Miami lawyer "Jeffrey Weiner"
Horatio Caine (removing sunglasses): "It's a dog's life." YEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHH!
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Apple whine, but no, it's a DAB whine. I'm assuming Fry is getting paid for his voice-over? It's hardly going to kill his career, those Direct Lines ads are doing a far better job at that.
DAB might be shite, but I can get a decent signal and listen to 6music in the office.
And for your information, the average mule is far more practical than a Mini Cooper, as anyone with legs will tell you.
I have to admit a grudging respect for their products. They do just work and for most people, that's usually enough. I'm sure they've done their homework on this product and considering how many they've already shifted in the US, it's clearly popular. I do wonder if, like the Wii it will be the must have gadget for a few years and then people will go back to laptops.
I still hate them though.
...the rest of the solar system has massive resources that would be far easier to gather for a spacefaring species than what Earth has to offer. Comets, asteroids, gas giants are full of stuff you might want for your journey. Unless they wanted some trees or something to brighten up the place, why would they bother with us? More likely we would attack them for nicking our stuff.
I'm sorry, but bright as Steven Hawking is, duh. Stick to physics, Steve.;
... to issue a flight ban. If testing was ineffective, it could be because they're not called upon to regularly check density levels of volcanic ash rather than some percieved ineptitude. They probably are struggling, but I think I'd rather err on the side of caution than let people go whizzing off into the wide blue yonder, shortly before plummeting to earth Wile E Coyote style.
Considering the aircraft manufacturers are unwilling to certify their planes for flight through the ash clouds it isn't just the Met being cautious either.
Paris because she's still open to traffic.
They didn't read out your e-mail and you want the station closed down?
I once saw Don Henderson in Euston Station. I shouted 'DON' across the concourse and he ignored me. I've always fast forwarded through his scenes in Star Wars ever since. The bastard.
than a Klemperer Rosette. Apparently this would also be unstable, so probably wouldn't last beyond the life of the civilisation that built and maintained it.
In his novels, Larry Niven's Ringworld got progressively more complicated as various spods came up with reasons why it needed this or that or wouldn't work because of somesuch.
Of course, if these ascended aliens are so awesome, their artifact probably hangs in space using technology so advanced to our eyes it would be akin to magic.
If they sacked Chris Moyles they could run the fucker off the saving they'd make in pies alone.
Poor old Nemone has only just come back off maternity leave as well, and it's back to hospital radio for Gideon Coe; more complaints from the ENT ward about that Napalm Death Peel Session loom long in his horizon, methinks.
to bother them, so hydrogen atoms probably won't either. Besides, aren't they travelling faster than light?
This research is incomplete. Scientist guy needs to do more hard sums to work out what the impact of a hydrogen atom on a bussard ramscoop at warp 7 will entail, if you ask me.
and elegant but also doomed. Some of the tales of perilous flights through bad weather and the mad rush to drop ballast or vent gas make the hair stand. There's a famous shot of the Akron tethered to it's mast, dragged vertical by high winds.
It would be cool to see something liner-sized drifting by but sadly I think their day has passed.
The level of risk coupled with the cost is why this sort of thing isn't heavily invested in. It simply isn't worth it.
Likewise radiation shielding in the event of a massive radiation burst from a nearby star, which would wipe us out before we even knew what was happening. You might as well offer insurance against total existence failiure. I mean, who's going to be around in any state to collect?
have said, I'm impressed. It is expensive to send probes out into the solar system, but it's worth it. You don't know it's boring until you send a probe there. It could have been full of topless sunbathing lovelies for all you know.* Or cybermen. Or are they all hiding at the poles?
*With factor 10000 sunblock on, safety first.
"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
That's probably why it didn't look like much. Or were you expecting a big death star style explosion? Science Fiction movies spoil us.
... has mentioned on more than one occasion Japanese blokes can be a creepy bunch. They have a very very odd atitude to sex and an almost prehistoric* view of women's role in society.
Some bitingly clever and erudite comments on this page helping to put across the face of the modern IT man. Cheers lads. Lets smash those preconceptions.
*I would wager fair odds there is probably a manga about dragging women around by their hair and hitting them with clubs.