Quote of the week!

[ffutures]

A prototype flying car has completed a 35-minute flight between international airports in Nitra and Bratislava, Slovakia.

An actual flying car? Fascinating! Article here.

"He did not think the vehicle would be particularly loud or uneconomical in terms of fuel costs, compared with other aircraft."

Compared to other cars, however...

[RockDoctor]

Kazakhstan's rich man Dauren Mussa offers to trade the last Buran space shuttles in exchange for the skull of the last Kazakh Khan, Kenessary Kassymov

https://www.caravan.kz/gazeta/burany-ve ... sa-777009/

That's an interesting trade.
If anyone else here is familiar with the "Laundry-verse" (an administrative offshoot of the Cthulhu Mythos), they might be concerned about somebody using TEAPOT to MAKE TEA. Which would not be a good thing.

[Cody]

Conservative MP Sir David Amess has died after being stabbed at his constituency surgery in Essex.

A very sad day! He was my constituency MP, and regardless of one's politics and religion, he was a hard-working MP who was always accessible to his constituents, a gentleman, and a champion of animal welfare. Why is it always the good ones? R.I.P. David!

[RockDoctor]

Conservative MP Sir David Amess has died after being stabbed at his constituency surgery in Essex.

A very sad day! He was my constituency MP, and regardless of one's politics and religion, he was a hard-working MP who was always accessible to his constituents, a gentleman, and a champion of animal welfare. Why is it always the good ones? R.I.P. David!

The "good ones" (trusting your assessment) are being exterminated for bringing the rest into disrepute.

[Cody]

The "good ones" (trusting your assessment)

There's a lot of deadwood at Westminster, especially in the House of Toffs, but David was well-liked in this constituency (and elsewhere) because he listened and got things done. If there were more like him (and Jo Cox), Westminster would be the better for it.

[RockDoctor]

The "good ones" (trusting your assessment)

There's a lot of deadwood at Westminster, especially in the House of Toffs, but David was well-liked in this constituency (and elsewhere) because he listened and got things done. If there were more like him (and Jo Cox), Westminster would be the better for it.

Surprised the Tories didn't sack him for such un-governmental behaviour.

[Cody]

<grins> Yeah! Mind you, it's hard to sack a popular and respected backbencher with a rock-solid majority!

[Cody]

Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has had a job offer from the United Nations withdrawn.

Excuse me while I roll around on the floor laughing!

[RockDoctor]

Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock has had a job offer from the United Nations withdrawn.

Excuse me while I roll around on the floor laughing!

But did anyone get a photo of him as he was opening the letter? The "offer", and the retraction.

It's more fun than pulling the wings off flies, and ethically more defensible too.

[RockDoctor]

OK, palaeontology Twitter found a picture of natiluses eating a chicken supper 300-odd metres down in the Pacific.



Mock you not the Celhalopoda - kings of the Molluscs!

Personally, I'm a bit dubious of the details - "876ft" is an unusually precise number.

[RockDoctor]

Black holes have the beauty of being the simplest, most elementary objects in the Universe.

From a recent scientific paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.10175.pdf).
However simultaneously they are arguably the least elementary objects in the universe, being composed of mass, spin, and charge, but not a single remaining proton, electron or neutron (though the last is absent from 70+% of the universe, and is of arguable unimportance).

[Cody]

Travellers heading to Scotland for the COP26 climate summit have been left stranded by major rail disruption caused by "intense storms".

Oh the irony!

[Cody]

One of Facebook's earliest investors has labelled the social media giant's plans for a metaverse as "dystopian".

Dystopian? You don't say!

[Disembodied]

Zoom sucks, we started having editorial meetings in Red Dead Redemption instead. It's nice to sit at the campfire and discuss projects, with the wolves howling out in the night

The metaverse is already here … people are using Red Dead Redemption to hold staff meetings:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/how-to ... demption-2

[Cody]

<chortles> I can see the attraction... kinda!