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  1. Thrilling Asteroid Flyby; Engrish Funny on China's Chang'E 2 Succeeds In Thrilling Asteroid Flyby · · Score: 1

    "China has now joined the select group of countries have been successful interplanetary exploration missions. According to China's official news agency, Xinhua News Agency reported, Chang'e II detector by only 3.2 km (2 miles) from near Toutatisat 8:30:09 on December 13 GMT Earth asteroid, it is the closest asteroid flying over ... as well as the resulting photos. "

  2. Re:[:~P on Researchers Develop an Internet Truth Machine · · Score: 1

    Corpses everywhere. xD The stench of death pervades my very being. :)

  3. Re:I wonder... on Researchers Develop an Internet Truth Machine · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately you're - we're - correct. :-( At least he didn't use profanity (PDF).

  4. Re:How cheap? on Solar Impulse Announces Flight Across America For 2013 · · Score: 1

    Wiki lists "Loaded weight" at 1,600 kg (3,500 lb) and "Max. takeoff weight" at 2,000 kg (4,400 lb). The latter is actually listed as "Maximum weight" at the source article, which is 3 years older than the one for the loaded weight. This, I think, is conflating the loaded weights of the 1st prototype (HB-SIA) with the 2nd one (HB-SIB), giving the impression that the plane has massive cargo capacity. In actuality shots of the pilot in the cabin suggest he has barely enough room for water bottles/sack lunch/piss jar.

  5. Re:OMG! I love her hair! on Video Tour of the International Space Station · · Score: 1

    She's like Yahoo Serious with oobages. Seems kinda like that would get in the way - be distracting to crewmates, maybe. Don't they have room for Scunchies or hairnets in the budget?

  6. Re:No it doesn't on Ray Kurzweil Joins Google As Director of Engineering · · Score: 1

    "The sensation you're feeling is the Quickening." Fits since Ray's ultimately going to have his head cut off and stuffed into a Futurama style jar.

  7. Re:DUPE on Drilling Begins At Lake Hidden Beneath Antarctic · · Score: 1

    Lesson is: add more tautology and outright repetition and Bob's your uncle. And don't forget to repeat things.

  8. Re:Stargate on Drilling Begins At Lake Hidden Beneath Antarctic · · Score: 1

    "In his house at R'lyeh, using sterilized water at near boiling point, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."

  9. Try 'intercourse Sula spp.'

    IANAO.

  10. Whereas "cream pie" is wholly innocuous, unless you're a dessert fetishist that is.

  11. Re:Thunderbirds are Go! on US Nuclear Industry Plans "Rescue Wagon" To Avert Meltdowns · · Score: 1

    Or SHADO. Deploy Skydiver!

    Get-off-lawn disclaimer: I'm a bit too young to have caught that when it originally aired.

  12. Re:Mandatory reading for all chocolate threads on Scientists Develop Chocolate That Won't Melt At High Temperatures · · Score: 1

    Regarding cheap chocolate, here's the opposite end of the spectrum: Most Expensive Chocolate.

  13. Re:French toast on Scientists Develop Sixty Day Bread · · Score: 2

    You can prepare for a diet of stale bread by munching on hardtack.

  14. Re:Much better but annoyances still remain on Apple Declutters, Speeds Up iTunes With Major Upgrade · · Score: 1

    I'm a foobar stalwart too. You can fine tune things to whatever degree imaginable, some of the layouts users have cooked up are really astonishing, and like you say, it's a real kickass program performance wise.

    iTunes? Meh. Mine sits idle except to iShop or manage the iPod.

  15. MST3k The Rebel Set 01/10 - YouTube. Skip ahead to 5:20 for the relevant part.

  16. Oblig Dark Star on How Do We Program Moral Machines? · · Score: 3, Informative

    How Do We Program Moral Machines?

    Ideally, not at the last moment.

  17. Re:Thoughts on What Will NASA Do With Its Gifted Spy 'Scopes? · · Score: 1

    Maybe they built them to keep an eye on the ones in orbit. Watch the watchers etc.

  18. Re:They'll be giving them machine guns next.. on Disney Research Robot Can Juggle, Play Catch · · Score: 4, Funny

    Head is kind of a Lyle Lovett rictus. It looks much less T1 in closeup, though, but still uncanny. Say the following in a laconic drawl: "Nice night for a walk."

  19. Re:Missing on Implant Translates Written Words To Braille, Right On the Retina · · Score: 1

    "You'll put your eye out, kid!"

  20. Re:DR WHO on Mannequins That Watch Shoppers · · Score: 1
  21. Re:RIP Charles M. Schulz on NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000 · · Score: 1

    And we can document the whole thing in this newfangled Library of Congress. Have you chanced to peruse Volta's description of his proposed electrochemical pile?

  22. RIP Charles M. Schulz on NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000 · · Score: 2

    Poor Elián González! At least I was able to get ILOVEYOU off of my Gateway. Have you checked out Dora the Explorer?

  23. Re:I really hope... on What "Earth-Shaking" Discovery Has Curiosity Made on Mars? · · Score: 1

    That's a great short story too.

  24. Re:limkerickz on John McAfee Launches Blog, Offers $25K Reward For "Real Killers" · · Score: 1

    The Fugitive . . . a QM Production.

    . . . the story of Dr. John McAfee, an innocent victim of blind justice. Falsely convicted for the murder of his neighbor. Reprieved by fate when Belizian police couldn't find meth, freed to flee. Freed him to hide in lonely desperation. To change his identity. To toil at many jobs. To go on the lam with his piece of jailbait. Freed him to search for a functional antivirus program.

  25. Also Obligatory Onion on Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? · · Score: 1