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.'"

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Re:Born in the USA?

[jared_hanson]

The very first thing you hear is essentially base sixteen floating point. As in--eight pounds, twelve ounces, being 8.C pounds.

Correction, the very virst thing you here is base-10 decimal. As in -- eight pounds, telve ounces.

12 is a decimal number.
Anything less than 10 is grandfathered in to base-16.

You are an idiot.