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I believe you. :) I have no experience with balloons at all, but even a plowed field feels like a sidewalk to me when I run into it at the same speed under canopy. I leave a sizabl…

What do the Loon components look like up close? Here's a gallery showing the solar panels, avionics bay with covers open, and some staffers. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/g…

Dropping at 2000 feet per minute is not quite free fall, but it's a long way from a drifting dandelion seed. I wonder if the balloon payload left a crater.

In the 90s, I would sometimes trip over ethernet cables that had been strung between server racks, across an aisle. Will this be the decade where I get to experience being struck b…

Yes. Western civilization became estranged from scientific inquiry itself for many long centuries. If not for the patient and curious scribes of medieval Islam, many significant wo…

French networking / disk throughput terminology ... Mo: un méga-octet, un million d'octets Mo/s: méga-octet par seconde meaning "Megabyte per second". OVH is based in Montréal, Qué…

One happy benefit of being able to read Russian is being able to use Yandex as a second or third point of view when researching a topic primarily through Internet search. There als…

"The Dark Playground is a place every procrastinator knows well. It’s a place where leisure activities happen at times when leisure activities are not supposed to be happening. The…

We forget so soon. Labor movements within recent memory were fought at great cost to secure the possibility of shorter working hours. People were killed at factory gates trying to …

A careto is a costumed thief character from an ancient pagan ritual in Portugal. "Caretos are masked young men dressed in suits made of yellow, red, black, blue and green fringe wo…