No, it is not gunfire ( Read more... )

Just want a first-blush overview for people on interstellar civilization measurement of time and relativistic effects.

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NOTE: This is hand-waving for purposes of willing suspension of disbelief in commercial fiction. I am not--and do not have time to become--a physics expert. Besides, the physics has to be totally bogus compared to what ( Read more... )

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/06/15/moon-vast-amount-water/?test=facesRead more... )

When you pick up a metal rod or a knife, and you start whacking on soldiers with them, you lose your right to whine, "But I'm a civilian!" This also tends to make them cranky. Making soldiers on an op cranky is generally regarded, among people in the know, as a Bad Idea.

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To those who serve and those who wait, to those who came home and those who are absent, you have my heartfelt thanks.

Most people who are crying that the sky is falling with this are unfamiliar with the legal history of government powers regarding deciding who's insane and what to do about them, and the legal history of what constitutes "Due Process of Law" if Joe Sixpack is formally alleged to be insane or mentally incompetent ( Read more... )

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/natural-gas-leaking-gulf-mexico-lowering-volume-escaping/story?id=10619403Read more... )

SEALs 3; chickenshit, political bastards 0.

Pays to be a winner, eh?

Much ado has been made across the country of school districts' new anti-bullying policies. I used passive voice deliberately--because passivity is why those policies don't work ( Read more... )

...and you can bet that would have to be some corral.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKL8w-_zC_s

No, really, the vid. is cool.