Done Roving
Spirit will never rove again on the bonny bonny banks of..... Oh wait.
Even if she responds to NASA's "Good Morning", she's stationary forever more. Well done, regardless.
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Interesting comment, that.
I've wondered how Toyota's Prius batteries are doing, now that they have a good few years on them. Also, as an electric car needs no fiddling with engine timing or regular motor lubricant replacement, do battery replacements every 5th year (or so) total the same as 5 years of engine tuning and oil changes? Surely the savings in petrol count for something too.
Carbon neutrality is all well and good, but what of the economics of the thing?
We should be told...
And I thought it was the Frenchie's smell that would kill you.. Oh, wait.
So now we can expect our green and pleasant land to be laid waste by these havoc wreaking frogs? Or will we have a generation of frog-sucking epibatadine non-addicts roaming our fens in search of their next frog ^w fix?
Should be simple enough to modulate the laser dot with a digital code. The soldier's request for a missile might say the equivalent of "Kill dot AA0153F0D". The missile would then seek a dot modulated with that code. The request (and the code) can easily be encrypted such that the enemy would be unable to generate one on the spur of the moment.
I was unaware that astronauts need spend hours in a hypobaric chamber before space walks. The atmospheric pressure in the ISS is ~14 pounds/in^2, but the pressure in the space suits is only ~6 pounds/in^2, so they must spend a night at ~10 pounds/in^2 to avoid the bends.
So my idea of a spacewalk (throw on the old spacesuit and step outside) was complete rubbish.
After a long hard day slaving over a hot desktop computer, I've no interest in waiting about for yet ANOTHER machine to boot up just to read my email or surf for pr0n.
However, not being one of the lunatic fringe (read: "early adopters"), I'll not be buying version 1.0. I'll allow others to smooth off the rough edges.
Paris, as she has no rough edges.
Remind me again why we need this, other than for junior bird-men's pleasure. "Fighter" jets no longer fight, they launch missiles at other "fighters" at 20 miles. A missile launching platform need not be carrying a meatbag or two, nor need it be capable of anything over mach 1. Likewise ground-attack duties seem to be passing to meatbagless Reapers and such.
There, that's sorted. RAF, be warned.
I'm willing to allow BAE develop my flying missile platform idea for a small fee...
1. As the government could have blocked the web site yet chose not to, are they in fact accomplices to the crime?
2. As Australia has chosen the Iranian style of internet access, what can we expect to follow? Burkas (of Aussie wool, of course)?
3. Are Aussies such twits that the government must protect them from the likes of us?
Brilliant, just brilliant <shakes head>.