> I wonder what kind of aircraft we have today that we'll find out about in 20 years.
In 20 years? Try at least two years ago. You've already heard about it. See: X-37 OTV. Also, RQ-4 Global Hawk, MQ-1 Predator, and MQ-9 Reaper.
> A former co-worker of mine worked on designing a drone that can be dropped from the B-52. The earlier comment was pretty accurate - the B-52 is the pickup truck of the air, very versatile and conservatively inexpensive.
The B-52 has a track record with drones already. One of them was modified to carry and launch the Lockheed D-21 after a fatal accident with an M-21 (The M-12 was a Blackbird/Oxcart platform). The D-21 was horrendously expensive for what in practice was a disposable drone (ballistic recovery usually failed) so it was discontinued after four (disclosed) operational missions but it was capable (considering the state of technology at the time - it relied on intertional navigation since it was pre-GPS and even pre-Loran) for surveillance once they resolved the launch issues but was a logistical nightmare. It was just cheaper and more reliable to send manned aircraft (Oxcart and Blackbird, or the cheaper to operate U-2 in less risky regions) over areas of interest.
what's the difference between highly illegal, and illegal? Besides, what is so illegal about changing a registry key or value, or creating a registry key?
In related news, it appears Yahoo still has cash reserves to spend on more failures.
Metric would be Lamborghini tractors or VW Beetles, not Ford, you ignorant clod!!
Just wait until we get to Ginormasaurus, then maybe Megalosaurus!!!
Officials just got their panties into a twist because Snowden and Manning blew the whistle on a lot of the bullshit.
The thing that puts us at risk is our own damned selves. We butt into everyone else's business, give billions in aid to other nations when we're already broke, and we warmonger. If we didn't do all that shit we wouldn't be running into problems.
d'oh
Great. Now all we need is a 5200'+ airstrip every 60 miles or so along flight corridors. I wonder how long it will take to get to Seattle then? Let's see, preflight, wait in line for ATC to give the go ahead to take off. . . at every stop, not to mention anywhere from 12 to 20 hours to recharge the cells. Multiply that by about 45. Hmm, I think I'll take a train instead. I'll get there days more quickly!
I think teleportation will be a reality by the time battery tech enables heavies to fly cross country.
Yeah
Meanwhile:
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.
> No, it isn't. Weather occurs in the troposphere [windows2universe.org], the layer of the atmosphere closest to the earth, extending up to between 7 - 20 km above ground level. About 80% of the mass of the atmosphere is here.
That's what they want you to think.
*adjusts tinfoil hat*
It's saddening that people really think this is a "death ray" or some other BS. It's the same sort of person who thinks that contrails = chemtrails, that the oil industry has bought patents to cars that "run on water" to keep them secret (um, patents are publicly disclosed, people!) and murdered the inventors, and that magnet motors are practical "free energy" sources rather than just an interesting toy. I have a few friends who think these things and no amount of science-based evidence will convince them otherwise. I'm apparently "closed minded" because I like the scientific method.
If you can manage to get a link to a "cloud server" where the SLOWEST link to the server meets or exceeds 1Gbps for small businesses (with 30ms or less latency) , and you can get 10Gbps or faster (and bond multiple links to expand bandwidth further) for larger organizations, AND have daily backups in easily-migrated formats stored in escrow by the cloud provider in the event that the government raids and confiscates servers because some drug cartel or "piracy" ring happened to have cloud services on the same physical box as your virtualized servers, AND you have net neutrality so Comcast/Time Warner/Cox/etc. can't throttle your network speeds because you're in the "top 1% of users" (read: you're actually using the services they offered to sell you and you agreed to buy then they reneg on their contracted offerings) then it will be a practical option.
Until then, fuck cloud servers. Seriously.
If only there were an invention which can be used to determine the elements in a compound. I suspect that might want to vaporize the material and shoot a light source through it to a prism, which will split the light and the resultant spectum analyzed and compare the spectrum to that of known elements, thereby revealing what is in the alloy. Crazy, I know, but it just might work!
The better solution is getting citizens of both countries to STOP VOTING FOR WARMONGERS.
The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected. -- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972
