Crap Throwing Monkey

Penis Enlargement Technicians of America?

Must be why you had to add to it...

Best way is to leave it up to somebody else...

Sorry. Fit-OWNING pansies. Probably drive their partners' Ferraris...

Were is were as is did, then is was as is had done, so is will be as is has been, being now as was will be. Or something.

I don't know...that upper peninsula has a certain masculinity about it...

I'd just like to take this opportunity to let Lana know that I'm always very kind to animals...

Would I say that? About a bunch of spaghetti-slurping Fit-driving little pansies? No.

I don't know. And that's your fault.

Decent set of breasts, too. Too bad she has that praying-mantis sort of "I'll bite your head clean off when I'm done with you" look to her...but who'm I kidding? What does that matter? Nice breasts...

Great. Now I've got the image in my head of George Bush in a bikini. Thanks, !@#$. JSP...need a babe of the day, stat!

It won't. They'll surrender the match before the 40th minute...

Although, Eric Moulds deserves more credit for that...

There've been at least two abort-to-orbits that I know of due to SSME failure. One, I think, involved the failure of two of the three engines - which may be the incident you're talking about, as it came uncomfortably close to resulting in the loss of an orbiter. And I've read, too, about the general sense of relief and confusion during the Challenger investigation when the SSME team found out that their technology wasn't responsible. "Whaddaya mean? It wasn't the main engines? Of course it was...wasn't it?" Of course, that was still back in the days of "Uhhh...this engine failed the bench test. It's got a 10kHz vibration. We don't know why. But you can't use it." The shuttle's a case study in how not to do engineering.

Hunting accidents in the proximity of the Vice President are a common symptom, as well...

"But I'm telling you...if it takes you less than an hour, you're not cooking your retatta right!" Yeah, what the !@#$ do I know?

In other words, you wouldn't say "average". You'd say "average and overpriced".

The irony is that his heart attack stemmed from an easily treatable condition that wasn't detected because his cardiologist faked the test results...

No missile is 100% accurate. Standard doctrine - almost worldwide, be it a US ABM, a Russian SA-N-6, or a British Sea Dart - is to launch 2 missiles to "guarantee" a kill for that very reason. The ABMs out of Alaska probably have a PK rate of about 60% per successful launch...which is really !@#$ing good, considering the engagement parameters. Ditto the SM-3 off Aegis ships. So IF an intercept were attempted, the practice would be to launch two missiles at the incoming as standard procedure, making it reasonably likely one would hit...and the media would harp on the one that missed as a "failure" of the system.

It took nineteen minutes for that theory to hit the internet from the time the Lay story hit the wire, though. It took twenty minutes for the "He's not dead, he was put into witness protection by the FBI at Cheney's demand" conspiracy theory to hit.

Although an even bigger problem is the SRBs are, in fact, solid rocket boosters. Solid rockets can't be controlled in-fligh; they burn until they're out (the SRB thrust is actually modulated in-flight by the changing shape of the central cavity in the solid fuel, which increases or decreases the burn rate - so it's actually pre-defined and fixed). At any point in flight after the SRBs, the shuttle engines can be powered down (or up, sometimes) in case of an emergency. While the SRBs are burning, it's "Ride it until they're done, and God help you if something goes wrong." For that reason alone, crew evac is virtually impossible from a rising shuttle. Those are also the only solid rockets in history to be man-rated, for the simple reason that the thrust is uncontrollable real-time. Even the Soviets, with their greater willingness to take casualties, never man-rated a solid rocket. They'd have to be. And that in itself says volumes about how badly managed the shuttle program has been. Had the SSMEs been properly engineered from the start, they wouldn't need to be completely different engines now. Instead, they still had unexplained failure modes on the shuttle's 60th "operational" flight and beyond. And in saying the SSME's were "1980's era", I meant that they were at the time of design. They unquestionably pushed the state-of-the-art well beyond where it was at the time; one could make an excellent argument that they pushed it far too far. One rarely manages to combine "bleeding edge" with "high reliability" in engineering, particularly when engineering practices as God-awfully horrible as how the SSME project was managed are applied.

Actually, he was killed by the White House to keep him quiet about Bush's and Cheney's business dealings with Enron. This whole "heart attack" story is just a cover...

Problem with that is that outside of 15 yards every receiver will get mugged. You'll almost never see a long completion, because any DB who's beat will just tackle his guy before the ball gets there. I'd change the rule that says if the Patriots throw an 8-yard out on 4th and 9 that's caught out of bounds, it's a first down.

I question that definition. Not that I don't see your point...I just don't agree with it. It's almost like saying a real airplane isn't intended to land, or a real submarine isn't intended to surface. While the operating environment may not require the functionality, the transit certainly does.

No. They go up, they fail catastrophically. I'm pretty sure both sides here have achieved the same level of understanding.