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Considering he was an admiral, does he do that more for marketing or he doesn't know a whole lot...?

The Andromeda galaxy is about four or five Moons in width across the night sky, but it is too faint to be seen in full. Here is how it would look if brighter: There are also the small and large Magellanic clouds, which are two dwarf galaxies that orbit the Milky Way. And the Milky Way itself...

Well one would think it would be common sense to know to not fly one's drone in such a situation given there could be everything from police helicopters, news helicopters, medevac helicopters, firefighting aircraft, etc...flying around.

Someone was flying a drone over the LA fires and it hit a Canadian Super Scooper plane n loan, so now the plane is grounded for at least three days.

A fun movie that really embraces the spirit of the golden age of aviation is The Rocketeer from 1991. It is one of my all-time favorite childhood movies (though it is not a children's movie per se). Also the special effects I think are very good, probably better than what you'd get today without...

The site you are on, Air Warriors:)

There was a story recently about Google's robo taxis and problems women were having where groups of men in cars would see them and start following the taxi, and the women were helpless to stop the taxi from leading the followers right to their place of residence. Also men would see the women in...

The concept looks cool, but there are plenty of examples of these small companies with such a product where they present to the public that it is perfectly safe, then they accidentally kill people and you find all manner of safety standards were violated. The most recent example was the Titan...

That's fowled up.

An interesting tidbit on the Shuttle is experts knew NASA was greatly overestimating the Shuttle's proposed capabilities, that it would never be able to maintain the launch cadence they were claiming it would have. The Soviets were deeply concerned about the Shuttle and came to the same...

Ore just that geology rocks. I had some more gems I dug up and cobbled together but I shale cut you some slack.

Geology is a rock-solid subject to make jokes about. Don't be so sedimental. It's not our fault.

So that degree gave you a rocky start?

Interestingly, when 1996's Independence Day came out, the script originally called for Will Smith's character Captain Stephen Hiller to be an Air Force pilot. However the Air Force apparently didn't want anything to do with the film as it had Area 51 in it and the military didn't yet officially...

North Korea strikes me as a very rational actor. They like to give the impression of being irrational in order to scare everybody, but that is a highly intelligent family and regime. You don't hold power for three generations by being irrational, IMO. Also, they backed down from Trump's threats...

That's Marine, with a capital M. 50 pushups for you.

Batman Returns also is a Christmas movie:) EDIT: Although if watched with family, skip the scene where the Penguin bites the guy's nose.

A problem is you guys are also looking at this from the perspective of being highly experienced professionals with multiple decades of experience. The average person doesn't know anything about military aviation and thus has no way to gauge whether these guys are really experts or not.

That is actually a good point. You often hear about the idea of a country having a large pool of young men familiar with military skills to draw upon if needed (like guns) but having a large pool of civilian pilots is also a good idea.

The Soviets had a close to peer navy built up by the late 1970s I believe.

Don't know, that's a good idea to look into though.

Are there any good sources to learn how to do that without electrocuting myself? Like just some decent electrician and electronics knowledge? We had a guy at work who was tasked with doing some cleaning, which involved spraying Simple Green and wiping areas with rags. Well he went into the...

Has General Public ever really been intellectual though?

I live in a rural area where there's a lot of open farmland. I have always been very tempted to make some type of UFO-shaped, flying saucer drone (complete with lights) and fly it at night. Probably would be illegal though.

What happens if the enemy jams or shoots down your drone, or even hacks it, or jams or shoots out your satellite?

That used to be an argument back in the '90s as well, that the future would consist of lighter, more mobile armored vehicles. Then we invade Iraq again and it is found that the only vehicle with enough armor to fight through various areas are the tanks. And the other vehicles all had to have...

Why have people been seeing such large groups of them flying around? My sister and her friend live in that area and have been wondering what they are.

How can anyone really know this though? Until all these whiz-bang new missiles are really tested (i.e. a hot war or conflict) I don't think anyone can say for sure that carriers are obsolete. The Chinese certainly seem to value carriers, and also remember that carriers aren't just about...

You guys are weird. Can't it be said that BOTH the Navy and the Army are kinda like two legs on the same soldier when it comes to winning wars? Yes, wars are often decided on land, but the land force (army) is often supplied by sea (navy). And both said land and sea forces also depend on air...

Godwin's Law?:)

Keep in mind though that Altman is not an AI expert. He dropped out of Stanford two years into a computer science degree, and from what I've read, it was other Ph.D computer scientists who developed the technology for OpenAI. Now if he himself had developed it, that would be different, but I do...

I know it as every old movie says made in Technicolor.

What have the F-15 air crews been up to? Also, what ship is that a picture of that HuggyU2 posted? Sorry for the cluelessness.

I've read that the Japanese ships had to rely on flags and firing flares to be able to target ships whereas American ships had mechanical computers that allowed them to hit back with much better accuracy. So even if the Edsall lacked such, the Japanese probably weren't too much more advanced.

What causes them to get cut and disrupted?

Were they prone to getting shot down? All I can find is that the Iraqi military has been taking delivery of them from the U.S.

So what was at the time an old design was still very difficult to sink? That must've been a very impressive design.

OTOH though, the career professor may have refined their methods of teaching to be razor sharp, whereas the professor in the top program who did cutting edge research may not have the first clue how to go about teaching their field and sometimes it isn't even the professor that teaches at such...

C'mon, 2099? No one can predict that far out. That would be like predicting 1999 in 1924. China might be a liberal democracy, Japan might be a dictatorship, and the United States may no longer exist, having fractured for whatever reason.

People also thought that it was a foregone conclusion that the Soviet Union would fall to Germany and that the Cold War would go nuclear.

The Wehrmacht by the time of D-Day had been heavily ground down and even then, a massive deception operation had to be conducted by the Allies in order to deceive the Germans on just where the landings would occur. The build up to such an invasion would be spotted by the United States and Taiwan...

What makes you so sure China's proficiency and equipment are worse? If history has taught us anything, it is that you NEVER underestimate your opponent. The Chinese have problems, but they might well surprise everyone in a future conflict. Also, are you saying in your view that Ukraine...

Excuses, excuses. Old guys are the ideal: I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I’m too old to track down terrorists. In today’s military thinking, you can’t be older than 42 to join the military. They’ve got the whole thing backwards. Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they...

Thousands of tanks (although the Soviets also produced tens of thousands of their own tanks), but also tons (literally) of food, fuel, hundreds of thousands of Jeeps and trucks, boots, radios, machine tools, steel, locomotives and box cars and rails, airplanes, etc...

Spun up their full capabilities? Pretty sure they already have spun them up about as much as they can. If Putin could be pumping out tens of thousands of just T-34s to bum-rush the Ukrainians with, I'm sure he would. Also I would dispute that they could win a protracted conflict. Maybe right...

Many of the anti-Ukraine people are not isolationist, they argue that Russia can't take Ukraine now, so Ukraine can't fall to it. Many also view Ukraine and Zelensky as no better than Russia (I disagree with this but it's a view many on the Right hold). Many also resent the money being spent on...

They'll probably have lifelike androids you can rent or buy.

While I understand the importance of Mars from a human survival standpoint, I don't have much desire to actually visit there. I mean it's just a big 'ole desert. I would however love to visit the Moon. You have the big beautiful Earth in the sky and pretty much instantaneous communications back...

At least you got a normal AR. Here in NY state, semi-autos now require a special license (which effectively bans them for those who do not have non-family references) but for those semi-autos you CAN buy, you have to get an AR pretzel variant or "Franken-gun" version to be legal in terms of an...

He had written: They have done an excellent job making the assembly simpler and more producible. So, there is no need to exaggerate this by showing a partially assembled engine without controllers, fluid management, or TVC systems, then comparing it to fully assembled engines that do. Whoops...