http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/12/15/0431204/chinese-moon-probe-flies-by-asteroid-toutatis

Just add a timer to your altimeter, so it goes off after X meters OR T hours, whichever happens first.

Hmmm but you didn't say no to the nitric acid pit, huh? :P

> (And yes, I know it would be impossible to produce this tablet at this price and make a profit).

Then they could make the profit from somewhere else, e.g. subsidizing them like mobile phones are, with their data plans and all...

I she what you did there.

Thanks for the slashvertisement.

Comparing the Gulf War and Normandy is insulting.

To be fair, you said "about 6 years". That's 4 +/- 2, which seems ok.

In case you were using Carbon-14, of course.

To be fair, you said "about 6 years". That's 4 +/- 2, which seems ok. In case you were using Carbon-14, of course.

> PS: What does "PD" mean?

"PD" means Postdata, from Latin "post datum" or "after date", and was a way to add some more information after a written letter, since you could not modify a message written with ink or typewriter. In electronic communications like email this is not necessary, so it's recommended to add a "PS", or "Postscript", "after the written".

PS: how convenient you asking what PD means in your PS... oh, wait!

a beowulf cluster of chopsticks.

Well, six months before the Wright brothers flew for the first time, they said that heavier-than-air flight wouldn't be possible for at least another 1,000 years...

Well, maybe those departments are indeed filled with Apple fanboys, specially when the money doesn't come from their pockets.

... because their parents pay the bill. When they grow up and have to pay the bills themselves, they'll switch to email, twitter or whatever is available for free.

Who zaps the zappers?

Welcome BZZZ to BBZZZZZZ 1984.