Now we know why no extresstrial civilization has made contact with us. We are the nerdy square sitting in the corner at the dance, with a pocket protector full of pencils.
Imagine what it would be like if it used slashdot exclusively.
Lasers require a shark to operate. Everything is measured in the "Library of Congress" unit. Computers are more important than girls. Obama is the reincarnation of God.
If you are driving a electric car out in the middle of nowhere, way outside of its range limits, then you get what you deserve. Think of it as evolution in action.
BTW: If my car stalled in my driveway, I'd be stranded in a desert. If I couldn't fix it there, I'd call for a tow truck to drag it to a repair shop. I wouldn't expect to pull a donkey out of the back seat (previous technology) to get it moving again, nor would I complain to the car company about the lack of same.
We need some genetic engineering on horses. Join old technology with new. What we need are horses crossed with a dachsund, to convert a simple horse into a mass transit vehicle. You might have problems with the critter trying to pee on itself.
Yet another stupid movie. 1st off, they'll need to reach the asteroid when it is within the shuttle's range (600 miles), which gives them about 1 second to drill their hole, insert the a-bomb, and detonate it. Which would just leave a large cluster of radioactive debris crashing into the Earth a few seconds later.
Even if you extended the Shuttles range 10x, that would still give you less than a minute to do something.
Blowing it up into tiny fragments would still not stop it's destructive effects. All that mass is still going to crash into the Earth, with all the fun heating properties, would still fry anything that happens to be living underneath it.
And what type of drill bit will wear out drilling through a supposedly mostly ice comet?
Stupid movie. You almost expect them to be attacked by space zombies.
They want to develop a secure system, yet they base it on the least secure system in existence? The API was never designed with security in mind, and you cannot ever safely attach a bare Windows system to the net without it getting owned in less than a minute. Do they really believe they can wave a magic wand over the massive amount of Windows code, and make it suddenly secure? The security problems don't sit entirely in the Windows code, it also exists in the innumerable poorly written applications. If you run these apps, then you don't have any change at securing your code.
84% voted that pi was just to hard to memorize, and decided that the value should be fixed at 5.
When does voting take the place of actual science? That is what I hate about this "Global Warming" crap. There is very litle real science being done, and most of what we get is just like voting on a new value of pi. "Consensus" is just another name for voting, and that is what the main "pro" column contains.
He's not a scientist, but I'm fairly certain he got the idea from scientific circles.
Actually, he is a Scientist. Has many published ideas. Geostationary satellites is one of his ideas. Just because you write Science Fiction doesn't cause them to throw you out of the guild.
Does that mean that Saturn is infested with Teddy Bears?
OH NO! Are Teddy Bears just stuffed baby Wookies from Saturn? The secret space program must be earning money somehow, but what happens if the Zombie virus gets to them? We don't have enough Slim Whitman records to protect us all!
Maybe I can get information from the various places I work at. So, who would pay the most for samples of KFC "7 herbs and spices", or McD "Special sauce", or maybe a sampling of TB "hot sauce"?
How much of that space is filled with Harry Potter? Do they get a copy of every revision of every version, including the foreign language versions? That has to be several Rain Forests worth, or at least one Library of Congress.
If rulers are too dangerous for these guys, just stop for a moment and think about how dangerous a keyboard or a mouse could be. It could never happen.
If rulers are two dangerous for these guys, just think about how they will handle the world as adults. What kind of job will they be able to handle as an adult when a simple ruler is considered a deathtrap? A stapler would probably be considered a weapon of mass destruction.
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Now we know why no extresstrial civilization has made contact with us. We are the nerdy square sitting in the corner at the dance, with a pocket protector full of pencils.
Imagine what it would be like if it used slashdot exclusively.
Lasers require a shark to operate.
Everything is measured in the "Library of Congress" unit.
Computers are more important than girls.
Obama is the reincarnation of God.
If you are driving a electric car out in the middle of nowhere, way outside of its range limits, then you get what you deserve. Think of it as evolution in action.
BTW: If my car stalled in my driveway, I'd be stranded in a desert. If I couldn't fix it there, I'd call for a tow truck to drag it to a repair shop. I wouldn't expect to pull a donkey out of the back seat (previous technology) to get it moving again, nor would I complain to the car company about the lack of same.
If you can fire the CEO, as Obama did to GM, then you own the company.
We need some genetic engineering on horses. Join old technology with new. What we need are horses crossed with a dachsund, to convert a simple horse into a mass transit vehicle. You might have problems with the critter trying to pee on itself.
Please place Bruce Willis on standby.
Yet another stupid movie. 1st off, they'll need to reach the asteroid when it is within the shuttle's range (600 miles), which gives them about 1 second to drill their hole, insert the a-bomb, and detonate it. Which would just leave a large cluster of radioactive debris crashing into the Earth a few seconds later.
Even if you extended the Shuttles range 10x, that would still give you less than a minute to do something.
Blowing it up into tiny fragments would still not stop it's destructive effects. All that mass is still going to crash into the Earth, with all the fun heating properties, would still fry anything that happens to be living underneath it.
And what type of drill bit will wear out drilling through a supposedly mostly ice comet?
Stupid movie. You almost expect them to be attacked by space zombies.
I suspect the biggest seller will be for the inflatable female soldiers. What boy wouldn't want one of these GI Janes?
They want to develop a secure system, yet they base it on the least secure system in existence? The API was never designed with security in mind, and you cannot ever safely attach a bare Windows system to the net without it getting owned in less than a minute. Do they really believe they can wave a magic wand over the massive amount of Windows code, and make it suddenly secure? The security problems don't sit entirely in the Windows code, it also exists in the innumerable poorly written applications. If you run these apps, then you don't have any change at securing your code.
84% voted that pi was just to hard to memorize, and decided that the value should be fixed at 5.
When does voting take the place of actual science? That is what I hate about this "Global Warming" crap. There is very litle real science being done, and most of what we get is just like voting on a new value of pi. "Consensus" is just another name for voting, and that is what the main "pro" column contains.
OK, who shot first: Han Solo or the Death Star?
Wait, what was the question again? Did a slashdot article suddenly get off topic? How unusual.
He's not a scientist, but I'm fairly certain he got the idea from scientific circles.
Actually, he is a Scientist. Has many published ideas. Geostationary satellites is one of his ideas. Just because you write Science Fiction doesn't cause them to throw you out of the guild.
Does that mean that Saturn is infested with Teddy Bears?
OH NO! Are Teddy Bears just stuffed baby Wookies from Saturn? The secret space program must be earning money somehow, but what happens if the Zombie virus gets to them? We don't have enough Slim Whitman records to protect us all!
Maybe I can get information from the various places I work at. So, who would pay the most for samples of KFC "7 herbs and spices", or McD "Special sauce", or maybe a sampling of TB "hot sauce"?
Without reading the stupid article, which company did they end up buying out for this product?
How much of that space is filled with Harry Potter? Do they get a copy of every revision of every version, including the foreign language versions? That has to be several Rain Forests worth, or at least one Library of Congress.
I thought is was the Slim Whitman music they constantly play on the radio? Is Solar Wind some group that specializes in his music?
And what private company had built a program from scratch and sent humans to the moon.
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I'll bet the first use of this information will be for herbal v14gr4 advertisements.
If rulers are too dangerous for these guys, just stop for a moment and think about how dangerous a keyboard or a mouse could be. It could never happen.
If rulers are two dangerous for these guys, just think about how they will handle the world as adults. What kind of job will they be able to handle as an adult when a simple ruler is considered a deathtrap? A stapler would probably be considered a weapon of mass destruction.
Wouldn't any microbrew be compatible with microgravity?
Having such great success with the Y2K predictions, they thought that their pandemic predictions would boost their rising peristeronic ratings.
What happens to the poor sod who gets this treatment, then walks through a disco?
I selected a shark in a backyard pool, but for some reason the camera pointing at it has been burned out, and now I cannot log in!
Do they keep sharks in the pool?