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  1. Re:Not good on Fault Tolerant Shell · · Score: 1

    Obviously that is the canonical example of why DWIM needs to be run through DWIM so any erroneous interpretations will be corrected.

  2. Wired And Ready To Go! on Stretchy Wires to Create Artificial Nerves · · Score: 1

    I'm feeling so wired today.

  3. Re:A lot of astronomers don't want to count Pluto on The Sun's 10th Planet... Sedna? · · Score: 1
    You better make sure that the needle doesn't rotate... Otherwise, chances are the Earth will be cut in two halves.

    Needle, not sword.

    Although it might be better to put a head on the trailing end, so after it nails the Earth we have a column on the far side for a space elevator.

  4. Re:A step ahead on Stretchy Wires to Create Artificial Nerves · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I, for one, am waiting for the day when we will not require hardware to be made from metals and other hard substances.

    Hard waiting for that.

    Imagine cars made up of soft cushiony/rubbery material, which bounces back to absorb a collision...the metal body can dent in and absorb the force of the impact, but it works only against collisions against other cars/hard objects -- not against collisions with humans/animals and other "soft" substances.

    So collisions with humans will properly make the human bounce, dent in, and absorb the force of the impact.

    Nature has found the perfect way to create organs/pumps/filters/wires which are made out of soft tissue, and is malleable enough to survive severe tension/distortion and bending. Smile when you say that.
    Then look at your smile lines and consider how much severe tension/distortion and bending your "vital organs" can survive.

  5. Re:The way to a better dance pad! on Stretchy Wires to Create Artificial Nerves · · Score: 1
    RedOctane keeps taking a beating without fail on 9 footers.

    No problem, I only have 2 feet.

  6. Re:Excersize control? on Stretchy Wires to Create Artificial Nerves · · Score: 0
    Real exercise control would be for the machine to make you work harder, not merely monitor you.

    Truly delicate exercise control would make you spell correctly as your fingers are typing.

  7. Re:Whoa... on Stretchy Wires to Create Artificial Nerves · · Score: 1
    "The wires can stretch to over half their original length."

    Maybe they have to stretch while bending to over half.

    There does seem to be a grammar malfunction someplace.

  8. Re:A lot of astronomers don't want to count Pluto on The Sun's 10th Planet... Sedna? · · Score: 1
    1. Why not just call all solid [and liquid?] bodies "satellites" ? Asteroid, planet, moon, deathstar, they're all satellites from now on.

    No, that collection of examples is not correct. It makes Deathstar be "That's no satellite."

  9. Re:Imagine the eBay feedback on this one... on Titan Missile Complex Up for Sale · · Score: 1

    Hey, when you have a good complex who cares about feedback? Your voices either approve or disapprove, no matter what they tell you to say on eBay.

  10. Re:A lot of astronomers don't want to count Pluto on The Sun's 10th Planet... Sedna? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, it would be so much better to just reshape the incoming rock into a long needle so we have destruction confined to only two tiny little spots, including the spot on the opposite side of the Earth.

  11. Re:All right you little maggots! on U.S. Plans Targeted Draft for Computer Personnel · · Score: 1
    "Now I wanna see you pukes give me a static pattern rule with conditional execution under the recursion I'm seeing because your pointy heads are up your asses!!"

    Sir! Which pulldown menu is that form in? Sir!

    What's the idea, maggot, of putting me in a BLOCKQUOTE? What are you implying, you geek wannabe?
  12. Re:What they don't tell you about Hubble... on Hubble's Deepest Pictures Yet · · Score: 1

    That calls for a (+1,-1:Groan) moderation.

  13. Re:What they don't tell you about Hubble... on Hubble's Deepest Pictures Yet · · Score: 1
    Can any telescope that currently exists reproduce all of the capabilities of Hubble?

    Not unless Mauna Loa sends its summit into orbit.

  14. Re:better to us .mbl on New Net Battle Over ".mobile" Looming · · Score: 1

    What should a flash mob use other than .mob?

  15. Re:Cost to PRIZE ratio. on CMU First To Qualify For DARPA Grand Challenge · · Score: 1
    What do you think they do with undergrad tuition at those top schools? It's not going to the TA's who do the teaching.

    It's going to the Hummers which are NOW doing the teaching. I'm not going to argue with them...

  16. Re:Wrong access code? on Orange County: More E-Ballots Cast Than Voters · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your access code is 1337

  17. Re:I don't get it on Orange County: More E-Ballots Cast Than Voters · · Score: 2, Informative
    I believe there hadn't been a Republican govenor in California in something like the past 50 years

    I may not know California, but there is one obvious example: Governor Ronald Reagan.

  18. New! Improved! on Hubble's Deepest Pictures Yet · · Score: 2, Funny
    Coming soon:
    • Mega Deep Field
    • Giga Deep Field
    • Hyper Deep Field
    • Far Left Deep Field
    • Intense Deep Field
    • Macro Deep Field
    • Extreme Deep Field
    • Edgy Deep Field
    • Scuba Deep Field
    • Deep Deep Field
    • Long Deep Field
    • Infinite Deep Field
    • Wanderlust Deep Field
  19. Re:Why is this "insightful"? on Hubble's Deepest Pictures Yet · · Score: 2, Funny
    Hubble is in orbit around earth and not at a lagrange point. This means Hubble can only take small exposures at a time before whatever it is observing gets blocked by earth.

    Analysis suggests two-dimensional limitation on thought.

  20. Re:What they don't tell you about Hubble... on Hubble's Deepest Pictures Yet · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I don't know why some /.'ers seem to think that Hubble is easily replaceable. It isn't.

    A Space Shuttle Orbiter is even harder to replace.
    The astronauts inside the Orbiter are easier to replace, but harder to place at risk.

  21. Re:What they don't tell you about Hubble... on Hubble's Deepest Pictures Yet · · Score: 2, Funny
    What Earthbound telescope did you have in mind to produce this high-redshift infrared imaging?

    The telescope at the top of the space elevator.

    ...it depends on your definition of "Earthbound".

  22. Re:couldn't resist... on Navy Unveils Polyglot Chat For Iraq · · Score: 1
    Well, not only 15 years ago. Saddam's activities over the past decade also:
    The Iraqi regime's record over the decade leaves little doubt that Saddam Hussein wants to retain his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and to expand it to include nuclear weapons. We cannot allow him to prevail in that quest.

    Read it yourself, from John Kerry's mouth

  23. Re:Disney Science... on Did A Comet Trigger The Great Chicago Fire? · · Score: 2, Informative
    The papers from that conference are available for purchase in PDF format in the AIAA web site - In the Conference field enter "Planetary Defense"

    This paper is "Did Biela's Comet Cause the Chicago and Midwest Fires?"

    Hmm.. It is a 1995 paper: 15. Robert M. Wood, "Did Biela's Comet Cause the Chicago and Midwest Fires?", Society for Scientific Exploration Annual Meeting, 15-17 June 1995, Huntington Beach, California.

    Aha. Google for "Biela's Comet" Chicago.

    The idea is in a 1985 book, Mrs. O'Leary's Comet: Cosmic Causes of the Great Chicago Fire.

    There also was a meteor shower associated with Comet Biela, but in 1871 of the October 9 Chicago fire the shower was around November 27.

  24. Re:Sound plausible considering... on Did A Comet Trigger The Great Chicago Fire? · · Score: 3, Funny
    That meteorite fragments hit Chicago last June(?). My windows was facing away from the city, but I was still able to see a bright flash which I thought was lightning at first. Anybody else in the Chicago area remember the meteorite last year?

    No. I thought I saw something strange, but all I can clearly remember is a bright flash and two men in black walking away.

  25. Re:I've heard on Did A Comet Trigger The Great Chicago Fire? · · Score: 1
    I suppose it will be pretty hard to verify though -- nothing destroys evidence like building a city over it.

    Nothing destroys flammable ice like having a fire around it.