I'm surprised.

You think that at this point no one in the Astronaut program, yet alone living in a metropolitan region, has drank water recycled from urine?

Be real. This happens all the time.

kulakovich

Me. Me and Harry Potter and like eighty other people.

Seriously though. Wand broadcasts audio to Mac, Mac recognizes text, executes scripts, controls X10 network, controls stuff inside and outside house, including lights and other computers. Also have X10 keychain built into handle if speech borks.

kulakovich

I didn't know that hanging chicken cages over the pig pen constituted a "lab" nowadays, but ok.

~kulakovich

ps - yeah, it is so the pigs get to eat the chicken waste, and exactly how this type of thing happens.

In addition to everyone else's points, and to elaborate on something in the last response - yes, indeed, there is a giant cloud of stuff in orbit with the ISS, whether it is washers, filings, toolbags, thruster exudate, water vapor, dings of micro meteorites, etc. Not an environment we want to put Hubble in.

~kulakovich

Sure it sounds like an easy swap, but imagine trying to do something like changing dipswitches and installing a PCIe card with ping pong balls on your finger tips - even with big clunky milspec connectors, everything you twist tries to twist you, everything you pull tries to pull you. Arduous work at best, and they are doing five 6 hour sessions. Amazing, truly. I hope they have Story Musgrave available for commentary, the man is a national hero in my opinion.

~kulakovich

Yes, and in the future they'll be trying to follow the chain of command back to who authorized Bulletin Boarding.

Patent Pending
Patent Pending
Patent Pending

~kulakovich

Stand in front of the whiteboard. Guaranteed shorter meetings

~kulakovich

"What do you get when you mount a Nikon D200 with a standard rifle stock?"

Shot.

kulakovich

Your business model is dead. Your lawsuit is the wake.

~kulakovich

...you are interested in something other than sports, iPods, and Coach bags.

If your society can't be bothered, you're damned to spend more willingly on the NFL each year than you begrudge the entire space program.

Enjoy your cell phone.

kulakovich

The failure of the first particle beam/laser hybrid was due to the particles deviated from target because of their mass, falling out of the laser's beam.

So that's fixed now?

kulakovich

Hardware cost is nothing compared to the cost and maintenance of Adobe CS4, Avid or Final Cut Suite, Maya, AutoCad, MS Office, a Laser printer, a large format ink jet, or for that matter a community of users.

Once certs are generated to run all software on all hardware*, these kids running around with cracked apps are going to vanish into memories of the Old West.

kulakovich

* anyone else working on developing for the iPhone? Yeah.

I would always favor social welfare over a space plane in this decade.

Temporal Penalty: 10 years. Please throw your cell phone in the nearest garbage collection unit, and pick up your Pentium II laptop at the door.

kulakovich