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  1. Re:This is why we need the government regulation on Feds Issue Emergency Order On Crude Oil Trains · · Score: 1

    The alternate guess being they where transported into another dimension. So yeah, vaporization is probably what happened:)

    unless it was Jean-Claude Van Damme, in that case he was blown into an alternate dimension where he must to splits and then defeat himself.

    Time for some VANDAMMAGE!

    Sorry, I'm hungry and tired.

  2. holy crap on Feds Issue Emergency Order On Crude Oil Trains · · Score: 2

    "requiring that railroads inform state emergency management officials about the movement of large shipments of crude oil "

    there not doing that now? that's the most basic courtesy and emergency preparedness. It's irresponsible.

  3. Re:Yes on Electromagnetic Noise Found To Affect Bird Navigation · · Score: 1

    From the abstract, I didn't see where the were testing above 5 MHz.
    Cell towers operate at 750-2100MHz most above 1700MHz

  4. Re:Is this why they fly into airplanes? on Electromagnetic Noise Found To Affect Bird Navigation · · Score: 1

    you mean like water falls?

  5. Re:Environmentalists eat your heart out. on Feds Issue Emergency Order On Crude Oil Trains · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let me know when the people whose ares have a pipeline get a piece of the action.
    Rails are already built.
    And a rail accidents is trivial spill next to a pipeline accident.

    But hey, lets take all the risk and damage so some company can make more money, and put the risk on the people.

  6. Re:That's annoying! on In SF: an App For Auctioning Off Your Public Parking Spot · · Score: 1

    That can happen now, this app doesn't really change that, but I will point out that if it's a public spot, then it really isn't that workers spot to expect to be open.

    They are selling something the don't own, so it won't be around long.

  7. Re:Vigilante on In SF: an App For Auctioning Off Your Public Parking Spot · · Score: 1

    Oh stop it. There are enough short sighted assholes who jump to violence. Don't be one.
    How about we use the court system? you know like a civilized country.

  8. This will end on In SF: an App For Auctioning Off Your Public Parking Spot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    badly.

    Hording a public thing you do not own and then scalping it won't go well, and will be banned by the courts.

    And when you get in your car to leave, and I stop to get the spot, I sure as hell will not move just because you want to sell something you do not own to someone else. So there is a logistic issue.

  9. Re:Link to a non-paywalled abstract on Astrophysicists Build Realistic Virtual Universe · · Score: 1

    Fundamental understanding of things is what we use to create new thing, even thing we had no idea we could create when the fundamental research is done.

    A good model will show us thing we didn't know would happen. Thing we can later confirm.

  10. Re:simulating a phenomena does not validate the mo on Astrophysicists Build Realistic Virtual Universe · · Score: 1

    Do you just not understand what models are, how the work, and how to validate them? Is that why you just throw out that meaningless sentence?

  11. Re:What is Systems science? on Astrophysicists Build Realistic Virtual Universe · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Trading routes on Astrophysicists Build Realistic Virtual Universe · · Score: 1

    no known material good could possibly be worth shipping across interstellar distances.

    See: Dune for an example.

  13. Re:Keep adjusting until it looks right on Astrophysicists Build Realistic Virtual Universe · · Score: 1

    One of the rare instance in music were a break up spawns 2 greater groups.

  14. Re:So ... it covers these things? on Astrophysicists Build Realistic Virtual Universe · · Score: 1

    Dark Matter is a real and observed phenomenon.

    " Dark Matter to keep our other equations from breaking"
    Now you're just being ignorant..or stupid. You pick.

  15. Re:University is just a market anyhow on $200 For a Bound Textbook That You Can't Keep? · · Score: 1

    That's why I am a fan of this idea:
    http://business.time.com/2013/...

    Please don't turn this into some giant ad hom against Warren, stick with the idea.

  16. Re:The textbook industry... on $200 For a Bound Textbook That You Can't Keep? · · Score: 1

    Ethics. He ants the author t get something.
    I only assume he has never stepped foot into a library.

  17. Re:internal detection on Astrophysicists Build Realistic Virtual Universe · · Score: 1

    We got to the end, and all we saw was:
    4000000 GOTO 10

  18. Re:Cool! Where can I get one? on Astrophysicists Build Realistic Virtual Universe · · Score: 2

    Well, you got to start with building the universe so you have some place to put your dollhouse, duh.

  19. Re:$18.7 billion?! on Stanford Getting Rid of $18 Billion Endowment of Coal Stock · · Score: 1

    Harvard could pay for every incoming student, room board, classes materials for over 100 years based on what they have.

  20. Re:Surely you must be joking on Stanford Getting Rid of $18 Billion Endowment of Coal Stock · · Score: 1

    and hopefully it's starts a large trend.

  21. Re:Activist investors on Stanford Getting Rid of $18 Billion Endowment of Coal Stock · · Score: 1

    I would also stop permitting the sale of coal mined on public lands to be sold outside our borders.
    his will drive up the cost in other countries which would lend themselves to cleaner fuels.

  22. Re:Activist investors on Stanford Getting Rid of $18 Billion Endowment of Coal Stock · · Score: 1

    "which use rare earths and cause massive pollution."
    not compared to coal. Coal is far, far worse.

  23. Re:Activist investors on Stanford Getting Rid of $18 Billion Endowment of Coal Stock · · Score: 1

    Lets look at some numbers:
    the Kielder Forest has 150 million trees that temporarily hold 89 thousand tons per year.
    We emit an EXTRA 29 gigatonnes per.
    so that mean we need to build 326,000 kielder forest, or 48,876,404,494,382 trees.
    And that's just to stay even, with today's emissions.
    Suddenly 18 billion looks like chump change.

    Don't get me wrong., I like forests, and would like to see more of them. I'd also like to see an aggressive rain forest restoration program.

  24. Re:Activist investors on Stanford Getting Rid of $18 Billion Endowment of Coal Stock · · Score: 1

    Considering plants are carbon neutral, I'm not sure what you point is.

  25. Re:Summary is WRONG on Stanford Getting Rid of $18 Billion Endowment of Coal Stock · · Score: 1

    Smart? well that depends on their goal.