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@Polerider3 @libhawkish I realize now this may not have been a serious post.

@Polerider3 @libhawkish This is the exact area we keep the silos, and a primary target in any exchange. He still should be fine as long as he is more than ten or so miles from the fields and has a decent basement he can stay a week or too in. But basically anywhere else that’s remote is better.

As someone with an extreme fear of nuclear war, I've made the decision to move the family to somewhere safer--rural North Dakota. About as far as you can get from population centers. If nothing else, we'll be safe from the warheads.

@NBCNews The fact you even considered making this a story is the most damning possible insight into how terrible the media tends to be. You should be ashamed and appalled but I’m sure that would cause you to lose a minute from your busy day misinterpreting stories, and also 50¢ or so.

The solar eclipse will cost America almost $700 million in lost productivity nbcnews.to/2wpX0ER

@AST_ute @chrismaheras_ It’s because you say it in that order and there is zero reason to change it. How does “smaller period of time to larger” have any actual advantages and make any more sense?

@chrismaheras_ It's cause Americans want to be different, thats literally it

I’ll never see the logic behind MM/DD/YYYY

@chrismaheras_ It’s how you say it.

@SpeedShot7 No, we must convert Phobos and Deimos into giant space stations as well.

Colonizing Mars is misguided , we should focus all our efforts on settling the Moon

@AngelicaWorld19 @Doha104p3 The Ukrainians never even fielded this many aircraft.

@skenzyme @AretawanTruth @CovertShores This is only valid if Russia hasn’t been striking infrastructure already, which they have, so the options are either hit back in kind or take it anyway.

@AretawanTruth @CovertShores All that is true, but striking infrastructure away from the front invites Russia to strike infrastructure away from the front, and Ukraine will run out of infrastructure first. It now looks like the US gov shares at least part of my concern. 😬 politico.eu/article/energy…

@Iamnotindanger_ @basedmurica @CatholicOrca It’s a blatant war of colonial annexation that uses the exact same arguments Hitler did to justify the invasion of Poland.

@S_D_S_1988 @robert_savitsky @smmmmss2 @RightWingCope Falcon nines do not fail. You may be confusing the operational rocket family with the one in development, which has exploded a couple of times on test flights with no payload. SpaceX had launched more orbital missions this year so far than the rest of the world combined.

@robert_savitsky @smmmmss2 @RightWingCope Lol you know they explode, you (probably) read the news That you're ignoring the obvious failures tells me you know what flavour boots spacex is wearing today I don't bother wasting my precious time debating muskstans 😘

Elon is NOT handling the divorce well

@UpdatingOnRome My understanding was that Greek and Roman gods co-developed from the same source, but had split before they even settled in Italy and Greece. They also frequently shared myths and customs through Mediterranean trade routes, but the Roman’s already had their own equivalent gods.

@hauntmoto @FBScienceSub He’s directly addressing your claims, while you are incoherently babbling.

@FBScienceSub Keep talking to yourself, it really proves your points. LOL. SO EDGY!

When you see a plane taxiing at 400kph, get back to us. #FacebookScience #PhysicsFail

@kirawontmiss @javoruswillwin The one that lost is a caiman, not a crocodile. Jaguars often hunt in the water, and caimans are a regular prey item for them.

@javoruswillwin statement still stand the crocodile still lost in his natural habitat

losing when you have home field advantage is so embarrassing

@Point_of_Gold @62MileClub Psychological effects of mars trips are not small capsule dependent.

@62MileClub Only OldSpace is even contemplating sending a tiny crew in a capsule,

The psychological challenges of a long voyage to Mars by Nick Kanas thespacereview.com/article/4755/1

@3Dmattias @62MileClub People rarely stay in an office 24/7, they leave on occasions such as nights, weekends, and lunch breaks. They also don’t generally like the cubicles, though it varies.

@62MileClub People have worked in office cubicles for decades with a slightly less glorious purpose than going to another world. 6 months is nothing.

@jakubvlasek @Cosmic_Penguin Those could also be starshield technically.

@Cosmic_Penguin There have been couple of launches without starlink views already I believe.

BTW it looks all but certain 2 out of 22 Starlink satellites on just-launched Group 7-16 are actually “Starshield” sats of the US military: * Mysterious drop outs in live cam feeds from the 2nd stage during ascent * No forward looking camera views seen as per usual practices

@pandersail @ReviewsPossum I’d eat both.

When's the last time your house got infested with butterflies?

@UkropDestroyer @creepypeoples @fasc1nate Yeah, no, thats not a normal assumption to make at all, it’s an incredible leap of logic.

@sinansalseyler @ausar_the Even much bigger cougars are so far removed from the power levels of the other animals mentioned that they are essentially incomparable.

The sheer strength many animals have almost feels unreal. Think of the biggest, strongest, most built dude you met in your life, who could throw you like 10 feet away…and then take in the fact that he’d get BODIED by a tiger, a grizzly bear, or a Nile crocodile. Fangs or not.

@RobbieJ377 @ChrisMaidmentNH @MarioNawfal It is very impractical for ANY kind of large mechanical device to have 100% availability, as repairs, upgrades, and regular maintenance do actually have to exist. This goes for everything from trains to air conditioning units, and it’s especially true for planes of all kinds.

@ChrisMaidmentNH @MarioNawfal Considering the fact that they cost $100+ million a piece, I would say yeah.