Yeah, but what I stated is that the “worst case scenario” isn’t a bunch of cratered runways, that’s a fantasy. It’s never happened and it never will, there are literally thousands of runways across the continent and no country in the world has the firepower to begin to diminish them, nor would they risk warfare…

It is true that it is much easier if people just use a longer time exposure and adjust the fStop appropriately so they can just cover the whole subject with light in one pass. But if shooting a very large subject, (car, house, rhinoceros, whatever) often you need to combine multiple images because you don’t have light…

Actually this has nothing to do with the “quality” of the lights available. The beauty of light painting is that the time exposure diffuses the light as well as the highest quality lightbox or flash. Even professional photographers often use ordinary utility lights for this process. Yes, if you want a lit background…

Of course the fresh fruit, dried fruit, nuts, jerky, and sushi are seriously more expensive than the items they replace. Many people find food too expensive as it is, convincing them to increase their snack budget by many multiples might be hard to swallow. ; )

The transportation stats are per capita for hundred thousand miles traveled, so the total numbers of participants doesn’t mean jack squat.

Okay, you have a fantasy of a perfectly safe transportation system. Good luck with that one. Let’s see if you can figure out the difference between the odds 1 in 20,000, and 1 in 100, and which applies to your chances of death in a car. Then let’s let you chew on 48,000 deaths per month from CANCER in the U.S. Of…

The Harrier just happened to be something the Brits could carry quickly to the area and easily operate from smaller ships, of course they give it heroic status in their history, all victors do.

For the most part yes. The entire theory was that air bases in Europe would all have their runways decimated by Soviet cluster bombs and that only the Harrier and other concepts would be able to take off and retaliate.

It’s not a theory at all. Google “flying bedstead”. The Pegasus engine system used in the Harrier was initially tested on a flying framework that had no wings of any kind, nor any need for them.

I seriously doubt that impacting with the Earth at high speed was something he loved.

“The increased dangers of flying are offset by good training, design, and planning. But, they are never erased.”

Not a clue. Not a fucking clue. Yikes.

A very good reason for keeping at least a half car length of space open in front of you for manuvering space. Or you should be alert and aware simply to be ready to press harder on the brake to make sure you don’t shoot forward if a rear collision is imminent. Or you should be alert and ready to move out of the way…

No. Get off the road now. If the engine is on, you are to be attentive and ready to dodge any and all moving obstacles including errant cars, falling cargos, weather blown debris, whatever. Drive the damn car or park it.

Safer is great too, but I just want my goddamned accumulated lost minutes back from waiting for idiot texting drivers to get moving. It’s nearly every stoplight now, and the delays are adding up to serious time.

No, even the Oscar Meyer people attach the term “rover” to their RC truck to designated a ground based vehicle. Drone is specifically airborne, and yet again Jalopnik/Gawker tromps through the garden of misused vocabulary like a Sasquatch looking for berries.

All in all, not that important. Any stealthy bomb runs are done by B-2s. B-52s do milk run bomb deliveries in theaters that are basically already wiped clean by other SEAD aircraft.

Except the C-17 is actually a rather small aircraft for a four engine jet, it’s only 53 m long compared to a 747 at 70 m.

True, but the BUFF, and many other jets don’t “flare” nose high like smaller aircraft, they just flatten out the approach and even keep some power on. What ever happens after that is considered a “flare”.

Nope. The highest torque motor in the F150 for quite a while was a straight six. Loads of pulling power, better gas mileage, very reliable. Was the superior choice over the V8 for many working trucks.