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Michael Massimino age 63 Raised in Franklin Square, NY, Graduate Columbia University, MIT NASA Astronaut, flew two Space Shuttle missions: 3/2002, 5/2009 Holds world record for spacewalk time: 5 walks/36 hours updated/repaired Hubble Space Telescope First person to use Twitter in space...

Lol! Trial attorneys have continuing education lectures on how to make you look like the village idiot. When they ask you if a particular thing is possible; no matter how stupid, absurd, or improbable, always answer yes (sir).

I have testified in a courtroom- under oath- as an expert witness . Trial attorneys love it when an expert uses the word never (or always). It is better to use the phrase unlikely or highly unlikely. Here is the reason why.......

Years ago my wife stayed at a Best Western Motel while visiting her parents in College Station. She was amused to find out that she was one of the few guests staying there who was not an employee of the London Fire Brigade.

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Did AI write this press release?

In the 65 years I've been following things in the fire service, almost every episode of Fire Department corruption in the United States has revolved around inspection/ permit issues. It is NOT ineptitude, it is uniformed employees taking the bribe and looking the other way. NYC Building...

Jeez.....is that all it is? Someone needs to tell the bossman that he can get a 68-lb bulk bag of steel shims at The Home Depot for $115.

London A Ukrainian man was convicted for a May, 2025 series of multiple arson for hire events in London. https://www.ft.com/content/dd79d6eb-44e4-4365-8c6e-a4fd64b211c8?syn-25a6b1a6=1...

The whales take a win!

You and I would call it experience or perhaps "street smarts". The proper concept is the German word "Gestalt"- looking at something as a whole rather than as a collection of separate parts. Humans do it, drones can't (so far).

I'm still waiting to hear the truth about TWA Flight 800.

Like everything, it's always a judgement call. Of course these fire companies aren't engineers, but they are collapse experts. Furthermore, I would think a job this size would have the supervision of a structural engineer- likely already on site. The urgent tasks are a search for injured...

The Balcones Escarpment and Edwards Plateau can be an unforgiving neighborhood. I'm surprised it didn't hit closer to Austin with places like Wimberly, Marble Falls, or the "Drip", Like the Cajuns, I'm sticking to the Gulf Coastal Plain. It still floods, but the houses aren't going anywhere.