The ≅1 500 mile range is a huge selling point, perhaps it's biggest. This would mean an unprecedented launch window. It could hypothetically extend a launch window for hours, instead what of what it can currently be, 10 minutes on particular days. It could launch at any latitude, and now launch from international…

Grandmother in Bradbury's the Electric Grandmother, adapted for Twilight Zone and Wonderworks (1980s).

Stupid on their part, as they make clear lenses that block all UV not just the amounts the FDA certifies needing to be blocked. This would have been one of Oakley's selling points and I could see myself picking up a pair because I need new sunglasses and haveing a pair that I could also use in the movies would be a…

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I thought Mega Force was ultra top super secret.

Bet the Otterbox Defender could take the same. I like the Otterbox case I have. It's been durable and useful with the integrated stand. I broke the cover/stand in a drop, but the iPad was Ok and Otterbox replaced the unit with in a few days. The case fits better with out thin clear screen protector, and it adds a lot…

"Online"- Connecting a 300 baud modem via an acoustic coupler, long after people had direct connections.

"It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived." Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

I hate it when an articles use the term "Scientists", as though all or most scientists agree with the proposed idea. The great thing about science is that it is fallible, but self correcting. I love how just one person can radically change what is considered to be true.

Ambient audio. That night, Great Horned Owles and wind through mostly burnt, but recovering, landscape.

COMIC SANS is everywhere.

Industrial Velcro on back of Otterbox's Defender cover has worked well for me so far.

"We finally decided that we were going to get a large metal button, coat it in nitrocellulose and create a brief incendiary event that would burn the thread away. Hence, when the thread burns away, the button would fall off and the bra would open."

4U2 in Whitney and the Robot

Told you the gift shop was closed.

Yea- it may not burn, but the moisture sensors will be set off.

@nbergseng: I bet is was due to cost. Durable touch screens have been around for a long time, but I bet that the hard CRT surface, v.s. a flexible LCD system was chosen over perceived long term ware.

@Boognish: I bet the newer hiking version is more impervious, but the only thing that can prevent puncture vine from enter a foot is a thick soul, something that these shoes lack.

On a flight to London I thought I'd wear them. I got some jeers from the TSA guys state side, but worth it for the comfort.