The Random Image Thread (keeping it PG-13 at the worst)
DEyncourt wrote: Amatuer archeologist spent £32 K to buy land to reveal what may be a large though once-lost medieval town on the border of Wales:
The article points out that many modern British cities are built on top of the remains of their older versions. For most places construction has largely removed any archeological remains.
On the other hand there are places outside of modern towns where the precise location of a medieval village or town was not too accurate, and that time and erosion and farming may have erased any surface evidence as had happened in the case of the medieval town of Trellech.
Some academics are disputing this guy's claims. Part of the problem is that there have been digs by those academics in the area as long as 20 years before his "discovery" in 2004. And Wilson--that "amatuer archeologist"--has been disparaging those efforts by others who now claim that Wilson has basically stolen their credit.
This past Sunday Japan tried to launch a satellite into orbit aboard smallest rocket to try this:
The rocket was only 9.65 meters (32 feet) tall with a diameter of 0.52 meters (1.7 feet) and weighed only 2.6 tons. While the payload for this rocket was only a 3 kg cubesat, plans are to eventually have payloads of up to 140 kg and to put them into orbits as high as 800 km. The entire cost of this mission was about $5 M.
Unfortunately the first stage did not separate and the rocket fell into the Pacific.
The rocket was only 9.65 meters (32 feet) tall with a diameter of 0.52 meters (1.7 feet) and weighed only 2.6 tons. While the payload for this rocket was only a 3 kg cubesat, plans are to eventually have payloads of up to 140 kg and to put them into orbits as high as 800 km. The entire cost of this mission was about $5 M.
Unfortunately the first stage did not separate and the rocket fell into the Pacific.
That's pretty cool. Well, maybe not if you lived in that system...
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iDaemon wrote:
Raul Julia and Meryl Streep
I bet that was awesome.
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ukimalefu wrote:
I always liked those clamshell machines, but they were horrifically underpowered. I wonder how well stuffing a modern iPad Pro's hardware in one would work? (By which I mean keep the physical keyboard and trackpad and add a touch screen)
maurvir wrote:ukimalefu wrote:
I always liked those clamshell machines, but they were horrifically underpowered. I wonder how well stuffing a modern iPad Pro's hardware in one would work? (By which I mean keep the physical keyboard and trackpad and add a touch screen)
I don't think the trackpad works, but it's been done, long ago.
https://www.engadget.com/2010/06/10/ipa ... d-present/
I mean as an actual integrated product, not a hack - though that is definitely very cool.
This was an interesting story. Articles from old newspapers were submitted to an AI, which figured out larger scale trends from them.
This guy really seems worth his salt.
It's a stingerless male carpenter bee. They are harmless. 
maurvir wrote: I mean as an actual integrated product, not a hack - though that is definitely very cool.
Well, there are these convertible windows laptops...
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