Cool thx! Have now installed that add-on.

3 people are infected in the US. If my math isn't failing me, that's one millionth of one percent of the population, or one person in one hundred million. Statistically speaking from an epidemic standpoint, that's pretty much like saying the disease does not exist in the US.

3 people getting Ebola is close enough to 0 as makes no matter. It means the disease is hard to transmit. If the pathogen was airborne, you'd have thousands of people infected. Look how fast the flu spreads each year.

Not dissing this Orion, but the original Orion spacecraft concept was way cooler.

Gorgeous. Anyone know the name of the painting and artist?

Close proximity with an infected increases the risk. Perhaps the infected sneezed. Some got onto some equipment. The cameraman slipped up and touched something.

Those people have direct contact with Ebola patients. Thus the risk of catching the disease increases even with precautions. At some point, they have to remove the suit. If decontamination has missed something, they might come in contact with the pathogen. For example the infected Spanish nurse got it from a glove.

There's absolutely no need for such drastic measures, or even temperature checking, to keep the population safe.

Now that you mention it, I think you're on to something. However this is a filming aspect, not really a story aspect.

He is a Master Sergeant. In your typical military organization, officers don't do that kind of work.

There's also the novel. Rather humorless as well, so I guess the manga is based on that.

You gotta wonder how stupid a PR man he is to think blackmailing the general would actually work.

I'm kind of sad she kicked the bucket this episode, she provided a level of snark sorely missing from the characters on this show.

Yes. Traditional characters are used in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Simplified characters are used on the Mainland. The latter remove some redundancy and were developed as a means of increasing literacy.

NASA has sent plenty of radioactive materials into orbit and beyond in numerous radioisotope thermoelectric generators. Not fissionable but certainly not stuff you'd invite in for a cup of tea.

First off, no tea bag if I can avoid it. Loose tea is always better.

if the tea bag is in the milk before the water

Big parts of Long Island and Northeastern New Jersey are like that. :)

Our flat is around 2000 square feet (net or "liveable" area), so pretty spacious by HK standards. Our house in the US had the same nominal square footage, but it was huge in comparison. As you probably know, there's a crucial difference in the reality of square footage numbers between houses and flats. In a house,…