They are hyper-leftists. The only reason that they got re-elected was that the press covered that fact up. The same press you get all your information from.

Canada, tooi? I thought only Belgium was imaginary.

Someone needs to check the units on this article!

Not a chance my Hindu friend!

You might find shooting pigeons in flight with any rifle a bit more difficult than you imply. .

Pigeons work very well for some tasks. Lockheed Sunnyvale used pigeons for some communitcation between Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, and Santa Cruz well into the 80's. They would carry microfilm with documents on it, far faster than it would be to send a car or other courier, and far more practical than electronic means at the time.

Well, of course the Cut/Copy/Paste were all chosen as they were BECAUSE it was on a QWERTY....

    Hey, waitaminnit! Say, you almost got me there!

I also publish/produce/review/approve *many* papers and other documents, just not in public. But I see the uninteresting papers are mostly pencil-whipped, and the interesting papers are picked to pieces, and go back through the cycle many times before approval. I expect the same dynamic is in play for the unclassified world.

I haven't done a lot of publishing in open literature, but many times, the papers that fly through the vetting process with little effort are are on topics that are somewhat straightforward/trivial. And would thus not be as likely to be useful as a citation. The interesting topic raises many more questions and is more likely to require multiple tries to get through the review, but ultimately is more useful and more likely to get a citation.

    Brett

Horsepower is a measure of the rate of work, NOT energy.

      Brett

Pedantic, but we are among geeks - a rocket engine gives *NO* horsepower in a static test, because there is no work being done. The power is a product of the thrust and the speed times some constant to get it in the desired units. No speed = no power.

      They claim to get 80,000 hp at 1000 mph - that's about 30,000 lbs of thrust, which is reasonably consistent with the claimed final thrust. They could have just said that.

        Brett

Jerry is still finding new ways to spend my money!

hellokittium

When you put a rover on Mars, you can pick whatever units you want.

IANAL, but I think this represents restraint of trade. So not only is it (arguably) evil (TM) it likely also illegal.

      Brett