Sad thing is, I can absolutely imagine seeing a perfectly still animal in the road, assuming it is already dead, and just driving around it, myself. Glad he didn't, and a cautionary tale for all of us to be more inquisitive and not assume the typical or worst case when we're in a hurry.
1) Handheld (and voice activated) 2-way radios existed before Star Trek communicators. Dick Tracey comics had a radio watch back in 1946.
2) People had flat laptops before 1987. Omitting the keyboard for TV was nothing special. And see the 1972 Dynabook.
3) Companies were videoconferencing long before 1988. There were even videophones available to the public in the 1930s...
4) Several companies had prototype "optical head-mounted displays" in the mid-90s, including Sony and IBM, a few years before Star Trek featured an imaginary one.
The list wasn't very good, as the comments pointed out. You'd do better just to link the Wikipedia disambiguation page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_West_(disambiguation)
New York outlawed pay toilets in '75 alright, but waived that rule for NYC in '93. Now there are plenty of em around. Not exactly a recent development, and deserving a mention.
It's a weird idea, isn't it? You pay, but less than it really costs, and get the hassle of needing to have change in a hurry. And in exchange for the .25-$1 or so, the locale risks having to clean up human waste off the walls and floor.
Wow, that's an incredibly poor list! It's almost a list of overrated pretentious trash you should avoid at all costs, but unfortunately also has accidentally included just a handful of decent films, too.
This list just keeps showing how far out of touch BBC Culture is from basically everyone. I know the Academy isn't the best a picking the best movies of the year but of this list of 100 the number even nominated for one of the 3 best pictures is low. One other thing to point out is that this is the first list (and there are dozens) that has Ratatouille as a better film than Finding Nemo.
I like the idea of building something that goes out and explores the world without you.
But I wonder if it could be made practical... Everything is expensive in Hawaii, due to shipping. If he had a friend living on the islands, he could keep sending the craft back and forth with small quantities of cargo. Just about anything from the states, and perhaps tropical fruits or such on the returns.
Colors haven't gone away. The Kia Soul is most popular in its recognizable metallic green. Quite a few other outliers, too.
I like colors, but practical concerns dominate... A white car will stay dramatically cooler in the summer than a dark color. House roofs really should be painted white for the same reason.
I completely don't buy the claim that "fewer bags in the cabin will save passengers more time than skipping the baggage claim". Sometimes the line to check bags is short, sometimes it's long. But the wait for the first bag to start coming out is always about 30 minutes, and you usually add much more time until your bag finally comes around. It's still a nice option to have, so you can carry a non-trivial amount of toothpaste, shampoo, etc, as well as nail clippers, pocket knives, etc.
Nobody remembers "Mac Tonight", where they flagrantly used the song Mack the Knife without getting permission our paying royalties? That was a whole advertising campaign, complete with posters, moon-head happy meal toys, and more. It sure disappeared suddenly once they were taken to court
"Loosely based" is a euphemism for "completely fictional". The only thing the movie has in common with the true story is that there was a Jamaican bobsled team in the Calgary Olympics that year, and they crashed. Everything else, beginning to end, was fabricated to make a good kid's story, and doesn't bear even the slightest commonality with the actual events.
Whether or not that's the case... There's no question the best way to deal with most pests is to seal-up any cracks, holes, openings, pathways, etc. It can be effective much more quickly, and provides a long term solution instead of a temporary fix. And the first step should be windows screens if you don't already have them. Obviously rats need larger holes than mice, who need larger openings than roaches, spiders, mosquitos and other bugs, but all can be kept out if you put the effort in.
The film "The Lost Battalion" (2001) prominently features homing pigeons as the hundreds of encircled soldiers' only means of communication. It specifically shows the famous Cher Ami flying through a hail of gunfire to deliver a message to stop the friendly artillery fire that was decimating the unit.
"Cher Ami flew with bullets zipping through the air all around her. Cher Ami was eventually shot down but managed to take flight again. She arrived back at her loft at division headquarters 25 miles to the rear in just 25 minutes, helping to save the lives of the 194 survivors. In this last mission, Cher Ami delivered the message despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood and with a leg hanging only by a tendon. The pigeon was awarded the Croix de Guerre Medal with a palm Oak Leaf Cluster for her heroic service in delivering 12 important messages in Verdun. To American school children of the 1920s and 1930s, Cher Ami was as well known as any human World War I heroes. Cher Ami's body was mounted and enshrined in the Smithsonian Institution."
It's a great film closely based on actually events. In many ways, it is essentially a prequel to Band of Brothers, but which only few people have even heard of.
2) People had flat laptops before 1987. Omitting the keyboard for TV was nothing special. And see the 1972 Dynabook.
3) Companies were videoconferencing long before 1988. There were even videophones available to the public in the 1930s...
4) Several companies had prototype "optical head-mounted displays" in the mid-90s, including Sony and IBM, a few years before Star Trek featured an imaginary one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_West_(disambiguation)
It's a weird idea, isn't it? You pay, but less than it really costs, and get the hassle of needing to have change in a hurry. And in exchange for the .25-$1 or so, the locale risks having to clean up human waste off the walls and floor.
But I wonder if it could be made practical... Everything is expensive in Hawaii, due to shipping. If he had a friend living on the islands, he could keep sending the craft back and forth with small quantities of cargo. Just about anything from the states, and perhaps tropical fruits or such on the returns.
I like colors, but practical concerns dominate... A white car will stay dramatically cooler in the summer than a dark color. House roofs really should be painted white for the same reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hzWpsLR4Xc
"Cher Ami flew with bullets zipping through the air all around her. Cher Ami was eventually shot down but managed to take flight again. She arrived back at her loft at division headquarters 25 miles to the rear in just 25 minutes, helping to save the lives of the 194 survivors. In this last mission, Cher Ami delivered the message despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood and with a leg hanging only by a tendon. The pigeon was awarded the Croix de Guerre Medal with a palm Oak Leaf Cluster for her heroic service in delivering 12 important messages in Verdun. To American school children of the 1920s and 1930s, Cher Ami was as well known as any human World War I heroes. Cher Ami's body was mounted and enshrined in the Smithsonian Institution."
It's a great film closely based on actually events. In many ways, it is essentially a prequel to Band of Brothers, but which only few people have even heard of.
The story got some coverage here a few years ago:
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/05/28/the-lost-battalion/