This girl was following some very red-flaggy people on Twitter. Radical Iranian clerics, Anonymous, Snowden, Assange...

I have mixed feelings but I understand that sentiment. My dad had a Karmann Ghia when he was in college, and he’s always said it was a lot of work to maintain. He jokes that he could rebuild the carburetor in his sleep.

Trump has a mouth diarrhea problem, but discussing those subs wasn’t as big of a deal as everyone is making it out to be. The Navy had just announced the arrival of one of them, and the other was recently in port in SK.  

It’s West Texas. There are so many pipelines crossing under West Texas that they have to use ground penetrating radar to map old unmarked pipelines before laying down new ones. The entire economy of West Texas is built on oil and gas.

This. Increased North American production (primarily due to new reserves open from fracking) have already started to limit the economic influence of OPEC. New LNG terminals on the East Coast and in Europe have the potential to shift energy dependence away from Russian pipelines. That would significantly limit Russian…

I would argue the exact opposite. The deeper you dig, the more you find that both political parties are fracturing after this most recent election. Go read a few headlines at the WSJ, National Review (what I would call traditional GOP), or try RedState or the Federalist (more small government/Ted Cruz types than…

Yours is the first comment I’ve seen that mentions the Darien Gap. Stars for you.

From the ACLU:

I guess China and Russia just need to get working on their own ABM systems to keep up.

Because it was a token concession that the Russians wanted, and I’m sure they sent inspectors to make sure we did it.

Ah gotcha. That makes more sense than warning flares.

Does anyone know what the contrail looking things are? My best guess is warning flares.

I think the Arrow 3 still needs quite a bit of testing before we can say it’s better than the US GMD. Boeing makes both so if it works that much better it shouldn’t be too hard to adopt it.

Such a system has a lot of vulnerabilities. Things in orbit are super easy to track, so they could be easily destroyed by the enemy during a first strike. Also anything in space can be fairly easily manipulated/hijacked with something like the X-37. Even if you notice an enemy spacecraft stealing your orbital nukes,…

The Israeli systems are extremely good, but they aren’t designed for ICBMs.

An ICBM that goes into orbit wouldn’t be a very good ICBM.

Can you multitask double-duty and drive it to your next destination while taking care of business?

I bet there’s half a kilo of cocaine buried in all that shag.

So you’re saying you want a Tesla.