Ah... Yes. The famed battle at Fort Butte in 1869. Where Gen. Theodorus P. MacKenzie was narrowly defeated by a force of Comanche warriors whose numbers were only half that of the US troops.

Genuinely interesting article, though I find that the term “degloving” enhances the unpleasantness of the act to which it refers.

With debt piling up and billions owed in back taxes, I thought that the whole asteroid thing was an insurance scheme. They were going to fake an extinction level event, escape the collectors, and rake in that sweet life insurance. But the whole thing went sideways in the end due to their poor grasp of orbital dynamics.

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That’s the biggest thing that confuses me about much of this. The report concluded that one of the objects was a balloon. I assume that was the UAP captured by the video referred to as “Go Fast”. The object in that video was widely believed to be a balloon and the illusion of speed was just parallax. And I guess it…

“Efforts are underway to standardize incident reporting across U.S. military services and other government agencies to ensure all relevant data is capture with respect to particular incidents and any U.S. activities that might be relevant. The UAPTF is currently working to acquire additional reporting, including from…

“If the provenance is required to secure the dating, then they can’t use the dating to establish the provenance... The authors have underestimated the value of provenance and age when making wide-ranging interpretations of where the hominin sits in the family tree.”

This strikes me as reasonable criticism. It seems…

I mean, if two consenting chickens want to publicly (or privately) express their affection for each other, who are we to stop them?

Whole heartedly agree. Laser discs, CD Burners, AC units, the color Brown, and multiple videos on toasters... Every video is fascinating and enjoyable.

Ohhh... That makes more sense.

I assumed it was what Joey Lawrence eats with.

But no... No... Your guess is more appropriate.

Is this that SkyNet I've been hearing so much about lately? 

Now that’s what I call a sticky situation.

I’m a huge fan of microwave beam power transmission ideas but I see a few issues with applying it in here. Standard disclaimer, I’m no expert on the matter AT ALL. But when has a lack of expertise ever stayed the hand of an internet commenter?

Anyway, the first issue that comes to mind is beam attenuation and…

“The man’s restored vision was only possible while wearing the goggles”

Goggles you say?

These scientists certainly are.... enterprising.

That was my gut response too. Then I remembered that the US places the boundary between space and... Um... Not space at only 50 miles above the Earth’s surface. So yeah, Virgin Galactic did clear that lower bar.

A few thoughts and spoilers as I try to process what I just watched.

1) I think the film fell apart somewhere in the first third. I kinda dug the beginning and was buying into the universe being presented, but early on character motivations started feeling forced for the sake of plot convenience. By the last third I…

Issues of morality and theological sadism aside...

Anyone else seeing this?

I’m very sorry for your loss. I know how hard that decision is, but sounds like you gave him a good life and did the right thing. Though I know that doesn’t make it an easy decision.

Oooof.... As a struggling independent inventor myself, this story hits very close to home. I’ve had a few inventions stolen from me by major corporations over the years, including Frito-Lay. So like... I get it.

And the GOP fully congeals into the party of Gross Orange Pestilence.

I guess a good question is at what scale do anthropogenic land-use changes become discernible within the climate models? And how sensitive must a model be to identify the impacts?

I’m not arguing that human-driven landscape alterations don’t impact the climate. Far from it. But what magnitude of change is needed over…