Comment Pray for Mojo ... (Score 1) 272
I can't wait to eat that (now toasted) monkey!
I can't wait to eat that (now toasted) monkey!
Scientists were surprised to find that the tin cylinder containing the lyrics "Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down". Lead investigator Hubert Hvarquhar explained that "the dolls were part of a short-lived gilded-age custom where well-to-do society members would give each other gifts that spontaneously started singing and could not be shut off. Many of the dolls were smashed in rage leading to their comparative rarity today."
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So do we now have to ask "Solar cells - How the f*ck do they work??"
Other than poorly designed clocks, what other devices actually care about the power line frequency?
Motors. Big motors, like the kind you find in your furnace, A/C compressor, elevators, and other places. Nobody cares about the consumer electronics because all that stuff either auto-ranges or can be manually switched. But big industrial equipment is everywhere and lasts a long time.
Obligatory PA ref -
NASA already did a better version of this twelve years ago on the Deep Space 1 probe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_1#Remote_Agent
And in fact, for extra style points after the first successful maneuver the following exchange occurred over the mission control voice network:
"This is the flight director - Congratulations to Remote Agent. It has successfully operated the Deep Space 1 spacecraft".
"Flight, ACS."
"Go ahead ACS"
"Congratulations to Captain Dunsel"
But, but
I suppose the story got a little fouled up in the editing, but here is a clip from the director's cut
... like Jar Jar Binksarrim of the water people. And Elrond will have an affair with Galadriel. That's right, as soon as we fully Americanize this story, we will have a real winner here, folks.
Sorry, that was only the first draft. Now, Bilbo is a time-traveling immortal who joins with a hip new Gandalf to save Middle-Earth's ozone layer.
Then, they break dance!
From the article:
allowing multiple, smaller launches, which then form into one large spacecraft in orbit
So NASA's building a version of Voltron?
They don't say so explicitly
Life is a healthy respect for mother nature laced with greed.