Here’s where I’d normally make some kind of intelligent design joke, but then I realized: we’re talking about Pokémon...

Okay, maybe I’m being dense today (as opposed to any other day?); but I’m missing something.

Wait, Han Solo is in this movie? Will he have a light saber?

On the off-chance that we are able to move people between planets in reasonable time-frames, the first people out would be explorer/scientists, looking for resources.

Then it’ll be skilled and semi-skilled labor who will be sent to gather those resources, likely in terms of valuable metals, to be returned to earth.

I keep telling my friends, who know I grew up in Florida in the ’70s and ‘80s, that it wasn’t like this when I lived there...

I have a Seek Thermal dongle which works okay, but I would really rather this integrated into my phone.

Okay, sue the bastards.

After reading those last couple links, I have a sudden mental image mashing up Far Side cartoons: the real reason the Neaderthals went extinct: they were chain-smokers...

Remotely piloted robot carrying explosive device... yup, sounds like a drone to me.

Same here...

Well, could have been worse. She could have been playing Plants vs. Zombies...

Only eleven for me... still miss it sometimes.

Emerald Shellback... Golden Shellbacks have been to 0 180

I have friends who have physically been to null island... they are Emerald Shellbacks.

Heh, I was going to say “because Heroine would be obvious”

Seriously. How dare she move on with her life? Doesn’t she know her purpose in in this world is to be miserable and thus entertain everyone else in the world with her suffering? [/sarcasm]

... or Schroedinger’s cat?

I’m in a similar place where I can think of all kinds of things to do, but they’ve already been done, so why bother reinventing the wheel?

Some aircraft are using combined CVR/FDR units, but the aircraft will have at least two of them.

The ”pinger” is a separate unit usually attached to the front. It is salt water activated, and the battery is supposed to last between thirty and ninety days after activation. The FAA recently dictated that the 90-day beacons be installed in all new aircraft and the 30-day ones are to be phased out by, I believe, 2018.