Replying to undo accidental moderation... I meant to mark as informative.

Thank you! Your link and the AC's link below were exactly the sort of information I was looking for to fill in the gaps.

I started to write a comment about being glad that Murdoch is finally getting what's coming to him... then I realized that I didn't know why I felt that way. I have a generally negative opinion of him... but all that comes to mind when I think of him is a caricature assembled from various stories I've come. I gather that he's been consolidating several media markets into near-monopolies and there's controversy about him forcing editorial opinions onto his reporters... but is he the guy who single-handedly broke the news business, or just a businessman who got in over his head with yellow journalism?

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

Oh my! Armed with a reliable source like a three year old article from pimpinturtle and *dozens* of second and third hand stories, the ignorant masses can no longer ignore the truth! Cast off your shackles! Rise up against your oppressors! Cast down the corporate overlords of the New World Order! Free yourselves from the Black Iron Prison!

Fussing wouldn't help things. Instead we provide top-of-the-line prosthetics, years of psychological, physical, and occupational therapy, additional consideration for promotion, a medical retirement plan, and a (admittedly not as large as it could be) and lump sum payment. It is heart-wrenching when the system fails veterans who have been hurt, but the "bad press" can make people forget that the support is there and the failures are the exception, not the rule.

Actually, any substance with a suitably high osmotic pressure would work- you don't need to buy more of their powder. I've heard of people using maple syrup or generic electrolyte mix.

Forward osmosis has been used for years and will filter out the stuff you mention. It's the same principle that a home or industrial osmotic water filter (reverse osmosis) would use, except that the pressure comes from the 'charged' liquid on one side (the stuff that makes it taste like a sports drink) instead of from the water being forced against the membrane. You can buy a system like this commercially from HTI (http://www.htiwater.com/technology/forward_osmosis/index.html). Some people like it for hiking, but from what I've heard it's more suited to emergency water production on lifeboats.

These graduate students are obviously trying to muscle in on the US military's contract for BCGs! They're the only frames I've seen that are ugly enough to give the 'Birth Control Glasses' a run for their money.

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The summary was inaccurate and TFA was fairly political. It took a quote about the cost of doing business in remote areas then labelled all of the $20B infrastructure costs as air conditioning. The military is very, very aware of the costs of fuel convoys and bad insulation, and do what they can to fix it. Just like any new system, alternative energy products take a while to acquire, test, and push out to troops in the field. Several posts in this story write about the lack of alternative energy... it definitely is used wherever practical, but the mission and the logistical considerations don't often make it practical. Aside from the generic solar pannels you see powering various sensors and stuff installed on base, http://www.powerfilmsolar.com/military-products/military-products.php has several products they've been making for the military. I know the 60W folding solar pannels have been used by patrols in Afghanistan and were well-received; I haven't seen the shelters in use, but I can definitely think of a few places they would be handy.

I played through FFIV entirely too many times. When/if you revisit Yang, you can get a spoon. You can throw the spoon for a ridiculous amount of damage, the Excalibre sword also throws for max damage. That was about the most obscure trivia I could come up with off the top of my head.

Nice job with the gunner answer! I'm an Air Force guy so it's a fact I've come across a few times a few times. The aircrews in the 8th AF suffered very high casualties during the strategic bombing raids, and the belly gunners had the worst of it. I've heard that the German U-boat crews had the highest casualty rates overall in the war, but I haven't come across a reliable statistic about them.

Sure, I'm game.

I had several obscure questions come to mind, but every time I tested them against a few google queries they were all answered fairly quickly. Here are the ones that seem at least somewhat tough to google:

In FF2 (FF4 in Japan), which weapons could Edge throw for maximum damage?

In WW2, what was (statistically) the most dangerous job in the American military?

I'm surprised you didn't hear about JIEDO... they were around during that timeframe, but I guess they weren't as aggressive about getting the word out.

https://jknife.jieddo.dod.mil/

Disappointed.