my months - I find it just as great that every month I find a new kickass artist.

That depends entirely on what flavor of communism and its wider social policies. There are variations. Singapore and the US are capitalist nations, but in one you would be imprisoned for dropping chewing gum.

Ah yes, there are still people in the world who believe it is good to kill and die in defense of a system of economic governance.

It's a good job nobody died on the Death Star then. Geez, will anyone think of the childrenz?

What you say is true, but as far as I can remember, they were firing outside of the water into it, and it was the change of medium which made the bullet disintegrate.

Seems to me they're all fairly long except for the middle one. What we've really learned is which she uses to play with.

Bah, an infinite amount of monkeys with an infinite amount of typewriters in an unlimited timeframe would have still discarded this suggestion as white noise.

US serial numbered guns were delivered by federal agencies into Mexican gangs. Israel executes and arrests people on other nations territories due to an illegal concept of world-jurisdiction.

It's funny that people think we have any choice about what we do even when there is only one timeline involved

Are you kidding? Some people pay good money for that.

Mmm, Let's put it in orbit and bring it back down to the landing site to appease the green lobby. Everybody happy

"Recoiling Esther" should become a meme

I'm sure i've seen this explained before, but what are the vertical light spikes in the images?

My friends all wanted to be in Rogue Squadron. Rebel Scum, I was the kid who always wanted to fly a tie fighter.

Mm, a link. Stay classy Jez

I wish we could have heard more from Fleet Admiral Dog

Arousal can take many forms though, did it mean specifically sexual arousal? Because any kind has an effect on decision making

NEEDS MOAR 'SPLOSIONS etc.

Maintaining velocity at that height is more expensive than return-to-ground landing. Most planes can coast in under idle from 32,000 feet (plus stationkeeping and adjusment thrust) which can be as far as 35 miles in non-emergency situations.

Unfortunately that's because Kinja works for sites like Gawker where they get their clicks from people telling each other that they are scum. io9 is a very different and altogether more lovely beast but it's been stuck with the same system.