@Mambo: Radio waves travel at the speed of light. If they bounced off the sun, as you suggest, they would've taken about 17 minutes to get there and back, not 60+ years.
I could also see this as being useful in a lab or workshop situation where standing the entire workday is out of the question, but standing up and sitting down 400 times to move a over a couple of feet to a different piece of equipment can be tiring and hard on the knees.
Does viral marketing make me sick? No. What makes me sick is that people will believe crap like this, while vehemently calling fake on a wobbling bridge.
It's no stranger than spending all day on a train set, I suppose. And I imagine watching that machine is kind of soothing, like watching a fish tank. It's kind of cool, actually.
Having said that, naming, labeling and timing them all, and filing them according to rank is definitely OCD.
Also: spotting conspicuously uncapitalized proper nouns in a title in which every other word is capitalized.
Because the problem is so much larger than a ship like this could even make a dent in.
Those would have to be some big freaking birds. Go look at the construction photos. It's not a net.
Personally, I think it'd look great given a much different setting. They couldn't have picked a less photographic location for it.
http://tinyurl.com/24ehue7
"That was intense!"
"That's what all the gals say."
Wow, that doesn't look funny AT ALL.
Having said that, naming, labeling and timing them all, and filing them according to rank is definitely OCD.