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  1. Good luck! on Dell Recalls Millions of AC Adaptors · · Score: 1

    To the unlucky buyers. I wonder if that's why my company laptop's fan is always coming on?

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  2. Where's the discovery report? on Motion of the Primordial Universe Revealed · · Score: 1

    The artivel mentions nothing of the motion that is claimed in the Headline. Sure, it talks about what the results of their analysis of that motion is: support ofr Dark Matter and Dark Energy. Great. So what is this new understanding of motion they discovered.?

    Anthony Readhead.... says the new polarization results provide strong support for the standard model of the universe as a place in which dark matter and dark energy are much more prevalent than everyday matter.

    THank you Mr. Readhead, and now if we could have some more details, please.

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  3. It's called Evolution! on Chimps Use Tool Kit · · Score: 1

    A nifty theory - on that's being brought closer to proof here. Life is evolving. In time moneys will be able to communicate more clearly with us, too. Dogs and other critters will pick up a formal language renderable with humans as well.

    All life is getting smarter - surpirse!

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  4. Re:I'm Surprised on Spirit Rover Disabled on Mars · · Score: 1

    I always wondered why NASA didn't foresee these types of issues and BUILD IN workarounds, like little wipers for the solar panels

    Check it out, here's me talking out of my butt:

    'wipers' for the panels would have been made out of rubber, or some other semi-organic compound that could have carried microbes to Mars.

    .... of course, if you tell me the wheels are made of rubber then I don't have anything... Moreover, I'm sure you, I and the dozens of others that have thought of the 'wipers' scenario are not out-thinking NASA, and there's probably a FAQ somewhere.

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  5. Fermentation on Space Tourism is Off and Running · · Score: 1

    "Last one into space is a rotten egg!"

    and the fermentation of that egg will give birth to a new life here on Earth.

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  6. Go with the old stuff on High Tech Baby Monitoring? · · Score: 1

    Don't buy new synthetic fabrics and freshly paint a room in anticipation for your baby. The chemicals off-gassed by new polymers has been suggested to be linked with SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). The notion is that those chemcials are too much for the infant's system to handle.

    I know this is not related to baby monitoring systems overtly - but part of the reason baby monitoring systems were invented is because of SIDS. Several posters above have even commented about how low-res LCDs may fool one into believing thier baby is not moving/breathing. Why would a baby stop breathing? Because of SIDS.

    At this time of writing this I could only dig up this link to support the topic, but I know there are more properp journals. I think one of the researchers is named Richardson. For the record, crib-death was not so historically common across all demographics. it used to be associated mainly with the poor. What's the difference today? Plastics.

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  7. Re:Obvious on Vint Cerf and Others Form Advocacy Group · · Score: 2, Funny

    My friend's wife came up with an interesting proposition for the way this works. She called it "Lie Capital" and it is the notionwhen one group lies, it gives antithetical groups permission to do so as well. When the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth came out, the Kerry Campaign genrated a fair bit of Lie Capital to 'play the market' with. The Scientists and Engineers for Change is drawing from those coffers in order to act. In this model the SEC is drawing from Lie Capital coffers a bit less than the SBVFT because their sources are a bit more well documented (to the best of my knowledge).

    It would seem to involve quite a "Law of Conservation of Political Energy" as the trick is to take actions that float one's own campaign with out creating an accumulation of Lie Capital for your opponent - or perhaps to create a vector of Lie Capital that your opponent has blinded themselves to!

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  8. Re:BENEDICT ARNOLDS OF THE OPEN SOURCE MOVEMENT on India Launches World's First Education Satellite · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    what kind of weird FUD is this? Anybody?

  9. Exciting when collaborated on Tagging Photos With GPS Coordinates · · Score: 1

    This will be really exciting when very large quantities of people's images are brought together and the GPS data is used to make some crazy new kind of map / art / thing.

    BE!

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  10. Re:I do research all the time on Do Some Citizen Science · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wonderful.... so what are the results of your study. I'm not joking; please report.

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  11. Re:One use for Carbon Nanotubes: LUNG CANCER on World Record: Four-Centimeter-Long Carbon Nanotube · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Smoke is where the first place that buckyballs and nanotubes were discovered.

    Yes, and chornic smoke inhalation leads to lung cancer. So I take it that you were agreeing with original poster.

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  12. Re:Misleading on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 1

    Yea, I'm intereseted how this was modded to +4 Insightful. What notion does the poster have that the blast was *not* detected as a nuclear explosion? As others have said now too, do we expect that some military group would contact the press, letting them know all the details of how we know it was a nuke?

  13. Re:Am I the only one.... on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 1

    Or an international spy setup act intended to create a negative response toward them in the World Public's eyes. A public threat will be announced, bush will push the War President angle in the election under the auspices of "no doubt," and the crusade towward N. Korea will be on for the next 4 years.....

    What are Vegas odds on that one?

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  14. Re:i r korea kekekeke on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 1

    Wow - that's an incredibly obscure video game reference.... I hope someone mods this up

  15. Now the world *IS* black and white.... on Is Science Fiction About The Future Anymore? · · Score: 1

    'People are looking for a simplicity in their fictional worlds where good and evil are clearly delineated, that you can't find in the real world, and that provides an enormous comfort -- and that, I think, has an awful lot to do with the reason fantasy is so popular.'

    And now due to intensely aligned and "mono-" viewpoints the world is becoming more black and white. People (in the US, certainly) no longer need to escape into a story to see the world as good and evil, since we (our government) valiantly crusade out to smite the evils of the hinterlands.

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  16. Re:Pulic domain enforcement on Space Station Dogged By Oxygen Problems · · Score: 1

    And THIS is why there should be public domain repositories actively developped by governments, possibly along with mandatory escrow clauses for failed companies' IP. They would collect and index works that fall in the public domain ("This land is your land" anyone ?) as soon as possible, and maybe even buy exclusive rights of dying proprietary technology to make them open standards forever.

    Perhaps you've never worked around a specialist like this who oversees such information. I've worked with plastics compunders - so I have. I'd consider the level of awareness in these cases to go beyond "trade secret" and on to more a more obscure level of artisan awareness.

    Case in point, some of the plastics gurus I worked around would know complex details about the melt (the termal dynamics involved in forming a run of plastic) by taking a bead and BITING ON IT. No device that anyone has invented yet can determine as much about what happened "in flow" as a human can through their own developed senses.

    So here's the question to those that would like melt details like this in the public domain: how do we document it? Since the information is such an oral/haptic/experiential tradition, how do we teach it outside of Lineage of the Art? By the time we can quantify it we won't be in situations like the one this article is about.

    Once we can answer that I'll then ask the sociological and corporate trade secret questions like: Why should such artisans convey that knowledge before their time since it is one of the indellible job securities they have? Why should a company release taht info before it's closure since those kinds finesse details are what gives them a competative edge?

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  17. Re:sex, drugs, and video games. on Body and Brains of Gamers Probed · · Score: 1

    Quite - so from my perspective, if drugs are regulated then so should video games; and if video games are not regulated then neither should drugs.

    (Addiction is a disease you can pass on to your kids)

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  18. NOTE: Poorly Titled Article ! on Moving Water Molecules By Light · · Score: 1

    The novel effect here acutally has nothing to do with light. The 'breakthrough' is in the use of a specially formulated surfaced nano-wire that repels water better. This wire thus has a lower hysteresis, allowing the strenth of a beam of light to move a water droplet.

    A better articel title may have been "New nanotech surface allows light to manipulate water"

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  19. Re:shaking proteins until they go bad on Artificial Prion Created · · Score: 1

    Research the work of Masaru Emoto, who did research with motion of water and its ability to crystalize when frozen. With the kind of shaking I envision happening in a lab (rapid EM motor device) I'll extrapolate here that the motion and EM was non-conducive to liquid crystallization, which by Emoto's findings would promote biological dysfunction.

    Low energy is just as dangerous, if not more so, than high energy. The body's systems are not designed to use high energy, so there are filters to protect the system from it. Low energy is what the body runs on, so a 'lucky' piece of static can set bad things in motion. The curious may investigate LENR, which may catch on in our lifetimes.

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  20. Re:Shaking on Artificial Prion Created · · Score: 1

    Research the work of Masaru Emoto, who did research with motion of water and its ability to crystalize when frozen. With the kind of shaking I envision happening in a lab (rapid EM motor device) I'll extrapolate here that the motion and EM was non-conducive to liquid crystallization, which by Emoto's findings would promote biological dysfunction.

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  21. Re:Reality check - we don't know how to live in sp on More on Inflatable Space Hotels · · Score: 1

    That is a fascinating tidbit - if you can cite your reference I would appreicate it greatly.

    Off-hand, I'd be interested to see what the percentages & demographics are on the 60 ft figure. Are there those who are more sensitive? How sensitive?

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  22. Re:The New SETI@Hemisphere on BOINC Project to Search for Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    "Free your mind..." so it goes. If your brain is a quantum computer then it probably acts like a quantum/non-local antenna as well.

    They have been broadcasting for quite some time..... and they are waiting patiently for us to collectively tune in. Clarity will come in steps as resolution increases with coherence.

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  23. Re:Reality check - we don't know how to live in sp on More on Inflatable Space Hotels · · Score: 1

    On the visitor's bone mass.... little. On the bone mass of the maids, receptionists, managers, etc.... a big impact.

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  24. Welcome matrix/virtual escape realm ! on Japanese Schoolchildren to be Tagged with RFID · · Score: 1

    The ancient Egyptians would wrap the bodie sof the dead tightly in order that the soul would project out. A similar practice was performed with the living, so that when they dreamed their mind would travel to astral realms.

    If you watch every move someone makes and chain them (regardless how invisible the tether) some part of them will yearn for freedon and will escape. If kids cannot hide their body from their parents then they will hide their mind, allo wit to run amok social and virtual networks.

    To be academic abou it - it is by this same principle that artists are born from social ostracization.

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  25. Reality check - we don't know how to live in space on More on Inflatable Space Hotels · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This work will aid in the development of non-terrestrial ecosystems (which will likely be Living Machines), but we still don't have a solid way to combat bone density loss - and artificial gravity (rotational) systems won't always be feasible. They're great for orbit, but they such for travel. The human proprioceptice system is so sensitve that it can detect inertial differences in the frame of reference. There's probably few better ways to give your entire crew vertigo than to put their bodies into hibernation in a artifical gravity environment that's in motion!

    I'll post more as my grad studies develop ;)

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