Lots of surface area on those

The booster or the fuel tank? I know the fuel tanks stopped being painted white for the weight savings

That was specifically for the atomic-bomb carrying planes (and the Doolittle Raid B-25s) that had to shave all possible weight in order to accomplish their missions.

Silverplate B-29s also had redesigned bomb bays and wing mounting in order to accommodate the physical size of the bombs

MST3K?

Fans funded the whole 13th season on their own after funding a lot of 11 so that Netflix could pick it up, throttle the 12th season, then drop it

That’s just what they want you to think

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Even if you are paying your own bills, a no-seatbelt-driver-took-a-ballistic-path-through-the-windshield-and-into-the-grill-of-the-oncoming-truck accident will require a full freeway shutdown and hours of investigation and cost tens of thousands of people time and the local agencies’ time and money to deal with, instead of a much simpler no-fatality crash.

It’s the same argument in favor of motorcycle helmet laws. Not wanting to wear a helmet doesn’t bother me (though I think motorcycle licenses should be organ donor opt-out instead of opt-in by default) but when your scalp is shaved down to gray matter or your skull and a road sign attempt to occupy the same space, the extra effort to deal with that affects everyone else.

The pigeon was not blown up; therefore it couldn’t have been Michael Bay

The finale (or penultimate episode) of Man in the High Castle some American rebels sang it together before attacking.

He was an army engineer at the Battle of the Bulge. 78 years ago this week Nazis were shooting at him. I'd hold a grudge for that, alone; let alone the racial issue on top of that

I’m watching Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episodes with my toddler and he started going crazy with a ball of yarn and I could have sworn he was a dog, so I looked it uo

We get a third one, who will be investigated by the first one and then it's a circle'gation

Don't you have to put that down before it snows and it's not as effective as salt after the snow falls?

Also: “emergency room treatment”. Kid falls and a reasonable parent takes them to the ER, even if there aren’t any obvious injuries or symptoms. A big majority of those would end up with “put some ice on it, don’t go to sleep for a few more hours, and quit jumping off the top bunk with a pillowcase ‘parachute’, because that’s not a thing.” Actual severe injuries from them are probably a few thousand per year, so safer than trampolines and most playgrounds, especially considering the kids are in contact with the bunk beds daily.

I’ve read a lot of stories, and that’s certainly one of them.

That's more of a management problem than a renewables problem. Coal and oil are several orders of magnitude slower than old-growth forests.

If you're saying that without the renewable energy credits that the deforestation rate would be slower, then that's a positive that would have to be weighed against what I asked about.

If the lack of energy credits don't have an effect on the rate of deforestation, then it could be worse for the environment than maintaining the status quo. If the deforestation is the problem then work on directly stopping it through legislation.

Technically it is renewable, but not low-carbon or otherwise "green". However, it's the waste after timber processing, so without its burn value is it just going to be dumped somewhere where it releases carbon dioxide gas, anyway?

Edit: Based on where this is happening, the wood was supplementing coal burning; so if the wood scraps are made uneconomical because of the change, wouldn't more coal be burned to maintain the same electricity supply? Seems like this is a good-feeling but actually bad thing to do.

(LADWP intensifies)

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She can rent a studio, she can make some corner of her home look like a classroom, she can green-screen a classroom, or she can apply for a film permit like anyone else that is filming for commercial purposes is supposed to do.

Maybe this could be the first time a country gets overthrown by its tourists (/s)

Identify theft is a bitch

Except this was just a perv that put a hidden camera in the bathroom

The party names and their political directions I know, I don’t know who Daniel Andrews is.

Edit: he’s the equivalent of a US state governor and of the opposition party. At least he’s not a potato that thinks he’s a superhero (NSFW, but funny)

Kill off the birds and rodents and then expect the insect population to explode. Get enough of a grasshopper population boom and they could go full locust and your problem turns biblical. This generally is going to be fucked in various ways over the next 5-15 years because of one "save the poor minks" guy that didn't think beyond the "???" step.