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  1. Re:How is it possible? on Why Some Supermassive Black Holes Have Big Jets · · Score: 1

    A body revolving opposite of it's rotation could cause the accretion disc to form that way.

  2. Re:I'm not qualified to read this article. on Why Some Supermassive Black Holes Have Big Jets · · Score: 1

    From the calculations I have seen, for a singularity, time proceeds normally at that point as if there were no singularity at all.

  3. Re:Here's a silly question on Why Some Supermassive Black Holes Have Big Jets · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually, math only breaks down at the Event Horizon, and physicists pretty much ignore that one point and continue on. Theoretically, due to all calculations, time at the singularity proceeds just like it does for a non-relativistic observer. And you can in fact, calculate the amount of time it would take for you to reach the center of the black hole, though somebody watching you would say it took an infinite amount of time since they see you as stopping at the Event Horizon. But to you, you actually reach the Singularity.

  4. Re:I'm not qualified to read this article. on Why Some Supermassive Black Holes Have Big Jets · · Score: 1

    But it's weird since the singularity is an infinitesimal point, its angular velocity would be infinite wouldn't it?

  5. Re:Here's a silly question on Why Some Supermassive Black Holes Have Big Jets · · Score: 1

    They actually have direct evidence of Dark Matter. There were two galaxies that have started separating after colliding and the Gravitational Lensing from them shows that the Dark Matter didn't really react with anything and continued moving unimpeded whereas the regular matter slowed down.

    So essentially, you have a large sphere of dark matter on each side of the separating galaxies with all the regular matter between them.

  6. Re:Look on the bright side on Giant Guatemalan 'Sinkhole' Is Worse Than We Thought · · Score: 5, Funny

    This was the perfect opportunity for him to make a pun. "There is an excellent potential for this to happen again. It could happen almost anywhere in the city.' Should have been "I have a sinking feeling that this could happen again."

  7. Re:What the fuck is this on Doctor Slams Hospital's "Please" Policy · · Score: 1

    We all know House would be fired within a day from any real hospital, he just gets some extra leeway cause he banged the Director.

  8. Re:Fire them on Doctor Slams Hospital's "Please" Policy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Next thing you know, people will start getting fired there if they don't open the door for a lady.

  9. Just wanna say on Doctor Slams Hospital's "Please" Policy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Forced gratitude has zero meaning.

  10. Re:Self-fulfilling prophecies on Econophysicists Develop and Test "Bubble Index" · · Score: 1

    Except the system chose 4 out of all the other possibilities. Maybe if we knew how many of all the possibilities showed themselves out to be bubbles. If it was none, then it would be possible to say that it accurately guessed 98/100 or whatever the number of total different markets are.

  11. Re:Apple & Google buy carriers? on iPad Bait and Switch — No More Unlimited Data Plan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't think the Justice Department would allow that...at least they shouldn't allow it.

  12. So In Essence on How a Virginia Law Firm Outpaces the MPAA at Suing Over Movie Downloads · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't download Indie movies anymore. I am sure word of mouth will still spread on how great those movies are...right?

  13. Re:Why they're called a troll on CSIRO Sues US Carriers Over Wi-Fi Patent · · Score: 1

    I thought there was some rules about patents not being enforceable against industry standards?

  14. I wonder... on Snails On Methamphetamine · · Score: 1

    ...if after prolonged use we can expect the snails to get meth mouth.

  15. Why Anti-Circumvention Sucks on "Canadian DMCA" Rising From the Dead · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In the US, if you have a DVD designed not to play on your computer (you play it in Windows Media Player and it comes up as cannot play due to copyright restriction) and you watch it in VLC, if the Movie Studios found out, they could successfully sue you cause you bypassed DRM.

  16. Re:How in the universe? on Chameleon-Like Behavior of Neutrino Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Hey, my fiancee's father just got picked up to work on BooNe. Small world.

  17. Re:How in the universe? on Chameleon-Like Behavior of Neutrino Confirmed · · Score: 1

    And then you can maybe get Weakly-Interacting Massive Particles that can interact with just the Weak Force and Gravity.

  18. Re:Wait a second! Re:What if... on Chameleon-Like Behavior of Neutrino Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Well, if it went from something with mass to something without mass, could it not use that energy from the mass to speed up to the speed of light? Sort of like how pair production causes light to become two particles traveling slower then the speed of light and then when they annihilate each other you get the photons traveling at the speed of light again?

  19. Re:Independent studies warranted on Study Claims Cellphones Implicated In Bee Loss · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    But the only way America could get that manpower is to let even more mexican immigrants in.

  20. Re:Now just hopefully... on Breakthrough In Stem Cell Culturing · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yeah, my grandpa has it and it is pretty awful. The crazy thing is, he has that body of an ox and he is 94 now? If it wasn't for Alzheimer's he would prolly be doing fine and live for another 10 years easily. At least the medicine he is on now has significantly slowed the progress and he sort of still remembers who his kids and wife is, but barely that.

  21. Now just hopefully... on Breakthrough In Stem Cell Culturing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They can find the cure for alzheimer's before I really have to worry about it.

  22. Re:Rape Capital of the World on Porn Ban Being Considered In South Africa · · Score: 1

    There are certain places in the world, we will call them uncivilized places, where a different brand of law should be enforced. Even in Democratic countries. Rape should probably be a capital crime in these countries. Hell, Rape was a Capital Crime in early America. Not saying that I support the Death Penalty in any 1st World Country, but 3rd and 4th world countries have to get out of the gutter and have their populace start following the laws somehow.

  23. Re:Brilliant plan on Porn Ban Being Considered In South Africa · · Score: 1

    Wait...isn't 1994 the year that Apartheid really ended and Black people could run for office and everything?

  24. Re:Attention to other important stuff... on Porn Ban Being Considered In South Africa · · Score: 1

    I was actually thinking of this. Lack of porn would increase people's desire for sex and since Africa is already mostly torn with HIV everywhere, this would just cause the spread of HIV to increase.

    Porn Saves Lives!

  25. Re:That's fine... on Ofcom Unveils Anti-Piracy Policy For UK ISPs · · Score: 1

    You are also forgetting that many recording labels require that the Artists cut is where the advertising for their music comes from so until their CD sells so many copies, they don't see a dime.

    That is why if you truly like an artist, you don't buy their CD, you see them in concert, cause most of that money actually goes to them.