Hm... On the one hand, more rodents means they'd be attacking eggs, but on the other hand, fewer deaths of birds from attack cats. There are certainly places where bird populations have been hit hard by cats.
Oh, sure. I think some of the Valdez cleanup bill stuff is still in litigation.
The economics get worse when you look at the expectation of insurance and other economic impact of potential accidents - the TMI cleanup was something north of a billion back when a billion dollars bought a lot more.
Also, the group Moosebutter has done a medley - [www.moosebutter.com]
Cool. I'd heard about the Bloop before, but was unaware of the rest of the strange sounds on the list.
It's been fun, growing up in and living in the Golden Age of antibiotics. It's a shame it's ending.
SORRY, PEOPLE OF THE FUTURE. THESE FEW GENERATIONS SPOILED IT WITH OVERPRESCRIPTION AND GENERAL BAD USE OF ANTIBIOTICS. Oh well. You guys are smart. You'll think of something. Or else die.
"tasselled wobbegong shark"? You totally invented that name.
Alfred Hitchcock?
Fuck yeah. The hot new shit in the dental industry is in-office CNC machines that can produce a custom crown for a given patient. [www.yourdentistryguide.com]
Oh thank God. Since Amber and Adam are (or were last I heard) a couple, I thought this was some kind of bizarrely ironic and snarky comment about an *actual* pregnancy announcement and I was ready to be all "Uh, guys, what the fuck, over?"
Instead, well, I bet it's not going to be as awesome as the flick Amber and Adam directed (Drones), but I'll check it out just based on their and Grillo-Marxuach's involvement
I can't address the actual question, since I'm not military, but I will take a moment to mention Books For Soldiers, which is a group that takes book requests from active duty military and hooks them up with volunteers who send books. I'm one of their occasional book donors, and I admit it - I make a point of looking for nerds who need fine quality nerd reading. :) [booksforsoldiers.com]
So, someone is well on their way to making the "homer" ammo from the novel version of Logan's Run. The homer never misses.
If this is a sign of mental illness, the problem is that people going down that road don't think they're going crazy - they think they're going sane, and that all of the music of the spheres has aligned and is revealing the epiphanies of the universe to them.
Also, I want to see a reason to combine "gyradaptors" and "velociraptors" because I think the words sound great together.
The Star Trek apartment is gone, but the Portal Room has risen to take its place in the cycle of nerdy decorations.
[www.telnets.org]
[www.telnets.org]
this makes me happy
Wasn't the 9th Legion part of the backstory of Pournelle's "Jannissaries"?
Also, I want to see a graphic novel about Every as written by the pirate-loving comics writers in the "Watchmen" world (where having actual superheroes meant the predominant comic book genre was pirates). It could make the issue of Tales Of The Black Freighter that we read interstitially look like a happy upbeat romp.
I'd also consider the comparative income issues, and more men ending up in jobs that are further out of the downtown core and thus out of easy transit range.
That's actually kind of delightful.
If your software can't handle the real world, fix the software.
It works really well as an electrical insulator. Companies like [www.cgit-westboro.com] make what are essentially gas-insulated coaxial pipes to move high voltage lines around in a tightly packed area that otherwise wouldn't give you sufficient clearance to have the power lines in that space without things arcing and shorting and otherwise being very dramatic.
Sort of like oil-insulated transmission lines, but with inert gas instead of dielectric oil. On the other hand, if you do have an electrical arc around the sulfur hexafluoride, it can decompose into some very toxic stuff. Because sulfur. And fluorine. Mmmm. Tasty tasty corrosives.
To digress: One *awesome* thing about oil-insulated transmission lines is that if you have damage in one part of a long transmission line, instead of having to drain all the oil and fix things and refill it (which can be expensive because dielectric oil is Not Cheap, plus there's a whole disposal issue even though it hasn't had pcb's in it for about 20 years) is that they truck in LIQUID NITROGEN and freeze the pipes solid on either side of the damage, so you can clip it out, fix it, and drop in a new section of transmission line and just splice it back up.
