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Russians Invade with Flying Saucer

Posted by michael on from the bem dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:500 pounds? Use hexadecimal SI. by Emil+Brink · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Since, I'm too tired to mod you down, I just typed
    dc -e "6k 16o $(lynx -nolist -dump 'http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=ut f-8&q=500+pounds+in+kilograms' | grep = | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f6) p"
    into my friendly shell, and the answer came back as
    E2.CBD2C
    Learn to do that by yourself, instead of trolling these fine forums. I now realize I'm far too tired to even contemplate floating point numbers in base 16, and lightly curse you for making me see one.
    --
    main(O){10<putchar(4^--O?77-(15&5128 >>4*O):10)&&main(2+O);}