Tom Cowan

There's no political system that will function with justice if those charged with administering it don't behave justly.

Long overdue update: LGP is home and sleeping comfortably. She had a mild concussion, but in the fall she cut a vein in her scalp. So the bleeding was profuse (and scary), but superficial. It took three sutures and 11 staples to close the wound, which was actually closer to 3 inches long than 1 inch.
 
We need to keep her hair dry for 2 or 3 days, after which we can rinse it with warm water. The staples and sutures will stay in for 7 to 10 days. They gave us some antibacterial cream to apply morning and night, and she can have Tylenol and Motrin for the pain. It doesn't look like any lasting damage was done, which is a huge relief. Based on the amount of blood, I was terrified for a bit that she might not make it.
 
Now I'm off to bed to try to get some rest so that I can function like some kind of professional tomorrow at school.

Photo of Schrodinger's cat. 
 

The kicker is the proposals to sic CPS on parents tolerant of their children transitioning. And not ones openly saying death would be better.

What a day! Got rejected for another job and yet another of my cats is sick, this time it's diabetes.

"And I've tried everything. I tried the gum, I couldn't keep it lit. I tried the patches, they pulled the skin off my lips."

Well, BOOM! thou it did make it to right after the flip for 2nd stage sep.

And our gaming group has the private theory that most of the megalithic constructions were done by the equivalent of frat boys doing silly stuff for beer.
 
"Dude, we got a tub of mead that'll be just about ready tomorrow.  But to get any you have to help us put up a rock."
 
"Put up a rock? "
 
"Yeah, like that menhir the Tiger Squat clan made over by the oak grove a couple years back.  We can do better with fifty guys than those bums did with twenty."
 
[Considers]  "How much mead we talking?"
 
"More'n enough to get fifty guys good and buzzed!  And we'll have roast elk ready, too!"
 
"OK, meat and mead both, yeah, I'm in."

I'm finally home in Florida. I was surprised to meet so many in Canada that are so aware of our politics here. When they heard I was from Florida they offered immediate sympathies. Everyone knows DeSantis. 

Unsurprisingly, it's not being covered on the Fox News website's front page.

Even kittens are subject to the Deadly Sins, it seems. 

Short version: no double discount.
 
The smaller vehicles would either get the 1/5 for being components of the larger one or be built as separate vehicles depending mainly on readability.
 
No double dipping.
 
I have no idea if that is strictly RAW, but it is compatible with the general approach used in the rules.

Tom Cowan suggests firing the aircraft off the stern, for a purely mechanical launch this would most likely have the greatest degree of success. If launched directly into a following wind TO velocity might be achieved. There is a sailing maneuver called Stealing the Wind, ship A crosses directly behind ship B crossing the path of the wind thus stealing it. This would also prevent it from being launched from the prow the ships own sails steal a following wind. 
     My wife is a nature nut, and I have had to watch more nature programs than I care to contemplate, she particularly likes birds. The Albatross, Goonie and some of the bigger Seagulls, have problems taking off from "land or sea". On water they turn into the wind then begin flapping their wings which lifts them partway out of the water, where they actually run on the surface giving them just enough lift to fly. Unless the propulsion system can overcome the drag of both the water and gravity you are not taking off from the water.

off the aft may work better
I hope you have floats
have you looked at spotter planes that battle ships used?