Was 'Star Wars' an American film? You'd think so.

Star Wars filiming locations

"He picked up Hyperlight Wasm from an infected tribble! He's dead Jim".

MESS = Management by Excel Spreadsheet.

Les Barker's "Voicemail" from "Guide Cats For The Blind"

Thank you for calling today

Your call is in a queue

I think you might as well forget

Whatever else you had to do.

Also... we are currently in a solar maximum (in the 11 year solar cycle), during which we get more 'space weather' https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.swpc.noaa.gov%2F

During a Coronal Mass Ejection event, the ionosphere becomes essentially opaque to radio waves, including the bands used by satellites, https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.esa.int%2FApplicatio... That means that ALL satellite communications fail. The SpaceX satellites fly quite low -- in the ionosphere in fact -- but all satellites are affected, even the ones way out in geosynchronous orbit, because the ionosphere is between the ground and them.

In other words, during a CME, all satellites are affected. Even the military hardened ones -- where hardening just means they don't burn out during a CME. Yes, you can still force some signal through, but not at the Gbps you get per wavelength in a cable.

Then there is a Carrington Event CME... which seems to occur very 100 years or so. The last one was in 1859...

This paper from 2021 looks at the challenges involved in using laser links to and between satellites. I think it's fair to say the technology isn't up to replacing the sub-sea fibre cables yet.

Denmark is the only country in the Nordic-Baltic region that is a net exporter of agricultural products, producing three times the amount of food it needs for self-sufficiency. [trade.gov Last published date: 2024-01-20] so it seems that for the Danes, at least, this likely won't make a huge difference. And from later on that page:

Denmark’s main annual agricultural imports from the United States are wood pellets (USD 156 million),... which would be addressed nicely by a billion tress I imagine.

I'll disagree with you on the mini and micro USB connectors.

Suckage:
* USB A -- moderately high
* Mini-USB -- off the scale. Mechanically horrible.
* Micro-USB -- less bad than Mini-USB, which is not a high bar to reach.
* USB-C -- does not suck

This is just a Hall Effect switch, with some tweaks so you can change where the tactile 'click' is.

Granted, the best keyboards I have ever used were Hall Effect, but they were also extremely expensive.

So very much agree.

(Which actually makes sense in the context of the movie)

The "Cleaning the elevator" scene.

Recommended!

Apparently nearly all of those 265 are in NZ and will be rehired (by Weta FX). Since they are in NZ, Unity office closures are not related to them (they work in the Weta offices).

And somewhat off-topic, but anyway, the contiguous continental USA (i.e., excluding Alaska) would fit inside the Sahara Desert. (8.1M km^2 into 9.2M km^2).

[hangs head in shame]

That link isn't Wikipedia, it's www.usap.gov. The rest of my comments stand.

FFS! You misspelled Antarctica as Antartica in the headline?!

And if it wasn't designed to operate at 14F from the outset, then someone apparently can't even look up Wikipedia

At McMurdo Station, which is the main U.S. station in Antarctica and 1,360 km (850 miles) north of the South Pole, the mean annual temperature is -18C (0F). Temperatures may reach 8C (46F) in the austral summer and -50C (-58F) in the austral winter. The average wind is 12 knots, but winds have exceeded 100 knots.

Nope. (Do I get extra points for linking to Wikipedia? :) )

That's what they were doing, only in this case the "less developed world" was just Alaska. What, you thought that colonialism only affected other countries?