Montana knows what it did.

I know you're joking, but voter ID is a solution in search of a problem. (unless the problem is "too many people have the right to vote") There's nothing a voter ID card can do that your standard proof of address (drivers license, utility bill, etc.) can do, except be prohibitively expensive to some.

It can be, ah, two things!

There's a 100% chance "Explosively Formed Penetrators" is also the name of a porn movie.

Given that we already lost this Cold War, I'm not holding my breath. But I, for one, welcome our new Russian overlords!

Two ladies, in fact. Liu Wang was the first Chinese woman in space in 2012, and Wang Yaping followed her in 2013.

Except that's not an either/or and it never has been. LBJ waged a largely successful War on Poverty at the same time as the Apollo Program. Saying we should do one instead of the other is a bullshit argument that largely serves people who want to do neither, the same way every single person who's ever posted "but what…

I've read the book recently, and as far as I can remember, the war isn't addressed beyond what @Matthew_Blanchette:disqus already stated.

2 out of 135 missions isn't anywhere near 10%. Given we sent nearly a thousand people into fucking space in defiance of the laws of physics and God Himself, that's a pretty remarkable success rate.

Probably not, given that all of our technological efforts in aviation have gone to innovative new ways to make you pay more money for things like bringing a suitcase.

I hate to be the one to break this to you, but those aren't real astronauts.

I'll definitely get around to it in the next 5,438,950 weeks.

I remember visiting the National Air and Space Museum as a kid, and being blown away by the display on the Salyut program. The Soviets had not only launched a space station, but multiple space stations? And of course Reagan-era America would never give the Soviets credit even where due, so I had never heard of any of…

I try and limit the articles to the confines of the Wiki page, but I had read elsewhere that there are actual scientific reasons for that paint job, which is why both shuttles have it (rather than them just copying us out of lack of imagination). Black on the bottom and white on top have something to do with how the…

I really wanted to include a contemporary picture, but Wikipedia didn't have anything fair use.

No, "legitimate" means the offspring of Genghis and one of his wives, not one of the hundreds of other women he reportedly had children with.

The backbone of the Mongol Empire was the Silk Road, and it was dotted with outposts where you could get food, drink, and fresh horses. So a messenger could go fast, tire his horse, jump on a fresh one, and keep going, which is exactly what the Pony Express copied centuries later.

Thanks!

In Soviet Russia, Kenneth asks you what frequency is!

One of my favorite runners on DS9 was how Quark would pronounce hu-mon as if were were some strange alien curiosity.