If you're going to get pedantic about statistics, you should really get to know your friendly neighborhood Margin of Error. Often ignored in fluff pieces, being aware of his existence is still vital.

I don't know, I hear that Zeus is a heavy user of Google maps for pinpointing lighting bolt strikes.

Not sure about all the other gods, however.

I wasn't speaking about the copyright issue. The question was "how were they reconstructed without the video?"

Do you really want to call anyone who plays Candy Crush on their smartphone a "gamer"?

I mean, if so, then OK. But then you're going to have to find another name for those of us who do speed-runs through Metal Gear Solid whilst blasting death metal and swigging energy drinks.

I mean, besides, "unemployable jackoffs".

Skálmöld

Thank you for turning me on to my new favorite band in all the world.

I don't usually listen to metal, but I do when I'm playing video games. But then, it's essential. How can you go wrong with a band that refers to itself as "Viking Folk-Metal"?

but that volcano is extinct

Sure, that's what they all say. Like a guy telling a girl he's met, "I've had a vasectomy".

They believed that had no choice other than do what they did

Oh, BS. Sony had lots of other choices. They've had choices every step of the way in their miserable history of hostility toward customers.

Do you need me to recount some of their...um...exploits?

So if you hacked your xbox, you could play pirated games, but never online.

As tiny as the effect of piracy is on games, it's shocking how badly the games industry has reacted.

But I guess it's the same thing with movies and TV and music. The industry has over-reacted to the detriment of their paying customers.

My 51yo lady friend has 20K+ battles on WoT (desktop), I think that counts as a mature female gamer. For years she would not have anything to do with FPS games because of the blood and gore, but would play bridge online for hours, which I think also counts as a "gamer". I talked her into WoT because it's only tanks, not people, she was hooked for life in 30 minutes but still plays bridge every now and then.

The removal of OtherOS didn't affect the average gamer,

So, you're saying that as long as they screw a few people, but not the average gamer, then it's all OK.

Uh-huh...

With Sony, it's about a body of work.

OtherOS always sucked because Sony was scared it would lead to pirated games or homebrew games that competed with their own offerings

You're making my point. Sony treats their customers with hostility. Does anyone really believe a homebrew culture would compete with AAA games? And down at the bottom, this is the very reason why it should be illegal for one company to provide both hardware and software. Because they will inevitably act in an anti-competitive manner.

In fact, they've actually gone back and recompiled/emulated several popular games and put them on the PSN store for cheap

You mean the games people already owned and then couldn't play because of Sony's "update"? Gee, they should be grateful Sony is letting those people buy those games again...for cheap.

Too late. I wore it out printing nukes

The nozzle for the Superdraco engine is 3d printed. The alloy is too hard to machine, so 3D printing is the only practical way of manufacturing them. It will be the landing thruster for the propulsive landing Dragonfly crew vehicle. It will land with the accuracy of a helicopter. Here is a video of it being cycled through its various thrust levels. Very cool.

I looked through one of those from a relative, and it sucked eggs. Don't do it. Horrible horrible optics. Maybe it's better than nothing, but barely.

That's a bunch of hogwash. I have a 60mm refractor and it can see bands on Jupiter and the Cassini gap between the inner Saturn ring and outer (under ideal conditions). Binoculars will not even show the rings separate from the ball of Saturn, and will not show bands on Jupiter. I can also see spots on Mars and the polar caps under ideal conditions. It did take some practice to learn to see some of these, though. It wasn't instant.

Just make sure the optics say "precision ground". That has a legally-enforced trade meaning.

That being said, reflectors are more cost effective for looking at nebula. For "bright" objects like the moon and planets, refractors are more bang for the buck because the center mirror in the reflectors tends to blur planets etc. via diffraction. It's a trade-off.

It all depends on the preferences and behavior and discipline of the kid.

I have a cheap mount (simple tripod). It's annoying, but I've learned to live with it via practice by knowing how to manually track. Being bare-bones, it didn't stop me from seeing anything I wanted to see.

And don't be fooled by extra or gimmicky attachments, such as a Barlow lens. They are often useless. The only attachment I really enjoyed was the sun filter lens, but there are other ways to view the sun via projection.

Auto-targeting gizmos can be nice, but they do take a fair amount of setup and fiddling before they can do their job.

But, I personally think it's better to just learn how to aim the thing manually. Start with the moon to get used to aiming, tracking, and focusing. You then apply those skills to progressively dimmer objects.

If the kid is not disciplined or motivated to practice and use the scope to its potential, then no scope is "good".

from a probe built in the mid 70s.