I think the GFS has been less accurate than the European models in forecasting Irma.

This is a fantastic article that does a good job explaining why the current system is so problematic.

That’s a poor comparison. Our closest relatives have relatively small breasts that only become prominent when they’re lactating. Humans have acquired the increased (and persistent) breast tissue, which means for some reason it was selected for. The most likely and widely accepted reason is sexual selection. It’s…

Please disregard all the negative comments. It is not only probable, it is a widely accepted hypothesis in modern human evolutionary biology (which is quite distinct from evolutionary psychology.

The irony is that without a warrant, if the nurse gave the detective a blood sample (or allowed him to draw one) she would be violating federal law.

It’s better to let the civilians recover it from the water than wait on the NG tow. Leaving a vehicle partially submerged (when someone is offering to recover it) goes against the most basic of maintenance principles.

They’ll use another NG vehicle to tow it back to a staging area. The military has dealt with this situation before, believe it or not.

Depending on where they are, the water may not be going down for more than a week. Plus “Just leave it and we’ll come back for it when the water recedes” sounds like a great way to get booted out of the National Guard.

I fear the boats alone are worth taking for some idiots. Most criminal aged males aren’t exactly on any priority list out.

Just carry a .38 revolver stowed away in the tackle/glove box. If anyone asks it’s for shooting water moccasins and gators. All that moisture will wreak havoc on a rifle.

I think we should replace all statues of Columbus with statues of Leif Erikson. Screw that greasy Italian Columbus! It was strong, blonde, Nordic white men that discovered the New World!

I don’t normally include Buffalo and Cleveland in a list of “parts of the country that don’t suck.”

I’d like to see some RQ-170's or some other stealthy UAVs (that we don’t know exists yet) to fly just outside of detection range until they have missiles fueled and ready to launch. Then knock out those missiles right before they lift off. Don’t take credit for it, act just as surprised as everyone else. Rockets are…

Something tells me the sky will be thick with Standard Missile and THAAD interceptors.

A little late to the convo?

The economics just don’t work in temperate areas. If every acre of farmland in the US was growing corn, it still wouldn’t produce enough ethanol to replace gasoline. And the US has far more productive arable land than Europe.

I know a dozen engineers that live in Houston, none of which are petroleum engineers.

Tesla needs far more engineers than executives in white collar roles. And Texas (particularly Houston) has a lot of qualified engineers.

That guy is nuts. He got caught in a hotel room with prostitutes and bath salts.

In the early planning stages Kelly Johnson wanted to ditch landing gear altogether. There would have been a pogo sled that fell away as it lifted off, and the plane would have belly landed. Supposedly Curtis LeMay actually stormed out of a meeting discussing the proposal, saying he wouldn’t agree to a plane “without…