My good sir... I stand corrected. I had yet to realize that France was now home to not just artisanal cheese, wine, and snobbishness.... but robots as well. "Hand crafted by Hand-crafted Robots in the shade of the French Alps". Oui Oui. Je m'appele Impressed.

"are hand-made in France, using the most current technology.. for $378"

As I understand it, here in the States any indecent action committed in a public space can qualify as indecent exposure or a lewd act. But that's going by the letter of the law. I believe it's often interpreted however based on expectation of privacy.

I think you're quite right. It's funny, I was discussing columnar basalt with a colleague right before this article popped up.

Yah! Occam was a jerk.

Now we know where all those unused Parsecs went.

They're treasure hunters. They want to profit from the find and are clearly being very careful about what to show the public until they decide how to handle what they have.

Paraphrasing what I wrote a year ago:

Law of the Jungle #2: Nothing with castors can be threatening.

I dunno... Coast Guard?

It depends on the 9V battery really.

I like this a lot but.....

Oh no.... wind turbines *might* alter the regional climate!

The "minimalism" must be in the comfort it provides....

No. It proves everything. Jesus was buried. He rose from the grave. An empty tomb is the final piece of the puzzle. In this case the absence of Evidence is not the Evidence of absence but the Evidence of Deification.

So... if it's empty then that proves that it was Jesus' tomb and that he was the son of God right?

Any nude image is not pornography. My boss showed me an image of his 2 year old nude on the toilet the other day. Did I want to see the picture? No. Was it stupid? Yes. Was it pornography? Hell no. Can we a society twist any image into pornography? Yes. We're that f*cked up. Look at that guy who was charged with…

Eh... Some raccoon and many possums are larger than big cats. A rat the size of a Black Lab or a 5th Grader... now that might be something of a concern. Even so, anyone walking around Florida is advised to tuck your pants into your socks. That's just good practice down there anyway.

Scale bar?

I just checked back and noticed that the main window represents a subset of the image in the lower left (I've barely used Sonarwave Lite). It looks as if the object appears amidst a region of numerous geologic features. It's not a strange circular reflector in the middle of nowhere. It's a reflector that happens to…