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  1. Why it wouldn't work in the USA on Ford's 65MPG Due In November, But Not In the US · · Score: 1

    Firstly american gallons are smaller, about 3.8l instead of 4.5l so it wouldn't get 65mpg here.
    Secondly diesel powered cars are uncommon, , diesel is only used in trucks. The fuel costs more than gasoline.
    And Americans don't know how to drive manual transmissions.
    Fonnally americans like to have bogger cars, they are scared of being in something small in the case of an accident.

  2. Re:Eh... on Royal Society and Creationism In Science Classes · · Score: 1

    I have no trouble wuth people believing in Creation, or in a Creator. However if this is mentioned in a Science class, then the facts taught should be those that are scientifically verifiable. ie the Creation Event happened BILLIONS of years ago, not thousands as taught by _some_ christians, and that while there is no scientific proof of the Existance of The Creator, there is nothing to disprove that existance either.

  3. Re:So on 45th and 46th Mersenne Primes Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Dr. Arroway to Michael Kitz: You want to classify the prime numbers?
    (From Contact by Carl Sagan)

  4. But where on 1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change · · Score: 2, Funny

    would we get a heroine to inspire such a fleet? She would have to be 50% more beautiful than Helen of Troy...

  5. What about space science on Sarah Palin's Stance On Technology Issues · · Score: 1

    What are her views on space science, like the Hubble telescope, and exploration of Mars?

    Since she believes that the universe is less than 10,000 years old, there would be no point in observing other galaxies that are millions of light years away, we wouldnt be able to see them now would we?

  6. Thailand used to be called Siam on Thai Government To Close 400 Anti-government Sites · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yul Brunner for King

  7. Re:Antarctica on Cost-Effective Server Room Air Conditioning? · · Score: 1

    And for the other 6 months of the year, try Thief River Falls, MN

  8. ObVader on TELUS Forcing Customers Off Unlimited Plans · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."

  9. Re:SSSPam on Scientists Solve Mystery of Star Formation Near Black Holes · · Score: 1

    "So in other words I'll have to give my email address to YET another anonymous entity"

    For an anonymous entity you use an anonymous email addy (hotmail, gmail, yahoo etc)

    and I for one welcome our anonymous, star creating, overlord entity that lives near black holes.

  10. Meaningless statistics on 2008 Is the Coldest Year of the 21st Century · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Did you know that , at the time of 9/11 , 2001 was the coldest year of the 21st century.

    It was also the hottest year of the 21st century (at that time).

    The term 'century' is often used to refer to a period of 100 years. However we have had less than 8 years of the 21st century so far. Wake me up when you have the results from the whole 100 years (ie in 2101)

  11. Re:In New Zealand.... on 2008 Is the Coldest Year of the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    Does that mean the glaciers in The South Island (Fox, Franz Josef) are no longer receding?

  12. Re:So much for the seeds of .... on Teens Arrested For Motorized Office Chair · · Score: 1

    The electric motor doesn't produce greenhouse gasses, or carbon monoxide. The latter would not be very useful for something used inside an office building.

  13. Amateur scientists? on Amateur Scientists Seek Fusion Reaction · · Score: 1

    Maybe if 'Professional' science and research was as well funded as 'amateur' sports (sound effect) Bay-ching (/sound effect) we would have had viable fusion power for decades.

  14. Re:Water = civilization on Stone Age Mass Graves Reveal Green Sahara · · Score: 1

    Uf there were no oceans, this planet would be almost uninhabitable. It would be too cold or too hot. The oceans moderate the temperature.

  15. You mean on Password Resets Worse Than Reusing Old password · · Score: 1

    ..that people might actually give an honest answer to questions like 'mothers maiden name?'

    And what about 'first pet?' - I never had a PET as such, my first computer was a TRS80
    I did have a C=64 which was a direct descendant of the Personal Electrouic Transactor

    Those questions are just prompts, you are't expected to provide a answer that is correct, just the same as what you originally typed in.

    And then they send you the NEW password to your Email address. If you used a SECURE email account in the first place, rather that a hotmail, yahoo, or gmail address, there should not be a problem.

  16. Moving to UAV's on First All-Drone USAF Air Wing · · Score: 4, Informative

    Inthis area the Air National Guard is also moving to UAV's. The 119th (Happy Hooligans) based in Fargo retired their F16s a while ago, and now flies Predators. The refueling wing based in Grand Forks also flies UAV's now.

  17. Re:Oil independence on NASA Spends $25M On Unmanned Planes, Awards Aviation Prizes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    MPG doesn't really matter if you're not going anywhere. The Global Hawk is a loitering type of reconnaissance plane, not a fly-over-as-fast-as-you-can type like the SR71. What matters is the gallons per hour, not the miles per gallon.

  18. Ranks on starships on Cryptic Studios Releases New Star Trek Online Details, Trailer · · Score: 1

    There are hundreds (TOS) to over a thousand (TNG) personel on a starfleet ship, yet less than 10 have regular speaking roles on the show(s). I would think that there would be many elisted men/women, with titles like Spaceman, Leading Spaceman (the wet navies had Seaman, Able Seaman, Leading Seaman etc. I think that Miles O'brien (Colm Meany, not the CNN news anchor) was a Chief Petty Officer or something like that (an NCO)

  19. 22.6F temperature change on Researchers Pave Way For Compressor-Free Refrigeration · · Score: -1

    thats not going to replace many legacy refrigerator/freezer units is it.
    I'd want the fridge part colder than 50f thankyou (assiming a kitchen temp of 73F) and of course the freezer isn't going to freeze...

  20. How do you pronounce it? on Mozilla Launches Snowl Messaging Prototype · · Score: 1

    Does it rhyme with hole or owl ?

    If the latter (Owl messaging service) then J K rOwling wants credit for the idea.

  21. Re:September 10th? on Large Hadron Collider Goes Live September 10th · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "For those in the US, two degrees kelvin is roughly a bazillgian degrees below zero."

    Its actually about 456 degrees below 0 F

  22. Re:way to pick the low-hanging fruit IBM on IBM Granted "Paper-or-Plastic?" Patent · · Score: 1

    If I am going grocery shopping, I bring my own little cart (bought at Amazon for around $50, best purchase I ever made) I made my own liner for it so stuff can be put straight into the cart without needing a bag. If I know I am going to get a lot of miscellaneous groceries, I will have one of the (store branded) $5 reusable bags in the cart. (Those reusable bags are good, we bought extra when we had a paper route(s). If its not a busy time at the store, they may not have a bag-person on each checkout, in which case I will load the cart myself.

    Of course the greenest part of the whole thing is the fact that I walk to the store.

  23. Just think what you could do with quadraphonic on Theorists Make Quantum Communications Breakthrough · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If "two quantum channels with zero capacity can carry information when used together" then how much information could you send with 4 channels? Of even 2 channels with some (>0) capacity?

    Would that end up with an infinite ampunt of information, or just all the information in the universe?

    Maybe you'd get a 'beep' of all the messages ever sent by this method (like the beep you get from a dirac receiver in James Blish's story).

  24. Rightful heir of the Knights Templar on Knights Templar Sue the Pope · · Score: 4, Funny

    How about Sir Roger Moore? He's a Knight, and is famous for playing Simon Templar.

  25. A long time ago... on Microsoft's Open Source Guru Faces Tough Fight · · Score: 1

    ...in an alternative universe, a "guru" (short for "Guru meditation number") was a system crash, like a BSOD. Except it wasn't blue, the background was black, and the text was red, inside a flashing red box that filled the top half of the screen.