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Top 10 Scientific Advances of 2004
TarrVetus writes "Science Magazine's The Top Ten Science Breakthroughs of 2004 have been announced. The winner: The NASA Rovers and their evidence of water on Mars. The runner up was the Hobbit species found in Indonesia. Other breakthroughs include cloned human embryos and the first discovered pulsar pair."
Largest man-created crater on the surface of Mars? That's got to count for something!
Sorry, my mistake, it's not ready yet.
For discovering that all previous science and history is false and the world is in fact a giant ant farm created 6000 years ago by a cloud dwelling egomaniac
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If you have a scientific breakthrough, please wait till the next year to announce it, otherwise you won't make it the top 10 list.
The IT section color scheme sucks.
that happened in 2003...
BBC have more bandwidth than God. Slashdot is more likely to get BBCed than BBC is to get slashdotted. =)
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
No, no, no! Hobbits and dwarves are completely different! Dwarves get a bonus to constitution, while hobbits get extra dexterity! Really, what sort of a geek are you?
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
David: Look, whether or not Anton is a midget, or a dwarf-
Man: No, he's a midget.
David: What's the difference?
Man: Well, a dwarf is someone who has disproportionately short arms and legs.
David: Oh, I know the ones. (He does a dwarf impression)
Man: Yeah, it's caused by a hormone deficiency.
David: Yeah. Bloody hormones.
Man: A midget is still a dwarf, but their arms and legs are in proportion.
David: Sure. (Gareth suddenly appears out of no-where)
Gareth: So, what's an elf?
David: Do you want to answer that?
Man: An elf is a supernatural being. Sometimes they're invisible, like fairies.
David: They don't actually exist, do they? In real life?
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
...every single one of John Titor's predictions came true.
more to come..
What about the Dudes who figured out how to filter cheap Vodka to make it semi drinkable?
That's gotta count for something!
See previous "Hacking Vodka" article here on
So could the BBC create a webserver that the BBC couldn't crash?
Did you shoot it down or something?
Or maybe you stole the damn thing and have it sitting in your basement.
That's an awfully incriminating statement to make.
Unless it was Budweiser or some other cheap American-piss beer. Then we'd have to nuke the planet.
Finally, the final nail in the coffin of God! This'll shut those Christians up for sure.
If you look at the details of the discovery - the Hobbits lived with real life dragons, hunted minature oliphants and lived in the misty moutains, (plus the locals reputed name for the hobbits is a gaelic word that means trickery) it quickly becomes apparent that the whole thing is a hoax created to make Nature look stupid. Unfortunately, the editors at Nature weren't up on their Tolkien.
Sounds like the start of a new philosophical question!
If a tree falls in the forest while nobody's around, does it make a sound?
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
What's God's bandwidth?
What wouldn't Jesus do?!
he was no doubt confused by the lack of apostrophe's
"In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women..." -H. Simpson
I nominate:
"The one week in 2004 that passed without Micro$oft having to issue a security update".
Sorry, wrong department. You want 'Myths and Fantasies'. Down the hall and to the left.
"These laws they're passing won't even compile anymore, let alone execute." - anon
You can take a look to Science's cover to check it out.
Your head a splode