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I think the 0.25c claim is mostly Technical Manual content and not on-screen canon. The manual also claims that the stardate calendar is designed to cope with time dilation and relativity of simultaneity issues.

Usually in these stories, Batman or whoever leaves behind enough evidence to support a successful prosecution, along with the tied-up bag guy.

The vigilante broke the law to gain evidence, so all the evidence the vigilante obtained would be thrown out,

That's actually an interesting situation. The fourth and fifth amendments put restrictions on the government, not private vigilantes. So if the cops just happen to find evidence in plain view, there won't be a direct constitutional reason to suppress it.

Now if the local prosecutor has a pattern or practice of deliberately turning a blind eye to the unlicensed private investigators that routinely supply them with illegally obtained information, there's probably a claim there. But it's a lot more complicated to make that case than a straight-up 4th amendment case.

Yep. All of the unmanned stuff is a real bargain.

I think Hubble was even cheaper too, but Hubble was a hand me down spy sat from NRO.

$200 billion is $50 billion more than the entire program cost of the International Space Station, which is claimed to be the most expensive single object ever constructed.

ISS delivers manned orbital habitation at a rate of $7.5 million per astronaut-day, which is less than half what Skylab cost.

Or even just 9 months ago, when he told the leader of Germany that D-Day "was not a pleasant day for you."

120 giga-grand-pianos-per-football-field.

Japan actually tried to coordinate a formal declaration of war to be submitted immediately before the attack commenced. But due to technical and logistical problems, the communique was not read by American diplomats until after the attack.

This syndicated comic strip ran in a bunch of main line newspapers yesterday. You have to understand it's pretty wild for these big, mainstream comic strips to dip into politics if that's not what they usually do. When Doonesbury went "too far", he got moved to the opinion page in a bunch of papers.

I'm pretty sure she was fired before quitting.

Context: the man was dying because the cops shot him.

Both options are better than private event spaces, which a lot of them are

The Syrian deployments were covered by the 2001 AUMF. But that AUMF has finally been repealed now. It would be a serious escalation in claimed presidential powers to send ground forces into anything longer than approximately Grenada.