Random links
- To Avoid Deer Strikes, Finland Is Painting Deer Antlers With Reflective Paint
- An interesting alternative to painting the roads. Guessing Canada is too low-density population-wise to make this practical here.
- Swiss fighters grounded during hijacking as outside office hours
- "No Swiss fighter jets were scrambled Monday when an Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot hijacked his own plane and forced it to land in Geneva, because it happened outside business hours, the Swiss airforce said. ... Swiss airforce spokesman Laurent Savary told AFP ... 'Switzerland cannot intervene because its airbases are closed at night and on the weekend'"
- Cleaner throws out 'rubbish' Sala Murat artwork
- Ah yes... modern "art", wherein one work consisted of "cookie pieces scattered across the floor". Is this more or less artistic than a previous incident of "art" being thrown out wherein the "art" consisted of "a collection of beer bottles, coffee cups and overflowing ashtrays"?
- From India, Proof That a Trip to Mars Doesn’t Have to Break the Bank
- "The budget of India’s Mars mission, by contrast, was just three-quarters of the $100 million that Hollywood spent on last year’s space-based hit, 'Gravity.'"