I dont know about weird. It's a generic monster-of-the-week show with the same group of bad guys saying "Ill get you next time" as they fly away only to return next episode. Kind of like Sailor Moon. Kind of awful really.

And each CCD, although touching the next, has a dead area around it. As the sky gets mapped with it the missing parts will eventually get filled in. Assuming they are going to do that.

And the idiots just burned down a Samsung factory...

Not bearing, shaft seals. And most modern hard drives do not use it anymore. That was mostly on the old drives with external motors.

I thought it was Worlds of Wonder, maybe there is a new Teddy Ruxpin or Lazer Tag.

fiber fetish?

Wow, another generic CGI movie. Yay...

Sodium and other reactive metals like potassium and lithium are usually stored under oil such as mineral oil or kerosene. Inert gas storage is usually only used for high purity samples.

No, that's how all his movies are. And for some reason people make a big deal about it.

I liked his earlier stuff but the recent stuff just seems to be a lot of product name dropping like in Spook Country. Did he paid for each occurrence of the work iPod?

So this is where the skittles rainbow originates from...

Mars is virtually a vacuum at about 8 torr max. Not much to hear. Remember the science experiment in school with the alarm clock in a bell jar and they pull a vacuum on it? The chances are the pressure inside the bell jar was higher than atmospheric pressure on mars.

This looks like crap.

Better yet get a Panasonic. Rated best cordless out there. Wonderful drills, I have owned them for years.

That was a pretty good book. Especially the "Mr Science" like intermissions.

Weight, mostly. Plus the boards are not really bare but coated in a conformal coating. Even if they were not normal dust would have no effect. You can see that in how long the other rovers have lasted and they are built the same way.

Typically teflon insulated in a kapton sheath.

He did pretty good against the curry-monster!

Nothing for a while. Most films are not even being filmed at 4k.

Seriously, who cares? She made a stupid mistake and by reports was a pretty bad pilot to boot.