Great flying!

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/09/the-wingsuit-flying-man-made-it/245614/

I didn't believe before - but she converted me!

Looks like they are trying to do this with some machine learning.. not just canned recordings.
http://thecorpora.com/blog/

At some point, machine learning and sharing of logic could move very fast.. aka skynet :-)

Actually, you are in a game right now. [Note - This message is a hint from the game system. To reach the next level, logout and login under the "Neo" account.]
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I know it looks like shit, but this was pretty amazing back in the day. Considering the progress made in 30 years, I can only imagine what games will look like in another 30 years. >> ^dag:
12 year-old me back in 1982 would have gone completely apeshit on seeing Skyrim. This was the state-of-the-art RPG at the time:

You can see the similarities to Skyrim though.

Thanks, Charlie!
http://charliemcdonnell.com/

The last comment in the video - "..what a wonderful bonus" :-)

It looks like it was this 1994 crash..

3 Die When Firefighting Plane Explodes in Midair
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-08-14/local/me-27117_1_forest-service

Here is a nice simulation of a spiral galaxy with the stars going through the spiral density wave..

Spiral galaxy simulation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD9OV1Zrs4I

The Shuttle has been an amazing technical achievement, but it turned out to be far too expensive. It was a development vehicle that was declared operational.
Promised in the 70's to fly 500 times at $3M per flight (for a total ops cost of $1.5B), the Shuttle actually cost $1.6B *per flight*. Missing a cost target by a factor of 500x is not good. ('Mom, can I have $20,000 for a tank of gas?' :-)

The Shuttle is like a 1970's mainframe computer, and it is time to be retired. Sadly, Congress this week is trying to cut the $850M investment in the four commercial vehicles that companies are developing to replace the Shuttle. Invest half the cost of one Shuttle mission and you get four new vehicle designs!
http://spacefrontier.org/2011/07/08/fundthefuture/

Okay, I think I finally understand the Tea Party and how they approach the nation's economy..

Eyes!!

Reminds me of how they deal with this in Canada.

"Fox News' Lies Keep Them Out of Canada"
http://mwcnews.net/focus/politics/9037-fox-news-lies-keep-them-out-of-canada.html
[Canada's Radio Act requires that "a licenser may not broadcast ... any false or misleading news." The provision has kept Fox News and right-wing talk radio out of Canada..]

Great stories, and perfect for Earth Day :-)

FYI - I found this transcript of the talk, with links to some of the animals he mentions, and a link about his favorite book.

Parrots, the Universe and Everything - Transcript
http://navarroj.com/parrots/

"Last Chance to See", Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine, 1990
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Chance_to_See

FYI - The video shows that having a constant diameter (cross-section) is not enough to show the shape is round. This was discovered to be a problem in getting segments of the Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters to fit together. (The SRB segments would flex out of shape when they were transported across country lying sideways on railcars.) They had to be forced back to a round shape to fit together, with the O-rings in the gaps. As described in Richard Feynman's book, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?", NASA would measure diameters at different points. But Feynman knew about the funny shapes in this video, and knew that diameter measurements did not prove roundness. The technicians on site always had to keep inspecting the segments as they came together to get them to fit together.

Beautiful! Can someone add a tag for Norway? The video was shot around Kirkenes Norway, up near the North Cape.

'9 March came the warning of one of the strongest storms in years. Sørgjerd bought a ticket to northern Norway and spent seven nights frozen out at Kirkenes and the Russian border..' [via Google translate]

This article is about the March 9 solar flare that triggered the auroras.
http://www.space.com/11088-northern-lights-major-solar-flare.html