A square knot is properly used only as a binding knot. It can collapse and fail when placed under strain. If you want to joint two ropes (or glorious miracle graphene cables) use one of the interlocked overhand bends, such as the Carrick bend, the Zeppelin bend, or the Ashley bend.

I was in Houston a few years ago, and had to drive up north of town to get some equipment. Looked over and next to the highway, I saw DMC's place. Freaked me out a little, 'till I did some research later and found out about the resurrected brand and their manufacturing of cars from NOS and other parts.

...after following a link - Why do I get the page that is several stories behind where I was? The page isn't cacheing properly. Not sure why this is, but it is aggravating to always have to reload the main page just to get back to where I was.

True, Real Time Kinematic DGPS methods with a broadcast or cellular correction signal typically get you below 3 cm absolute horizontal.

On the other hand, fast static observations and post-processing typically yields sub centimeter (usually less than half a cm) results for absolute horizontal positions, even with broadcast ephemeris. You can usually tighten up positions if you wait for precise ephemeris calculations to be published for your time window.

As for any drift, it is taken care of automatically. The ground stations continuously sync the clocks on the space vehicles.

Wishing I had mod points for you.....

Exactly why I tagged this "Spam"

A maker of low-cost hearing aids posts a story about how expensive others are. News?

We couldn't get the country to adopt metric measurements fer chrissakes. No way we could convince bubba that 2 AM is lunch break.

That's some funny shit right there! :)

Thanks for dredging that up...

They had to have a project to use the money they saved from the (now illegal) time machine program..

...Who gets out of the rabbit?

I was thinking more of something like the Honeywell Micro Aerial Vehicle:

http://www.honeywell.com/sites/portal?smap=aerospace&page=mav_video&theme=T8

They are more like helicopters than planes. I imagine anything like that would use far more energy than this bird, not to mention making a lot more noise.

I've been disappointed in all the "Dune" movies that they haven't managed to properly portray the Ornithopters (as in the books).

Of course, I also hate that the MI in "Starship Troopers" didn't get the powered armor!

To get back on topic, this robo-bird is pretty amazing. There have been a bunch of mini-drones that can be used to spy on an enemy, but they all *look* like drones. These would not raise an eyebrow...

My first thought as well. Still, "Grassoline" is a pretty funny word...