I think the inventors would prefer that he go to the University of Pennsylvania. I'm sure they are somehow ignorant of the history of flight, and they're just guessing that this is new.
Last time I looked at this project, it is for defense of land from missile attack. Such a missile flies high and then falls. The nose of an airplane flying in the little skin of air which covers this rock of ours will be able to see a lot of overhead sky.
It also is a good idea to fire this thing in an upward direction. Flying over friendly territory and trying to hit a missile below you has results which are not generally considered a friendly act.
scientists trying to retrieve ancient sounds from pottery. Apparently the theory stated that during the molding, the tools may have impregnated the clay with the sounds in the immediate vicinity.
The sounds of slapping, spinning pottery wheels, and kiln fires roaring will never hit the Top 40 list.
Creation of the Department of Temporal Investigations.
Engineer 1: "I'll have to start by designing a time machine."
Engineer 1: "Here are the blueprints."
Engineer 1: "Open the hatch, the parts are here."
Engineer 1: "You'll need this replacement, you'll break the original after lunch."
Engineer 1, Engineer 1, and Engineer 1 in unison: "Putting this in place requires three people."
Engineer 1: "This is the list of things which will need fixing and have been fixed."
Engineer 1: "After tuning, we found these are the best settings. Tune it now."
Engineer 1: "Turn it on."
Engineer 1: "Plug it in."
Engineer 1: "Here's the total cost. I'll make the project budget have been the exact amount."
Engineer 1: "Here's a cup of really hot tea."
Engineer 1: "It was a busy morning."
The preparation of DS1.
The growth of Voyager's pseudo-living parts.
Spock's deaths before joining the Enterprise.
Before Earth's first warp drive.
On Vulcan scientific monitoring ship:
Commander: "Anything happen yet?"
Science Officer: "Nothing yet."
Commander: "And now?"
Science Officer: "No."
Communications Officer: "They still haven't found a good use for daytime image broadcasts."
Navigation Officer: "Route those to my console, I won't be doing anything for four years." ...
Science Officer: "Not yet."
Commander: "Thank you."
The first Ferengi opens shop.
The first Borg: "We is the Borg."
Prototype Borg: "Resistance is... Oops."
Borg research: "They'll never approve a grant for that."
Before Picard watched the time of creation of Life on Earth.
Who's really going to remember this schedule?/. maybe; my mother - not.
Maybe your mother's computer will remember.
So if you want to preserve your present day photos without any special effort, have a negative made of all your photos. Thus no one photo is requiring special effort, and it's the same effort as getting old-fashioned film developed.
There actually are two problems: lifetime of media, and lifetime of information.
With analog methods, information is lost over time as the media degrades.
With digital methods, the digital signal can be duplicated perfectly when copying to new media. The lifetime of information becomes infinite, if the data is copied before it fades from its current media.
As others have pointed out, disk upgrades have been preserving data in homes when everything in old disks is copied into a tiny fraction of the huge new disks. Of course people still aren't backup up data.
What happens when the amount time it takes to transfer all the data from one medium to another is longer than the life time of the media on which it currently resides?
Then obviously you couldn't have copied all the data to the "current" medium in the first place.
He might still be writing the current backup.
He might have such a huge amount of old data that the remaining life time is the problem.
Reports are that NASA has huge amounts of data on magnetic tape which is fading, and copying to new media will take longer than the remaining life time of the magnetic data. Obviously they need to start shipping out tape drives and tapes to volunteers who will have their computers copy tapes in their spare time, and let them see if they can find anything odd in the data at the same time; a Distributed Search for Earth Intelligence.
For years old films have been degrading faster than they have been copied to more stable media. Part of the problem is money, part is the time required for the delicate task.
For the rest of the day Damon and visitors to his office were frequently seen with post-its stuck to their clothes or trying to peel them off their shoes.
Pretending they are normal messages is spoiled by placing them upside-down.
Incidentally, I'm sure they did not forget the ceiling. Post-Its do not stick well to many suspended ceiling tiles. You know how I know that.
"It was an itsy-bitsy teenie-weenie polka-dot oooffice, which I saw for the first time today."
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Having computers morphing the wings is different from having the walls filled with workers who are building new pieces in flight.
I think the inventors would prefer that he go to the University of Pennsylvania. I'm sure they are somehow ignorant of the history of flight, and they're just guessing that this is new.
Hold it up, say anything, press button, card plays prerecorded sound.
But everyone who sleeps in their armor will have flat spots until calisthenics.
It also is a good idea to fire this thing in an upward direction. Flying over friendly territory and trying to hit a missile below you has results which are not generally considered a friendly act.
Nuclear power is not derived from our Sun's energy.
The sounds of slapping, spinning pottery wheels, and kiln fires roaring will never hit the Top 40 list.
If only I could remember
Real men write stuff that the rest of the world wants to copy.
Maybe your mother's computer will remember.
So if you want to preserve your present day photos without any special effort, have a negative made of all your photos. Thus no one photo is requiring special effort, and it's the same effort as getting old-fashioned film developed.
There actually are two problems: lifetime of media, and lifetime of information.
With analog methods, information is lost over time as the media degrades.
With digital methods, the digital signal can be duplicated perfectly when copying to new media. The lifetime of information becomes infinite, if the data is copied before it fades from its current media.
As others have pointed out, disk upgrades have been preserving data in homes when everything in old disks is copied into a tiny fraction of the huge new disks. Of course people still aren't backup up data.
Then obviously you couldn't have copied all the data to the "current" medium in the first place.
They store all possible data at the same time, and when you need a file it somehow produces the right file.
However, he probably doesn't have enough cats.
OK, so now we're learning biology from the Dutch.
He thought his friend's reference to "mousetrap" was not a literal reference.
The researchers obviously weren't able to get access to two particle accelerators so they could double their transfer rate.
Because you know it's the world's oldest quotation.
Of course, he just made half the schools in the country not be able to read this article.
You only notice the Windows boxes.
The Unix boxes just quietly keep doing their job.
Not helpful for people who have disabled .sig display.
2.) Get sued by office mates who take offense.
Yes, it is not a good idea to boast about your wonderful top-floor home to those who can't afford anything that nice.
He spelled it wrong.
mar-gar-gin: from Spanish mar (ocean) + gar (a fish) + gin: Bathtub gin which includes a fish and added flavorings.
I'm sure you've heard of the tradition for the lucky person who gets the fish.
For the rest of the day Damon and visitors to his office were frequently seen with post-its stuck to their clothes or trying to peel them off their shoes.
Pretending they are normal messages is spoiled by placing them upside-down.
Incidentally, I'm sure they did not forget the ceiling. Post-Its do not stick well to many suspended ceiling tiles. You know how I know that.
"It was an itsy-bitsy teenie-weenie polka-dot oooffice, which I saw for the first time today."
My preference is neon tubes between the slats.
So the British spelling is handgeweorc, then.
I'm applying for a job at 3M.
I anticipate an increase in demand for Post-Its.