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Re:The real advantage to Agile... by MunkieLife · 2006-11-20 08:29 · Score: 1 · on You Call This Agile?

A better quality cartoon. http://homepages.utoledo.edu/amyers4/eecs6550/ITPr ojects.jpg

Re:Not an ignorant position by Kirth · 2006-02-02 02:24 · Score: 1 · on The President, The State of the Union, and Genetics

A ban on "creating human-animal hybrids" is more debatable but we damn sure better get a line drawn somewhere and we better do it fast or science is going to race out ahead of ethics and make one hell of a mess for someone to clean up.

No its not. This is actually a ban on the production of Insulin. Which nowadays is produced nearly exclusively by bacteria with human DNA.
http://www.che.utoledo.edu/Biotechnology.html

Hmm, don't think so. by cosmol · 2005-04-16 04:17 · Score: 4, Informative · on LED Evolution Could Spell The End For Bulbs

Yes, I am. You might be too ...

I doubt it, at least not the kind of person the grandparent is referring to. If you are you should be calling a research lab and asking for bids to be a guinea pig. Tetrachromats are extremely rare.

This hypothesis sounds more likely (from http://www.physics.utoledo.edu/~lsa/_color/18_reti na.htm Rods and all three cone types readily absorb ultraviolet radiation, photons of which are energetic enough to damage these delicate cells. The reason we cannot see in the UV is because the eye lens is opaque in that wavelength range. In addition, the cells in a region called the macula surounding and including the fovea contain a yellow pigment that further prevents short wave radiation from reaching the photo-receptors. Some people with less of this yellow pigment and those who have had their lenses replaced with plastic inserts can see further into the UV than normal people can.

How about a Yapese stone coin? by Medievalist · 2004-10-15 04:13 · Score: 1 · on Petite MP3 Player Boots PCs Into Linux

I can make an MP3 player smaller than this!

Re:planet, definitely (both Pluto & Sedna) by the+pickle · 2004-03-22 18:45 · Score: 1 · on Is {pluto|sedna} A Planet?

None of the steroids ... would be planets

I don't think the parent was ever suggesting we define such molecules as cholesterol or testosterone as planets...

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Re:Disinformation by BenjyD · 2004-02-02 02:36 · Score: 1 · on Trojan Horse Caused A Siberian Explosion

How much natural gas would be needed to produce a 3 kiloton explosion ?

About 30,000kg, extrapolating from the calculations on propane here. It's been far too many years since my Combustion and Safety lectures for me to do any calculations myself.

From a quick glance at those figures and some other similar accidents, 3 kilotonnes doesn't seem overly large. The air/gas mixture is acheived because of the turbulent mixing of the gas as it escapes though the rupture from the high pressure inside the pipeline.

Re:Sunglasses by Nerant · 2003-05-07 01:29 · Score: 4, Informative · on 2003 Transit of Mercury

For those intending to use welder's glass for phototaking/viewing of such events, please get the proper grade of welder's glass, grade #14 and above is good enough.

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Re:U.S. Govt by ryanvm · 2002-06-20 09:44 · Score: 3, Funny · on 120,000 km Is Still Too Close

In all fairness, the article states that the path of the asteroid was on a line with the sun. There is no way Earth based telescopes could have seen it, even had they known exactly where to look.

Fools! They should just slap a sheet of welder's glass on their telescopes.

Where do I pick up my Nobel Prize?

Finally... a story where this is *not* offtopic... by Anonymous Coward · 2000-05-19 20:38 · Score: 5 · on Oxford Yanks Student Page Over Spoof DeCSS

and I'm asleep at the keyboard. Doh!

Oh well... here it is.
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Time for Slashdot to take a stand... by Anonymous Coward · 2000-04-05 03:12 · Score: 4 · on MPAA Files Another Injunction Against 2600

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