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  1. How much will it cost me? on NASA's Next Frontier: Growing Plants On the Moon · · Score: 1

    How much will it cost me if I want to buy one of those turnip?

  2. Re:Relying exclusively on electronic technology on RAF Pilots Blinded At 1000 Mph By Helmet Technical Glitch · · Score: 1

    Edmonton, Alberta, Canada had pilot less suburb trains in 1981, maybe before.

    I agree with your questioning since I have seen so many times on TV major civilian carrier planes crashing because of pilot errors. Some pilots had 30 years+ of flying experience but they fucked-up due to lack of training with new technologies more often than new technologies screwed up.

    RAF pilots on principle shouldn't be taken as bozos although, like in the civilian cases I have reviewed but who knows?

  3. Re:Always take a bomb on the plane on RAF Pilots Blinded At 1000 Mph By Helmet Technical Glitch · · Score: 1

    yep +1 funny

  4. Re:Relying exclusively on electronic technology on RAF Pilots Blinded At 1000 Mph By Helmet Technical Glitch · · Score: 1

    kudos to you. You are a smart being.

  5. Re:I use Verizon FIOS on Ask Slashdot: Good Satellite Internet For Remote Locations? · · Score: 1

    It would be more efficient to set up a tin can network with many relays:

    Tin can telecom:
    http://www.darsha.org/?cat=9

  6. Re:rsync? on Ask Slashdot: Simple Backups To a Neighbor? · · Score: 1

    I think we do something equivalent in another case. Does rsyncable gzip rings a bell?

    https://beeznest.wordpress.com/2005/02/03/rsyncable-gzip/

  7. Re:rsync? on Ask Slashdot: Simple Backups To a Neighbor? · · Score: 1

    Definitely rsync. I backup 500 GB of data over slow links to remote locations. Granted, it might take you a couple weeks to set the first remote images but after that, it only takes a few minutes to update the images.

    Don't forget to use the backup dir options to keep a copy of deleted files or files that have changed. You can deleted them after a while. I delete them after 14 weeks.

    Use cigwin and rsync under Windows, for Mac, look at:
    https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/20983/arrsync

  8. Relying exclusively on electronic technology on RAF Pilots Blinded At 1000 Mph By Helmet Technical Glitch · · Score: 5, Informative

    Relying exclusively on electronic technology introduce a single point of point of failure. Fly by wires, car ecu etc.

    Not being able to fall back to some kind of manual mechanical control introduces all kinds of vulnerabilities. Whether it is a glitch in the software, solar flares, aliens or something else ;-)

    http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/10/29/208205/toyotas-killer-firmware

    http://www.ecutesting.com/toyota.html

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/8026971/Aliens-have-deactivated-British-and-US-nuclear-missiles-say-US-military-pilots.html

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly-by-wire
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_control_unit

  9. Re: Will we move to Mars by then? ;) on How Earth's Biosignature Will Change As the Planet Dies · · Score: 1

    Exactly, not to mention Jupiter is classified as a gas giant primarily composed of hydrogen. So indeed, not that many planets are suitable even with life support like it would be required on a moon base.

    Even staying on a moon for a while might screw you up due to low gravity. Astronauts that come back from a reduced time International Space Station mission lose bone mass and it can take them up to 6 months to recover it when they come back to Earth.

    I guess life support would have to provide artificial gravity which is possible with a centrifugal device.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_gravity

  10. Re:Bad subject word choice... "Exoplanet Count Pea on Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000 · · Score: 0

    Just because you do not know many entities following my "standard" doesn't mean there isn't many following it. So yes, like it or not, it is a standard.

    Your argument sounds like my father is stronger than yours. Please go meditating a bit.

    What you perceive as realty is more than often an illusion. Get along with it.

  11. Re: Flags on Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000 · · Score: 1

    I didn't want to mix topics, but next time I talk to that E.S. bastard, I am sure he could do something for me to keep my sig relevant.

  12. Re:Bad subject word choice... "Exoplanet Count Pea on Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000 · · Score: 1

    I am all about parsing and this is no lies.

  13. Re:Flags on Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000 · · Score: 1

    Poor ACs, please read my sig.

  14. Re: Flags on Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000 · · Score: 1

    Didn't you read my sig?

  15. Re:Headline is misleading on Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000 · · Score: 1

    Do you have any other reference for that?

    Nope you have to look to look into yourself and decide if you take my words for it. Interesting challenge, isn't it?

  16. Re:Bad subject word choice... "Exoplanet Count Pea on Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000 · · Score: 1

    Fuck mainstream. Didn't you notice where it got us so far? There is only one truth and many realties in realty.

  17. Re:Flags on Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000 · · Score: 1

    Then, as far as I am concerned, you may be a different AC than the 2 different ACs I was replying to. To make things clearer, that would be 3 different ACs total ;-)

  18. Re:Bad subject word choice... "Exoplanet Count Pea on Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000 · · Score: 1

    I am perfectly aware of the mainstream signification of "peaks". I am an actuarian amongst other things.

  19. Re:Bad subject word choice... "Exoplanet Count Pea on Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000 · · Score: 1

    Very good point, I will work on that and get back to you if you volunteer. Be aware that you would be getting into a lot so you have to be mentally prepared.

    Cheers,

  20. Re:Bad subject word choice... "Exoplanet Count Pea on Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000 · · Score: 0

    ok Sockatume, last explanation. After, I am off to work in some fancy bunker.

    For a new born, it might seem like a peak. For somebody who has lived a thousand years, it is nothing new.

    I sincerely wish you an happy experience as a new born spirit. That's what makes human so compelling.

  21. Re:Bad subject word choice... "Exoplanet Count Pea on Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000 · · Score: 0

    Come on Sockatume.

    Enough or else I"ll send some men in black to make you shut up.

  22. Re:Bad subject word choice... "Exoplanet Count Pea on Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000 · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily, I could an emissary sent to make you better overall.

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4366765&cid=45210271

  23. Re:Bad subject word choice... "Exoplanet Count Pea on Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000 · · Score: 0

    You got the meanings of truth and realty mixed up according to my standard but then again, I understand what you're saying...

    See? It ain't that hard.

    Realty is more often than you wished an illusion while there is only one truth.

  24. Re:Flags on Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000 · · Score: 1

    what's so great about planting flags? Scientifically it has no value.

    Agreed.

  25. Re:Bad subject word choice... "Exoplanet Count Pea on Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000 · · Score: 0

    Any word you use relates to your own realty, which might be far from what is going in truth. Do I make myself clear enough?