Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Park Guell was very pretty - and almost too big (covered too much ground) to be easily appreciated. I just sort of spun slowly in place, looking around. Alfredo was highly amused.
I want to live in Casa Batllo! The windows...the doors...everything is so different and interesting!
Dana, I think that sucks. Not just because it seems crazy but it also seems like Dinara feels a bit like an imposter. Is she better on hard courts ?
I haven't paid much attention to her, but the match today was clearly nuts. Was it Sharapova who got beat down almost that badly in the French?
Yes, but Sharapova is coming back from an injury - what is Safina's excuse ?
Isn't the new "sprayless" Off clip-on still technically spraying, except instead of spraying once, it's continuous doses of deet?
No idea, sumi.
DH keeps telling me that Safina is only #1 because she enters every minor tournament there is. I don't know how true that is, though.
You know how "they" are always talking about how we'll see robotic flying insects in the future? And how that future is always "not too distant"? Well, that future is a lot closer - check out the videos of this prototype: [link]
Military-backed researchers have built a tiny drone that looks and flies like a hummingbird, flapping its little robotic wings to stay in the air. So far, the mock bird, built for Pentagon mad-science division Darpa, has only stayed aloft for 20 seconds at a time. But that short flight was enough to show the potential of a whole new class of miniature spies, inspired by nature. Darpa just handed AeroVironment, makers of the winged “nano air vehicle,” another $2.1 million to build a hummingbot 2.0.
Ultimately, Darpa program manager Todd Hylton says in a statement, he’d like see “an approximately 10-gram aircraft that can hover for extended periods, can fly at forward speeds up to 10 meters per second, can withstand 2.5-meter-per-second wind gusts.” He also wants the nano air vehicle to operate inside buildings, and be controllable from up to a kilometer away.
Freaky to actually see it fly....
If aliens are watching Earth TV, this is what they're seeing
Aliens of Pi Mensae, you'll have to wait a while longer before those episodes of Gilligan's Island reach you!