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No. It wasn't even her idea. It was the photographer's and she went along with it. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kathy-griffin-holds-a-fake-bloody-trump-head-new-photo-shoot-1008645 quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

Companies have every right to terminated contracts with talent if the talent becomes an issue for the image of the company. I'm not saying I agree with it in every case, but I can understand it in this one. That's less of a free speech issue and more of a company embarrassment issue. It is almost certainly something in their contract. quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

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as a botanist that expression gets under my skin As a person who occasionally dabbles in words . . . quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

I may have had exposure to them at some time early in life myself. ;) quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

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Let's not invoke Obama. This would be a major scandal with ANY previous President. quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

No. The first guy to make a "Downfall" video was a genius. Everybody else, simply hacks. quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

Third base. quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

It's warmer on the inside. quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

I would say it is likely dead. Temps are too cold for it to survive at night. Might not be dead yet if it didn't stray far from home and could snuggle up to a wall or something but yeah, absolutely dead from exposure (as opposed to old age) eventually. Snakes have an innate ability to sense temperature at a distance, so the cold may have acted as a sort of invisible fence. Depending on how far it got and how well the home was insulated it -may- still be alive. I just don't think the neighbors have much to worry about. quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

What's the current high and low temperatures there? I'm reasonably certain you have much less to worry about than the snake. Below 70 for an extended period of time is probably enough to kill it due to stress eventually. It would really prefer 80-85ish. Outside in Anchorage right now I see very little danger of a sneak snake attack. ;) quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

Folded into the FAA. I can see it, or I can at least see somebody proposing it. I'm not sure who would win in that though because the current funding isn't really all that big as it is. I'm sure there are some Randian types that would like to do away with its funding altogether, but they'd also probably want to get rid of the regulation as well. I think NASA holds a special place in government as a source of pride. No matter how big of an a-hole a President is (I'm talking Nixon, but if the shoe fits go for it), they can't go too far wrong making a phone call to astronauts doing a mission in space. It's also a part of the military / industrial complex and a way to dole out some jobs so it gets used as leverage. A very useful thing those in power. I think there's a balance to be struck between NASA and the billionaire rocketeers. I don't think you'd want the entire thing in private hands as it's also a national security issue, but I can see some advantages in scaling back certain manned missions as long as the billionaire rocketeers have those same dreams. For instance, I see no point whatsoever in NASA pursuing any manned Mars missions as long as that's where Musk is headed. I'd like to see NASA do more in terms of things that are never going to be financially viable, but are potential planet saviors. Asteroid redirect has huge implications in terms of actually saving the entire planet from disaster as well as enormous commercial spin offs in terms of mining. quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

PS One of the things that's striking about the North Korean missile program is they're roughly where the US was 60 years ago. Let that sink in. Meanwhile, one billionaire's private rocket company is pretty much unquestionably the most sophisticated space program on Earth easily besting anything NASA can do (okay, sure, NASA has reasons, I don't hold it against them). SpaceX is engineering magic. quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

It wouldn't if it was in the thicker air closer to the ground. At a "high enough" altitude, even if you're not quite out of the atmosphere officially (Karman Line), it's close enough to not matter a whole lot. When you watch a rocket launch you'll almost always hear a call out for Max-Q or Maximum Dynamic Pressure. If somebody sneezed at that moment and the rocket was yawed or pitched just a little bit out of line the entire thing would probably come apart. After that, the aerodynamic forces on the rocket are diminishing. The really impressive part is the pin-point landing. Landing at all is difficult enough, but when you consider the speeds, energy, momentum, variations in winds at altitudes, rotation of the planet, and some butterfly flapping its wings on the other side of the planet, it is -amazing-. None of that would be possible without modern computer technology. It would next to impossible to "hand fly" that as a human. Try it yourself in Kerbal Space Program. Try making just a "simple" pinpoint landing on its version of the Moon where you don't have to deal with atmosphere, planetary rotation (well, hardly), and the gravity is about 1/6th. Good luck. Oh, and be sure to give it a shot doing the suicide burn like SpaceX does. Geebus. quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

Ultimately I think this does nothing other than remove O'Reilly from Fox News. O'Reilly has a big enough following he'll survive. He'll find an outlet somewhere even if he has to start his own. The Alpha Bros will say something akin to, "Good! Now he doesn't have to be beholding to cuck standards." quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

Didn't work for Dice. Shouldn't work for this jackass. (and Dice -clearly- was just a character.) quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

Okay, that was the polite version for the subject line, so pardon my French here. FUCK YOU, Burger King. What the fuck were you thinking? Source and more. https://www.buzzfeed.com/venessawong/burger-kings-new-ad-will-hijack-your-google-home?utm_term=.rbBzdzJnR#.uqQ969QEd quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

There is what is legal, and there is what is right. No paying customer ought to ever be bumped for the stupidity of poor scheduling of crew flights. United -may- have been legally protected, but they made the worst possible decision to escalate it to a police issue. While the guy may not have standing in court, this will ultimately cost United FAR more than if they had hired a private charter to repo the crew. quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

I think he probably loves his daughter. I'm not so far out on the deep end I think there's anything actually going on. It pisses off some people, and sometimes it's fun to watch their reactions, but seriously, I doubt anything is actually there. And honestly, there are so MANY legit reasons to hate Trump, I don't think it really helps the case to invent shit. It's like how when Trump promoted the birther shit. His fans may have liked it, but honestly it did more harm than good. quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

Yes, but understand the area of operation is wildly different. If you're sitting in a military jet with an ejection seat, you're generally not flying low over the middle of a major city unless you're on a mission to drop far worse things. As for line stretch in a BRS, yes, that's what the rocket does. It does not, however, actually inflate or slow down the vehicle until the parachute opens. On the other hand, like I said with my comparison to a hop-n-pop vs base jump, deploying in horizontal flight allows for inflation and slowing down almost immediately and with full inflation with much less of an altitude loss than if from say, a hover. quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

Thinking about it in those terms, the quad design does lend itself better to some sort of parachute recovery system activated by AAD - that might be feasible, given that I'm assuming this vehicle is significantly lighter than your typical small fixed-wing aircraft. Heck, you could even design it to jettison the whole chassis/ motor assembly in an emergency (but, look out below!) - or perhaps a parachute canopy combined with autoration effect from the rotors would be a better idea. The thing about ballistic recovery is, just like in skydiving, you really do need to deploy above a certain height in order for it to be of any benefit. So sure, put on an BRS, but my guess is it will rarely be used in situations where it will actually be helpful. Oh, and one more reason you'd need prop guards of some sort. Imagine the look on the passenger's face when the BRS is deployed only to have it fouled / entangled by the props. It would be easy enough to put a emergency brake on the motors, shear pins on the props, etc. in the event of emergency parachute deployment. Min deployment altitude 80 meters http://www.stratos07.cz/en/products/rescue-systems/summary-of-all-rescue-systems I'd go for a ride in one after 10,000 hours proven flight time. Might want to check that spec on deployment altitudes. It assumes horizontal flight to begin with. It's the difference between immediate deployment from a hop-n-pop vs base jump. Wildly different results. Also, I have an aversion to parts flying off aircraft in emergency situations over populated areas. Since this is specifically designed with the intention of it being a taxi in cities, it seems to me it's unethical to shed parts to save one person and have them raining down on others. quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

Thinking about it in those terms, the quad design does lend itself better to some sort of parachute recovery system activated by AAD - that might be feasible, given that I'm assuming this vehicle is significantly lighter than your typical small fixed-wing aircraft. Heck, you could even design it to jettison the whole chassis/ motor assembly in an emergency (but, look out below!) - or perhaps a parachute canopy combined with autoration effect from the rotors would be a better idea. The thing about ballistic recovery is, just like in skydiving, you really do need to deploy above a certain height in order for it to be of any benefit. So sure, put on an BRS, but my guess is it will rarely be used in situations where it will actually be helpful. Oh, and one more reason you'd need prop guards of some sort. Imagine the look on the passenger's face when the BRS is deployed only to have it fouled / entangled by the props. quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

I think a quad might have advantages as there are fewer moving parts. From a power plant perspective, just eight in this; four top and for bottom rotors. Nothing else moves. Even the simplest of traditional helicopters has hundreds of moving parts and they're all trying to separate from each other. However, the design shown is insane. It would be MUCH safer with prop guards of some sort or if the motors were above the cabin well above head height. Ideally for a quad you'd want the CG to be exactly in line with the props though, so prop guards seem like the way to go. Nicely designed, they might even be able to function a bit like fan ducts although you'd want to find a balance there as big fan ducts would mean drag in horizontal flight. The advantage I can see for a pure helicopter is the ability to auto-rotate. Since this is automated taxi without a pilot on board I don't realistically see that as being an option anyway. It's a bit much to think of automating autorotations and avoiding objects on the ground at this point. If you're going down in this type of thing right now, you're going down. quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver

I don't think you're going to see a lot of ugly-shaming of females on SNL. Crazy? Sure. They crazy-shame all the time, but there's just not going to be a lot of ugly-shaming. quade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver