If by "stunning blow" you mean "fucking awesome comeuppance"

GIVE HIM THE SAUSAGE, YOU MONSTER (thank you internet translation so I understand why that poor deprived doggo is so intent on something)

Me when I'm guessing my own password Bild på katt i balaklava

BREAKING: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concedes election defeat after 16 years in power YouTube video by MS NOW

THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER

Trump looks like he slept in a Palm Beach dumpster again.

Except that 33M then is much more expensive than 33M now.

Also the drones being built now are no more the same than first-generation AAMRAMs are the same as the AAMRAM-D.

Lucas is a shahed copy. The Predator is a capable ISR platform capable of attack, and the Global Hawk is a long duration dedicated ISR platform.

They just aren't the same.

Easier to safely drop mines off of a minesweeper and you can drop more of them, but improvisation and asymmetrical warfare has been baked into Iran's doctrine since they overthrew the Shah.

Not a fan of either the Ayatollah or the Shah, just sayin.

Better cameras (hell, better all kinds of sensors), reliability, endurance, better remote control, better autonomous flight, the ability to carry weapons rather than crash into things, reusability, higher-altitude flight, etc.

They fill very different roles.

The ceasefire has already been violated; Russia is currently shelling the Kherson region and border areas with MLRS.

If you believe Haberman, JD Vance made a few objections and acquiesced to Trump's disastrous war. He was the only guy in the room Trump couldn't fire and in the end, he went along. He certainly didn't offer his resignation.

I'd love to know the story behind this one

NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, left, and NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist are seen sitting on a Navy MH-60 Seahawk from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of USS John P. Murtha after they and fellow crewmates CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist, and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander, were extracted from their Orion spacecraft after splashdown, Friday, April 10, 2026, in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. NASA’s Artemis II mission took the quartet on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth. Following a splashdown at 5:07 p.m. PDT (8:07 p.m. EDT), NASA, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force teams are working to bring the Orion spacecraft aboard the recovery ship. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Of all of the post-splashdown photos from the Artemis II mission, this is my favorite.

It captures the best of who we are, the best of who we can be.

(More here: www.nasa.gov/gallery/arte...)

The thing about "everyone knew" stuff is that it's rarely concrete. I remember this conversation with my mom and it was her saying usually governors had a rep for being at least halfway decent to their non-political staff but Cuomo's rep was "don't work for him, don't let your kids work for him".

😆🤌🏻

Why??

(as in back in the early space race, not earlier versions of Orion)

Early versions of the same system had only two balloons and were referred to as mickey mouse ears. Apologies if you already knew this.

I don’t even have to read this to start naming which counties

Is it just me, or does it feel vaguely surreal that something wholesome and good is happening? I mean PLEASE DON'T TAKE IT AWAY, but, yanno, 2026, etc...

Physics is so mean. 😢

Also (especially in an emergency) give me knobs and buttons over a single-point-of-failure touchscreen any damn day

That deceleration had to be a wild ride!

Give me NASA's mission focus and dedication up and down the line over SpaceX's polished and super-controlled image priority any day.

WOOHOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ännu en medeltida hare

Looking forward to the official demolition ceremony if this monstrosity ever gets built.

I'd vote for her. The choice is literally "competence vs the apocalypse."