There is a special place in hell for people who order delivery during snowstorms. And in that hell, crab rangoon will always be Three. Blocks. Away.

So, between the last comment and this one, I met a guy from Lockheed who worked on building the RTG. Yes, I got his card. Yes, I’ll be interviewing him for io9 once I catch up on sleep.

Thank you. I totally knew that and have written about it before, but apparently “radioactive heat” just turned into “reactor” in my sleep-addled brain. Soon, I will catch up and get to rest a little while, soon... But not today! ;)

Cheers Mika: one correction to the latest in a great series: ‘New Horizons instruments are powered by a small nuclear reactor that will keep it running into the 2030s’

Oh man, seconding on Blood Squids!

‘squibs’ ;)

What Rih is wearing is properly called a Marabou heel or Marabou slipper. Popular sex-cessory since the ‘40s.

I would even almost hesitate to call the shoe you posted a kitten heel, it's right on the edge. But those things in the post, not a chance.

I thought kitten heels were the smaller heels that were, what’s the point since they’re so small. These look like stiletto, but if they’re not I’d hate to see what stilettos are now!

How are those kitten heels?! I thought kitten heels were little heels. Those are massive. Am I wrong? SOMEONE HELP.

Why the sandwich fuck not? If your toy is interfering with the duty of rescue workers, fuck your toy. I'm not saying the helicopter pilots should risk their lives by blundering into dronespace, but surely we can find some local skeet-shooters happy to clear the airspace for the safety of our emergency responders.

They then crash, die and make things worse. I like my public servants to be smart enough not to commit suicide.

I want responsible public servants that understand that they are flying giant machines that can crash into the people they are trying to save.

A little ass drone can fuck up a helicopter’s rotors and send the whole thing crashing down.

I’m about flat out sick to fucking death of people whipping out their cameras in inappropriate situations because all they can think about is the possibility of going viral and getting loads of social media attention. That’s exactly what this drone flying dickhead was thinking - “imagine the hits I’ll get on YouTube.”…

If people are dying because of this, there should definitely be jail time involved.

They should be charged with at least involuntary manslaughter if someone dies because the drone prevented rescue. And their punishement if guilty should be death by fire. And it should be televised so other drone owners understand the stakes.

If you fly your drone over a wilfdfire to dick around, your drone gets shot down and you pay a $10,000 fine. Actually, I’m being too lenient there.