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Jupiter's "Mini-Me" Solar System Grows
An anonymous reader writes "University of Hawaii's robotic telescopes have discovered 8 new moons for Jupiter, thus bringing its mini solar system to 48 total. No one knows how Jupiter dissipates the energy of these likely asteroid captures, unless it once had a massively larger atmosphere. Indeed, its ion cloud today seems to spell doom for what Sir Arthur C. Clarke indicated, is another reason to avoid probing life on Europa. ('All these worlds are yours--except Europa. Attempt no landings there.'-- 2010: Odyssey Two). As an aside, one of those NASA sites seem technically to be doing text-to-speech in a very familiar-sounding, Stephen Hawkings version [MP3] of those articles."
Slashdot links to friggin' MP3 files! Who Pays the Bandwidth Bill?
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Net Speed Record Smashed
Posted by
CowboyNeal
in The Mysterious Future!
from the fast-ethernet-not-so-fast-anymore dept.
BrianWCarver writes "The BBC is reporting that scientists have set a new internet speed record by transferring 6.7 gigabytes of data (the equivalent of 4 hours of DVD-quality movies) across 10,978 kilometres (6,800 miles), from Sunnyvale in the US to Amsterdam in Holland, in less than one minute. Average speed: more than 923 megabits per second, or more than 3,500 times faster than a typical home broadband connection. The data was sent across the Internet2 network. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (Slac) Computer Services participated in the record-breaking event. Slac has an interest in such high-speed transfers as they have accumulated the largest known database in the world, which grows at one terabyte per day."
WARNING: This reply will be in poor taste!!
Maybe this is already going on? Did anyone notice a large Microsoft logo on the side of the spaceshuttle Columbia? That would explain a few things. Say, did anyone notice a large BSOD on the shuttle monitors during that videotape they recovered?
Next they'll be flying Columbia XP and telling us it's more reliable and easier to use.
I am so going to hell...
He Schutze, He Scores!