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Comment Re:"Satellite" is really high altitude balloon. (Score 1) 63

by Patentmat on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @02:05PM (#59359176) Attached to: Samsung Satellite Crashes Into Family's Backyard

a huge chunk of metal fell from the sky into their yard, and could easily have hit their house instead. It's irresponsible of Samsung to allow it, whether a satellite or a high altitude balloon payload, to come down in a populated area!

Watching the video I would argue the word "fell" is used loosely here. The balloon payload in the video is nearly intact, including the delicate bits. I suspect it slowly returned to earth after the balloon lost sufficient lift. Sure, it could have damaged some roof shingles. Unclear how well thought through this was by Samsung, but to their credit I did just type the name of their company twice and am about to again.

An aside--what terrible reporting of facts by that news outlet to allow Samsung's marketing team to write their story. Guess they wanted to turn facts into a story.

Comment Link? (Score 1) 102

by Patentmat on Saturday May 17, 2008 @01:56PM (#23447104) Attached to: Robotic Camera Extension Takes Gigapixel Photos

To some sample pictures?

Yahoo To Reject Microsoft Bid 302

Posted by kdawson on Saturday February 09, 2008 @02:54PM from the so-say-sources dept.

Many outlets are echoing a subscribers-only report in the Wall Street Journal that Yahoo's board has decided to reject Microsoft's takeover offer. The NYTimes offers the only other independent reporting so far confirming this claim. The report says that Yahoo will formally reject the offer in a letter on Monday, since they believe it "massively undervalues" the company. Microsoft offered $31 per share, a 62% premium on the stock price at the time, for Yahoo; but the latter believes that no offer below $40 per share is tenable. The AP has some background on Yahoo's options in responding to the bid.

Feed news.com: AT&T updates its brand...again (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @11:53AM

AT&T, still struggling to convey the merger of itself with Cingular, is taking another crack at its brand identity. But it is dangerously staying on the fence about who it is as a company.

Scientists Blocking out the Sun 428

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday June 27, 2006 @04:26PM from the dogs-and-cats-living-together dept.

Ashtangiman writes to tell us The New York Times is running an article about geoengineering in which many solutions to global warming include decreasing the amount of sunlight that the planet sees. The ideas are not new, many have been around for quite some time, however they have been relegated to the fringes of science and many have never been published because of this. From the article: "Geoengineering is no magic bullet, Dr. Cicerone said. But done correctly, he added, it will act like an insurance policy if the world one day faces a crisis of overheating, with repercussions like melting icecaps, droughts, famines, rising sea levels and coastal flooding."

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