Well, what do all the sci-fi writers who hang around NASA do? (Pournelle, etc) Surely they aren't there to get autographs? Or to sign them?
NASA has regular brainstorming sessions with authors in many fields and spends a lot of cash in (often criticised) research into 'alternative technologies' -Sci-Fi propulsion etc.
'In the USA, you believe what you want'- facts get in the way? Just carry on regardless.
Is not Disney involved in a 'La-la-la -I-can't-hear-you ' royalties dispute with the estate of AA Milne as they make more money from Pooh (!) than anything else yet have not forked over a cent?
LEDs don't burn out; yet VFDs with hot cathodes have,in effect, tiny incandescent lamps within, just like vacuum tubes and will burn out in time. Cold cathode types are safe from this tho'.
Did he invent the American style round 'tube' tv screen? That went out everywhere else in the 50s, so that ain't what 'the masses' used, except in the USA, so he loses that claim....to whoever invented the rectangular screen..the true 'inventor of TV'...er..??!!!???
Slashdot Mirror
..And then employ some ex-burger flippers to scrape the pad clean between launches.
From Liposuction??
Says who? The stock market exists on the principle of trading what doesn't belong to you.
9. Rest of world firewalls off Internet from subjects of *MS Govt Inc* and gets on with things.
See SPOT..RUN!!
Ad-laden? Surely no relation???........
This does not make his points any less valid, tho'..
Is this not called the South Pole??
That explains the funny smell afterwards, then.
Things in my regular fridge grow spirals and stuff...
Yep. We all have to watch what we say in the EU since 9th November, too.
NASA has regular brainstorming sessions with authors in many fields and spends a lot of cash in (often criticised) research into 'alternative technologies' -Sci-Fi propulsion etc.
'In the USA, you believe what you want'- facts get in the way? Just carry on regardless.
"Any sufficiently dis-organized community is indistinguishable from Government." ;->
The gall!!
Particularly those who like to sing songs about bottles...
Talk about naive..
LEDs don't burn out; yet VFDs with hot cathodes have,in effect, tiny incandescent lamps within, just like vacuum tubes and will burn out in time. Cold cathode types are safe from this tho'.
I misread this as "The Microsoft Next Generation Shill.."
"That's no moon..."
UK: What? Just the military ones, or the economic ones too?
Bush:All.
UK: Bugger. Someone set us up the Bush.
It still shocks me when anyone admits to it (very rare!).
yuk yuk yuk!!
Very well put.
I would say about 370 days should see the answer to this one...
Bad astronomy