Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for October 08, 2018

Isaac Asimov is rolling in his grave right now…

Come now! Sometimes it’s science even though you just torture a few laboratory animals.

Edward Teller is still alive?!

I’m pretty sure the Mythbusters would agree with that.

So THIS is what Calvin grew up to be!

What Dr. Mel said!

Give them time Dr. Mel, I’m sure someone will eventually do it.

Don’t blow up asteroids, mine them: https://www.spaceanswers.com/news/the-700-quintillion-asteroid-belt/

I think Oppenheimer shared your philosophy, Dr. Mel.

That’s not science!

That’s engineering.

Design is “Tighten it until it strips, then spec it for a quarter of that”.

He’s got a good point…

Ka-BOOM! #RealScienceGoesBoom

Send Brewster and that’s a given.

I question the boldface. Why would he emphasize “blow” and not “something” or “up”?

They should make Michael Bay the head of NASA.

Curiously, this idea hasn’t caught on in linguistics yet. I thought it was missing from psychology, too, but when I checked, the answer blew my mind.

Dr. Mel believes real science ended with the Manhattan Project…