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It is important for giant national entities like NASA to encourage youth in pursuit of science. They have a responsibility to be receptive to this sort of thing. Very good to see. I hope the kids have a great and also educational time.

Watch out... the microwaves may digitally reprogram your DNA and you'll turn into a snail or an ape.

I've mentioned this many times. According to the rules of war, combatants captured out of uniform are liable to be summarily executed. Instead, we put them in prison. I'm guessing if you asked them what they'd prefer, 3 hot meals and a prayer rug in Gitmo, or summary death...

Iranian Basiji... er, "students"... storm the British Embassy. Lovely. I understand there is disagreement and dispute between Iran, GB, the USA, and other nations, and that is exactly why embassies should be maintained. That's the whole idea of diplomacy.

Actually, observation balloons were considered FAR more dangerous than enemy aircraft. They were very heavily defended. Pilots who specialized in balloons had gonads of titanium. Mastakhan, you are being naive, I'm sorry. Iraqis dropped like flies in Desert Storm because we (the USA) were...

Okay... should every Australian who is not an Aborigine be ejected? Let's go farther back in time. Should all the Anglo-Saxons who invaded England in the 5th century be deported? The Yucatan peninsula was Mayan 1400 years ago. Let's get rid of all people with a single Spanish allele in their...

The value comes about because of an artificial demand. Like diamonds. Industrial diamonds do real work in industry, but jewelry doesn't do jack except make women feel rich. Gold has value only because people want it. Let me put it into another perspective... zombie apocalypse time. ;) In a...

Amazing. What does this reply have to do with what I wrote? If you want to discuss the nuts and bolts of the Falklands war, start another thread. We are discussing the justification, and the problems of the will of the people.

Gitmo: Looks clean and modern.

HAHAHAHAHAHA, we operate the AV-8B; these will provide cheap spare parts, so we'll have BOTH the AV-8B and the F-35 TOGETHER in the skies HAHAHAHAHAHA

Modern wafer & silicon fabrication is an amazing feat of engineering. I've often thought that this technology would be an ideal venture for the oil-rich OPEC nations as something to sustain them in the future. The oil won't last forever... if I was king, I'd roll all those petro-dollars into...

Did you even read my post? Throughout the history of Man, peoples have been displaced. The question becomes, how far back in time do we go to "fix" it? Any date we pick would be completely arbitrary and very impractical. We should look to the will of the people currently there (in any...

Masankhan - I respect your opinion and understand your anger, but you cannot place any blame, or direct any anger, at the PAF personnel. The only way to "wake up" the Air Force is to wake up your government. Picture your government asleep in a home. The Air Force is a handgun used for...

Does this not concern anyone? In the USA, the race to the cities happened post WW2. But city life can be noisy, dirty, grinding, and unpleasant. Thus, suburbs blossomed, combining a bit of rural with the convenience of cities. Some people hate suburbs, but the reality is, suburbs are probably...

Here's the problem the gold people don't understand. A nation's currency, and thus, their economy, used to be tied to gold. But there isn't enough gold in the world to even come close to the real valuation of goods and services produced by workers. For example, Ft. Knox, Kentucky, has 4,577...

Argh - I hate it when missiles chase airplanes around like a dog would chase a rabbit. The missile would have gone stupid after the first pass on the jet.

Stopping production doesn't mean the airplanes don't fly!

This is a tricky thing, and I am mixed. Here's the deal... at some point, every single nation, every chunk of desirable land, has had indigenous (or "first") peoples displaced by an aggressor. In some cases, you have to go back into the dim history of thousands of years ago. In others, it's...

Extreme speeds = lack of maneuverability. And extreme speeds do not defend against anything in the front quadrant. A SAM or AA missile doesn't care if you are doing mach 3. In fact, it likes this as it means the shot can be taken at vast distances, and the mach 3 target will blunder right...

TOPGUN, I think the standard 2-seat K-8 would be a fine COIN aircraft. The guy in back works the radios, spots and communicates, the guy up front flies. Desirable characteristics for COIN are moderate speeds, loiter, agility, ease of flight in the low-altitude environment, visibility, many...