Whilst NASA (and the family) are very lucky that no-one was injured, this could have been a big diplomatic incident. In Florida NASA can talk to the the insurers and everything can get smoothed over. It could have landed elsewhere in the world.

Whilst the Krelin is too far north, hitting the Russian army just east of Ukraine would not have been good. Whilst funny, Kim Jong Un finding this in his bathtub would no doubt have caused the State department some embarrassment.

NASA programs need to treat this as a lucky warning. Killing people because they couldn't dispose of trash because of a supply vehicle issue and engineers who didn't correctly calculate the chances of a piece of debris surviving re-entry will be treated harshly by public and politicians.

Which brings up the subject of NASA's surprise. Wikipedia says that Inconel is often "utilized in extreme environments where components are subjected to high temperature, pressure or mechanical loads." Surely there was a good chance that a large piece of it would survive. Were they just hoping that it was likely not to fall on anyone?

The point is that he was one of the company leaders that publicly and prominently called for legislation, then lobbies against it for his own company's products. Of course I've not RTFA, but the summary implies it is the hypocrisy that is being called here.

Only slightly shorter than the term of a UK Chncellor of the Exchequer

What is interesting to me about that exchange, even more than the obvious of the AI engine did not have enough infomation to realise it was a bizarre question to ask, is that it responded with an answer! 18h 33m is very specific - where did it come from?

A response of "I don't know the record" would be a basic dumb answer - it can't find a number because it is nonsense.

A response with a time shows that it thought it had a real answer. Maybe someone has claimed to walk the channel in 18h 33m. Where did it get that informaiton from?

Doubt it. Have a palladium wedding ring myself. We went for palladium as well cos it was cheaper than platinum. Palladium has tripled in price since then.
Consider it an investment!

I think there will be a cascade, it just might not happen as quick as you expect. Generally, academic libraries are in multi-year deals with publishers like Elsevier. I work in a UK academic library where negotiations on the latest round have started with some publishers, but the Elsevier contract has not yet started negotiations. I don't know the results of any given contract negotiation, but over the next few years and over the world things will change.

The folks who run the detectors have announced previously that they have detected the collision of black holes, so presumably the signal they've got doesn't look like that (or anything else they had been expecting to see)

No. If something works better than a placebo it is a medicine. It it only works as well as a placebo it is an alternative medicine.

Agree with you about the first two, but unlike other reviewers it seems, I enjoyed the third movie more than the other two. I certainly found it dragged less.

Not saying I thought it was a masterpiece, but I'm glad I watched it.

How about normal currency (USD, GBP, EUR or whatever applies to you) and an online bank account? You can do things electronically and you get all the regulatory and insurance protection.

I like Brian Cox, but he's got loads of other shows and series on the go. There are other decent science presenters around - I like the current Sky at Night team for a start and would be happy if they continued.

Huh? When I show my books to my accountant he regularly bursts into tears...

I guess the way this comment was phrased is why it is at -1, but it is essentially true. There appears to be no evidence that going to Valinor gave immortality (see especially the whole farce of the attempted invasion by the Numoreans). Tuor is mentioned that he *might* have become immortal, but in the context that this is uncertain, and definitely very unusual.

Yeah - late 80s would be better. I startedf using computers at school mid 80s and it was BBC Bs and Masters. We didn't get the Archimedes until around 87(ish), and even then we only had one.

I've no idea how good it actually was, but it felt revolutionary at the time because the only native computer interfaces we'd ever seen up to then were:

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Plus it was fast...

What the parent says. Nowadays most libraries I know (note I work for an academic library in the UK) digitise this material.