Read the article again. The types of plastics they give examples for are types most commonly used in plastic flatware, containers, and other disposable items that are rarely recycled or used in long-lived structures like toys and computers. Just because people have come up with this innovation doesn't mean it has to be used everywhere.
Tests indicate that cats can't taste sweetness, so you shouldn't have to worry. Of course, not being able to taste sweetness doesn't preclude a cat for liking sweet foods on other merits.
Then again, my cats don't need any encouragement to chew plastic either. One of my cats just loves to chew the phone cord on the kitchen phone. I would coat it with pepper spray to make it taste awful, but it tends to bump him in the face at he plays with it while I talk on the phone. Now for computer cables, that would work really nicely. I'd suggest trying that.
I don't see how nerds with consulting companies that want to sign closed-source contracts is somehow off-topic for slashdot...
Granted. It seemed, however, like he was trying to use "Open Source" as a buzzword to seem more relevant (in the "hip" sense of the word) with the Slashdot crowd, when he was proposing the exact opposite of an Open Source scheme.
No it's not. The source is not available to all who ask for free. The source does not allow others to copy and distribute the source for free or for profit. Open Source software is actually more free about copyright restrictions (like the BSD license) than Free Software which restricts copyright to ensure that all have access to the source of derivative works.
This is a restricted source licensing scheme, not an Open Source Software. You really need to read the Open Source Definition to get a better idea of what Open Source is. I mean, the first principle of OSS is allowing free redistribution. Free Software forces free redistribution. This guy's scheme doesn't allow free redistribution at all. Been there. Done that -- not OSS.
A) This is not open source you're talking about at all. You don't understand the term, obviously, or are abusing it to somehow seem relevant to Slashdot.
B) This is purely a legal question. Ask a lawyer. It's all a matter of the contracts. The first company I worked for did exactly the same thing for one of their product lines, a COBOL-based transaction processing system. You got the code, but if you wanted support, you had to pay us. You couldn't resell the code without getting your ass sued off. It's just that simple. There is no technical solution to it. You just make it very clear that you can take them for all they're worth if they resell your code.
It's a product inconvenience, making the product less desirable. The free market always solves these problems in the end.
What free market?
You seem to be under the illusion that music is an undifferentiated market where all the products are interchangeable like wheat or crude oil. This is known in economics as perfect competition. Sadly, it doesn't happen in most real-world products people buy. The market for music is an imperfect competition, and it's hardly an open market right now.
Instead there is an oligopoly controlling music currently. All it takes is for the major members of the RIAA to band up together to introduce a scheme like this (which they are all in the process of doing) and 99% of the music you hear on the radio will only be accessible via this format.
Then what? Where does your average consumer get their Christina Aguilera, their Faith Hill, their Enimem, etc.? What competing publisher publishes the particular artists and even whole genres that they like? No one does. There isn't a wide variety of sources from which to get an artist's song that you like. Oh, if you're "indy," you can go underground to the local artist from your city, but 90%+ of the population likes what they hear on the radio, and what they hear on the radio is what the RIAA pays independent promoters to have them play.
So what if people buy less CDs because the TCO is higher? As long as they pay the same total amount of money, the RIAA is doing well. Heck, it even saves them money because they don't have to promote nearly as many artists if fewer CDs will make them more money through pay-for-play arrangements. The masses will continue to "vote with their dollars" to pay for these schemes when they're the only source of music that they like. The "free market" will decide this one for us because that market isn't truly free.
You're right on one point. It's not a basic humanitarian right to listen to popular music. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't be upset about being forced to pay more for goods while their utility decreases. It may not be "some fundamental God-given right," but it's certainly not fair and just treatment. It's someone making like a tinge less enjoyable for millions of people to greatly profit a few. It's like spam that way. The level of inconvenience that one person suffers is inconsequential, but the level of inconvenience that the total mass of affected people suffers is inexcusable -- especially when it's all done just to pump money out of people with providing them any benefit.
None whatsoever. Your instructor is just as sadly ignorant as the oft-maligned CompUSA/Frys/Best Buy/etc. employee who claims the same thing in various internet stories. MS has no more influence than any other large application developer for the platform. The make Office & Internet Explorer, which are two of the most deployed apps on the Mac, but the comment about the OS was just plain ignorance.
Ah, thanks for the info. I've heard that before, but I couldn't remember it at the time of posting. Perhaps you should reply to that under some of the Uzi jokes. That should be moderated up.
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Actually, we already have a name for a device that absorbs and does not re-radiate certain amounts of solar energy that you used to be able to find all over the place before major cities grew up. It's called vegetation. Most vegetation has high absorption in the infrared-red ranges. That's how chlorophyll works. You can actually get a good vegetation index of an area by looking at infrared-red absorption patterns in satellite photos.
Large cities already make large changes to the weather. This is known and well documented. As a result of the linked study, Atlanta has doubled efforts to increase greenery in the city limits to mitigate the climate effect and the city's image as "Hotlanta." The problem is that asphalt absorbs a LOT more heat and light than natural greenery or sand. That's why it's black, oddly enough.
Furthermore, solar panels aren't all-consuming one-way doors of solar energy. Solar panels only get 5-20% efficiency. The rest of that is reflected or reradiated as heat. No matter how many solar panels you blanketed city rooftops with, it wouldn't keep urban areas from being a stronger source of heat than surrounding areas.
But not as old as the Nissan Forgery in Dresden, Germany, Koenigsstrasse.
I'm not surprised. Apparently it's a common combination of syllables for names. Heck, Uzi Nissan is Israeli, and his name means the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar, while the Nissan Motor company comes from an abbreviation of a company name which basically means Japan Industries.
I think it's pure injustice if Nissan (Motors) gets away stealing the Nissan (Computers) website. Irregardless of that, I was correcting the factual error that got modded so high up by the parent poster.
Funny thing is, he's Israeli. His name isn't Japanese, it's Hebrew. Read his site for the full story. Apparently, it's just a name over there. I guess an "Uzi" is just like a "Tommy Gun" in terms of origin.
Close, but not quite. Datsun was used inside Japan too for a long time. It was an established brand name a couple of years before the merger that would finally name the company Nissan in 1934. Datsun was named as the "son of DAT," and DAT came from the initials for three of donors of startup money to Kwaishinsha Jidosha Kojo's founder.
The company has always been Nissan, the cars were called Datsun up until 1982.
For a full treatment of Nissan history, click on this link.
To summarize, the first companies that would eventually become Nissan started in 1911. After a series of mergers, changed company names, and revisted models, they started selling cars with the Datsun name in 1932. However, the company was never known as Datsun Motors. Datsun was just the brand name of their cards, from "son of DAT." The company has been called Nissan Motors ever since the merger between DAT Automobile Manufacturing Company and Nihon Sangyo, another pre-existing automobile manufacturer.
Some other juicy bits that the enthusiast site I've linked to doesn't go well into is the fact that Nissan was the largest of the "new zaibatsu" and profitted quite considerably from the rape of Manchuria by the Japanese in the 1930s. The older zaibatsu, like Mitsui, Sumitomo, and Mitsubishi were all tightly controlled by greedy single families who weren't well liked by the wartime government. Companies like Nissan who were owned by multiple owners were treated more favorably and got the sweeter deals in exploiting the newly conquered Japanese territories.
Also, the website glosses over the labor struggles of the 1950s in Japan. Nissan was a "innovator" in breaking their unions and was one of the first companies to create a company-created union that would provide the model for all modern Japanese labor unions. Modern Japanese labor unions are all company (not trade) specific and are essentially a secondary tier of management over the workers used to keep them in line and in harmony with company desires, and striking is no longer allowed. Though as far as I know, Nissan's 100-day strike was very bloodless compared to many of the other labor struggles during the period, it was the pioneer in establishing the crippled system that exists today in Japan.
...and thirdly, for those incapable of reading both the article and the title bar of their browser, this article is referring to Taiwan, the Republic of China, not mainland China, the People's Republic of China.
For those ignorant of history, the nationalist government under Chiang Kai-shek fled mainland China to Taiwan during the communist revolution in 1949. In the beginning, Taiwan maintained that it was the seat of the real government of China while the Maoists maintained that Taiwan is a rouge province from the real government of China in Beijing. America originally only recognized Taiwan as the government of China and gave the communists the finger. We stationed a fleet around Taiwan to guard it against the mainlain with the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 as a hedge against the spread of communism.
Since the 1960's, the people of Taiwan have sought independence from the mainland. In 1971, the UN ejected the Nationalist representative and installed a representative from Beijing as the official Chinese representative, and not too long after the US adopted the "one China" policy of recognizing the mainland as the official government. Since then, we've had unofficial ties with Taiwan and have sold them the weaponry they use to defend themselves currently.
So, to wrap up... Republic of China (ROC) -- Taiwan People's Republic of China (PRC) -- China Relevance of above comments about PRC -- 0%
In addition to the problem with being a heavier tax on the poor that another poster mentioned, your proposal majorly screws with local and state fundraising abilities. For example, my county passed a referendum to fund a stadium for a minor league baseball team. To fund it, they decided to raise the sales tax 1% for the next 2-3 years. This is a pretty simple and effective way to raise money.
Your solution advocates hampering two major methods of fundraising for county, city, and state governments -- sales tax that differs from the national sales tax and income taxes, since the most reliable government body for assessing income would be abolished. With no sales tax and with income tax being limited to the state level, the only real option left for local governments is raising property taxes. Where I come from, at least, raising property taxes is even less popular of an idea than raising income taxes or sales taxes.
Worse, how to you fairly divy up the funds amongst states and counties? How do you insure that the way things are divied up will be any fairer than the current system. After having seen the scandal over gerrymandering in my state, I can guarantee you that state legislators won't be impartial and fair when divying up funds trickled down from the federal level, especially when party politics come into play. Politicking over where the funds go will become even worse, and the ability of local municipalities to determine their own fate will be diminished by such a centralized system.
I think it's a bad idea that just looks good at first.
How, exactly, do you get this to work. I've used fink to install mplayer and all its requisites, but I never get anything but a blank screen with a few commands and a timecode at the top no matter what options I specify with "-vo aa." Any suggestions would be helpful.
You call yourself a geek and you can't even enjoy a good kids movie about becoming a wizard? What's wrong with you, anyway?
Seriously, it's news here because there's about as large and obsessive a geek following of Harry Potter as there is for Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. You can see people cos-playing as Hogwarts students at most sci-fi/fantasy cons now. The books are just a good fun read, and the first movie was remarkably true to the source. Read them -- you might be surprised. I didn't expect them to be worth the hype considering the quality of most popular fiction, but they're pretty entertaining.
While you're at it, rent the movie. Unlike "Ya Ya Sisterhood," it's worth the money.
Perhaps there's something you haven't learned about modern court cases. If you're a small person, it doesn't matter how just your case is if you can't afford an attorney to handle it. IP cases are some of the nastiest and arcane proceedings in modern law. If you don't have an expert, you're likely to lose.
Despite good evidence, there are many pitfalls that you can fall into if you try to represent yourself. If you try to hire a lawyer, the other side will drag out proceedings as long as possible if they think they can make the case far too expensive for you. In other words, most sites have given up and decided to pay the fee for something they shouldn't owe any money for because they can afford to fight back.
This is why the word "extortion" was used. PanIP is going after little guys that don't have the money to fight them so that they can get enough money to take on the big guys. Right now, the big guys have more money and would squash them. Also, they're hoping that a good list of companies paying them will act as evidence of the worth of their claims. Furthermore, if they can get a little guy to take them to court and crush them through better lawyers, they've established a precedent upholding their case.
Personally, in 1995, I was using a monitor with a 75 Hz refresh rate. Of course, I was using it in 640 X 480 mode and the video card wouldn't do 16-bit color in higher resolutions, but it worked pretty well for me. Even back then, people knew about flicker and many of us tried to avoid it at all costs.
The main problem is sitting at a terminal for hours and hours at a time, not the screen itself. It's the positions we sit in, how close to the screen we are, and how little movement we make.
All I'm saying is that at the speeds their talking about, smashing a probe into a planet is likely to destroy a good chunk of what you're looking at. Do the math for a 2-ton object hitting something at.9c.
Sorry, I originally mentioned that in my first draft of the post, but I cut it out while fixing grammar as I moved sentences around and forgot to put it back in. Thank you for bring that up, though. My first encounter with the Apocrypha was in an Eastern Orthodox Bible when I was a kid.
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Read the article again. The types of plastics they give examples for are types most commonly used in plastic flatware, containers, and other disposable items that are rarely recycled or used in long-lived structures like toys and computers. Just because people have come up with this innovation doesn't mean it has to be used everywhere.
Tests indicate that cats can't taste sweetness, so you shouldn't have to worry. Of course, not being able to taste sweetness doesn't preclude a cat for liking sweet foods on other merits.
Then again, my cats don't need any encouragement to chew plastic either. One of my cats just loves to chew the phone cord on the kitchen phone. I would coat it with pepper spray to make it taste awful, but it tends to bump him in the face at he plays with it while I talk on the phone. Now for computer cables, that would work really nicely. I'd suggest trying that.
I don't see how nerds with consulting companies that want to sign closed-source contracts is somehow off-topic for slashdot...
Granted. It seemed, however, like he was trying to use "Open Source" as a buzzword to seem more relevant (in the "hip" sense of the word) with the Slashdot crowd, when he was proposing the exact opposite of an Open Source scheme.
No it's not. The source is not available to all who ask for free. The source does not allow others to copy and distribute the source for free or for profit. Open Source software is actually more free about copyright restrictions (like the BSD license) than Free Software which restricts copyright to ensure that all have access to the source of derivative works.
This is a restricted source licensing scheme, not an Open Source Software. You really need to read the Open Source Definition to get a better idea of what Open Source is. I mean, the first principle of OSS is allowing free redistribution. Free Software forces free redistribution. This guy's scheme doesn't allow free redistribution at all. Been there. Done that -- not OSS.
A) This is not open source you're talking about at all. You don't understand the term, obviously, or are abusing it to somehow seem relevant to Slashdot.
B) This is purely a legal question. Ask a lawyer. It's all a matter of the contracts. The first company I worked for did exactly the same thing for one of their product lines, a COBOL-based transaction processing system. You got the code, but if you wanted support, you had to pay us. You couldn't resell the code without getting your ass sued off. It's just that simple. There is no technical solution to it. You just make it very clear that you can take them for all they're worth if they resell your code.
Get a lawyer. Leave the work to them.
It's a product inconvenience, making the product less desirable. The free market always solves these problems in the end.
What free market?
You seem to be under the illusion that music is an undifferentiated market where all the products are interchangeable like wheat or crude oil. This is known in economics as perfect competition. Sadly, it doesn't happen in most real-world products people buy. The market for music is an imperfect competition, and it's hardly an open market right now.
Instead there is an oligopoly controlling music currently. All it takes is for the major members of the RIAA to band up together to introduce a scheme like this (which they are all in the process of doing) and 99% of the music you hear on the radio will only be accessible via this format.
Then what? Where does your average consumer get their Christina Aguilera, their Faith Hill, their Enimem, etc.? What competing publisher publishes the particular artists and even whole genres that they like? No one does. There isn't a wide variety of sources from which to get an artist's song that you like. Oh, if you're "indy," you can go underground to the local artist from your city, but 90%+ of the population likes what they hear on the radio, and what they hear on the radio is what the RIAA pays independent promoters to have them play.
So what if people buy less CDs because the TCO is higher? As long as they pay the same total amount of money, the RIAA is doing well. Heck, it even saves them money because they don't have to promote nearly as many artists if fewer CDs will make them more money through pay-for-play arrangements. The masses will continue to "vote with their dollars" to pay for these schemes when they're the only source of music that they like. The "free market" will decide this one for us because that market isn't truly free.
You're right on one point. It's not a basic humanitarian right to listen to popular music. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't be upset about being forced to pay more for goods while their utility decreases. It may not be "some fundamental God-given right," but it's certainly not fair and just treatment. It's someone making like a tinge less enjoyable for millions of people to greatly profit a few. It's like spam that way. The level of inconvenience that one person suffers is inconsequential, but the level of inconvenience that the total mass of affected people suffers is inexcusable -- especially when it's all done just to pump money out of people with providing them any benefit.
6 of 10 spatial dimensions are "compactified" and only exist on the sub-atomic scale.
Exactly what definition of science fiction are you using that does not include any of his most popular books?
None whatsoever. Your instructor is just as sadly ignorant as the oft-maligned CompUSA/Frys/Best Buy/etc. employee who claims the same thing in various internet stories. MS has no more influence than any other large application developer for the platform. The make Office & Internet Explorer, which are two of the most deployed apps on the Mac, but the comment about the OS was just plain ignorance.
Ah, thanks for the info. I've heard that before, but I couldn't remember it at the time of posting. Perhaps you should reply to that under some of the Uzi jokes. That should be moderated up.
Actually, we already have a name for a device that absorbs and does not re-radiate certain amounts of solar energy that you used to be able to find all over the place before major cities grew up. It's called vegetation. Most vegetation has high absorption in the infrared-red ranges. That's how chlorophyll works. You can actually get a good vegetation index of an area by looking at infrared-red absorption patterns in satellite photos.
Large cities already make large changes to the weather. This is known and well documented. As a result of the linked study, Atlanta has doubled efforts to increase greenery in the city limits to mitigate the climate effect and the city's image as "Hotlanta." The problem is that asphalt absorbs a LOT more heat and light than natural greenery or sand. That's why it's black, oddly enough.
Furthermore, solar panels aren't all-consuming one-way doors of solar energy. Solar panels only get 5-20% efficiency. The rest of that is reflected or reradiated as heat. No matter how many solar panels you blanketed city rooftops with, it wouldn't keep urban areas from being a stronger source of heat than surrounding areas.
But not as old as the Nissan Forgery in Dresden, Germany, Koenigsstrasse.
I'm not surprised. Apparently it's a common combination of syllables for names. Heck, Uzi Nissan is Israeli, and his name means the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar, while the Nissan Motor company comes from an abbreviation of a company name which basically means Japan Industries.
I think it's pure injustice if Nissan (Motors) gets away stealing the Nissan (Computers) website. Irregardless of that, I was correcting the factual error that got modded so high up by the parent poster.
Funny thing is, he's Israeli. His name isn't Japanese, it's Hebrew. Read his site for the full story. Apparently, it's just a name over there. I guess an "Uzi" is just like a "Tommy Gun" in terms of origin.
Just as an offtopic aside, according to this article using 4-bits per haploid base pair would come out at 750 megs.
Close, but not quite. Datsun was used inside Japan too for a long time. It was an established brand name a couple of years before the merger that would finally name the company Nissan in 1934. Datsun was named as the "son of DAT," and DAT came from the initials for three of donors of startup money to Kwaishinsha Jidosha Kojo's founder.
The company has always been Nissan, the cars were called Datsun up until 1982.
For a full treatment of Nissan history, click on this link.
To summarize, the first companies that would eventually become Nissan started in 1911. After a series of mergers, changed company names, and revisted models, they started selling cars with the Datsun name in 1932. However, the company was never known as Datsun Motors. Datsun was just the brand name of their cards, from "son of DAT." The company has been called Nissan Motors ever since the merger between DAT Automobile Manufacturing Company and Nihon Sangyo, another pre-existing automobile manufacturer.
Some other juicy bits that the enthusiast site I've linked to doesn't go well into is the fact that Nissan was the largest of the "new zaibatsu" and profitted quite considerably from the rape of Manchuria by the Japanese in the 1930s. The older zaibatsu, like Mitsui, Sumitomo, and Mitsubishi were all tightly controlled by greedy single families who weren't well liked by the wartime government. Companies like Nissan who were owned by multiple owners were treated more favorably and got the sweeter deals in exploiting the newly conquered Japanese territories.
Also, the website glosses over the labor struggles of the 1950s in Japan. Nissan was a "innovator" in breaking their unions and was one of the first companies to create a company-created union that would provide the model for all modern Japanese labor unions. Modern Japanese labor unions are all company (not trade) specific and are essentially a secondary tier of management over the workers used to keep them in line and in harmony with company desires, and striking is no longer allowed. Though as far as I know, Nissan's 100-day strike was very bloodless compared to many of the other labor struggles during the period, it was the pioneer in establishing the crippled system that exists today in Japan.
...and thirdly, for those incapable of reading both the article and the title bar of their browser, this article is referring to Taiwan, the Republic of China, not mainland China, the People's Republic of China.
For those ignorant of history, the nationalist government under Chiang Kai-shek fled mainland China to Taiwan during the communist revolution in 1949. In the beginning, Taiwan maintained that it was the seat of the real government of China while the Maoists maintained that Taiwan is a rouge province from the real government of China in Beijing. America originally only recognized Taiwan as the government of China and gave the communists the finger. We stationed a fleet around Taiwan to guard it against the mainlain with the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 as a hedge against the spread of communism.
Since the 1960's, the people of Taiwan have sought independence from the mainland. In 1971, the UN ejected the Nationalist representative and installed a representative from Beijing as the official Chinese representative, and not too long after the US adopted the "one China" policy of recognizing the mainland as the official government. Since then, we've had unofficial ties with Taiwan and have sold them the weaponry they use to defend themselves currently.
So, to wrap up...
Republic of China (ROC) -- Taiwan
People's Republic of China (PRC) -- China
Relevance of above comments about PRC -- 0%
In addition to the problem with being a heavier tax on the poor that another poster mentioned, your proposal majorly screws with local and state fundraising abilities. For example, my county passed a referendum to fund a stadium for a minor league baseball team. To fund it, they decided to raise the sales tax 1% for the next 2-3 years. This is a pretty simple and effective way to raise money.
Your solution advocates hampering two major methods of fundraising for county, city, and state governments -- sales tax that differs from the national sales tax and income taxes, since the most reliable government body for assessing income would be abolished. With no sales tax and with income tax being limited to the state level, the only real option left for local governments is raising property taxes. Where I come from, at least, raising property taxes is even less popular of an idea than raising income taxes or sales taxes.
Worse, how to you fairly divy up the funds amongst states and counties? How do you insure that the way things are divied up will be any fairer than the current system. After having seen the scandal over gerrymandering in my state, I can guarantee you that state legislators won't be impartial and fair when divying up funds trickled down from the federal level, especially when party politics come into play. Politicking over where the funds go will become even worse, and the ability of local municipalities to determine their own fate will be diminished by such a centralized system.
I think it's a bad idea that just looks good at first.
How, exactly, do you get this to work. I've used fink to install mplayer and all its requisites, but I never get anything but a blank screen with a few commands and a timecode at the top no matter what options I specify with "-vo aa." Any suggestions would be helpful.
You call yourself a geek and you can't even enjoy a good kids movie about becoming a wizard? What's wrong with you, anyway?
Seriously, it's news here because there's about as large and obsessive a geek following of Harry Potter as there is for Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. You can see people cos-playing as Hogwarts students at most sci-fi/fantasy cons now. The books are just a good fun read, and the first movie was remarkably true to the source. Read them -- you might be surprised. I didn't expect them to be worth the hype considering the quality of most popular fiction, but they're pretty entertaining.
While you're at it, rent the movie. Unlike "Ya Ya Sisterhood," it's worth the money.
Yeah, I know. With melodramatic purple prose like that, I thought I was reading Kuro5hin.org again.
Perhaps there's something you haven't learned about modern court cases. If you're a small person, it doesn't matter how just your case is if you can't afford an attorney to handle it. IP cases are some of the nastiest and arcane proceedings in modern law. If you don't have an expert, you're likely to lose.
Despite good evidence, there are many pitfalls that you can fall into if you try to represent yourself. If you try to hire a lawyer, the other side will drag out proceedings as long as possible if they think they can make the case far too expensive for you. In other words, most sites have given up and decided to pay the fee for something they shouldn't owe any money for because they can afford to fight back.
This is why the word "extortion" was used. PanIP is going after little guys that don't have the money to fight them so that they can get enough money to take on the big guys. Right now, the big guys have more money and would squash them. Also, they're hoping that a good list of companies paying them will act as evidence of the worth of their claims. Furthermore, if they can get a little guy to take them to court and crush them through better lawyers, they've established a precedent upholding their case.
Personally, in 1995, I was using a monitor with a 75 Hz refresh rate. Of course, I was using it in 640 X 480 mode and the video card wouldn't do 16-bit color in higher resolutions, but it worked pretty well for me. Even back then, people knew about flicker and many of us tried to avoid it at all costs.
The main problem is sitting at a terminal for hours and hours at a time, not the screen itself. It's the positions we sit in, how close to the screen we are, and how little movement we make.
All I'm saying is that at the speeds their talking about, smashing a probe into a planet is likely to destroy a good chunk of what you're looking at. Do the math for a 2-ton object hitting something at .9c.
Sorry, I originally mentioned that in my first draft of the post, but I cut it out while fixing grammar as I moved sentences around and forgot to put it back in. Thank you for bring that up, though. My first encounter with the Apocrypha was in an Eastern Orthodox Bible when I was a kid.