Re: Aliens? Or something more prosaic? We're hoping for aliens
It's probably a faux traffic jam.
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I managed to find one spot in the Taquhamenon Falls State Park campground where there was a mobile signal. If I moved a metre or so in any direction - nothing at all. Checked my work email (I know, foolish move) only to find a global "reply all" incident running rampant. Filled my poor Blackberry (yes, this was some time ago) with idiotic messages such as "please remove me from this thread" also replied to all.
Still, some of the best camping, hiking, sight-seeing I've done in a long time.
Ah, but the clever boffins actually weighed the cans to determine the loss of "beer" rather than measuring the volume. [One assumes they assiduously wiped/dried the outside of each can before weighing, as some (most?) of the lost liquid might well have clung to the can.]
One also wonders how damp the lab coats of said boffins were by the end of this procedure.
"I don't expect self driving vehicles around these parts for a very long time."
As a drive-on-the-right-side-of-the-road driver recently driving in Devon I totally concur with your expectation here.
I was about to head up a road much like the one you describe but decided that discretion would be the better part of valour and turned around and found a different route. Perhaps we'll get a bit of Robin Hood v. Little John action when two autonomous vehicles meet on a single lane?
"You are describing some of the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning. Get the gas equipment checked."
Or even a simple gas leak. It's possible the smart meter was improperly installed, and when it was replaced the new meter's connections were sealed well.
Or it could just be a ghost trying to get rid of the smart meter.
No. It's saying they correctly matched Californian politicians with their image in the criminal database 80% of the time. It's just they also got it wrong 20% of the time.
Or is it the old 80/20 rule - 20% of the legislators are doing 80% of the crime?
"Moreover satellite TV requires only a few geostationary satellites - and can be soon replaced by streaming over speedier fibre cables."
Upvote for first paragraph, but I think we're still far from being able to run fibre out to rural areas - the main reason satellite TV is still a thing, at least in the States.