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  1. Re:fr!st on Magnetic Levitation Detects Proteins, Could Diagnose Disease · · Score: 1

    Damn your Furlongs, I want that in Football Fields?

    Well, according to this, 1 football field is 0.4545445 furlongs, or 1 furlong is 2.2000044 football fields.

    Happy? :-P

    How am i supposed to remember such an arbitrary number, you shoud use standard units like the rest of the world.
    1 furlong [international] = 2 football field [Canada]
    :)

  2. Re:An American on European Parliament Declaring War Against ACTA · · Score: 1

    Crazy, what do they have against the Association of Canadian Travel Agents. http://www.acta.ca/

  3. The PAX on Swine Flu Outbreak At PAX · · Score: 5, Funny

    The PAX was meant to calm the population and weed out aggression. The agent worked, but too well: 99.9% of the population became so lethargic that they stopped working, talking, and eventually eating and moving. They simply lay down and succumbed to death. The remaining 0.1% of the people had the opposite reaction to the Pax, becoming mindlessly violent and extremely aggressive. It was in the Air supply!!!

  4. Re:Recycling on Supplies of Rare Earth Elements Exhausted By 2017 · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, most of the laser diodes used in optical communications are based on Gallium Arsenide semiconductors. Gallium was #1 on that list.

  5. Re:FYI: An exiton is just an imaginary particle. on Light-Emitting Particles Yield Faster Computing · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's true, I'm not really here.

  6. Re:Counterpoint on NVIDIA Doubts Ray Tracing Is the Future of Games · · Score: 1

    How is covering this Ray guy in Crisco and tracing him going to make graphics faster. If he is so powerful as a graphics engine would it not be better to do a full watercolour of him? Hmm think im going to patent Raywatercolouring and wait for someone to invent it so I can sue them for big profits.

  7. Re:What? on CERN Scientists Looking for the Force · · Score: 1

    Photons have zero rest mass, if they stopped moving they would have no mass, but as particles travel faster they gain mass via our favorite equation E=mc2. So Photons can be considered as having a mass as they have energy. That and the curved space time thing stated later, that works too. The higgs boson does not create gravity, it creates mass. The higgs field is the field was created to explain where where mass comes from, it's the higgs field interacting with matter. The higgs boson would be the particle associated with that field similar to the way the photon is the particle associated with the electromagnetic field. Gravity affects particles with mass so the higgs boson is related to gravity but no nearly as directly as the article implies. The graviton is the particle of gravity, theoretically that is as it has never been seen. For a good demonstration of how gravity works try throwing heavy breakable things off the roof and put the video on YouTube.