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  1. Re:I feel stupid on How To Communicate Faster-Than-Light · · Score: 1

    "I feel stupid too."
    Good news! Your post proves you correct.

  2. Re:Might be fast but on How To Communicate Faster-Than-Light · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should understand it before trying to make exceptions?

    In an overly simply nutshell. It's random and uncontrollable. You have no way of influencing or knowing in advance which way it will flip.
    As such, you can't send information.

  3. Re:April fools again? on How To Communicate Faster-Than-Light · · Score: 1

    NO information can move faster then light.

    Quantum entanglement sends ZERO information.

  4. Re:April fools again? on How To Communicate Faster-Than-Light · · Score: 1

    oh, a random website. Nothing says expert like that.. anyways, did you read it?

    "In many cultures, tradition dictates that the pranking period must expire at noon on April 1 and any jokes attempted after that hour will bring back luck to the perpetrator."

    In the off chances it's accurate, America isn't one of those cultures.

  5. Re:April fools again? on How To Communicate Faster-Than-Light · · Score: 2

    -one unit is as good as another

    no. Metric is easier to teach, and easier to do in the head.

    "Ever had to measure rainfall in acre-feet and convert it to runoff flow rate, and volume change in a river system over some distance?"
    funny enough,. yes. It's easier in metric.

    "no one gives a flying f about meters or inches."
    speak you your ignorant self. moving completely to metric removes one type of conversion. That makes it less complicated, and removes an opportunity for a mistake.

    Plus, having a global standard in a global world is a good thing. Since metric s the most widely used system it logical to move there.
    You're whole argument is emotional based, not logically based.

  6. Re:This is not a computer on Biological Computer Created at Stanford · · Score: 2

    " Transistors are analog devices with continuously infinite number of states."
    You could have just said you don't know how a transistor works. I mean, sure that sentence conveyed the same information, but is seems like a round about way to show off your ignorance.

  7. Re:This is not a computer on Biological Computer Created at Stanford · · Score: 1

    There in no requirement on the power source to call something a computer.

  8. Re:This is not a computer on Biological Computer Created at Stanford · · Score: 1

    yes, an abacus is a manual power computer.
    But a transistor isn't a computer any more then one bead from an abacus is a computer.

  9. Re:This is not a computer on Biological Computer Created at Stanford · · Score: 1

    No it isn't.
    It's like saying one of your cells is you. i.e. stupid.
    A computer need to ..compute.
    A transistor does not use a set of instructions.

  10. Re:WAR! on Biological Computer Created at Stanford · · Score: 1

    No information can move faster then the speed of light.

  11. Re:Biological Computer? on Biological Computer Created at Stanford · · Score: 2

    Yes, troll the educated and intelligent.

    You never really left high school, did you?

  12. Re:Not that simple on How Could Swarms of Robots Help Humanity? · · Score: 1

    gosh, no one in robotics or computing ever thought about those things~

  13. Re:once apon a time on How Could Swarms of Robots Help Humanity? · · Score: 1

    "most inventions were made out of necessity to solve a problem"
    false.
    most invention where from, someone meddling around.
    The example that stands out is electromagnetism.

  14. Re:Solar powered aircraft on Solar Impulse Airplane To Launch First Sun-Powered Flight Across America · · Score: 2

    Why is it a farce? hmm?

    You people must be the most boring people in the world in your real life. Someone decided to do something adventurous. You people just whine.

    They aren't doing making any claim, and the admit that you can't make a practical PV aircraft. These are people who like to travel the world in hot air balloon.

    "that does not advance any state of the any art."
    why does it have to?

    That said, what cells are the using? what did they learn from wiring it up? How are the dealing with the harsh conditions?

    There is plant to be learned.

  15. Re:"To show the world 'power of green technology'" on Solar Impulse Airplane To Launch First Sun-Powered Flight Across America · · Score: 1

    I've heard a couple of interviews with this guy, and they are not overselling. Not by any stretch.
    Theya re completelty upfromnt aout the realities.
    People like doing things oin the edge. The same guy piloting the place also did hot air balloon trips..around the world.

    " system has almost no place in airplanes"
    becasue what they learn can't be applied elsewhere?

    Stopping bitching becasue some is doing something adventurous.

  16. Re:"To show the world 'power of green technology'" on Solar Impulse Airplane To Launch First Sun-Powered Flight Across America · · Score: 1

    UM, billions of dollars comes from the practical application of technology developed for the Apollo mission. The Apollo mission as paid for itself more then 13 times over.

  17. Re:I can see a business case for this on Solar Impulse Airplane To Launch First Sun-Powered Flight Across America · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. What part of non-stop do you not understand?

  18. Re:The Mouse That Roared (the sequel)? on United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea · · Score: 1

    They could get aid by starting to stand down and ask. No need for war.

  19. Re:A farce on United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea · · Score: 1

    That war hasn't ended. You should read up on history.

  20. Re:Perfect Analogy on United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea · · Score: 1

    This should be of interest to you:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS8dNzRhMgk

  21. Re:Good luck with that on United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea · · Score: 1

    Becasue they didn't watch the news during desert storm?

  22. Re:Good luck with that on United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea · · Score: 1

    Yield depends on mass of fissile material and other factors. So we can make bigger bombs, but they take up a bigger area, and are easier to detect, hard to seal.

  23. Re:Good luck with that on United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea · · Score: 1

    I did similiar work in 2000,2001. We knew what was on every ship,. where it was, and how much each piece of cargo weighed.

  24. Re:Good luck with that on United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea · · Score: 1

    You watch too many Steven Segal movies.

  25. Re:Good luck with that on United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea · · Score: 1

    Yeah, do you know how heavy that would be?
    No, you don't. Nor do you know the 100s of other problems with doing this with a nuclear bomb.

    Just..shut up. You aren't an expert and you are making expert cringe in disgust. you are making yourself look stupid.