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| 01:38pm 02/11/2009 |
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November 15 = new Top Gear and new Doctor Who. wooooooo |
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| 02:53pm 21/10/2009 |
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nasa has released some news on the most recent astronaut candidate class. from the photos, i have confirmed that yes, i would have been far and away the youngest. also, "over 3500" people applied, 9 were selected for training. |
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| 11:17pm 11/09/2009 |
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"Retailing for $399 in the US, you'll be paying $6.23 per gigabyte for the 64 GB touch. That's no match for the $1.56 per gigabyte for the 160 GB iPod Classic.
Going back four years, the original nano was $62.25 per gigabyte, while the hard drive-based 60 GB iPod Video of that era was $6.65 per gigabyte.
Interestingly, that means that today flash is roughly equivalent to where hard drives were four years ago. In 2005, you could purchase a 60 GB iPod Video for $399, while today you can get a 64 GB iPod Touch for the same price." |
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| 12:43am 03/08/2009 |
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"The press actually called these people 'rocket scientists' but there's no such thing. There were rocket engineers. Scientists dream the things and engineers do 'em." - Ed Kilgore, Apollo Engineer |
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| 12:28am 29/05/2009 |
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from spatialrift47
1. What got you into engineering, and what do you imagine yourself doing with it?
well, my great grandfather was a carpenter/mechanic, my grandfather was a seabee/mechanic/race-car-driver, and my father was a mechanic/engineer/race-car-driver. [insert 'in my blood' type cliche here] i wanted to be a pilot when i was a kid, but then i got more interested in making planes. i imagine i'll just be another old cynical engineer one day, having deferred every potential management "advancement" opportunity that comes up. hopefully i'll get to use it to become an astronaut. helps to be a mechanic/mechanical engineer when assembling space stations, i hear..
2. What's your favorite mathematical oddity?
well, you know of my preference for primes, but i'd have to say the whole trick with multiples of 9 summing their digits to be 9 has stuck with me since i was a young calculon-bot
3. String theory. Discuss.

4. Which xkcd strip most closely defines you as a person?
split somewhere between my positive nihilism (http://www.xkcd.com/167/) and my man-child-esque purchasing of toys and childhood fantasies (http://www.xkcd.com/150/)
i was going to curse you for having caused me to have to go through the entire archive, but really, i already knew the answer to this one.
5. What fictional technology would you most like to experiment with?
oh, definitely holodecks, or any "hard light" projectors. baring that, i'd have to go with 3D printers/replicators and hoverboards
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