No Kaboom?
There was supposed to be a Mars-shattering kaboom!
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"could send 1.4 megatons of energy per day"
Megatons of energy? If that's megatons times c squared you'd do a lot more than just melt the asteroid.
But isn't it fortunate that this giant space-based laser will be run by those nice americans, who can be trusted not to use it for anything nasty like blowing away third-world countries that don't grovel enough?
The values given are for the refined material available in orbit.
But that assumes (1) There are enough customers for that much material at that price, and (2) That the price they are willing to pay will stay the same.
But how do they calculate those prices? Are they the current prices, when it's incredibly expensive to get stuff into orbit and there's hardly any stuff available in orbit?
If so then they're just chucking huge numbers around for publicity. They wouldn't get anything near that in practice.
People used to make jewellery out of aluminium because it was so valuable, being so hard to extract.
It was found on an old photo, so they may be some distance away by now. They reckon they know what caused it, so it's not particularly interesting or unusual. They may have decided that it's not worth spending limited rover lifespan in going back to look at it.
The second is the one I was thinking of. The Ecklar tape is dated 1983 -.the song "Space Hero" is credited to 'Fish', though I can't track down when she wrote it.
"many distinctive features which Games Workshop might justifiably claim as their own ... they are routinely surgically modified "
Were they routinely surgically modified before 1986, when Timothy Zahn's first "Cobra" book was published?
So when are they going to stop anyone writing about games or workshops?
"Pills derived from acai berries supposedly allow people to shed weight without dieting or exercise"
But there is a berry which will allow people to shed weight without dieting or exercise. It's called Belladonna!
[And anyone stupid enough to buy medicines from spammers might well be stupid enough to eat that :( ]
It sounds like you have to touch a particular point on the opposite hand while that point is jumping around every time you move your head or that hand, and while the touching hand is blocking the beam.
I think they are going to have to improve on that somehow before it becomes useable!
I wonder then who does write the reams of meaningless management-speak babble that appears every time some company gets caught out, explaining how lessons have been learned and anyway it was all a long time ago (because the company has been delaying the enquiry until everyone has forgotten about it).
"France's government wants big web firms with high volume traffic to contribute to investment in high-speed internet, which is currently funded by telcos."
So presumably those internet firms will then receive a hefty portion of the profit that the telcos make by selling access to that high-speed internet?
Oh look, un cochon volant.
It's easy to have different interpretations.
For instance someone might think they were being politically correct in referring to another person as an "African American". And the other person might feel grievously insulted at being called a Septic.
"the opportunities they will create for millions of consumers to have classic Polaroid experiences."
Is he trying to impress other management types with this gobbledygook? Nobody else is going to have any interest in whatever a "classic Polaroid experience" is supposed to be.
The classic use for those instant photos was for pictures of an 'intimate' nature that you do NOT want to be seen by the local print shop