I was hoping they weren’t necessarily a Skywalker or a Solo, but that they were somebody who left her on Jakku for some reason. Otherwise the TFA flashback where she sees the ship taking off as a little girl is just kind of... throwaway. It might have always been planned for her to be unrelated to the other…

The thing is, looking up at the sky on pretty much any clear, dark night can be a really fun, interesting experience. It doesn’t have to be only during a media-hyped “celestial event” - that just fuels disappointment. But if you haven’t been fed wild, unrealistic expectations, there’s always cool stuff to see,…

Safeway, too, at least here in Arizona, put in brand new self-checkout lanes and then promptly ripped them out only about 2 years later.

I’m a science advocate and amateur astronomer too, but I cringe at the recent trend toward “branding” the full moons and lunar eclipses. The “blood moon”* was the worst, since the media whipped people into expecting a BLOOD RED moon during an otherwise-normal lunar eclipse. Lots of people I knew at the time were…

I’m an amateur astronomer, with a nice telescope, who enjoys observing the night sky as much as anyone.

Yes. This is why the whole “we need to colonize Mars before Earth is ruined!” line of thought is so stupid.

That said, it does appear to be her actual signature

The first we saw of Melania’s signature was on the White House Easter Egg, where it was also suspiciously similar:

Here’s a map of the bypass (old route in green, new route in blue and orange), and the derailment area (circled in red):

This network has to be ran out of some dude’s basement.

We have at least 6 different kinds of red, white, and sparkling wine glasses at home. I’ve done this “experiment” several times. There are way too many confounding factors (which you drink from first, in what order they are tested, what the temperature and airflow in the room is, and personal bias of seeing the actual…

All wine glass “science” like this is total bullshit though.

Square cut pizza is a popular “fast food” style pizza in Rome.

Has anyone heard from or seen Ben Carson lately? Did he find the soap opera channel in the HUD secretary’s office?

Specifics of Lyft aside: we should be trying to de-emphasize employers (and contractors) as a source of health insurance. It’s a bizarre, irrational, and inefficient system held together with tape and baling wire, that stems from a mid 20th century labor market and a couple loopholes in the tax code that got way, WAY…

Another fun fact: Raising your right hand isn’t because you’re pointing to “God” (although that, like the Bible, has become a pop culture trope). It’s because in 17th century England, people convicted of crimes were branded with a mark on their right hand. If you were asked to swear an oath to something, raising your…

+Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Dakota, although a couple on this combined list are for “residents only” - which is sort of, you know, basically unenforceable since they also don’t seem to care if you bring it in from out of state.

Concealed weapons in general are illegal.

I was under the impression that taxiing had not started while this was going on, in this particular case.

Do airlines care about major hue and cry anymore? They don’t seem to. They can do whatever they want apparently.