History, Politics And Current Affairs

If Trump announces anything like that, it will be the best announcement of its kind ever, and he will know the Delta Aurigeans well, they get on well, he understands them. He’d probably drag a live Grey on stage and explain how he’s a great guy and how he’s made the greatest intergalactic deal with...

Also needing to re-understand that micrometer precision isn't really needed for a lot of items.

MikeKozlowski wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 5:29 pm ...I believe the technical term for CPL Rosa's current situation is, "deep shit".

Mike

Actually, I think it's closer to, "Buried so far under deep shit that in five or ten years, if lucky, he may be able to see deep shit with a submarine periscope."

WTF??? https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2026-01-28/felon-lived-base-housing-camp-pendleton-20557106.html Felon arrested for gun violations while illegally living at Camp Pendleton A felon with four prior convictions in Virginia has been charged with possession of firearms and trespassin...

They have a point. See, lightning is electricity causing excitation of electrons and energy going from one place to another place. What we call static electricity is just lightning on a model scale. The caps provide protection against static discharge, therefore they protect against lightning. It's ...

Well, one valid target out of five isn't too bad for random chance..... New Jersey? :D Yes. :mrgreen: Craig, weirdly there’s nothing online that I can find about that incident. I can't find it either. This site: https://www.nuclearinfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Nuclear-Weapon-Accidents-Inciden...

Well, one valid target out of five isn't too bad for random chance.....

Dropping tumbleweed onto them is a war crime....

Good to see the Canadians are still around and active in the Convention.

This popped up and I had to check....yep looks like cruz is running away again before a winter storm https://i.postimg.cc/q7G7JLQ6/619262291-4291733091100391-6786641248354839178-n.jpg :lol: :lol: :lol: And what as a Federal Senator is he expected to do? This type of issue is almost entirely a local...

I'd have thought the proper way to look at it was in relationship to the Age of Sail from the 7 years war to the Napoleanic Wars, where Midshipmen were effectively thrown to the wolves with little to no training, except what they learned while doing. It also fits in with the no FTL communications, ...

If we look to the North Sea however the calculation changes a bit. While you can operate there with conventional submarines the nuclear ones have significant advantages in terms of extended endurance at sea, higher speeds if you for instance need to hunt down a Russian submarine (and not just wait ...

Shit... Larsen AND Adams? Gary Larson, of Far Side fame, is still alive and sometimes drawing. He was born in 1950. Gary Larsen, defensive tackle for the Rams and Vikings, is also still alive, although probably not playing much football of either sort. He was a member of the Purple People Eaters. H...

Yes, that's like the Hummer III. Tough on the outside, standard chassis and mechanicals on the inside.

What I think is more likely to be the Official TBO tank:

We have 2x approximately 2MW engines that weight about 1 ton together, and 5 tons of fuel. That gives it 1400km of range at almost 3 hours of airtime and max payload. Electric engines are much lighter and it may be recommended to split the power among more engines attached to more propellers for be...

It's not a new thing. It's people narrating who don't have a lot of experience or training in how to do it. The profusion of different video platforms has given everyone a voice, and it's obvious that a lot aren't ready for that voice. In addition, a lot of the machine reading uses a similar intonat...

So it's riffing on a familiar academic theme. The American Exceptionalism one, that says the the bedrock US values of serf-determination, economic freedom, multiculturalism, and government by the people have spread throughout the world. Part of it used to be the MacDonalds theory, that countries wit...

I used to like him until around 2006 or 2008. Then he revealed that he was full bore into creationism, using the "There is no proof", "It's just a theory", and "We have to keep an open mind". He was of the Intelligent Design philosophy, and two of his non-Dilbert works ...

How about posting a summary of the video? I don't want to have to wade through 26 minutes of blathering to get the point.

Private Rudolph's delay to duty is also being delayed due to the necessity of being refitted with TCAS and ADS-B equipment, in accordance with the S.2503 ROTOR act.

London to Calcutta by Bus TBH, this sounds like a pitch for an ep of The Grand Tour . Mike Calcutta wasn’t the terminus. SYDNEY was the terminus. Via Singapore and then Perth. No, for the original article, and Mike's reference, it was to Calcutta. Sydney was just a diversion in the article.