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  1. Is David Attenborough dead?
    You don't normally name a ship after a live person

  2. Re:Why not have nuclear powered planes? on Solar Planes Aren't the Green Future Of Air Travel (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    What could possibly go wrong?

    Apart from one crashing that is.

    At least the NB36 never crashed.

    Yes I know the reactor never powered the plane.

  3. Quality control of streamed content on Netflix Enables Streaming Quality Control To Reign In Mobile Data Usage (hothardware.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it let you watch Downton Abby, but not sitcoms and reality shows?

  4. Did the payload make it into the right orbit? That wasn't stated in TFA.

  5. Dropping condoms from helicopters would seem to be more effective.

  6. How much does it cost to downgrade from Win 10 back to Win 7 ?

  7. Other categories on Bison To Become First National Mammal Of The US (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Since the Bison is the national mammal, presumably they need to have a national reptile, amphibian and of course, fish..

  8. Re:So, 3 parts per billion of ozone is a crisis... on One US Oil Field a Key Culprit In Global Ethane Gas Increase · · Score: 1

    "note that ethane + air + sunlight = ozone."

    So where did the Carbon and Hydrogen go?

    Ozone is useful , it blocks UV rays

  9. Re:So forgetting a password on Child Porn Suspect Jailed Indefinitely For Refusing To Decrypt Hard Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Or just weigh him. If he weighs the same as a duck he's made of wood, and therefore a witch

  10. I used to use ThunderBird on Mozilla Seeks New Home For Email Client Thunderbird · · Score: 1

    But now I use SeaMonkey for eMail .
    It has the added advantage of being a browser as well
    Are they going to drop SeaMonkey too?

  11. unfortunately the common or garden tens of stellar mass black holes have too much gravitational gradient (tides) to be used

    You would need to have a galaxy centre super massive black hole (millions or billions stellar mass) thats not feeding at the time

  12. Under Siege on North Korea Launches Missile From Submarine (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Didn't the CIA send Tommy Lee Jones to take out the sub that NK was converting to fire missiles?

  13. And some of them don't charge sales tax which makes them even cheaper still.

  14. So now can I have a (cheaper) Prime Shipping subscription without the video and music streaming?

    r pay the same price as before and get free kindle unlimited instead of the video streaming

  15. Re:Wireless spectrum is not infinite on The Battle Between LTE and Wi-Fi May Have Left LTE-U Out In the Cold (networkworld.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually the electromagnetic spectrum is infinite, at least in theory
    it could get a bit hazardous if we start using X=rays and gamma rays though.

  16. Isn't Ireland (Eire) in the EU ?
    They must have low taxes or why would so many US companies movr their KQ there...

  17. "I guess I'm a time traveler"

    Cool... Did Samsung ever go back to having microSD expansion in their Galaxy Note phones?

  18. This has something to do with the new Jungle Book movie

  19. Meanwhile in an alternate universe on G-7 Leaders At Hiroshima To Urge More Visits to Nuclear Bombsites (voanews.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    where atomic weapons weren't used, there is no nation of Japan, just the mass graves of thousands of allied soldiers, millions of Japanese soldiers and civilians (most of whom died of disease and starvation).
    Nothing grows there because of the defoliants that were used. The Japanese are extinct.

    Still the whales and dolphins are a lot better off than in our timeline.

  20. Other browsers have ad-blocker add-ons

  21. Poets on The Next Hot Job in Silicon Valley Is For Poets (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't that a coincidence - today is POETS day

    Piss Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday

  22. Re:Use the US Navy seawater to jet fuel tech inste on Siemens and Airbus To Push Electric Aviation Engines (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Thars fine for the Navy, it lands its planes on carriers to refuel them.
    I don't think airline passengers are going to be too happy to do that.

  23. Stuoid headline on Monster Black Holes May Lurk All Around Us (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    We would notice if any supermassive black holes were close enough to affect us

  24. Has anyone seen Temuera Morrison recently?

  25. "It's snowing."

    Not here
    and theres no snow on the ground
    typically there woulr be in early april

    There was a record early 'ice=out' on the lake in the middle of town
    Lat: 46.3N