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My opinion, the Original Trilogy place to build is Endor. Functionally, from a Landscape architecture perspective, tall conifer trees are viable in both California and Florida. I think Endor works from a variety of perspectives: the ride could be a speeder bike coaster as you dodge AT ATs. But it also has an entertainment aspect: fireside storytelling with Yoda, C-3PO, or any number of characters.

Former Walt Disney World VP Dan Cockerell on who killed the Tatooine-Themed Star Wars land: "We got a call one day. They said, ‘Well, we got some news for you all.’ And the Imagineering guys, they’ve heard this line many, many times during their careers. And I had never been through this.” "They said, ‘Well, yesterday Bob Iger met with Kathleen Kennedy, who as a lot people may know was sort of George Lucas’ protégé and headed up Lucasfilm. And they had a conversation. They had a meeting. And Kathleen Kennedy, her point of view was, there are way more Disney Star Wars stories ahead of us than behind us. So we really should think about do we want to build a Tatooine, and build what all the fifty-somethings remember Star Wars is or do we want to build something else which is going to appeal to all the upcoming generations who are going to know the new stories.' And that day Tatooine was killed at the Studios. And all of those concepts were put on a shelf and I’m sure they are sitting in a vault, and I’m sure they’re going be shown someday about what that land looked like and what the attractions were going to be." How disastrous was this decision?

@PrometheusIsGod @TrentTelenko Somewhere in the Middle East there is a series of E5s building a “no bullsh*t” story about their involvement in detaining Mr. Fuqd.

@TrentTelenko Dude it’s a joke. The name says “I’m Totally Fucked”

Oh My! The first major crack in the Mullah Regime has arrived. ⬇️

@Osinttechnical How in the F does Iran still have missiles to shoot????

Iran fired a pair of intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint U.S.-UK base in the Indian Ocean. One missile failed in flight, and another was engaged by a US Navy destroyer using an SM-3 missile.

A Marine died of a 100% service-connected cancer caused by toxic burn pit exposure. That Marine is the father of my children. He died on November 9, 2025. I was at his bedside for 141 days. I watched everything that happened to him. And we are still fighting. They gave him 60% PDRL for something unrelated… and denied the cancer that actually killed him. His children are still waiting. No TRICARE. No insulin coverage. Our son is type 1 diabetic. He will die without his medicine. We were told his children would be taken care of. That was said publicly. But months later, nothing has been put in place. I don’t know who to turn to anymore. If you’re reading this, please help me get this in front of someone who can fix it. Call your representatives. Tag people. Share this. Because right now, his children are the ones paying the price. Please share this so it reaches someone who can fix it. #StandWithSgtLloyd #Veteran #NoVeteranLeftBehind #BurnPits #PACTAct #Veterans #MilitaryFamilies #Type1Diabetes #TRICARE #Accountability @DeptVetAffairs @HouseVetAffairs @SecVetAffairs

@UAPWixy I’ll be honest I thought he was going to say the tall whites wanted rebounds and blocks.

🚨"What to the Tall Whites want with Humanity?"🚨 "Your guardian angels are like brothers who love you. There's never any fear with, this is a sensation that your guardian angels are there with you, and because each of us, I believe, has two guardian angels, at least, who are always with us and have nothing else to do but keep track of each one of us." "One of the major things I'm trying to do in my books, is I'm trying to tell my grandkids how it was for me, and I'm trying to point out to them that when you're personally dealing with the extraterrestrials, you feel differently than when you're personally dealing with your guardian angels." Former Nellis AFB in Nevada 🇺🇸 weather observer, Charles Hall speaking about what he wants the world to know about his interactions with this Alien species, the Tall Whites & what he experienced! H/T: @AlchemyAmerican

@jacksonKMBC9 @kmbc @TYWaltDisney Is this story posted anywhere online? YouTube or KMBC website?

What a night… Turner edited the hell out of this story, amazing work. Proud of all my colleagues for the great work, day-in and day-out. @kmbc. Huge thank you to Butch Rigby and the folks at @TYWaltDisney for helping us tell the story of Disney’s origins in Kansas City.

@11Yanks Don’t care. Still the best kit since 2012. I bought 2. LFG 🇺🇸

As much as I love the kit, that white panel on the back is weird. You basically have to get the number, or it looks awful. Also as someone who doesn't like wearing players' names on my jerseys, you can't get the number without a name. So either you go with a blank white panel (which looks awful) or you're stuck with a number and a name.

@the_bonnfire Don’t care - still the best kit since 2012. I bought 2. LFG 🇺🇸

The blank panel on the back is a MASSIVE whiff by Nike. The amount of people who would have purchased this jersey without a name or number will shrink considerably with the blank panel on the back. It looks hideous without a name and number. Huge error by Nike on #USMNT design

@KrownCityKing Love the support for local businesses. But I moved to California in 2014 for work and cannot imagine having a hardshell taco ever again. Corn or flour tortilla, warmed, with asada or pastor, cilantro, lime, onions, salsa. The way it should be.

No one outside of #KansasCity knows how big this is! Best taco shells ever! I’ve been hording boxes like Elaine did “the sponge.”

@AlexiLalas The fact that we have amazing World Cup kits and hope in the team means I have nothing to complain about. LFG 🇺🇸

Hello Sunshine. What are we yelling about?

@ManagerTactical They FINALLY got it right, and reportedly thanks to input from the players. The red stripes should be a standard kit in perpetuity.

Let’s be honest, these USMNT 🇺🇸 jerseys look good! They clearly took some level of inspiration from 1994 then made more modern and unique. What a massive upgrade from that monstrosity that was the 2022 World Cup jerseys.

@USMNT Ordered multiple. Best shirt we’ve had since Waldo. These - or a version of - need to be the standard home shirt in perpetuity.

These are our Stars & Stripes. 🇺🇸 Kits for the believers who dare to want more.

@mtylermartin @PeteMundo As a general principle, I think I’m skeptical about a climate map which is in broad and straight lines. Which means it’s either skewed date to get the straight line, or the image maker.

@PeteMundo Yeah make it go another 50 miles to the east please

Hey if this helps Kansas City get more Colorado weather and less Mississippi weather -- count me in!

I guess my point is that solving engineering problems for a bail out scenario from a tanker - while I think it is a glaring shortcoming that It hasn’t been done - it may be more cost-effective to quickly pivot that capital into a operational UAV tanker for both navy and AF. Because in a western Pacific conflict, what happens if we actually lose air crew in the vicinity of the SCS or Taiwan? In WW2, the subs and PBYs played that lifeguard role. Now we don’t have either - as I would doubt the navy would allocate SSNs or SSBNs in a littoral environment. So who picks up that crew even if they did eject over water? That goes for both attack aircraft and tankers. If we can’t solve the entire “chain of custody” from ejection to rescue with high confidence, then UAVs have to become the solution.

I agree with your first point on the equipment location. You're also spot on that engineers should be looking for ways to give our warfighters the best chance to get home. You lose me a bit on the UAV tanker for the Air Force though. Navy? Yes—that should be much easier at the technical level. A fully automated flying boom, however? That's brand-new territory. These tankers will also need to be sizable because of the real-world physics: you still have to fly X distance to get on station and you still have to carry X offload. This is honestly the one area where I think stealth actually makes sense—so they can stay on station undetected (or mostly undetected). Depending on the scenario you choose as your model, that will heavily dictate the size of those tankers. Tactical tankers the size of the Navy’s current buddy tankers simply won’t cut it. But all this said, I’m at a huge disadvantage in terms of awareness of what we’re currently able to build and what technologies are available. I only see what’s public, and I know there’s much more behind the curtain. Good stuff though!

Your take on this subject surprises me. Weren't you a KC-135 Aircraft Commander? We stopped flying with parachutes around 1994 at Loring AFB, and there were other Active Duty units that did the same. It wasn't until 2008 that it was finally written into the command-wide regulations. I don't recall ever hearing any crewmember lamenting the fact that we didn't have parachutes anymore. Matter of fact, as the person responsible for checking to see that the parachutes were in good order during preflight, I don't recall any other crew positions ever even looking at the parachutes. The parachutes, as I'm sure you know, were stored at the rear of the aircraft, on the right-hand side, just above the boom pod—roughly 100 feet away from where the pilot, copilot, and navigator sit in the cockpit during flight. The process to put one on and then properly tighten it took a minimum of two or three minutes. Helmets would be required at high altitude, and that would add a bit more time. In the event that the aircraft departed controlled flight, the chance of walking down the cargo bay to retrieve your parachute is zero. And I can tell you that as someone who walked in the cargo compartment in severe turbulence, although never during uncontrolled flight. If the aircraft was still flying but severely crippled, my chances as a boom operator would be better—but what pilot would vacate their seat for several minutes to put on a parachute when the airplane is barely controllable? How much time do you have before "crippled" turns into "departed from controlled flight"? In the event of running out of fuel, it's pretty much the same: plenty of time in theory, so the boom operator might get theirs on and even bail out. One pilot might risk getting out of their seat to don a chute, but the other? How much time do you have before low fuel becomes no fuel? I flew 324 sorties for 1,353 hours in the KC-135A and R models over four years. I did the airbridge at the Azores in Aug '90 and Desert Shield. I rotated home on a fluke and missed the war, only to go right back afterward for multiple deployments. I saw near misses during rendezvous, I saw unauthorized formation flying, I saw more than a couple of breakaways, we had an F-15 do a barrel roll around our jet, and I saw more than a couple of in-flight emergencies. I've also seen both 2 gees and -0.5 gees in the aircraft. I've seen initial buffet demonstrations. Now, I realize that there were a whole lot of other tanker crewmembers out there who had more years, more hours, and more experience, but I have never talked to anyone who had ever considered jumping out of the aircraft. And I never considered it myself as even a possibility. The only time I ever heard of bailouts being discussed in a serious manner was during EWO mission discussions, where the possibility of giving our receiver all of our gas arose because they needed it to get to the target. In that case, our plan was to fly the jet clear of the receiver until it was close to running out of fuel and then bail out. That's it. That is the only serious discussion I ever heard. Of course, pulling alert had ended about 10-15 years before you started flying the KC-135. Now, as I recall, there were several arguments for removing them. The primary was the workload associated with their upkeep. We had about 30 aircraft on base. Each aircraft had 8 parachutes. That's around 240 parachutes. By the way, these parachutes run between $5,000–$10,000 each. So we're talking an inventory value of somewhere between $1.2–$2.4 million. Maybe large contracts bring that price down, or maybe not. Each parachute had to be inspected roughly every 180 days. At 180 days, it had to be pulled from the aircraft, inspected, and then repacked. That takes roughly three hours. Extrapolate this out, and it would take on average 23 hours a week for one Life Support person. That's a fair amount of work. But this doesn't include the effort required to go out and inspect the parachutes in the aircraft or keeping track of them as aircraft deploy and return. Of course, there are other items on the jet that Life Support also has to inspect, so these tasks would be combined. Point is: We are not talking about a trivial amount of work or money to purchase, install, and maintain these parachutes. Scale it up to the fleet: roughly 376 jets, 3,008 parachutes... carry the two... yeah... got it... that's $15 to $30 million. And the likelihood of them being used? Well, let's see now, the fleet has been flying for 69 years, since 1957. A halfway decent estimate as to how many flight hours have been flown: 22 million flight hours. Maybe sortie counts would be a better metric in this case, though. So, if we guesstimate an average sortie is 6.5 hours, that would work out to 3.38 million sorties. And how many bailouts or attempted bailouts am I aware of? THREE. Maybe I don't know about all of them. Maybe there were a few more. Maybe there were some where the crew didn't tell anyone because they'd get in trouble. You're 74 times more likely to be struck by lightning once in your lifetime than to need a bailout on a single KC-135 sortie. You're about twice as likely to become a billionaire than to need a bailout on a single KC-135 sortie. You're about twice as likely to win an Olympic medal than to need a bailout on a single KC-135 sortie. I asked Grok to crunch some numbers about my flight time, and it says "This means you had about a 0.02875% chance (or roughly 1 in 3,478 odds) of encountering at least one bailout scenario over your 324 flights." While I may be doing napkin math with some of these numbers, the overall concept is pretty solid. Do you think this rises to the level of an 'insane decision' and 'unforgivable'?' Cause I don't.

Totally agree - but the absurdity of paying for gear only to stow it in an un-useable location it’s almost certainly worse than any kind of costs. Something like that is indicative of bureaucracy, overriding pragmatism in the design/procurement decision cycle. You’re right, war is war and casualties are an inherent risk. But as an engineer you want to think that all of the smart minds our country has have given our war fighters the best chance to come home when they have what might be the worst day of their lives. …Also why we need to fast track a UAV tanker for the Navy and Air Force for highly contested areas.

@RG4YNWA24 @MCCCANM I see your point, but there also has a be a reasonable and responsible decision made, or things will go completely haywire. It is not possible to protect everyone. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try, but there are limits to things.

He might be the majority of blame and his comments were tone deaf. Comments like that can lose him the boot room, if he hasn’t already, But at the end of the day players have to share. Letting that long ball come down uncontested - which led to the - goal was absurd. I’ve said this many times: the most underrated part of Liverpool‘s transfer strategy is selecting players who are international team captains. They have so much leadership in the boot room. Liverpool have always policed themselves. Now is the time for leaders to lead.

@FabrizioRomano No man. It’s directed towards you

🚨 Arne Slot on the ‘boos’ from Liverpool fans: “I think and expect that it was aimed towards the team which I can completely understand”. “If you can't feel the frustration after dropping points at home against Tottenham, who are on a poor run of form”.

I’ll say this as a tax payer, and child of a naval officer. IT IS WORTH IT - WHATEVER THE COST - TO GIVE AIRCREW A LIFESAVING MEANS IN AN EMERGENCY. I can’t imagine another taxpayer thinking otherwise. Now, I agree with you that if you’re going to provide them and pay for that it should absolutely be a system that is acceptable in an emergency. But as a former badged worker at a certain company in Palmdale, California, I can attest that we have engineers who are smart enough to figure out an effective system. We know this because of all of the other stuff that they put in the air that is much more complicated. Mid air collisions are one thing. But the chance of tanker aircrew being lost in a contested aerial theater is not only likely but almost certain, because they would be key targets which aren’t stealthy. Please don’t ever nickel and dime life-saving options away. Let the damn procurement people and politicians do that. The service members should never - Always be your own advocate.

@MCCCANM Did you like the odds section?

@DanCollins2011 @JMichaelWaller @JanJekielek @EpochTimesChina Travel there a few times a year on business. Economy isn’t great but most people in Tier 1 cities seem quite happy and normal.

@JMichaelWaller @JanJekielek @EpochTimesChina Tell me you nothing about China in one post.

Robert L. Suettinger says U.S. actions in Venezuela and Iran may be forcing leaders in China to reconsider how they view President Trump. “I think that there has been a level of shock that the United States has not only been able to, but willing to, engage in these kinds of operational military on-the-ground matters.” “I think it’s probably a matter of considerable concern and discussion… that they maybe have been wrong about Trump all along and that there is more to his policies than they had given him credit for.” “That has probably provided them with a lot of cause for concern.” “It is going to be a major topic of conversation in the hallways at the National People’s Congress, in the back rooms of Zhongnanhai, and certainly in the discussions that go on within China.”

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@Panagiotou90St Nope. Marco isn’t military, but if he was think Ike is Marco’s style. No showboating. Give the spotlight to the warriors and negotiators and the White House. Results speak for themselves.

Marco Rubio arrives to negotiate with Cuban communists.