Three equalish blocs, who hate each other. Almost impossible to manage. Whatever path any government takes, it's got two thirds of the deputies against it. A system with the brakes of a Bugatti … (View Post)

They think it's Moldova... ... It was some time ago (View Post)

Ask one of the children which bag I should choose and then take an apple from the other one. (View Post)

Two triumphs of engineering kept Concorde flying as long as it did. One was the aeronautics that built it. The other was the financial engineering around the time BA was privatised that kept it going… (View Post)

FPT: There was barely an economic market for Concorde at the time. London/Paris to New York was the only one that airlines ever found, and I'm not sure about Paris. And now we have video calls, … (View Post)