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Kazakhstan's Spaceship Junkyard
Richard W.M. Jones writes "What happens to the booster stages of rockets?
They fall back to earth, and in most cases
into the oceans. But not in Baikonur, Kazakhstan,
where the first stages fall over populated
farmland. The locals have become rich
dealing in the titanium-rich scrap metal
as this
article and this
remarkable photo essay show.
So far the only casualties seem to have
been a few
dead cows."
These farmers, rather than demand restitution from the government got off their asses and turned lemons into lemonade.
Of course, a certain government might turn their lemonade into military action when they decide they want a piece of the pie.
If spent stages from a US rocket hit some home in the US, it would be removed overnight, the family would be given a check for 20% of the value of what they lost, forced to sign an NDA, and no one would ever hear about it again.
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
it's from The Sun.
They probabably wouldn't post an Elvis sighting story either.
It's actually a myth that servers overheat & melt down - the most that can happen is they get so overwhelmed with request they end up timing out far after an original request for page has occured, and are unable to serve current requests. That gives the illusion (an incorrect one) that the server has "died"
"Kids growing up in areas damaged by radiation from the plant have a higher IQ and faster reaction times, say Russian doctors." Note: say Russian doctors, says The Sun! Do the two layers on untrustworthyness somehow cancel each other out, so as to make the statement trustworthy?
No shit.
After seven years of the same "the server is going to do something vaguely related to the story!" comments, you would think people would stop rating them as 'funny'...
(apologies to the original poster; yours just happened to be the one showing up as such right now)
Posted from the wireless couch.
Only a machine could not determine the difference between an I or a 1 with a line through it! Hmm... Maybe they need to add a question for each post instead of the images:
"Which of the following would you prefer: a puppy, a flower from your sweetie, or a large, properly formatted data disk."
Georgia Tech, the leader in Chia(tm) technology.
As for the dead cows, I bet they ate grass contaminated with rocket fuel - it can be very poisonous. I am not sure what they use, but hydrazine, for instance, is very poisonous.
This is Slashdot. Exactly how do you propose that question would help? We have no use for puppies unless accompanied by large amounts of duct tape and we have never seen a "sweetie" in real life unless a Mars bar counts so gimme that disk and let me post, dammit!
A large disssk, my preciousss.
Money for nothing, pix for free