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  1. Re:god dammit. on Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead · · Score: 1

    And they may use similar techniques. It's is why their are assessing. Getting more data, get more accurate picture, determine it its' actually a problem, solve the problem.

  2. Re:god dammit. on Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead · · Score: 1

    So your logic is:
    These thing over here kill birds; therefore it doesn't matter that this other thing kills birds.

    The article says they are heating water; which is odd. I thought most CSPs heated up salt or metal that is pumping into a boiler of water. This allows for 24/7 operation.

  3. Re:god dammit. on Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead · · Score: 1

    Noting there indicate a nuclear shill.

  4. Re:god dammit. on Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead · · Score: 1

    1 every 2 minutes, not about 3 a day.

  5. Re:xkcd on Wheel Damage Adding Up Quickly For Mars Rover Curiosity · · Score: 1

    70+ million hits a month is an extreme minority?

  6. Re:xkcd on Wheel Damage Adding Up Quickly For Mars Rover Curiosity · · Score: 1

    He is the Karate of Comedy.

  7. Re:Odd material selection on Wheel Damage Adding Up Quickly For Mars Rover Curiosity · · Score: 1

    And you can't use the average temperature as a primary guide. The landing area temperature range from minus 127 C to positive 40 C

  8. Re:Someone with no brain is running NASA on Wheel Damage Adding Up Quickly For Mars Rover Curiosity · · Score: 2

    The reference for the wheel design is the specifications to meet it's goals.

    So, by an actual good measure, the wheel design is a good one. How can something that exceeded it's goals be considered flimsy?

    If you bought 50,000 mile tires for you car, and they lasted 75,000 miles would you call them flimsy?

  9. Re:Someone with no brain is running NASA on Wheel Damage Adding Up Quickly For Mars Rover Curiosity · · Score: 1

    /. stripped the minus sign. 'minus 127' to 'positive 40' C

  10. Re:Someone with no brain is running NASA on Wheel Damage Adding Up Quickly For Mars Rover Curiosity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The temperatures at the landing site can vary from 127 to 40 C. So if you look at the spec you linked, it's outside the range.

    It's almost like the engineers are aware of this sort of thing when they designed it..

  11. Re:Fusion Has Already Failed on If Fusion Is the Answer, We Need To Do It Quickly · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The government does 10's of thousands of project a year. ON time, within budget with little waste.

    the ITER is using extremely cutting edge experimental reactor. Of course there are unknowns.

  12. Re:Similarly on Modular Hive Homes Win Mars Base Design Competition · · Score: 1

    You're short sighted.
    Who do you think owns the corporations that would make money for making the stuff needed to go other planets?

    You do know that space craft aren't literally made of money, right?

  13. He's just looking on Scientists Find Traces of Sea Plankton On ISS Surface · · Score: 1

    for a second location for the Chum Bucket.

  14. Re:Nice Summary on FarmBot: an Open Source Automated Farming Machine · · Score: 1
  15. Are you high? on FarmBot: an Open Source Automated Farming Machine · · Score: 1

    " while farming has been using techniques that have been handed down from centuries ago. "

    What? we have made better plows, we have automated harvesters, we can genetically engineer plants to make the better, starter and healthier.
    .

  16. Re:You don't want to be in Joe Arpaio's jail on Phoenix Introduces Draft Ordinance To Criminalize Certain Drone Uses · · Score: 1

    ". It's another lasers-at-airplanes law"
    You're pretty god damned clueless.

  17. So if I am looking down a hill from a sidewalk into a backyard?

    The issue is due to elevation.

  18. Re:well on Phoenix Introduces Draft Ordinance To Criminalize Certain Drone Uses · · Score: 3, Interesting

    well, I can see my neighbors back yard from my deck. People who live o hills have plain sight of all the backyards below them, etc.

    Are you seriously saying I can't take a picture from my back deck?

  19. Re:Do not want on Introducing Slashdot's New Build Section · · Score: 0

    Why the fuck do you think if you don't want it, nobody wants it? Who voted you king of /. posters?

    Dick.

  20. Re:Too specific on Phoenix Introduces Draft Ordinance To Criminalize Certain Drone Uses · · Score: 1

    No. In fact, if you are in public, then you can be filmed.
    As it should be.

  21. A) It needs to only be applied to Drones with Cameras
    B) Do people legally have privacy in an uncovered yard? I don't think they do. I'm talk about legal, not rudeness.

  22. Re:Oh god so what? on C++14 Is Set In Stone · · Score: 1

    C++ is C with classes. Templates didn't even come around until about after 1990.

    Sheesh.

  23. Re:Support for your position on C++14 Is Set In Stone · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did they make any changes in mammary allocation?

  24. Re:Unfortunately on Iceland's Seismic Activity: A Repeat Show for Atmospheric Ash? · · Score: 1

    Green Dragon will save us!

  25. Re:Badabunga! on Iceland's Seismic Activity: A Repeat Show for Atmospheric Ash? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Close.
    It was named after the sound of the nearest resident bowels evacuating.