Good Morning.

We're going to stay with military equipment this week. As it was reported here last week, the US Navy is having some problems with one of their new ships. (OK, four of them.) News came down a couple of days ago that the entire lead class is being withdrawn from service to become "non-deploying test ships". Call it what you want - I'll call it $1.4 billion down the hole.
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18 comments (Latest Comment: 09/13/2016 22:17:20 by livingonli)

It's the 15th Anniversary of a horrible day. I refuse to soak in the news of it; instead I'd rather remember those that lost their lives by just living a better life and doing what I can to help others.
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1 comments (Latest Comment: 09/11/2016 17:05:16 by TriSec)

Don't know how many of you have heard of The Hillywood Show, they do parodies of pop culture shows and movies. They are so good at it in fact that they have have been approved by many of the shows they parody.

I thought on this Friday, to get our minds off the the honorific tire fire that is the campaign of Don the Con, I'd post a couple here.
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10 comments (Latest Comment: 09/09/2016 20:13:15 by Raine)

Yes, FOX "News" is melting down. Yes, the tRump campaign is circling the bowl. Yes, he held a fundraiser for the prosecutor who dropped his case. But today, we take a break from presidential campaign politics to revisit an old friend - the Science Stack. It's been quite a while since we perused the myriad interesting science-related stories out there. So let's feed our minds for one day before we wallow in the mud.

First up: The Juno Jupiter probe. The Juno probe was launched 5 years ago with the goal of giving us a better understanding of the largest planet in our solar system. It has completed a few orbits, and sent back the first pictures of Jupiter's north pole (which is not visible from earth). It was not what scientists expected:
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23 comments (Latest Comment: 09/08/2016 13:09:21 by BobR)

Pastor Mark Burns is one of Donald Trumps major African American supporters and surrogates. He's not "the one" but he is one of many several few blacks that want to Make America Great Again™
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1 comments (Latest Comment: 09/04/2016 14:27:10 by AuntAzalea)