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The timing of this thread popping up again is weird. Had my second shingles vax Thursday. First day, no reaction. Second day sore arm. Day three, fever, chills, and felt miserable for 2 days. So pretty much a PITA. But I've had friends get shingles, and I wouldn't want to go through that...

You guys with the fancy planes with more than one door crack me up...

Now I want to come up with something exceptionally funny to say, just to see who doesn't notice and like. And I might be stupid...but my strong suite is that I can be even more annoying that stupid.

When I was a kid, adults would sometimes ask if I had a role model. I'd say "bugs bunny", and they thought I didn't understand the question. Bugs is STILL a role model. I didn't know about Yogi Bera yet, and Mitch Hedberg wasn't around yet. My favorite Yogi-ism: Yogi, don't you know...

One rule of thumb I have is to maybe give the edge to the guy who's survived being shot at by Germans with machine guns. Might not be perfect, but he's got some survival skills.

I read the ABC news version of his interview from their site. To me, it doesn't paint him in a favorable light. Not because there's no mention of the decision to take the drugs in the first place, they could have bleeped over that, but because of his justification for pulling those handles...

It's actually worse than that. NASA knew, but it wasn't published at the time, to protect NASA employees. Like probably many here, I watched as much of the televised portions of the Rogers hearings as I could, and I saw the Feynman demonstration of the o-ring snapping after being chilled in...

I just popped into this thread to see if the OP was talking about the state, or the song about the state. Ray Charles may not have written it, but he pretty much owned it. What's the Monty Python thing about people being sick and tired of people being sick and tired of something?

I don't have inside info, but I don't think this in a problem with the engineers. I think it's multiple problems with the corporation. Shute, about a hundred years ago, believed that the driving force to quality was competition. I believe that's true, and I'll add that I believe it's good...

Was it the A-6 that had the saying that if it wasn't dripping hydraulic fluid, it was probably out of hydraulic fluid? Or maybe that was HD motorcycles and oil.

If they go to single pilot ops, I wonder if I could get a $20 discount as a non-qualified pilot. I can't fly a jet, but I can keep the wings level while the captain goes to get a sandwich and talks to the rest of the crew.

If SpaceX rescues the 2 stuck people, especially if they have to do some quick mods to get the suits linked up, they're going to look like heroes for a long, long time. I think they can do it - purely based on speculation and guess.

I'm on Salty's side, except I don't agree with Salty on all points if that makes any sense. To me, this is really simple and everyone is making a big deal about it. I'm not an IFR pilot, but I'm very familiar with the terrain of WV. With minor exceptions, the only roads with straight...

I'm not a be EM fan, but I agree. This whole thing reminds me of the Nevil Shute story "Slide Rule", where he describes the competing construction of a private sector and public sector airships, R100 and R101. With the caveat that it seems to me that if a company has been around too long, and...

:) The funny thing is that if you're designing something out of wood, typical concrete, plain old steel, or almost any normal building material, you're LUCKY if the material values stay within 1 significant digit of accuracy. I shouldn't speak much to the mechanical side of things, that's not...

Random thought of the day - I'd rather take a ride in your bus than in either of the two current US spacecraft, let alone any from any other country. Re the air leaks, it would be cool if it were possible to fill the air systems up with orange smoke and fix all the leaks at once. And if anyone...

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In my head, a confident person is someone that is absolutely willing to question their choices, because they're 100% comfortable being wrong from time to time. But a little negativity can be good too, I think. A friend of mine used to describe a certain mindset as "there we were, fat dumb and...

Multi-piece rims, compressed air tanks, and women that act like I'm cute all make me nervous. Flying at night in a single engine aircraft, or working on a live electrical panel do too, but much less so than the first three things. So I also carry one of those inflator things. Mine's old...I'd...

I've seen things priced like that in supermarkets. I think the theory is that their customers are bad at math. Or, the person doing the pricing just doesn't care.