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  1. But all those ancient structures... by RNEMESiS42 · · Score: 1 · on Back to the Moon

    Maybe NASA doesn't want China to expose all of the ancient ruins on the moon.

    (just do ctrl+f and type "moon" to find the good parts right away)

  2. I've got a bad feeling about this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on NASA's $73 Million Water-Finding Trick

    Aliens have a base on the Moon and told us in no uncertain terms to get off and stay off the Moon.

    http://www.anomalous-images.com/astroufo.html#Aldr in

  3. Re:The Trick Is... by khallow · · Score: 1 · on New NASA Budget Woes
    Diamonds might be useful in the sizes he mentions, but yea, I don't see the value in that much gold especially where it is. If we managed to pull a significant portion of it back to Earth, it'd be so plentiful that we're be using it as a cheap replacement for lead and the like.

    This isn't a rhetorical observation either. There really are metallic asteroids with a relatively high platinum metals content. For example, the asteroid Eros is claimed to have around a trillion dollars worth of gold alone at today's prices. But the economics isn't there to grab the metal.

  4. Oh now... by kwench · · Score: 1 · on Experts Suggest Replacing Definition of Kilogram

    ... this will again take us into a century of nonunderstanding and confusion. Today, there are still some big nations that refuse to use kilogramm, litre, meter or celsius and prefer pounds, gallons, inch and fahrenheit.

    How many rockets or other devices have disappeared or crashed somewhere just because scientists from one of these strange nations were involved in doing the programming?

    Remeber, you heard it hear first: The end of the world is near...

  5. Already has Alien bases by boy_afraid · · Score: 1 · on President Bush To Call For Return To Moon?

    What about the Alien bases that are already there?

    Look here, here, and here.

  6. Re:Unmanned != risks! by Minna+Kirai · · Score: 1 · on The Return of Apollo?

    the *payload* that it had been commissioned to launch was worth several *billion* dollars

    You'll have to get some "recall" ability if you want anyone to believe you. A payload worth more than $4,000,000,000? The most expensive payload I've ever heard of was the HST, and it cost less than 1 billion.

    (It came to 1.5 billion if you include all the efford spent designing the payload- but that money wouldn't have to be respent to build another satellite after a failure)

    I can find examples of launch failures that cost nearly 1 billion when counting the rocket, but nothing that's multi-billion for just the payload.

    PS. According to a broad survey of American English speakers, the word "several" means a number between 5 and 8.

  7. Re:It can happen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny · on Boston's Big Dig Delayed Because of Programmers?

    Oh yeah, like that's the real issue at Denver Airport...

  8. pled guilty to lesser charge != guilty by nels_tomlinson · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Slashback: Python, Giveaway, Collection
    West pled guilty to a misdemeanor, rather than risk getting a felony conviction. For poor folks without a lawyer (or without the money to keep the lawyer on the case month after month after month), this is the normal thing to do when one is innocent and wrongly accused of a felony. It is also the normal course of action for crooks who are rightly accused. He pled guilty, but we still haven't a clue whether this is a case of a crooked DA trying to avoid looking bad, or a crooked cracker getting off easy.


    The biggest problem here is that we really don't know who to believe. Given the choice between believing a U.S. district attorney and some slightly scummy small-time crook, we really don't know which to take. The U.S. government has a long history of bad behavior. (Think about the secret experiments (also here and here) in the '50s, in which people were exposed to radiation ... the ones for which the government began making restitution recently, when reports began to emerge. Think about J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Think about the entire Justice Department over the last eight years. Think abou the IRS since its inception.) There just isn't any room to automatically assume that a responsible government employee isn't trying to cover up a mistake at West's expense, just because he can.

    The good scenario here is that West is a petty crook who's getting a break because it's his first offence. The bad scenario is that the DA realised that if he dropped this, he'd look like an idiot, so he's threatened a poor innocent guy into pleading guilty to a crime he didn't commit, just to save the DA some embarassment. And it looks as if we'll never be sure.