> I'd rather see this than another few million dumped into quantum computing.
The cooler reduces the entropy of the beer, and then you drink it, causing your brain state to collapse on a solution that's guaranteed to seem like a good idea at the time.
> The crusades were political wars dressed in the robes of religion.
One theory is that the Crusades were a plan to get all the European males suffering from "testosterone poisoning" to go fight somewhere else instead of staying home and fighting each other.
> Think of one of those in an Apache helicopter. Lets's say it's fired upon with a ground to air missile. Give it 2 seconds to impact. Assume the automated gun can be aimed at the missile in 1 second. So the next second it will be firing at 1 million rounds pr minute, so about 16000 bullets are fired at the missile, surely some of them will hit and destroy.
And if not, maybe the recoil will push the heli out of the missile's path.
In the article, "shadow photons" become "shadow protons" between one sentence and the next. Perhaps that's advanced physics, but I suspect the writer got something confused. Can anyone straighten it out?
> This is quite timely, considering the reports of UFO's coming from Mexico
Darn, I had always hoped they were from a distant galaxy.
> If aliens do visit us, then their technology is obviously greatly superior to our own
Yes, I'm sure there are sound technological reasons for kidnapping members of an inferior species, sticking various things up their behindies, and then turning them loose.
> Personally, I always identify myself with the "evil" characters in popular culture, especially the bad guys from Bond movies. Ah, the classic Tom Jones theme... "He looks at the world and wants it all, so he strikes like thunderball" - wouldn't you if you could?
> The discovery of extra-terrestrial intelligence would be catastrophic for organized religion. What if they have the exact same religion as one of the ones on Earth? Then it must be the correct one, and there's no such thing as faith anymore, and at least 80% of the Earth's population was wrong all along. What if they DON'T share any of our religions? Then ALL of ours must be wrong.
Europeans didn't find that problematic the last time they discovered a New World.
Religions tend to be very conservative about their beliefs, but they've always shown an ability to adapt when the chips are down. Encounters with extraterrestrials won't be any different.
> What fucking eye-sore! Who designed them anyway? What are they, are they supposed to induce creativity or something? And who approved the building plans? Was it Gates himself? He used to go to Harvard, maybe it's his trick of subtly saying "the dweebs go to this university."
More likely it was an architect trying to get even for his operating system falling down all the time.
>...that MS would hand out those rewards to those who turned in people that used pirated versions of their software. Not that i care about Microsoft piracy at all, but I know a few assholes, and I could need the money.
Wonder what's the ROI for releasing a virus and then ratting on yourself.
> the specops website is a pretty blatant pitch for venture capital, and not intended to give information to end users. Has an definate air of dodginess...
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> If the poster would have read the first paragraph, they would have seen it was at 250 million years ago not 2 Billion...
Maybe they're using metric years.
> I'd rather see this than another few million dumped into quantum computing.
The cooler reduces the entropy of the beer, and then you drink it, causing your brain state to collapse on a solution that's guaranteed to seem like a good idea at the time.
> The crusades were political wars dressed in the robes of religion.
One theory is that the Crusades were a plan to get all the European males suffering from "testosterone poisoning" to go fight somewhere else instead of staying home and fighting each other.
> Think of one of those in an Apache helicopter.
Lets's say it's fired upon with a ground to air missile. Give it 2 seconds to impact. Assume the automated gun can be aimed at the missile in 1 second. So the next second it will be firing at 1 million rounds pr minute, so about 16000 bullets are fired at the missile, surely some of them will hit and destroy.
And if not, maybe the recoil will push the heli out of the missile's path.
> What must be stressed, though, is that military supremacy should not be an excuse for poor or non-existing foreign policy.
Unless of course you're deliberately trying to start WWIII.
...you can see ladies taking their clothes off.
In the article, "shadow photons" become "shadow protons" between one sentence and the next. Perhaps that's advanced physics, but I suspect the writer got something confused. Can anyone straighten it out?
> now they will have to agree for Jesus with eight tentacles?
Naw, you're confusing him with his surly cousin from R'lyeh.
...for a toke on his pipe.
> This is quite timely, considering the reports of UFO's coming from Mexico
Darn, I had always hoped they were from a distant galaxy.
> If aliens do visit us, then their technology is obviously greatly superior to our own
Yes, I'm sure there are sound technological reasons for kidnapping members of an inferior species, sticking various things up their behindies, and then turning them loose.
> Personally, I always identify myself with the "evil" characters in popular culture, especially the bad guys from Bond movies. Ah, the classic Tom Jones theme... "He looks at the world and wants it all, so he strikes like thunderball" - wouldn't you if you could?
I draw the line at persian cats.
> You could call any post that people might disagree with "flamebait". It's a stupid mod option.
I kinda don't like it either, because it requires an assumption that the moderator knows the poster's motives for posting.
> The discovery of extra-terrestrial intelligence would be catastrophic for organized religion. What if they have the exact same religion as one of the ones on Earth? Then it must be the correct one, and there's no such thing as faith anymore, and at least 80% of the Earth's population was wrong all along. What if they DON'T share any of our religions? Then ALL of ours must be wrong.
Europeans didn't find that problematic the last time they discovered a New World.
Religions tend to be very conservative about their beliefs, but they've always shown an ability to adapt when the chips are down. Encounters with extraterrestrials won't be any different.
FYI, "flamebait" isn't a synonym for "I disagree".
The amateur anti-missle defense club will try to shoot it down.
"There is no point to this" ==> "(Score:5, Insightful)"
Newbies should take note of this excellent karma-harvesting strategy.
...to the Mars rovers.
> What fucking eye-sore! Who designed them anyway? What are they, are they supposed to induce creativity or something? And who approved the building plans? Was it Gates himself? He used to go to Harvard, maybe it's his trick of subtly saying "the dweebs go to this university."
More likely it was an architect trying to get even for his operating system falling down all the time.
> He has the social skills of a 14yr old
He's a programmer; what did you expect?
> Of course I don't need a stereo for I am a human beat box.
I thought marriage was supposed to fix that!
> I wonder what kind of deals are being offered right now for him to turn in friends and information?
I wonder whether they're making him wear girls' underwear on his head until he talks.
>
Wonder what's the ROI for releasing a virus and then ratting on yourself.
Don't go bragging about your next virus release.
> the specops website is a pretty blatant pitch for venture capital, and not intended to give information to end users. Has an definate air of dodginess...
At least they're not pitching for IP lawyers...
...but engineers laugh at us for reading O'Reilly's books.