It really is the “Great White Fleet” redux.

As soon as they started saying “emergency surgery” after the accident I got a little suspicious... Clearly the incident was much more severe than they were admitting. You’re absolutely right in congratulating the Holmatro crew for a job well done. They absolutely saved Hinchcliffe’s life.

I’m kind of a big guy, and one day in undergrad I was running super late for a test. I went barreling through the lunchroom door (solid wood) and was so distracted I ran headfirst into some guy who must have been hurrying in the opposite direction. The guy kind of staggered backwards and almost fell completely over,…

I’m just impressed by that specific output, 135 hp per liter is dangerously close to Nissan GTR territory. As for numbers, I’d be more concerned about torque and how hard you’d have to push that Camaro to get it off the line. A 4-cylinder muscle car has freaked people out ever since the Mustang II, but all I can…

“ Say what you will about the F-35 – and there’s a lot to – but it’s just about the best Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing (STOVL) fighter money can buy.”

You’re right, but it’s more interesting to me that Konami is so pissed about everything going on that they’re cracking down on the copyright on a freely distributed demo... The fact that it is a relatively meaningless demo that they’re going to crazy about DOES make it kind of difficult to understand...

Kojima is a…

GTA meets Prototype kind of sounds like a dream game to me.

LOL. It was written right on the tin, and the still’s right in the post, but this was exactly what I said when I saw it ( in that slightly high-pitched voice that denotes incredulity).

Seems like the camera man must’ve been thinking the same thing because he was WAY too close to that one.

I was a little late to the party and am just playing through ACIV right now. Totally agree with your analysis, though. The assassin’s part is kind of lame; the pirate part is amazing. It’s at the point that I can’t even be bothered to go deal with the main missions, as sailing the rolling blue and picking fights with…

It seems like you can actually hear the motor running through the back half of the video. I think you’re right about the explosion sound being the rocket actually firing.

Edit: Watching a few other videos of S-300 test fires, it does seem like there’s the initial launch charge and then the rocket motor fires a few…

Is that the USS Pueblo on the Raytheon sheet? Is there a story there?

They just need to weight the points by the number of players per faction.

Man that guy is a silver fox. Anderson Cooper may have to surrender his title...

For the campaign he’s going to grow a mustache and only answer to the name Colonel Decker.

Little known fact, Huma Abedin is terrified of flying. They have to pump her full of tranquilizers anytime the C Team takes to the air.

Blech... iReport is CNN’s biggest problem right now. A lot of people complain about this host or that content, but the fact that iReport allows randoms to generate whatever content they want, with zero fact-checking by the network, and then hide behind the credibility of the CNN brand (the BS little not-vetted boiler…

I think it might’ve been the St. Petersburg race. He was beautifully sweary after he ended up on the mountain bike.

It was an episode that actually made me like the Hamster quite a bit more. Like one of those People Magazine features, “Stars, They’re just like us!”

(And I can’t speak for the version that made air, but…

The Fast and the Furious 8 will destroy the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man when it crosses the bars.

If I remember right, the Increment I used a huge, compound bank of what were essentially off-the-shelf cellphone cameras around the 5 megapixel range. Any word on if the Increment II uses a similar approach or is this thing pulling from some of the higher DARPA shelves?

While I think our thread leads might be a bit too paranoid about the creeping security state, the Predator has a service ceiling of around 25k feet. The drones certainly aren't small, but part of their survivability stems from relatively small size, drab gray paint, and an uncanny ability to functionally "disappear"…