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  1. Longer year on Do We Need a Longer School Year? · · Score: 0

    I think we need a longer astronomical year, it would mitigate the effects of global warming.

  2. Super High spectrum on FCC To Review the Relative Value of Low, High, and Super-high Spectrum Licenses · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah theres a lot of bandwidth available in gamma rays.

    Just a few side effects though (like turning into superheroes or dying of cancer)

  3. Re:Why is it called a 4K display? on 4K UHDTV Hardware On Display in Berlin, And On Sale In Korea · · Score: 1

    I remember the days when 1K was 1024

  4. Denise who? on DNA Analysis Suggests Humans Interbred With Denisovans · · Score: 0

    I'd never heard of Denisovans before - did they save 15% by insuring their cars with Geico?

  5. Re:Size matters... on Gamma-Ray Photon Observations Indicate Space-Time Is Smooth · · Score: 1

    I thought they collided Protons which are much bigger than electrons

  6. In which direction? on Funky Flying Wing Rotates 90 Degrees To Go Supersonic · · Score: 3, Funny

    Which direction does the wing rotate 90 degrees?

    In the past some planes could achieve supersonic flight by rotating the whole plane 90 degrees (from level flight) Getting back to subsonic flight was sometimes a bit more difficult...

  7. Re:That's easy on If Extinct Species Can Be Brought Back... Should We? · · Score: 1

    I think it would be a good idea to bring back Mammoths and Moa's (I heard they were tasty too) because Man is probably responsible for their extinction in the first place

  8. Re:Neat on Message In Bottle Found After 98 Years Near Shetland · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Depends on what you are going to buy with it. Inflation isn't totally uniform. - How much did radios and other consumer electronics cost back then?

  9. Re:Star Trek on "Real-life Tricorder" To Be Tested On International Space Station · · Score: 1

    Wehaven't even got a theoretical way to do the Impulse Drive, let alone Warp Drive and that is the heart of Star Trek and similar SF tales.

  10. Ready for on "Real-life Tricorder" To Be Tested On International Space Station · · Score: 1

    Paramount lawsuit in 3 2 1

    Anyway where on the ISS are they going to find the alien life(but not as we know it)form to test it on?

  11. New? on NASA Uncovers Millions of New Black Holes · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll bet these have been around longer than we have

  12. Re:well that's just silly on LiftPort Wants To Build Space Elevator On the Moon By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I don't see the point. The moon has a lower escape velocity and no atmosphere. Lunar material can be put in orbit with a catapult. (Just make sure the free luna movement doesn't take it over.

  13. Re:Space elevator orbiting the moon? on LiftPort Wants To Build Space Elevator On the Moon By 2020 · · Score: 1

    The problem with that is that the Earth rotates (in angle) faster than the moon orbits. Thus the string would end up being wound up around the equator (and pull the two together (assuming and infinitely strong string and anchor points...

  14. WTF on Lexmark To Exit Inkjet Printer Market · · Score: 2

    So what are they going to do if they stop making inkjet printers? I can't recall any other product that Lexmark made.

    Anyway who is going to pay for the disposal of all those useless printers that you won't be able to get ink for now?
    (Of course most people just threw them in the garbage when the cartridge ran out anyway - it was cheaper to buy a new printer.

  15. Re:Hydrogen fuel on Micromotors Race About By Turning Water Into Hydrogen Gas · · Score: 1

    Speaking of the laws of physics - the GOP are having their convention right now, have they said that they are going to repeal the laws of thermodynamics?

  16. A single molecule? on Nanoscale Device Can Weigh a Single Molecule · · Score: 0

    Funding will dry up once the next administration takes over, they don't want to acknowledge single molecules, only married ones. Single molecules could be gay...

  17. Re:Tweezers on Nanoscale Device Can Weigh a Single Molecule · · Score: 1

    It might not be so bad for large comlex organic molecules, but what about a molecule of hydrogen, or a single helium atom?

  18. Don't we pay tax on it already? on Would You Pay an Internet Broadband Tax? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't we pay tax (like state sales tax) on internet and other services already?
    (Assuming you live in a state that has sales tax)

  19. Re:Sedan on Chinese Automaker Launches Remote-Control Family Car · · Score: 1

    A station wagon is like a 4 door hatchback but with the roof full height all the way to the back rather than sloping. Families used to have them before SUV's were invented. Unlike an SUV they got about the same mileage as a similar size sedan. (Unless you had a roof rack with the dog tied too it.

  20. Re:Sedan on Chinese Automaker Launches Remote-Control Family Car · · Score: 1

    In some parts of the world they even race saloon cars. (And its not boring because they have a variety of corners on the track, unlike NASCAR oval tracks.

    IMHO the best saloon car race in the world is at Bathurst, NSW , Australia in October, 1000KM around Mt Panorama in V8 Fords and Holdens.

  21. Long long ago on Revisiting the Macintosh ROM Easter Egg · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Easter Eggs have been around long before computers - there are even some hidden in the Bible
    (at least in the King James Version Psalm 46

  22. Glacier storage? on Amazon Wants To Replace Tape With Slow But Cheap Off-Site "Glacier" Storage · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apparently someone at Amazon didn't watch the long term weather forecast - climate change means all the glaciers will be gone in a few decades.

  23. Re:still the fastest guns in the west on Preview of Synaptics's Next Generation Input Devices · · Score: 1

    "They can coat it with leprechaun dust and ground up unicorn horns and rub it with Cheetah blood and I'll still beat it 3:1 on speed and practically limitlessness on accuracy with a mouse. "

    You can get special cleaning spray and cloths to clean that stuff off your touchscreen.
    (Well I don't know that they have tried it with that combination of ingredients but it cant be much worse that the other gunk that accumulates on a tablet screen

  24. Kilogram of force on Preview of Synaptics's Next Generation Input Devices · · Score: 2

    Whats that in Midiclorians

  25. Inducted on Scientists Inducted Into Chemistry "Hall of Fame" · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought Induction was an electromagnetism thing (ie physics) rather than a chemistry thing