For anyone who hasn’t heard this one: When the Concorde flew at supersonic speeds, the airframe got hot enough that it expanded about a foot longer than it was on the ground. This opened up a small gap between the flight engineer’s console and the rear bulkhead of the cockpit. On each plane’s final flight, the flight engineers stuffed their hats into the gap, which then closed up after cooling off.

He’s right, but for all the wrong reasons.

I’m a big fan of the coach uniform. I like it better than anything we saw on Discovery or Picard, probably because it looks so similar to the TNG uniform.

Embassy security is provided by the Diplomatic Security Service, a separate agency that operates under the State Department, not Homeland Security.

I went to college in Ohio. I much preferred 30° and precipitating to 35° and precipitating, especially as a pedestrian walking to classes. Snow you can brush off before you go in, a cold rain just soaks in.

Was he even 10 years old when he enlisted?

I don’t know why they liked things so poorly lit on Picard. The Stargazer / Titan bridge was especially bad. It made the return to the D bridge even sweeter. (Though I think it was still darker than it was in the 90’s.)

According to the article, Trump has very poor support from Independents and virtually none from Democrats, but is getting approval from 9/10 Republicans. I don’t know what to do with such deeply rooted tribal mentality.

Let us take a moment to appreciate that this reporting is coming from a news website out of Alabama.

Jake gets his fashion sense from his father, I see.

The reason Republicans block DC statehood is because the District votes Democratic, and they don’t want to give the Democrats more seats in Congress. How do they think Greenlanders would vote if conquered by Donald Trump?

The bouncer wouldn’t let them in the bar. With the Defiant crew, they were at capacity.

He’d be a ghost white character when he was named. Kirby’s first appearance was on the OG monochrome GameBoy, and he was white on the box art. He picked up his pink & red color scheme in his second game, on the NES.

The curvy Coke bottle with a screw top also dates this to the mid 90’s or later. Before then, Coke came in a straight sided plastic screw top bottle. The classic curved glass bottles had the pry-off metal bottle caps.

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This is called the Jesus nut. It holds the main rotor onto the helicopter. It doesn’t have any redundancy, so if it fails, you’re going to be meeting Jesus in moments.

I really don’t like the direction this is going; two wrongs don’t make a right. No matter which way things turn out now it’s going to make anti-gerrymandering laws more difficult in the future, either because everyone’s doing it or the GOP has gerrymandered any opposition out of existence.