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Denver Airport Overrun by Car-Eating Rabbits 278

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 14, 2010 @12:14PM from the night-of-the-lepus dept.

It turns out the soy-based wire covering on cars built after 2002 is irresistible to rodents. Nobody knows this better than those unlucky enough to park at DIA's Pikes Peak lot. The rabbits surrounding the area have been using the lot as an all-you-can-eat wiring buffet. Looks like it's time to break out The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

Comment This is just really cool (Score 4, Interesting) 425

by CestusGW on Sunday April 05, 2009 @06:51PM (#27469245) Attached to: Debian Gets FreeBSD Kernel Support

It's one thing to sit and think about a beautiful system. To daydream wistfully about interfaces so well-thought that you can swap kernels and userland implementations without the world coming to an end. It's another thing entirely to see it happen with a full featured OS like Debian! Congrats are in order for the Debian team for tackling this and (apparently) going all the way.

Comment C'mon Battlemechs! (Score 1) 88

by CestusGW on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @02:13PM (#27404967) Attached to: Honda Develops Brain Interface For Robot Control

Sweet! Ars was just covering a story about using carbon nanotubes for artificial muscles, and now we have the neural interface controls we need too. If only ITER would hurry up and get us to the point of developing compact fusion reactors, we'd be all set to go.

NASA Tests Heaviest Chute Drop Ever 226

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @02:48AM from the not-so-fast dept.

Iddo Genuth writes "NASA and the US Air Force have successfully tested a new super-chute system aimed at reclaiming reusable Ares booster rockets. On February 28, 2009 a 50,000-pound dummy rocket booster was dropped in the Arizona desert and slowed by a system of five parachutes before it crashed to the ground. The booster landed softly without any damage. This was possibly the heaviest parachute drop ever, and NASA is planning to perform even heavier drops of up to 90,000 pounds in the next few months."

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