Threat of nuclear weapons works only (possibly) against people who don’t have them.

I wonder if this is the explanation for all those unexplained booms people have been hearing throughout the country? I’m not trying to feed the conspiracy theorists or the UFO cults, but there’s been a lot of documented incidents by reliable reporters in the last year or so and this would explain a lot.

“russia is not capable of conducting effective conventional warfare”

Agreed, but conventional warfare isn’t remotely the concern and you know that.

I am getting about tired of all these apologists who’s afraid to “antagonize” russia. I think at this point it has become more than abundantly clear that russia is not capable of conducting effective conventional warfare and plays no decisive role in world economy. It’s only a threat to smaller, weaker countries it…

If I’m going to buy a Grand National, it won’t be a one off factory car with a dress up kit attached to it. It will be a real turbo car that’s long, heavy and rear wheel drive just like God intended.

That’s the LEAST grand, Grand National I’ve ever seen. Sad-looking, dirty and ignored, with a puny engine.

I had the CR-Z with the 6-speed, and the manual definitely made it a lot more fun.  Still not a performance hatch - but quick, agile, and interesting.  I think it gets a lot of undeserved hate.  It was a compromise in a lot of ways - but Honda really brought something unique to the market with that car.  

It’s really wild to see a Star Trek movie made with actual money, as opposed to refurbished sets and props that look a little threadbare and worse for wear. I really want to like Undiscovered Country but the movie just looks so painfully cheap, even in comparison with the TNG episodes from around the same time.

The whole point of the Klingon scene was to illustrate that TMP wasn’t going to be Star Wars redux. The Klingons are warlike, they approach V’Ger as an enemy to be destroyed rather than a mystery to be investigated, and within a couple of minutes, despite their intimidating aspect and destructive weaponry (and AWESOME…

The transporter malfunction scared the shit out of of me when I was a kid. Holy shit, the way they were screaming and their shapes were kinda melting, and then the guy saying “what we got back didn’t live long” WHAT we got back? Not who but WHAT? That was nightmare fuel for 7 year old me.

Strong agree from me, and I’ll say it’s become one of my favorites of the franchise precisely because it’s the only one with a really grand and cosmic idea and just goes for it.  The later films are more action-packed and appeal to a wider audience, but I love the more thoughtful and philosophical themes in TMP.  SO…

I always thought of it as pessimistic; the destruction of the Klingon fleet 5 minutes into the film, the horrific transporter malfunction that scrambles two crew members, and a crew member who loses her consciousness for good when an energy-based alien intelligence take over her mind. That said, it’s still my favorite…

The film wasn’t the BEST Star Trek film, but I would argue that it is the most “Star Trek” Star Trek film. Mostly a pure space adventure about an alien trying to communicate with us in response to us trying to communicate with it and the conflict because each didn’t understand the nature of the other. It is the most…

...and the Escort photo is of a European version when the post specifically mentions a North American model.

Was the CRZ even supposed to be a performance car? I thought it was the replacement to the Insight, a decidedly un-fun, but still kinda quirky and cool car, like the CRZ.

Could you please check out the suggestions before you post your slide shows. The Fiesta ST and the ST-Line were two entirely different variants. The Fiesta ST was the same “amazing little go kart of death” it always had been. The ST-Line was a trim package without the performance upgrades, a very common offering in…

As I predicted.

It’s the most expensive per kwh. And that price doesn’t include the waste storage for 100s of years.

Nuclear is like democracy. As solutions go it’s terrible, but it’s the best option we’ve got right now.

Larger-scale technologies that get a lot of lip service from technocrats, including carbon dioxide capture and storage and nuclear energy