Putting that another way: If you examine the scene of an explosion and find arms, legs, a head and red goo, it's the signature of a person who was in his right mind from his perspective.

...when there aren't enough job applicants, they offer more money.

The wife and I were standing outside Buckingham Palace one day waiting for the Changing of the Guard and making idle chitchat with a French lady next to us (SWMBO fluently, moi haltingly) when a group of teenagers came by, hooting, catcalling, playing grabass and generally acting like teenagers. She looked down her nose at them at first; then when they got close and she heard them speaking French she blasted them. "VOUS ETES FRANCAIS! HONTE A VOUS!"

Not even ordinary heat death.

How much of the camel does that thing have attached to it? A liter of water is one kilogram, 2.2 pounds.

Actually there is such a thing as an internal combustion Stirling engine. The British military deployed a portable generator set during WW2 that used one, and the google will disclose a few more. Obviously not much good in space, of course.

There seems to be one on each of three landing gear legs, so Queequeg, Tashtego and Daggoo would be appropriate.

"After ten years in solar freefall" would carry a bit more meaning...

...You know the rest.

...gives me a bad feeling about this.

Those pilots are about a third of the officers, and the officers are most of the college graduates. The career path for enlisted personnel does not include flying airplanes.

The tour guides at Hitler's mountaintop chalet, the Eagle's Nest, are certainly upfront about it.

(Actually only foreigners call it the Eagle's Nest; that name was hung on it by the international media in 1938. Germans call it the Kehlsteinhaus.)

(whimper...)

Indeed. If you're talking about the Mayflower Pilgrims, they had found religious freedom in the Netherlands and it scared the shit out of them.

Newsweek addressed that notion in an article 30-odd years ago on a subject I don't remember, except that someone had written that. The article speculated on what an editorial might have said in 1935:

"Germans see Hitler as the charismatic, dedicated leader who can guide them out of poverty and despair into a new age of security and pride in their heritage. Americans see him as possibly destabilizing. The truth, as always, is somewhere in between."