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  1. Re:Tom Baker on New Horizons' First Ultra High Resolution Photos of Pluto Released · · Score: 1

    Pertwee is #1 and Tennant is the second best. Tom Baker is only 3rd IMHO

  2. Great, now all we need to do is build the rest of the starship

  3. "the nearest source is the dark side of the moon"

    So Roger Waters should be able to make Money off of this

  4. My Galaxy Note 3 is a pretty good E-Reader, and MP3 player
    although bettery life isn't so good if you leave it connected to the cell network

  5. Even earlier 'prior art' on Airbus Patent Shows Modular, Removable Aircraft Cabins (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    can be found in Lord of the Flies by W Golding
    We had to read that in school many decades ago

  6. How to pick a lock using a pick (as in pick and shovel)

    The Marines would use a 12 ga shotgun

  7. And I think its gonna be a long long time on 2 Planets Can Share the Same Orbit, In 3 Different Ways · · Score: 1

    It's lonely out in space.
    On such a timeless flight.

  8. Reagan's mic test on KGB Software Almost Triggered War In 1983 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Then there was Romald Reagan doing a mic test "We have outlawed Russia forever, we begin bombing in five minutes"

  9. Re:When guns are outlawed on Australian State Bans Possession of Blueprints For 3D Printing Firearms (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    And Aussies are resourceful too. Remember the guy who made his own bullet proof armour to fight the authorities

  10. Re:Why only 4 passengers on NASA Orders SpaceX Crew Mission To International Space Station (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    Besides, seven isn't exactly a lucky number for NASA

  11. Thirty years ago on Happy 30th Birthday, Windows! · · Score: 1

    I think Amiga Workbench 1.1 was around. It had plenty of bugs but was still pretty usable.

  12. Yep, I'm sure Slartibardfast and the other Magratheans kept visual records of their creations billions of years ago

  13. Re:Don't wanna be a canadian idiot on Controversy Over High-Tech Brooms Sweeps Through Sport of Curling · · Score: 1

    You know that curling is a sport that is played in some countries besides Canada
    I think it was invented in Scotland, I know its popular here in Minnesota, and they used to play it in Central Otago
    (thats in The South Island of NZ) when the winter was cold enough.

  14. They should check out on ISIS's Hunt For a Bogus Superweapon · · Score: 4, Funny

    the nearest Ford/Lincoln car dealer

  15. He's a lumberjack and he's OK on The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 Is an Emoji (oxforddictionaries.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Lumbersexual is a new one to me. Apparently it's someone who grooms and dresses to appear like a person who spends a lot of time outdoors (like a lumberjack I guess)."

    Put on womens clothing and hang around in bars?

  16. But remember what HAL said on Inside the Mission To Europa (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    All these worlds are yours, except Europa
    Attempt no landings there.

  17. Are we playing rugby on Slashdot Asks: Is Scrum Still Relevant? (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    Union or League?

  18. How is this news for nerds?

    and its only stuff that matters to the people who would have been voting for him

  19. Re:Sorry, but it appears that you are off target on Belgian Home Affairs Minister: Terrorists Communicate Via PlayStation 4 (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    "third of the police you see on the streets of Brussels are norafs"

    WTF is a noraf?

  20. We should ban all communication devices that terrorists might use, including pigeons

  21. There is no difference between ISIL, and Al-Qaeda on Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 · · Score: 1

    Except that Al-Qaeda and most other terrorist groups have 'no fixed abode' - they are hard to find and kill, look how long it took to get Bin Laden

    ISIS claim to be the Islamic state, and have control over cities and towns in Iraq and Syria

    Any reason why those places won't be flattened to rubble by the air forces of France, Nato, Russia, the US, Iran, Jordan, Israel etc

    We can leave the actual ground combat to the Kurds, Assads forces (Shiites) Iranians etc

  22. And water may not always have been water on Earth May Have Kept Its Own Water Rather Than Getting It From Asteroids (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Other compounds contain Hydrogen
    and the early earth had plenty of compounds with oxygen

  23. Re:Could you at least hint what "Pocket" is? on Mozilla Has 'No Plans' To Offer Firefox Without Pocket (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    "You know this system is probably used for advertising metrics."

    Only of use in the USA then, thats the only place that still uses feet, pounds and acres
    the rest of the world already uses the metric system.

  24. 3 episodes? on MST3K Is Kickstarting Back To Life · · Score: 1

    The Phantom Menace
    Attack of the clones
    revenge of the sith

  25. Solar System on Astronomers Spot Most Distant Object In the Solar System (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    We should send the IAU out there with some paint to draw a line (circle or ellipse) as to where the edge of the solar system is.