I used to have offices over by the American Cemetery. One summer 10-15 years back, a Spitfire and an ME-109 came and practiced a mock dogfight over us, then flew back over at treetop level and waved … (View Post)

Ahead of Truman [re-elected] and Reagan [re-elected], ever so slightly behind Trump [not re-elected], Clinton [re-elected] and Carter [not re-elected]. A little further behind Obama [re-elected] and … (View Post)

Especially now we know that the environmental damage for flying is a multiple worse than we believed (due to the formation of contrails which actually dominate the calculated carbon cost of the fuel … (View Post)

It is, however, a *great* example of something that the observer *can* take to be offensive, or not. Which is independent of whether the artist intends offence. And this is the pickle that people get… (View Post)

Let's say they are travelling at 0.125 light speed, they have light speed communications, and that was a vessel out looking for civilisations to conquer. They found us 32 years ago. It took 4 years f… (View Post)