You know, all this talk of techie migration has sparked my imagination. Somebody should do a spoof of the "Grapes of Wrath," in which a destitute family of IT workers piles into their dilapidated Ford Windstar and leaves San Jose for the thin promise of a new life in Toronto. It'd look great in black and white. Throw in lots of dust and tumbleweeds for that Dust Bowl effect.
However if your living environment has just been destroyed by a meteor, wouldn't these creatures just "make-do" with less-ideal conditions, maybe in a smaller population?
Of course. When a meteor blots out the sun, you've got to "bee resourceful."
(Slightly off-topic, but fittingly placed among the Star Wars-related posts.)
Anyway, now that this mode of propulsion is being deployed in (or above) the real world, and the private sector is building spaceships, how long, I wonder, will it be before some rich hobbyist builds a functioning TIE Fighter? All the parts are waiting to be assembled, with the possible exception of the small megawatt-class lasers.
It'd be great; get a bunch of rich Star Wars reenactors together with their lovingly assembled spaceships and we could have the equivalent of SCA tournaments in low earth orbit. Probably collisions, too, but hey, that's what television's for.
Man, you are not thinking about the real possiblities that these machines offer!!
I am. For one thing, it would make a deadly naval mine, but I think somebody already mentioned that on another string.
As for productive uses, there are many, but the one that intrigues me most is for studying marine mammal populations, particularly whales. Using these for protracted studies would be a hell of a lot cheaper than paying to crew a boat filled with scientists.
Just think, an autonomous drug smuggling robot sub that could drop its cargo if the coast guard gets uncomfortably close, then go back and retrieve it later. And even if it were captured or destroyed, there would be nobody on board to turn state's evidence against their boss. (Presumably it would automatically wipe its memory if tampered with) About the only way to catch the smugglers in the act would be to covertly track the robot to the rendezvous point.
Hey man, anything that'll lower the price of cocaine is fine with me. (sniff)
Hey, that's a great idea... I'm amazed nobody's ever done it before [x-plane.com]!
As I recall, the x-plane models flew like shit, thanks to the nearly nonexistent Martian atmosphere. Now if somebody wants to do a blimp model, then that might be a more practical alternative to the white-knuckle experience of landing a fixed-wing Mars airplane at 400 mph. Inflateable craft are also likely to be the favored mount of future Martian explorers, though I would agree that doing Immelmans in a blimp just aren't that exciting.
Should make it a bit more like an actual NASA exploration of mars and after you move more than 5 meters cause some sort of flash ram error and then send your computer into a week long reboot cycle.
Meh, I like my idea better: make it like Monopoly so that you can go around buying Cydonian landmarks while being represented by a game avatar that looks like a small pewter dog.
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Scroll down to see what Dr. Hoagland alleges to be Martian fossils. I'm not entirely convinced, based upon what we've seen so far, that the rovers have spotted fossilized life forms, but these rocks deserve further scrutiny (and additional missions.)
Will these surfboards be jumping lava sharks by any chance?
I don't know about the lava part, but this series was jumping sharks when The Phantom Menace was just a twinkle in Lucas' eye, which quite possibly coincided with something involving Ewoks...
So an American company is selling a computer to a Japanese organization that is ideal for simulating nuclear explosions. Interesting.
Interesting indeed, considering that the Japanese have the necessary materials, infrastructure, and means of delivery, I suspect they will be revealing a deployed nuclear capability soon. This announcement serves as a veiled warning to North Korea.
See, there was this guy who looked a lot like David Hasselhoff, and he had this sweet camaro dipped in this stuff that made it impervious to any attack.
Make that nigh-impervious. Remember the episode when that David Hasselhoff-looking dude had the ramming duel with his evil twin in the bigass tractor-trailer?
To early in the morning to google the exact mission, but there was a deep space problem launched by NASA from Cape in the last 5 years that used Plutonium as its fuel source much like the Voyager probes.
You're referring to the Cassini probe that is exploring the Saturn system. Check the pics on the Nasa website. I'd send a link, but it's too early in the morning...
Certainly. It's what you call it when the servers are plowed under by a sudden spike in traffic due to the release of a new version, in which case the letters "BSD" stand for "By Server Demand."
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You know, all this talk of techie migration has sparked my imagination. Somebody should do a spoof of the "Grapes of Wrath," in which a destitute family of IT workers piles into their dilapidated Ford Windstar and leaves San Jose for the thin promise of a new life in Toronto. It'd look great in black and white. Throw in lots of dust and tumbleweeds for that Dust Bowl effect.
Of course. When a meteor blots out the sun, you've got to "bee resourceful."
Sorry, that was abominable.
Anyway, now that this mode of propulsion is being deployed in (or above) the real world, and the private sector is building spaceships, how long, I wonder, will it be before some rich hobbyist builds a functioning TIE Fighter? All the parts are waiting to be assembled, with the possible exception of the small megawatt-class lasers.
It'd be great; get a bunch of rich Star Wars reenactors together with their lovingly assembled spaceships and we could have the equivalent of SCA tournaments in low earth orbit. Probably collisions, too, but hey, that's what television's for.
I am. For one thing, it would make a deadly naval mine, but I think somebody already mentioned that on another string.
As for productive uses, there are many, but the one that intrigues me most is for studying marine mammal populations, particularly whales. Using these for protracted studies would be a hell of a lot cheaper than paying to crew a boat filled with scientists.
Hey man, anything that'll lower the price of cocaine is fine with me. (sniff)
As I recall, the x-plane models flew like shit, thanks to the nearly nonexistent Martian atmosphere. Now if somebody wants to do a blimp model, then that might be a more practical alternative to the white-knuckle experience of landing a fixed-wing Mars airplane at 400 mph. Inflateable craft are also likely to be the favored mount of future Martian explorers, though I would agree that doing Immelmans in a blimp just aren't that exciting.
Meh, I like my idea better: make it like Monopoly so that you can go around buying Cydonian landmarks while being represented by a game avatar that looks like a small pewter dog.
"Now SHOW ME THE MUMMY!"
Seriously though, has anybody seen a monacle around here? I seem to have misplaced mine.
A better question might be, "Can this structure be safely used after driving an Abrams tank over it?"
But you know the weird thing is that sometimes I dream that Sharon Stone is my wife.
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Scroll down to see what Dr. Hoagland alleges to be Martian fossils. I'm not entirely convinced, based upon what we've seen so far, that the rovers have spotted fossilized life forms, but these rocks deserve further scrutiny (and additional missions.)
Only the ones released by Blue Note.
I don't know about the lava part, but this series was jumping sharks when The Phantom Menace was just a twinkle in Lucas' eye, which quite possibly coincided with something involving Ewoks...
Interesting indeed, considering that the Japanese have the necessary materials, infrastructure, and means of delivery, I suspect they will be revealing a deployed nuclear capability soon. This announcement serves as a veiled warning to North Korea.
Make that nigh-impervious. Remember the episode when that David Hasselhoff-looking dude had the ramming duel with his evil twin in the bigass tractor-trailer?
Sure, as long as it doesn't wind up looking like this.
Nah. In space, no one can hear you drum.
You're referring to the Cassini probe that is exploring the Saturn system. Check the pics on the Nasa website. I'd send a link, but it's too early in the morning...
Eye was wondering about that.
Certainly. It's what you call it when the servers are plowed under by a sudden spike in traffic due to the release of a new version, in which case the letters "BSD" stand for "By Server Demand."
Indeed, let us hope so. Otherwise...