It would really suck if the lunar substrate turned out to be far more rigid (what with the cold of space) than we thought, and this impact set up a resonant frequency that shook all the surface lunar dust OFF, and the Earth's gravity drew it all in, causing the Ultimate Lunar Winter. It's The End Of The World As We Know It.

Holy crap! I think I just invented the next Michael Bay movie!

I do hereby claim 25% of the movie revenue. If only to make it too unprofitable (to stop the madness).

My home town newspaper long ago switched to hiring high school students in place of long term professionals. They may be paid journalists, but they are so wet behind the ears that the newspaper is a joke. The publisher is vain, too: she loves the SPCA and refuses to publish stories when someone embezzles $50,000 from the local SPCA. They've had embezzlement at least three times that I know of. And the corruption. Dear God how they enable corruption!

So actually, yeah, I expect that many blogs are more trustworthy.

I always add the salutation - because if I don't, people on the CC: list will reply, thinking I addressed it to them. Some people are rushed. It is a courtesy.

I'd be happy to test the heck out of it.

I had a step son attempt suicide. It was difficult and the prelude to lots of trouble.

I'll pray for you and yours. It you don't believe, that's fine. Think of it as me choosing my own path for Pascal's Wager.

But think how much fun it will be when someone pops in the "Fata Morgana" disc and gets Ms. Kicks Ass And The Robots!

I would argue that allowing a little bit of dishonor 'because it's my personal life' is a bad idea in government. There is a person in our District Attorney's office (former DA) who has been sued for sexual harassment. Specifically, "If you want the promotion, I'll need a blowjob" sexual harassment. Of course, the defendant says it was merely philandery gone bad.

You would give him the right to delete evidence? (Because it's none of the public's business)?

I don't see the problem with just demanding honor, particularly wrt retention of evidence. If you don't want to be called a dirty old man, don't BE a dirty old man. The evidence takes care of itself that way.

Yes. Someone else pointed out that after the mailbox is restored, the contents have to be vetted by the lawyers, prior to be handed over to the newspaper. So there are more expenses than just the retrieval. $30,000 for five mailboxes does sound a bit high. Not ludicrously high, but high.

Depends on if they have daily backups that are retained that long. So if there really are 180 tapes that have to be loaded (more like 170, as the most recent tapes are probably still in the library), and each restore takes about one hour of work to do, and the employees involved get paid about $30 per hour, then yes that works out to about $5,000. Where I work, it takes longer than an hour to retrieve a set of tapes because the tapes are sent-off site (you are paying for travel time and mileage), and one has to unload current tapes, do the restore, unload the archive tapes, and reload the current tapes. Then take the archive tapes back to off-site storage. We don't do daily tapes though.

Well... the other choice is AT&T, who's motto is "We had the original monopoly on evil. For the best at evil, your only choice is AT&T!" ;-)

It would really suck if the stimulation portion of it only managed to dilate a small vein in a kidney. ;-)

(I'm sure the positioning of the implant was designed to maximize the likely impact of electrical stimulation. But the D'oh! possibility makes a funny.)

Glad to be of help. :-)

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This really is at the frontier of human + machine integration. Is this an analog antenna x 100? Man it would be fun to work on the signal processing aspect. I suppose a hard problem is figuring out what the type of signal recorded says about the placement of implant.