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• Commented on Sonic Boom?
  That's why I said "primarily." They're both "ins" and "thrus" but the "in" part of it is the novelty. Speaking of McDonald's, I remember while at UMd being told that the McDonald's on Route 1 in College Park was the...
• Commented on Sonic Boom?
  Sonics are primarily drive INS (as opposed to drive thrus), thus the need for parking....
• Commented on Look Up: What's in the Sky This Week?
  Excellent summary of why the coverage of the LCROSS mission was such a mess. It didn't help when NASA did their part to overhype it by providing computer animation that showed a big, bright plume rising from the impact. I'm...
• Commented on Look Up: What's in the Sky This Week?
  The impact times for both LCROSS events are in the a.m. They're 4 minutes apart, not 12 hours....
• Commented on NTSB Points Finger at Metro
  I had forgotten, not sure if it was mentioned elsewhere, but my girlfriend remembered this from Overheard earlier in the month: Psychic grandmas -- they're everywhere At the Franconia-Springfield Metro: Grandmotherly tourist to small child about to board the front...