The satellite was called SCOOP. It was a secret project by the US governement to collect extraterrestrial biological matter (to be used as "germ warfare"). Why do you think they had the spiffy undergrond laboratory? The book makes this way more clear than the movie. The satellite caught something and somehow accidently de-orbitted. Landed in a little town, the local DR. opened it up and everyone's blood solidified. You know the rest. Everyone on earth died and the universe lived happily ever after.
It lasted precisely as long as the funding did - just like MIR. When Skylab was coming down, I remember a local reporter asking a Civil Defense guy if they were ready for the worst case scenario here. Namely, Skylab direct hitting the Prudential building. Boston couldn't BE so lucky to have that happen. God, what egos people have here. But I still crack up when I remember that news report...
Also, there is the solar wind. All the particles streaming out of the sun push against the MIR. That both slows it and pushes it toward earth. This was one of the stated reasons that Skylab finally fell in the drink...
Funny, I thought their asses and brains were located quite close to one another. Maybe having their heads crammed up in there as well has something to do with it...
That's why we need a lot more open air nuclear testing. All that radiation will really speed up the evolutionary process. (Ever see Beneath the Planet of the Apes?)
Slashdot Mirror
now that all the CEO's are in jail.
Just make a pile of one million Sony-made lithium ion batteries.
Fusion in no time...
or search and destroy?
the Internet.
Hey Duhbya, think how much energy you could save if you made daylights savings ALL YEAR LONG!
Shades of Digital Convergence and CueCats...
That's how Deep Blue won...
'There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore,' Carly Fiorina, chief executive for Hewlett-Packard Co.
Yeah, that includes YOUR job, too, bitch.
I mean, hey, the thing can do warp 5, right?
"Antelope Hand-Sized Windows PC To Debut"
How big is an antelope hand?
would just be quiet.
Nowadays, a 12 year old girl could sure kick SGI's ass...
Your vote doesn't count, here or from abroad.
Can those managers be charged with manslaughter now?
the Blue Screen of Death...
The satellite was called SCOOP. It was a secret project by the US governement to collect extraterrestrial biological matter (to be used as "germ warfare"). Why do you think they had the spiffy undergrond laboratory? The book makes this way more clear than the movie. The satellite caught something and somehow accidently de-orbitted. Landed in a little town, the local DR. opened it up and everyone's blood solidified. You know the rest. Everyone on earth died and the universe lived happily ever after.
It lasted precisely as long as the funding did - just like MIR. When Skylab was coming down, I remember a local reporter asking a Civil Defense guy if they were ready for the worst case scenario here. Namely, Skylab direct hitting the Prudential building. Boston couldn't BE so lucky to have that happen. God, what egos people have here. But I still crack up when I remember that news report...
Also, there is the solar wind. All the particles streaming out of the sun push against the MIR. That both slows it and pushes it toward earth. This was one of the stated reasons that Skylab finally fell in the drink...
where Destination MIR really is. Your backyard.
Funny, I thought their asses and brains were located quite close to one another. Maybe having their heads crammed up in there as well has something to do with it...
No, virtual communities don't exist. Neither does Joseph Lockhart.
That's why we need a lot more open air nuclear testing. All that radiation will really speed up the evolutionary process. (Ever see Beneath the Planet of the Apes?)
Can you say "Doctor Strangelove"?
Check out the disclaimer on the NIST AES page: http://csrc.nist.gov/encryption/aes/ What this made me think of immediately was an acronym: RAMBUS