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  1. Re:Just "waves?" Motorized cam; music choice on Atlas V's Sonic Boom Made Visible By Sundog · · Score: 1, Informative

    Film is still used, excellent resolution, expose now process later. it will always beat digital in rapid fire situations.

  2. They'll claim anything on IOC Claims Olympian Lindsey Vonn's Name As Intellectual Property · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In the past, the IOC's have been a bunch of Narcissistic, money grubbing vampires that make the RIAA look like Sunday-School teachers; It's not out of character for them to not only claim a competitor's name, but their first-born child. a Strategy of sue everybody and let the courts figure it out isn't foreign to them either.

  3. Re:Fuckin' Noobs on Interstellar Hydrogen Prevents Light-Speed Travel? · · Score: 1

    The synchrotron radiation would still fry you

  4. Re:old news... on Interstellar Hydrogen Prevents Light-Speed Travel? · · Score: 1

    . It's not like "Oh shit, interstellar FTL would be like standing in front of the LHC? Well the last time I did that, I got horrible hemorrhoids. Good to know. Note to self: do not drive faster than light to a nearby solar system."

    Well actually they are not talking about FTL, but relativistic subluminal velocities, if you were traveling faster than the speed of light, then the hydrogen would become imaginary. I think the article is assuming that you would accelerate from a resting velocity to a superluminal velocity, but that is impossible.

  5. Re:Ethanol is BAD for engines! on Cellulosic Biofuel Finally Ready For the Road · · Score: 1

    Yes, to get the best fuel efficiency from E85, the compression ratio has to be high enough that the engine would be destroyed if ran on gasoline for long. Ethanol is like about 104 octane rating so it would want around a 12-14 to 1 compression ratio (Diesel range), unleaded likes around 8-8.5 to 1. Small engines around 6 to 1 can have reduced power on E10.

  6. Re:New movie made possible by *really good* games on New Riddick Movie Made Possible By Games? · · Score: 1

    either that or go into Resident Evil mode and do the game first, movie later.

  7. Re:Bad marketing, good movie. on New Riddick Movie Made Possible By Games? · · Score: 1

    I think your right there, but still defeating the necromancers was his sole destiny, he has no purpose in life and the most powerful army in the galaxy, the only thing he can't do is say "OK everybody, that was fun but the parties over, just go home now" like Alexander the Great did.

  8. Re:Will the mines explore on Robots To Clear the Baltic Seafloor of WW-II Mines · · Score: 1

    TNT solubility in water 0.13g/l in the sidebar of the same article, while not hugely soluble, there is a lot of liters in the Baltic.

  9. Re:Mines that old really still dangerous? on Robots To Clear the Baltic Seafloor of WW-II Mines · · Score: 2, Interesting

    wikipedia also says Solubility in water, 0.13 g/L (20 C). I knew a guy that had worked in a munitions plant, he said it was a big problem, TNT dust disolving in mop water, getting into the sewers and concentrating when the sewer dried out.

  10. Re:Will the mines explore on Robots To Clear the Baltic Seafloor of WW-II Mines · · Score: 1

    TNT and Picric acid are water soluble so even if all you did was burst the casing, the explosives would disapate.

  11. Re: Sulfur Mustard on Robots To Clear the Baltic Seafloor of WW-II Mines · · Score: 1

    No the point is that it doesn't get washed away. The munitions in the reference are thickened agents so only the outer layer of the mass is hydrolyzed making it non-toxic, the inner is still dangerous today(from 60 years ago); it is really nasty, evil stuff.

  12. Re:Save everything that can move away fast enough? on Robots To Clear the Baltic Seafloor of WW-II Mines · · Score: 1

    It's not that easy to tell the difference between a chemical weapon and an explosive weapon, especially if the marking rotted off 60 years ago from the saltwater. Most likely any drums of toxic waste rusted away a while ago as well.

  13. Re:Save everything that can move away fast enough? on Robots To Clear the Baltic Seafloor of WW-II Mines · · Score: 1

    There's nothing fun about unexploded ordinance, it's deadly dangerous. Always give military impact areas wide berth, even when nobody's shooting, what's in the ground is far more dangerous than what's flying through the air.

  14. Re:Save everything that can move away fast enough? on Robots To Clear the Baltic Seafloor of WW-II Mines · · Score: 1

    Wildlife does surprisingly well too.

  15. Re:Ethanol is BAD for engines! on Cellulosic Biofuel Finally Ready For the Road · · Score: 1

    The cars may have engines that are build to run on E85, but to run both the E10 and E85, engine needs a compression ration that is suboptimal for E85; being able to do something and doing it well are two different things.

  16. Re:Late to the party? on Cellulosic Biofuel Finally Ready For the Road · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Problem is that the majority of Brazil's soil is actually quite poor and loses it's sustainability as arable soil after 2-3 seasons (which is why they keep burning more and more forest).

    Well the answer there is "terra preta do indios", or "black earth of the Indians"

    The black earth areas, about twice the size of Great Britain, possibly as large as France together had supported as many as three million people - more than had been believed to have ever inhabited the entire Western Hemisphere at any one time. They had realized that the black earth was fertile, but had never imagined that the Amazon basin could be so hugely productive. Saving The Planet While Saving The Farm

    Terra petra is fantastically fertile, the Brazilians actually mine this earth for use as potting soil, which is amazing considering most of it's age is measured in millennia not years! Also growing sugarcane doesn't necessarily deplete the soil if the cane field is burned and the char left on the ground, some varieties are even nitrogen fixing.
    Additionally converting biomass to char produces distillates that are useful as fuel creating a win-win situation.

  17. Re:Summary & Article Leave a Bit to Be Desired on "Green" Ice Resurfacing Machines Fail In Vancouver · · Score: 1

    Definitely not most, whether an organization chooses propane or electric is probably depenent on battery life and recharge rates more than whether it's used indoors or not.

  18. Re:Devil's advocate on RHIC Finds Symmetry Transformations In Quark Soup · · Score: 1

    "recreating conditions at the beginning of the universe"
    We've been doing that for quite a while now, 50 years ago we were playing around with the conditions that occurred a few seconds after creation, now we've turned to clock back to a few microseconds after creation, so they been asking the question for a while; but when they build one around the equator, I'm going to start worrying.

  19. Re:Delicious on RHIC Finds Symmetry Transformations In Quark Soup · · Score: 1

    I'm studying physics, and I've no idea how hot that is because in particle accelerators you use electronvolts instead of kelvins to measure particle speed. Science journalism is so bad sometimes that the more actual science you know the more confusing the reports about it are.

    Brookhaven National Laboratory isn't a journalistic organization they're a scientific research organization and what they are referring to is the blackbody radiation from the quark-gluon liquid, the "light" or photons given off are a "color" wavelengths and power spectra that would be produced by a black body heated to 4 trillion C.

  20. hardware requirments on New Interactive Black Hole Simulation Published · · Score: 1

    System requirements

            * At least 300MB GPU memory.
            * The Linux version needs the free Qt SDK which can be found here.

    The application was tested with the graphics boards: NVidia GeForce 8600 GT, ATI Radeon HD 3800.
    Distortion of the stellar sky by a Schwarzschild black hole,
    Thomas Müller, Daniel Weiskopf

    it has some pretty stiff hardware requirements!

  21. Re:Gyroscopic effect? on Porsche Unveils 911 Hybrid With Flywheel Booster · · Score: 1

    If the gyro is locked down, which the Williams unit appears to be, it will counter any roll and pitch in the car while having little or no effect on yaw, perhaps it might introduce a perceptible precession during roll or pitch. I'd think for a competent race driver, acclimatization to the system would be fairly quick, it's effects are the same as most chassis designers try to replicate mechanically anyways. Also because the gyro is countering chassis force, that thing better have some hellacious bearings in it for rolling courses. Seems like a gimbaled gyro would have no effect.

  22. Re:It depends on the language on Learning and Maintaining a Large Inherited Codebase? · · Score: 1

    I was on fire once you insensitive clod.

  23. Re:The church on Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality · · Score: 1

    LOL that's not likely, most of the highly-spiritual people I know are pretty oppositional to big organized religion; even Christ had problems with religion.

  24. Re:This is my favourite on Brain Surgery Linked To Sensation of Spirituality · · Score: 1

    Wow the last time I heard that album I saw three tornadoes. Earlier that night one of the instructors from pulse came down and invite us up to see the tornadoes on the PAR, on the CWAR we were seeing doplers up to 700 MPH! After school we drove out to a friend's house to see if he was all right and that's when I saw the three tornadoes dancing on the ground. When we got back to Redstone arsenal I headed down to the dayroom to get some cokes and saw the weather radar on the television showing a tornado, I said "shit that fuckers almost on top of us" and headed for cover but only made 3 steps before the shit hit the fan, that was April 4 1974 and the tornado that skipped over my head by 500 feet was an F5 that tore through Marshal Space Flight center, bounced over Redstone then touched back down in Huntsville. On that surreal night my youthful and naive sense of immortality died before my twentieth birthday. There were 148 official tornadoes in 13 states that night and none of the tornadoes I actually saw were official.

  25. Re:Google on Google's Experimental Fiber Network · · Score: 1

    an ISP is a organization that stands between me and my internet and demands a monthly toll from me, all I want is a great big data pipe, i don't need no stinking ISP's crappy website, no stinking ISP's broke-ass DNS and no stinking ISP's Email with 5MB attachment limits, just a great big data pipe to the internet, symmetrical speeds and static IP addresses would give me wood.