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  1. The New Species of Whale Eats sharks on New Whale Species Unearthed In California Highway Dig · · Score: 0

    So we know why it became extinct, it choked on the lasers.

  2. Re:Maybe useful for other things, but... on ATLAS Meteor Tracking System Gets $5M NASA Funding · · Score: 1

    yes we were very lucky, that russian didn't mistake the meteor impact, for a us attack, that could have been world war three right there.

  3. Reading News Feeds on Ask Slashdot: Really Short Time Wasters? · · Score: 1

    I Reading News Feeds from www.feeddistiller.com, for each subject i'm interested in, i tend to filt about to different subjects on different days. If i come up with a subject that's not there, i add it, only takes a minute to add a subject there, because of a funky google mash up to find rss and atom feeds.

  4. Re: It's ok on Experience the New Slashdot Mobile Site · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Posting from my phone. Works ok with android!

  5. Silicon already better on Swiss Federal Lab Claims New World Record For Solar Cell Efficiency · · Score: 1
    Commercial silicon cells from SunPower already get 21% efficiency, the article gives a record for very specific for the type of thin film cell, which is by no means the most efficient in practice.

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    Solar Power Feed @ Feed Distiller

  6. Re:What the what what? on Worldwide Shortage of Barium · · Score: 1
    Barium is not a rare earth metal, its a Group 2 element, in the same column of the periodic table as calcium.

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    Chemistry Feed @ Feed Distiller

  7. Re:BS on Blue, Not Red: Did Ancient Mars Look Like This? · · Score: 1
    If Mars ever had chlorophyl containing life, it would have left and oxygen atmosphere which Mars hasn't got. The above AC is right Mars went dry after its first billion years or so, probably some time before earth evolved oxygen producing planet life.

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    Planet Mars Feed @ Feed Distiller

  8. So many games on PC Games To Watch For In 2013 · · Score: 1
    Thats is indeed a long compressive list, more games than i can remember, and more than made my feed

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    3D Shooter Games Feed @ Feed Distiiler

  9. Re:around coliseum in rome streets? on FIA Adds Rome To Formula E 2014 Inaugural Season · · Score: 1
    Electric Vehicles can quite simply to engineered for high speed, the higher the voltage on the motor the faster it goes, simple. The only additional consideration is cooling the motor. Batteries can easierly be made ultra thin and stacked to high voltage, enabling very high speed electric cars.

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    Motor Racing Feed @ Feed Distiller

  10. I'm in on The Rise of Paid Wikipedia Consulting · · Score: 1

    How much do i have to pay to get a complementing article about an fifth force between neutrinos in physics.

  11. Re:Bacon! on Man Pays For Cross-Country Trip Using Bacon As Currency · · Score: 1

    not when the price is £800.

  12. Beginning of the end for driving jobs. on California To License Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm expect a lot of political trouble from trucking unions etc. Driving is many peoples livelihoods.

  13. Re:and this validates many aging tests on Radioactive Decay Apparently Influenced By the Sun · · Score: 1

    approximately 1% variation per year that cancels year on year, so no change to carbon dating.

  14. Re:Why is the effect so small if due to flux? on Radioactive Decay Apparently Influenced By the Sun · · Score: 1

    Sometimes the decay is spontenous, and sometimes caused by impact of solar neutrinos. The spontenous decay would mask the effect somewhat. Only the effect on neutrino absorbtion would vary as the distance from the sun.

  15. Re:Old mystery explained. on Curiosity Rover Fires First Laser Beam At Martian Rock · · Score: 1

    get no good reaction!

  16. Re:I want to buy that rock on Curiosity Rover Fires First Laser Beam At Martian Rock · · Score: 1

    All article alluding to Pu-236 will be rated weopens grade.

  17. Re:Bagger 288 on Curiosity Rover Fires First Laser Beam At Martian Rock · · Score: 2

    No how long before we get Sharks on Mars. We got the lasers now we need the shark!

  18. Re:Landing will never work on Curiosity Lands On Mars · · Score: 1

    Big Cheers to NASA, hip hip hooray!

  19. Re:Detection tank on Neutrino-Powered Financial Trading In Our Future? · · Score: 1

    Yes, even for a powerful, directed beam of neutrinos, it big tanks of water, a photomultiplier tubes to detect.

  20. Re:IMHO gravity neutrinos on Neutrino-Powered Financial Trading In Our Future? · · Score: 1

    hmm, yes mass and energy are same thing, but that c squared factor means you don't get much gravity per Joule. How much energy have you got in one of those capacitors, yes the electricity moves fast, at the 1/3 c. But if you want a gravity of detectable quantities, i think you'd be better off wiggling a massive object quickly.

  21. Its the graphics stupid on Ask Slashdot: Are The Days of Homebrew Gaming Over? · · Score: 2
    Writing a computer game hasn't really got much more difficult, but the standard of graphics is constantly improving, without an easy way to produce the stacks of graphics needed by a modern computer game, the home brew developer is stuck produce games that are further and further behind the curve of professional game development.

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    Retrogames Feed @ Feed Distiller

  22. Re:WTF is ITER? on Senate Bill Raises Possibility of Withdrawl From ITER As Science Cuts Loom · · Score: 1

    ITER is the international fusion reaction reaction, its being built over the next 8 years in the south of france, and should hold a mixture of tritium and deutrium gases at a hot enough temperature and high enough pressure to generate more fusion power output than the electricity need to create the plasma, ITER should run consistantly in the breakeven range of fusion power. That said, scientists and not created a system for extracting the energy from the plasma yet, and true energy generation is left from the next reactor after ITER, currently called DEMO, which should demonstrate useful power generation to the electricity grid. ITER is the successor to JET the joint european torus which was the first reaction to show breakeven energy generation.

  23. That should read on How Google Is Becoming an Extension of Your Mind · · Score: 1

    How google has made a generation forget how to use book indices. How Calculators mean the mental arithmetic is disappearing from the average person. Hope that extra mind space isn't just used to remember brand names and apps!

  24. Re:To put that in perspective on Record Setting 500 Trillion-Watt Laser Shot Achieved · · Score: 1

    Or more precisely, Enough to Boil 1.85 /2.2 = .78 Litres of already hot enough to Boil Water

  25. Cart and Horse. on Nobel Laureate Wiped From Pakistan's Textbooks As Heretic · · Score: 1

    Quantum electrodynamics came first, you can hardly unify QED, QCD and the weak force, before QED been inverted. Actually Dr Adbus Salam with Steven Weinberg and Sheldon_Glashow , unified QED with the weak force. Grand unification hasn't been done correctly, although alams model with Jogesh Pati, SU(4) by SU(2)_left by SU(2)_right by U(1), is still very well regarded as a potential grand unification model.