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  1. Re:This isn't hard folks on Air Force Hires Civilian Drone Pilots For Combat Patrols (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe because they don't match the definition of a mercenary?

  2. Re:News: Traveling faster than 25mph leads to deat on Louis Friedman Says Humans Will Never Venture Beyond Mars (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, that's not what I said originally and you've failed to understand anything said since apparently.

  3. Re:News: Traveling faster than 25mph leads to deat on Louis Friedman Says Humans Will Never Venture Beyond Mars (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the discussion is absolutely about science. Science is a methodology, it's nothing to do with people. Someone calling them self a scientist but making up theories without evidence isn't doing science. Science is how we know train travel isn't dangerous an me science is how we know travel across the solar system is unlikely.

  4. Re:News: Traveling faster than 25mph leads to deat on Louis Friedman Says Humans Will Never Venture Beyond Mars (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    So again I ask what was their evidence for the idea that traveling at the speed of a train would be dangerous. If there was no evidence then, as I said, there never was any scientific backing for the claim.

  5. Re:News: Traveling faster than 25mph leads to deat on Louis Friedman Says Humans Will Never Venture Beyond Mars (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude, did I say no one believed it? I said that there never was any scientific backing for the belief. And no, popularity as a meme doesn't count as evidence that a belief is valid.

  6. Re:News: Traveling faster than 25mph leads to deat on Louis Friedman Says Humans Will Never Venture Beyond Mars (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong, the science of those days is the same as the science of of today. There never was any science that said riding on a train could kill you, this is completely unlike anyone talking about the difficulties of traveling beyond our inner solar system.

  7. Re:News: Traveling faster than 25mph leads to deat on Louis Friedman Says Humans Will Never Venture Beyond Mars (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    What science was this so called authority basing his idea on?

  8. Re:"Never" is a very long time on Louis Friedman Says Humans Will Never Venture Beyond Mars (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Fusion yes, but I don't know about antimatter. What can we really do with it other than build expensive batteries?

  9. Re:more stats please . . . on Laser Strikes On Aircraft Increasing In Frequency (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anything that distracts the pilots during landing is a problem, it doesn't matter if it's resulted in any crashes yet or not.

  10. Re:"Laser Strikes" define? on Laser Strikes On Aircraft Increasing In Frequency (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    What do you count as injury? I've heard stories about lasers aimed at aircraft where they reported the pilot was temporarily dazzled by the light shining into the cockpit. Probably any laser beam visible to the pilot would be considered close enough to report. If your laser really isn't pointed anywhere near any planes I'm sure the pilots aren't seeing anything.

  11. Why would I want to imagine this?

  12. You pay about $24/month for those three services. $28 if you don't want any ads. My cable provider's minimal plan is $20/month. For that $20 you get much less content, no HD, and no DVR or on demand viewing. My old cable plan was $60 a month, I get 95% of what I watched on cable for half the cost by using streaming services.

  13. Re:An unreadable sentence on Breakthrough Algorithm Reported For Graph Isomorphsim (scottaaronson.com) · · Score: 1

    /. filters out extra spaces between sentences, so he may have typed his post with double spaces. That said double spaces is a dated practice which is not encouraged.

  14. I mentioned them in a comment to this post yesterday:

    Benson Leung Yesterday 8:27 AM
    I have it on good authority that Monoprice's cables and accessories are compliant. I need to write a review though, maybe in a few days.

  15. Re:Detecting weapons is NOT the purpose of TSA... on TSA Screeners Can't Detect Weapons (and They Never Could) (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The French train situation isn't at all comparable, that was just a shooter who really picked the wrong car to start his rampage in.

  16. Re:Detecting weapons is NOT the purpose of TSA... on TSA Screeners Can't Detect Weapons (and They Never Could) (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The pilot took advantage of the locked door, but it's not like he wouldn't have been able to crash the plane otherwise. There's really nothing that can be done about a pilot who wants to crash their plane.

  17. Re:Drug cartels on Anonymous Says US Senators Were 'Incorrectly Outed' As KKK Members · · Score: 1

    Actually torture could be very effective for breaking encryption because the truthfulness of your statement can be verified immediately. That is not usually the type of information people are tortured for however.

  18. Re:"TV series" on New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017 (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    None of the streaming services I've used are $15 a month, Hulu is $12 for their ad free subscription. CBS is only $5, but still not worth it at all. It deserves to fail.

  19. Re: I've been waiting for this! on Quantum Theory Experiment Said to Prove "Spooky" Interactions (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    The other person doesn't have any way of knowing that you made your observation before him.

  20. Re:16GB on Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P Reviews Arrive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't prove anything? Are they happy with only 16GB, or do they just not want to get ripped off paying an extra $100 for 16GB of memory?

  21. Re:Why is everyone so obsessed with wireless charg on Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P Reviews Arrive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Cables plugged into chargers that never move and can be tucked away neatly. I'm glad you appreciate how much nicer this is than having several feet of loose cable lying around.

  22. Re:Never again on Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P Reviews Arrive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't say perfect. Google is getting better, but the earlier Nexus devices had pretty disappointing support lifetimes

  23. Re:16GB on Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P Reviews Arrive (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Replace the 16gb model with a 64gb. There, almost everyone is happy. The problem isn't that you can't make everyone happy, the problem is offering an option that makes almost no one happy.

  24. Re:My ever shrinking HADRON on Terahertz Radiation To Enable Portable Particle Accelerators (www.desy.de) · · Score: 1

    "Among the possible applications, Kärtner told us that the technology could in principle also be adapted to produce miniaturized but still powerful circular accelerators like the LHC."

  25. Re:Coalescing gas clouds? on Mysteriously Variable Star Causes Speculation About Dyson Sphere (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you read the article? I'm guessing you didn't read the article.