Seems to me a raspberi pi, four stepper motors, and a couple of good accelerometers could easily compensate for that.

Either that, or just make your rocket bottom heavy.

What's wrong with using a balloon, to lift your rocket until the balloon explodes, THEN kick in the engines?

CIA agents wearing black suits? What do you THINK their uniform is?

September was in winter?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monowheel , thanks for reminding me that the word is gerbiling, not hamstering.

But at least he taught me something: That Sir Isaac Newton was a proto-Mormon.

I know 45 minutes in I was blowing a .00, but I have no idea how accurate the cheapo breathalyzer is (it even feels cheap with a battery case that doesn't quite fit, an LCD screen, and a "detector" behind the grill that looks like it isn't quite mounted straight).

I do know this, it beeps quite loudly at anything over a .06. No way you could miss what it considers a fail. No idea what jurisdiction .06 is considered drunk.

My wife gave me a breathalyzer as a joke. I rarely drink away from where I am sleeping for the night, to make the world safer for me.

I decided to try this cheap-ass pocket AAA battery run breathalyzer out. I took a shot of vodka, blew a 0.07. I waited 15 minutes, blew a 0.02. How drunk do you have to be to not pass a breathalyzer?

How about Bar Interlocks? "Want a drink? Blow into this device. I can serve you if you're under .04."

As I remember, the "happy ending" in Manna was only available to those whose ancestors had the foresight to invest in the libertarian Australia Project.....

That was my thought. I want to know the location of his sea steading city so that if I'm forced to be a pirate, I know where to raid for supplies.

Basis Peak, if they ever get the notification software, is a good start, but it needs voice recognition.

Of course, I suppose, if you had a Pebble, you could just program it to bring up voice rec on your smart phone and use your bluetooth headset.

Then of course you wouldn't need weather to decide when to leave work (or IF it is worthwhile to leave work at all, I've had a couple of times when it simply wasn't worthwhile to leave work before midnight).

Free will is not an easy app to code.

And this has happened in every industry invented within 30 years.