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  1. Re:Ethical is irrelevant. on NASA Can't Ethically Send Astronauts On One-Way Missions To Deep Space · · Score: 1

    Oh? do tell.

  2. Re:Top Gear was worse. on 60 Minutes Dubbed Engines Noise Over Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    I meant specifically THOSE cars. What would an Audi R8 get if someone were to hypermile with it? Is that a verb? Can you make hypermile a verb? I have no idea. You get what I mean.

  3. Re:Top Gear was worse. on 60 Minutes Dubbed Engines Noise Over Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    Woo! Audi R8 has 5 mpg when racing!
    I actually find it pretty funny that the worst car had slightly over 1 mpg. I wonder what the cars would get if they were trying to make that gallon last.

  4. Re:Terrible summary on Scientists Solve the Mystery of Why Zebras Have Stripes · · Score: 5, Funny

    better eyes would be too expensive.

    They simply ran out of evolution points when they were rolling their species.

  5. Re:Sort It. on The Inside Story of Gmail On Its Tenth Anniversary · · Score: 1

    You do know today is the 1st of April, and that Google is pretty well known for releasing "Improvements" to their products. I believe it was three years ago that they announced motion tracking for Gmail, they even had a guy doing ridiculous movements to compose an e-mail.

  6. Re:Isn't it still just a Beta? on The Inside Story of Gmail On Its Tenth Anniversary · · Score: 1

    Assuming you are actually asking: It is no longer in beta, nor has it been for a long time. Though you can add the "Beta" tag to the Google logo at the top via plugins, if that makes you feel better. I know I did.

  7. Re:Worst: when they use magic on Why Darmok Is a Good Star Trek: TNG Episode · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they may think the same way, but if each one of them went and studied a more specific branch of physics, then that would skew their thought process enough for it to be useful.

    Or, say you did this with the best young surgeon, or someone who is really good at driving an ambulance, or flipping burgers. Okay, no wait, I found the bad side of it... This is just getting robots to do our jobs for us. Sure they may be better at them, but if clones have all of our jobs then what do we do for income?

    And then you run into overpopulation, where the non-useful population needs to be culled in order to make room for the million new super-useful people.

    At that point, the entire population is super-useful. Every IT guy is a "Dave" that can solve problems without even seeing them, every teacher is a "Mrs Smith" because she has the patience of a saint and the knowledge of every subject. The entire world just turns into a self-replicating populous, with no individuality.

    Eventually a splinter group of unique individuals will help the super-president realize the ramifications, and he will kill all the super-usefuls, putting us back where we started, that way there will be a point to it all again.

    .... I think I just made an SMBC comic.

  8. Re:Worst: when they use magic on Why Darmok Is a Good Star Trek: TNG Episode · · Score: 1

    A shorter, cartoon version of "The Prestige".

  9. Re:hate the name on Facebook Introduces Hack: Statically Typed PHP · · Score: 1

    It will never get past v1.6

  10. Re:another different note on Flies That Do Calculus With Their Wings · · Score: 1

    I am having "The 6th Day" flashbacks reading that conversation.

  11. Re:NASA needs SpaceX. SpaceX doesn't need NASA. on Back To the Moon — In Four Years · · Score: 1

    Actually, your original post about the skyhook made me think about a space station named the "Hans Moravec" I read about in a scifi book. When I was just looking up information to reference it, it turns out they are exactly the same technology, made by Moravec himself.
    I think the title of the book is "The Crimson Blood", it is primarily about nanotechnology.

  12. Re:NASA needs SpaceX. SpaceX doesn't need NASA. on Back To the Moon — In Four Years · · Score: 1

    I want a link to whatever it is you are talking about.

  13. Re:NASA needs SpaceX. SpaceX doesn't need NASA. on Back To the Moon — In Four Years · · Score: 1

    What about moon launch via trebuchet?

  14. Re:NASA needs SpaceX. SpaceX doesn't need NASA. on Back To the Moon — In Four Years · · Score: 1

    potentially unreliable means.

    Space carrier pigeon
    Really long cable
    Two cups connected via string
    Neutrinos
    Smoke signals?

  15. Perspective (A week later) on Spacecraft Returns Seven Particles From Birth of the Solar System · · Score: 2

    The microscopic images shown are roughly double the width of the average human hair (170 um). And the dust particle you are looking for in that picture is about the diameter of a human red blood cell (7 um).

  16. Re:Then what? on Spacecraft Returns Seven Particles From Birth of the Solar System · · Score: 1

    you use the impact of the incoming gas/particles to induce fusion.

    Very clever, but how do you get started?

  17. Re:Brake Pedal on Prototype Volvo Flywheel Tech Uses Car's Wasted Brake Energy · · Score: 1

    It is equally both. The drivers want better mileage, so they accelerate slowly, if they are on an on-ramp and are required to accelerate quickly, they cannot because the hardware does not allow for that.
    I recall the first time I drove a Prius on a highway, it took about twice the distance to get up to highway speed relative to what I was used to, and the accelerator was at 100% for the entire distance.

  18. Re:Just like in Formula on Prototype Volvo Flywheel Tech Uses Car's Wasted Brake Energy · · Score: 1

    Citation needed.
    I see no reason why it would add more weight than that of a child.

  19. Re:energy from BRAKING - best for stop-and-go on Prototype Volvo Flywheel Tech Uses Car's Wasted Brake Energy · · Score: 1

    Much interchange.

  20. Re: energy from BRAKING - best for stop-and-go on Prototype Volvo Flywheel Tech Uses Car's Wasted Brake Energy · · Score: 1

    I know high end flywheel energy storage systems use magnetic bearings in a vacuum to reduce drag, but in this instance, I am sure just regular old mechanical bearings would do fine, since the energy is not stored for a long period of time.

  21. Re:Wait...they have universities? on North Korea: Male University Students Required To Get Kim Jong-un Haircuts · · Score: 1

    +5 internets.
    No wait, AC?!!
    +0 internets.

  22. Re:Um, right. on Don't Help Your Kids With Their Homework · · Score: 1

    I tried so hard to understand those, but word problems are my kryptonite. Combine that, with directions written by someone having a stroke, and I cannot even comprehend what the question is, let alone the answer.

  23. Re:Um, right. on Don't Help Your Kids With Their Homework · · Score: 1

    Heyyy! I did the exact same thing! I had my hands gripping the bottom of the chair I sat in, but I was even using my fingers to count it out. News! I still fail at math.

  24. Re:My vote.. on NASA Puts Its New Spacesuit Design To a Public Vote · · Score: 1

    That is a feature, not a bug. Water for everyone!

  25. Re:None of the above on NASA Puts Its New Spacesuit Design To a Public Vote · · Score: 1

    Probably exactly as well as the current iteration.