It's all good. I feel less slighted knowing you served too and weren't just making a statement as a misinformed civ. The 101st is a hell of a unit as well. They earned their due as well. Only Delta's ops are classified. Their existence at the base is stated on several publicly accessible websites as are the other commands I mentioned. There are several other non acknowledged units stationed there , as well as foreign forces of a covert nature partaking in training.

[humor attempt] It's my understanding Jupiter has some seriously intense radiation issues even for shielded space probes. Oh wait nevermind, we can just use the TEPCO method. Only bring devices capable of registering the maximum reading we want to admit. [/humor attempt] Otherwise you still have to get through the asteroid belt, then somehow avoid the debris orbiting the planet itself in the rings. Then there's the magnetic field the size and strength of Donald Trump's ego to contend with. All to go to a planet to drill down through ice of unknown thickness in the hopes of finding liquid water that may or may not contain anything from living organisms to non water liquids. We don't even know how stable the ice crust is to know if we could land anything on it as it could have thin spots caused by heating and currents from below or be subject to instability from tidal forces from Jupiter's gravity. That being said, I'd gladly volunteer all of the U. S. legislature as crew since it's a one way trip.

In which series reboot was that again? Godzilla has had a backstory varying from nuclear accident to reincarnation of Japanese war dead spirits throughout the history of the character.

He's creating a public record of his ideas and innovations by blogging in this way. It seems like it would encourage people to steal them, but could also be used in court to prove he had the ideas first. It may or may not hold up in court in the end, but at least it gives him the opportunity to get the credit he deserves publicly for his innovations.

At least it was an instant death. Would prefer to go like that without warning than the way those poor sailors on the Kursk that managed to make it to the aft compartment did, knowing they were screwed and unable to do anything about it because the only hatch out was jammed in place by the force of the sub hitting the bottom.

This reminds me of when I was considering changing from just sport diving to becoming a salvage diver. I was talking to one of my friends who does it for a living and he had one of the old MK V deep diving suits in his collection of old diving gear. I'm not normally claustrophobic, but when I tried it on, the moment they tightened the helmet down to the suit it was almost panic inducing. I've had incidents at depth before with my scuba rig, but the very idea of being that isolated and having to rely on air being pumped in from the surface while you're a couple hundred feet or more down was a terrifying thought. It's no where near as complicated as a space suit, but I imagine the experience is similar, knowing if something goes wrong it's going to take you a few minutes minimum to get back to an airlock and safety and having the visor inches from your face all the time.

When I was in the armed forces, we were issued Top Secret clearances but they were compartmentalized clearances. One unit didn't know what the other was up to unless we were tasked with the same mission. If you get rid of 90% of the sys admins, this leaves only 10% to split access to the data they're trying to protect. This seems like less people would have greater access to more data, and would leave you with limited ability to keep data restricted to individual compartments within the security structure. Also, the leak didn't come from within the NSA itself so why are they culling their own staff? Doing this will make them more reliant on outside contracting firms, which was the problem in the first place if I recall. This just demonstrates the real problems are at the top of the management structure. Outside contractors should have zero access to any of this data period. This move just flies in the face of common sense.

Notice how they tested positive for banned stimulants and not steroids. They were trying to cut body weight. Bolt has always been really lean naturally since even his younger days.

I wondered why browsing over Tor had been getting so much faster lately. I guess these guys have at least some of their slaves set up as relays, in effect adding capacity to the network. Honestly not sure if I'm joking though because it almost makes sense.

You would be amazed at the amount of spares that are collecting dust in closets and back rooms. Companies like to hoard things like this so they can count them as assets, especially if the hardware is old enough for the parts to be valuable again. When my wife was an insurance appraiser, she would often arrive at a company property and find rooms upon rooms of ancient hardware just sitting there for these reasons.

I can also deduct my market losses from my taxes when the prices tank on the exchanges. Also, if they're declaring Bitcoin profits taxable, does this mean we can no start deducting mining hardware expense as well as claiming depreciation of the same hardware each year it's in use? Only seems fair to me.