NoSpotOfGround

I think he says "watch this!" before he jumps.

"Behind an able man there are always other able men."

It's a Chinese proverb akin to the"shoulders of giants" idea.

There is no such thing as a pineapple tree. That's an AI image.

Pineapples grow in an even more ridiculous way.

That was magnificent...

They're made that way so you don't accidentally connect a gas cylinder to a water line.

Yes, I imagine they'd use the Arrow 3, and the US Navy could probably help out with SM3s if they were instructed to intervene.

I thought the "18" was a typo, but the Royal Navy really did put the heaviest gun they ever fielded on a carrier.

They're saying ballistic missiles, not cruise missiles though. Those are too fast and too vertical to be intercepted with aircraft.

Simon Sebastian - Into The Atmosphere

You can't use triangulation for anything over a few light-years, the angles are just too acute. And even then, you need to use the full width of Earth's orbit (i.e. repeat a measurement at different times of the year).

I think they just know what the frequency distribution normally is for a burst like this when it is emitted, and use the redshift of the measured frequencies to estimate the distance. Plus they correlate it with the apparent source based on direction (a certain galaxy, in this case, which helped confirm the distance estimate).

You know what you did.

There is such a thing as Sun-synchronous polar orbits (an example).