Word: tails
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...Just yanked Roar-ee's tail, twice. Talk about awkward...
Indeed, it is only a matter of time before combat pilots, like biplanes, become obsolete. Tail-mounted GPS kits have given even dumb bombs amazing accuracy once they are pushed out the door of a lumbering cargo plane. Missiles launched from ships or subs have further minimized the need for penetrating warplanes. Meanwhile, much of the Raptor's sky-high price--and that of accompanying jammer planes and rescue helicopters--is driven by the need to get the pilot into harm's way and then safely out. Even worse, while the Air Force wants more fighters from a bygone...
...tail n.-- In finance, the often underestimated probability of catastrophes like market crashes and terrorist attacks...
USAGE: "'But what about the fat tail?' This is another way of asking 'How come all you geniuses didn't realize the risk you were running?'" --New York Times Magazine...
...genome is not made up of protein-coding genes. In fact, 98.8% of it is not. Some of that 98.8% consists of "pseudogenes" - genes that once encoded proteins but no longer can because of a crippling mutation. They are the molecular equivalent of a vestigial tail, allowing us to see evolution's track...