Comment Predator (Score 1) 405
Be skinned and hanged.
Comment Re:My Mother, NASA oven test engineer . . . (Score 2) 77
yes, but it's very hard to ACCURATELY estimate the size of the oven in the quite large temperature variations on Mars.. Don't forget the oven does expand and contract every day/night, and every time it warms itself up.
Comment Human space exploration. (Score 2, Insightful) 77
One more thing to add to my list why humans should be involved in space exploration, not just robots..
Perhaps this could be fixed if there was a human there?!
Comment Re:Oh no, not a flag!!!! (Score 2, Insightful) 622
but you need to draw the line somewhere. If adding 'just a flag' is allowed, then why not adding 'just a gun' or 'just a document'. You have to draw the line somewhere. Plus, once an image is edited, it is no longer a photograph as it does no longer simply capture a moment in time.
Unix Dict/grep Solves Left-Side-of-Keyboard Puzzle 423
destinyland writes "For decades, people have been asking this brain teaser: 'What's the longest word you can type with only the left-hand letters on a keyboard?' The answer is supposed to be 'stewardesses,' but grepping the standard dictionary that ships with Unix reveals
a much better answer. There's nearly 2,000 shorter words that can typed with only the left hand — including one word that's even longer. (The article also quotes a failed novel attempt using nothing but words typed on the keyboard's left side.)"
Comment Re:Silent, I don't think so (Score 1) 176
2m is enough to come up with a conceptual design that 'works'. They'll use this money to work on technologies that will make such an aircraft feasible. For the actual manufacture, you'd need a budget in excess of 40 million USD.
As for 'silent', it is a relative term, and does in fact mean 'quieter'. This can be done by simply steering the noise into a direction where no one can hear it (up?) and by improving the aerodynamic performance of the aircraft.
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