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  1. Truly, it's insightful on A Website with Real Science News? · · Score: 1

    I dont' get much in print besides that and Parabola.

  2. Re:Ditto + whole-house plant water system on What Would Be Your Ideal Futuristic Home? · · Score: 1

    Yea, this is close to my pre-empted post - though I would want low-pro 'plumbing' throughout the house to run to plants. Each water port should have its flow individually controlled. A wiring system should be able to receive data from a moisture sensor in each pot, to adaptvely water plants per their need.

    Kind of like what I'm tinking together slowly - but I'd buy it from someone =)

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  3. Re:I wonder on Spaceport Singapore · · Score: 1

    That is "Why build one when you can BUY two for twice the price"

  4. numbers game on Science 'Not for Normal People' · · Score: 1

    What percetage of the surveyed teenagers, demographically, go on to become scientists? If the answer is around 30% then that is the 30% who *did not* dissassociate themselves from scientists by saying that scientists were 'really brainy people.'

  5. Cancer == Colds == Weak Immunity == Stress==Cancer on Colds May Trigger Childhood Cancers · · Score: 1

    And given that colds happen through a weakened immune system, the latter of which can be shown to be caused by stress, we could therefore deduce that Cervical Cancer can be caused by stress.
     
    <Gong!>
     
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  6. Re:It's not all on us... on Myths Help Geologists Understand Modern Threats · · Score: 1

    "For the same reason" that you couldn't read read a 5 1/4" floppy today (arcane knowledge aside). Most English speakers have a hard time reading their own language from a few hundered years ago. Grow a cortex...

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  7. Re:PDF Warning! on Stiffer Penalties for Copyright Violations · · Score: 1

    You seem to have missed the subtelcommunication....

  8. PDF Warning! on Stiffer Penalties for Copyright Violations · · Score: 1

    Alert! Alert! PDF off the starboard socket! Load the drivers! Batten down your psyches! Warning! WARNING!!
     
    ...... couldn't have just printed [PDF] as an added curteousy for those that don't regularly check the status bar before clicking links. I might have put a similar suggestion there for a baby-boomer that is afraid of breaking their computer hardware through mis-use of a software program ... but come on,this is /.

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  9. Spaceballs on Canadians Plan to Build World's Biggest Telescope · · Score: 1

    How bout "Ludicrously Large Telescope" for no other reason that the Spaceballs reference
     
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  10. Re:Aluminium Reality or Aluminum Realty? on Transparent Aluminum a Reality · · Score: 1

    "I cannot respect any man who can only think of a single way to spell a word"
    U.S. President Andrew Jackson

  11. Re:how do we "treat" this problem? on Pillows Dangerous for Your Health · · Score: 1

    Try looking into Chinese Medicine's analysis of 'night sweats' and the resting of the wei chi at night. You may have excess heat in the lungs.

  12. Re:NO DADDY NO on ESA Selects Targets for Asteroid Deflection Test · · Score: 2, Funny

    Man, I am so tired of hearing peopel say there is no noise from an explosion in a vaccuum. Have you every HEARD an explosion in outer space? NO, you've never even been there and no one has even SEEN something blow up in outer space - so dont' tell me you *know* it doens't make noise....
     
    .[/joke]
     
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  13. Latin for "allyour base..." on Origen 360 Revealed in Less Than 12 Hours · · Score: 1

    I think they would have gained much more community credentials and facvor in the long run if the phrase would have been Latin for "All your base are belong to us." This stuff they put up there comes across as trite
     
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  14. Re:So the real question is... on Earth's Core Spins Faster than Earth · · Score: 1

    Naturally, it woudl ahve to be a left-handed through, given the recent findings about cosmic radiation!
     
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  15. Re:Can it even work? on Reintroduce Megafauna to North America? · · Score: 1

    What if the extinction of some species causes that "cure" species to evolve to fill the niche?

    Let's stop the ecological guessing games.

     
    Hmmm..... that you asked a questions seems like you're guessing as well.....
     
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  16. A bit of grand-standing on Japanese Researchers Develop Sensor Skin · · Score: 1

    "It will be possible in the near future to make an electronic skin that has functions that human skin lacks," the researchers write in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

    Future artificial skins could incorporate sensors not only for pressure and temperature, but also for light, humidity, strain or sound, they add.

     
    Huh, last time I checked my skin can detect light, humidity, strain and sound fluctuations. When I'm more relaxed, I actually have a fairly broad range of sensitivity.
     
    I'm all for new sensor tech, but they doesn't have to get stupid just to try to justify the value of their invention.
     
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  17. Re:I think that's just MS way on Apple Campus Missing From MSN Earth · · Score: 1

    It's a pity you were modded as a flame...

  18. Re:the server has folded up and dropped dead alrig on Fold 'n' Drop Window Interaction · · Score: 1

    Oh no! Pity we don't keeps copies!

  19. Re:Read around TFA on Grizzly-sized Catfish Caught in Thailand · · Score: 1

    "Thai fisheries officials had hoped to release this adult male Mekong giant catfish after they stripped it of milt for a captive-breeding program. But the whopping fish, which was as big a grizzly bear, didn't survive."

    Unfortunatley, none of the articles I found have made it clear whether the fish would have survived had they not performed the milting procedure.

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  20. Re:Bottom Feeder on Grizzly-sized Catfish Caught in Thailand · · Score: 1

    I've heard of people finding (not small) car parts inside of large catfish after gutting them.

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  21. Why devote time to Install instructions? on How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL · · Score: 1

    One strength that this book has over many similar ones is that the author explains up front how to install PHP and MySQL, rather than relegating these topics to an appendix, or skipping them entirely

    Setup Instructions:
    1. Use an Apple Computer
    2. Download Aaron Faby's packages (and tip him a few bucks)
    3. Install (i.e. click 'continue' until the screens go away)

    Simple! .....but I guess I'm assuming a few things here...... =)

    is not difficult

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  22. Re:natural light on Space Ring Could Combat Global Warming · · Score: 1

    it seems unfortunate you were modded as funny instead of insightful or such

  23. Re:Why, you must be jok... oh - the same publish d on Newly Formed Solar System · · Score: 1

    Ok, sure. Seeing your modification, I'll let my initial point stand.

  24. Agreed on Archiving Digital History at the NARA · · Score: 1

    All too relevant.... Recording every minute detail of communication is not the way our brains work now, and doesn't even seem to be on the horizon for how our brains are going. Why in the world would we want to archive every little detail.

    Governmental psychosis is costly.

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  25. Why, you must be jok... oh - the same publish date on Newly Formed Solar System · · Score: 1

    It's a similarly nice coincidence that the system formed right around the same date that J.R.R. Tolkien published the Silmarillion - which was the mytho/historical context for Middle Earth and Lord of the Ring.

    It's also the same time that the LOtR trilogy was re-published, and subsequently gained most of its popularity.

    I am.... quite comfortable with this coincidence.

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