Well, think of how rare it would be for there to be two people trying to smuggle nuclear warheads onto the same plane. So obviously, carrying your own wannabe 'device' helps improve everyone's safety.

As originally designed, though, it had the same vertical tube dividers, which, if I'm remembering correctly, were remotely changed — the bridge staff could run the tubes up and down from the Coronado end — but they proved to be a maintenance nightmare.

This has been my preference ever since we first got a probe out there and all the newscasters hurriedly switched to the "urinous" pronunciation to avoid the embarrassment of sounding like they were announceing that "The Voyager probe has reached your anus", which suggests some sort of secret government medical…

It's made from one of the sugar alcohols like mallitol/maltitol.

Caramel made with one of the 'sugar alcohols' like mallitol/maltitol. The problem with sugar alcohols is that they're still, at their core, sugars, and will still bump your blood sugar, although they're absorbed more slowly and won't spike it the way ordinary sugar does. More problematic for many people is the fact…

FallingWater is also a maintenance nightmare. Wright got into an argument with the engineer over whether the design skimped on structural components. The engineer wanted to make the floors stronger, and Wright said that doing that would make them unsupportably heavy. As it turned out, the engineer was right; the beams…

So really, there are starting to become 3 classes, Published, Professionally Self-Published and Amateur Self-Published. There needs to be a way to classify and find those higher-end, professionally self-published titles.

...the paper version is a much bigger risk, especially since publishers often have to buy-back unsold books.

I should point out here that World of Warplanes is a simulator in the same way that World of Tanks is (hint: they're both arcade games with simulation aspects), where your plane is going to have a quantity of hit points and, barring critical hits that damage specific functions, will be just as combat capable at 1% of…

Let's see... a hot spot erupting under your city, earthquakes shaking your seals apart and letting steel-hard jets of water flood the city, slumping of continental-shelf walls creating a landslide to sweep it away if it's built too close to the edge of a continental shelf, and there's always the odd asteroid impact to…

Mechanically separated chicken is the product resulting from forcing meat through a separator; this, and the Japanese deboning machine, produces the pieces for the packages of 'boneless, skinless breasts', 'boneless, skinless, thighs', et al. that you see on supermarket shelves — replicating the skill of a trained…

No; you don't want to just buy his art; you need to go to the gymnasium (college) he applied to, tell them that you're the executor for an unnamed person who wanted to pay back a long-standing moral debt, and that you're paying for a full four-year scholarship for this 'Adolf Hitler'.

I have to agree with you here; I have enough problems with cars loaded with chrome flashing in my eyes, and being stuck in traffic behind a vehicle where the sun is positioned just right to reflect off their rear glass into my eyes; this would be a nightmare. Not to mention, just from looking at it, how dangerous…

The table specifically states 'Contiguous US' — which leaves out Hawaii and Alaska. After all, being able to tailor your sample so that it produces the result you want is a staple of scientific research.

Pity that Hansen fails to disclose in his op-ed piece that he had assistance in writing the piece from Dan Miller, an engineer and venture capitalist focused on non-polluting energy technologies... Can't work up massive returns on your investment if you can't keep the scare going to keep funding for research coming.…

The problem often isn't the volume of the alarm or speakers, but the fact that half the sound goes away from you, and bouncing it back at you cranks up the perceived volume. For example, I have a Motorola Xoom tablet, and I get a volume boost on my computer desk by standing it up on the lid of its Otterbox case and…

I agree; the Civics of the generation pictured had easily enough room for my 6'5" frame. Now, if you back up one generation, to the earlier Honda sedans — I remember seeing one hatchback style that had an oval rear window and looked to be no more than 80% the size of the Civic — I would have had problems, although a…

I'm 6'5", and I had no problem driving either a '68 Austin America or a '77 Honda Civic — and my first car was an '83 Honda Civic FE. I will admit that, when several of my friends heard I'd bought it, they wanted me to come over so they could watch me get out of it. Although with all three, the car's capacity was 3.5…