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Comment I'm almost positive that's not a real Buran (Score 1) 226

by beanfeast on Tuesday September 28, 2010 @05:30PM (#33728596) Attached to: Soviet Shuttle Buran Found In a Junk Heap

I was in Moscow in May last year. I went on a boat trip along the Moskva River and passed a Buran in Gorky Park. I immediately altered my plans for the following day so as to include a visit.

The next day, May 28th 2009, as I walked towards the Buran I was mortified to see guys with hammers, shovels and brushes starting to demolish it.

I wasn't able to get right up to it to take photos because some uniformed guard insisted that taking photographs was forbidden, but you can see one of the surreptitious snaps I took here - http://www.samoa.co.uk/images/proc0023.jpg

If you look carefully, in the image linked to above, at the nose section where the tiles have been stripped away, you will see that the tiles were actually mounted on wooden lathes.

A somewhat better photo of the nose section can be found here - http://www.samoa.co.uk/images/proc0024.jpg

A little bit of Googling and it turns out that the Buran in Gorky Park was actually a simulator.

The OP was correct, it was a carnival ride.

The Frontier of the MMO Genre 92

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @08:35AM from the they-don't-even-have-regular-socks dept.

Eurogamer is running a feature about what they call "frontier" MMOs, games that are on the fringe of a market flooded with attempts to replicate the success of Everquest and World of Warcraft. Many publishers already have more MMO projects than they know what to do with, and often leave the more unusual and unique games out in the cold, preferring to stick with familiar IP or a tried-and-true approach. "Like any gold-rush, the MMO market also attracts a different kind of adventurer: the fearless, inexperienced, determined and solitary dreamer, making a go of it on nothing but their own resources and pluck. The online distribution and direct revenue streams — be they subscriptions or micro-transactions — make it theoretically possible to make a mint in MMOs without any help from the gaming establishment at all." They take a brief look at several such games currently in development, including Earthrise, Gatheryn, and Global Agenda.

Submission + - Big Brother Disapproves of Weekend Boozing

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MattSparkes

on Thursday February 15, 2007 @08:09AM

MattSparkes writes: "Staff at Pequannock Township High School in New Jersey are going to start using a sneaky new test that can detect if students have been drinking in the last week. The test measures urine concentrations of an ethanol breakdown product called ethyl glucuronide (EtG). I find it bizarre that in the US you can't drink until 21; at 21 I had spent already three years completing my undergraduate degree and drinking copious amounts of Guinness."

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