It’s not going to hurt 99% of their citizens, of course, but [insert reasoning here].

The Sprint used a 650,000 pound thrust first stage that burned for 1.5 seconds and then a second stage that would have the Sprint going Mach 10 in five seconds. To deal with 7,600mph at low altitude an ablative shield was designed. In the videos you can see that when the second stage gets going the entire missile…

Is America the one who chopped up the middle East after WW1?

To be fair, a lot of people died.

this is true, the Nazis would have taken over everything

If you don’t already read it, I’d suggest Tyler’s blog over at The Drive.

937 died in 2015 in Construction based jobs out of 6.7 million people. That’s a 1 in 7150 person killed in construction jobs. 8 per year in ship building with 110k people in ship building, that’s 1 in 13,500 killed in ship building. So it’s almost 2x as dangerous to be a land based construction worker than a ship…

Seventy-six people have died in the private shipbuilding and repair industry between 2005 and 2015, according to the report. And shipbuilders face an 80 percent higher chance of injury and illness than construction workers.

I hope you’re making a bad joke and you’re not seriously that incompetent.

Cobalt SS

So, you want military to be completely transparent with its operations in the middle of a war?
Ever heard of “operations security”?

When is this site going to feature less partisan conversation around Donald Trump?

I miss the old jalopnik.

“The response has been horrifying for people who believe that Native Americans should have a say in the way that their land and resources are being used.”

“very reminiscent of Nazi Germany,”Give me a break. This kind of rhetoric is what is actually dividing this country. I seriously doubt the person who said that was anywhere near Nazi Germany during WWII.

The idea that it would be suicidal to launch a second-strike on the United States is a non-sequitur, as the state must still exist in the first place to be capable of suicide at all; second-strikes are by definition from the grave. This is the whole principle of no-first-use; if you take first-use off the table, what…

Bingo. Everyone hears 260 warheads and thinks of destroyed US cities. But a first strike needs to knock out C&C and launch facilities, not civilian population centers. In the game of nuclear war, they have a decent deterrent. A first strike against the US or Russia would be suicidal and pointless.

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” 

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Duh the song had lyrics! Lou Albano sang them best!