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  1. Re:Nothing in the new stuff on FAA To Investigate 787 Dreamliner · · Score: 1

    Airbus use a lot of carbon fibre and have done for some time, there's no bad reports so far.

  2. Re:Reproductive organs size vs brain size on Scientists Breed Big-Brained Guppies To Demonstrate Evolution's Trade-Offs · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like you've got a big gut and lots of kids!

  3. Re:Scientology not to blame on Scientology On Trial In Belgium · · Score: 1

    I completely agree. If an individual commits a crime it is for the authorities to take action, I don't understand why local police forces haven't arrested offending priests.

  4. Re:Oh no.... on Drilling Begins At Lake Hidden Beneath Antarctic · · Score: 1

    That was a very interesting use of the double negative by your old man!

  5. Re:Temporarily stranded? on Catfish Strands Itself To Kill Pigeons · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's wrong to say that the catfish do not belong on land, they are known to cross land to move from pond to pond as they dry up and there is some evidence that they migrate, at least once in their lifetime. They usually leave ponds at night when it's more humid so it's not a well known phenomenon. Nonetheless, this is very interesting behaviour.

  6. Re:Catch 22: on Cops To Congress: We Need Logs of Americans' Text Messages · · Score: 1

    Whereas I fully support your stance, suggestion and momentarily considered doing it myself I now think that such an approach is best avoided, particularly in the USA or anywhere that's likely to extradite someone to the USA on the slightest pretext (e.g the UK). I'm sure that the courts in the USA would see this as a deliberate attempt to waste police time and there's bound to be a long sentence for that because nobody's actually harmed or lost anything.

  7. Well it's up to the scientists. on Scientists Speak Out Against Wasting Helium In Balloons · · Score: 1

    If these worried scientists got their collective arses in gear and worked out how to making fusion happen then they'd have all the helium their heart's desire. They should put more time into actually doing something useful and less time into warning us what might happen if they sit about all day complaining.

  8. Re:All our resources are still here on Electronic Retailers In Europe Now Required To Take Back Old Goods · · Score: 1

    In a similar vein, the richest source of platinum is now the surface of major roads in the western world, the ppm count is higher than high grade ore.

  9. Re:And this is why on WikiLeaks Begins Release of 2.5m Syrian Emails · · Score: 1

    As governments are voted in by the electorate, at least in some countries, doesn't the electorate have the right to know the truth about them? Surely if government agencies were allowed to (or continue to be allowed to) cover up the truth it is tantamount to vote rigging. Wiki leaks has done something very significant, it has shown governments that they are visible, that they can't ride roughshod over the electorate and they will be measured by what they've done, not what they've said they've done. Wiki leaks is a a small step for man but a giant leap for mankind.

  10. Re:Get over yourselves on Texas Scientists Regret Loss of Higgs Boson Quest · · Score: 1

    Could be that the Texas scientists are upset because they weren't good enough to get a job at CERN?

  11. Re:Impressive engineering feat on Gamera II Team Smashes Previous Best Human-Powered Helicopter Flight Time · · Score: 1

    Almost, to drive an aerofoil through the air the amount of energy required per unit area decreases as the unit area increases. Thus an aerofoil of 2sqm will require more energy to cut through the air than an aerofoil of 1sqm but not twice as much.

  12. Re:Whats the problem on Sexy Female Scientist Video Draws Fire · · Score: 1

    Sexy women in science are a great thing... domestic science while wearing a French maid's outfit.

  13. Re:There are some REAL problems in the world. on Sexy Female Scientist Video Draws Fire · · Score: 1

    Yes let's look at the real problems, my girlfriend has been in the bathroom for two hours and hasn't even started my breakfast yet! Thankfully I was able to make myself a coffee but that was some time ago and now there's washing-up to do. Will it ever end?

  14. Re:There are some REAL problems in the world. on Sexy Female Scientist Video Draws Fire · · Score: 1

    It's not better educated women that does the good, it's the change in the mindset of the men around them that gets them to agree that educating women, a) is not a bad thing - possibly even a basic human right, and b) could actually be beneficial to everyone; now that's where the good comes from. You can have women as highly educated as you choose but if they don't have an equal stage then it's for nothing.

  15. Re:Finally! on Sexy Female Scientist Video Draws Fire · · Score: 1

    Article, what article?

  16. Re:Whats the problem on Sexy Female Scientist Video Draws Fire · · Score: 1

    Wrong week perhaps?

  17. Re:Well I was confused on Sexy Female Scientist Video Draws Fire · · Score: 1

    A good woman scientist should look like a make-up commercial!

  18. Re:Whats the problem on Sexy Female Scientist Video Draws Fire · · Score: 1

    But as the cost of conducting science increases year on year can we afford to have more objectivity go out of the window one week in four?

  19. Re:Whats the problem on Sexy Female Scientist Video Draws Fire · · Score: 1

    But not the ones that think they're smart but are not.

  20. Re:Token Black on Sexy Female Scientist Video Draws Fire · · Score: 1

    I didn't see any immigrants, as far as I could tell they all look European to me.

  21. Remember it well on Sexy Female Scientist Video Draws Fire · · Score: 1

    Yep, that's how I remember science lessons!

  22. Re:It might not sound like much but on Everything You Need To Know About the June 5/6 Venus Transit · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I meant to say ...that in the process we've not done any harm.

  23. Re:It might not sound like much but on Everything You Need To Know About the June 5/6 Venus Transit · · Score: 1

    I think that there are few that would suggest that the 'west' has done a lot of good but there are equally few that would suggest that in the process we've also done a lot of harm. On balance it's been good but it must have been a bugger at the time!

  24. Re:It might not sound like much but on Everything You Need To Know About the June 5/6 Venus Transit · · Score: 1

    I think that's grossly unfair, they also invented only drinking a little bit but getting very drunk indeed.

  25. Re:This could put Ireland back into recession on Mathematicians Show Why Bubbles Sink in Nitrogen-Infused Stouts · · Score: 1

    All pints of Guinness can be pulled quickly almost independently of the shape of the glass, the current two-stage pouring process was introduced as a marketing ploy some decades ago to make the beer somehow special. I'm not denying that the beer is special, only that it needs to be poured in any special way.