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A structural failure of a spinny thing sprays shrapnel in a plane orthogonal to the axis of rotation. Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that we’re talking about a high-bypass turbine engine on, say, a 737. That orthogonal plane passes up through the wing and over through the fuselage. (And also down and away, but that’s less relevant here.) So you’d expect to see most shrapnel damage in the wing and the fuselage near the wing. Which is what the photos appear to show. An explosion of the kind that downed the Malaysian airliner over Ukraine shows shrapnel shooting in ALL directions — up, down, sideways, forward and backward — from the explosion.Even if I’m right, we can still speculate about WHY such an engine failed so spectacularly. I’m not ruling anything out. Just saying those photos don’t seem to support such a dramatic interpretation. There may be more that do.

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Why does she want to "muddy things up?" Shouldn't she be hiding her wish to have someone come in and muddy things up between her and Kelly?

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I still remember hearing about an interview with them in which they were asked "what makes you different from any other band," and they responded "we're fat."

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I'm thisclose to suggesting to the offspring that he register to vote from his father's house in Phoenix just so he can vote for Mark Kelly against this twerp.

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And you never will.

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Speaking as someone who lives Watertown-adjacent, this made me laugh.

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Looks like the engine failure speculation was wrong.

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If y'all can pull it off, I might consider retiring there. My soon-to-be octogenarian parents may be nutty, but they know how to vote in their own interests. They will be on your side.

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that is pretty funny tho

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Yeah. I did mean "not". Unfortunately Disqus being Disqus means i cannot edit on mobile.

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It’s so obvious to the entire world, including every old-school macho dictator, that you can get everything you want from Trump if you just let him have a public “win”. Let him have the last word, or a photo op, or give him praise. He’s the planet’s cheapest prostitute.

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That is a shame. We'd be better off using that hawt ammo in a flippable red distirct

if we could :(

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How does that compare with the number of times he has cheated at golf over 1,055 days?

Bar chart, please.

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Most Godlike President ever. Actually, even better than God.

Lou Dobbs (of Fuckass on Family), pretty soon.

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I'm sure if Bernie got the nomination we'd have a lot of that. That's not to say that sexism isn't in play here, but politics certainly are too.

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