Yes that's right, the speed of any projectile is relative compared to the object that fires it. A good way to think of it is if a ship was moving at .99 light speed and fired a projectile with a maximum speed of .99 light speed, from the ships perspective the projectile is moving away from the ship at .99 light speed…

Yup, that what happens when typing after midnight. Fortunately context and comprehension is quite a bit more important then getting the spelling of a word slightly off.

Your right about the viper engines constantly running making no sense, but the relativistic physics behind them being able to fire projectiles while potentially moving as fast or quicker then the top speed of the projectile fired is sound.

All of the Cylon machines including the ships are living and breath oxygen (jugging by the time Starbuck was forced to use the dissected shell of a Cylon fighter as a lifeboat) so there could be hull breaches providing oxygen to the expositions seen. The visual magnitude of the expositions is what I think is a bit…

BSG was mostly inline with reality except for (in your gif) the fiery explosions and the missiles that are at a constant velocity but also have their rockets running. The non-strict adherence to battling on a 2 dimensional physical plain was an important thing that BSG got right.

So with fighters plainly showing RCS and ship busting nukes the Battlestar Galactica reboot basically got it right. The capital ship broadside battles in BSG make sense as both the Humans and the Cylons were using their FTL drives as elements of surprise. A Cylon Basestar jumping any farther away then what was shown…

They had to develop and deploy both ship and air based anti-ship missile systems. Because the Soviets never really built carriers they would have had to rely on ship-to-ship missiles during any potential engagements with the US Navy that took place outside of land based Soviet aircraft range. Also for a number of…

I would say that our involvement in the pacific war against the Imperial Japanese navy put us in the position of having the most powerful navy (specifically after sinking 4 Japanese fleet carriers). We only held that distinction for a little while though after the war as the Soviet Navy grew more powerful and…

Thanks! Not bad for a few minuets in Photoshop. I was going to bump up the contrast even more on the blimp and mask in a paper texture, but I know that comment sections on articles have a vary short half-life of activity and decided to post it quickly.

The one dollar bill is overdue for a redesign...

I wonder if the Suzuki SX4 was just ahead of it's time? I know that it was a relative sales flop, but looking back at it today it seems like it had all of the compact crossover building blocks that everyone is falling over each other to buy today.

I was going to quote the inflation adjusted cost of the Apollo program, but the final cost of the Gemini project may be a closer comparison as both program objectives end with docking with another object in orbit. The Gemini program cost an inflation adjusted $7.3 billion, more then what both companies today are…

The government is they only entity that can spend money on research that is not directly tied with the development of marketable product. Think about it this way, we need to spend 7 billion on space taxis because the research being done right now on the ISS could in a generations time lead to the development of…

I don't think that it is journalistically ethical to sensationalize this news with a shot of a pre-treaty above ground nuclear test. Seriously, some people reading this might mistake the gif and video accompanying the post as being contemporary to the content of the article and not 54 year old archive footage.

Saab 900... Just like it's engine position...

The design is a bit dated, but the senators site loads fine and is readable to me. What probably happened was that her personal site was hit with a lot of traffic after the interview went up and caused the site to load slowly or improperly.

Fare thee well subtle hood power bulge. You will forever create a slightly distorted convex reflection in our memories.

The car is way too over-powered.

I look forward to seeing this livery on the track at a 2030 LeMons race.

I remember reading about the Mask-grill connection in a book about the development of the Miata, but I may have been wrong about the particular mask type. Your totally right about the awesome backbone chassis inspiration though!