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  1. Re:This is a big deal on Tiny Particle With No Charge Discovered · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not sure which particle your were thinking of but the axion was supposed to be really light, in the eV range, its the gravitino
    that is in the plancks (need a atom smasher as big as the solar system) mass range. String theory does have axions in it as well
    as stacks of light neutral particles called moduli. The article didn't say how they knew or why they thought that particle was an
    axion. The experiment found at light neutral particle with mass ~19 Mev (or maybe 7 Mev) that decays to electron positron pairs, they didn't say the had a spin measurement, if its not spin 0 with negative parity its definitely not an axion. Another experiment (PVLAS) last year found evidence a particle with mass in the milliEv range, that fits more with an axion. So maybe this is something
    else.

  2. Re:greater or lesser evil on Google Under Fire Over Racist Blogs · · Score: 1


    Either way its hardly googles job to decide what is acceptible or not. Thats is for
    courts to decide, and really the benefit off the doubt should be on the side of
    the writers right to speech. If you say you hate gnomes, (replace elf with whatever
    racial group), then thats an opinon, and you have a right to hold it. If you say
    all gnomes have AIDS, and some gnomes don't, then thats libel on a race, and you
    could be fairly sued for it.

  3. Re:Interesting. on England Starts Fingerprinting Drinkers · · Score: 1

    Prison doesn't really reduce crime.
        One of minister (i forget which one) went to prison,
    and when he come out, he give a fascinating discription
    of prison: Its a university for criminals, while there
    they learn and swap all sorts of ways to make a living
    from crime, and then once out, they a little chance
    for any normal work.

  4. Re:Who cares? on Definition of Planet to be Announced in September · · Score: 1

    "Intelligent life will not be using electromagnetic radiation to communicate over interstellar distances."

    There really isn't anything else (that we know about) they could use, neutrinos and gravity waves are just too
    weakly interacting, the antenna would need to be planet sized. Charged particles don't fly straight and neutrons
    decay, so that just leaves light, barring undiscovered forces.

  5. Re:Anyone know where you can buy one? on A Working 5D Rubik's Cube · · Score: 1

    The shop isn't far away, go north to the end of the street, turn eka, and forward for a kilogram, then its just at yestaday.

  6. Good deal on Thin Client PC Fits in Wall Socket · · Score: 1

    Price of JackPC to fit in wall socket, £209. Price of builder to make a hole the wall £200, Price of plasterer to seal the hole £200. Lol, but seriously isn't a ordinary small form factor pc, more capable and not much more money.

  7. Re:Nice work... on Bearshare Shut Down by RIAA · · Score: 1

    It about time someone demostrates that music does indeed damage sanity, sexuality and hearing, then we form a class action suit for anyone whoes listen to such and band, and sue to RIAA for profitting from good
    that damage listeners.

  8. Re:How about on New Disclaimer for the Internet · · Score: 1

    The internet is dangerous, lol.
    Cars are dangerous you can crash, planes are for the same reason.
    Water is dangerous you can drown. Peanuts are dangerous you can choak.
    The only way the internet can kill you is if you stay on-line so long, you
    forget to eat (sadly i do that sometimes).

  9. Re:Can they aim this at..... on First Neutron Pulse from SNS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, i forget the article, but a physicist did genunely suggest using a neutrino (not neutron) beam to cause enermy nuclear weopeans to melt down in there casings. It seemed reasonably practicle as well, it
    would require a very high current particle accelerator to produce a very narrow ultra relavistic pion or
    muon beam. At these high speed the neutrino decay products of pions would still be very tightly directioned. They could pass straight through the earth, and cause sufficient stimulated fission reactions in remote nuclear materal to cause it to gently (as opposite to explosively) melt down.

  10. Re:A typical week on Mal'Ganis on On World of Warcraft's Network Issues · · Score: 1

    Nice video above, a really funny example of how not
    to play upper blackrock spire. I know lets run
    everywhere, agro all the monsters, so they attack
    my team mates and wipe out the whole group,
    that will make me popular.

  11. Re:Good news! [No reverse aging] on Cell Division Reversed for the First Time · · Score: 1

    No. But here is a process that would reverse ageing. Three cell join together, froming a single cell, but using the most common dna segments, where there are differences between the cells. A check-sum process. The
    combined cell then splits into four cells again. But in the process the've correct any errors in the DNA
    of any one cell.

  12. Re:another reason to call in sick on Electrical Noise Causing Physiological Stress? · · Score: 1
    Its a well known fact that heavy electricity could tilt the whole of the uk, sinking scotland and catapulting london into france.

    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hea vy+electricity

  13. Orginal Paper Here on First Steps Toward Artificial Gravity · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hi, i found the paper at the Los Almos pre-print archive.

    http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0603033

    Actually, i think i believe the experiment, but i don't
    think i believe the interpretion, as the article and
    the above paper state, this effect is 10^30 times stronger
    than the gravitation force you'd expect from too small
    chunks of matter. I think they've discovered a new force
    all together.

  14. STVG, epicycles? on New Gravity Theory Dispenses with Dark Matter · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just read J Moffats paper, http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0506021, and so i'm not supprised he can
    describe correctly the three problems: galaxies, galaxy clusters, and the pioneer anomally. With enough free parameters you can always fit a curve to a data, and STVG has got lots a parameters:

    its got ordinary gravity as GR
    plus a cosmological constant
    plus a repulsive vector field
    plus 3 scalar fields

    The scale fields describing how the strength of each of the forces varies in space (and time). He then curve fits his new equations with different free parameters for each problem, which you have to do because the strength of the forces varies from place to place. With 3 problems and 3 free variables its not surprising he can fit a solution. This isn't to say STVG doesn't make sense, it does, and fits in well with string theory for example. The problem is with that many free parameters its easy to fit a solution to any problem, but hard to make acturate predictions or disproveable assertions.

  15. Re:Fix Lung Cancer? on Tumor Suppression Gene Discovered · · Score: 1

    Methylation is more than just the effect of pollutants and free radicals, its a natural part of a cells
    processes. When a cell wants to switch off a gene it attaches a methyl group onto that part of the DNA
    which prevents RNA from transcribing it. So DNA a program alters at runtime by commenting versus lines.
    This is how a cell in your body gets its identity, e.g. for a skin cell, all the genes not needed in a
    skin cell are methylated out. While we know the genetic code for humans and quite a few animals. We don't
    yet know much about epigenetic code which is which genes are methylated for each function.

  16. Superconductors on Earth's Copper Supply Inadequate For Development? · · Score: 1

    Nothing to worry about, in the future we'll replace copper with high temperature supersonductor.

    Oh wait, HTS are curprates.

  17. Re:It's remarkable how wrong this is on Researchers Say Human Brain is Still Evolving · · Score: 1

    Thats almost word for word, from Audous Huxleys brave new world, a chant forced on beta workers, to make them happy with they lot.

  18. Re:Feed the Rich ? on Scientists Discover Possible Anti-Aging Gene · · Score: 1


        Dude, She's still around. I think you where thinking of the queen mother.

  19. Re:Maybe 4 bombs on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 1

    Hindi's and Buddists are well known as the more
    paceful religions, however the Tamil Tiger group
    rather proves that hindism and boody violence aren't
    incompatible.

  20. Re:Video Card with Longhorn. on Avalon Preview Released for XP · · Score: 1

    Funny it work just fine on the ZX spectrum,

    got through the caverns of choas but mines of maddness were a bitch.

  21. Re:See only the Bible for answers. on Live to be 1000 Years Old? · · Score: 1

    That and the smell, its hot out there, why do you
    think they burried the bodies so quickly.

  22. Re:Women? on Surviving College With Gear And Sanity Intact? · · Score: 1

    Chill out, you've got money right, well their are
    these girls called hookers and they do anything to
    please. So stop being pissed off about what you
    missed and get some action.

  23. Re:Help protest this ruling... on Does Your Employer Own Your Thoughts? · · Score: 1

    Actually that would be special relavity and the
    photoelectric effect. Einstein did his work on
    GR ten years later, long after he left the
    patent office job. But your point stands though.

  24. Re:This is just silly on Smart Systems Threaten More Jobs Than Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    That depends upon how society choices to organise itself. You could have a culture based entirely upon, sport, media, art, politics, music and other culture competitive activities (c.f. player of games, Ian Banks) with everyone else just as fans.
    Alternatively you could move to a more socialist
    system, with robots doing all the wok, and resources just allocated equally.
    Again capitalism could be make to last for every by faking the system to create the need for things that aren't really required. Already in society they is a lot of change for the sake of it, fads and fashions. Advertising can create artificial need, governments can create artificial work.
    The need for personally achivement can drive people to learn and teach other people for as long as they live. Finally i doubt the oldest profession is going to go away very soon.

  25. Re:Speaking of nanobots and healing... on Nano Body Building · · Score: 1

    That wasn't a movie, that was the "Outer Limits" series, the modern remake. Classic stuff. BTW most
    of the stories were (just like the orginal), taken
    from Sci-fi short stories, which was why they
    were so good.

    Do not adjust you set. We control the vertical,
    the horizontal.