How does the Navy control rats aboard its ships while on long deployments?
Don’t let them on. Rats can swim, but have a hard time climbing up the steel hull of the ship. So to get onboard, they either need to…
If all 43 U.S. Presidents were to run for office in 2016, who would win? Also, who would be best suited to deal with the current issues?
Let’s start with the ones that don’t stand a chance. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler,…
Why did Walmart prices suddenly go up? I thought they were big enough to eat the tariffs for years.
The price on all imported goods should have gone up immediately after the Tantrum of the Opera imposed the tariffs. However, big retailers like Walmart have warehouses all…
Why do liberals not want to hear a Republican’s point of view?
My sister is a MAGA and nothing will change her mind, not even facts. The other day she told me that trump and the republicans passed laws that…
Is it true that Space Shuttle Challenger’s crew compartment had extremely disturbing contents when the US Navy finally recovered it from the ocean?
I was working with NASA and was at a meeting at Johnson Space Center in the 1987. I met an engineer who took me on a tour of…
In the winter of 1993, while bulldozing salt from the Chehrabad Salt Mine in Iran, miners came across a body with long white hair and a beard, and some artifacts
These included the remains of a body, a lower leg inside a leather boot, three iron knives, a woolen half trouser, a silver needle, a sling, parts of…
If Earth is indeed four billion years old, is that a sufficient time for the lifeforms on Earth to have evolved just by chance?
This is a wolf: and THIS is a chihuahua: There is something like 20 thousand generations between them since they shared a common ancestor. Most tetrapods (land animals…
Why can’t the ISS take a picture of Earth and prove to the Flat Earth Society that Earth is not really flat?
Recognize this picture? How about this one? See where I’m going with this? Here’s a view of Florida from the ISS. The point is that the ISS isn’t…
Are there any 128-bit operating systems?
What most people don’t realise is that 128-bit processors already exist. And they’ve existed for decades, too. So do 256-bit and 512-bit processors. Problem is that they don’t really have…
Is Karoline Leavitt more of a good or a bad person, objectively speaking?
Bad. She doesn’t have to work. She’s the pretty wife of one of Trump’s friends and Big Donors. Her husband is thirty years older and rich. She lies…