QOTD
Apr.10, 2009, filed under Geekery
Back in the 1950s, Britain’s tiny Saunders-Roe company was building the rocket-powered SR.53 fighter. Designer Maurice Brennan, according to some of my old Flight colleagues, used to defend the concept against missile fanatics by remarking that “the guidance system weighs 200 pounds and drinks gin.”
That’s from an article in the Register on UAVs, quoting Bill Sweetman.
Think I’ll get some Easter Hodilay Gin for me and Frood. Top ho! Although he’d probably prefer rum.
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Singularity
~something that is singular as (a) a separate unit, or (b) unusual or distinctive manner or behavior; PECULIARITY;
~the quality or state of being singular;
~a point at which the derivative of a given function of a complex variable does not exist but every neighborhood of which contains points for which the derivative exists;
~a point or region of infinite mass density at which space and time are infinitely distorted by gravitational forces and which is held to be the final state of matter falling into a black hole. Sight
