Jemaine - Remember the old joke... "When you get to what I want, just throw it over here."
(waits for pictures to appear in http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/)

After all the effort, why not 4-bladed props?

Math fail. Her calculation rounds to 3:32.

The local paper has a good video of it:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Pilot+survives+fiery+fighter+crash+Alberta/3315220/story.html

What sort of cave do you occupy to not realize the source of that simile?

Battleship Potemkin (not Rosemary's Baby)
Star Wars
Apollo 13

Years ago a co-worker was asked by his neighbor to fill out his income tax because he couldn't read. Neighbor was a mail sorter who had leaned to recognize the names of towns on the envelopes.

Be more interesting if the spikes deployed, quickly, after some random length of time. Russian Roulette for your butt!

If the desk is a-rockin', don't come knockin'!

In Canada (and Britain), there are still vestiges of Imperial - dimensions (yard size, house size, most lumber) are in feet, etc. But ask a kid what a mile is, or Fahrenheit degree is, and they give you a blank stare. It will take generations to fully switch. In the US, isn't most manufacturing (what's left) in Metric? I'm thinking of car fasteners, for example.

I've looked, and looked, and looked, and I *still* can't see the face of Jesus.

And the Ontario and BC governments celebrated by hitting us with a big tax increase. Thanks, guys.

Must be for low-voltage lines. Power lines don't have insulation, so don't need a knife blade to pierce them. Not to mention a high-voltage line will fry you.

All good news for our overcrowded planet.
But per-capita consumption would be more useful data.

I've always wondered how often Dragon's Den gets it wrong and disses a money-maker. Not that I think the wine idea is any good due to packaging waste.