I just wish they would have put in the Medway Queen into the background of the movie. She rescued 7000 men and managed to get 3 planes shot down while making the crossing 7 times.

So... even though everyone rags on the movie Interstellar - it might actually have predicted something accurately?

Fun fact: rockets are reaction engines, based on Newton’s third law of motion. The hot, fast exhaust gasses carry away momentum, so the rocket body moves in the opposite direction to conserve it.

Tangentially related: Watching CBC News right now, the reporter just referred to Elron Musk.

Why not adapt the Coast Guard’s new National Security Cutter? It’s a proven modern design that just needs to be modified with USN mission systems.

A solution in search of a problem: How to spread out the subcontract gravy train to the most congressional districts.

If I’m not mistaken the main purpose of a suppressor without bothering to use subsonic rounds relies less on not being able to hear the weapon and more on making it harder to identify it directionally.

I’m no firearms expert but honestly even with subsonic ammunition I feel like a suppressor on a light machine gun…

This seems like as good a place as any to remind people that a Vickers gun once fired 5 million rounds without breaking down. It took 7 days.

What’s more impressive is they managed to find the only 249 on planet earth that can fire more than 100 rounds without a stoppage.

There’s a giant gulf between name-calling and diagnosis. Trump attracts both. In pejorative name calling, he gets “psycho” and “idiot” and “pervert” and so on, but the true diagnosis of Trump starts with his out-in-the-open pathologies. Taken as a group, his symptoms suggest a man who’s brain is genomically altered in…

Sooo, this Magnitsky Act is about to be repealed because it will “make america great again” by bringing in dirty money. Sweet.

DARPA = Defense. There’s nothing altruistic about it. If good science helps people in the process, fine, it’s good for PR, but let’s not forget the reasons behind those millions of military investment dollars...Lol.

I can’t comprehend why anyone would expect anything else from Trump. He’s done and said the dumbest possible things since he began with the Obama birther nonsense. It’s all he’s capable of. He needs to be gone. Period.

It always astonishes me, for a supposed big, bad police state, how careless the Russians are about security. Could you imagine a handful of German thrill seekers hiking into Area 51 and mugging over their old stuff?

Crucify me for this, but honestly this isn’t as crazy as it sounds. With space becoming easier and cheaper to reach by the month, it’s only a matter of time before space combat becomes a reality, and not just something we see in the movies.

Guess what, Terrell...

Trump’s plan for Healthcare looked a lot like Obama’s. Single payer.
Trump’s plan for dealing with Hillary looks a lot like Obama’s. No prosecution.
Trump’s plan for immigration looks a lot like Obama’s. Extend DACA.

In essence...your constant anti-Trump bitching is not only pathetic, but it…

Bitcoiners whining about how they don’t have legal protections when scammed in their gray markets specifically designed to shield them from the “inconveniences” of above-board transactions. Love it. LOVE. IT.

But why not stick a warhead on it, for that little extra oomph.

refrigerator-sized spacecraft

And thus begins the asteroid bombardment technology war.