You can do 5-10 fun jumps a day at big dropzone. If you are professional, i.e. coaching or filming/doing tandems, then getting jump numbers is even easier since you'll get paid for it and may also get free pack jobs (packing your canopy is what makes you tired usually, not the jump itself).

Single bitcoin transaction ~741kwh wasted energy. Which is equal to 5000 km on Tesla3. I wonder how many transactions did they make to collect these 1.5B. I bet they didn't do it in single take. Buying Tesla car with bitcoin transaction may make the deal less environmentally friendly than buying ICE car with bank transfer or credit card.

With two underwing engines, reducing thrust introduces some additional dive moment. They were low and already diving. Reducing thrust may not look like a good idea in this circumstances. Roller-coaster might be difficult to apply too when you are low and already going down. This is crazy that you cannot trim passenger airplane manually in its normal flight envelop.

I think they overengineered it a bit.. I use Antec 90W slim power supply instead of 170W uberbrick for my W530 for few months without issues. Needed to create a custom plug though.

You totally forget about 5000m altitude. I would rather live in place with -53C in Alberta with normal atmospheric pressure than anywhere higher than 4km. Human beings have serious issues with adapting to such altitudes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altitude_sickness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_mountain_sickness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoxemia In addition to that you also have much higher frostbites risk even from not-so-low temperatures.

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There was a similar scandal in Russia in 2006. They put huge posters with USS Missouri on Moscow streets on Army Day. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11524992/ns/world_news-europe/t/russias-red-army-day-blunder/

Destruction of basic services, good access to health care, and one of the best education systems is a very bad way to make Shia and Sunni equal.

Apparently somebody already asked :) http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s320x320/389834_10150377444933321_346272093320_8345205_1719532809_n.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_meteorite : "These meteorites are thought to be from Mars because they have elemental and isotopic compositions that are similar to rocks and atmosphere gases analyzed by spacecraft on Mars."

Titov and Manarov spent 365 days in space in a single mission in 1987..1988. Then Manarov logged another 175 days on Mir, couple of years later. So, I guess, he was in pretty good health after his first mission ;-)

Finns know how to deal with trolls - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQIoeE4Mtjo

Here are the transformers (orange boxes on the photos), apparently none of them has exploded. http://forums.drom.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=610633&stc=1&d=1250749637

here are more photos/videos of the plant before and after the accident - http://forums.drom.ru/hakasiya/t1151240353.html There is also a lengthy discussion of accident on the local forum (many plant workers participate and deliver "first hand" news there) - http://forums.drom.ru/hakasiya/t1151239745-p104.html Transformers look ok, there were no smoke nor traces of fire damage. Hydraulic surge in generator #2 looks like most likely reason of the accident (the reasons of surge are not that clear still though, people talk about destruction of turbine or generator failure).