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I disagree. SpaceBalls is genius. Better than the original. Because it does not attempt to be something it is not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Twardowski And now, ladies and gentlemen, the 21st century version: HD, please turn on English subtitles. That would make a really nice add-on, no? :)

1. The Raspi has no standard serial port (only LVTTL UART), get an FT232 dongle. Not any cheap USB-to-serial converter, but an FT232 (FTDI) one. These are more expensive, but you will thank me later. Plug that into Raspi's USB port. 1A. Actually, since Raspi is known to have an underpowered...

THAT festival? Ah well. That explains it.

There three typical scenarios: Scenario #1 - the target of ptr does not exist when thisclass is created, and nobody outside thisclass needs it, therefore it should get destroyed together with thisclass thisclass::thisclass() { ptr = new anotherclass(); } thisclass::~thisclass() {...

Uhhhhh. Scientists are normal(-ish) people. That's our best kept secret :lol: I can tell who is doing which job just by looking at the photo though :tiphat: The pecking order is clearly visible. :lol:

Brass band vs heavy metal fans \m/

This artist’s rendering illustrates new findings about a star shredded by a black hole. When a star wanders too close to a black hole, intense tidal forces rip the star apart. In these events, called “tidal disruptions,” some of the stellar debris is flung outward at high speed while the rest...

DIY electric car: http://imgur.com/a/cZdgX e-Bis ilk 2500 km. on Vimeo

Got the game in my local supermarket. It was 5 EUR so I thought that I can give it a go. Basically, it's a sample return mission. You are driving a rover around and picking up rocks and alien artifacts (don't ask). A nice way to pass 90 minutes in the evening, but zero replayability value due...

1. Define "does not work". 2. Is this supposed to be a multithreaded code? If so, the behavior would be understandable.

Great add-on! Orthographic projection would be more suitable IMHO, because orthographic projection is what you would see from the spacecraft looking down. The downside is, you have to re-project the map as the spacecraft moves which may prove to be too expensive... On the other hand, if...

2 Attempts at independent replication... and apparently it moves. #1 https://www.reddit.com/r/EmDrive/comments/3ne6jq/thrust_detected_final_report_emdrive_build_update/ #2 http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=t7693hd4s6ileo2umkb621uhh7&topic=38203.msg1432674#msg1432674

What does radar have to do with ionizing radiation? Indeed, but the radiation dose is illegal.

But they were getting it right on a conceptual level. If you go back to 1950s - early 1960s sci-fi, then it features computers using "memory crystals". The idea is of course based on contemporary news of development of solid state-devices, which are, technically speaking, crystals. Problem is...

Assuming radiation was no issue, there is another problem: For psychological reasons, you want to send older people (still in good shape, but not prone to extra risk). So, say that the mission launches when the average crewman in 50. When the mission returns, he is 52.5. You need time to rehab...

But that requires a heavier ship. You need either a bigger habitat at the same rpm or a habitat spinning with more rpm so it has to be stronger. Either way more mass. Plus, contrary to Apollo, the MTV pilot is going to go down to the surface because (1) sitting in Mars orbit for months is no...

...No, I wasn't trying to do that :)

Thanks. Figured it out. The number of bytes to send/receive is controlled by the payload variable in the Mirf object. This is why in setup() (see post #1) he does Mirf.payload = sizeof(long); to change the default length of 16. So his code is correct after all. That said, if I was doing...