Nowhere in this article does in mention it was his aircraft. The article refers to “an airplane” and ‘the plane,” never “his airplane.”

In the future, please be VERY clear if you are discussing New York STATE vs. New York CITY. Mention the right one every time in any headlines.

Also, I’m surprised you did not mention Eugene, Oregon, which was the first municipality to ban natural gas hookups in new residential construction, but is up for a vote by…

I wonder if new data will allow the SETI@Home project, running on the BOINC distributed computing platform, to restart. Before it shutdown, I was in the top 1% of participants as I started donating spare computer power in the 1990s.
https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

Filters are good idea except there is a problem — lazy humans who would likely need to clean the filters every 2-4 weeks but will not. Not cleaning the filter would increase pump back pressure, take loads longer to drain, and in the worst cases, possibly cause flooding. People ruin everything!

We also could use more above-ground energy-storage reservoirs such as the two pictured below about five miles from Niagara Falls.

“Bespoke” and “washer” are two words which one would never expect together.

“Bespoke” and “washer” are two words which one would never expect together.

Another classic which could make a great movie as long as they don’t create action and drama just to appease the suits.

Thanks... and crap, Amazon Prime Video is the only place which has it and they want $3/episode. 😑

About every 10 years or so there is a rumor about a production company turning “Childhood’s End” into a movie but it goes nowhere. Twenty years ago, it might have been hard — now it would be relatively easy give the CGI tech available.

I probably would have used my autographed copy of Jim Lovell’s “Apollo 13.” I’m proud to have briefly met the man himself.

Very, VERY cool tech. Almost all of my multi-decade career has been in the engineering and technical marketing sides of the many-faceted imaging industry of one form or another. Alas, I recently got laid-off from an RGB and nIR camera image quality testing and tuning job. 😑

I take it you work for a service provider…

Is that 2TB per image captured?! RAW or lossy compressed?

Sounds like a fun job; I love to fly! I grew up flying in Cessna 150s and 172s. 🙂

Presumably these images are used for many purposes, including GIS and online map services such as Google Maps, etc. I expect the imagery put online for public use is substantially…

The two Apple cameras, QuickTake 100 and QuickTake 150 were designed by Kodak and manufactured by Chinon. IIRC, I borrowed one from work, at Kodak.

I also bought for my engineering lab one of the earliest Kodak/Nikon DSLRs similar to the model pictured. It was $15K for just the body. Those cameras had very little…

It’s disingenuous when news outlets and tech blogs keep referring to it as “the size of three school buses”. That’s the size of the balloon envelope, which is irrelevant. The size of the payload is much more interesting as it gives a sense of how much electronics and spare helium was lifted. I’d like to see the weight…

There has been no mention of any propulsion system. Without one, a balloon travels at the same speed and in the direction of the prevailing winds, a condition which makes a rudder useless. A rudder will only work if an object, such as a plane, rocket, blimp/dirigible, or boat/ship is travelling faster than its ambient…

What you are describing is a basic tenet of passive solar homes. Instead of the dinky 15-18" overhangs from the room, you make them much longer, at least on south-facing roofs. They are constructed long enough to keep mid-day sun from hitting most of the windows and walls during the summer, however, when the sun stays…

I’d heard that about iPhone replacement screens. Apple store supposedly have so “magic” device to analyze and correct for disuniformity on screens; I figure it created a lookup table and stores is in non-volatile memory. I’m surprised my replacement iPad screen looks just fine.

True; I think PDX is tops in the number per capita in that category as well.

Nope, a beer run. I don’t know the current numbers, however, Portland previously had the highest number per capita of microbreweries and brew pubs in the US.

Alas, my most favorite and most local was a 2-man operation where I live which earned World Beer Cup Gold for their Scottish Ale. It was incredible!

Meh.

Meh.