No, but it can get hot enough to kill living things on anything entering the atmosphere, because it can get hot enough to cause plenty of damage. That's why deployed Mars missions have heat shields. At this point, I don't think anything Musk puts there will do much more damage than Mars 2, that hit the surface in the early '70s and I'm thinking SpaceX has at least as much sterile tech as the '70s had.

The destination is non-landing Mars orbit. If the orbit fails and it heads for the surface, it will likely burn up before impact. Just like the probe we recently crashed into Saturn (I think?) to burn on entry and avoid contamination.

The car is the Uber driver's property, and an Uber ride is a business transaction. When in another person's property, you observe the rules of that property, and during a business transaction you act like it's a business transaction. Given that the screencap shows that the passenger is prone to whipping out said dick in the middle of traffic, I'd side with the driver on this one and believe the driver asked her to stop and she didn't. If you're in somebody else's car and they ask you not to do something, you don't do it. If it did go down the way the driver said, this is sexual harassment of the driver regardless of the driver's sex. If the passenger couldn't respect the driver in this instance, then she deserves to get kicked out of the car.

Depends on the study, like with any medication. But, if there's something out there that does temporarily block puberty and can be reversed if a mind is changed, I don't see the issue. Gives the kid time to mentally mature and figure it out, and decide when they aren't 9 anymore. Honestly, I think people would still complain even if there was a perfectly safe, perfectly reversible solution, just because there are too many "I'm Offended"s out there care more about controlling other people's lives than they care about the actual people.

I think most people have a hard time telling people of other races apart initially, and there's a biological reason. I'm probably mixing up body parts here, but the basic thought is this: white people instinctively look to the eyes, because the eyes show the greatest variety among white people. Black people look to the nose, because noses show greater variety in black people. Asian people look to the mouth, because mouths differ more amongst Asians. A black person looking to an Asian's nose area, which doesn't have as much variety, gets confused. A white person looking to a black person's eyes, which are majority brown, gets confused. An asian looking to a white mouth, which mostly tend toward similar thin lips, gets confused. Once the right pattern recognition gets subconsciously learned, they begin to tell members of other races apart more easily.

I apologize, I should have been clearer. I was referring to the "barely speak spanish" part of the image. I should have said an average English speaker can learn basic Spanish much easier than most immigrants can learn English.

You could read it either way, I'm just assuming the downvotes came from that reason (I didn't downvote so I probably shouldn't assume, it just seems the most likely answer).

Probably because we said "the military is a highly respectable institution and this pilot should know better" and you said "watch me use this to insult amazing people like Terry Crews, Mark Ruffalo, and Sir Patrick Stewart by implying anyone who identifies as feminist is trash." Phrasing matters, dude.

If you write it as [(7(] + [3))] + [9] (with brackets signifying the boxes) you're right though. That translates to (7(+3))+9, which is 7 times positive 3 (21), plus 9 (30). It gives you the multiplication using only the symbols provided.

@this_isntme Oh, silly me! I didn't know that when looking for historical examples of modern issues to illustrate that a problem is persistent and pervasive we weren't allowed to go earlier than 2000! Thank you for illustrating another problem: that dumb fucks on the internet will always stick their noses in to comment whether they understand where the conversation is going or not! Go learn some reading comprehension. I know it was a long time ago, fuckstick, I was pointing out that it's common for people to be 'racist' against groups considered their own skin color and has been for a long time.

I think for a while there Italians weren't considered 'white' in southern Jim Crow America. Legally they were, but socially they were ostracised for behavior rather than color. People will find a lot of reasons to draw lines.

@f_kyeahhamburg But that's exactly the point. Sheer NUMBER of guns is a false correlation you all love to throw around. What you all are so careful to omit about US guns is that a) a full 50% of the gun total is in the hands of 3% of the population and b) 18% of gun ownership is for hunting (that's right, people still hunt food in the US, or are sport hunters with their guns locked up the rest of the time). Despite the numbers, only 39% of US households are thought to have any guns at all, and gun ownership in the US in 2016 was estimated to be at a 40 year low. Guns are NOT as pervasive as your cherry-picked newscasts would have you believe, and the numbers are not the problem.