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  1. Re:Didn't see it, hurricane Patricia hitting the a on Military Blimp Breaks Free and Drifts Over the Mid-Atlantic Trailing Tether (baltimoresun.com) · · Score: 2

    It is not the same low, but it is the moisture associated with the hurricane. The hurricane broke up over Texas, but formed a low in the gulf of Mexico which travelled along the coast, dumping rain across the south. The moisture was pulled up the east coast by a low that developed over the Midwest.

  2. Re:Exploding Helium! on Military Blimp Breaks Free and Drifts Over the Mid-Atlantic Trailing Tether (baltimoresun.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Sun does not fuse helium. It fuses 4 hydrogen atoms into helium. When the Sun starts to fuse helium in the distant future, we are toast.

  3. Re:How could they not know exactly where it is? on Military Blimp Breaks Free and Drifts Over the Mid-Atlantic Trailing Tether (baltimoresun.com) · · Score: 2

    Pennsylvania is being hit by a massive storm right now. The blimp is being blown over the mountains, and anyone chasing it has to go around.

  4. Re:Pennsylvania is in the mid-Atlantic on Military Blimp Breaks Free and Drifts Over the Mid-Atlantic Trailing Tether (baltimoresun.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, APG is north of Baltimore, and south of the Maxon-Dixon Line. Drift a little north and you are in Pennsylvania.

  5. Re:Didn't see it, hurricane Patricia hitting the a on Military Blimp Breaks Free and Drifts Over the Mid-Atlantic Trailing Tether (baltimoresun.com) · · Score: 1

    Very observant. The remnant crossed Texas, along the gulf coast, and now up the East coast.

  6. Didn't see it, hurricane Patricia hitting the area on Military Blimp Breaks Free and Drifts Over the Mid-Atlantic Trailing Tether (baltimoresun.com) · · Score: 1

    No one would have seen it, with the remnants of Hurricane Patricia hitting the area.

  7. But wait, there's more... on What Might a $50 Tablet Inspire? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If you call right now, we'll double the offer. That's right, two amazing Amazon Fire tablets for only $49.99!

  8. Re:The Entrie Crew on Mythbusters Ending After Next Season (ew.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, I miss Scottie.

  9. Or, it is still right on Study Questions Scientific Dating Method Used For Lunar Impacts (wisc.edu) · · Score: 1

    It may be wrong doesn't mean it isn't right.

  10. Attended talk by one of the professors on How a Frozen Neutrino Observatory Grapples With Staggering Amounts of Data (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    We had one of the professors who work on the project from F&M university give a talk on the project to our local astronomy club. The amount of work required to build that thing was amazing. They are using the Earth to filter out local sources of interference so that they can find true reactions caused by neutrinos. The Earth filters out other man-made particles. They can spot neutrinos from super novas coming through the Earth.

  11. Shooting the house next door on US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    I had a soldier bring his personal firearm to the reserve center, and accidently shoot the house next door. You can train and train someone, and they will go off and do something stupid anyway.

  12. Re:Ringworld shadow squares. on Mysteriously Variable Star Causes Speculation About Dyson Sphere (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Light sails from a Motie invasion.

  13. Re:Lots of other possibilities on Mysteriously Variable Star Causes Speculation About Dyson Sphere (slate.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Incoming Pak Protectors? Maybe an invasion of Moties?

  14. What exactly did Nostradamus predict? Most of his writings are about the Ottoman invasion of Europe.

  15. Isaac Asimov foresaw a lot of things that came to pass.

  16. The Dead Past on Antineutrino Detection Is About To Change the Game In Nuclear Verification (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Reminds me of the story by Isaac Asimov named "The Dead Past." A machine is invented that can see into the past using neutrinos. The government runs a huge version trying to look into the past. One man discovers that a very simple version can be made, and is being covered up by the government. He later realizes that there is a very good reason for this. The past includes one second ago, and the machine basically allows you to spy on anyone at any time. By releasing the plans, he eliminated any kind of privacy.

  17. We hire brand new programmers straight out of college to do COBOL programming. We need to train them before they can do any real work. There is quite a culture clash with the established programmers. New ones want IDEs, old ones still put DISPLAY statements in their code to debug.

  18. Was the same correlation there before fracking on Study Finds Higher Rates of Premature Birth Near Fracking Sites (jhsph.edu) · · Score: 2

    The cause may be in the environment, and not due to fracking itself. Did they check the records before the fracking industry move in? Was it always there? It may just have been an environmental issue that coincides with the land features that trap the gas in the first place.

  19. Re:Marvin the Martian happened on What Happened To the Martian Ocean and Magnetic Field? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Aliens...

  20. Re:It's cold on What Happened To the Martian Ocean and Magnetic Field? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Very sublime observation

  21. Re:A very obvious statement on Volkswagen Diesel Scandal Logistics Imply Sizable Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    Ok, if they were tricked because the equipment removed the emissions, they would have immediately wondered where all the performance went. You can't have both. Some engineer would have noticed. Unlike the government, they don't test car once and think they are good to go.

  22. Re:Hahahahahahaha on A Broke Fan Owes $5,400 For Pokemon-Themed Party Posters · · Score: 1

    I don't even follow Pokemon and I found that joke hilarious!

  23. A very obvious statement on Volkswagen Diesel Scandal Logistics Imply Sizable Conspiracy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you put any thought into this at all, you realize it is a massive conspiracy. Other automakers add expensive, space consuming devices to eliminate NO pollution. These is no way a single programmer could have made a change and all the engineers would go "Look, we don't need all the extra hardware, it passes the test!" Lots of people would notice immediately during the design phase.

  24. Re:Facebook? on Ask Slashdot: Simple, Cross-Platform Video Messaging? · · Score: 1

    And some of us couldn't care less.

  25. Facebook? on Ask Slashdot: Simple, Cross-Platform Video Messaging? · · Score: 1

    You can post them on Facebook and share them with your family.