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  1. the seeds of life on Bootid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight · · Score: 3
    The interesting thing about meteor showers is that they occur when we pass through the tail of comets. Successive orbits of the parent comets leave more meteorites for us Earthlings to enjoy on future Earth orbits.

    Some people theorize that the very seeds of life are left in these trails, and are thereby delivered to the planets which orbit through them. There are and thousands thousands of comets in our system alone, each trailing their own brew of materials behind them.

    Interesting no?

  2. Re:Just use hemp? on Biotech and the Environment · · Score: 1

    A local politician has driven her hemp fueled van around for a few occassions. I wonder what the exhaust smells like.

  3. Bandwidth Wars on Bandwidth Speculation's Legacy: Dark Fiber · · Score: 1

    So, will Luke Skypager defeat Dark Fiber?

  4. Nokeleco Adam on Classic Atari Games for Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    I wired my Nokia to play Coleco Adam games and print on the Coleco daisywheel printer via IR. The cool thing is I can use the Coleco tape deck to store numbers from the phone. I just pop in the right tape and push play and it will dial for me. Couldn't be easier!

  5. get my agent on Scientists Discover Another 'Extinct' Tree · · Score: 1

    Someone needs to get ahold of Darva Conger, we want to do a million dollar spread of her posing nude with the extinct tree. She'll be naked, but wearing a gardeners belt and weilding a Home & Gardens foam kneepad.

  6. action figures on Holy Grail Action Figures · · Score: 1

    What kind of action are we talking about? I think we should boycott these unless they are anatomically correct.

  7. it's aboot good health care on National Broadband Access · · Score: 1

    My mom (US citizen) jumped her 1999 Saturn 61 meters while sleeping on the Canadian Highway. She was assigned two surgeons, liked them both. She had over 150 miles of Ambulance transfers, an MRI, spent six days in the hospital, and got a custom made neck brace built just for her. Total cost... $3300 US. She's been around hospitals and people in the hospital her whole life. She didnt think the Canadians had it any better or worse than we did regarding health care due to socialization.

  8. Re:Star? Jar? Bink? on Star In A Jar · · Score: 1

    Mee-sa famous! Mee-sa famous! So happy you make big boomski in lab! Mee-sa go put Jar Jar in Google more! more!

  9. Re:the telescope he used on Getting Into Space, One Way Or Another · · Score: 1
    Great point, Deathcow. You deserve a "5 Informative".

    Here are some more astropics from the Celestron 9.25" scope:

    Weatherman's 9.25" pics

  10. the telescope he used on Getting Into Space, One Way Or Another · · Score: 4
    The celestron 9.25" scope he used has a good reputation amongst amateur astronomers.

    You've all seen the big blue Meade scopes, the 8", 10" and maybe a 12" down at "Nature Store" and places like that. All those scopes (all these are SCT's, or Schmitt Cassegraine Telescopes) and the Celestron SCT's have a pretty mediocre reputation for quality. However, people say the 9.25" model is a winner. It has a differently designed set of mirrors than the other common SCT's available.

  11. Re:Free Advertising! on Freenet's First Employee · · Score: 2
    > > How long till his living expenses include a Ferarri? >

    You'll have to ask Phillip GreenspIn from ArsDigita...

  12. Re:stock options on How Employees Value Their Stock Options · · Score: 1

    I know I should have executed them and sold every one, as for a time, there were plenty of buyers. But, more people than just I received incorrect counseling about what could and couldnt be done with them. I didnt seek legal counsel on what the president was telling me.

  13. cross platform on Mozilla 0.9.1 Out · · Score: 2

    I stealthily parked outside every big business in town, tapping in to their fluorescent light networks one by one, and still couldnt find a C64 build of this new Mozilla.

  14. tech support on The Lamps Are The Network · · Score: 1


    EH? SPEAK up SONNY I can HARDLY HEAR YA

    NO, my "CLAPPER" works fine DAMMIT!!! BUT everytime I clap it drops my DAMN INTERNET connection!

  15. stock options on How Employees Value Their Stock Options · · Score: 3

    I worked at a medical startup for five years. My options got up to about $300k in value. Then the venture capitalists came in and the president/CEO of the company started taking too many cruises in the Caribbean. This is before a single dollar of income was ever earned.

    Venture capitalists pressured the President/CEO to get the product out the door. The product was NOT ready.

    Went as far as this: The presidents on a damn boat by Puerto Rico telling me to roll the product out. I said "It's not ready". He says "I'm the president of a multimillion dollar medical product manufacturing company, and you are second guessing me?" (Sure... multimillion.. right... I'm not sure VC investments count there buckko.)

    lol.. Naturally the dumbass Venture Capitalists got their way, and our FDA medical approved robotic device FAILED on numerous patients. Darwin's theory was in full swing.

    My $32,500 strike price in stock would have bought me $300,000 in stock at the height of it all. By the time the venture capitalists and Captain Ahab in the Caribbean were done, my $32,500 would have bought me $3000 worth of stock. They left the company at 1% of the value of the glory days.

    My new company I work for just gives fat stock options to executives, and flips worthless little puddles of stock options to us common folk.

  16. telecommunications and the C64 on Surfing With Your Commodore 64 · · Score: 1
    I remember spending about 1 hour on my Commodore 64 trying repeatedly (and unsucessfully) to download simple 30k games between Wiz-Kids house and mine back in ?1983?1984?

    My emails are frequently larger than that now.

    Hey, with the aggregate throughput of the Commodore 64, it might be like "the visible TCP/IP stack" -- you know, you could see it do stuff like this:

    [PAUSE] TCP packets prepared and ordered. Contacting IP layer.
    [PAUSE] IP layer active. TCP packets received. Sending packets to hardware.

  17. Good Times Virus on Organic Screens, Coming Soon · · Score: 4

    I hear there will be a flexible membrane on the front of these monitors (and televisions) where you can dose the organic LCD matrix with a hypodermic needle full of McAfee antiviral compounds.

    It will be critical for desktop technicians to carry plenty of clean needles.

  18. Re:...and I am a ISS-hooker. on Canadarm2 May Get Arthroscopic Surgery · · Score: 1

    Roger that Houston, three minutes to Low Earth Orbital Insertion!

  19. Tito! on Canadarm2 May Get Arthroscopic Surgery · · Score: 5

    You just know it was that Tito guy. Nasa's nightmare come true.. Tito's up there with nothing to do for an entire week, pretty soon he's flinging space garbage towards Florida with The Arm.

    Tito looks around.. hums to himself nervously.. floats away quietly.

  20. ICAN on Legitimacy Of ICANN? · · Score: 1

    I say put the whole thing on ICAN-II and send them about 55,000 A.U. south.