People look up into the sky and they think anything that they see flying has to be "official". It can just be litter. Those mylar "Happy Birthday" balloons make excellent UFO's against a setting sun. Or it can be a hoax. Even complex hoaxes can be pretty easy to pull off.

At the DZ that I skydive at, a group of RC aircraft enthusiasts (they can be a weird bunch) often fly (and crash) their latest investments.

Great thread here, I certainly want a PS3 now!

Anyone ever have any luck getting Boincview to run on Linux?

You would be better to compile the linux version of the BOINC

Want to get all my old TRS-80 Coco stuff onto a single DVD. Played around with it all the other day and almost all of the disk's still are readable and have all their data, even though they have been collecting dust since the 80's!

You had the $600 180K floppy drive! Luxury. My Coco was a 4k reg basic with the cassette player. Type CLoad (or CLoadM for the fancy stuff), and hold your breath as the cassette wheel began to spin forward onto the boot loader, when the block cursor would either begin to blink or just freeze. Basic & OS took about 2.2k, leaving you about 1.8k to party down with 2bit sound and 8 colors on the palette. Eventually I dug deep to upgrade to 16K extended, and then went to 32K with a somewhat "unsupported" home memory upgrade (it was fun poking that screwdriver though the Radio Shaft void sticker). And when I did finally get a floppy drive, I had to notch the flip side to save money... those floppies were $5 a pop and formatted with at least 40K in bad tracks even when unnotched. And ya know, using ROM packs to deliver software is completely under-rated.

Wonder how long a WU would take on a .89mhz 6809E ??