OT: Nervewrecking; Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover Animation

Or CHU.

The guys working with steam did it for about a century. Their stuff worked. Some still does.

My slipstick (1960s)has HP/kW built into the cursor.

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Today's special - Koenig Ludwig Burger.

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over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
                                       (Richard Feynman)

I guess they still use typewriters in VT ;-)

-- "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." (Richard Feynman)

Or "loco burger" :-)

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Did he jump, or was he pushed?

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Typewriters are picaresque? Sorry, I don't get it.

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Pica is (was?) the standard typewriter typeface.

I think you meant "picturesque".

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No, I meant "of or relating to rogues or rascals". Spell-checkers worked better when they didn't have auto-complete.

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Now that's a word I've never come across before.

Oxford English Dictionary gives:

"(Of a style of fiction) dealing with adventures of rogues."

Whether you can apply it to a town, isn't clear.

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IIRC nobody ever snitched about what really happened. He and his assigned guardian "disappeared" and showed up dead in the Starnberg Lake, AFAIK.

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The town was full of rogues?

Any of 'em speak Spanish? Is your wife poignant, by any chance?

Lord Valve Ahem...

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Today the news reported a calculation of the entire worlds biomass of humans. The derived numbers for asians/europeans was average weight of

65kg (average of childeren, adults, elderly etc). For americans its 80kg.....

Cheers

Klaus