The liftoff from the moon on Apollo 15, 16 and 17 was filmed. Was there a technical reason for this or just because they could?

Just one little nit to start: the videos you see of the liftoffs taken from outside the LM weren’t “filmed” — they were captured on a video camera…

Why do people pretend that Europe is a developed country when even Walmart doesn’t want to be there?

1. Europe is not a country, it’s a continent with app. 50 countries – or nations. 2. Walmart opened stores in several European countries, including Germany, and fell…

Do guys actually find thigh gaps attractive?

I asked my cousin brother this and all I could get from him was a perplexed look and a question “What is that,anyway?” I told him what it…

Why isn’t allowing 20 million unvetted migrants into a country considered an extraordinary lapse in national security by Democrats?

Explain this to me like I am in kindergarten. The estimated unvetted immigrant population when Trump left office was 10.3 million. It is now 11 million. Are you…

Why is it so hard for some Americans to understand that making foreign countries pay to access our markets is a win for the US worker? Is it partisan blindness or just a lack of basic economic understanding?

I have two shops. One shop in London, England and another in, say, Houston. USA. I sell the same things for the same prices. Then one day I…

Could an Ohio class SSBN act in a hunter-killer role if it had to?

Actual former XO of an Ohio class SSBN (USS Florida SSBN-728) then CO of a Los Angeles-class SSN (USS Indianapolis SSN-697), then commodore of an SSN squadron, answering….

Why is Ultraman pessimistic about Musk’s “space brain”? What went wrong with the Space AI Data Center?

The Earth can no longer contain Musk’s ambition. This tech mogul has unveiled a plan that could change the world: to transform SpaceX into a million satellites into…

Why is MAGA so angry at Trump about the Epstein files?

Natalie Winters, a 24 year old MAGA republican and Steve Bannon protege put it better than I ever could:“I just think it’s frankly very grifty to have spent…

The U.S. farm collapse just got worse. 88 percent of exports wiped out in days. How will Americans put food on the table?

This is what economists including myself tried to explain months ago. The USA voted for a man whom they knew was incompetent and a criminal proven in court…

What became of the 100,000 Americans who fled to the USSR during the Great Depression?

Corpses. The fate of the early immigrants to the USSR is well documented, thanks to the obsession of the Finnish Lutheran Church on bookkeeping. Some 15,000 American and…