I've been there. It's amazing. People do weddings there.

It should come with a box cutter. To open Amazon boxes...and stuff.

What he said ^^.

Really? You don't think people with laser-pointers get caught?

People should be much more concerned over the increased number of cameras on street corners - those can see you and your activity much more clearly and reliably than a drone. People should be more concerned with the standards require to get data about you from your cell phone carrier, ISP, medical records, and private…

No, drones still carry optics. You won't harm a human being, but you may harm equipment. Destruction of property (vandalism), obstruction of justice, etc.

Nest only functions with a 24-volt heating and cooling system (the control board on your A/C, that is). If you have an older central air system it's *possible* that your control board is 12V. There is nothing you can do to make Nest work short of hiring an electrician to custom make electronics to go-between. So…

The difference between SCUBA diving and this submersible is that the submersible's air remained pressurized to 1 atmosphere (surface pressure). So Cameron was breathing air at 1 atmosphere (surface pressure). SCUBA equipment, on the other hand, is very ingenious. It equalizes the air you breath to the environmental…

Just because it was an AFSOC plane with AFSOC personnel doesn't mean it wasn't working for JSOC. Much less likely that AFSOC is running its own missions in Africa.

They canopies are made of a special kind of polycarbonate plastic. As nice as things like "gorilla glass" are, they won't survive a hit from a bird, for example. And they use plain old water to rub those things down. No Windex :)

*ehem* don't you mean "xerox"?

Drones crash a lot. They crash all the damn time. It is not uncommon for them to lose their link to their pilot, and that link is not always re-established. In which case the drone runs out of gas after flying in circles for a while and slowly comes down. Sometimes they come down in some awfully inconvenient places -…

Where do you buy one of these? I can only find the old prices and a some sold-out vendors.

"Drones" are notorious for always being in the wrong airspace and not communicating with either air traffic control or the aircraft in their vicinity. I don't know if I would chalk it up to technical difficulty or the ineptitude of the idiots flying these things in Vegas or Virginia, or wherever they are "deployed."

That's not how reactors work. Additionally, if you're going to dump radioactive material somewhere (not saying you should), the ocean is not the worst spot for it. You maximize the breakdown of the material, increase the area of dispersal (read: less point radiation), and you can somewhat reliably predict where the…

Non-combat support don't need to worry about lugging around batteries. They work in buildings, have large vehicles, or don't bother with many portable gadgets at all. The only people this appeals to are those going out in the field for extended periods of time - and they'd laugh their balls off if you told them to…

A few things: first of all, the "fed" doesn't commandeer anything. They charter aircraft. They pay boat loads of money for it, too. So in your dad's example, the company made a killing on that flight.