On the bright side, I bet you could afford a C4 vette now....

Prediction: it’s there for battery storage for the forthcoming hybrid 1000hp version.

He has no eyes.  Just black slits.  Sheesh, it’s terrifying.

I mean, he IS an officer in the Scientology Navy.

We already did. It was called Talladega Nights.

But that same answer proves we didn’t: the Soviets could monitor optically and electronically our craft’s progress to the moon and back. That they didn’t call shenanigans is proof we actually did it.

Here’s something really mind blowing: in 1961 we were only 1 year removed from a president so bipartisan that BOTH parties recruited him.

Yeah, unfortunately Iraq’s war criminal scientiests weren’t NEARLY as cool as Von Braun.

The problem is that given that timeline, you’d expect that in another 16 years we should have the Starship Enterprise, and we’re not even close....

America was super, super lucky. Imagine if Apollo 11 ended with the astronauts stranded on the moon, and Apollo 12 blew up on the launch the pad.

You just have to hope China beats us back to the moon, and race to Mars is ON!

And if Trump proposed a joint USA-Russia mission to Mars, we’d be against it, because.

And Kruschev told his son he was going to take JFK up on the idea. But Kennedy was killed, and Kruschev was deposed after the Cuban Missile Crisis*.

Yup.  I believe my grandparents, who were born circa 1890,  and lived into the early 70s, got to see the most amazing era in human history.

And my father wrote the technical manuals for the gyroscopes guiding the Minuteman ICBMs.  I WISH that part of the Cold War was faked.

In the same vein, we had a perfectly serviceable United States Army Air Corps.

And the Union failed to do it because it was nearly as racist as the South.

Except, no.  There’s a reason white people weren’t slaves, and it’s because the Colonies were British, who abolished serfdom (ie, white people being slaves, more or less) in 1381.

‘But even if the reality you consume is mostly liberal, the natural human state is a tribal one. “

Have you ever looked at the Red/Blue election map by legislative district?