Not compared to "Rear Admiral, Lower Half".

Yeah, that's when teachers, mail carriers and DMV clerks get the day off but if you're only a veteran you have to go to work.

If you told her you could get a 45-degree slope on a 3-4-5 triangle, perhaps she was onto something.

You can solve any problem if you define it the way you want...for example, my wife once took a drafting course from a guy who said he'd made fools of centuries of mathematicians by trisecting an angle. Of course, his solution was an approximation, but he conveniently left out "theoretically exact" as part of the definition of a constructive solution. He said he was working on squaring the circle, too...

I'd reserve your hosannas until this kid's magic formula gets published, along with a formal statement of the problem.

Ummm, no. Completely different mechanisms of energy storage. A battery accepts charge with almost no voltage change, while the voltage across a capacitor is proportional to the amount of stored charge. If you want to use a capacitor for storage, both your charging system and your load have to accommodate a big voltage range.

A contestant on Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader? once got the question "How many watts are there in a kilowatt-hour?"...

All these years, I thought my risk of death was 100%...

Heiligenschein (literally, halo light) is sometimes visible on Earth. If you're in a low-flying airplane and look down at its shadow, you'll see what looks like a faint glow surrounding it. The reason: In general, the surface you see is a mixture of objects in direct sunlight and the shadows of those objects -- but on the line from the sun through your eye to the ground, every shadow is covered by the sunlit object casting it. If you could shrink your airplane to the size of a fly, the glow would look even brighter.

If you're among a number of other aircraft close together (like a gaggle of sailplanes working the same thermal), you can actually identify our own shadow this way: the other shadows don't have the glow.

Because they get to redefine the language and you don't. Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel, or bandwidth by the gazigabyte.

Yes, the later Spitfires were powered by the Griffon (you could call it Merlin 2.0), and a number of those are flying today. Parts are available -- cheap no, available yes.