AppAholic TechRant

Jetpacks!

Swiss man crossed the English channel in under 10 minutes. 22 miles from calais to dover. 49 years old this guy was! An ex fighter pilot, granted, but even so, 125 mph is rather fast flying in the air.

He did win £1,000 from the Daily Mail, 100 years after they started the competition, although I doubt this was his initial target,as I guessing it cost a lot more than that to put on.

It started with a 8,200 feet climb in a light aircraft (sort of cheating really), and then jumped out and flew using the jet pack with wings. The wing span is 8.2 feet, weighing in at a total of 121 lb. The actual decent took another 3 minuets, making a total of 13 minuets from flight to ground.

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Now I don’t expect every one here to have played Quake so your first question would be, what is a Quake console? Well in simple terms it is a way to send text commands to the game, you see people like to customise the crap out of Quake and the console helps them by being just a button away ready to process input.

So where does Tilda come in? Well Tilda atemps to immate the behaviour of this Quake Console on linux. And what a fantasic job it does at it.

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There is a pretty high chance that there is intelligent life out there.  Our galaxy the milky way is about 100,000 lightyears in diameter (a lightyear is the distance that light travels in a period of a year, that’s exactly 9,460,730,472,580 kM).  No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of space…  Uhh yeah, even if we were being watched I doubt any ET life will be interested in us and our failure as a race.   To add insult to injury, the online social networking site Bebo has decided it will spam the galaxy (even though it fills your inbox with crap)!

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