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  1. Re:Elon Musk is Delos D. Harriman on SpaceX Plans To Send Two People Around the Moon In 2018 (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I like the Earth. Physics is the same around the other stars. There will be only variants of the earth. Everywhere will have gravity. rocks, possibly liquid, but nothing better than the Earth. May or may not have an atmosphere, but can't get any better than the Earth. The most you'll find is better weather and it will be lie Malibu every day without the earthquakes or earth slides, but it's not really a big deal.

  2. Re:The Ignorance of Denial. on Supersmart Robots Will Outnumber Humans Within 30 Years, Says SoftBank CEO (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    30 years ago, the internet didn't exist

    If you are so wrong about this, how can you be correct about your other assertions?

  3. Or creating a new superconductor without understanding how superconductors work.

  4. Moore's law is about transistor size, not computing power.

  5. Re:Isn't all of this just BS? on Supersmart Robots Will Outnumber Humans Within 30 Years, Says SoftBank CEO (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Can alphago play chess or would if have to be reprogrammed? Would it know what it know what to do if you gave it a tictactoe board? Or risk? Empire builder? D&D?

  6. Re:Isn't all of this just BS? on Supersmart Robots Will Outnumber Humans Within 30 Years, Says SoftBank CEO (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    AI's were beating people in tic-tac-toe in the 1960w.

  7. Re:The banality of ubiquitious genius will doom us on Supersmart Robots Will Outnumber Humans Within 30 Years, Says SoftBank CEO (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    The lawyers won't allow this to happen

  8. Re:That's a lot of supersmart robots! on Supersmart Robots Will Outnumber Humans Within 30 Years, Says SoftBank CEO (fortune.com) · · Score: 1
  9. Re:You don't need six figures in Silicon Valley... on Scraping By On Six Figures? Tech Workers Feel Poor in Silicon Valley's Wealth Bubble (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm so poor I can't even afford fast food and have to cook for myself. I'm currently eating a bowl of pisole left over from last night. It's really good and not too unheathy though. Fast food is relatively expensive.

  10. It's like the celebrity divorce settlements with one spouse claiming they can't live on less than $2M/month.

  11. Re:Too soon to say on How To Get Back To the Moon In 4 Years -- This Time To Stay (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    At the very least we've forgotten the ISS and all of its promise and promises.

  12. Re:Google is becoming evil... on Is Google's Comment Filtering Tool 'Vanishing' Legitimate Comments? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    It only takes a week and you'll never miss it.

  13. Calculate the force on the plates of a capacitor when holding enough charge to move a car 300km. E=1/2Cv^2, C = eA/d, q=integral[I, dt], F=(1/4pi e)qq/d^2 should get you started.

  14. Re:Yeah, but WHEN? on Professors Claim Passive Cooling Breakthrough Via Plastic Film (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I got an advertisement in the mail this week for solar panels at 11c/watt. They're grade C, but I'm sure most would last the 6 month it will take to break even.

  15. Re:Too good to be true. on Professors Claim Passive Cooling Breakthrough Via Plastic Film (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    ~ -0.44%/degC

  16. Re:Too good to be true. on Professors Claim Passive Cooling Breakthrough Via Plastic Film (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Cooling the backs of solar panels works also. I've though about running water lines on the back of mine, but the cost relative to buying new panels, as low as 11c/watt, isn't worth it. Cheaper to buy more panels and screw the efficiency.

  17. Re:You amerikan infidel on Professors Claim Passive Cooling Breakthrough Via Plastic Film (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Who uses Celsius in science? I though we were all science people here.

  18. I'm going to combine this with a peltier cooler and make free energy.

    All bow ad hail me

  19. Do the physics. Not going to happen.

  20. Re:Not Really, But Harder Than Expected on Did Silicon Valley Lose The Race To Build Self-Driving Cars? (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Programmers hate engineers.

  21. Re:Not Really, But Harder Than Expected on Did Silicon Valley Lose The Race To Build Self-Driving Cars? (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    a few people in the right place at the right time

    There were a dozen search engines before and after google, so maybe it's something more. (I use DDG)

  22. Re:Not Really, But Harder Than Expected on Did Silicon Valley Lose The Race To Build Self-Driving Cars? (autoblog.com) · · Score: 2
    No it's not. I've spent a big chunk of my career navigating "regulatory hoops". Whenever I would bring up this as being a future problem for self driving cars, I'd always be labeled as a troll. Having worked in both fields, consumer electronics and safety critical systems, they really are quite different.

    Here's a good description of the problem.

  23. Re:which is harder on Did Silicon Valley Lose The Race To Build Self-Driving Cars? (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, the number that I saw often quoted was 37, not 20. (I was an embedded engineer with 'a lot of experience developing software for real-time applications' and used to followed this stuff pretty closely).

  24. Re:So, TRUMP wrote this? on Fasting Diet 'Regenerates Diabetic Pancreas' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Of course you can not load mice 1000+ calories per day.

    You can if you wrap them in electrical tape first.

  25. Great, just what I need on Fasting Diet 'Regenerates Diabetic Pancreas' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    another pancreas