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  1. Re:Power on ISS Could Be Fitted With Lasers To Shoot Down Space Junk · · Score: 1

    This is about deorbiting small debris, not whole satellites.

  2. Re: I imagine ....the solution is on Researchers Find Same RSA Encryption Key Used 28,000 Times · · Score: 1

    How would you make a list of what are supposed to be private keys?

  3. Re:KSP on SpaceShipTwo's Rocket Engine Did Not Cause Fatal Crash · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but kerbals don't wear parachutes.

  4. Re: Thanks for making my point on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 2

    Who said it had to be quietly?

  5. Re:Ridiculous on NASA Asks Boeing, SpaceX To Stop Work On Next-Gen Space Taxi · · Score: 1

    and a lever-arm on the parachute rig to angle the capsule on the descent (not sure why, I guess for a better landing).

    Wild guess: to make splashdown less impactful by avoiding a "belly flop" and hitting the water edge-first.

  6. Re:It's not your phone on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 1

    Unlimited data plans on cell phones are not very common these days. I think people have a right to be upset if 100M gets sent to them unexpectedly.

  7. Re:Practical applications? on Scientists Have Developed a Material So Dark That You Can't See It · · Score: 1

    I'd suspect that the energy is released as a near perfect black-body spectrum.

  8. Of course cisco opposes neutrality... on Cisco Opposes Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    "Different bits do matter differently. We need to ensure that we have a system that allows this to occur."
    Translation:
    "Different bits do matter differently. We SELL systems that allows this to occur."

  9. > ISS-Above has an advantage or two over those apps

    But the advantages it supposedly has have nothing to do with it being a dedicted piece of hardware, and could be implemented better and cheaper in an app...

  10. Nonsense on Supermassive Black Hole At the Centre of Galaxy May Be Wormhole In Disguise · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "The thinking is that about 100 million years after the Big Bang, this supermassive object attracted the gas and dust that eventually became the Milky Way. But there is a problem with this theory--100 million years is not long enough for a black hole to grow so big. The alternative explanation is that Sagittarius A* is a wormhole..."

    No, the widely accepted alternative (aka, the actual mainstream consensus) is that the supermassive black hole and the galaxy grew together, not that the black hole came first and was supermassive before the galaxy existed. This wormhole theory is an answer to a question no one is asking.

  11. Re:What about NNTP? P2P? on iPhone Web Claims Draw Governmental Rebuke in UK · · Score: 1

    They said the web, not the internet.

  12. Re:hmmm on NASA Contractor Needs Urine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because it's not just about the toilet, but what happens to the waste after that. They need to extract and reuse the water...

  13. Re:Stillsuits? on NASA Contractor Needs Urine · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that's exactly what they're planing, just not in suit form.

  14. Re:World's Greatest Detective on Hans Reiser To Reveal Location of Wife's Body · · Score: 1

    You must be new here

  15. Re:UDP Only... on Hiding Packets in VoIP Chat · · Score: 4, Informative

    The idea behind steganography is not just to encrypt the data, but to hide the fact that you're sending it in the first place.

  16. Re:A billion Gigabytes? on A Yottabyte of Storage Per Year by 2013 · · Score: 1

    No actually a billion gigs is an exabyte. A billion terabytes would be a zettabyte.

  17. Re:Hawking Radiation on Black Hole Particle Jets Explained · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's both, they radiate very slow and the CMB will be warmer than them for a long time. I just looked it up, a stellar mass black hole will take 10^67 years to evaporate. I was way off when I said trillions. :)

    The cool thing is, as they get smaller, they radiate faster. So they get smaller and hotter exponentially, and finally die (in theory...) in a massive burst of gamma rays. In the last second, they emit as much energy as a 5000000 megaton nuke. Would be a hell of a show (from a safe distance).

  18. Re:Hawking Radiation on Black Hole Particle Jets Explained · · Score: 1

    Large ones will start to evaporate... in a few trillion years once the CMB cools down enough.

  19. Re:Hawking Radiation on Black Hole Particle Jets Explained · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, this is completely different, but it's not exactly the black hole emitting anything. The jets are from material that hasn't fallen into the black hole yet, being accelerated along the axis of rotation by the twisted magnetic fields outside the black hole.

  20. Re:Um, what? on Bionic Contact Lens May Lead to Overlay Displays · · Score: 1

    Well my even lower 4 digit uid says that all you need is some sort of eyeball motion tracking built in, and you can shift the image on the display in the opposite direction of the eye movement. So the image would appear in a fixed position relative to your head rather than your eye, and you can simply look to the side to read off-center test.

  21. It's the end of the world on 'w00t' Named 2007 Word of the Year · · Score: 2, Funny

    I believe this is the first sign of the apocalypse.

  22. Re:Basic Quantum Mechanics on A 1.2 Petabyte Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't an atom with an odd number of electrons have 2 possible states?

  23. Re:What about using a net? on NASA's Michael Griffin Interviewed · · Score: 1

    If a large piece breaks loose inside the net, the wind catching it at hundreds or even thousands of MPH will suddenly put a massive pull on the net. That net would then abuse the hell out of the rest of the foam on the tank. For containment like that to work it would have to cover the whole tank and not have holes like a net for wind to pass through. Think saran wrap or a giant nylon sock or something.

  24. Re:I don't get it on Planet Discovered with a Massive Core · · Score: 1

    Hundreds of others like this one, lol.

    There are something like 70 sextillion stars out there. I'm sure for every new type of planet we find, there are trillions of examples out there. Probably thousands if not millions just within our own galaxy. The point isn't that it's a unique planet or anything, just that it's the first of it's kind that we've found. It expands our knowledge of solar system formation and will help us to find the earthlike worlds that you seem to think are the only important ones.

  25. Re:correct me if I'm wrong, but... on Hitchhikers Guide Movie Might Become a Trilogy · · Score: 1

    You forgot 'life, the universe, and everything', the third book.