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  1. Re:19 miles isn't "space" on Brooklyn Father And Son Launch Homemade Spacecraft · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Meanwhile on Neurosurgeons Use MRI-Guided Lasers To Destroy Tumors · · Score: 1

    Thank you. As someone who suffers from a hereditary neurological condition, ... I have little sympathy for folks who can avoid their conditions by eating healthy and exercising.

    How about sterilization?

  3. Re:Canada is where it should be on The New Data Center Capital of America · · Score: 1

    Bullshit, that maybe true for the North Slope in Alaska, but not for Buffalo NY. They get lots of wind and lake effect snow measured in feet, but it's not anywhere near that cold there. cars don't feel wind-chill.

  4. Re:Not as cool as it used to be on The New Data Center Capital of America · · Score: 1

    Don't underestimate the value of tax base that these facilities provide; we've got a few power-plants that are almost deserted employee wise, yet the tax base they provide is huge! The 'bots at the highly automated power-plants subsidizes the jobs of lots of fleshies in our county.

  5. Re:Right now? on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Damn, I told them we should have held out for IPv8, but nnnooobody listened to me. Now we're stuck with a half an internet of Internets when we could have had a whole internet of Internets!

  6. Re:Golden Ratio on Study Finds the Perfect Ratio of Attractiveness · · Score: 1

    Are you thinking about the Golden ratio?

  7. Re:Don't think so on Soviet Shuttle Buran Found In a Junk Heap · · Score: 1

    I thought I had died and went to geek heaven while poking around some of the salvage yards at Marshall Space Flight Center; you can't crawl inside a museum exhibit like you can a piece of junk!

  8. Re:CHANGE!! on Obama Wants Broader Internet Wiretap Authority · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now everyone can see Russia from their house!

  9. Re:Cool, but old news. on Plants Near Chernobyl Adapt To Contaminated Soil · · Score: 1

    The amount of fallout from an nuclear detonation depends quite heavily on the altitude it occurs. A ground-burst, a detonation where the fireball contacts the ground produces a dirty cloud by sucking up massive quantities of ground material and either neutron activating it or mixing it with radionuclides from the device; which generates a larger amount of radioactive fallout that is widely dispersed. A high altitude detonation doesn't suck up much ground material to neutron activate and have clean clouds and much less fallout. In any case a nuclear detonation produce much less radioactive fallout, but disperses it over a wide area, a nuclear power reactor has a lot of radioactive material, but in an accident it is not widely dispersed, a nuclear power plant being hit with a nuclear explosion is what keeps the experts awake at night; lots of radiation widely dispersed.

  10. Re:Not a Reuters story on Former Military Personnel Claim Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why would it be off-limits to call a submitter to request a list of original sources for verification?

  11. Re:Of course they are on Former Military Personnel Claim Aliens Are Monitoring Our Nukes · · Score: 1

    Since your volunteering, please refer to Goatse for demonstration of the orificial requirements.

  12. Re:Question, adjusted, remains on Ballmer, Bezos Fund Effort To Undermine Bill Gates · · Score: 1

    Ballmer earned a total compensation of $1,276,627 / 2000 hrs/yr = $638.31/hr!
    Oracle chief Larry Ellison leads this group with $1 billion in total compensation 1,000,000,000 / 2000 hrs/yr / = $500,000.00 / hr, try telling him to fly commercial and arrive at the airport 2 hours early so to not offend Congress by "wasting" money on a private jet!

  13. Re:Whither 9%? on Ballmer, Bezos Fund Effort To Undermine Bill Gates · · Score: 1

    I just got back from a 2 week vacation in the Seattle area and noticed that 0% income tax sounds good at first, but the sales tax of 9.32 to 10+ % more than makes up for it. I saw tonnes of TV ads, pro 1098 with Bill Sr. face on then, somebody is spending piles of money on this campaign, so much I have a hard time believing somebody isn't getting greedy. Moving the tax base away from property taxes to sales and income taxes also means moving the tax base out of local control and vesting it in the state.

  14. Re:Sure it is! on Swedish Police Shoe Database May Tread On Copyright · · Score: 1

    The cops have a saying, "check the inlaws befor the outlaws".You could go out and commit a random, onetime murder and be pretty sure of getting away with it as long as you didn't do something stupid and leave a obvious clue.

  15. Re:God I hate Amerikanisms on Solar Cells Made From Bioluminescent Jellyfish · · Score: 1

    Still sounds bad to me although technically correct, I'd go with
    "When the circiut is illuminated with ultraviolet light, ... " instead.

  16. Re:Expensive materials, whaa? on Solar Cells Made From Bioluminescent Jellyfish · · Score: 1

    If memory serves me correctly, there was an article where a organic dye solar cell was Mac Gyvered from toothpaste and some berry juice a while ago.

  17. Re:What ? on Pirate Bay Down; Police Raids Across Europe · · Score: 1

    Artists make so little on their content from records/cd sales and so much from concert tours; it matters little too them if they and the lables are ripped off or not.

  18. Re:don't foget the Ganymede rock lobster on Charles Darwin's Best-Kept Secret · · Score: 1

    I would expect that a year and a half in LEO, inside the Earth's Van Allen Belts is a lot less radiation than a 6 month jaunt to Mars.

  19. Re:Interesting tool on Charles Darwin's Best-Kept Secret · · Score: 1

    By the way, garbage dump != nuclear waste

    Actually it does, when DHS installed the radiation detectors at our boarder crossing, they had to turn back every trash truck for 3 days due to radioactivity, and that's 350 trucks a day. Finally the Canadians had all of the trash truck steam cleaned which got the radiation down enough to get across the boarder, they still have to steam clean a couple times a month. Household refuse is a disgusting toxic stew with everything imaginable in it.

  20. Re:Coming up next on Assange Rape Case Reopened · · Score: 1

    Try this the translations to me seems more likely karma neutral than ball-busting.

  21. Re:Coming up next on Assange Rape Case Reopened · · Score: 1

    Considering that Assange is butt ugly, I'd say she is definitely slumming when hanging-out with him and any relations would be a sympathy fuck on her part. The picture of Ardin you linked to looks like it has the the flattering finesse of a driver's license photo, so I'd be surprised if it does her justice.

  22. Re:Next time... on Assange Rape Case Reopened · · Score: 1

    I think your reading way too much into this, the woman gave conditional consent, and what happened in the morning varied from what was consented to therefore it is non-consensual sex and that is rape. From there its up to the prosecutor to decide if they are going to prosecute or not. We guys like to operate on the assumption that a lack of a "NO" means "YES", but that's an unsafe assumption, especially when you are a notorious foreigner.

  23. Re:Politics And Science Don't Mix on Judge Quashes Subpoena of UVA Research Records · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Annals of Applied Statistics is publishing a paper, A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE TEMPERATURE PROXIES: ARE RECONSTRUCTIONS OF SURFACE TEMPERATURES OVER THE LAST 1000 YEARS RELIABLE?(McShane and Wyner 2010) that says things like.
    "On the one hand, we conclude unequivocally that the evidence for a ”long-handled” hockey stick (where the shaft of the hockey stick extends to the year 1000 AD) is lacking in the data. "
    "Consequently, the long flat handle of the hockey stick is best understood to be a feature of regression and less a reflection of our knowledge of the truth."
    "Climate scientists have greatly underestimated the uncertainty of proxy based reconstructions and hence have been overconfident in their models. "
    "The real proxies are less predictive than our ”fake” data. "
    which to me sounds about as close to call Mann a baldfaced liar as your going to hear in a professional journal. The gauntlet has slapped Mann in the face, his response will be interesting.

  24. Re:OK, so it sops up some oil. Then what? on MIT Unveils Oil-Skimming Robot Swarm Prototype · · Score: 1

    I'm not understanding why the Hive-ship tender has to be "Energy Hungry" it just follows the swarm. When a worker skim-bot is full it just returns to the hive,
      1. climbs the ramp and dumps it's oil into a tank,
      2. does diagnostics and reports for repairs if necessary,
      3. gets any batteries or fuel tanks topped off,
      4. enter the queue for redeployment.
    The hive ship is getting dry oil that's not even that crude anymore, the heavy residuals sank all ready and the volatiles evaporated all ready so what's coming up is somewhere between bunker fuel and karosene, so fueling the hive shouldn't be insurmountable.

  25. Re:OK, so it sops up some oil. Then what? on MIT Unveils Oil-Skimming Robot Swarm Prototype · · Score: 1

    power can be had, something like the SEADOG or the OPT would work well near shore, booms could channel any oil to the centrifuge for processing on a cheap semi-permanent basis. Something like the Pelamis WEC looks like it wound be towable and able to power processing on the open sea.