Theoretically this is possible on the outer three gas giants. As Jupiter goes, it's gravity is far too strong, plus it has the most intense radiation. So you would want to set up shop on one of the three outer gas giants. Gravity on the outer gas giants is close to Earth's, about 1 g for all three of them. There are actually layers of their atmospheres with Earth-like temperatures, but they are low in the atmosphere where the pressure is extremely high (we're talking about enough to liquidity hydrogen) so you'd want to be higher up. It's pretty cold in the upper layers, plus you're far away from the sun. Venus is probably a better target for a cloud city - about 50km up the atmospheric pressure about 1 atmosphere, temperature is about 0C, gravity is about 1G, and plenty of sun during the day. Plus the atmosphere is mostly CO2, which is denser than breathable air, so a balloon full of breathable air would float on Venus.

Well, since moons of gas giants tend to be tidally locked, couldn't you just live on the side that faces away from the planet?

As I understand it, the cable would become an antenna for whatever's going on in the cage.

The last B-52 made was in 1962. The ones left flying all all the last B-52H variant, though NASA had a B-52B operational until about 10 years ago.

Many 747-100's were converted into freighters and I assume some are still flying. There were several flying in Iran for a while, but not sure of their current status. GE uses one as a testbed for engines that's very much still active, and it was one of the first ones flying in 1970. There may not be any left in regular passenger service though.

So true. if 3 engines fail on a 2 engine plane, it pretty much destroys everything and resets the universe. a 4 engine plane is just the sane choice.

No, all that means is if you manage to get an engine started, you've got yourself a glider.

It'll "just work" in the sense that Windows has a built-in driver for it. At least on Vista/7, maybe not on 8+.

Death camp implies that they're interested in spending money on killing you when there's a perfectly serviceable gutter for you to crawl into.

Just tell me whom to trust and whom to not.

"Trust us"

Actually, pretty much every Linux distribution I've ever played with (that comes with an installer) gives you the option of not installing a boot loader if you don't want to. Some will even make an alternate boot media for you to get into your Linux installation, such as a boot floppy or a USB stick, while others will leave it up to you to figure it out. And if you do choose to install Grub, they will almost always add an entry for any Windows installations it finds.

Of course, there are the Linux distributions that come without installers, but if you're that hardcore you know what you're doing anyway.

To test how well it works with various hardware? With that said, it's on its own dedicated box which is an old system that got retired when XP went EOL. It runs okay, but much slower than Windows 8 on the same hardware.

Actually, since there is already a VLC browser plugin, it would be sweet if the browser would just load the plugin to handle Flash video. But thanks for the drag-n-drop hint for Youtube URLs.... I had no idea you could do that.

But does it run Windows?

publically funded projects to bring high speed broadband

In the US we gave our telcos massive tax cuts in the 90s in exchange for fiber rollout. The telcos took the money and ran.

Faraday cages are nice until you need to stick a wire through them to plug into the wall. Enjoy your battery life (and/or jiggawatt laser outside pointed through the mesh at a solar panel inside)

Now I'm curious what happend to Case1, Case2, and Copy of copy of case3 [8].doc.