Fortunately for the integration-phobes among us, by the time the grim future of Doom III comes to pass, the technology for integrating a flashlight with another device will have been lost.
Look at the subject headers in an SF newsgroup sometime... "Is this SF?", "10 stories about one-eyed lesbian space pirates", etc. It's funny, in a sad sort of way.
Yeah, no kidding. Some people are just sad. Say, what was that URL for the lesbian space pirates again?
I understand that the working name was Collinear Holographic Optical Analog/Digital System, until focus groups revealed that consumers expressed a strong preference for video storage solutions not named CHOADS.
Other factors can also affect the outcome: hosting the games usually gives a medal boost.
I imagine that's due at least in part to the fact that the host country traditionally makes an attempt to field a team in every event, or at least as many as possible.
People make it sound like the government spends millions of dollars to develop these high-tech facilities and then just haphazardly sprays the stuff into old, rusty oil-drums. Surely this isn't the case.... right...?
I was in a museum recently where they had an exhibit about Hanford. Yes, a lot of the nasty stuff was basically stored in single-wall steel tanks not unlike oil storage tanks. As time has passed, many have rusted through and released plumes of really bad gunk into the groundwater.
Once the ailerons, elevators and rudders have no air to push agains you're pretty much stuck with gyros, attitude thrusters or a controllable main engine thrust nozzle. This craft had NONE of those
SpaceShipOne does indeed have cold gas attitude thrusters. You can see a photo of one firing during a test flight here.
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I always thought his earlier book The Snow That Crashed was better.
I dunno, 4000 bytes isn't really that big these days...
Dude, if my Tivo could read my mind, it would be constantly playing Victoria's Secret commercials and my wife would be pissed.
And all restaurants will be Taco Bell...
Profits $.50 bil
Assets $3.34 bil
Market Value $13.28 bil
Employees 4,000
No, no, no. Profit(!) always goes at the end.
Thanks, you've just put me off of downloading music completely. Good job, you've accomplished what the RIAA never could.
I mean, eww.
Right, and he could also forward his daily mail to the DOJ, so there aren't any more losses of that pesky incriminating evidence...
No, but there are oricalchum beads all over the place.
You mean, a few years ago when they started selling XBoxes...?
Fortunately for the integration-phobes among us, by the time the grim future of Doom III comes to pass, the technology for integrating a flashlight with another device will have been lost.
A WINNER IS BLU!!!
Don't mock them. They have Real Ultimate Power.
No no, Varargas was the guy who drew all those pinup photos during WWII!
And then he continued: "You've! Been... punk'd!"
Sh! Even before you start, that was a preemptive Sh. Just know I have a whole bag of Sh with your name on it.
Yeah, no kidding. Some people are just sad. Say, what was that URL for the lesbian space pirates again?
That would never work at Wal-Mart. Both the male and female shoppers there would match the description of "moving blob/person".
I understand that the working name was Collinear Holographic Optical Analog/Digital System, until focus groups revealed that consumers expressed a strong preference for video storage solutions not named CHOADS.
I imagine that's due at least in part to the fact that the host country traditionally makes an attempt to field a team in every event, or at least as many as possible.
1. Compete in more events
2. ???
3. Medal profit!
Not to mention humour, eh?
I was in a museum recently where they had an exhibit about Hanford. Yes, a lot of the nasty stuff was basically stored in single-wall steel tanks not unlike oil storage tanks. As time has passed, many have rusted through and released plumes of really bad gunk into the groundwater.
Well, I guess now we know what would happen if Optimus Prime and Astrotrain had a baby together...
SimIndiana is finally out? Cool, where do I get the demo and how do I send in the tornadoes?
At least Mike didn't have to worry about ejection seat mishaps yesterday! Err, or something like that.
SpaceShipOne does indeed have cold gas attitude thrusters. You can see a photo of one firing during a test flight here.