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  1. Re:Ripples, echos, aftershocks on Recent Quasar Observations Support Lots of Mini-Bangs Instead of One Big Bang (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The totality of the gravity would be the same, albeit lower density as it's over a larger volume. But in a 10 year timescale that's impossible to expand to the size of a galaxy.

  2. Re:A long time ago, observing a galaxy far, far aw on Recent Quasar Observations Support Lots of Mini-Bangs Instead of One Big Bang (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    That is a brilliant post with a lot of information.Thanks. So transwarp conduits then?

  3. Re:Physicists believe in negative mass.... on Bizarre 'Dark Fluid' With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    "Just look at the epic failure of SUSY or read "Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray" " Or just look at the Higgs Boson, or Special And General relativity who's predictions came to fruition... You're cherry picking.

  4. Re:The answer is simple on Bizarre 'Dark Fluid' With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe (theconversation.com) · · Score: 1

    All you've done is describe the multiverse, which has been theorised for as long as the big bang (if not longer)

  5. Re:Could Google just fucking tell me on Google Is Shutting Down Its Allo Messaging App, Says Report (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    Hangouts got the axe now too. Google really are out of control

  6. You might not, but others do. I have a 180,000 follower community on there that has nowhere else to go that makes sense.

  7. Re:Doing what Google is best at on Google Will Shut Down Google+ Four Months Early After Second Data Leak (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The way Google has behaved in the last few years is terrible, it's become much worse in the last 18 months. I'm actively avoiding as much of thier ecosystem as possible now because thier abandonment policy.

  8. Re:This has been going on for quite a while... on Billionaires Are Chasing The Holy Grail of Energy: Fusion (bloombergquint.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh that old chestnut. If you've been studying the technology beyond the soundbites it has indeed changed since the 1980's in exponential ways

  9. Re:AV1 is very complex for encoding on Microsoft Launches Free AV1 Video Codec For Windows 10 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    "No one has "live" encoded video on anything other than dedicated encoding hardware in a really REALLY long time." Tell that to the 10's of millions of Twitch users that don't use CPU or GPU acceleration.

  10. It hasn't lead the way for years now.

  11. There's several Star Trek and science fiction films which outline this problem. It's possibly unavoidable as we as humans want to live mostly on the surface of an ever expanding sphere, not in the middle or bottom.

  12. Apple CEO Tim Cook, in an interview with BuzzFeed on In an Unprecedented Move, Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls For Bloomberg To Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep.. thats says everything I need to know.

  13. Re:At that point I move to Edge or FF on Chrome 70's Upcoming Security Change Will Break Hundreds of Sites (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    No they aren't. But that's only a small part of the reason why I'd move personally. Wrong place to explain, but Google has shafted me on YouTube, Google Maps Contributions and the Nexus 6P

  14. Re: Ouch on Hubble Telescope Hit By Mechanical Failure (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why is somebody as dumb as you on /.? The Hubble Space Telescope is a joint ESA/NASA project http://sci.esa.int/hubble/

  15. At that point I move to Edge or FF on Chrome 70's Upcoming Security Change Will Break Hundreds of Sites (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Google had fucked me over a few times in the last 18 months I've had enough

  16. Discontinued in a year on Google Unveils Pixel Slate, Its First Laptop-Tablet Hybrid in Three Years (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Just like everything else Google

  17. Re:Using Robots on Hubble Telescope Hit By Mechanical Failure (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah the shuttle was an absolute disaster financially. IIRC it was just a dick competition with Russia.

  18. Re:Ground based telescopes with adaptive optics on Hubble Telescope Hit By Mechanical Failure (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In concrete terms, ESO/ESA VLT surpassed Hubble by quite some margin. But if we can fix Hubble with a *relatively* cheap robotic mission, it would make economic and scientific sense.

  19. Re:Ouch on Hubble Telescope Hit By Mechanical Failure (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You know I was thinking the same. In 2018 we should be using semi-automated or at least remote controlled robots for things like this.

  20. Re:Ouch on Hubble Telescope Hit By Mechanical Failure (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Hubble is not just a NASA project. It would be bad for ESA too.

  21. It seems...

  22. Re:Sorry for the Pedantry on Discovery of 'Goblin' Solar System Object Bolsters the Case For Planet Nine (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    You want to avoid technical terms on a technical website? That's what Google Search for.

  23. Re:That's no Overclocking on Nvidia Scanner Brings One-Click Overclocking To Its GeForce RTX Graphics Cards (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    By the very description of what they are doing, that IS overclocking.

  24. "It's distinctly possible, indeed even probable, that ARM becomes useless, and the entire mobile market moves to x86." There is ZERO indication for this at all. You literally just pulled that out of your arse.

  25. Re:Out there might be the wrong place to look on We May Be All Alone In the Known Universe, a New Oxford Study Suggests (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I've seen this argument before but for me there's one major flaw. If a society decides to evolve down in scale they inherently have less computing and storage power. You might argue back that at those small scales, they are more efficient. To which I'd respond that you can have your cake and eat it by having your computing at small scales all the way up to macro scales. A bit like a jupiter sized computer that works on the level of quarks or some such. The assumption being that computing and storage are important in a highly developed species.