User: idadesub

Re:Chasing A Technological Chimera

On: House Asks NASA to Postpone Space Plane

well, one of the reasons I heard why "precise" landing is so desirable is that back in the days of Apollo and sea landings, NASA used an entire carrier group to cover the possible landing area, which was a huge expense.

Now, the Russians used landing, well, on the land, but because of, once again, inprecise landings, they had to outfit the crew with survival gear, such as food, and guns incase they ran into hostile capitalists :)

Re:An open source mars lander would have worked!

On: NIMA Locates The Mars Polar Lander

I was talking with some nasa satilite people (at my schools job fair) and they told me they DO use linux on some of their stuff

Great 3d Side Benefit

On: UK: Software And Business Methods Not Patentable

Sweet! I guess that means the Marching Cubes Algorithm is legal now! (at least for the UK)

Oh come on

On: DARPA to Fund Open Source Security Research

EVERYONE knows that security though obscurity is the best way to go... Hopefully if Microsoft gets it way, this silly waste of tax payers money will soon be illegal, so that they can, err, waste money on XP...

Great Comments but...

On: Violence's Niche In Cartoons

Why are you posting here?!?!

If everyone wrote a letter to the New York Times, maybe, JUST maybe, we could get rid of this misinformation.