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  1. Re:Gotten on Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed · · Score: 1

    I didn't got it.

  2. Re:Failed how? on Skydiver To Break Sound Barrier During Free-Fall · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're all still in orbit.

  3. Re:Anyone else think.. on Skydiver To Break Sound Barrier During Free-Fall · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He shouldn't feel more than 1 G pushing back on him. I know I abused units, but it's no more force than the ground pushing back on you. Newton's 3rd law. Terminal velocity means acceleration of gravity = -acceleration due to resistance. Otherwise, as long as he doesn't go very far past TV, he shouldn't have to worry too much in that regard (With or without all the other problems). Friction and heat? I don't know how bad that'll be, I hope he does the math before cooking like an egg. If he does cook, that is.

  4. Re:help in police chases? on Electromagnetic Pulse Gun To Help In Police Chases · · Score: 1

    Well, it's natural selection . . . :P

  5. Re:help in police chases? on Electromagnetic Pulse Gun To Help In Police Chases · · Score: 1

    Outlaw electromagnetic radiation and then only criminals will have EMR?

  6. Re:Why? on Microsoft Bots Effectively DDoSing Perl CPAN Testers · · Score: 1

    You mean the mods have to read TFCs? D:

  7. Re:We could have MANY rovers. on Options Dwindling For Mars Spirit Rover · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, we could spend more money on oranges by not funding apples. Rovers deal with exploration, and the shuttle was responsible for a bunch of other jobs.

  8. Re:Fast forward... on Cliff Click's Crash Course In Modern Hardware · · Score: 1

    Huh, I got to play it nice for a while. Then it kept on stopping. Now it won't play at all. Good show, up as far as I could see (~15 minutes).

    And Flash really really needs to die for the greater good. And for us Linux users.

  9. Re:Why did she even bother? on Google.cn Attack Part of a Broad Spying Effort · · Score: 1

    In Washington America, Hillary fires you!

  10. Re:Statescraft on Google.cn Attack Part of a Broad Spying Effort · · Score: 1

    But like American coders, they have one collective Achilles' heel: Make a surgical strike on their ramen noodle production facilities and their whole tech infrastructure will fall to its knees.

  11. Re:VT Voters - Contact your Legislator! on Another Crumbling Reactor Springs a Tritium Leak · · Score: 1

    [Pendantic Man]Strictly speaking, fire deals with stuff reacting with oxygen exothermically. Given that nuclear reactions do not deal with combustion, "nuclear fire" is rather inappropriate to say.

    The proper term you're looking for is "Big Damn Boom".[/Pendantic Man]

  12. Re:WTF is up with the summary? on Another Crumbling Reactor Springs a Tritium Leak · · Score: 1

    Doesn't Tritium have a half life of 12 years? My understanding is that you need a whole bunch of this stuff to be dangerous, and even then it becomes safe quickly.

    I-am-not-a-nuclear-scientist Disclaimer: It is also my understanding that inhaling tritium makes your voice go higher.

  13. Re:Ninja pirates. on Scientists Turn Wood Into Bone · · Score: 1

    "Security Man, my old nemesis, we meet again!."

  14. Re:Torpedo? on Microsoft Wants To Participate In SVG Development · · Score: 1

    Mozilla doesn't make OS's. Just the system. :P

  15. Re:Torpedo? on Microsoft Wants To Participate In SVG Development · · Score: 1

    Chill, I was not flame baiting. I really didn't think MS should bother, that was my point. The whole 'wait for a good OS' was just poking fun. If you got all upset about it, then you probably have been glued to your computer for too long, whatever the OS may be.

  16. Re:Torpedo? on Microsoft Wants To Participate In SVG Development · · Score: 1

    Actually, by my logic, it was a joke.

  17. Re:Torpedo? on Microsoft Wants To Participate In SVG Development · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Agreed. Microsoft should be allowed to contribute once they prove themselves at building a good OS. Probably somewhere around Web 6.0, but we're patient.

  18. Re:zero-risk? on Thorium, the Next Nuclear Fuel? · · Score: 5, Funny

    No. What if a giant picks the reactor up and uses it to hammer pedestrians? Didn't think of that, did they? Failproof, my foot.

  19. Re:If it's not broken, why are you fixing it? on Russia Plans To Divert Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Me too. Shirley Jackson would weep at the number of wasted stones.

  20. Re:Factors of 10 on HDD Manufacturers Moving To 4096-Byte Sectors · · Score: 1

    I'll sell you one that goes to 12.

  21. Re:Coincidence? on Fifth Anniversary of a Cosmic Onslaught · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, although given the predisposition for earthquakes to cause magnetar flares, this is just too much to match up as coincidence.

  22. Re:Frist Post! on Fifth Anniversary of a Cosmic Onslaught · · Score: 1

    Okay, so that's a minus for drugs.

  23. Re:Zero warning on Fifth Anniversary of a Cosmic Onslaught · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No, some places on earth have an advantage. They're a little farther awa

  24. Re:Frist Post! on Fifth Anniversary of a Cosmic Onslaught · · Score: 1

    Without mind-altering substances? Well, go to a very dark, open place at night and look at the sky for a little while. Then imagine all those little stars as bright as the sun. Then imagine all that compressed to one point. That should sort of help.

  25. Re:the sky is falling! on Legislator Wants Cancer Warnings For Cell Phones · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ionizing radiation increase your risk of cancer. Ionizing radiation screws up all kinds of stuff. Ionizing radiation gets inside your cells.

    Problem is, cell phone signals are *nowhere* near ionizing.

    Common sense does go a long way. But you have to have at least a basic grasp of the concepts involved.