Russians Invade with Flying Saucer

Ridgelift writes "Wired is covering a project revived from Russia by the US Naval Air Systems Command: The Ekip, a pita-bread-shaped, stubby-winged, wheel-less, unmanned ship that weighs in at 500 pounds. 'For more than two decades, engineers at a former Soviet aerospace plant have been toiling on a drone aircraft that looks a whole lot like a prop from Plan 9 From Outer Space.'"

Comments

500 pounds? Use hexadecimal SI.

[Thinkit3]

What's that in hexadecimal kilograms?

Re:UFO sightings

[nnnneedles]

Id like to be a field investigator for muff on.

Re:OT: Slashdot Personals

[b_w_duncan]

I know there are some women that read slashdot, but I think it's a safe guess there are way more men reading /. then women.

And even less people are looking at 0,Offtopic posts.

yeah!

[mr_tommy]

0h N0! Teh Ali3ns are coming!

:S Russian engineering brought us greats such as the skoda... the larda...

Re:500 pounds? Use hexadecimal SI.

[jared_hanson]

If you, the incessant proclaimer of switching to base 16, can't convert units yourself, why do you expect the rest of us to?

Re:This uses ION propulsion technology

[resin8]

Offtopic, I know, but can someone explain how the URL in the parent's sig works? How does http://3338121056 resolve to hick.org? I googled, but coludn't find any info...

Re:OT: Slashdot Personals

[Powercntrl]

For the same reason there's ads for Microsoft's products that Slashdot claims to hate... It's so Slashdot can make a buck - no great conspiracy.

I'd venture to guess of Slashdot's readership is more interested in the Microsoft ads than the personals site ads... Personals are really pretty stupid if you stop to think about it. If you've got the social skills to ask women/men/whatever out on a date, WTF do you need a personal ad for? The stereotype about personals being full of losers you wouldn't want to date is largely true - think of it this way, the people on there can't figure out how to date in real life! If you do find someone you like on a personal site, you'll quickly find out why they're on one - either they have unrelistic standards and are waiting for a perfect match, they have social skill problems or they're just on a personals site to stroke their ego (and won't actually go out with anyone). Just as you can find working television sets in the garbage, you'll hear success stories about personals sites, but for the most part, they're both full of trash.

If you really want to meet people, you have to go out and be seen. Get some decent clothes that don't look like you just stepped out of a time warp. It also doesn't hurt to get a haircut and shave, if you happen to look like Alan Cox. Yes, it takes an investment both in time and money. Yes, people care what you look like - get over it. If you're not motivated to give it 110% and you'd rather sit at home putting CCFTs in your computer case or compiling a kernel - better get used to being alone. Porn ain't all that bad. Russian brides are a scam, I hear...

Re:This uses ION propulsion technology

[resin8]

Cool. Thanks for the detailed explanation. I thought it might have something to do with the IP address, but I wouldn't have figured out that decimal to hex to decimal conversion. Thanks Again!

Re:OT: Slashdot Personals

[Patrik_AKA_RedX]

Or use the formula S = n * L * M * P

S: succes
n: number of females you meet
L: looks
M: amount of available money
P: Personality