Posts by Tiweh

Possible reprieve for the venerable A-10 Warthog

Re: Good on them, I say...

Still, while they're putting new wings on, they could make them fold. The airframe is pretty beefy already, so weld on a tailhook mount and uprate the front undercarriage a bit...

BAe managed to toughen up the Hawk into the carrier-capable Goshawk for the USN, so there is a precedent.

Opportunity selfie: Martian winds have given the spunky ol' rover a spring cleaning

Buzzers?

For more than a decade many digital camera sensors have been fitted with piezo buzzers to shake dust off on startup and shutdown. Is there some reason why something like this, scaled up, hasn't been fitted to Mars rovers after the problem was first identified by Sojourner?

I'd have thought that the weight penalty would be more than offset by the extended efficiency.

Every now and again the lander could shake itself like a wet dog, a rover indeed. Especially if there was a wind at the time.

Is Apple about unleash a cheaper 8GB iPhone 5C? O2 'leak' suggests: Yes

Re: Millions of unsold 5c's re-badged, storage size firmware frig

Indeed, then after 6 months when everyone has filled up their 8 GB, Apple could charge $50/$100/whatever for an unlocking code to free up access to the rest of the memory that was always there in the first plac.