Uh, Apple has sold out of every iPhone model that I can remember on or before launch day. Version 5 within an hour of making pre-orders available - all the wireless carriers same day. This is on a product that they have had for years now - and that they can anticipate demand.
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The part your standing in front of in your photo is not for sale, only the platform that sits on top of it.
Very Important part that isn't clear in the article, this part is not for sale:
Your statement isn't exactly correct either - "Le Grand K" is still weighed against gravity. They just compensate for the local gravity very carefully - basically they take into account the gravitational changes talked about in the article.
Because so many comments are on lost jobs:
I agree and disagree - a kilogram is the mass of one liter of water at 4 deg. Celsius - regardless of location.
Yes, exactly the radioactive atoms travel further apart until your chances of encountering one are very slim. You can find radioactive atoms in most anything - especially rocks, usually just very low concentrations of them.
I think the problem with the conspiracy theory is that debris floats, and the items are large and connected masses of atoms that can travel to other locations, however water disperses.
Now I wonder, if a kilogram is official the weight of 'Le Grand K' - and we are concerned about it loosing a barely detectable amount of weight (note the giz article below).
Ball Lighting and St. Elmo's Fire is not really the same thing... St. Elmo's Fire is a purple/blue plasma that was observed around the masts of ships - sailors thought it was good luck. They were wrong, it likely meant they were about to be struck by lighting.
The ford crown vic is only somewhat iconic - the Checker Motors Corp. made checker cabs that were very "iconic" in my opinion. The crown vic was big from the 1990s on - but the design of the car has changed so much - what year would you choose as an iconic "tourist" car? Even today the Crown Vic is drowning in the…
Thomas Selfridge died as a passenger on the wright flyer, not as it's pilot. Orville was the pilot - it was because of the accident that killed him that the US Army required pilots to wear helmets. (he died of a broken skull, and doctors determined if he had warn a cap like Orville we would have likely survived.
The savings is not in bringing up a replacement part for something that is already broken, it is in having spare parts on board waiting for something to break.
Isn't there talk that this thing would ride like a puck on an air hockey table? Perhaps that is part of the outlet?
How old is your Cessna? It's instrumentation should be shielded from interference.
When I visited China I found that every business ran the 100 CNY bills (about $16) multiple times through a scanner (it looked like a bill counter, but they still used it when I gave them a single bill) before putting it in a register.
Good point, but I think this is meant to deter people who are making large amounts of money - not the guy who tries to pass off a couple hundred.
And depending how you want to look at it, you paid less than $300 for it too!