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

There’s no agreed abbreviation. You’ll see M, NM, nm, and nmi. ICAO uses NM, NOAA uses nm, and the US Government Publishing Office uses nmi. The NOTAM would use NM, but that’s because the NOTAM system posts in all caps most of the time. Example: ORD 11/941 ORD OBST CRANE (ASN 2017-AGL-1514-OE) 415837N0875212W (1.7NM E…

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.

From the press release: “The topographic relief is exaggerated by a factor of two to three times in these movies to emphasize topography; the surface colors of Pluto and Charon also have been enhanced to bring out detail.”

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?

Refueling: Actually, more plausible that you think. Lots of aluminum oxide on the moon. Put a station using solar power to split them, you now have aluminum and oxygen, which means two things. First, the base now has aluminum metal for construction and oxygen, and two, you can burn those two to get an exhaust velocity…

Analysis suggests it did not.

He just really needed to take a Scherzer.

Nope, there were two survivor groups, the diggers and the deep ocean based pingers.

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.

Plus, in the 1970's, we really hadn’t figured out how to weld titanium. The soviets had, but they kept it as a state secret. Titanium really wants to become titanium dioxide when it’s hot, TIG and MIG welding don’t keep the oxygen away - unless you weld in a tub filled with Argon, which displaces everything else.

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.

For all the various Christian groups that accept the Nicene Creed as a definitive statement of faith, there’s the fact that in the creed, it is explicitly stated by the believer that “For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven; he became incarnate by the Holy Spirit and the virgin Mary, and was made human.”

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.…