If they laid the vending machine on its side, it would explain the shutout.

Of course it is. Bad Quarterbacks can’t even do acronyms correctly.

Back in the day, Grantland used to run the BQBL, the Bad Quarterback League, where you got points for screwing up, and lost points for exceptional performance. It’s where I learned that the obvious acronym for “Touchdown after Interception” was TAINT. (TAINTs were worth 25 points.)

On behalf of Blues fans all across the nation, allow me to say: Fuck you, assholes. Use your own goddamn symbols, it’s not like there are thousands of them already.

Oh, god, not the PRV. It’s a camshaft eating whore. I get why Volvo wanted help designing their first automotive six cylinder, but what in the name of horsepower convinced them that Peugeot and Renault were the people to get help from?

He just really needed to take a Scherzer.

Personally, I’ve just said “Wait until the fourth strikeout to start hanging up the letters.” Not only to avoid this, but to avoid mocking your starting pitcher when they look at K corner and see a lonely K there...in the fifth inning.

Combine that with his battery mates (Ross in 2016, Contreras this year) having strong arms and very short pop times? Then Ross and Contreras’s ability to back-pick? You want to take that lead, you really do....but you lose as often as not.

You’d get almost no yield. You’d die from the prompt critical neutron flux, anybody within about 5 meters of you is in real trouble, but then the rapidly doubling energy flux would fling the two halves apart and end the reaction.

In addition to that play, and the amazing foul out, and the hitting, he also...dropped a ball and blew a double play. Since they got the first out, it doesn’t count as an error (no double play is considered “ordinary effort”) but the Javy giveth, and the Navy taketh away, but the Javy almost never taketh a ball.

Those ships are “vessels constrained by draught.” They are supposed to show a cylinder shape (in daylight) or three red lights in a vertical row (at night.) where they can best be seen, usually atop a mast. This indicates they’re burdened, and the other vessel must then give way even if they’re the starboard vessel.…

...and sell the manual in the US grumble grumble.

You can get magnesium wheels to burn, but it takes a LOT of effort. Someone tried to burn the original NeXT Cube chassis, which was also magnesium, and didn’t have much luck. Magnesium is a pretty decent conductor of heat, so a big chunk of it just soaks the heat and radiates it off. Like aluminum and copper, you…

C’mon, guy, wipe afterwards!

Not the USAF, the United States Navy. The F4H* was built as a follow on to the F3H Demon, a somewhat successful fighter than flew with the F8U Crusader and F11F Tiger. The F3H wasn’t supersonic, the F4H was built explicitly to be in a triumph of power over aerodynamics, and it was built explicitly as a missle truck,…

I would edit that to “best know for hitting four home runs against the St. Louis Cardinals” and then defend it to death because it’s a fact!

The ABM treaty, but we pulled out of that in 2002. So, nothing now.

Once in the atmosphere, if they’re not the same density, they’ll fall at a different rate. They’re easy to spot then, but then again, you’re 30 or less seconds away from detonation at that point. Spotting them before is much harder, esp. if the decoys and the warhead are maneuvering.

Sprint was covered with the same sort of material that the Apollo CM had on the heat shield. Nothing else could handle that sort of heating at the time, and by handling we mean ‘by ablating away and taking the heat with it.’ But the missile only had to not melt for 15 seconds....

Those are fins, and they’re required for stability.