I wonder is thinking behind this, in any way related to the 2007 attacks on Estonia's networks

Haven't sold RAM or machines, and I haven't chucked any out.

There are a lot of possibilities, best one appears to be be that it was simply sent to the wrong address.

Sure would be helpful if there was a return address and a name on the envelope...

From the article:

wat.

you wouldnt find me close to a rocket launch

Here's a compilation of videos from a failed Soyuz launch - it got up off the launch pad and then came right back down, very close to the spectators. One person died.

Foton M-1 launch failure

If you hadnt guessed, the video contains lots of expletives.

Truth: http://mediafilter.org/caq/cryptogate/

Vladimir Popovkin, is this also the fault of HAARP?

Global Hawk = Northrop Grumman RQ-4

Predator = General Atomics MQ-1

The drone that crash landed in Iran: Sentinel = Lockheed Martin RQ-170

Yet folks persist in using "Global Hawk" and "Predator" to describe it.

The guy is trying to save his own job, simple.

29 April 2011 Russia has replaced the head of its space agency, Anatoly Perminov, who was reprimanded over a failed satellite launch in December First Deputy Defence Minister Vladimir Popovkin will now head the federal space agency, Roscosmos.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13237153

It's stupid and transparent and will ultimately backfire.

Looking at TFA, the pictures show the solar "tree" is a foot or two higher than the conventional solar array, which is barely a couple of inches off the ground - so is it really so surprising that it performed much better when the sun was lower?

It's a neat idea though and would love to see the kid continue with it :)

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I've been able to track a lot of aircraft movements on Shortwave/HF radio from Ireland - and it's surprising just how much information still goes out over unencrypted links. Friday night, there was a marked increase in French AWACS and support aircraft activity - and then on Saturday other frequencies came alive with a whole host of NATO aircraft; for instance RAF Transports, Tankers, Surveillance, Strike and Fighter aircraft. Some aircraft discussed the targets they'd hit, the ordinance they had used and their current bearings and distance from Benghazi. There have been some intriguing transmissions - for instance aircraft operating at altitudes which are beyond their published service ceilings and voices co-ordinating movements from countries whose governments voiced opposition to the NFZ. Over the years frequency hopping and encryption have reduced the number of military transmissions to be read and understood on HF, but clearly there's still interesting ones out there. On a tangent - an Israeli Numbers Station , designated E10 and famous for lending the title to a Wilco album amongst other things, stopped transmitting on March 1st of this year - given the recent events in Egypt, it's interesting timing.

JAXA is not at all certain that it is bringing a "hunk" or much at all of Itokawa back with it. The firing mechanism which was meant to fire a bullet into the asteroid malfunctioned. They're just hoping it picked up enough residue. After the various mishaps this spacecraft encountered, it's been a good effort to get it home.

The MIT H-series looks rather like the Boeing X-48B: http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2006/q4/061027b_nr.html Regarding the D-series - is it using ducted Propfans? - I couldn't find any information. The biggest problem with the Propfan technology appeared to be the noise produced by blades spinning at near or above supersonic speed. But it didn't seem insurmountable and ducting would seem like an obvious place to start in order to mitigate it. Although obvious to someone who has no aerospace training whatsoever, probably means "obviously stupid" in engineering terms.

Um, I'm unemployed and Irish. Now - would you care to refute the information in the link?