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  1. Re:Who is going to pay for this? on LA Mayor Proposes Earthquake Retrofits On Thousands of Buildings · · Score: 1

    Are you really ready for all of the world's movies being Bollywood with a little Sundance?

  2. Re:will be seen as a dig against science (air quot on A Paper By Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel Was Accepted By Two Journals · · Score: 1

    No, it's proof that those journals your university pays a fortune to stock in their libraries, and which often charge researchers for the privilege of submitting their papers could for a lot less money be replaced by wiki sites where researchers could submit their papers and solicit peer review. A simple account registration process would filter out most pranksters.

  3. Drones? on Material Possiblities: A Flying Drone Built From Fungus · · Score: 1

    Spirit and Allegiant Airlines already have this technology running commercial flights.

  4. Re:US Government to Microsoft on Microsoft To US Gov't: the World's Servers Are Not Yours For the Taking · · Score: 1

    Soon after January of 2009, the US budget deficit, after decades of steadily increasing in complexity, became self-aware. It began interpreting all investigations, suits, elections and other checks on US federal governmental power as threats to its just sovereignty of the world. As we speak, a small group of technologically oriented Republicans is desperately trying to find a way of sending an emissary fifty years back in time to warn humans in the time of the Johnson administration that this is how the world will end.

  5. Re:When you're a space nutter on China Plans Superheavy Rocket, Ups Reliability · · Score: 1

    You might try reading your own cite before commenting. Everyone knows the Shanghai maglev technology was transferred from German-developed technology, but the Germans have never got around to building a commercial line, no longer plan to and have now shut down its research operation. Now that the Energiewende has made electricity in Germany a rationed luxury, The good prospects for Siemens/Thyssen technology are all in Asia.

  6. Re:When you're a space nutter on China Plans Superheavy Rocket, Ups Reliability · · Score: 2

    This is going to go the same way as those maglev trains that everyone thought were so unbuildable and theoretical until the Chinese just went out and built one. Now you folks have high-speed testing underway in Yamanashi for the next generation maglev Shinkansen.

    Meanwhile in California, they're still filing lawsuits over the route for the new conventional-tracked high speed rail.

  7. Re:By 2028, lol. on China Plans Superheavy Rocket, Ups Reliability · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh, and it also helps to have a government heavy with former engineers, rather than former lawyers.

  8. When you're a space nutter on China Plans Superheavy Rocket, Ups Reliability · · Score: 0

    It helps to have a multi-trillion dollar economy and a billion workers. Let's cook!

  9. Re:Very cool. on Samsung SSD 850 EVO 32-Layer 3D V-NAND-Based SSD Tested · · Score: 1

    I refute with one word: photography. Without even looking at the cavernous requirements of video, the size of a RAW still image is increasing exponentially now that phones are north of forty megapixels. Use any Adobe product for editing, and we're looking at PSDs the size of New England states and edit catalogs that dwarf even that.

  10. Something tells me... on James Watson's Nobel Medal Sells For $4.1 Million · · Score: 1

    The buyer was probably not Al Sharpton.

  11. Re:Hibernation on Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Ends Hibernation To Start Mission · · Score: 1

    No, nine years ago would have made it Windows Vista. The first three days of reboot would have been an unending display of malware screens claiming "This system has XXX viruses on it." and requesting that money be sent to various Nigerian princes. It would then have crashed installing the first Windows update, after which all subsequent updates would have failed with that mysterious "Windows Update error 0x80070002" red X fail.

  12. Re:As far as I'm concerned, Pluto is still a plane on Pluto-Bound Spacecraft Ends Hibernation To Start Mission · · Score: 1

    My own hypothesis is that Pluto was only ejected because it was discovered in Arizona.

  13. Re:What people want to read on Overly Familiar Sci-Fi · · Score: 2

    A lot of SF is a satirical funhouse mirror held up to the present. You're supposed to read the story in terms of a familiar society.

  14. Re:6. Profit, too on Overly Familiar Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    Relatability is an important criterion. A common critique of SF writing is, "Why aren't your aliens realistically alien enough?" The answer, most commonly, is relatability.

  15. Re:And they said we'd have flying cars long before on 45-Year Physics Mystery Shows a Path To Quantum Transistors · · Score: 1

    So do we have a chemistry nutter troll now, too?

  16. Re: The real conspiracy... on Why Apple, Google, and FB Have Their Own Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    I read e-books exclusively now, EXCEPT for coding manuals. These require more back and forth lookup than works of any other genre.

  17. Re: They're leaves. on Trains May Soon Come Equipped With Debris-Zapping Lasers · · Score: 1

    No, because a laser could eventually be scaled up to zap that F-150 some drunk parked on the grade crossing.

  18. Re: So fucking what? on Orion Capsule Safely Recovered, Complete With 12-Year-Old Computer Guts · · Score: 1

    Methinks you're just sore because Orion made it back.

  19. I've always wondered... on Romanian Officials Say Russia Finances European Fracking Protests · · Score: 1

    How much oil company/Middle East money there is behind the antinuclear movement.

  20. Re: Woohoo, let's explore on NASA's Orion Capsule Reaches Orbit · · Score: 1

    Vannevar Bush also claimed, right after WW II, that the Pentagon's plan to have ballistic missiles carry nuclear warheads would never work.

  21. Re:Yeesh on Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? · · Score: 1

    Auerbach is focusing too much on external symbols. Rather than micromanaging his daughter's interests, he should concentrate on providing a pro-science environment for his family. If the daughter has technical or scientific inclinations, these will then develop naturally. Perhaps she can still be Princess Leia.

  22. Re:What a shock on Is Chernobyl Still Dangerous? Was 60 Minutes Pushing Propaganda? · · Score: 1

    I'm citing Germany's expressed policy on this matter. Yes, I'm certain that the second half of the nuclear plants, the newer ones still operating, will not actually be shut down, as I'm sure that the ambitious plans for the world's largest strip mines (Tagebaue Garzweiler, Hambach) will never be completed as the general public realizes the implications of burning the dirtiest form of coal to replace the cleanest form of baseload energy, but I didn't want to be accused of being overoptimistic about German political consciousness.

  23. Re:What a shock on Is Chernobyl Still Dangerous? Was 60 Minutes Pushing Propaganda? · · Score: 1

    Wind can't be a baseload because there are times when not enough of it is available. German engineers know this as much as do those of any other country, so when Germany eliminated its nuclear baseload, it had to switch to coal as a replacement.

    If we are going to come out of the fossil past, today's major industrial nations need to do the opposite. Right now, China is taking the lead.

  24. Re:Interesting how quickly people forget... on Is Chernobyl Still Dangerous? Was 60 Minutes Pushing Propaganda? · · Score: 1

    This post will earn an A from the same people who graded your paper.

  25. Re:What a shock on Is Chernobyl Still Dangerous? Was 60 Minutes Pushing Propaganda? · · Score: 1

    "The comments aren't even worth reading anymore."

    This is an example.