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  1. Re:Great idea, wish the U.S. had more of it on World's Largest Wind Turbine · · Score: 1

    who said anything about sail boats? I was referring to general recreation. a wind farm becomes dangerous to speed boats, is annoying to people who wish a quiet time out on the water, and detract from the recreation area's aesthetics making it less desirable to visit. there is no reason that the wind farm must be located where people play.

  2. Re:What kind of wind power will be required... on World's Largest Wind Turbine · · Score: 1

    funny thing is that the inertia of those blades in a direction that is perpendicular to the direction of the force is actually a lot less than the inertia parallel to the force.

    it has something to do with the circular motion and gravity and stuff.

  3. Re:Great idea, wish the U.S. had more of it on World's Largest Wind Turbine · · Score: 1

    robert kennedy Junior mentioned this attack on him and his neighbors. the problem is that those waters are used for a lot of recreation for area residence. a wind farm would stop boating activity in the area. he said that this developer is just looking to save money by building it closer to shore rather than 5 miles out like his competitors already have.

  4. Re:Knee-Jerk Nucleophobia on Green Party Candidate David Cobb Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    problem solved....Throium based Nuclear power.

    Thorium is more abundant and less radioactive after use than uranium. the reactors can not melt down because it does not use a critical mass system for fusion, and the waste cannot be used to make nuclear weapons.

  5. Re:"people of color " on Green Party Candidate David Cobb Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    people of color does not just talk about black folk. it refers to asians, arabs, blacks, hispanics, native americans, aborigines, Pacific islanders, basically, anyone who is not a white european,

  6. heh...I would not go up in galaxy either on X Prize Launch At Mojave Spaceport [updated: success!] · · Score: -1

    this is the madden flight as well as the test flight. for all they know, the pod will burn up in reentry.

  7. Re:Smart machines on IBM Sets Supercomputer Speed Record · · Score: 1

    thinking in human terms is more involved than processing power.

  8. Re:36 TFlops ? on IBM Sets Supercomputer Speed Record · · Score: 1

    uhh, because they are UPGRADING YOU MORON.

    is the obvious always lost on you or what?

    the VT cluster has been upgraded to the new and yet unreleased duel 2.3 GHz Xserves with ECC memory. last month was their first live month and they were testing it out by running stuff for the military.

  9. Re:36 TFlops ? on IBM Sets Supercomputer Speed Record · · Score: 2

    they had to take down their system while they upgraded to Duel 2.3 GHz Xserves with ECC memory. the system is up and running now, and last month they were running simulations for the military.

  10. Re:6 GHz is not that impressive. on Overclockers Top 6GHz With A 3.6GHz-Rated P4 · · Score: 1

    half that speed is 3 GHz......the G5 is 500 MHz away from there now...I bet an LN2 cooled G5 would run at 4-5 GHz easy.

  11. Re:Speed of light on Overclockers Top 6GHz With A 3.6GHz-Rated P4 · · Score: 1

    no, we will reach that when we have ICs based on optical wires.

  12. Re:Hotmail stil has some uses on Hotmail Begins to Upgrade Free Accounts · · Score: 1

    250 MB is fine for me. I get my hotmail through my mail client (Entourage on OS X) so adding space to it means that I can keep messages longer and do not have to worry about high traffic.

    and with the spam filtering on Entourage, I can keep my inbox on my hotmail clean because I automatically junk anything that is not in my contacts list. the only junk I get now is when some one spoofs my email address and it get through.

  13. Re:My Biggest Problem on Hotmail Begins to Upgrade Free Accounts · · Score: 1

    ahh, I love my hotmail connectivity in entourage :-) 250 MBs means hat now I can use Hotmail as m main address and not worry about it.

  14. ok, back to school on Astronaut Wants Space Program With No Frills · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    when you write something, do not include more than one topic in a paragraph.

  15. repeat after me..... on Green Housing Takes Root in Oregon · · Score: 1

    Nuclear is not evil!!!

    but it would go a lot better impact wise if we went to Thorium based Nuclear power production.

  16. a lot of good it will do on People on Mars in 30 Years? · · Score: 1

    when we will be out of energy by then unless we move to clean (at the point of energy production) sources of renewable or very long lasting, low impact sources of energy.

    Wind has been looked at here in the last few days. that seems doable. then there is this. from that we can get rid of fossil fuel all together and use Hydrogen for all portable power needs, and the electric grid for all static needs.

    until then, we are pretty much screwing ourselves out of any possible future that does not involve a huge population correction, and or, extinction which will be a result of our civilization falling apart.

  17. umm, line of site at 40 miles? on One-Watt Wireless Radio Modem Reaches 40 Miles · · Score: 2, Interesting

    is the world flat?

  18. Re:Buy Them Out on Beatles vs Apple · · Score: 1

    yeah....1991 deal with Apple corp and a 1988 deal with MS, both crap filled loop hole infested documents.

  19. Re:Buy Them Out on Beatles vs Apple · · Score: 2, Funny

    another great deal brought to you by the same moron who brought Apple that great GUI licensing deal they had with MS.

    good job

  20. Re:explanation??? on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes · · Score: 1

    what the Casmir effect is is an example of the pressure caused by virtual particles that are created from void space.

    in void space you have particles and their anti-particles popping in and out of existence millions of times a second. that sudden appearance of matter causes a force and when taken in aggregate the resultant force can be quite large.

  21. Re:Laws of Physics on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    it is a problem with GR because you cannot describe a singularity in GR other than how it affects the geometry of space.

  22. Re:Laws of Physics on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes · · Score: 2, Insightful

    umm, there are holes in it.

    ever hear of a singularity? yeah, that is a huge hole in GR, as is reconciling what QM tells up and what GR tells us....oh, and there is this pesky problem with those probes going on now.

  23. Re:explanation??? on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes · · Score: 1

    I thought dark energy was pretty much agreed upon as being the cashmier effect, only amplified in the almost total empty space between the galaxies.

    now common, get those ZPMs going, or if you are from canada...ZedPMs

  24. Re:only that.. on An Overview Of Present, Future of Music Technology · · Score: 1

    H.264 will be playable on DVD players though.

  25. Re:only that.. on An Overview Of Present, Future of Music Technology · · Score: 1

    H.264 will be the movie's MP3.