I found a nokia at a tram stop once. It was just the internal structure and battery, but a bit of hunting around in the gutter revealed the case. It had been dropped on the road and repeatedly run over. I snapped the lot together and found the most frequently dialed numbers (parents in Malaysia, not calling there to say I had found their daughters phone smashed on a road in Melbourne). Called her boyfriend and he arranged for me to drop off the phone. Very strong bits of gear, Nokias.

Aluminum is brittle, while steel deforms.

Pass the wrong type of object to a javascript library. The library happily accepts your crud, passing it through 14 levels of function calls and then says something useful like "a is not a function".

I should be safe in Eastern Aus. We could get a new inland sea out of it.

Consider this scenario. I am merging right to make a right turn.

1. Indicate right
2. Wait for a car to give way
3. Merge one lane to the right

This doesn't work with automatic cars because they don't understand hand signals. Instead I just have to merge and hope the overtaking cars are going to give way. If this behaviour becomes common, people will start merging without indicating in the expectation that automatic systems will take care of the resulting conflict.

I ride a bike to work and I indicate for right and left turns as well as stopping under some conditions. I doubt that the systems on a (semi) automatic car will understand that.

Could that body have been... The Earth? The same thing happens whenever I try to look at Paris from Australia.

Its clearly a trap.

I wonder if it has any Earth sized moons. Maybe one close in could be kept warm(ish) by tidal heating.

I liked Scottie

Maybe she will pop up elsewhere.

Lets hope it doesn't start by attacking rubber seals.

Plenty of biological material was left on the surface in jettison bags during the apollo missions. Its going to be interesting when those bags get retrieved. In fact I wonder if it justifies a sample return mission right now.

Yeah, given that launch sites tend to be on coastal areas.

But the wheels aren't failing. The skin on the wheels is failing but the wheels will work fine with structure alone.