How Ice Melts

Killer Instinct writes "Ever wonder how ice melts? Until now, scientists could not explain why ice cubes in your drink melt. They've known the basics, but the details remained elusive. A breakthrough new study, announced yesterday, supports a leading theory that melting starts when the fundamental structure of matter begins to crack. Melting is considered a basic phenomenon in physics. An understanding of how it works is crucial to gaining a firm grasp on the physical world."

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Re:Anti-Cold

[NanoGator]

"Not really. But I have a hypothesis that it has something to do with heat or as I call it, "anti-cold."

I like how people bitch about the lack of 'news for nerds' on this site lately. Then, when something comes along that's truely nerd worthy, everybody becomes a smart ass.

Killer Instinct is Robert Roy Britt?

[Osty]

From the article submission:

Until now, scientists could not explain why ice cubes in your drink melt. They've known the basics, but the details remained elusive. A breakthrough new study, announced yesterday, supports a leading theory that melting starts when the fundamental structure of matter begins to crack. Melting is considered a basic phenomenon in physics. An understanding of how it works is crucial to gaining a firm grasp on the physical world.

And from the actual article itself:

Until now, scientists could not explain why ice cubes in your drink melt. They've known the basics, but the details remained elusive.

A breakthrough new study, announced today, supports a leading theory that melting starts when the fundamental structure of matter begins to crack.

Melting is considered a basic phenomenon in physics. An understanding of how it works is crucial to gaining a firm grasp on the physical world.

Those look pretty similar to me! Given that the article submission is word-for-word exactly from the article itself, it's fair to assume that the submitter, Killer Instinct, is the same person as the author of the article, Robert Roy Britt. How else could the same text be attributed to two supposedly different people?

If you're going to submit an article, summarize it in your own words. If you're just going to paste in the first few sentences of the article, attribute them to the proper author by using a phrase such as, "Quoted from the article: 'insert quote here'." Removing line breaks is not enough to satisfy the "summarize in your own words" criteria.

Here's an example of what the submission should've looked like if Slashdot cared at all about given proper attribution for written text:

Killer Instinct writes "Ever wonder how ice melts? From the article: 'Until now, scientists could not explain why ice cubes in your drink melt. They've known the basics, but the details remained elusive. A breakthrough new study, announced yesterday, supports a leading theory that melting starts when the fundamental structure of matter begins to crack. Melting is considered a basic phenomenon in physics. An understanding of how it works is crucial to gaining a firm grasp on the physical world.'"

How, not why

[thomasdn]

Until now, scientists could not explain why ice cubes in your drink melt.

Scientists does not explain why things happen. Only how.