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Comment Re:The man behind the curtain... (Score 1) 418

by MaroonMotor on Friday January 29, 2010 @01:39PM (#30952026) Attached to: Russian Stealth Fighter Makes Its First Flight

I wouldn't be surprised if Lockheed Martin/Boeing secretly funded Russia's stealth fighter project to justify restarting production on the F-22.

The little problem with this claim is that it would be treason to do that. I'm not saying it in the rhetorical sense, but in the get-put-in-jail-for-a-long-time sense. That's a pretty big risk for a businessman to take when it really doesn't matter. There's plenty of fish in the government ocean.

Really? It is a convictable offense under federal laws if a private US corporation invested money in russian arms industry? What laws would be broken?.

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Comment Re:Chronic Problem (Score 3, Insightful) 418

by MaroonMotor on Friday January 29, 2010 @01:29PM (#30951824) Attached to: Russian Stealth Fighter Makes Its First Flight

Just to add to that - Russian people in general are extremely proud of their country's military power; most large Russian towns will have regular military parades, parks with military hardware for people to take their photo with, retired missiles and jet fighters on display beside main roads and so on. Spending a large portion of their GDP on their armed forces isn't seen as a frivolity or opposed by anything but a tiny minority of Russian citizens.

Which sounds pretty close to the attitude of the people in the US as well.

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Designing the Computer UIs In Movies 371

Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 24, 2010 @03:41PM from the film-over dept.

xandroid points out an NPR interview with Mark Coleran, who "...designs the fancy-but-fake graphics that flash across computers in the movies. He has worked on a laundry list of blockbusters: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Ultimatum, Children of Men, Mission Impossible III, and many more. He says a lot of the inspiration for computer screens comes from video games." The main point of these fake movie UIs is different than that of real UIs: to tell a story very quickly, not to reveal and enable function.

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Skydiver To Break Sound Barrier During Free-Fall 311

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 23, 2010 @12:04PM from the some-velocities-are-more-terminal-than-others dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "Over fifty years ago, American Joe Kittinger made history by leaping from a balloon at 102,800 ft, and although many have sought to repeat the feat, all have failed. Now, BBC reports that Austrian extreme sportsman Felix Baumgartner will try to break the long-standing record for the highest ever parachute jump, skydiving from a balloon sent to at least 120,000 ft, and it is likely that 35 seconds into in his long free-fall of more than five minutes, he will exceed the speed of sound — the first person to do so without the aid of a machine. 'No-one really knows what that will be like,' says Baumgartner. Although challenges in the endeavor include coping with freezing temperatures and ultra-thin air, a key objective for Baumgartner will be to try to maintain a good attitude during the descent and prevent his body from going into a spin and blacking out. 'The fact is you have a lot of different airflows coming around your body; and some parts of your body are in supersonic flow and some parts are in transonic flow. What kind of reaction that creates, I can't tell you,' adds Baumgartner."

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