Hard to tell but it sure looks like the old HP frequency counter we got rid of a couple of years ago which had nixie tubes... In fact, everything in that rack looks like the out dated equipment we recently sold off.

"(assuming it's safe!)"

The unsafe experiments, or at least the ones you can't trust to a 14 year old, are the best ones for a teacher to be demonstrating! Some of my most memorable chemistry and physics classes were the ones where the teacher needed to do the demonstrations because of safety concerns. Almost all involved burning or blowing things up: throwing sodium into a vat of water, electrolysis and then demonstrating which gas collected above which pole of the supply, burning various pure elements to show the basics of spectroscopy, a foam ball shooting potato gun can demonstrate a half dozen different things.

On top of the rampant cheating there were severe problems just downloading the game, I had to resort to sneaker net to get half the game files from a friend because they always came in corrupted.

Massive stability issues too, I was playing with a few friends and we usually lost at least one person to disconnects per mission.

Finally there were massive balance issues. If you hadn't used the afk training exploit before they patched it a few days into operation you couldn't afford any of the player sold items (most 'uber' items were random rewards). It was nearly impossible to get rewards yourself because of all the cheating, and it seemed like half the opponents out there had maxed out weapons and HP buffs. If I was lucky I could find a PUG who were cheating an leach off of them... it was the only way not to get constantly curb stomped.

Only used half of my original purchase time.

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." -George Carlin

Because they changed it last month, now you can haul them around.

An Eve Time Card (ETC) is the out of game version and CCP has strict rules about those and how they can be traded, and cannot be used for scams etc... and all those gift card rules apply to them.

Once an ETC is converted into a PLEX though it becomes an in-game item and none of the rules apply to them as they are considered to have already been redeemed. You can use a PLEX any way you can think of in game, run trade scams, buy/sell for in-game currency, delete them, carry them around in your internet spaceship, and, in this case, get blown up.

Lots of people have made fusors, even high school students for science fairs.

The article is really light on details, his setup looks far more complex than a basic fusor would need to be and I assume that's where he spent all the money. Getting good deals on things like used vacuum pumps you could probably do this for a couple of thousand. It's a neat hobby but fusors are far too inefficient to be used as anything other than a cheap neutron source, and even then only if you really up the voltage. Most make for a cool looking lamp.

Don't fly what you can't afford to lose!

They at least need to be tested to see if they know how to pronounce the ship model names... no, you don't pronounce the 'C' in Scimitar!

The problem with the hoarder I work with is half of the reason he keeps most of his junk is to reclaim the rare metals through half baked schemes. Any chance to get mercury from smashing old thermometers and any circuit board with gold or silver plated contacts and he's all over that.

It doesn't help that the hoarding is partially enabled through work in the guise of keeping spare items to maintain some of our out dated equipment. Last year while he was on vacation we cleaned out a "storage room" and disposed of about 3500 cubic feet of electronics. We still regularly come across old PCs hidden behind lab bench panels, circuit boards above ceiling tiles.

He should retire soon, but what's going to happen to the tons (litereally!) of junk he has stashed at home or at the cottage when he eventually passes on. At least the stuff at work we have the ability to dispose of properly.

Probably one of the earliest examples I can remember of a game with 'mouse look'. A well made first person RPG, completely non-linear with tons of quests, various factions to befriend or go up against. Even had some decent physics for '92, objects could bounce and roll, also had some limited dynamic lighting.

The whole thing was far more advanced than Doom which came out a year later.

Just realized it annoyed me enough that I should add it to my ABP filter...

It's not quite an ad but... Just passing over this little icon with a mouse will instantly pop up a list of 50 or so social networking and aggregator sites that blocks half the page for 30 seconds and can't be closed.
 

The government may control the tourism industry, but the tourism industry is also very beneficial to anyone even remotely associated with it. It's one of the few ways foreign dollars can get into the country. I do agree that there are probably plenty of corrupt administrators out there, but those occur everywhere.

As for forced labor of schoolchildren... where the heck did you get that? The Cubans have a very extensive education system. They may not have laptops for every child but every single one receives a full education, including college and university fully paid for by the government if they desire. There is mandatory military service, but that's actually pretty common anywhere other than north America. The only thing really holding them back is the US embargo.

Oh, and Cuba drastically cut sugarcane crops with the collapse of the Soviet Union, who used to purchase it from them at an extremely high price. Most crops these days are tropical fruit, potatoes, cassava, tobacco, and some rice.

Lucas is going to get wind of this and shut it down.

"If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it." - George Lucas

No not too creative, but Inter-Stellar Kredit seems seems to be a good name for money in a space themed game, with a nod to their country.