Next time you happen to be in Europe, well, more specifically Austria, try to get to the 'Marionettentheater' in Salzburg - they have absolutely stunning performances of various Mozart Operas, or Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker'. Here's a YouTube link:

...or on comments inquiring whether that computer could be reduced to very small particles in a machine the sole purpose of which is doing just this with things.

It gets unloaded, and has less inertia than the body.

Soooo - when the NIST clock loses 1sec over 100 million years, and the one in London loses 1sec over 10 million years (let's ignore the 'and more' here for now), how is the London clock the 'World's most accurate'??

It always seems to be that way - if there's a lot of preparation for a potential disaster, it seems to fizzle out a bit. Then people get that sense of security again, and next time, they don't take it all too serious, and BAAMM...

oops, sorry - double post (didn't show the first time), and link fail...

There's a 'normal' route down on the other side of the mountain.

There's a 'normal' route down on the other side of the mountain.

There's little edges everywhere on the rockface - a quarter off an inch already does the job here. And, if you do good footwork, you don't put too much weight on these holds, the hand grips are almost more for balance. Still - got sweaty palms from just watching...

+1

Ahhh - thanks for the enlightenment. Need to get one. And a top hat.

ok, it's not Google Maps, but NOAA is still unbeatable.

a Toyo is way more reliable...

No, the author wrote this near a croc-infested river bank.

Best business card I ever saw (in a museum) just read

That traditional, un-powered, prosthetics are "heavy, cumbersome" is simply not true - au contraire, they were, for some time, too light and did not resemble the mass of the natural limb.That they "don't move like a living limbs (sic)" - oh well, I'm quite sure that the powered limb doesn't quite move like a living…

Awww, c'mon, don't downgrade us! Otherwise I'll have to wear a leather vest and a WWII army helmet (black), grow a little beer belly and a flowing white beard...

No, it's totally understandable - after all it's the iFloppy they're going to add!!!

Sounds like you do have mild ADD which, yes, is the source of your powerz :-)

Given the careless copy-editing that I observe here so often, I'm wondering how much care is spent on the reporting itself. Carelessness is usually pervasive, and not isolated to one thing only...