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  1. So what if I... on DHS Official Considered Shock Collars For Air Travelers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Put a piece of tin foil across the electrodes so it won't shock me? Or rewire so it won't shock me? But I mean can air travel really get anymore degrading?

  2. Great, just great on Working Towards an Eco-Friendly Fireworks Display · · Score: 1

    I just got back from shooting fireworks, by the lake that serves as the water source for where I live. Epic amounts of fireworks were set off near it also...

  3. Killer App on Poker Program Battles Humans In Vegas · · Score: 1

    Best application of AI ever

  4. Possible detrimental environmental effects... on Freeze On US Solar Plant Applications Lifted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Birds instantly cooked in mid air due to highly focused sunlight.

  5. Yeah right on Dial-Up Users "Don't Want Broadband" · · Score: 1

    And I don't want to drive a porsche.

  6. Not even close to accurate on A Video Game To Teach AP Level Immunology · · Score: 1

    Well it's not really even close to accurate, it looks like they aren't figuring in Brownian motion.

  7. Cork reentry shields on NASA to Launch Solar Sail · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Ah, sigh on NASA to Launch Solar Sail · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What do you mean? Wood has strength to weight ratio similar to that of carbon fiber, however wood is much cheap than carbon fiber. The main reason wood isn't used to build spacecraft is that wood is porous, but this might be solved by vacuum coating the wood with aluminum.

  9. Run protein folding on Cool/Weird Stuff To Do On a Cluster? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Protein folding really helps us biologists A LOT, so please run it. http://folding.stanford.edu/

  10. Run Crysis on high on Cool/Weird Stuff To Do On a Cluster? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You know you want to. Or you could evolve a bunch of virtual creatures on it: http://www.karlsims.com/evolved-virtual-creatures.html http://www.stellaralchemy.com/lee/vce3d_related_projects.html

  11. Re:UH... on First Image of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is moderated interesting because it is interesting it got moderated interesting.

  12. Re:Score on Twilight Hack Defeats Wii Menu Update 3.3 · · Score: 1

    No, because the hackers defeated Nintendo's defenses.

  13. Score on Twilight Hack Defeats Wii Menu Update 3.3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hackers- 1 Nintendo- 0

  14. A better name for this book on Hackerteen Volume 1: Internet Blackout · · Score: 1

    A Young Hacker's Primer.

  15. R.I.P. alt.pave.the.earth on Verizon Cutting Access To Entire Alt.* Usenet Hierarchy · · Score: 1

    I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of usenet memes cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. Many great and funny have just been lost forever to the great empty recycling bin. Let us remember these dead memes and maybe propagate them to another generation for their enjoyment. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.07/alt.pave.html

  16. You CAN power a car with water... on Japanese Company Says Laws of Physics Don't Apply — to Cars · · Score: 1

    without violating the laws of physics quite easily: you use falling water to turn a water wheel, you could heat the water up and extract heat from it, you could use capillary action, or you could use the evaporation of water as used in a drinking bird(releases 2.4 kj per mole of water evaporated, does not work on humid days).

  17. A much better option on What Shall We Do With the Moon Once We Get There? · · Score: 1

    PARTY HARD!

  18. I'm new around here... on HyperCard Comes Back From the Dead to the Web · · Score: 1

    Could someone please tell me what in the world Hypercards are?

  19. Re:CHROME THE MOON on New Method Discovered For Making Telescopes On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Congratulations you've just figured out how to get massive amounts of funding for space exploration, get rappers interested in it. You should work at NASA.

  20. Re:I want a degree in... on New Method Discovered For Making Telescopes On the Moon · · Score: 1

    You should read this paper then about self-replicating moon robots with lasers to make more robots. http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/aasm/ They could make pretty much anything up there, and shoot it to Earth, via giant coilguns.

  21. CHROME THE MOON on New Method Discovered For Making Telescopes On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Or they might just chrome the moon: http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/1380/crmoon.html

  22. Re:Auntie Mandy's No-Scan Panties on Full Body Scanners Installed In 10 US Airports · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will covering my self with Aluminium foil work? What about sewing in copper wire into my clothing? Or how about a spazy self-ironig suit, that has titanium thread woven into it?(marketed for travellers)

  23. Ewwww... on Full Body Scanners Installed In 10 US Airports · · Score: 2

    Gross.

  24. Silly human on Machine Prints 3D Copies Of Itself · · Score: 1

    Reprap could print our a generator and harness ambient energy: http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?1,11789

  25. Re:Toxic? on Machine Prints 3D Copies Of Itself · · Score: 1

    Actually reprap can print a variety of thermoplastics, PLA is being given preferential treatment though, because you can make it from plants. However, the best result so far are from ABS. Of course, reprap still needs support material before you can start pirating Warhammer figurines.