No. When people say stupid anti-science shit, Gizmodo writes about it.

It’s in the media village, so they clearly did their research and discovered zero is the number of condoms most reporters will need.

Modern ejection seats a dubbed “0-0" ejection seats, they work at zero altitude and from a standstill

So first you make fun of people for believing any sort of conspiracy and then flat out and state a conspiracy theory as fact. Isn’t there a little cognitive dissonance there?

I’ll just take this opportunity to share my favorite quote about Atlas Shrugged:

Actually modern ejection seats are rated for zero altitude, so they can be used during a landing or take off accident.

Fighter pilot here. Not anymore. They’re capable of working at zero airspeed, zero altitude. They’re a little big for an F-1 car though. You would add at least 50% to the height and a ton of weight and structure and other features to make it possible.

Why did you capitalize khakis?

Hence the “mouthpiece of” qualifier in my OP.

Manning and Snowden’s motives were arguably about revealing violations of the law and clear abuses of power.

Actually a lot have zero zero ejection seats, where they can pretty much eject at an altitude.

Modern ejection seats are 0/0 - operable at zero airspeed and zero altitude. That said, it’s nothing something you WANT to ever do...decent odds of a broken back.

Oh, with enough thrust, I’m sure you could get the driver up to a minimum safe altitude.

Nope, no way to make birds racist.

Depends on the seat. Most are “Zero zero” seats now. Zero altitude, zero airspeed for the ejection envelope. You eject during a high rate of descent, now you might exceed the ejection seat’s capabilities, or you need more altitude below you.

Don’t do it! It’s a huge time sink! Then you get addicted...

Nope. for a long time “Zero/Zero” ejector seats have been available, which work at zero altitude and zero speed. The ACES II seat fitted to lots of USAF jet will even work if the plane is inverted, providing it’s more than 140ft above the ground.

Not really. It’s been all about zero-zero (safe at 0 altitude/0 airspeed) for a few decades, now.

Actually, a lot of modern aircraft are fitted with what’s known as 0/0 (zero/zero) ejection seats. They are called this because they operate safely at zero altitude and zero airspeed.

Its a bit inconvenient do to the math on a phone, but for a terrestrial orbit with a payload large enough that a 551 wasn’t capable of launching it, staging a low efficiency solid after the high efficiency hydrolox Centaur may actually decrease performance.