USS Enterprise to Boldly Go...

To be parted out. After over 50 years in service the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Enterprise is to be decommissioned and sold for scrap.

She'll start her final mission with a quick jaunt from US Naval Station Norfolk, in Virginia  to a nearby shipyard to have her fuel rods removed. From there she'll be towed down around the southern tip of South America and head northward to her final destination in Puget Sound, Washington. Once there her reactors will be removed and full cannibalization will commence. She's expected to yield 90K tons of scrap.

There were several attempts to save her and make her a floating museum but the process of removing the 8 nuclear reactors will cause significant damage to the flight deck and hull. The cost to replace this damage is prohibitive, according to the navy.

The USS Enterprise, know as Big E by her crew, is the second oldest ship in the Navy and the oldest combat vessel in service. Gray Lady, you will be missed.

Zombie Flick Shot at CERN

Forget an all-consuming black hole, this movie postulates a zombie apocalypse after a burst radiation release from the LHC.
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Made by physics students and filmed on location CERN, this thing looks like it's going to be a hoot

Tim Cook is a KOOK

Taking random jabs at convergence in a technology world where convergence is constantly evolving and arbitrarily saying that touch-screens don't want to be vertical... guess we all use our phones and tablets horizontally. I can just see this conversation in the workplace:
Boss: Hey! You're not supposed to be napping at your desk!!
Underling: I'm not, I'm making a call in my iPhone!

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ASUS success Powered by NVIDIA!!!!

Cool /. story about surge in ASUS profits. For those that may not know the devices referenced are powered ny NVIDIA Tegra2 and 3 processors.

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