Where's Montag when you need him?
There's books to be burned...
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The US will go back to space in a big way the moment it looks like the other contenders look likely to become the primary presence. China would be my guess. No American president will want to be the one who "Lost Space to the <insert other nation>".
I would be curious to know if there would be the same urge if the other contenders are private corporations, and whether the US would be happy to let that happen.
@xpz393
The Reg's domain suffix dictates that it's actually spelt "laser"
Irrespective of where you are in the world, laser is the only correct spelling.
It is an acronym of the following phrase:
Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation
There is nowhere in the world where stimulation is spelled with a Z
Jesus got on fairly well with prostitutes but those parts of the gospels were never very popular in english churches
The idea that Mary Magdelene was a prostitute was an invention of Pope Gregory, and has no basis in the original gospels. Western Christianity has taken this on board, but Eastern Orthodoxy has no comparable belief.
Probably because 'deactivated' is potentially reversible.
If you read TFA it does say that if a firearm is deactivated to meet UK requirements it involves welding solid the barrel and chamber, and cutting away sections of the action, so reactivation is unlikely or improbable.
I was rung by Mike, who wanted to talk to me about the recent road accident I was involved in.
So not to disappoint him, I said "Oh yes, it was about a month ago, a fatal accident, nobody survived".
That didn't seem to put him off his script, so we carried on for a minute or two until it had sunk in, then he said "You bastard" and hung up.
I also have some sympathy with the idea that spilling details of operational capabilities in public forum is also probably a very bad idea too
But that's not what was asked for. Congress simply asked for a measure of how successful the programs have been, and they refused even to answer that.
"Every passenger oxygen system installed on our airplanes is tested multiple times before delivery to ensure it is functioning properly, and must pass those tests to remain on the airplane."
This is bullshit. The part that is found to be failing is the release mechanism on the oxygen cylinders. These are a one-time-use pyrotechnic device which, by its design, cannot be tested once installed. So those particular items installed on the aircraft have never been tested. They may have tested others of the same batch, but even that is doubtful.
This is a very recent elitism. You don't have to have a university degree to be called an engineer.
Telephone installers in the UK have been called engineers for over a century, indeed the whole telephone side of the Post Office in the UK was called the engineering division at one time.
And locomotive drivers in the US have also been known as engineers for over a century.
There are many other trades requiring hands on work with tools to which the term engineer could be applied.
The term software engineer needs to die though.