Didn’t it take a German to get to the moon and make the bomb?

Too bad the people partly responsible for the The Bomb and going to the moon are from Germany. Also early, experimental TVs, movie theatres and studios.

Why take out the core? The core is the best part!

What if he’s got a pointed stick?

Shhhhhhh

Well, I would say it can do for books what Starbucks did for coffee, but burning books is frowned on.

What am I watching and why haven’t I watched it before?

I’m confused.

The second pilot was getting hounded by his wizzo and he let loose his frustration yet still kept his eye on the target and got that tone.

Getting a 404 on the article link.

Off topic, but one of my favorite passages from Cryptonomicon (one of my favorite novels), part of which is set in WW-II, is about lipstick:

I love your name, by the way.

In many ways this is a lot more chilling than any number of clickbait articles or sensationalist CNN headlines. This is the military industrial complex following the money. This is defense contractors feeling quite confident in where their wares are going to be headed. It’s a sure sign of where all these company’s…

Hotel GM here for 20 years. AAA does have standards for each star rating and they do inspect the hotels annually. Nothing really in depth but to at least verify your services are what they say. All that said, TripAdvisor is king now for driving business to your hotel. They are #1 site, by far, for reviews and good…

Make child-sized spacesuits of materials to be tested, dress children in spacesuits, tell children not to get spacesuits dirty because they will be leaving for (dinner, wedding, bar mitzvah, etc.) in fifteen minutes.

Pretty much what I was going to say.

It feels like a wild ride the first few times you do it, but like many other things it proves benign with repetition. I used to fly 2-3 OCF “spin” hops a day - the Buckeye always behaved (for the most part) as it was designed. You could pretty much depart the aircraft any way you wanted and it would quickly recover…

Tyler, thank you for everything that you do to bring us these wonderful and insightful articles. I love seeing that there is a new post on Foxtrot Alpha. Keep up the great work.

Unlike NASCAR, I'd pay to see this vehicle make nothing but left turns all night doing its thing!