"You have to remember, Stanford considers Computer Science to be just a branch of the Philosophy Department in the first place.."

In that case you might as well go to the University of Wooloomooloo , I hear they have an excellent Philosophy Department - just ask for Bruce

>Apaches dropping off the "enforcers"

The Apache is a gunship. It doesn't carry troops.
Maybe you mean Blackhawks

Tomorrow us Thursday, the Vogons will be here to destroy the planet.

Yes, at least this one is based on a book (series) rather than movies or TV SciFi

If you could remove a day from the calendar, which would it be?

April 1st

April 15th

February 14th

October 31st

December 25th

The 1st Tuesday in November on a leap year

Your birthday

Cowboy Neal's birthday

I didn't click any links but my guess based on the summary was Cybermen

Take off and nuke the site from orbit, its the only way to be sure

Funnily enough, the Hindenburg was designed to be filled with Helium. However theworld supply of He at that time was monopolized by the USA, who didn't trust the Nazis to only use airships for peaceful purposes, so denied them thte gas. So the Zeppelin company had to use hydrogen.

"the worst disaster was the R101 which killed 48"

But it didnt happen live on radio, or with the cameras rolling , thats why people remember the Hindenburg.

" Airships were not only vulnerable to explosion, they were unstable in high winds and storms."

fixed winged aircraft of that time were also vulnerable to storms, but they didn't carry as many people as the big airships.

Well scientists did some research and found out something that has been known for ages.

In related news, japanese scientists have discovered that whales still taste good, but they still need to do more 'research'.

They probably have a more modern sensor package than the spy satellites that have been up there for a few years.

I did know that, but why is it referred to as "an MOOC" in TFS ? Shouldn't it be a MOOC

and does MOOC rhyme with kook ?

"Barba suggests educators pay heed to Donald Bligh's 1971 observation"

I must have missed that particular Mutiny on the Bounty film

while cockpit video cameras may help determine the cause of some crashes, there are plenty of recent examples where it wouldn't help.

For example if Malaysia airlines had cockpit video, it would not tell us who fired the missile and why. *for the one shot down in the Ukraine) and we don't have any black boxes from the other one (at the bottom of the indian ocean)

"illegal even for governments to use since the Geneva convention."

Who takes notice of the Beneva Convention these days?

Many of the current groups of combatants (ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Hamas, Houthis, Hezbollah etc) never signed the Geneva Convention, and certainly don't follow it.
Others have had a change of Government since back then, )like Russia and Iran, so don't feel bound by it.

And if you're a state fighting against such people (Like Israel) you realize that you're fighting at a severe disadvantage if you 'follow the rules' and they don't.

So they expect to sell 300 of them then

"5. The phrasebook doesnt have anything to get hungarian insurance scammers off the bonnet of your car at 3 am"

Maybe you should be travelling in a hovercraft instead (full of eels of course)

" GPS may not be capable of routing you safely around a drunken and somewhat bloated Jeremy Clarkson as he hurls homophobic remarks at you from the doorway of a run down pub in leeds."

Didn't they fire him because he hit the producer? Or did they just can the show instead? Its a pity because I thought Top Gear was mostly a good show.

So is it April 1 already in Russia?