Pedantism: Smokey the Bear is employed by the US Forest Service, not the National Park Service.

Switzerland also very, very heavily regulates the civilian possession of ammunition.

That seems entirely feasible.

It seems he had to clear multiple malfunctions, and that suggests his firearm was poorly setup with the suppressor.

And for reference, the earth escape velocity from the surface is 11.2 km/s or 25,000 mph, not 7,000 mph.

To escape the solar system from the earth surface, the minimum speed is 16.6 km/s, or 37,100 mph. But this assumes that you launch in the correct direction to take the most advantage of the Earth’s 30 km/s. If you launch in the most disadvantageous direction, you can add another 60 km/s to escape.

Curtis LeMay would like to know your location.

Well, except for all the other times we invaded countries in Latin America.

And except for that time we invaded Mexico all the way down to Mexico City.

I’d reckon about half a cm.

I think they’re conceptualizing hot dog radius.

The guy in line to lead the most powerful military the world has ever seen wants to start an “insurgency.” I’m sorry, that’s just one piece of vocabulary you’re not entitled to.

And that’s why you should only drink grain alcohol and pure, natural rain water. To preserve the essence of your precious bodily fluids.

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Part of the DOJ ask is that the Google search business should be enjoined from paying for preferential default status on other platforms.

They want to prohibit the Firefox arrangement as part of the anti trust matter.

Or the number of times someone can ditch all of the ship’s tracking systems, on a military vessel, just by leaving their badge somewhere.

One of my favorite fun facts: “Balance of Terror” was the original Star Trek episode to introduce Romulans, and the first to feature space combat against a near peer adversary.

The screenplay for that episode actually was for a submarine movie, and it got readapted.

My understanding is that the Senate Rules committee is lower profile than House Rules because nearly every procedural question in the Senate is settled by unanimous consent.

In the House, the Rules committee decides the floor debate time limits and which amendments are in order on every major legislation. (They do this by passing custom rules for each individual bill).

It’s possible things have changed, or they’re planning some kind of major shift in the normal procedure.

They’re trashing our rights, man!

And we’re also saving a bunch on disposal costs for the old stuff.

Gotta keep up with OK.

It’s actually because the thing that makes you make those faces is the acceleration, not the speed.

All three reference frames shown are accelerated, non inertial frames. But the first two have “fictitious” centrifugal accelerations somewhere around 0.5-2.5 g. The third frame has a detectable centrifugal acceleration, but it’s like 0.003 g or something, and can be lumped in with gravity for many types of problems.

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