Huh? Pi can do great precision timing, you just have to run it as a bare-metal system.

"people get sick as a consequence of bad behaviour" Ah, circular reasoning FTW. In absence of STDs and Christian morality having bareback sex is not bad behavior anymore, you know.

So, there is your answer. The oscillators used here are not stable, and there must be a good reason for it. One possibility: those pingers are tuned electromechanical transducers. If anything, the electronic oscillator uses the transducer itself as the resonant circuit. Why? Because a perfect quartz-driven signal feeding a detuned transducer will not produce much in the way of hydrophonic output. It will be at the perfect frequency, but too faint to detect at any reasonable distance.

This!

That sounds to me more like a skunk feeding on them at night than CCD :) Yes, seriously, damn skunks can wipe out an entire hive in a couple of nights. The bees are too silly to resist the skunk's scratching on the bottom of the hive, it seems. They just walk out on the surface of the hive, since they don't fly at night, and the skunk just eats them. I've seen it happen, and it's both sad and silly-looking.

This problem has been solved, lemme think, about the time we were doing our first EVAs in LEO. Just because the beekeeping industry is more than half a century behind the times doesn't mean the problem hasn't been solved many times over.

A modern industrial robot on a moving base with a modern industrial vision system should handle that very efficiently. Possibly more efficiently than the bees themselves.

IIRC, such an implosion is not unlike an explosive device going off -- it sends shock waves that shatter things, send shrapnel out, etc. It's likely that the tether that was close to the imploding vehicle was got cut up as well.

I personally find Linus's post to be reserved. I'd have probably written "U fucking mad?" :)

IOW: There's no reason for it not to be 100% legit, except it's not a meteorite, it's a random rock from the place where the chute was previously packed. Possibly even not most recently packed.

Yeah, they're writing technical reports on shit that someone has packed into a chute. Oh, how easy it is for experts in field A to assume they have been born with knowledge from field B. Namely, those meteor experts who just don't get what every skydiver learns after a while: shit sometimes get packed into the chute. This whole thing is just so full of fail I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

You can address it yourself. Gravitational acceleration is 9m/s^2. 300 km/h is 83m/s. The rock could have easily been going less than that, say 50m/s. It takes 6 seconds for it to accelerate to that speed from rest. It didn't start at rest.

He was professional long enough. It didn't work. Kay doesn't seem to care enough if you're nice to him. As a leader, you have to use what works. Demonstrably, being nice to Kay was leading to nowhere. Granted, being not nice to Kay may not work either, but it's definitely worth trying. It's also worth it to let everyone else know that this kind of shit attitude (like Kay's) is not going to be taken lightly.

The ongoing issue is Kay. I expect everyfuckingone to have an issue with him!

He was trying discipline for the longest time with Kay. Eventually, he had no option but resorting to invectives. Sometimes you have to scream at your kid. Same here.