You actually can't use radio control on a submersible the same way you can in the air. The only thing that penetrates water are audio-based systems and ELF (Extremely Low Frequency). ELF is receive only and very slow. The only thing they use it for is to send low priority messages to sailors and tell the ship to come…

I'm down near Alton. Right across the river are huge firework tents ready to sell to customers from Illinois. In fact, most of the people working there are from Edwardsville High School.

There have been quite a few problems with liquid metal cooled designs, including solid moderator. In PWR and BWR designs, the water serves as a coolant and a moderator. Moderator allows for the fission reaction to take place. It slows down the neutrons to a point that they can be easily absorbed by the uranium or…

Have you used webOS? It was horrifically slow and un-responsive on my palm pre. The only good thing about it was the way they did multitasking. Most of the UI and apps are written in Javascript.

I hated webOS on the palm pre. I will punch anyone I see using one of these.

Pretty good explanation of why they can't just jump back to pen and paper to track airline reservations and passengers. Start at about 5:05.

They need computers to track who and where all of the people flying are.. They've been using computers for that since the 60s. [en.wikipedia.org]

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@JosWindu Part 15 basically means that all unlicensed devices must accept interference from licensed stations and not cause interference of their own to licensed stations.

It already hit us near St. Louis, and so far it is quite a bit less awful than predicted.

In January 1994, I was hangin out in someone's womb.

@Platypus Man: I'd buy all-beef hot dogs, but just because they're friggen delicious. But I agree with you on the other points.

Is anyone else craving taco bell right now?

I want a live grenade bookend.

@pseudorocket: or a drag queen...

But doesn't the alternative, standard DVD, only give about 480p at most? 480p vs 720p is quite a difference from those distances.

Not prettier than a hard drive POV

@CaffineFreakUs: Engineering, not Science.

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