36 hour stints in the lab go by in an instant

She enjoys the dom/sub/slave dynamic and has somehow convinced you to pay her for something that she already wants to do/enjoys. As you two were never thinking about this in terms of traditional employment anyway, you failed to figure out what tasks she would be doing and how many hours...

Kind of like a natural bonsai

Most of the information about hypersonic missiles points to how they have a tendency to blow up on the launchpad. Nothing indicates that they solved this basic problem.Besides, speed is, counter intuitively, not really a very good defense for a missile. At Mach 8, the missile is incapable of engaging...