I was about to give you a mod point, and then you turned into an asshole. Here's a hint: when you call someone a curse word, you are, in that moment, being that very curse word. No points for you!

A friend and I were discussing this very effect one Christmas in his three cat house. He demonstrated by scooping up a cat that (unfortunately for it) was at his feet, holding it upside down at shoulder height, and releasing it. The cat landed flat on its back, stretched like it didn't give a damn, and then ran off. I think one of the reasons God made cats is to goof on us.

Yes, but... They used the craft itself. Your proposal of a nuke would give a strong, uniform push to the target. But to get it there would cost a LOT more. Nukes are heavy. Very heavy. If the target is legitimately threatening Earth, sure, throw all the money we have at it. For an experiment looking for data, this is fine.

Paradoxes can be paradoctored. According to Heinlein, anyway.

Your sig is ironic after that insightful post. +1 funny from me.

When you say "largest building by interior volume" I guess you mean it had the biggest single room with no walls, floors, or support beams interrupting the space. Tho not as tall, Madison Square Garden, built a year before the VAB, seems a far vaster space than the VAB interior. I'm only speaking subjective impressions, but I stand by my disappointed first, and following, impressions. The VAB is overhyped and they ought to get over it. PR is important for NASA, and many of their visitors are from big cities where they see bigger buildings all the time. NASA should stop disappointing their fans with overblown claims about a gigantic building and focus on the function. They do amazing things they can be proud of. This building may have been impressive at one time, but it isn't anymore.

They call it "huge Vehicle Assembly Building." I've seen it, been inside. It is NOT a huge building. It stands out because it is the tallest thing around it on oh-so-flat, built on sand Kennedy Space Center, and it has a record holding door on one side. At only 52 stories, it ain't all that. I spent over a decade in NYC; 52 stories isn't even squat 'cause it isn't anywhere near as wide as a typical one square block building. Impressive stuff happens in and around it, but the VAB is a disappointment after all the hype. Pffft as Bill the Cat would say.

I would have guessed a small stroke. Of course, the theory of an accidental pregnancy was my favorite until they revealed it was a guy with the medical issue.

Here's what I posted in that thread. Still relevant for those who missed it:

I'm in my late sixties. My older sister and brother live alone and are over seventy. We have a group text going where we each say something every noon (they sleep late). It felt morbid at first, but it's now a nice mix of jokes and what's going on with each of us. If I ever need an app like this I think I'd move into a group home instead.

It was a smooth and easy read for me. I've seen much more awkward headlines, this is fine.

posting to destroy a mis-clicked mod. Under- and over- rated should not be next to eachother. Put them in the good or bad grouping of all the other mods!

Were these "bugs" returning TO the ISS or returning FROM the ISS? C'mon EditorDavid, this is just sloppy.

LSD and Mushrooms are radically different. There are many other psychedelics, each very unique. This guy knows he used LSD, yet he makes many statements where he generalizes his conclusion to all psychedelics. This is NOT science. He may as well test a birthday cake and then tell everybody all breads are bad for you. I do think there is something to the idea. If psilocybin actually does work in small doses (small does not mean so small you can't feel it at all, and this dose was tiny), then his sloppy conclusion will mean many people won't get a valuable treatment. I suspect bias: He wanted this conclusion.

Then this should go over really well in Brazil. I was there 11 years ago, and all the ATMs used palm readers instead of a physical card. It was really convenient to just hold out my hand and see it ask "How much do you want?"

They already own all the data on Youtube. Using other sources requires a lot of time, money, and compute power. Of course they are going to prioritize already crunched data over fresh, timely info. Those summaries take $$$ to produce, and google makes a lot of them every second. In many cases, like wikipedia, this is fine, but must always be verified, not trusted. The financial impact on the ultimate sources of data is a serious problem: The long term impact of this short-sighted profit and eyeball grab is sabotaging their trustworthiness..