Comment Re:Who names those ships? (Score 4, Funny) 80
Google wasn't around in 1979
Google wasn't around in 1979
HMS Terror sounds like a typical name for a warship.
and as for Erebus, well nobody had even heard of that Antarctic volcano until flight 901 hit it in 1979
The actual cards would be those 80 column things that the ancient languages were stored (and inpuy) on.
" taking two metre wide, three metre long sheets of monatomically thin graphene and making hammocks out of them."
Because existing materials aren't strong enough to make a hammock that can support the average american?
The problem is that nearly all the places that can be dammed have been dammed already. .
"Maybe my math is off, but in my book 11 days does not make "weeks""
A week is 7 days. 11 days is about 1.57 weeks
More than one is plural.
"Honestly, the idea of passing out and waking up at the destination would be appealing (to me anyway)."
I am sure its possible, but you'll have to pay extra for the drinks
Of course there is the risk that if the plane does have an emergency you are less likely to be one of the survivors.
We had a B/W TV in the late 70's - although color was fairly common. There were only 2 channels back then.
We got a color TV witht Teletext in 1984
(I was born in NZ)
"Can a drone go on fishing expeditions,"
I would think they would scare away the fish. And in the winter how are they going to cut holes in the ice?
" running up and down looking through windows?"
You could always run Linux
Even before that, professor lidenbrock and his nephew Axel descended into Mt Snaeffells in Iceland
"It will pass just below satellites in geostationary orbit, and above New Zealand "
Geostationary orbit is around the equator, NZ is 40 to 45 degrees south or so.
if its going to be that close
BTW how big its it? The size of a house can vary a lot, and are we talking spuare feet, length, or mass
NZ houses aren't as big in area as american houses, and mostly made of wood, so they are not as heavy eithere.
I don't drink coffee
Increasing erosion due to acid rain and global warming
"Pin and paper with filing cabinets. Old tech, but cheaper and it works."
Do you mean pen and paper?
Anyway while it might work for keeping records, its hard to do a website that way.
Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.