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The body could be a neutron star or black hole. Maybe the accretion disk can intersect the earth causing havoc. A book about a black...

The trouble is if you look at the earth from above the north pole then counterclockwise, from above the south pole clockwise. Same with...

If you are interested in small men in sumo, look at Enho. He did quite well until the larger men learned to counter his skills. The...

What is more likely? That we will travel through time, or that two massive bodies will collide? And yet, how many wonderful stories have...

I'm not going to do any calculations but feel that's not nearly enough to have such a large effect.

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.