Give the information to Brian Krebs and have HIM call them. I guarantee you they will get off their asses and do something then.

I saw a suicide note posted on Flickr. Friends got to the individual in time. I don't know the stats but if Facebook can do something to help keep someone from dying, I would not dismiss it. They will be raking through the postings regardless, nice to see something good come of it that's not just good for Facebook.

Sigh.

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I think they could have made it work if they framed the shots right. If you move from one star field to another star field, then yeah, the audience isn't going to see much difference. But if Saturn were in the foreground and dead ahead in one shot and they transitioned to Gargantua being dead ahead as they went through the wormhole, I think the transit would have been obvious enough. Particularly if they looked back and showed a distorted view of Saturn through the wormhole after they passed through.

The problem I had with the low tides is that you don't get a glowing accretion disk if the tides aren't strong enough to rip apart nuclei. Where was all the radiation supposed to be coming from, bremsstrahlung?

I knew the wormhole transit view was BS, having read Rudy Rucker's book about wormhole travel years ago. I forgave them for it because the different views of the black hole itself were just awesome, and they needed a heavy-hitter like Thorne to come up with those.

The annotations were probably more useful features such as distance to the subject, angle of head tilt, or principal lighting angle, lens focal length. Train a net to recognize the shape of heads tilted at various angles and you've gone a long way toward recognizing faces tilted at those angles. Now you can train separate networks to recognize faces at each specific angle or small range of angles. The same for dealing with varied distances and lens focal lengths.

It's a good thing because I appreciate knowing what kind of country I really live in. For most of my life I thought I lived in a country that wouldn't torture people. Later I learned that the CIA not only tortures people, they ship people to other countries so they can be tortured harder. That's one of many examples of the things they don't teach you in school that should nonetheless influence how you think and vote. I want to know the ugly truth about what's going on. It probably won't make me happy, but it might just keep me free.

I'd settle for a link to a Google Earth image that shows one of these civilizations "hiding in plain sight". The article only has some stock image of a desert that looks like it was shot form the back of a jeep.

True, but the odds are pretty much 100% that your art project request will be denied for liability reasons. People sue the hind legs off each other for anything nowadays, and rampant paranoia is the natural result. So if you want to do your project you just roll the dice and hope that no one notices your guerilla installation.

Oops, someone noticed? Now comes the part where you beg for forgiveness.

Ambrose Bierce's short story "The Ingenious Patriot" comes to mind.

Having obtained an audience of the King an Ingenious Patriot pulled a paper from his pocket, saying:

          "May it please your Majesty, I have here a formula for constructing armour-plating which no gun can pierce. If these plates are adopted in the Royal Navy our warships will be invulnerable, and therefore invincible. Here, also, are reports of your Majesty's Ministers, attesting the value of the invention. I will part with my right in it for a million tumtums."

          After examining the papers, the King put them away and promised him an order on the Lord High Treasurer of the Extortion Department for a million tumtums.

          "And here," said the Ingenious Patriot, pulling another paper from another pocket, "are the working plans of a gun that I have invented, which will pierce that armour. Your Majesty's Royal Brother, the Emperor of Bang, is anxious to purchase it, but loyalty to your Majesty's throne and person constrains me to offer it first to your Majesty. The price is one million tumtums."

          Having received the promise of another check, he thrust his hand into still another pocket, remarking:

          "The price of the irresistible gun would have been much greater, your Majesty, but for the fact that its missiles can be so effectively averted by my peculiar method of treating the armour plates with a new -"

          The King signed to the Great Head Factotum to approach.

          "Search this man," he said, "and report how many pockets he has."

          "Forty-three, Sire," said the Great Head Factotum, completing the scrutiny.

          "May it please your Majesty," cried the Ingenious Patriot, in terror, "one of them contains tobacco."

          "Hold him up by the ankles and shake him," said the King; "then give him a check for forty-two million tumtums and put him to death. Let a decree issue declaring ingenuity a capital offence."

Fly my drone indoors. The stupid GPS restriction would prevent me from doing that despite the fact that indoor flights pose no hazard to the White House or anyone else except me. There are indoor uses for these copters. I'll bet you can think of some.

The really "out there" Voyager episodes harkened back to Kirk-era Trek, which had truly ridiculous concepts, like food that amplified psi talents and water that would make you move a thousands times faster. Nothing Voyager could do, even the abominable "Threshold" episode, could hold a candle to TOS and its zany ideas. That was one of the things I liked about Voyager. No pseudo-science was too woo for Voyager.

I wasn't one of the ones that called 911 but the booms from the sky were loud enough to make you stop whatever you were doing and wonder what bad thing had happened somewhere. Unforgettable if you've never experienced one before. I imagine this was because the fighters were coming in pretty low to be flying at that speed.