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  1. Re:I broke the Universial Speed Limit! on Online Forum Speeding Boast Leads To Conviction · · Score: 1

    So you were basically driving backwards very slowly.

  2. Re:Why was it cold in Apollo 13 ? on Astronauts To Repair Cooling System On ISS · · Score: 1

    Correct, noting that they didn't freeze solid in minutes, the craft slowly cooled down and there were still survivable temperatures inside after days.

  3. Re:Open a windows on Astronauts To Repair Cooling System On ISS · · Score: 1

    Only matter has a temperature. Radiation has not, although absorbtion of radiation can cause an elevation in temperature of matter and matter can radiate heat and cool down that way. An uninsulated space suit in a vacuum wouldn't feel very cold on the inside as long as the suit doesn't touch anything on the outside.

  4. Re:Gay Floating Things on Astronauts To Repair Cooling System On ISS · · Score: 1

    What does gay mean nowadays? long ago: cheerful not so long ago: homosexual nowadays: ???

  5. Re:Open a windows on Astronauts To Repair Cooling System On ISS · · Score: 2, Informative

    A vacuum has no temperature.

  6. Re:Yes on Does Anyone Really Prefer Glossy Screens? · · Score: 1

    females with a libido???????

  7. Re:Shenanigans! on Arrests For Selling Poison-Ware In Spain · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is a story of Henry Ford sending out employees to look on the salvage yards for Ford cars and write down wich parts would still be in excellent shape. If that happend too often for a certain part he knew he could use cheaper materials for that part in new cars.

  8. Re:Institutionalized reckless driving, my favorite on Anti-Speed Camera Activist Buys Police Department's Web Domain · · Score: 1

    After speeding one is standing still or driving safe speeds. So you're right, one way or the other!

  9. Re:The truth about caffeine on Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline · · Score: 1

    no problem getting excellent beer either then :)

  10. Re:well GREAT on Caffeine Addicts Get No Additional Perk, Only a Return To Baseline · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia, dentists visit you!

  11. Re:Just $2.2 Billion? on Japan Plans Moon Base Built By Robots For Robots · · Score: 1

    Dust is only a problem in an atmosfere.. In a vacuum it just drops on the ground just as fast an any rock.

  12. That's no moon! on Japan Plans Moon Base Built By Robots For Robots · · Score: 1

    and Greedo schoots first................. hmm that sounds odd somehow........

  13. Re:Almost no head on Reproducing an Ancient New World Beer · · Score: 1

    Hmmm, yes, Of all the girlfriends I had, only the ones with a penis liked giving head. Weird...

  14. Re:CVT is not new on Inventor Demonstrates Infinitely Variable Transmission · · Score: 1

    Since 1959 to be precise.

  15. Hmmm, funghi! on Bio-Detector Scans For 3,000 Viruses and Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Thanks, now I'm hungry..... you insensittive clod

  16. Re:Wow on Scientist Uses Nanodots To Create 4Tb Storage Chip · · Score: 1

    In fact, alloy wheels are often made of magnesium.

  17. Re:Soviet vs. American engineering on Looking Back at 1984 Report On "Radical Computing" · · Score: 1

    The west didn't win the cold war. The east just stopped playing a game that could not be won.

  18. Re:BUB on Largest Sodium Sulfur Battery Powers a Texas Town · · Score: 1

    To get enough current throught your body to kill yourself with 9 volts you'd have to lower the internal electrical resistance of your body an order of magnitude. I wouldn't know how to do that. Maybe it would work for baby's.

  19. Re:BOBs are probably safer underground on Largest Sodium Sulfur Battery Powers a Texas Town · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wet being the other

  20. Re:Checks?! on Coming Soon, Smartphone-Based Banking · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I haven't seen a checque since the mid nineties

  21. Re:False Dichotomy on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    Isn't everyone nude under their clothes?

  22. Re:repurpose, refill on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    Except that modern day cartridges have chips in them that tell the printer it's empty even if you just filled it.

  23. Japan wants to microwave Earth?? on Japan Eyes Solar Station In Space · · Score: 1

    I thought we were trying to get rid of global warming. but Might be interesting sight if they point that thing on a cornfield.

  24. Re:Aha! Time for my favorite indie design this yea on Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best? · · Score: 1

    Looks awesome. But my browser warns that it requires extra plugins.

  25. Re:This kind of upsets me on Iraq Swears By Dowsing Rod Bomb Detector · · Score: 1

    Cars, trucks, powerplants, home heating, can all run on natural gas of wich my western country has plenty. And Shell is already making diesel fuel out of natural gas. And then there is bio diesel. And nuclear, wind, solar and salt/sweet water mixing alternatives for electricity.