Then, of course, the maker might get perverted into adding subversions. So we can go to G90.3.5

And maybe even take a hint from Apple's phones: G80.7+

iOS 9.3 or so and on suitably new hardware (iPhone 6 or newer, equivalent on the rest of the zoo) came with Night Mode that filters out blue wavelength emmision on the screen within the specified nightly interval. Start time, end time and the amount of filtering adjustable.

Of course, that did not prevent scads of iGadget users perennially on autopilot to start moaning & bitching about how their fancy-shmancy screens had gone yellow, the night after they had willy-nilly upgraded their iOS version without READING THE MANUAL FIRST.

An HP-25c in high school. The need to make the most with 50 instructions really made you code carefully. Then off to Engineering in college, where Fortran was inevitable. Short while later, Pascal came along, in an IBM 370 mainframe, of all places, till the Apple IIs came out. Always had the illusion of learning VM/370 assembly language, never got around to it, but did go to 6502, 6800 and 68000. Thanks to Engineering, managed to avoid Cobol like the plague. Later years would bring Scheme, Prolog, Smalltalk and even a dabbling in Ada. Not to mention Rexx and its inheritors, the scripting languages of the Bourne, C, Korn and now BASH shells. Which led to C and the rest of that menagerie. The Swift-y bird is winking at me...

I guess this further emphasizes the great merit in filming The Revenant, that cost greatly cause Gonzalez Iñarritu and Lubezki insisted in using no artificial lighting.

In the industrial world where liability exists and is rigorously enforced, engineers who build software and hardware systems are respectable individuals with strict and comprehensive training, theoretical and practical, very worthy of the title and our gratitude in creating and advancing much of the infrastructure that makes our life easier (and in some cases, possible). A former student of mine works in GE's aircraft engine division (which makes the Dreamliner's engines, amongst others): if the effort he puts out guaranteeing that the software that makes such an engine run achieves a better than 99.999% reliability can't be called advanced engineering, then nothing can or ever will.

Microsoft's infamous greediness in the consumer marketplace, OTOH, led the way many years ago to a cheapening in the public perception in what we are entitled to expect from something we pay for. Doesn't do what you wanted it to, or fails when least expected? Well, did you not read the EULA?? It says that's a what it is and you accept it as such. And if you don't like it, well... the software isn't even yours. We just let you use it for a fee, but we decide who can or cannot play with our ball. And since all thisway of doing business has never been challenged in court and concluding with a jurisprudence-establishing jury verdict (all such cases 99.99% of the time end in settlements with no acceptance of guilt or responsibility), things will not change.

iOS preferred.

If you have a link, please. Diving into the App Store is a vast time-consuming exercise.

On a related topic, where in the hell do they come up with these wackyfunny names for the releases???

Someone obviously has vast amounts of free time and a giant encyclopedia collection.

Bang on it with a crescent wrench....

Solved the problem in Armageddon, didn't it?

Unless it is a fast breeder or similar that can "burn" plutonium, by the time they get around to getting the fuel, there won't be much uranium left on sale, or suppliers willing to sell it.

If water demand weren't bad enough, the profitable quest to squeeze the last possible drop of oil/gas from the ground via hydraulic fracturing (fracking) wrecks the whole underground structure that configure the acquifer, not to mention making it totally unfit to drink or use due to contamination. So now the natural underground currents that replentished the groundwater supplies are gone and whatever is left is ruined. Bravo for Capitalism, hope that cheap gas you got in return tastes good, cause it's the only liquid you're gonna get.

BTW, this Russian effort has to be admired for its persistence. They've been patiently going at it when money and weather permits on Antartic summers since 20 years ago or more.

Hadn't the Russians done this already, on their side of Antartica?

Or is this a different subglacial lake?

Won't they have to fumigate the place and get rid of the pesky rock critters first, to keep them from gnawing on the cables as shown in Apollo 18

Ok, first we had Mad Cow Disease, which proves fatal to humans if you get it. For those too young to remember, it was caused by "enriching" cow feed with ground up sheep offal in order to recicle the waste, increase the protein content of the feed and increase the profit to the farmer. This caused the bugs to get into the cows brains and turn them to mush. Called Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in the cow flavor, Kreutzfeld-Jakobs syndrome in human flavor, basically turns your brains into a bloody sponge full of holes, then you die inevitably, be it cow or human.

Wait for the upcoming Mad Fish Scare. Just remember every time your MacFish stick or burger tastes like shit.

Why is it that USA space tech prefers water splashdowns instead of dry land like the Russians and Chinese?

"Softer landings" doesn't quite cut it as a reason, for at the speed of the impact, water is just as hard as terra firma. Then there's the risk of crew drowning and/or craft loss thru sinking. That doesn't occur in dry land.