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The US runs a very effective underwater listening system. That's why the Walker Spy Ring, which revealed in to the Soviets, along with daily Naval communication codes was so incredibly damaging.

The forces at liftoff are not that great. Space for me, but not the way it is now. I am more an a Apollo era guy.

Evening before. Unwrap, rinse, dry, remove bone-side membrane, put on any rub and let sit, uncovered in refrigerator. Day of. Take out of refrigerator for an hour and a half before putting on grill. Use only lump charcoal, never briquettes. A chimney starter full of lump get lit, once it's going good into the grill on one side only, making certain large lumps are at bottom to ensure better air flow. Add about have a chimney more lump and mix it in. Set the grill up for indirect cooking. Heat on one side, ribs on the other. I use a Primo XL Kamado, Put temp probe on grill grate where ribs will be. I use 225f. Once its stabilized at 225 at the meat height, on they go, meat side up. After three hours check them and put them in foil, adding any moisture if I want. Now in foil, back on grill meat side down. After one hour, and no more, take them out of foil and decide how to finish them. Usually I don't add anything. Back on grill meat side up for one hour. I don't sauce them on grill. I let each person do that on their plate, but the sauce is at room temp. If doing more ribs than I have room to lay down on grill, I put the rack in a circle and use a metal skewer to hold them in that position. For the last 15 mins I take out skewer and lay them flat over coals. I'm not a fan of briquettes because of the amount of binder used in them. Haven't used them for years. Only lump. I don't put any smoking wood in. I don't think they need it. The Komados are very efficient charcoal consumers, so it really doesn't take that much. I used a DigiQ tem controller for years, but now I don't always use one because I've gotten good at holding 225 by vent placement. I do use it when I want extremely accurate temp control, like on a higher end beef on weck low and slow with a top sirloin roast. I don't know if it's me or what, but it seems the quality and taste of the ribs has diminished slightly since covid. I get them at Cosco, which is always better than retail grocery stores for meat,

Ya. They all use active proximity fuses, but without getting into a huge discussion on fusing a missile, the objective is to keep the warhead as small as possible so the missile is lighter and more maneuverable. In the old days of butt shots, if the shooter and the target were roughly the same speed, the closure would be simply the missiles speed, nominally, a bit more than mach. The two aircraft would cancel each other out. In a head on shot, a Sidewinder L variant or later, for example, the closure speed is (launch aircraft+missile velocity+target velocity), so let's say close to mach 2 to 3. That means the fuse has tremendously less time to determine where the target is, (these are "aimed" blasts, not simply explosions), send the command and allow for detonation and get the shrap into the target. A US F-18 drilled an Iraqi Mig with a Sidewinder right at the min range for a headon, and is was figured to be right around a mach 3 end game. Obviously, a hyper would challenge to solve a mach 6 kill zone time period. That is really, really hard. Still, there are other ways.

Typically, the most challenging problem is not tracking, it is fusing. The closure speeds are so incredible that the kill zone time is milliseconds or less, and fuses just aren't fast enough. Solving that problem is what allowed the US to pioneer all aspect heat seekers, ie., no more need to bbe looking up the tailpipe when firing, you could shoot them in the face. That's why we called the Sidewinder variant that was developed as an all aspect missile the "Lipwinder." There are other ways to engage hypers.

The link claims it was in a carry on, so not checked. Checked isn't a problem, if you know the rules. Having one in a bag at a TSA screening area is, unless you are in the group that it is allowed.

Karine Jean-Pierre will probably claim that he wasn't talking about "that" queen.

I'm over the guy. He's past the point of no return. I hope he comes around and does well for us, but I'm done with him.

Are you serious? There is an entire youtube industry based on her incompetent and incomprehensible quotes. She is a laughing stock. Pure brilliance, and this is the norm for her.

It is an obvious truth that some systemic problems exist and have been apparent for a number of years. But.....There is no excuse for these people to mishandle documents that they knew were never to be in the places they were ultimately found. There is no excuse that "my staff did it and I didn't know." You know, the Nancy Pelosi horsecrap that she didn't know about enhanced interrogation techniques while a member of the House Intel Committee because she sent a staff member to the CIA brief that explained that, and that staff member never told her? Disgraceful. That is gross BS that would get any military officer fired within minutes. I don't think indictments are in order unless someone committed obvious sabotage or tried to make money or gain some other advantage off of them, but this is pure nonsense. Prosecutorial discretion should prevail, but there is no excuse.

Yet way more intelligent, qualified and mentally functional than the frontrunners of either party.

Kamikaze candidate. Aimed at Trump, and I hope it works out. Either way, all better than Biden.

Why post all this political nonsense? It's quite simple. Looks to be a clear hypoxic event, where everybody lost consciousness. Two flights of two each F-16's were launched. These NORAD alert aircraft are normally armed with AMRAAM and Sidewinder missiles, chaff and flares for defensive purposes, and a few hundred rounds of 20mm bullets. The aircraft was intercepted. Flares were deployed to get attention when there was no radio response. A sonic boom occurred as the trailing F-16's attempted to catch up. Done at high altitude, which this was, there is very little danger of blowing out windows, etc. Cessna ran out of fuel and spun in. Nothing political about it.

It isn't exaggerated. it is completely false. The "rule" is that is is not illegal to consider ESG funds. That, in no way, codifies a need to invest in these funds. There is no tipping in the waters on this. It would result in a revolution, and it is a nonsense claim.

Not sure what this means, but 401k administrators have a fiduciary responsibility to their subscribers. Guessing monetary policy has nothing to do with it.

Don't worry. The issue is non existent. The claim is false.

What I offered, is that what you said is absolutely not true. What you said was this: "you're 401k is not allowed to invest in companies with low social credit scores. That’s about 40 trillion dollars in us retirement accounts." The Biden thing allows 401k's to invest in that universe, if they choose to do so, but absolutely does not demand it. That would cause civil war.

I absolutely believe it is not true.

Where did you find this? I am unaware of this.

Cheektowaga. Land of the crabapple. When the US embassy in Tehran got taken over by lunatic Iranian folks, I was serving as an attack pilot on USS Kitty Hawk. We were in Subic Bay, the Philippines, leaving in two days for the US at the end of a long cruise. Instead, we were directed to the Indian Ocean to make ready for a rescue. Some school in Cheektowaga sent us a giant poster wishing us good luck and prayers. The ship displayed it on our transit.

Winter.

And who do we have in the on deck circle. Pray people, pray

Absolute, uniformed, irrational threat to national security insanity.

Don't know about cool, but clearly worse at governance.

There are very few things you can do to pay tribute the those who died in service. During workups off San Diego for my second cruise aboard Kitty Hawk, we had a new guy who was having a lot of trouble getting aboard. We had done two full workups, (7 day at sea periods to exercise things before the big cruise), and he had not yet flown at night. The Navy does not normally allow this, but in this case they did, but this was to be his "trick or treat" opportunity. The plan was to have him fly two day sorties on one day, then a night sortie the next. As additional information, the CAG LSO, (if you don't know what that means, you can google it), told CAG he wouldn't wave him, ie allow him to come aboard. CAG insisted that he did, or he would be relieved. There were some "social issues" involved. Anyway I was to lead him on the first of thee two day sorties, some simple bombing thing. We did the sortie and he did OK. That afternoon, on his second sortie, and the weather was perfect, during the recovery, he had an approach turn stall behind Kitty Hawk and ejected at about 200' nearly inverted. He was crushed by the impact with the sea. Anyway, to the point, he was a true gentleman, but he was in over his head. Every year, his high school in Baton Rouge awards a personal courage award in his name. They don't know what happened. Prior to announcement of of the winner, I find out who it's going to be and send an email telling the awardee what a special man and friend he was, as I'm sure they know nothing about him.