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If they can get there before the freebooting plunderers. Good luck with that.

Another piece of context for the above: the US Air Force had become fully independent of the Army in 1947 (before then it was the US Army Air Force). So a bunch of what you've described above is the result of a service that is newborn and definitely suffering from Jealous Kid Brother syndrome, trying to convey to the world -- and themselves -- that they are the ones that really matter.

We'll be heading out to out-of-town relatives in a couple of hours. Frohes Fest!

I was takin' a trip out to LA Toolin' along in my Chevrolet Tokin' on a number and diggin' on the radio Jes' as I cross the Mississippi line I heard that highway start to whine And I knew that left rear tire was about to go Well the spare was flat and I got uptight 'Cause there wasn't a fillin' station in sight So I jes' limped down the shoulder on the rim I went as far as I could and when I stopped the car It was right in front of this little bar A kind of a redneck lookin' joint called the Dew Drop Inn Well I stuffed my hair up under my hat And told the bartender that I had a flat And would he be kind enough to give me change for a one There was one thing I was sure proud to see There wasn't a soul in the place 'cept for him an' me And he jest looked disgusted an' pointed toward the telephone I called up the station down the road a ways And he said he wasn't very busy t'day And he could have somebody there in jest 'bout ten minutes or so He said now you jes' stay right where yer at and I didn't bother tellin' The durn fool I sure as hell didn't have anyplace else to go I jes ordered up a beer and sat down at the bar When some guy walked in an' said who owns this car With the peace sign the mag wheels and four on the floor Well he looked at me and I damn near died And I decided that I'd jus wait outside So I layed a dollar on the bar and headed for the door Jes' when I thought I'd get outta there with my skin These five big dudes come strollin' in With this one old drunk chick and some fella with green teeth An' I was almost to the door when the biggest one Said you tip your hat to this lady son An' when I did all that hair fell out from underneath Now the last thing I wanted was to get into a fight In Jackson Mississippi on a Saturday night 'Specially when there was three of them and only one of me Well they all started laughin' and I felt kinda sick And I knew I'd better think of somethin' pretty quick So I jes' reached out an' kicked ol' green-teeth right in the knee He let out a yell that'd curl your hair But before he could move I grabbed me a chair And said watch him folks 'cause he's a thoroughly dangerous man Well you may not know it but this man's a spy He's an undercover agent for the FBI And he's been sent down here to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan He was still bent over holdin' on to his knee But everyone else was lookin' and listenin' to me And I layed it on thicker and heavier as I went I said would you beleive this man has gone as far As tearin' Wallace stickers off the bumpers of cars And he voted for George McGovern for president Well he's a friend of them long-haired hippie type pinko fags I betcha he's even got a Commie flag Tacked up on the wall inside of his garage He's a snake in the grass I tell ya guys He may look dumb but that's jus a disguise He's a mastermind in the ways of espionage They all started lookin' real suspicious at him And he jumped up an' said jes' wait a minute jim You know he's lyin' I've been livin' here all of my life I'm a faithfull follower of Brother John Birch And I belong to the Antioch Baptist Church And I ain't even got a garage you can call home and ask my wife Then he started sayin' somethin' 'bout the way I was dressed But I didn't wait around to hear the rest I was too busy movin' and hopin' I didn't run outta luck And when I hit the ground I was makin' tracks And they were jes' takin' my car down off the jacks So I threw the man a twenty an' jumped in an' fired that mother up Mario Andretti woulda sure been proud Of the way I was movin' when I passed that crowd Comin' out the door and headin' toward me in a trot An' I guess I shoulda gone ahead an' run But somehow I couldn't resist the fun Of chasin' them jes' once around the parkin' lot Well they're headin' for their car but I hit the gas And spun around and headed them off at the pass Well I was slingin' gravel and puttin' a ton of dust in the air Well I had them all out there steppin' an' a fetchin' Like their heads were on fire and their asses was catchin' But I figured I oughta go ahead an split before the cops got there When I hit the road I was really wheelin' Had gravel flyin' and rubber squealin' An' I didn't slow down 'til I was almost to Arkansas I think I'm gonna re-route my trip I wonder if anybody'd think I'd flipped If I went to LA via Omaha

That's what you need to make a cloaking device against detection via gravitational waves.

This is a recent real-science article suggesting that one could "look inside of", e.g., the Sun, by watching what happens to gravitational waves when the Sun moves in front of a source of those, like a compact neutron star binary. The emphasis in the article is on the possibility of the technique and what you might learn from it. It had never occurred to me before to think about gravity waves being "refracted" by astronomical objects but it could happen. At the very least, it gives Star Hero GMs another kind of handwavium from which to make up detection systems.

[Context: This is a phone-text conversation stretched over about 20 minutes between me & my daughter earlier today, Dec 22, the Friday before Christmas Monday. I am at a nearby grocery store; she is at home; she had earlier declined to come shopping with me. I am using semicolons rather than colons so I don't have back up and excise the stupid automatic emoji.] C (me): You are wise beyond your years, my child C; {store name} is a frickin' zoo D (Daughter): D--n C; Not a surprise D; Popping off on a Friday afternoon C; The Friday before Monday Christmas D; Oh so trueeee C; {another store name, a place I'd been a couple of hours previous} was not as zooey only because it was relatively early C; I am here at {store name} to redeem the coupon we have that expires on the 24th D; Ahhhh I see C; I am only 7th in line now to check out C; In the aisle with pasta spaghetti sauce canned fish vinegar salad dressing D; An excellent aisle to be in D; A choice aisle C; Tomato sauce croutons C; Canned fish includes caviar which I suppose makes sense C; Happily I cannot hear the Christmas Muzak where I am standing D; This is a brilliant innovation of the pickle aisle [This alludes to the pickles being in the next aisle over from where I am in line, and for some reason no working speakers are over that aisle] D; Benevolent pickle aura shielding and protecting you C; 😁

... and ideally get it recognized as a professional, non-academic enterprise, fully taxable as such, and with athletes as compensated and protected employees.

"Warp factor 4, Ensign Scooby."

Yeah, forty years ago this coming week (and again a two weeks later) I spent a week on the telescope getting observational data for my thesis.

"You and -1 others" (Somehow I managed to give a post both "like" and "Thanks".)

Huh. Didn't find out til this morning that the Squawks won on Monday night. So much for my prediction they'd lose out the season.

Well, just imagine if that book's a product of Hermit's NaNoWriMo efforts! That would rate a W00t!!

Since the name on the cover is an obvious pseudonym, one wonders which Hero Boards member is the actual author.

I follow that advice. Of course, a bunch of mine I shared with imposed upon my students, but such is the nature of concocting assignments.

the Red Skull

But is it not true that volume is distance cubed, and that distance is speed times time? And since time and money are the same, must it not be that volume is cubical money?

What is that in quatloos?

I had the same puzzlement as Duke.

That's clearly a fallacy, though they may be using it as an excuse to fool the rubes. Football is just about completely divorced from academics now.

Wouldn't it be cool if the circle was drawn in a higher dimension, so it appeared in the space we perceive as a set of a few points or maybe short arcs?

Don James, legendary coach at Washington, explained why getting into a bowl game was so important to him. It wasn't exposure, or money (he was a coach, not an AD or other administrator), or motivation. What mattered to him was that getting into a bowl game permitted you to have an additional allotment of authorized practices.

Been a while since I got one of your #1's. The first time it had the old password from my daughter's 20-years-ago Neopets account, which I had changed after the news that site had been thoroughly compromised. I used it for while (after she lost interest) for the old word games, but dropped that after the utter security fail of Flash became apparent. I get multiple issues of both #2 and #3 three or four days a week. The seem to come in clusters. Been a while since I had one of your #4s, but again in the clusters three or four days a week, I get lots of click here to receive your reimbursements, prizes, gift certificates, and so on.