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  1. Bulletproof Foam-filled Bounce module on SpaceX Delivers World's First Inflatable Room For Astronauts (go.com) · · Score: 1

    pop a can of self-expanding bulletproof foam to fill up the walls of the new module, and you have arguable a safer module than the existing modules.

  2. How Was Organism Modified on Tiny Vermont Brings Food Industry To Its Knees On GMO Labels (ap.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If it was old-fashioned breeding techniques, no problem. If scientists used a virus to splice genes to/from an organism, I want to know. That technique has not been proven to be completely accurate or side-effect free.

  3. Re:business as usual on Reports Coming In Of Mass IBM Layoffs Underway In The US (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    IBM is simply doing the needful.

  4. Re: So what? on Aging Indian Point Reactor Shut Down By Bird Droppings (nypost.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Red bird 5 must have used protein turdpedos.

  5. Trump will press the big red button on How Donald Trump Uses Twitter As a Weapon of Fear · · Score: 1

    If Trump somehow managed to become president, I would worry about his brash nature flippantly deciding to launch WW3.

  6. How is babby formed? on Editing Genes In Human Embryos Doesn't Mean Designer Babies · · Score: 1
  7. Re:If a warhead tumbles, it is useless on North Korea's Satellite Tumbling In Orbit · · Score: 1

    Maybe not as important if you plan to detonate in the atmosphere to cause an EMP blast.

  8. Re:Advertising Bubble on Why Stack Overflow Doesn't Care About Ad Blockers · · Score: 1

    What's your twitter id?

  9. Docker is Slower on Docker Images To Be Based On Alpine Linux (brianchristner.io) · · Score: 1

    Docker applications are slower than natively-running code.

  10. Re:Oh boy! on Fine Brothers File For Trademark On Word "React" · · Score: 1

    "Viewers React to React Trademark"

  11. Re:Oh boy! on Fine Brothers File For Trademark On Word "React" · · Score: 1

    Someone should start a meme of "React" videos to this topic: "Viewers React to React Trademark"

  12. They got used to the high-speed internet connection.

  13. Re:Happening already on Urban Death Project Aims To Rebuild Our Soil By Composting Corpses (inhabitat.com) · · Score: 1

    You sure know a lot about disposing of human bodies.

  14. The UFO defense clause gets added later, if it hasn't already been included into the charter.

  15. Re:Quadcopters on The BBC Announces Robot Wars' Return To TV (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    and ranged weapons

  16. Re:Legalize Jamming on Preparing Countermeasures For Terror Attacks Using Drones (remotecontrolproject.org) · · Score: 1

    If it is in fact a drone, that means it is not receiving signals from an operator but flying autonomously, so a jamming signal wouldn't work.

  17. It's only 5 years away ...

  18. Re:Devoops on Signs You're Doing Devops Wrong (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    3. You hire a college grad to do both the developer and the operations jobs, with the operations salary.

  19. Re:use it for space travel! on Harvard Prof. Says Cure For Aging Could Emerge Within 5 Years (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Send all the rich people into space!

  20. Re:Despite the summary, this is somewhat new... on Immersion Cooling Drives Server Power Densities To Insane New Heights (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1

    If I had to support a system with reel-to-reel tape drives, I would consider that Big Scary and I would also get really tired.

  21. Centrifugal force on Guy Creates Handheld Railgun With a 3D-Printer (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Centrifugal pushes apart from the center, while centripetal pulls together toward the center, so the destruction would be from centrifugal force.

  22. Yes

  23. More laws for the citizens to pay for and the criminals to ignore.

  24. MOOC = Massive Open Online Course on MIT Master's Program To Use MOOCs As 'Admissions Test' (chronicle.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those like me who don't automatically know what some random acronym means.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Also, shame on submitter / editor for not including acronym expansion.

  25. Re:The argument from environmentalism... on Endocannabinoids Contribute To Runner's High · · Score: 1

    For an even lower carbon footprint, vaporize your material - no combustion at all (if done properly).