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  1. Re:Annoying at night... on Glowing Cats a New Tool in AIDS Research · · Score: 1

    I'm glad I quit doing hallucinogens a long time ago.

    You sure about that? After all, you think you read this comment.

  2. Re:Dark matter always seemed like a cop out. on Dark Matter Hinted at Again at Cresst Experiment · · Score: 1

    What's interesting now is what it's made of - all we know is there's no interaction with photons, and no frictional clumping as you'd see in normal matter (or at least not in the wide range of energies involved in galaxy formation).

    It's 4 space dimension matter rather than 3 space dimension. Since 'our' 3 space dimension matter has nil (0.0) 4d space volume, there is basically zero % chance of interaction*. Likewise with other lower or higher dimensional matter.

        Additionally 4d photons don't interact directly with 3d matter, etc.etc.

        The interesting thing is that spacetime curvature still occurs... which explains the gravitational effects of different dimensional matter.

        * I can't recall the article, but a while ago someone was talking about how particles 'teleported' through a very thin "solid" sheet of matter because they had a small chance of being on the other side of the sheet of matter. Since a 2d slice of 3d spacetime has zero thickness (more or less infinitely smaller than the Planck length), the particle would be likely to be on either side of the 2d slice. Extend this up to a 4d/3d interaction...

  3. Some star had some plasma ripped off on Astronomers Find Unusual Star · · Score: 1

    A star had some of its plasma ripped off by a black hole (or another star) moving by. For whatever reason, the heavier elements were captured by the 2 larger bodies and the leftover H and He slowly coalesced into the freaky star.

        Scenario 2- The freaky star formed at the Lagrangian point between 2 huge stars and was dislodged from the system by a passing star.

  4. request that comments be stopped at 1337 on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Please delete this post and close the thread. :D

  5. Re:what about the san andreas fault going off and on Taken Over By Aliens? Google Has It Covered · · Score: 1

    what about the san Andreas fault going off and makeing CA split off from the rest of the usa?

    I thought San Andreas was already split off from the rest of the USA, unless you get Vice City or other mods.... need controller back.

  6. Re:This software must be broken on Can Analytics Help Fix Your Love Life? · · Score: 1

    Given that we are talking about the underlying drive for reproductive success, the obvious solution is Evolution, wouldn't you agree?

    Shocking. Before I could click "join" Theicebreak recommended I remove myself from the gene-pool.

        Incidentally, can anyone tell me what happens if it lets you click join? It won't allow me to, no matter what computer I use or proxy I go through.

  7. Re:HIV? on New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection · · Score: 1

    Actually, the "swine flu" ended up being far less deadly than most "pedestrian" flus. It's the media that can't admit they were wrong.

    No. Media couldn't resist the opportunity to pun on "When pigs fly". It's that simple. The swine flu.. blah blah blah...

        It'll happen again tomorrow (media not resisting urge to pun-ish its consumers). Like my sig... a cow word is moo.

  8. Blizzard North plug... on Researchers Say Dark Winters Led To Bigger Human Brains · · Score: 1

    Yup. Blizzard North... you know what I mean, or perhaps I should say "you see what I mean", if you are from the land of long nights.

  9. CUDA Trojan in wild... on Microsoft Offers $250,000 Reward For Botnet Info · · Score: 1

    Need to keep an outdated graphics card to be safe.

  10. Re:Always wise anyway on Rootkit Infection Requires Windows Reinstall · · Score: 0

    Like to point out one thing here. You talk a lot like Dixie Flatline for an ominous cow word.

          Back to the regular discussion...

  11. Statue of Liberty on Finally, an Ad Campaign Aimed At Monkeys · · Score: 2

    Is anyone else picturing the Statue of Liberty barely sticking out of a sandy beach?

  12. Beans are your friend on Acoustic Stealth Technology Finally Created · · Score: 1

    I find myself looking back on a life of denial. I wouldn't have that second helping of beans at dinner, or breakfast. Well, now my friends (grammar nazis- I don't leave you out), I can attract the flies of yesteryear without a fear of what you hear.

          This technology has truly set me free. I am loosed upon the world! The rumble of the jets, which before seemed so quiet as I let out the sighing whimper of last night's taco bell, now is the only sound you hear as the smell fills the air without a whisper upon your ear.

  13. Re:Israel has been fighting with its arms tied on U.S. Prepares to Get Nuked · · Score: 1

    You are all blithering idiots playing a drama game that catches up unknowing unfaithful wretches in it until they finally see the light.

    Terrorists can only affect those who do not have faith in God. All the acts of "terror and oppression" only serve to drive liars towards the truth.
    A$$HOLES

  14. Re:What if on Investigating Artificial Black Holes · · Score: 1

    until it collides with another electron, of course, and eats that electron. then it has the mass of three electrons, etc, etc.
    The electromagnetic repulsion between the electron and the black hole would prevent the electron from ever getting close enough to the black hole to be absorbed. Unless the hole is of neutral alignment... then size matters.

  15. Morgana Le Fay on AOL's Merlin Compromised? · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Strikes again...

  16. Re:suspicious on Science Project Quadruples Surfing Speed - Reportedly · · Score: 1

    Anyhting which can only be demonstrated in one lab in a hands-off, no-details demonstration isn't science and the person is hiding something.>/i>

    It's not science, it's business.

  17. Re:Since When Did America Have a Tech Edge? on Whither America's Technological Edge? · · Score: 1

    - Who invented the transistor?
    - Who started the computer industry?
    - Who invented nuclear power?


    Dude, who cares about that.

    Who invented pr0n!!!!!

  18. Re:french "artists" on Truth, Ownership, and the Scientific Tradition · · Score: 1


    The nature of science (for good or for ill) is that unless someone can disprove your work then yours is as good as anyone elses.

    It's not whether comeone can 'disprove' your work, it's whether your work is falsifiable.

  19. Re:Suggestion on Journal of Applied Physics, NASA, and the Hydrino · · Score: 1

    Seriously, I am not criticizing anyone specific here, but when you misspell common words, it takes a lot of credibility away from your thoughts.

    I think logical fallacies such as argumentum ad hominem take a little more credibility away from someone. Address the idea itself rather than some straw man you (inadvertently?) set up.

  20. Re:math question about pi on A Much Bigger Piece Of Pi · · Score: 1

    Base 10: 180 degrees

    binary : 10110100 degrees

    hex : B4 degrees

    base 19 and 4/90ths : 98.6 degrees

  21. Re:I only hope..... on Massive Two Towers Battle · · Score: 1

    Anyone hear of 'suspension of disbelief'?

  22. This proves my theory!!! on How An Andromeda Strain Might be Strained · · Score: 1

    We are all descendants of septic goo from the Planet Krypton.

  23. Re:In regards to the games references... on Electronic Life · · Score: 1

    I play a lot more games when I have a girlfriend. :p

  24. Nanotech water repellents in fabric already.... on Lotus Nanotech · · Score: 3, Informative

    "However, Soane had a test garment on hand, a men's shirt, made with fabric from the nanotechnology process. He gleefully poured water and coffee on it and the liquids ran off (onto Burlington's boardroom table) without being absorbed by the fabric. But he noted that pressure would cause the liquid to pan through the fabric." New Century News article

  25. Re:Whatever. on Review: Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets · · Score: 1

    I am a member of the small percentage of people in the US that cannot read. It is very troublesome to translate one strange system of symbolic logic into another (written to oral).

    Fortunately I hav winoze too nair8 t00 me.