‘…The town of Deer Trail, Colo., is looking to begin offering “drone hunting licenses” and actually paying rewards to anyone who presents proof that they were able to bring down an unmanned aerial vehicle belonging to the United States federal government, according to reporting by Denver TV station KMGH.

Phillip Steel, the man who drafted the ordinance, as well as other supporters, say it will provide a new source of revenue for the town, but Steel concedes that it’s not exactly like Deer Trail has a drone problem. In fact, he’s never seen one over the town.

“This is a very symbolic ordinance,” he told KMGH. “Basically, I do not believe in the idea of a surveillance society, and I believe we are heading that way.” ‘ (Crave – CNET).

‘It took seven decades, but the pitch has finally been caught in the act. Since 1944, physicists at Trinity College in Dublin have been trying to measure the viscosity of pitch tar, a polymer seemingly solid at room temperature, and witness it dripping from a funnel. A drop forms only rarely, but last week a Webcam was on hand to witness the magic moment.

“The viscosity of pitch-tar is calculated to be 230 billion times that of water or 230,000 times the viscosity of honey,” the college’s School of Physics says on the experiment page. “Nobody has ever witnessed a drop fall in such an experiment — they happen roughly only once in a decade!”

The experiment is one of the oldest in the world, but a similar attempt at the University of Queensland in Australia has been going since 1927. It has only yielded eight drops. A Webcam that was poised to record a drop of the Australian pitch in November 2000 malfunctioned, but another drop could fall this year: see the live view here. It could take another century for all the pitch to flow through the funnel.’ (Crave – CNET).

‘…by following pope on Twitter.’ (Crave – CNET)