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NASA Builds Worlds Largest Paper Airplane
An anonymous reader writes "NASA has designed and built the world's biggest paper airplane. The 98-foot, $1.2 billion bird isn't a mere museum piece or just for show. It's code name the "Flying Squirrel" for some odd reason doesn't seem to fit as the engineering drawings suggest a more shuttle like heritage. Here is the original article."
does it run Lunix?
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
"The terrorist has matches, oh god!"
That's no plane.
They really are getting old. I actually wanted to buy the laser tracker, too.
Now I wish I was a subscriber so I could see these before the rest of the unwashed masses.
Wow, I wonder how many people actually bothered to find this version of the page you can actually comment on...
In other news, Python 3000 was released today.
FP!
FAGGOTS.
NO I want to see the 98 foot long paper airplane. I want to see where the taxpayers money is going... O wait this is like slashdots 30th April fool article. Nevermind
"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along." Shouldn't that be written in bold on the front page?
"Who says nothing is impossible? Some people do it every day!" - Alfred E. Neuman
OK, I give up. They're coming too fast. Just let me have my first post. Please? Heck, it's now april the *second* where I live.
I am trolling
Someone take the slashdot editors away and shoot them.
This ceased to be funny 12 hours ago. It's april 2nd now and they're still at it.
we are never gonna get laid, are we?
You can't handle the truth.
we get it. really. enough.
Slashbots Attak
FP
But if they did, does it run Linux?
CC
CKSCIII
But who am I?
"Man gives birth a baby. That's a fact."
-Valiss
They've fucked themselves in the ass with this 4/1 nonsense. No posts whatsover :-D
I swear to God that I am not going to even turn on my computer next April first.
Only another 5 hours to go before it becomes April 2nd by Slashdot time (unless they decide to change timezones as the ultimate April-fool)
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
Let those of us who enjoy crude humor be and quit posting comments about the banality of April 1st if you don't like them! If you're sick and tired of it...STOP READING! Go outside! Get a job/start doing some actual work at your job! Meet people! Or hell, just read another website for 5 more hours if it offends you so much. I swear, some of you sound like someone just sh*t in your umbilical cord...
You know you've lost it when you begin signing physical documents with =^_^=
Please stop it! April fools is over now, it is after 12PM.
Watch me pull a ./ article out of my hat!
The Shuttle has done nothing but hold NASA back. They should ditch the things in the ocean and spend more money on this new "Paper" technology. Just imagine what we could accomplish then!
Help me take back Slashdot. When did 'News for Nerds' become 'FUD and Conspiracy Theories for Extremist Nutjobs'?
You guys would make more money at a comedy club than at Slashdot. Seriously! Not even kidding. I mean it!
Seriously.
Unfortunaly, one side is much longer than the other due to the engineer's inability to convert to and from metric. This problem, experienced by many of the engineers' children as well, continues to plague even the best paper airplane engineers.
GET A FRIGGIN' LIFE AND STOP POSTING THIS SHIT!
My web domain.
This must be fake, someone actually used the NYUD mirroring system!
Mybe my links where wrong who knows (sigh).
If they use a rocket, it will be a short-lived fireball. If they use the X-4000 Launch Aparatus, it will be the world's largest paper wad. Maybe they should take it to the top of a hill, and just give it a push.
The Uncoveror: It's the real news.
It's only capable of delivering payloads to LOW Earth orbit.
When is NASA going to give us a viable delivery mechanism!
Sometimes my arms bend back.
Be on the lookout for a female, about five foot five, about 120 pounds, generous bust, sapphire blue eyes and long, flowing black hair, square geek glasses. Dresses primarily like a bag lady, long skirt, shabby blouse, shabby light tan overcoat. May be towing a big pilot's briefcase on a dolly.
Usually found in or around bookstores, the rarer, the better.
Answers to "Yomiko" or "The Paper."
Be advised, subject can use paper as weapons. I suggest you leave all your cash and business cards at home, papercuts are one nasty way to die.
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
I started laughing when I read the title... I guess it's just me... :-)
-FB
NASA and the Royal British Library's Division of Special Operations have teamed up on this one. Here is a pic of two Spec Ops agents tracking down a would-be terrorist on the new airplane.
This post expresses my opinion, not that of my employer. And yes, IAAL.