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Wow... so sudden. Happy trails Bpao. Best wishes to you and your family. You'll definitely be missed. So sad...

I lock my keys in my car on a regular basis unless I have them chained to my pants on one of those little punk chains. I amaze myself as to how often I do it. Also, in the current Suzuki Swift, there's a small square cup holder kinda thing between the seats and behind the handbrake where things, phones, keys, PSPs etc simple vanish for days for me. I lost a phone for a week and it was sitting in that, the devil's little bastard holder thingo, for something like five days. If my gf finds out about it, I'll never live it down.

Man... the East coast of Australia always has the fun events! Gallery here: The dust storm was so immense in scale, it could be seen from orbit! And today, it was a fine and sunny day there. It was truly bizarre. The weather went like this: Monday: Fine and sunny. Tuesday: Fine and sunny. Wednesday: Massive red nebula descends, freaking out some rather "special" people into thinking it was Armageddon. Thursday: Fine and sunny, a little layer of dust on everything.

Here's the orbital shot Fubar, if that had happened in my home town, I would have gone out of my way to freak out my neighbours. And that would have been just the ticket! lol

From the Guardian - UK. Gallery:

What are the odds it would land on the Khomeini Mausoleum...?

So no one's come across this...? Damn. That sucks!

The TV above the monitor is a good idea. I gotta give that a go.

They're all just as bad as each other. They all need a slap in the face and told to rub some dirt into it for being so sensitive! Otherwise, I'd prescribe (warning, some reasonably offensive language)

Bah... choking... on... my own... rage... http://kotaku.com/5361301/left-4-dead-2-banned-in-australia

Does he still come here?? Happy birthday dude! Hope you get a chance to sit on your ass!

It's weird, that's the first thing I thought of when I heard. I've seen a whole bunch of his films, but the first thing I thought was "Raise an AK for Jed".

Belly landing the production model is sure to endear me to the CAG.

Pretty sad, huh? Now Baby's gonna be stuck in the corner...

Should be visible now.

Excellent! Don't drop the soap buddy.

It's a shame it hasn't been bought by other nations already. It really is a great aircraft, but I think France really shot themselves in the foot spectacularly by choosing kill off the Mirage 2000 production line to favour the Rafale. It's really been a disincentive to prospective buyers, many of whom are Mirage 2000 operators themselves, to update to the new aircraft. I couldn't imagine the US shutting down the F-16 line to preference the F-35 and I think Dassault/France would be seeing a much larger market share if they hadn't pushed it so hard.

I'm intrigued by the idea, but with the large pylon-y looking things at the wing root and the two slab sided supersonic stabilisers beneath aelerons, they're gonna have to do better than that to reduce the RCS. I thought the Russians, Chinese and Indian were having a lot of success with reducing the RCS by adding composites (and heavily modified intakes) and those RAM coatings to aircraft. What is the coating, ferrite or something? Still, with the room they'd create by adding a bay between the engine intakes, there'd be a lot of room for weapons or fuel. It'd certainly give the Strike/Silent Eagles some good competition.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/04/2676786.htm How sweet is this?? Go Temora! I've seriously gotta head east and check these guys out. I saw their Connie and SP-2H Neptune out here at RAAF Edinburgh in late 2007. Good stuff!

Is that back on?? I thought the standoff jammer program was given the arse a few years. Seemed like a shame, it'd make a killer platform for the role.

I saw choppers in WWI and immediately thought of the movie Biggles and the Jetranger he flew back in time...

Or Rhinos by the looks of things. Any chance of seeing an EB-52E Megafort in the future...?

I can't begin to emphasise how much of an understatment that is!

Holy crap, this just blew my mind!

I thought that was Canadians...