Yeah, things were much more egalitarian back before airline travel was deregulated and fares were so expensive that only the rich could afford to fly in the first place. And there was more legroom, too.

If you’re seriously trying to duplicate these dishes as a time-capsule of foodish Americana, then you should only deviate when necessary due to the original ingredients being hard to find, obsolete, recently-discovered to be toxic, etc. This thing says ‘canned fish,’ and the first thing you do is to go and get a…

Do not listen to this man. Do not listen to anyone who puts seltzer in an Old Fashioned. And you are not supposed to muddle all that crap in the bottom. It's a goddamned cocktail, not a fruit salad.

Listen to this man:

The XB-36 was never powered by the reactor. It flew with the reactor and the reactor was working, but it wasn’t providing any motive power to the plane, which was powered by conventional engines.

The XB-70 wasn’t nuclear powered in any way. It was a nuclear bomber but that just means it *drops* nuclear bombs, not that…

There's a lot of variation to it. I'm a hot pepper junkie, and there are some bottles I've had where I can barely taste the heat, and others where even I say "Whoa, that's pretty hot." But in every case the pepper flavor is prominent, it doesn't taste *just* like hit, it has the distinct fruity habanero taste. …

How do you write an article like this and not mention the varity of much less expensive and much smaller sous-vide cookers that are now on the market? The Anova, Sansaire, and Nomiko units are all half the price or less than the Sous Vide Supreme, and won't take up counterspace while you're using them.

In-glass defrosters. I don't mean the visible wires that heat up and defrost your rear window, I mean a transparent resistive overlay that heats up and defrosts your front window. Something like this: http://www.google.com/patents/US2006…

"You do realize a small caliber handgun can take down a V-22."

In the "and then a miracle happens" sense, sure, but in that same sense a small caliber handgun can take down a CH-47 or a CH-53.

"but large tilt rotors cannot transition to autorotate like a helicopter,"

First, it can't autorotate because the rotors are…

"If the environment is even low threat there are small arms, light trucks and other types of baddies that can ruin your day."

If the threat of the day is small arms and light trucks, then a ramp gun is adequate. And seriously, that's the only sort of opposition we would ever send Ospreys against without in-depth…

This is a terrible idea for so many reasons.

1. The Osprey is already very payload-limited. Especially in high/hot conditions.
2. If the environment is permissive, you don't need heavily-armed escorts.
3. If the environment is not permissive, heavily-armed Osprey escorts are going to be inadequate and you will need real…

A barrel roll is a sedate, 1G maneuver; you won't feel any forces on your body during a properly executed barrel roll that you won't feel in straight and level flight. Bob Hoover used to pour iced tea from a pitcher, backhanded, during a barrel roll, without spilling. Tex Johnston famously barrel-rolled the Dash 80.…

So you think they should have some minimal consistency and logic, but you're also opposed to them quantifying some precise difference between the punishment for smoking weed and the punishment for knocking your wife unconscious?

So you're opposed to them handing out arbitrary and capricious punishments, but you're also…

A Phalanx CIWS system is utterly useless against a missile like the SS-N-22. The range is so short that it's only going to get one shot as the missile passes into its engagement envelope, and the nature of the closed-loop fire control system means that first shot is probably going to miss. And even if it does hit,…

A Phalanx CIWS system is utterly useless against a missile like the SS-N-22. The range is so short that it's only going to get one shot as the missile passes into its engagement envelope, and the nature of the closed-loop fire control system means that first shot is probably going to miss. And even if it does hit,…