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So, back of an envelope, that's approx. 250 times the tidal forces of the Moon, at its closest approach, which would rapidly decrease on...

I would say it's not a joke. It was drama. The marines now sometimes serve as a landbased force. I remember the battle of Khe Sanh...

You must not fight in the bar, but you may fight in the parking lot. You must leave the bar if you are prepared to fight, and you accept...

With a little searching (not using AI, cough, cough), it looks like the reference may be to many bar fights involving Marines taking...

My friend Bill Stapp was in the army in about 1950. They asked for fifteen volunteers for the Marines. Bill volunteered. That was it...

Pripyat. The home of Chernobyl.

Unlike the Earth, stars have unstable magnetic fields. Our sun swaps polarities every eleven years. I assume every star is similar.

In Spain I was quite taken with off the shelf gazpacho that came in a carton. My relatives informed me that gazpacho should not be...

Jet engines run at 1500 C but the turbine blades don't melt. Ninety years of engineering.

Gadget madness. Too elaborate to summarize. Is it hyperLEGO?

An extremely massive and unwieldy weapon. I knew about the WWI railroad artillery but for WWII Deutschland outdid itself. To bear the...

Exponents are about multiplication, and 1 is the multiplicative identity. If exponents represented repeated addition the zeroeth power...

Or, more generally, ##a^{n+m}=a^na^m## implies ##a^0=1##, because otherwise ##a^{n+0}\neq a^n##.

It's coming whether we like it or not. They're doing a pretty good job already so it might not make that much difference. It's...

Here it is playing rock guitar. Much better than a keyboard with a pitch wheel.