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  1. Re:The things that must never be said... on Our Lazy Solar Dynamo — Hello Dalton Minimum? · · Score: 1

    2) There is already more than enough CO2 for a 'full' greenhouse effect so more will not make it 'worse.'

    Please, enlighten me... If that's the case, why does Venus (with a massive atmosphere made mostly of CO2) have a far higher (~400 Celsius) surface temperature, even though it actually gets less heat from the Sun? This might sound surprising - Venus is closer to the Sun, so it'd be natural to expect it to get more heat. However, it is shrouded in a thick layer of clouds that reflect most of the light it receives back into space.

    Venus's temperature is only explainable by its greenhouse effect. This can even be measured. So, my question is... if we are experiencing a "full" greenhouse effect, then what IS Venus experiencing?

  2. What a moron... on Real-Life Frogger Ends In Hospital Visit · · Score: 1

    The road in Frogger has five lanes, not four.

  3. Re:I went one further on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    The square root of 1 is 1. The confusion is caused because of the solution for x^2 = 1, since x = ±sqrt(1), therefore x = ±1. But sqrt(1) is still 1.

  4. Re:AWESOME on Nvidia Discloses Details On Next-Gen Fermi GPU · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To the best of my knowledge, double-precision floating point operations are actually pretty important for some scientific applications of GPUs, and as such this is significant for those using GPUs as supercomputers.

  5. Planetes? on Shiny New Space Fence To Monitor Orbiting Junk · · Score: 4, Informative

    This reminds me of Planetes, a TV anime series by NHK (the Japanese equivalent of PBS/BBC) about the consequences of runaway space garbage in the near future (2072) of humanity. It's an interesting story, and it gets major extra points from me for being remarkably realistic.

  6. Facial recognition + EXIF on Face Recognition — Clever Or Just Plain Creepy? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Assuming that the uploaded pictures also contain the proper EXIF data, then Google will also know exactly when was the picture taken. If you they can also figure out the location the picture was taken on (perhaps as a tagging feature connected to Google Maps?), then they'll be able to track people - where and when they were, and in whose company. They could even extend the concept to try to combine pictures of the same event from different albums into a massive "super-album" of the event, even if the owners of the photographs never found out about each other.

  7. Re:Namespace conflict on Khronos Releases OpenCL Spec · · Score: 0

    Doesn't seem to be an actual issue, though. OpenCL uses cl_lowercase for typedefs, CL_UPPERCASE for defines and clCamelCase for methods, while ClanLib seems to use CL_lowercase for everything.

  8. Re:Cosmos on Science Documentaries for Youngsters? · · Score: 0

    Cosmos is DEFINITELY the way to go. Superb, beautiful for people of all ages. It's a shame that many youngsters (myself included until two years ago) haven't seen it.

  9. Re:An honest question for the young-Earth types. on Ben Stein's 'Expelled' - Evolution, Academia and Conformity · · Score: 1

    The Lord works in mysterious ways, I guess? ;)

    [BTW, in case anyone is wondering, my post above is sarcastic]

  10. Re:An honest question for the young-Earth types. on Ben Stein's 'Expelled' - Evolution, Academia and Conformity · · Score: 3, Funny

    The oil was obviously placed there by Jesus. However, knowing that heretics would take over the world someday, he decided to put all the oil exactly where you'd expect to find it if the Earth was actually 4.55 billion years old, so oil companies in Texas could become rich and elect the Bush family to power.

    Oh, and he obviously also placed a lot of oil in the Middle-East to stimulate a crusade against the Muslim infidels that he predicted would appear centuries later.

    Isn't Jesus fantastic? Well, either that or the Earth really is 4.55 billion years old, but would you really believe the lies that those evolutionists tell you? Ben Stein said they are nazis, so they must be, right?