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  1. Re:Maybe Someone Should Explain L2? on NASA Pondering L2 Outpost, Return To Moon · · Score: 1

    L1-L3 are not technically stable. However, you can keep in position using very little fuel. Also, they've devised some funky micro-orbits about these points that help, too.

  2. Re:Well on Would Charles Darwin Have Made a Good Congressman? · · Score: 2

    That probably would be used against him.

    However, remember that the entire rest of the world was full-bore racist at that point, even the ones who thought slavery should be illegal.

    Darwin's science helped humanity in it's long climb out of that ignorance.

    I have to laugh about people who point out problems with Darwin...or Lincoln or even Jefferson or the Founding Fathers for that matter. Back then, assuming you weren't a slave yourself, you'd be screaming epithets at the slaves, or maybe you'd be part of the small fraction who thought those inferior brown people should not be enslaved, if you were enlightened.

  3. Re:We, outside U$A, on Why You Can't Build Your Own Smartphone: Patents · · Score: 1

    Rest of the world should be more like the US, given we invent half the stuff. Slackers!

  4. Re:Spice on Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I frequently relax at my computer with Sappho-related things.

  5. Re:Caffine on Do Recreational Drugs Help Programmers? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Most nerds don't have mouths involved in fucking. Or any other body parts.

  6. Hard to swallow on Buckyballs Throws In the Towel · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't see how kids can swallow these, not with their guts full of washing machine gel packs.

  7. Re:Dont forget their plans for mandatory logging on Australia Scales Back Internet Blacklist, Nixes Full-Scale Censorship · · Score: 1

    Damn, just as I was feeling good free speech battles had been pushed back to where they should be, child porn, rather than something actually encroaching on freedom.

  8. Full circle on New Dinosaur Named After the Eye of Sauron · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sauron was named after dinosaurs, so why not?

    Lets name some trees aftwr treants, while we're at it, and name some hobbled kid Bilbo.

  9. Re:Hope he's not the next Steve Jobs on Elon Musk Will Usher In the Era of Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    Someone has to build a cheap electric car people actually want to buy and can afford.

    Currently, it's all a silly game sucking on the tit of government backing and government paying for part of each car.

  10. Keep calm and love astronomy. on Study: the Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars · · Score: 1

    Half 9-11 billion years in age, half since, i.e. 12-14, hmmmm...something isn't right. Looks like little or no decrease.

    It should be decreasing, logically, but not by that argument.

  11. Re:The most lucrative World of Warcraft profession on 'World of Warcraft' Candidate For Maine State Senate Wins Election · · Score: 2

    Speaking of gold farmers, she can get busy taxing them.

    And tax the people outfitted in purple, while you're at it. They have greater ability to pay and can use their power to abuse the little guy.

  12. Re:Florida economic degree? on Tuition Should Be Lower For Science Majors, Says Florida Task Force · · Score: 1

    Easy loans meant double-digit tuition increases translate into "only" $20 a month more in paymemts. Hence 20 years of increases.

    So screw down to make it harder, and something will squeeze out elsewhere.

  13. Re:NIce on Neil deGrasse Tyson Pinpoints Superman's Home Star System · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ya but what if Kaku had rock solid arguments?

  14. Re:MN- Quick and easy on U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? · · Score: 2

    Nah. His problem was people kept voting no on his propositions.

  15. A horse designed by a business committee on Verizon To Shut Down App Store By January · · Score: 1

    Verizon has an app store? I never use other Verizon apps because every time I start one it gives me scary boilerplate clickthrus of data usage additional costs if I exceed my cap. G'bye, you scared me.

    I find it humorous Verizon, the data network provider, feels a need to disclaim this possibility against accusations they might be deliberately running up data usage because getting you to exceed the cap is a desired state for you to be in in their business model.

    I'm mad enough I have useless Verizon bloatware I cannot shut off that I never use and nickle-dimes my limited 384 MB down to about 90 mb free running with "nothing on".

  16. I'm watching ads. on Ask Slashdot: How To Become Informed In Judicial Elections? · · Score: 1

    I'm just watching ads. You think the bar is going to tell you Judge Johnson uses tax dollars to fund parties for baby rapists he odered early released?

  17. Sigh on David Braben Kickstarts an Elite Reboot · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Braben has launched a Kickstarter for a remake of Elite

    More of the masses funding elites, god damn it!

  18. Dang! on Hyundai Overstated MPG On Over 1 Million Cars · · Score: 1

    Well that sucks gass.

  19. Re:Scary Charges on Verizon Worker Arrested For Copying Customer's Nude Pictures · · Score: 1

    When I was younger I felt more like you do. Now I'm in favor of giving them rich, well-deserved beatings.

  20. Re:Wonderful on European Central Bank Casts Wary Eye Toward Bitcoin · · Score: 2

    A virtual currency has its prpblems, but keeping transactions encrypted and away from pryi (read: taxing) eyes is a government's worst nighmare.

  21. Re:Where is the arm? on Curiosity Snaps 'Arm's Length' Self Portrait · · Score: 1

    > It's a series of images that, when stitched,
    > conveniently exclude the arm.

    Good one for public relations, NASA.

    Reminds me of that scene from M*A*S*H where Father Mulcahey grows corn all year and, after harvesting, the army cook turns it into creamed corn.

  22. In IMAX 3D, yet! on VR Tech Lets People Interact With Rats · · Score: 1

    > VR Tech Lets People Interact With Rats

    Apparently, so does Hurricane Sandy.

  23. Red herrings and irrelevancies on Nonpartisan Tax Report Removed After Republican Protest · · Score: 1

    > share of income accruing to the top 0.1% of U.S.
    > families ... 12.3% by 2007 before falling to 9.2% due to the 2007-2009

    So...when times are good, companies earn money and those who own them earn more, and when times are bad, it collapses rapidly. Meanwhile, fairly static income of those who don't own corporations shifts much more slowly.

    It also blathers on loudly about "income disparities", which is a related irrelevancy. What matters is quality and longevity of life on average, number of calories or wiis per person, not whether a rich person's income as multiple of "average worker's" skyrockets in good times, which you would expect it to.

  24. Re:Global Warming Hurricanes! (In 1978....) on Atlantic Hurricane Season 30 Percent Stronger Than Normal · · Score: 1

    Fractional increases in power or frequency are unnoticable. "This will happen more and more" is 99% lie.

    Just wait until Nashville gets clobbered by an earthquake -- the strongest in the continental US are that region, not California.

    Oh, and look for the anti-fracking crowd to glom onto it as making it worse, or more likely.

  25. Re:But, But....what about all those in the 1950's on Atlantic Hurricane Season 30 Percent Stronger Than Normal · · Score: 2

    The point with the natural cycle is there are only miniscule increases in number and severity of storms. Huge ones come all the time. In fact, they pointed out on NPR that there was a worse storm to hit New England in the " '80s...the 1880s"., with lols.

    Every time a storm comes, zomg the sky is falling in new and horrible ways. Umm...no.