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  1. Re:It WILL happen one day on Unbelievably Large Telescopes On the Moon? · · Score: 1

    Well the Moon can be described as not orbiting the Earth but both are orbiting a common point; any satellites orbiting the moon will be subject to the Earth's tidal influence as are satellites orbiting the Earth perturbed by the lunar tides.

  2. Re:It WILL happen one day on Unbelievably Large Telescopes On the Moon? · · Score: 1

    Not really, the cable being hit by high energy particles is going to receive ion trail damage that would disrupt the optical properties not to mention what any exposure to solar UV and/or X-rays would do to the plastic cable sheathing

  3. Re:It WILL happen one day on Unbelievably Large Telescopes On the Moon? · · Score: 1

    we don't really know if our equipment will survive the passage into and out of the Earth's magnetosphere or if it does who long it will. The way I understand it the lunar surface undergoes some rather severe static electricity build ups then.

  4. Re:Not Dark Side on Unbelievably Large Telescopes On the Moon? · · Score: 1

    well you could make the telescope mobile and keep moving it so it's always on the dark side

  5. Re:Summary is completely misleading... on Unbelievably Large Telescopes On the Moon? · · Score: 1

    Actually large flats are more difficult than parabolas and much more difficult than spheres; when you start pushing glass they naturally tend to curve. The tolerance isn't as hard as you'd think, I was figuring parabolic mirrors to millionths of an inch since I was 10 years old

  6. Re:Wow on Unbelievably Large Telescopes On the Moon? · · Score: 1

    why not just go to the moon and make a glass or ceramic mirror out of available materials on the moon?

  7. Re:Maybe the media is what he wants. on Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted · · Score: 1

      if there were anything criminal in the email (and I'm dubious about that claim).

    I thought it all was posted on wikileaks so knock yourself out looking, in fact I figure if there was anything of substance there the Democrats would be screaming it from the rafters.

  8. Re:Gee, I wonder why the system is failing on Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted · · Score: 1

    What Kernell did made as much sense as the Watergate break in did, at best all it will do is get him a prison term, at worst he'll throw the election for the democrats. I rather suspect the his Dad may have been doing some trash talking that the kid took to serious and ended up ruining his life.

  9. Re:Maybe the media is what he wants. on Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted · · Score: 1

    Doctor's frequently work for a professional corporation as an employee that the Doctor owns, the PC then contracts to another PC that the Doctor owns to conduct his or her practice so salary doesn't mean much to a Dr.

  10. Re:Maybe the media is what he wants. on Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted · · Score: 1

    A Governor's Executive Privilege covers state actions but not federal

  11. Re:It's a hoax, people. on Hikers May Have Found Fossett Items · · Score: 1

    It's not too far fetched for the person finding the items to not be in on any hoax. Fossett himself may have planted the items to mark his trail for rescuers as well, he would assume that the wreckage would be found, leaving a trail wouldn't be unresonable.

  12. Re:It's a hoax, people. on Hikers May Have Found Fossett Items · · Score: 1

    well since he was a world record cross-country skier it's not impossible that the items were found a considerable distance from the crash site and his body maybe found quite a ways from the found items as well.

  13. Re:separate partitions for / and /home on How Big Should My Swap Partition Be? · · Score: 1

    You can also mount partitions that have system files read only until you update, making compromises another degree more difficult.

  14. Re:The submitter confuses DNS and HTTP errors on New Jersey's Cablevision Hijacks DNS Error Pages · · Score: 1

    email requires DNS lookups constantly... it also relies on getting proper responses... especially nowadays when anti-spam measures are so important.

    ipv6 failover is commonly implemented by handling the DNS failure on the first request.

    Well how is that going to happen doesn't everyone subscribed to clueless ISP use clueless ISP's mail server that is configured to use a real DNS server rather than the crappy one clueless expects us to use for our DNS needs?

  15. Re:Solution: on New Jersey's Cablevision Hijacks DNS Error Pages · · Score: 1

    You can't copyright a domain name, it would have to be trademarked, and I think it would be easier to sue for trademark dilution in your scenario anyways.

  16. Re:This is... on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    Sorry but I do know what I am talking about I used ultrasonic cleaners daily that work by causing microscopic cavitations full of low pressure vapors in the cleaning fluid that blast dirt of the surfaces of materials. By ultrasonicating the injection fluid you can cause the nozzle to be exposed to high and low pressure nodes and antinodes which will causes the fuel to inject not as a steady state but as as series of injection with a frequencies in the neighborhood of 35KHz. This could easily effect droplet diameter.

  17. Re:This is... on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    not necessarily it's likely to be difficult to do in a production environment, the big companies will research changes that will save pennies which is big bucks over a couple million vehicles. Gearheads will do tedious work to gain a couple percent gain in HP or economy

  18. Re:This is... on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    actually I was thinking about putting the divets int the cylinder heads intake passage with a 2mm round diamond and a dental highspeed

  19. Re:Missing information on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    So the 10KV creeps you out but the 125KVm leaking out of the sparkplug wires is fine and dandy

  20. Re:Taken for a ride on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    In most countries (including all of Europe and Australia) the "headline" octane rating, shown on the pump, is the RON, but in the United States, Canada and some other countries the headline number is the average of the RON and the MON, sometimes called the Anti-Knock Index (AKI), Road Octane Number (RdON), Pump Octane Number (PON), or (R+M)/2. Because of the 8 to 10 point difference noted above, the octane shown in the United States is 4 to 5 points lower than the same fuel elsewhere: 87 octane fuel, the "regular" gasoline in the US and Canada, is 91-92 in Europe. However most European pumps deliver 95 (RON) as "regular", equivalent to 90-91 US (R+M)/2, and some even deliver 98 (RON) or 100 (RON).Octane rating

    I've seen pumps that also list both the RON and MON numbers

  21. Re:Next stop, infomercial and/or MLM on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    Yup a vibrating bun warmer built into the driver's seat is a real safety feature for all of the frigid soccer moms.

  22. Re:Next stop, infomercial and/or MLM on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    safety and emmisions standards has reduced fuel mileage over the years.

  23. Re:Next stop, infomercial and/or MLM on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    Later in tonight's news "Magnetic wrist watches cause impotence and testicular cancer"

  24. Re:This is... on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    Electrorheology Leads to Efficient Combustion, is that good enough for you?

  25. Re:This is... on Simple Device Claimed To Boost Fuel Efficiency By Up To 20% · · Score: 1

    vortexs don't necessarily increase drag, small divets like on a real boomerang or a golf ball actually decrease drag because of the surface turbulence. I've never tried it in an intake system but I'm mightily tempted.