Apollo 1, not Apollo 13. Much more horrific.
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Yes, ApolIo 1 was horrible. By adding in Apollo 13, I was just just making a reference to the multiple Boeing failures. A weak reference I admit . . .
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Oh this will help –
I was in the B.S.'s back in the day. Thinking back, I now wonder why kids sometimes went into the scout leader’s tent during camping trips. Some sort of merit badge instruction, I suspect.
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Yeah, Apollo 1 was caused by a fire, and worsened by a hatch which wouldn’t open under pressure. I was tempted to suggest that Boeing wouldn’t have any trouble there.
But “Houston, we’ve had a problem” was Apollo 13.
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I see.
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Ah, yes, the one held together by a mile of flammable duct tape and parachutes that didn’t work?
I figured it must’ve been delayed again, since I hadn’t heard of any awful tragedy yet.
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Why does the US gov’t still have a contract with them?
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I think this is the stupidest market-speak I’ve ever seen.
I can just imaging the meeting among marketing people.
Marketer #1 (laughing): Wait – how about “holding a bit of of summer in your hand?”
Marketer #2: Oh god! (guffawing) That’s brilliant!
Marketer #3: (Grinning) But . . . isn’t that a little over the top, even for the average dumb consumer?
Marketer #2: Never! (Tears streaming down face) They’ll suck it up! It’s a stroke of genius!
etc.
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I like the “Billions of Probiotics.”
Carl Sagan would be proud.
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Well if it isn’t authentically worded, at least it’s ‘authentically crafted’. 
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The California-based Raw Milk Institute called the warnings “clearly fearmongering.” The institute’s founder, Mark McAfee, told the Los Angeles Times this weekend that his customers are, in fact, specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows. According to McAfee, his customers believe, without evidence, that directly drinking high levels of the avian influenza virus will give them immunity to the deadly pathogen.
I… wha? If getting exposed to deadly viruses made you immune to them, then they wouldn’t be deadly!
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Hey it worked for that COVID thing.
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As Marie Antoinette would say, “Let them drink bleach.”
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I’d have to be feeling really bad to let someone give me an IV. I’ve only had one but that sucker hurt and left a bruise!
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‘frankly, the country doesn’t want to have to go through prosecuting a former president’
Yes, it would be really nice if we didn’t have to, but then some jerk decided to try to stay in power after being voted out…
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‘frankly, the country doesn’t want to have to go through prosecuting a former president’
actually, yeah, we do. over and over and over until he’s so deeply embedded in the prison system that we’ll never have to think about him again.
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Gerald Ford used the same excuse when he pardoned Richard Nixon for all crimes. It was part of the deal for Nixon to resign.
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