Outland was cool. Mining on Io. What a suicidally crazy thing to do, but cool.
Posted on 08/21/2007 9:14:34 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
Yeah, I remember it, vaguely. I first saw it as a teenager at the movie theatre, although I have seen it again since then on TV. As a teenager the two most memorable things about it were the bar with live sex acts, and the guy who gets pushed into an air lock and then swells up and explodes when the atmosphere is vented (which doesn’t happen in reality, of course - mostly you would die of hypoxia).
Has EPA been notified?
If any DU data was amongst that leaked, the toxicity would be very high.
LOL. You’re right.
If I was Sean Connery, that’s not how I would like to be remembered.
Probably somebody shooting at a bird on a wire (which is illegal). Highly doubtful it’s terrorists, as some paranoids here think.
The "cable" consists of an armored jacket around a single fiber. The fiber is made of ultra pure glass to minimize the attenuation of the signal and usually has a graduated index of refraction which bends the light pulses toward the center of the fiber. The splices are thus held to a minimum as a single fiber may be several kilometers in length.
The splices themselves are done in a traveling "clean room" and require the fiber ends to be cleaved as square as possible and polished before joining.
Regards,
GtG
The best part of Outland was the shotguns. woohoo
Sprint used to be a good company. I wonder what happened.
Outland was cool. Mining on Io. What a suicidally crazy thing to do, but cool.
They bought Nexttel and everything went to crap.
there’s no need to polish if you’re using a fusion splicer.
Yeah, but they don’t like it, because it prevents emotional bidding wars keeps prices down. Their fee is based on final selling price. The seller is their customer.
Can’t you just set a spam filter to delete all messages from that domain before you even see them?
I did. I liked the idea with all the modernization and they still have shotguns.
It was a good remake of “High Noon”.
Webley-Fobery semi-automatic revolver. I remembered it was in the Maltese Falcon but I forgot it was in Zardoz.
Check my profile page for the other revolver.
There’s a place called, babes.com?
Never underestimate human ingenuity or just plain incompetence. When I was working we had a major link that ran thru a central office in San Salvador. The local company ran the cable right over the power supply for some florescent lights in a storeroom. The link handled major data traffic for South America and was used by east coast banks to handle after hours cash transfers. So when the sun went down in San Salvador, Jose goes to look for some parts turns on the lights and all hell breaks loose for BofA Barclays etc. Their solution a sign on the light switch that said”Don’t Use” and they put a lamp in the store room. It did work in the short term until the sign fell off the switch LOL
The wife wouldn't be likely to shoot up a mile plus of line. The ChiComs? Probably not, just a few places along a much longer stretch.
Sudden Jihad syndrome or perhaps something just a little more organized. Home grown Jihadie wannabes maybe?
The company declined to name the service provider whose lines had been cut, but a source familiar with the situation said the lines are owned by Level 3 Communications. Level 3 could not be reached immediately for comment.
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