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  1. Re:In the words of Seymour Cray: on A New Approach To Linux Clusters · · Score: 1

    If you were planting seeds in a field, which would you rather use?
    Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?

  2. Rumor that 'they' did not hedge on Is the Net The Cause of California's Power Problems? · · Score: 1

    I think I read on the Contrarian Rap that even though a manager was screaming to hedge the low cost of oil (back when oil was ralitively cheap) he was told 'no'.

  3. Re:I'm glad to see... on Fastest Commercial Supercomputer To Be Built · · Score: 1

    "The next big issue will be how fast will they be churning out cures/treatments? If this helps speed this up, there will certainly be a great number of lives saved."

    Curing of diseases is basically not a function of "speed of investigation" but of politics. We have known how to cure a simple ulcer for ~30 years and yet doctors STILL don't utilize this knowledge. Infact Dr's still prescribe antibiotics for viral based colds which has created huge problems with resistance.

    Western medicine is great for acute conditions but totally rots for chronic conditions. After years of study we still can't cure much. How could this be? Looking in the wrong place or in the wrong way. Why can this go on? Human nature. We wont see what's going on until we want to (or have it rammed down our throat).

    Answers come from asking a wise question with open ears and eyes.

  4. You are portraying the big bang as a fact.. on Hubble Captures Colliding Galaxies · · Score: 1

    >You've got the competition from the momentum generated from the Big Bang...
    > While within the first few nanoseconds after the BB...

    But it is still a theory. A theory with, apparently, very little hard evidence to back it up. And that's interesting becasue poeple have been studing it for a generation.

    Did you know that most universe scale computer models only take into account gravity. What about electromagnatism? "Nope".

    Check out The Big Bang Never Really Happened by Eric J. Learner for more info.

    "Lerner does a fine job poking holes in Big Bang thinking and provides a historical perspective as well, linking scientific theories to trends in philosophy, politics, religion and even economics...a most readable book." -- Chicago Tribune