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  1. Re:Pigs are dependent on humanity? on Is an Octopus Too Smart For Us To Eat? · · Score: 1

    How many pigs and cows do you think there would be if we didn't raise them?

    What makes you think - as, admittedly, I am quite broadly inferring from the tone of your post - that the answer would be "none"?

    I don't think we've managed to breed the urge to reproduce out of our cattle yet. They'd get by - perhaps not in as great numbers, but sheer numbers are not necessarily an indicator of future evolutionary fitness.

  2. Russian diversity on JP Morgan Chase Breach: Shades of a Cyber Cold War? · · Score: 1

    I've seen the former Soviet Union evolve into an amazingly diverse culture that is well represented on the Internet. This culture has grown alongside our own and runs the gamut of characters: tirelessly brilliant open source software developers, lots of regular folk

    But no pooftahs.

  3. Re:Just because you can... on First Birth From Human Womb Transplant · · Score: 0

    In this case the woman's defect would almost certainly be canceled out by the man's sperm since even though she is a carrier, it is incredibly unlikely that he is also, and even if so it's a 50/50 proposition

    Genes do not always work that way! Goodnight!

  4. Re:Music Distribution 3.0 on They Might Be Giants "Dial-a-Song" Returns, Online · · Score: 1

    there's still a bit of energy at the higher frequencies that help speech clarity and understanding.

    Fo you fay, but why fhould I believe you?

  5. Which company? on Will Apple Lose Siri's Core Tech To Samsung? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The first hint came in June, after the company missed the quarterly projections.

    In an article about two companies possibly merging (and the possible ramifications of said merger for a third company), "the company" ends up being just a bit ambiguous.

  6. Urthecast

    Is that actually based on some real language, or is just another deliberate sickly misspelling?

    I couldn't help being reminded of the word "urethra" when I saw it...

  7. Quotes are useful on Mystery Gamer Makes Millions Moving Markets In Japan · · Score: 2

    whose name means death

    That would sound a lot less sinister if you'd put quotes around the word "death."

    control-A to guzzle a healing potion or shift-S to draw a sword, for example — and he could dance between them without taking his eyes off the screen.

    He can hit Ctrl-A and Shift-S without looking? The man's a wizard!

  8. Re:Gravity Waves of Unusual Size? on Astrophysicists Use Apollo Seismic Array To Hunt For Gravitational Waves · · Score: 1

    Mostly dead.

    And so on.

  9. Waterwhat? on How 3D Printers Went Mainstream After Decades In Obscurity · · Score: 1

    like something out of Waterworld

    I actually thought that movie was okay, but even I know it's not much good as a pop-culture reference.

  10. Re:Which side is upwards? on Physicists Find Clue as To Why the DNA Double Helix Twists To the Right · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh yeah? We'll soon see about -

    Hmm. Maybe one of these is broken. I'm getting more springs.

  11. Re:"could be" on Flurry of Scans Hint That Bash Vulnerability Could Already Be In the Wild · · Score: 1

    I think it's safe to assume that it was "in the wild" approximately 30 seconds after the news came out (if not before).

  12. Re:humans walk like rats? on Device Allows Paralyzed Rats To Walk, Human Trials Scheduled Next Summer · · Score: 1

    Why take a step backwards

    If that happens, just put the batteries in the other way round.

  13. Re:Can't be proven... on Physicist Claims Black Holes Mathematically Don't Exist · · Score: 1

    but it can't be proven one way or another

    Well, maybe not right now, but -

    They don't exist.

    Oh. That was fast.

  14. I feel like I've heard this before... on Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Isn't it usually the case, when some kid is touted as having done something amazing at a science fair, that it turns out to a) already be standard procedure in the field in question or b) is actually woefully impractical on anything but science fair scale?

    I mean, we could probably (okay, probably not, just an example) make crops grow twice as fast by bathing them in artifical sunlight 24/7, but that's probably not very practical.

    the girls found their test crops germinated in half the time and had a drymass yield up to 74 percent greater than usual.

    What's meant by "greater than usual" here?

  15. Re:Lil' Putin on Russia Pledges To Go To the Moon · · Score: 1

    Your Majesty? Putin's not a King. He's not the ruler of a kingdom. Nor is he a Prince, not being the ruler of a principality.

    He's just in charge of a country.

  16. Re:On topic: your sig on Elon Musk Hints 1st Person To Mars May Go Via New Brownsville Spaceport · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't need it. A sonic screwdriver and a Christmas Mobile Disco and he'd be all set.

  17. Re:They will never learn on jQuery.com Compromised To Serve Malware · · Score: 1

    So... it's safe when you think it's safe, and when you think it's safe, it's not safe? So when it's safe, it's not safe?

  18. Re: Is this anything other than a press release? on Elon Musk Hints 1st Person To Mars May Go Via New Brownsville Spaceport · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't need tera-watts if you just fired particles straight at the mic, if you'd still call that "sound."

    Otherwise I think you'd have to expect to be limited to incredibly low frequencies.

  19. Re:"Publish and be damned." on Service Promises To Leak Your Documents If the Government Murders You · · Score: 1

    There's a theory that, in Doyle's Sherlock universe, it was also Holmes who pulled the trigger. Watson was being discreet about it when he wrote it up. I forget the details, but I think there wasn't a very good reason for the shooter to have been present at that time.

  20. Re:Quarkson on SkyOrbiter UAVs Could Fly For Years and Provide Global Internet Access · · Score: 1

    This could be the best internet... in the world.

    Also, ah-so karate chop.

  21. Re:It proves the conspiracy theorists right (sort on Nvidia Sinks Moon Landing Hoax Using Virtual Light · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure conspiracy theorists ever got that far in their reasoning. It's always seemed to be enough for them that Aldrin is lit at all, because as we all know, light doesn't reflect in a vacuum. Or it only reflects once. Or something.

  22. Re:Star Trek: TNG Identity Crisis on Nvidia Sinks Moon Landing Hoax Using Virtual Light · · Score: 1

    Almost. He discovers the shadow which is in the recording, then has the computer extrapolate the shape of the object that cast the shadow.

  23. Re:There are numerous other obvious flaws on Nvidia Sinks Moon Landing Hoax Using Virtual Light · · Score: 1

    It's why you can't see stars in the daylight here on Earth.

    Is it? I thought it was because the daylight completely drowns out the miniscule amount of light from the stars, not that the exposure is way off.

    You could have opened the shutter or extended the exposure on the Moon and seen some stars, but you couldn't do that during daytime on Earth.

  24. Re: "without gravity"??? on SpaceX Launches Supplies to ISS, Including Its First 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    While yes, there is a gravity field nearby

    There's a gravity field everywhere.

  25. Re:What? on NY Magistrate: Legal Papers Can Be Served Via Facebook · · Score: 2

    Try, otherwise it's not much of a contribution to discussion.

    Why is it any more absurd than passing around pieces of mashed up tree peppered with black gunk?