They actually use the equivalent in the Space Shuttle. Sometimes the navigation computers need to be re-aligned and they can use star-of-opportunity mode to do so. If the automated star-of-opportunity mode fails then the crew has to use the Calibrated Optical Alignment Sight or the HUD. The COAS is basically that,…

The best part is that if you look at it, it looks like the boobs tower might be an inflatable. An inflatable 3 story tall tower of boobs.

"The Buran could have also avoided the Challenger's horrible fate by avoiding the need for (failure-prone) foam:"

Actually these would be really useful for someone like myself who has absolutely no capacity to understand the non-verbal cues of people I engage.

By default when you get a visual on a player in your cross hairs their name appears over their head. By default these games use a medium hue of Green for friendly, and Red for enemy.

Like takeshi points out, reporting on scientific studies is usually the fault here, not the studies themselves. That's why you always need to read the actual paper being reported on if at all possible.

The study was to compare diet soda consumption with no-soda consumption, so the non-soda drinkers were the control element. This study's data showed that diet soda drinkers gained more weight than non-drinkers.

As someone who has perused doujinshi of varying reputability I'm not judging the guy for his taste (well, a little, Nanoha is a little kid) but I think the real act of idiocy was carrying material like that (physically or virtually) into a situation where search and discovery is a possibility.

If he was rocking a なのは doujinshi I'm not surprised they're pressing charges. The search sounds sketchy, but seriously, drawings or not, the girl is like 8 or 10 or something like that.

Nice thing about having Monocular vision is that if I loose a contact, I can just forget about it and look out the other eye until I get home and can replace the contact.

That's a feature. Having spent time playing CoD on LIVE during the PSN outage, I can say that LIVE is a much more stable and effective network. I have so many issues, both in single play game connections, let alone the party nightmare that is PSN, it makes me want to switch back to Xbox as a primary console.

And the fanboys rejoiced!

They weren't. The source article is about internet addiction, not online game playing. The researchers reference online games like Facebook games in their article (repetitive clicking without engagement) as a possible cause for one of their data points, but that was not part of the article findings.

Review of the original article abstract indicates that the subject group were self-assessed suffers of Internet Addiction Disorder, a Chinese recognized mental illness. A search of the article reveals only one use of the word "Game" or "Gaming".

I didn't but that's principally for two reasons:

Seriously. If there was a video that needs some "flight of the bumble-bee", that's the one.

Many of us will get both, and when the multiplayer thins out too much for reasonable match-making play we'll switch over to MW3 (never playing or finishing the MW3 single player campaign) and hate every moment that we're playing MW3 because it'd be so much better to be playing BF3.

"This is good M. Night Shyamalan material."

For a "high end" table, they've overlooked one important factor — those legs should be set in from the edge a bit. I'd be kicking that thing so many times, not to mention the bashed knees.

Follow up story we'll be seeing tomorrow: Man with car-saving license plate forced to surrender plates following Google litigation threat.