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The Discover Channel has an articleabout a commercial venture to the moon which will confirm the moon shot. "We're also looking to verify Apollo and other landing sites," said TransOrbital President Dennis Laurie.

You're absolutely correct. People need a place to discuss topics ranging from the great tasting new Pepsi Twist to the new Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza from Pizza Hut that's so deep, you'll need to eat it with a fork.

Without blogging capabilities we would be just like animals you would see on The Crocodile Hunter on Animal Planet, Wed. and Sat at 8pm, 11pm, and 3am.

All in all, blogging gives us purpose, and gives us a sense of comfort, similar to the new E-Class from Mercedes-Benz

That web page is rather old and is referring to the first American season of Junkyard Wars. In fact they start airing the most recent UK episodes here on Wednesday, starting with "Mud Monsters".

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Junkyard Wars
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Junkyard Wars
Full Metal Challenge

Sounds like TLC's Junkyard War's spinoff Escape from Experiment Island.

This reads like a transcript for that TLC program about hackers:
Hackers: Computer Outlaws

In people we might call this a cancer risk, rather than furthering their chances down the road.
Contextual example: P53 is the most commonly mutated gene in cancer cells

So if GM foods start creating themselves then what's all the fuss about GM foods right now? ;)

If a house without walls is good enough for
John Draper, aka Capt'n Crunch to compute in, it should be good enough for those ungreatful brats too!

The Science Channel (a Discovery property), has "Theme sequences" of similar programming at similar times. One of the themes is Marine Science. On Friday Evening or Sunday afternoon, you can get Undersea earthquakes, sharks, and all the underwater footage you want. Admittedly not as good as a full-time sharks channel, but when it's not Shark-week, at least you can get something. The Saturday afternoon Astronomy/Astrobiology sequence is pretty cool too.

My only gripe with digital cable is that the box Time Warner gave me doesn't have an A/D audio converter, so I get great digital sound on digital-only channels, but the analog channels don't output over the coax cable, and I have to switch inputs on my receiver, which is a pain in the ass. I've never had much complaint about the reception, though...it's crystal clear, even on the Analog channels (esp. on the analog channels...occasionally, but not too often, I get pixelation on digital channels).

As for channel surfing, I'm hooked on the digital channel guide to browse what's on, while I'm still watching a program.

Just forget it. Read up on what RCA did to Philo Farnsworth, the chap who invented TV. He had his patents and died destitute. You can read about it here (Dead Inventor's Corner)

The point is that if your patent is valid then a large corporation will simply pick it up and claim that it is invalid for whatever reasons and you'll find yourself in court for the next 17 years.

On the other hand if a large corporation holds patents which are invalid or even absurdly simple - as many patents are - then if you do something close you may well find yourself in court defending yourself against a preditory lawsuit.

So IMHO you are wasting your time. Just bring the product out and hit the streets with the marketing and plan on making money right up front. Patent it if you wish but don't expect to be anything but a victim in this game. The patent will only cost you money and drain you every time you turn around.

It will drain you both intellectually and financially and like Farnsworth you may end up killing the pain with alcohol too.

1) water maser emissions? Geez, what's next, they can smell it from here?

I wonder if they only look for water? Wouldn't there be other elements they could detect using the same methods?

2) how far away are these planets? Are they far enough away that by the time these "maser emissions" get to us that the water is gone?

Most extrasolar planets are less than 150 light years away which is nothing in geologic time. Refer to The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia for more information. The finding of the 100th extrasolar planet was reported yesterday.

Quaker Oats actually started this type of marketing, believe it or not. They would give away things such as pots/pans and other merchandise with proofs of purchase, were the first to put coupons in newspapers, and offer things like money back guarantees. They basically kicked off consumerism as we know it.

It's amazing what you can learn watching Connections.

Just make sure you get the right Robert Morris. You want this one, not this one, nor this one. (Anyone got a link to a picture of the elder Morris?, the only one I can find is google cache

Robotica is its name. It's not quite the same -- it's more than just robots bashing each-other -- it has an obstacle course and other neat things.

i live in china... i just tried this search here:

link

and it gave me this list of links:

link 1
link 2
link 3

man, they are good. guess i'll stay.

That would be "Robotica" on TLC.

See http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/robotica/robotic a.html

From Tron to Babylon 5 to this.

not breeding - didn't they find some hair samples in a cave in southern argentina? I popped over to the discovery channel website and noted this small tidbit indicating that dna has been recovered -- but naturally, there are skeptics.

For more info on that tasmanian wolf, take a look at Thylacine info here.

ahem...the current hypothesis is man killed the Mammoth in North America.

Here are a couple of articles on the subject:

TIME
Outriderbooks
Discovery
Article

You know, I like Junkyard Wars, but I wouldn't want to risk my life to it.

Do you ever notice what they're looking at?

Actually, it has already happened! Very smart approach, now they just need to figure out how to keep 'em alive longer...

Frankly, all that i can do is offer my best jacques cousteau impression, and hope that they don't evolve further.

NASA

Another Squid Site

Discovery Channel and the Giant Squid

Weird Squids In Action (that one's just fun for the cool giant squid graphics- how would YOU have done it?)

A A 1996 article regarding giant squid discovery>

A 2002 discovery of a MUCH smaller 'giant' squid

and of course, proof that there's a convention group for everything.

And if anybody wants to know how i happen to know any of this, let's just say that i dated a marine biologist. It won't be true, but it would make my mum happy....

I was curious, so I did some research on what teh Morris Worm was. (I was 4 at teh time it was released)

All About Morris
Wikipedia
It seems that a college kid wrote a small prgram to propagate itself to as many computers as it could, and try to run in the background unnoticed. But due to a bug(s) it copied itself manytimes over and ran multiple times on teh same machine, causeing to slow to a point of being unusable.

It infected 6,000 VAX machines in November of 1988.

Gotta love Google

This Sunday, watch Gutbusters on the Discovery Channel.

It explains how they train themselves to eat that much (even if they are skinny).

If Kevin Poulsen was still up to his old tricks today, this would be exactly the sort of setup that would ensure he was busted very quickly...

Thats because "geek chicks" are a myth, a legend.

No, they're not...

She not only created the show, but she's got a PhD, and plays keyboards in a band...

She's a female version of Buckaroo Banzai

If you think the Sicilian Bridge will bridge the gap in clutures, check out this Discovery Article.

9 *miles* long, with 3 towers, each almost twice the height of the CN Tower. Crazy!

Discovery.com also has an interesting article about creating Mars aircraft based on bees.

Hahhaha.... quite amusing

I was wondering if anyone would get that. Hehehe... It's called the Coriolis Force

At any rate, anyone that has a clue knows that any communication passing through an IRC server (whether its a public message, and /msg, with the exception of a DCC p2p connection) can be monitored.

What makes you think the FBI/CIA/NSA/{insert your favourite intelligence agency here} isn't already peered to all the IRC networks and patiently sifting through all the conversation logs? This is not rocket science.

why are people surprised? this is what I don't get

Perhaps it will be back in rotation later this week.

Garth

Actually, if you've watched some of the military episodes on TLC or The Discovery Channel about miltary training, you can gain some good insight into the programs without actually doing any investigation (other than watching the shows). They provide very little commentary and just show what is going on. They do some interviews (sole interviews, the person is simply talking to the camera, no one is asking questions directly), but mainly show the process by which personnel go through in certain areas of the military. They have done documentaries on Rangers, SEALs, AF recruits, Navy recruits, and specific Marine episodes. Many of the sterotypes that you see in the movies are fairly true. Mind you that these episodes don't cover ALL of the training, they do try to cover a decent portion of the trainings. There have even been several connected episodes in which the documentary will follow a specific class all the way from their initial inductions to their final graduations/acceptances/etc.

It is obvious though that a trainer will not be screaming into a trainee's ear while they are trying to learn a specific skill, how to use some new equipment, or other similar procedures. The screaming is counterproductive as you mentioned, but the trainees would be harshly dealt with should they fail some training at certain points.

Former demonstrations at Antioch

Pluaralism and the Last Century; implications on H.4

He doesn't mention Project Pluto! It doesn't really support his repetition of perfectly safe and all that.

The Discovery Wings channel has a documentary on the Pluto project that's well worth watching. I've seen it two or three times myself. A functional Pluto cruise missile was never built, but it would have been a behemoth; "locomotive-size missile" is not hyperbole here. The engine worked quite well in ground tests, though, all things considered. The project ended for a couple of reasons. One was that by the early '60s ICBMs were turning out to be a much more practical way to lob nukes at an enemy. Another reason was that no one could figure out a practical way to flight-test the thing. One idea was to put it on a tether and fly it around the testing range that way, but the mental image of a practically unstoppable fission-powered cruise missile breaking free from its tether and flying over downtown Las Vegas at treetop height was all the Air Force needed to give up on that idea.

Besides the fact that most traits are caused not by one gene, but by the interaction of dozens of genes and the proteins they create, you have to consider that almost all human traits develop in accordance to someone's environment.

This has been the traditional view, that environment and parenting determine the outcome of one's upbringing. However twins' studies have been turning up some amazing evidence to the contrary.

In some cases of identical twins who were brought up in completely separate households, the twins have met again as adults and discovered incredible similarities in their lives.

An excellent overview is this Discover Channel site. In particular, check out the Jim twins.

Besides the fact that most traits are caused not by one gene, but by the interaction of dozens of genes and the proteins they create, you have to consider that almost all human traits develop in accordance to someone's environment.

This has been the traditional view, that environment and parenting determine the outcome of one's upbringing. However twins' studies have been turning up some amazing evidence to the contrary.

In some cases of identical twins who were brought up in completely separate households, the twins have met again as adults and discovered incredible similarities in their lives.

An excellent overview is this Discover Channel site. In particular, check out the Jim twins.

Uhmm.. did you not notice that DoD funded this little doodad? Naturally the military is all over this like white on rice. Hollywood is another natural application, (let's see, who has deep pockets and likes dramatic film footage?)

But what else?

Unmanned traffic enforcement choppers a la those annoying photo radar rigs parked on the roadside? With a cop at the "wheel" does this get around the arguments facing the purely automated variety?

Most fun application: Obstacle course racing. Smack one up and sure it was several grand but substantially more exciting than Robotica.

Ahmet Zappa is an acquired taste, to be sure, but he has toned down since last season. We grew to love the antics after a while. (One particular, ah, 'manuever' of his became a family meme: saying 'Robotica-style' and making convoluted hand motions.) He's the son of Frank Zappa, by the way, which might explain a bit ;-) and brother to Moon Unit and Dweezil.

Yeah, Carmen is cool to look at, but she doesn't hold a candle to the beautiful, brainy, and British Cathy Rogers.

Colleagues have already succeeded in cloning cells, causing them to differentiate into cartilege, and then, using an ear shaped scaffold, making an artificial ear; but only an artificial outer ear! It is basically a plastic surgery technique, the inner ear is too complicated to be made by this method.

coaxed the stem cells into becoming kidney cells, and then "grew" them on a kidney-shaped scaffold.

What he is saying is that he made a kidney-shaped lump of meat out of kidney cells. This is NOT the same as a kidney, even if it squirts out "urine".

Some of these kidney cells have a directional orientation which you cannot duplicate with a scaffold - without getting too technical, these cells are adjacent to two tubes, one tube which carries proto-urine and one tube which carries blood. The cell has to know which is which.

Even if the cells don't know which is which, and if the tubes are there, they might still produce something that looks kinda like urine, just because they allowed the contents of the artificial proto-urine tube to become isotonic (equal in content of water and salt) with the blood. I will say - if what these kidneys made was "good" urine, the people at Advanced Cell Technology would release it's contents in a second. There is no way that anyone could steal whatever trade secrets they have based on the quality of the urine their artificial kidneys produce.

Kudos again to the New Scientist for raising these concerns.

OK, finally, to get it straight, the Meade ETX-90EC telescope can be found at the Discovery store for $495, but most other places have it for $595. I promise not to reply to myself any more.

This article provides a summary of the documentary (Superhuman: The Future of Medicine, Trauma episode) I saw, which goes into some detail. I'm not a medical person, so I don't pretend to actually know anything about how or why it seems to work.

I can't buy the fact that piracy fears is what holds back broadband.

Among the plenty of other problems posted above, lack of real, non-pirate content is the problem. Up until Napster and the open piracy market there was no way for John User to get movies or music online.

Sure there was a few things, like real video - but it is still somewhat limited. If we all could get commercial paid video, or some sort of system - broadband would explode.

Only haxor elite such as myself have a use for broadband. I download linux iso's at least once a week [depending on if I used a CDRW or not]. How many newbies are going to use that?

But alas, the video content provided [legally] is growing. I love netbroadcaster.com, for example because I can watch full movies - only at the price of a few pop-ups.

Get rid of the bullshit, commercial type video clips and we'd be happy. Don't dangle the hook, give us the worm!

I'm a TW-RoadRunner customer and they are showing some promise on thier own. Although, here in Cincinnati the DSL service offers WB over the net... we are on the right track.

But where are cool things for people on the straight and narrow?

Well, here is one I've been watching all day. Full screen too, amazing... I can actually see the camera focus before I get the video!

I wonder if it is the same crystals found in Wint-O-Green Lifesavers? They emit light when you bite them.

This new squid looks like a half-breed Manta Ray/Squid.

I couldn't get enough of Discovery Channel's Search for the a Giant Squid

fictitious force, n. Coriolis isn't even a real force, since it doesn't make anything speed up or slow down -- it only explains why things appear to speed or slow as the world spins out from under them. This sort of impostor is known as a fictitious force.

Water in the sink doesn't go far enough to trigger a noticeable north/south deflection. Most often, it simply spirals down the sink the way it went into the sink, and the same is true of things like the famous "demonstration" of the Coriolis force shown at tourist traps along the Equator. Maybe there's a conspiracy to manufacture right-handed sinks in the Northern Hemisphere and left-handed sinks in the Southern Hemisphere?

In any case, don't blame it on the Coriolis force unless your sink [or toilet] is the size of a small ocean.

Join me in my quest to build my own electric car. I have been inspired by a television show to throw some motors and some batteries into an old car and race around in it for as long as possible before it self-destructs.