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  1. Re:Don't rule out the cow! on Did A Comet Trigger The Great Chicago Fire? · · Score: 3, Funny
    The Uncoveror is a journal of political satire, news parody, and sometimes outrageous farce.

    What a clever cover for their plot.

  2. Re:What about crevasses? on Tumbleweed Rover for Marathon Martian Journeys · · Score: 1
    70 kilometers doesn't qualify as "making it across Antarctica".

    It did travel 70 kilometers across the Antarctic Plateau. It doesn't say where it stopped.

    At last report it was halfway across the Indian Ocean on a course to Australia. :-)

  3. 3. Sell Unix to Microsoft 4. Profit! on Leaked Memo Says Microsoft Raised $86 million for SCO · · Score: 1
    The will help us a lot and if we execute we could exit and Unix componients we have build potentially back to Microsoft or MCS.

    He's considering an exit by selling Unix components "back to" Microsoft?

  4. Re:What am I missing? on Fusion In Sonoluminescence (Again)? · · Score: 1

    Or just dump all the stuff in a metal can and put it in a paint shaker powered by a lawnmower engine.

  5. Re:Incorrect on Fusion In Sonoluminescence (Again)? · · Score: 1
    Speaking of which... does this mean that if I made one of these _and_ got my hands on some deuterium I could make my own Hydrogen bomb?

    You'll be the first to know.

  6. Re:Energy on Fusion In Sonoluminescence (Again)? · · Score: 1
    The phenomenon which you refer to is triboluminescence, not sonoluminescence.

    Right, the Lifesavers reaction requires a dark room and a tribe of teenagers.

  7. Re:Planning Ahead on Mars Rovers Update · · Score: 1

    NASA was simply leading the way in future-feature technology. Send it to market, and later update with new features.

  8. Re:Yeah, right. on Fuelless Flight with Air Submarine? · · Score: 1
    I don't know about you, but being born and living my entire life as a passenger on an airplane that is endlessly flying (and with that same old cargo to boot) isn't my idea of the good life.

    Shhh. Nobody tell him about planets, this isn't his idea of the good life.

  9. Re:Best. Typo. Ever. on Fuelless Flight with Air Submarine? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Done. You now have no kingdom.
    Oh, and because the article already has +5 you don't need a mod point.

  10. Re:Everybody's Everything on Firmware Upgrades For Everything · · Score: 1
    Here it is: The OmniBooster!

    It may look like an ordinary battery, but it is the primary module for the OmniBooster System!

    If you need a cellphone, just get the powerful 3 watt bagphone module!

    For portable computing, an iThinkpaddle module does all you will do!

    And we offer not an ordinary universal antenna, because ours is disposable! Simply unroll the proper amount of AlumiAntenna from the Global Antenna Module, wind it properly around your arm, and place the arm in the position which gives the best reception! (For safety, it is recommended that a square piece of AlumiAntenna be formed around the top of your head! Even more uses are possible!)

  11. Re:Imagine.. on Mini-ITX Clustering · · Score: 4, Informative
    I might be the originator of this phrase, so I would be qualified to point out that the proper phrasing requires the informative link:
    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.

    The original links went to NASA/GSFC, but the Beowulf project central site has moved.

  12. Re:DO ITASHIMASHITE! on Japanese Government Raids Microsoft Offices · · Score: 0

    Si.

  13. Re:FlameThrower on What (non-PC) Hardware Do You Hack? · · Score: 1

    I imagine an Airzooka could be persuaded to make a flaming ring...

  14. I cut my teeth by wiring phones on What (non-PC) Hardware Do You Hack? · · Score: 1
    I had stripped green, and was holding red in my mouth about to strip it, which of course meant that green was resting on my bottom lip.

    Oh, you had tip and ring reversed.

  15. Re:SafeHouse on What (non-PC) Hardware Do You Hack? · · Score: 1
    The phone both there would be alot cooler if it actually worked as a phone....and didn't tell you the damd code to enter after picking up the handset.

    Good Morning, Mr. Presion.
    Your hack, should you choose to accept it...

  16. Re:Psychological impact on US Military Builds MMO Earth Simulator · · Score: 1

    If the simulator is hooked up to a public game server, there will be plenty of rampaging hordes to practice on. Hook in a Sims interface and civilians will be wandering around, doing silly things that Sims players do...and adding a flavor of unexpected civilian behavior which the military programmers wouldn't add. Charge a minor fee and offset the expenses.

  17. Re:Experiment on Defending Earth From Asteroids With MADMEN · · Score: 1

    My junior high school science teacher said it is more impressive to use chunks of sodium or phosphorous. The reaction is more interesting, and you move quickly -- to hide in the bottom of the boat, if nothing else.

  18. Re:Interference problems... on Earthlink Invests In Broadband Over Power Lines · · Score: 1

    Oh, that's interesting. Zooming in to a 1 meter aerial photo view, the southernmost dish (the offset shadow shows it is a dish on a short pedestal) is next to a cleared swath through the trees to the ESE. That's in the general direction of Kennedy Space Center. I wonder if they're using that dish to follow launches in progress.

  19. Re:Interference problems... on Earthlink Invests In Broadband Over Power Lines · · Score: 1

    If they're starting in North Carolina, the radio astronomy observatory PARI probably isn't going to be too happy. We've discussed PARI before -- it's a former satellite surveillance base, with a happy face painted on one small dish for the benefit of USSR spy satellites.
    Coordinates: -82.87198 W, 35.19989 N
    Updated TerraServer link. Switch to Topo Map view, zoom to 16 meter resolution, pan right twice, zoom on Towers to east of Glassmine Mountain.

  20. Re:Terrorist act on Keyless Entries Fail In Las Vegas On Friday · · Score: 1
    I have mod points and I can't mod that comment away from offtopic... "already moderated", what gives?

    Aha, so now moderation is not working. Locks, cars...What next?

  21. Re:Hypervelocity? on U.S. Air Force Plans for War In Space · · Score: 1

    Yes, Thor. Covered in fiction, Footfall and David's Sling, Thor examined kinetic weapons. In David's Sling, the "crowbars" were steel rods dropped from orbit - they used cameras to identify targets, chatted with each other to choose individual targets, and used tiny fins to aim at targets. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress also showed the power of dropping rocks. More recently, the "bunker buster bombs" are based on cannon barrels - falling from a jet they don't reach "hypervelocity" but they deliver a lot of force. Related are the shaped explosive charge weapons, which produce a very fast lance toward the target (often an armored target).

  22. Re:ThoughtTracker on Idea Management/Navigation Software? · · Score: 1
    I've got to stop getting attached to programs...

    Write that down somewhere.

  23. Tick...Tick...Tick... on Today Is SCO's Deadline To Sue Linux User · · Score: 1

    Now the SCOCountdown site is counting down the time until the site is obsolete...

  24. Re:We apologise for the delay on platform 1... on Spirit Rover Makes Longest Trip Yet · · Score: 1
    ... as there is the wrong type of dust on the ground.

    Props! Fix the dust!

  25. Re:Could this be a problem in the future on Spirit Rover Makes Longest Trip Yet · · Score: 1
    "... an impending rock-slide ... how to move around correctly..."

    Run away! Run away!