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Double Pulsar Discovered

Posted by michael on from the double-your-pleasure dept.

jabberjaw writes "Nature is reporting that a set of two pulsars could be emitting gravitational waves. Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves in his general theory of relativity, but a gravitational wave has yet to be detected. Find out more about gravitational waves and pulsars at Eric Weisstein's World of Physics."

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  1. Re:Nothing new... by MachDelta · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Y'know, for a "troll" comment, that was pretty fucking funny. :P

  2. 17 w45 4 j0k3 by Deraj+DeZine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ah, I see you have already had your sense of humor removed. Sorry to waste your time.

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  3. Re:Nothing new... by BiOFH · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thanks. But I have never "trolled".
    It was a 'joke' which is why there is a moderation designation "funny" (along with one for "troll" for actual trolls).
    Please go have a look at the jargon dictionary for the proper definition.
    I'll forgive you this time, but don't let it happen again. *shakes finger at you*

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  4. Re:Nothing new... by MachDelta · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh no no, you misunderstand. I put "Troll" in quotes because I didn't agree with the mod. But I see now you have your 5 funny points, so all is right in the /. world.

  5. Re:Gain karma *and* fight /.'s unethical journalis by UserGoogol · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Question. Why would decreasing Slashdot's signal-to-noise ratio cause the editors to admit anything?

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  6. Re:Speed of Gravity by l33t+gambler · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html

    WOW quicktime and realmedia! My 2 most favourite movie formats! oh the sarcasm!

    non-opinion mode:

    quicktime for windows is awful to use, it flickers with XPs alphablending crap and its skinned is round and not square which is space wasting and take resources/hard to accellerate for Windows 10 year old GUI.

    realmedia is just some mock-up of a format which heavily cuts down on FPS, colors and resolution. PLEASE dont use any WMF because of M$ hunger for taking-things-over-and-making-them-suck. how about divX or old MPG2?

    BTW M$ took over internet by bundling IE and giving it out free, now they want online video streaming standard with their WMV format. As its not open at all, M$ should be hacked or forced to give out source code and complete specs. At least give Linux etc a chance.

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