You are selling an Ad-blocker, so you circumvent ad-blockers (including your own !) by posting a Slashvertisement !! Sweet !!

> does anybody know is there any reason people set $X.95 price sometime instead of "usual" $X.99?

Because people are getting wise to the fact that $X.99 is near enough $X+1, whereas $X.95 is closer to $X ? Not !

I am running a test: still waiting on a result:

ping -W 118000 voyager1.nasa.gov

Would this count as a start ? Artemis (SKDR S/Ka band Data Relay).

(Anglo-German family in central Germany.) I am not sure they *have* to buy a proportion, but the do buy all the electricity we can produce from our community solar project on the apartment building roof, and they pay over the odds for it (it is better for us to sell to the grid and buy it "back" through a green tariff then to wire it directly into our homes !)

Yep: we live in a Passiv standard house in central Germany, heated by sun through large windows, body heat and whatever the appliances give off and helped by a ventilation system with a heat exchanger. Works great, and totally draught free, even next to the window in sub 0C temperatures.

> A is quite bad and for many things even A++ is not state of the art.

FWIW I have noticed new stuff appearing rated A+++ (3 pluses !!)

> slamming a jet fighter into a large concrete block at 481 miles per hour (775 km/h)

The post I replied to specified a 747
- F4 30,000 kg empty, 747 > 162,400 kg empty, 300,000+ max
- the F4 test had water in the fuel tanks
- F4 impact speed 775 kmh, 747 mac speed 998 kmh (probably not worse case: fully loaded, descending, thrusts on).

So a fraction of the weight, no fuel, low speed: not very reassuring :-(

> Around here, the nuclear power plants are designed to survive a 747 flying into them.

Care to share a reference ? IIRC, the last I heard the *best* designs currently in use could only survive a direct hit from a light aircraft (sorry: no ref !).

Well if you had ever breathed the air we get round here this would not surprise you: all you need is a condenser :-)

This is Slashdot: the correct phrasing is "In space no-one can hear you whoosh" ;-)

> Electric vehicles for everyone powered by nuclear power are a complete zero emission system,

Only for a very limited definition of "zero emission".

(With a 5 digit Slashdot ID I am sure you know that the building and dismantling of huge numbers of cars, and some nuclear power stations create huge amounts of pollution. Then there is uranium mining, waste disposal...)

> It's not safe for the simple reason that the automatic cars will drive the speed limit, and cause accidents because everybody else is going 20 over.

Is this really true, or is it just an Urban Myth invented to justify breaking the law and endangering other road users lives ?
Citation ?

At the risk of killing my Slashdot cred: I love Firefox.
I have not noticed any memory leak problems, my 15+ Add-Ons have not broken with FF updates, I do not care what version they call it (major or minor number updates) and I can not remember when it last crashed on me.

Why not 4 space craft, to measure in 3D, like ESA's Cluster mission ?
NASA Budget cuts ?!
(The Cluster website is a bit out of date: the mission is currently extended to, IIRC, 2015.)