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  1. Re:When there is a will ... on American Pharoah Overcomes Biology To Win Triple Crown · · Score: 1

    The risk is killing the horse and the reward is all the money from studding him out. American Pharaoh will be milked for as much semen as possible and it will be sold off for a high premium.

  2. Re:Could you tell a difference at distance? on Stormtrooper Arrested · · Score: 1

    Stormtroopers are only foiled by plot armor and even then one shot Leia. They routinely stomp rebel troopers.

  3. Re:Who Cares? on How Does Musk's Government Funding Compare To Competitors? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There's a storyline going on right now.

    Musk is frequently portrayed as a great symbol of free enterprise. Someone likely got sick of this and looked into how much government money Musk's companies were receiving. That in turn generated this particular response to point out the fraction of government money that Musk's companies received compared to competitors.

  4. Re:But the tapwater lights on FIRE on EPA Says No Evidence That Fracking Has "Widespread" Impact On Drinking Water · · Score: 2

    It's a valid point. Gasland was a 2010 film, and like the catalyst that started the run of people lighting tap water on fire. One that that was discovered about the film was that the scene in which tap water was set on fire was in an area where residents had reported being able to light their tap water on fire in the 1930s. Even a 1976 study done in the area had shown high concentrations of methane in tap water. These are reports and studies done prior to the start of fracking. So yes, I would say it is appropriate to be skeptical of anyone claiming that fracking has caused their tap water to be able to be set on fire if the only time they did it was after fracking started.

  5. Re:Maybe but wouldn't geothermal be bettter? on EPA Says No Evidence That Fracking Has "Widespread" Impact On Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    Geothermal, but that's only if transportation can reasonably be brought off hydrocarbons and onto battery tech. Otherwise I'll take both.

  6. Re:The water was flammable decades... on EPA Says No Evidence That Fracking Has "Widespread" Impact On Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    Mr. Coward, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this website is now dumber for having read it. I award you no mod points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

  7. Re: Who is getting fired for this? on EPA Says No Evidence That Fracking Has "Widespread" Impact On Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    I don't think cocksucker is a term that works well in rational exchanges so we might as well pair the two together.

  8. Re:Who is getting fired for this? on EPA Says No Evidence That Fracking Has "Widespread" Impact On Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    argumentum ad logicam

  9. Re:This whole make your own gun is like the homebr on Making an AR-15 In the Wired San Francisco Office · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kids want to get drunk now, not in a month.

  10. Re:Modern Fallouts suck ass on Fallout 4 Announced · · Score: 1

    Bethesda didn't make New Vegas.

  11. Re:It's actually surprising... on Microsoft Bringing Cortana To iOS, Android · · Score: 1

    Whichever encourages the most self-loathing.

  12. Re:Hobbit on How To Die On Mars · · Score: 1

    Just launch all our garbage to Mars along with a bunch of trash compacting robots. Eventually one will build a city while behaving like a carrion cannibal.

  13. Re:North Pole on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 1

    Because choosing one of the valid locations that is not the north pole demonstrates knowledge of the "trick question" while simultaneously demonstrating decisiveness and boldness.

  14. Re:Been Done on New Chrome Extension Uses Sound To Share URLs Between Devices · · Score: 1

    I have a recollection of an article discussing hackers keylogging an airgapped PC by reading the EM signals generated by the keyboard impulses.

  15. Re:North Pole on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 1

    The question is very much correct. There's three tiers of answers that one can provide. The first and most trivial is the north pole. The second would be these rings of points around the south pole. The third and most correct answer is to specify one point in those rings around the south pole. The third answer demonstrates knowledge of the range of valid points while still specifying where you are.

  16. Re: Wrong on The Brainteaser Elon Musk Asks New SpaceX Engineers · · Score: 1

    It does not. You failed to answer the base question, "Where are you?" If you give a range of answers, which is what you are suggesting, then you don't know where you are only where you could be.

    The correct answer would be to arbitrarily select on of the points in a circle around the south pole. That demonstrates that you are aware that there are multiple answers but you at least decided where you are.

  17. Re:Super hero relative power co-efficients on Marvel's Female Superheroes Are Gradually Becoming More Super · · Score: 1

    I thought the best measurement was Multiple Men per second.

  18. Re:Not to worry on Four Quasars Found Clustered Together Defy Current Cosmological Expectations · · Score: 2

    That's a step above the level of pedantry he would have gone for.

  19. Re:What? on Learning About Constitutional Law With Star Wars · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Defund Amtrak NOW. on Feds Order Amtrak To Turn On System That Would've Prevented Crash · · Score: 1

    Why should I? The person I replied to claimed that Amtrak carried 1m passengers per day.

  21. Re:Problems on Wind Turbines With No Blades · · Score: 1

    Regardless of which end of the problem you focus on it's not prudent to build the windmills. Putting up a potential known hazard to an endangered species, regardless of if you're addressing the root causes is not a good way to help encourage population growth. The windmills being dangerous to condors is only a non-issue if the condor population is stabilized and healthy enough to not be considered endangered.

  22. Re:Defund Amtrak NOW. on Feds Order Amtrak To Turn On System That Would've Prevented Crash · · Score: 1

    1m per day isn't even remotely close to accurate. They did just shy of 31 million in a year. Just under 85,000 per day.

  23. Re:Missing new classification... on On the Taxonomy of Sci-Fi Spaceships · · Score: 1

    The Death Star had numerous squadrons of TIE Fighters. It just so happened they were all under the command of Tarkin who didn't believe the rebel snubfighters to be any concern. The TIE Fighters that were deployed against the Rebels were under Darth Vader's personal command as part of his bodyguard.

  24. Re:Fight! on Larson B Ice Shelf In Antarctica To Disintegrate Within 5 Years · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First comment modded redundant. What the fuck.

  25. Re:What? on How SpaceX and the Quest For Mars Almost Sunk Tesla Motors · · Score: 2

    Payroll is often met by taken loans. A $1.8bn contract from NASA would have presented sufficient collateral for Musk to get loans against.