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Interesting sidenote to that photograph... note that the Surveyor 3 spacecraft was within range of the Apollo 12 landing site, and the astronauts checked it out. The Surveyor had soft-landed on the moon long before the Apollo astronauts came. It was the first, and to date, the only, manned...

Come on, the evidence is absolutely overwhelming. Millions of people watched the giant Saturn-V vehicle lift off. Scientists knew it had the loft capable of carrying the Lunar Lander, the LEM, to the moon. We have video of the LEM detaching from the command module. Soviet radars tracked it...

Interesting article. It's very cool... a CARBON-based lifeform that eats arsenic. They've also found them eating minerals, crude oil, just about anything with a chemical bond that can be detached for energy. But this critter still must obey the laws of carbon chemistry. Freeze it, and it...

I think guys don't understand... SEA had one of the densest and most heavily defended chunks of airspace on earth. Every soldier was taught how to use small arms fire to bring down aircraft. More jets were lost (by far) to AAA and small arms, NOT SAMs. When you say FATA is not Vietnam...

The Russia--> Iran sale of the S-300 system has been up in the air for some time now. There is a lot of international pressure on Russia to NOT sell them the S-300, and Russia must ask the question, "What do we get out of this deal, beyond the revenues?" In other words, the Russians may feel...

Good for Pakistan and for the many positive comments on this Church. It is absolutely possible for Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Jews, everybody, to live in intimate contact with harmony and respect. We have communities in the USA where Muslims look out for Christians, Christians for Muslims...

The S-200 is an old and very much understood system. Unless Iran has altered the radar or the intercept methodology, any modern attacker could easily suppress the S-200 with ECM.

I disagree a bit. COIN absolutely requires the ability to loiter, and slow speeds can be an advantage rather than a disadvantage. There is also the airborne FAC mission, controlling for both airstrikes and artillery. In SEA, the USA brought the A-1 Skyraider out of mothballs because it was...

Here's the thing, guys - it's fun to imagine aliens that swim in liquid helium, or aliens like crystal snowflakes, but the reality is, that chemistry is constant everywhere. Life requires complex chained molecules of vast length. Life also requires chemically coded information. Only the...

"Selling Tear gas to the Egyptian Police" -----> "U.S. is pulling the strings; Egyptian Government is a puppet." Can people not see the twisted and impossible leap of logic this requires? According to this theory, because Russia sells powerful armaments to India, Russia must literally own India.

I know, that made me wonder why Mercury was so highly ranked. But not all life needs an atmosphere. By definition, anaerobic bacteria live in areas of chemical concentration with no atmosphere at all.

The Apollo 12 landing site, as photographed from space:

It's VERY important to remember... when police and military forces are beating you senseless, the fault lies with the makers of the police batons, not the police themselves.

Mercury is an interesting choice. It's tidally locked, meaning one side faces the sun all the time, and the other is in permanent shade. So the day side goes to 800 degrees, the night side to -200 degrees. But what about the twighlight part? Halfway around it, there should be a region that...

I think there are two KINDS of passwords a person needs. The first is for everyday use, where the loss of the password would result, at worst, in a hacked forum account. In other words, who cares? For all of those, I have one password. Makes it easy. Type #2 is anything financial or that...

Yep... the GOP and Pakistani military's plan does work well. Authorize the drone strikes in secret, maintain deniability, and all the anger flows Westward.

What is the point of this posting? It's like posting pictures of decapitations and other prurient images. Recommend deletion.

And then when we have a tantrum, complain incessantly and reject both verbal and written apologies, we can see some Indian security personnel lose their jobs. That'd be appropriate. Or... we can let it go.

There's no reason for this to devolve into the 10,000th "who did 9-11" thread. My only real point, besides poking fun at bin Laden's parenting, is to emphasize that Yeah, bin Laden and his gang did it. They admitted it right after 9-11, and this reinforces it strongly. As for us "creating"...

And you'll probably see future data like... 2011 - 9.3 2012 - 6.5 2012 - 3.2 2013 - 4.8 2014 - 6.5 It goes up and down in a ragged sine wave. Collapse happens when you enter extreme and sustained negative growth numbers. It's actually unhealthy for an economy to grow too quickly...