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  1. Re:If my calculations are correct... on Cell Phones Don't Increase Chances of Brain Cancer · · Score: 1

    maybe the rate of detection went up the last 30 years? now we have mri, pet, spect, ct-scans, and other ways of looking inside a person's brain and noticing tumors that otherwise would just have been diagnosed as "he had a stroke" or wouldn't have caused death. (sometimes tumors stop growing and you can live long enough to die of something else)

  2. Re:extremes on Cell Phones Don't Increase Chances of Brain Cancer · · Score: 1

    Irrelevant. If you heat up your brains so much that they start to cook, cancer is not your biggest problem.

  3. Re:First infinite loop.... on Programmable Quantum Computer Created · · Score: 1

    actually that's not an infinite loop. you can actually get both position and velocity of a particle.
    the result of getPhotonPosition() and getPhotonVelocity() just has to be a function, not a single number...

    So you could get for example two gaussian functions as result. And then you use some fuzzy logic.

    PS: the velocity of a photon is often the speed of light (in vacuüm)

  4. Re:Cinematic Neurosis on NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears · · Score: 1

    This illness has been documented here:
    here

  5. Re:Syfy (please no) on US Navy Was Ordered To Listen For Martian Broadcast · · Score: 2, Funny

    SyFy must be written by syentists.

  6. preciousss on The Monrovian Analog Blogger · · Score: 1

    every morning you wake up at the Crack of Doom?

  7. any statement made is assumed to be false unless on In Britain, Better Not Call It Bogus Science · · Score: 1

    "any statement made is assumed to be false unless you prove it's true."
    So why don't the chiropractic dudes have to prove the claim that their chiropraticic stuff works? Why isn't THEIR claim assumed to be false unless they prove it's true? ...

  8. Re:Flying Car on Has the Rate of Technical Progress Slowed? · · Score: 1

    And to illustrate that: take a look at this youtube movie about '24' with technology from 1994: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLH_QyPTYM

  9. Re:food on NASA To Team Up With Russia For Future Mars Flight · · Score: 1

    Actually, french fries were invented in Belgium.

  10. Re:Very cool, but... on Using Sound Waves For Outpatient Neurosurgery · · Score: 1

    the manufacturer MAKES the machine, so they kinda know how much it cost them to develop... It costs a lot: first you need people who do a lot of theoretical work, then you need to develop a lot of new materials (for better scintillators, photomultipliers, magnetic coils, ...), then you need to actually produce these things, with all these state-of-the-art materials that you just invented...

  11. Re:nobody cares? on Delete Data On Netbook If Stolen? · · Score: 1

    my point was that
    IF you make someone more motivated to break into something, the probability is higher that he WILL try to break into it, instead of just wiping immediately.

  12. Re:Lobotomies on Using Sound Waves For Outpatient Neurosurgery · · Score: 1

    so you thing cutting open a skull and tying the pieces back together with pieces of strings is NOT messier than just destroying the tumor without any skull saws?

  13. Re:130 Fahrenheit... on Using Sound Waves For Outpatient Neurosurgery · · Score: 1

    326K is bigger than 130F

    and a degree Celcius or Kelvin is a waaay bigger difference than a degree Fahrenheit, so Celvius degrees are bigger, stronger, and more powerful than you weak empire units! hah!

  14. Re:How brain surgery is done these days. on Using Sound Waves For Outpatient Neurosurgery · · Score: 1

    his calculation is correct:
    (2.15443469mm) = 10 mm

    i think you confuse 10 cubic millimeters (10 mm) with a "cubic 10 millimeters" (1cm = 1000 mm)

  15. Re:Very cool, but... on Using Sound Waves For Outpatient Neurosurgery · · Score: 1

    Q: "But don't they price these machines like this? As in, without this machine, it generally costs about X to deal with the problem (all inclusive), and this machine will deal with the problem faster and safer, therefore we will charge an amount so it will cost say X + 10%." A: "No." Q: "'No,' you say?? But... how...??" A: "They divide the total cost of the machine during it's live, and then divide that by the expected number of patients it will treat, and use that as a starting point for the price"

  16. Re:Very cool, but... on Using Sound Waves For Outpatient Neurosurgery · · Score: 1

    --> CTRL+F --> "Denmark" --> Phrase not found

    the Netherlands is where Dutchies live

  17. Re:I can see... on Using Sound Waves For Outpatient Neurosurgery · · Score: 2, Funny

    no it DOESN'T! what you need is some earplugs, that 'll keep those acoustic waves out of your head.

  18. Re:Awesome on Using Sound Waves For Outpatient Neurosurgery · · Score: 2, Informative

    blood carries away heat, but not instantly.
    if you can add the heat in 1/100 of a second, and it takes the blood a second to get rid of this heat...

  19. Re:nobody cares? on Delete Data On Netbook If Stolen? · · Score: 1

    but if the thief thinks there might be credit card numbers or passwords in it, he WILL be more interested in getting the data, and therefore in trying to access his documents, instead of just erasing everything. YOU know you don't have interesting documents and don't cache non-SSL pages,but THE THIEF doesn't know that...

  20. Re:What a f**king dick on Galactic Origin For 62M-Year Extinction Cycle? · · Score: 1

    but why would they rotate the disk if the sun is rotating around the disk?

  21. Re:Still suits next? on Frank Herbert's Moisture Traps May Be a Reality · · Score: 1

    An acre is an area that is one furlong long and one chain (22 yards) wide.
    So a furlong is obviously the length you get by dividing an acre by 1 chain. 1 chain = 100 links and a link is 7.92 inches So you're right, i made a mistake. A furlong is actually twice as long as i thought it was. So you need to double the result above: => about 80 gallons of water in the furlong of air over an acre of land for a humidity of 40%.

  22. Re:Still suits next? on Frank Herbert's Moisture Traps May Be a Reality · · Score: 1

    i just assumed it was 'pretty warm' in Colorado, and used that in my calculation.

  23. Re:Still suits next? on Frank Herbert's Moisture Traps May Be a Reality · · Score: 5, Funny

    (forgot the line breaks)

    Only a gallon of water over an acre of land? I doubt it.

    I'm not really used to the Imperial System, but I'll try my best to do the calculation in it.
    1 acre = "how much a man with an ox can manage in 1 day"
    1 gallon = "1 eights of a bushel"
    1 bushel = "the volume of a pile of wheat which weighs 64 tower pounds"
    1 tower pound = "5400 troy grains"
    1 troy grain = "64.79891 milligrams"
    1 quart = "a quarter of a gallon"
    density of wheat = 950 000 karat / hogshead
    average humidity in Colorado = 40%

    assume a humidity of 40%, and you get about 40 gallons of water in the furlong of air over an acre of land. A quart doesn't really seem to make that much of a difference.

  24. Re:Still suits next? on Frank Herbert's Moisture Traps May Be a Reality · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only a gallon of water over an acre of land? I doubt it. I'm not really used to the Imperial System, but I'll try my best to do the calculation in it. 1 acre = "how much a man with an ox can manage in 1 day" 1 gallon = "1 eights of a bushel" 1 bushel = "the volume of a pile of wheat which weighs 64 tower pounds" 1 tower pound = "5400 troy grains" 1 troy grain = "64.79891 milligrams" 1 quart = "a quarter of a gallon" density of wheat = 950 000 karat / hogshead average humidity in Colorado = 40% assume a humidity of 40%, and you get about 40 gallons of water in the furlong of air over an acre of land. A quart doesn't really seem to make that much of a difference.

  25. Re:Someone check my math on Inflatable Tower Could Climb To the Edge of Space · · Score: 1

    could also be 20 tons per square meter if it is supported by the entire surface of the circle. it kinda depends if the walls of the tower are 1m or 115 meters thick.