Also... it kinda limits the conversation if I can dismiss any replies to my original thread... it seems a bad idea to give that kind of power to the trolls.

I'm with you 1000%. 2 columns is very cluttered, it looks horrible. I feel like I'm reading the classifieds section.

It's an improvement, but the 2 column layout is rancid. Go back to a single column, click to expand replies and you'll be golden.

Very true. In fact, you'll be out of luck accurately detecting wind in eversoslightlylessthan 180degrees of the 360 since anything with a southward component won't be accurate.

Or, it's not there at all.

If the wind isn't registering N, W, or E, that doesn't necessarily mean the wind is from the south. It could mean no wind at all.

you're completely missing the point here. regardless of what channel the data is transmitted over, it's still data, and with an easy conversion of video to text, that video file can be sent over a data channel that only transmits data. With a suitable eternity, I could conceivably send an HD video via Morse code.

You're really being obtuse here. I don't need to write a special app. I don't need to reprogram my phone. I don't need to use anything that doesn't exist. I just need to go to "My Files" on my Droid Razr MAXX (or download a file explorer for any other android phone), find a video file, longpress on it and rename it…

dude... take a video file, rename it from .mp4 or whatever to .txt . Open that file and SHAZAM! you have the ASCII encoding of the video file, which you can send as a text message if you split it up in to the smaller bits. Put them all back together into a single text file on the receiving end and change the file…

RadioLab did a really cool piece on this kind of phenomena called "auditory hallucinations". Turns out if you brain scan people like you (and me) who hear not just faint bits of music, but full fledged songs, sometimes in their entirety in their head, we're actually HEARING them in our brains. Not just thinking about…

it's the FINAL COUNTDOWN! dee da la deeee doooo dee le da dee doo doo

It's called Poe's Law or Poe's Corollary, depending on which side of it you're on.

umm... physics.

Fair enough. That's been a bad habit of mine since college.

I actually clicked through to the linked article in Nature, and it also says "degrees". The other linked giz article about the previous hottest man made temperature is listed in Fahrenheit.

5.5 trillion degrees in what kind of degrees? C? F? K?

"If in fact you do make contact with Martians, please tell me know right away."

Came here to say the same thing. This is in no way a drone. While it may have some stabilization SW running, it's not autonomous, has no internal sensors that I can tell, and it doesn't report back any information. TOY. not drone.

We need Etymology-Man!