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  1. Re:misleading summary on Australia Finally Creates Its Own National Space Agency (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    It was 3rd in the sense of both building and launching it themselves. The Ariel was launched from Cape Canaveral.

    Admittedly the distinction is a bit of cheat since they used an American built Redstone rocket :-).

  2. Re:misleading summary on Australia Finally Creates Its Own National Space Agency (yahoo.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Rubbish, while its true that WRESAT built on work done in the SPARTA project, which was a joint Australian/British project. WRESAT was entirely Australian.

    Tue, the rocket was an american Redstone rocket. But the satellite was built in australia by WRE in conjunction with the University of Adelaide.

  3. insurance issue on Should Patients Have the Option To Not Know Their DNA? · · Score: 1

    What I would be worried about is what happens if your insurance company finds out.
    You have health insurance, you go get the test and discover that you have a high risk of heart disease or cancer.
    That knowledge is now on your medical record. Your insurance company finds out about and drops your cover.

    And no other company will write you a policy at a reasonable cost because your now a high risk.

  4. Re:Well then on Sex Offender Claims Police Entrapped Him With Animated Emoticons · · Score: 1

    But the smilie winked at him. Thats clear solicitation :-).

  5. Re:Obscure Reference - see if you can pick it on EFL 1.0 Is Finally Released · · Score: 1

    Oh, yes. Very obscure. Theres even a slashdot page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanentize_the_eschaton.

    I knew I had seen it before, but couldn't place it so I googled. I would have come across it in the Illuminati! books.

  6. Re:The ride is not worth it, yet. on SpaceShipTwo Flies Free For the First Time · · Score: 1

    I've always been baffled that people are prepared to pay this kind of money for 5 minutes of weightlessness. I might pay $2000 for this flight. But $200k, never. For $200k I'd expect a week in orbit. Plus a chance to join the 100 mile high club :-).

  7. Re:Dear Scientists and Researchers on Anti-Cancer Agent Stops Metastasis In Its Tracks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You don't sell your research to Nature. You submit it for publication and are overjoyed if they accept it. Nature is the most prestigious publication in the field of biology bar none.
    But as far as I know, theres nothing stopping you from putting it up on your web site as well or submitting it in publication in other journals.

    So it being published in Nature doesnt stop it from being publically available. Its just that the other copies might be harder to find..

  8. Re:Ran on VAX too on First Graphics Game Written On/For a 16-Bit Home PC · · Score: 2, Informative

    I suspect the game your thinking of was "warp" written by Larry Wall. It definitely had tholians spinning a web around you. This game is hand coded in assembler for a very specific machine architecture. Theres no way it ran on a Vax.