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  1. Re:Not exactly on Mars Had an Ancient Impact Like Earth · · Score: 1

    According to the BBC article the body that hit Mars was not in an orthogonal orbit but came in at somewhere between 30 and 60 degrees. I'm just surprised that the planet isn't tilted over a lot more after an impact like that.

  2. Re:What about Buckyballs? on The Life and Times of Buckminster Fuller · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually they have been found to be rather good for storing helium.

  3. Re:Linux Support on NVIDIA To Enable PhysX For Full Line of GPUs · · Score: 2, Informative

    They might have some incentive to now that AMD is both working with Havok and releasing Linux drivers with the new ATI card.

  4. Re:Finally.. on BMW Introduces GINA Concept Car, Covered In Fabric · · Score: 1

    Does the 'ludicrous-speed expensive' skin come in plaid?

  5. Re:Mars Melting? on Phoenix Digs First Mars Soil Sample To Analyze · · Score: 1

    I believe you're thinking of the Moon, not Mars.

  6. Re:Groundhog? on Phoenix Mars Lander Updates · · Score: 1

    How do you figure? Right now it's late spring in the northern hemispheres of both Mars and Earth, shouldn't the Martian groundhog's day still be in the winter on Mars (about six months ago)?

  7. Re:Looks like a sail... on Proposed Telescope Focuses Light Without Mirror Or Lens · · Score: 1

    A prototype of a very similar system was built a while back. It took an origami expert to teach them how to fold it up right.

  8. Re:What about a detector a few hundreds klicks awa on Proposed Telescope Focuses Light Without Mirror Or Lens · · Score: 1

    Then you're stuck looking in the same direction (straight up) all the time, that's sort of a waste.

  9. Re:Flying on The Future of Space Sports · · Score: 1

    You could use two counter rotating props in parallel.

  10. Re:lets spy on everybody on AU Government Demands Universal Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    Working at a government research facility I already have to sign my right to privacy away when using any computer. I'm curious who has a right to view this information though.

  11. Re:Reminds me of Razors. on Asus Crams Three GPUs onto a Single Graphics Card · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Isn't it as easy as on Taliban Demands Downtime on Afghanistan Cellphone Networks · · Score: 1

    Fist off I don't know of any cell phones with RFID tags in them (that's the tech in all those cases). Even if they did have, it would probably only have a range of several meters. At that distance you might as well use your head mounted stereo sonar [ears].

  13. Re:A word on tiger behavior on Physicist Calculates Trajectory of Tiger At SF Zoo · · Score: 1

    The major difference here is that this tiger was not brought up without human interaction. My grandmother used to raise large cats and primates for the SF zoo and these animals were treated much more like domesticated pets than wild animals.