Strange. I just made a search and found literally hundreds of high-ent thermal-imaging devices in Russian Internet shops: http://www.4glaza.ru/katalog/p... http://tut.ru/PNV

The best OpenStreetMap editor in my opinion is JOSM https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ . I think it is not only the best mapping application, but one of the best computer program in existence.

I know that many people use Vespucci on Android http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/... for mapping. I personally worked a lot with the OsmPad http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/... for collecting addresses during on the ground survey.

I work with many computer maps. The OSM is one of the best, if not the best.

It is becoming obvious that there should be an anti-drone net over these premises.

With the new Internet access speed the PC's hard disk is practiacally just a part of the cloud anyway.

It is easy to sneak a back door into a complicated mathematical algorithm. Most people do not understand how it works anyway. And as we know it does happen on an epic scale, from many sides.

But there are impregnable physical laws, which all people understand. Still this type of security is neglected by hardware producers. For example, why there is no a light physical plastic lid, which can be used to close web-camera on a ultra-book physicaly? Why the web-camera lenses are always open? Why people shall use a messy scotch tape to close it? Or rely just on a dubious software security.

Why where is no a similar lid to close a microphone and a web-camera on a smart-phone? If a web-camera is closed by a physical lid it is closed. This is it. And it is not difficult to make a convenient design so that it is opened and closed easily.

This may have an appearance of being updated. But by what and by whom? It is obvious that if a "Windows OS" costs USD 0.- it is not the Windows as we know it.

One should realize that there are a lot "pirated" Windows OS installations in Russia. I would guess more than 90%.

These PCs do not have Windows Update, since the OS is not authentic. And consequently hoards of different viruses, trojans and bot-networks run on them. The masters of these malicious networks could mount cyber activity from the IPs' of unsuspecting owners.

I would advise a Pentagon delegation to visit a Russian megalopolis for a cultural exchange trip and learn the real situation on the ground, before retaliating with cyber campaigns on poor people.

We may dislike or like E.Snowden. But there is no denial, there is the world Before Snowden and After Snowden. I am not sure which one is better, the same as the Dark Ages could be not better than Pax Romana. But that is what happened, and it is impossible to put toothpaste back into the tube.

China and Russia adopted the metric systems still in the early 20th century. Printing press, periodical system of elements, space flight, and many other significant humanity-scale scientific and engineering breakthroughs were made in those parts.

Why there are no photos of the found tools in the article? Do not archeologists have a photo-camera, or at least smartphone with a camera?

Or a nature of gravity is understood.

<quote>... until something like a space elevator comes along....</quote>

I looked up the shipwrecks statistics of recent years and I do not see that there is an issue with the hull strength.

Besides, the modular design could be as rigid and strong as necessary. Instead of torch cutting the old ships they could be disassembled, and the separate modules could be used as houses. In about the same way as old shipping containers are already being used in construction.

I saw how they break ships in a documentary. It is not a ecologically safe process. There is a lot of oxy-fuel cutting, burning, dumping, etc.

I watched and thought: "This is wrong. Why not use some module architecture?"

Ship breaking is very tedious process:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_breaking

Why no to build-in capabilities for a ship to break itself easily?

You are right. But there is also a good reason in the Commerce Secretary's position.