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The Top 5 Technology Panics of 2009

Posted by timothy on from the top-five-beats-top-10-hands-down dept.

destinyland writes "An A.I. researcher lists the Top 5 Technology Panics of 2009 — along with the corresponding reality. There's exploding iPods, the uproar over 'bombing' the moon, and even a flesh-eating robot. But in each case, he supplies some much-needed perspective. 'These incidents are incredibly rare ... the rocket stage weighs around two tons, while the Moon weighs in at a 73,477,000,000,000,000,000 tons... and desecration of the dead is against the laws of war — and plant matter is a much better fuel source anyway.'"

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  1. Weight... by itedo · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You cannot weigh the moon, this is nonsense.

    "The mass of the moon is 7,35E22 kg" sounds correctly to me - which is determined by the Newton's law of gravity.

    ... 73,477,000,000,000,000,000 tons

    Which uncertainty? Is it EXACTLY 7,3477E19 tons?!

    Sounds like a "journalist" wrote this article ... Please feel free to discuss or correct me if I'm wrong ... *sigh*

  2. Re:There's an app for that! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Haha, take that you fucktarded racist cracker! You lost out on your fucking flamebait mod and got a measly redu7ndant mod. Why don't you do humanity a fucking favor and down a nice, tall cold glass of fucking bleach.

  3. No one has Global Warming on here either... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Global Warming is green-speak for 'Technology is bad - stop it!'

    You could see at Copenhagen that none of the Greens were interested in generating CO2-free energy, they wanted a tax on ALL energy. If this isn't the biggest technological scare, I don't know what is....