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  1. Our domestic cat is unaware that she has higher on The Physics of Superman · · Score: 1

    . . limits! Seriously, our younger cat has higher than normal muscle developement. Her body mass (weight) is at least double that of any ordinary domestic cat of a similar size, and her muscletone matches that of pigdogs and bull-mastiffs. When she leaps, she exerts minimum (controlled) force to achieve her objective - similar to that of an astronaut performing a leap 18 inches high on the moon. She walks with the slow measured stride of a panther MANY times larger than her size.

    In play she charges our older cat just to leap just clear over at the crucial moment. Apart from flight, and vision powers, she would appear to be a super-cat. No centrafuge was used in her upbringing.
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  2. Re:Angry Customer on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 1

    Of course Macs don't suffer from this Keyboard/Mouse port confusion . . .
    A case of intelligent design!
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  3. Re:Reminds me of an episode of The Goodies. on Toxic Toads Taking Over Australia · · Score: 1

    You would be commenting here on the episode "Kitten Kong", which is a treasured episode indeed!
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  4. Re:regarding The Dark Star. on Nemesis, the Sun's Binary Star Companion? · · Score: 1

    I seem to feel a song coming on:

      CHORUS:
    "Benson, Arizona, the warm wind through your hair
    My body flies the galaxies, my heart longs to be there
    Benson, Arizona, the same stars in the sky
    But they seemed so much kinder when we watched them, you and I"
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  5. Mars magnetic field's monolith-based on Earth's Core Spins Faster than Earth · · Score: 1

    Mars' magnetic field is produced by a light-plum coloured monolith (with gigantic N and S markings) that was sunk to the planet's core millions of years ago.

    diagram of light-plum monolith at Mars' core

    Just like the famous black monolith that's guarding the region of the gas giants, its probally responding to Earth's radio traffic and has reduced Mars' manetic field to unmeasurable field strength.

    If we ALL look the other way it may resume normal strength, but I wouldn't bet my life on that!

  6. Re:Windows 95 had poor multitasking - 3 had none on Windows 95 Turns 10 · · Score: 1

    > Man, the real revolution was the 2.0->3.0 transition.
    > Multitasking !

    You are mistaken on THAT point . . but one home computer OS in that era with a multitaking GUI was that offered by CBM's Amiga, which first sold in 1985.
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  7. Re:i sense a disturbance in the force... on Apple Switching To Intel Chips In 2006 · · Score: 1

    ". . as if a thousand ex-PageMaker users cried out in pain, and were suddenly silenced!"
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  8. Re:Yes but...how fast? on Researchers Make Bendable Concrete · · Score: 1

    > No, but because of it's bendability, it can actually dodge incomming plains.

    But how fast can these incomming plains, that you mention, move? . . and is this all due totectonic plate creap?
    http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/louie/class/100/ plate-tectonics.html
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  9. Re:Amiga??? and then some . . on A History of Icons · · Score: 1

    Truely, and what other desktop could display
    301 clocks with a 50Mhz speed cpu?

  10. Re:Amiga Icons on A History of Icons · · Score: 1

    > Yeah, only where is it now?

    Pardon? Where is WHAT now?

    (posted from an AmigaOne XE-G4)

  11. this is just safer than a Mac! on Spam and Spyware Too Much for Some Users · · Score: 1

    If a Mac is safer through obscurity (and through its superior Firewall/User Account state) . . .
    . . then HOW MUCH more secure is my PowerPC running Opera & Mozilla under Debian or,
    AWeb under AmigaOS4.0?
    No 'Spawn-of-Gates' systems here!!
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  12. Re:Um... it will need repeated fixing. on Y2K: Hoax, Or Averted Disaster? · · Score: 1

    see Dates Potentially Causing Problems in Computer Systems (from today to 2100)
    Even the 68K Amiga systems run into trouble 8 years after Unix.
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  13. Re:Isn't - a solid colder than a liquid? on BMW Shows Off World's Fastest Hydrogen Car · · Score: 1

    Hmmm! Hydrogen Bombs?
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  14. Re:Didn't void the warranty on iMac G5 Porn Roundup · · Score: 1

    > but we can tell 90 % of the time weather someone has been in their machine or not.

    Hmmm! THAT would be because the 'weather' was light rain, and they openned their case up outdoors?
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  15. Here's A Real Brain Twister... MY WHAT? on Amateurs Pushing the Dreamcast's Boundaries · · Score: 1

    > Pathetic if your an amiga fan waiting for the 2nd coming of the amiga.
    More pathetic is having such a poor command of the English language that such a person frequently spells "you are"/"you're" with the posessive-case: "your". Now I ask you: "my WHAT?"
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    Amigas don't get infected . . PCs cop it ALL!
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  16. On screen sizing . . . on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    This is an interesting topic:
    In Australia television screens are measured, on the corner to corner diagonal, in centimetres!

    But computer display sizing remains in inches.
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  17. the US has its monetry unit in Decimal . . . on Our Friend, The Meter · · Score: 1

    Australian currency was converted to decimal in 1966. In Come the Dollars, In Come the Cents
    I think that this conversion led the Australian conversion to the Metric system of measurement.

    I found it a challenge as, after being schooled in Pounds, Shillings, & Pence, and Stones, Pounds, Ounces etc., when joining the workforce I was paid in Dollars!
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  18. M. Garibaldi is more on-topic than Bush on Preview of Moon-To-Mars Report · · Score: 1

    Just answer me - what is so "off-topic" with an enquiry asking whether an actor, who portrayed a successful role in a well done Space Fiction TV series, has made it into a political seat; when asked in a thread concerning the possibility of US return to manned space exploration?
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  19. I have confidence in M. Garibaldi on Preview of Moon-To-Mars Report · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have more confidence in Jerry Doyle, the Republican candidate for the San Fernando Valley congressional seat, who is better known to the science fiction crowd as the actor who played irascible security chief "Michael Garibaldi" on the legendary television space opera Babylon 5 . . than I have in Bush himself!
    Space Powers Babylon 5 Star's Congressional Bid
    So, what happened? Did Jerry Doyle win office?
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  20. America - free expression of Foreign Policy on Australia-US Free Trade Agreement Examined · · Score: 1

    > America... the land of the free (hence the intellectual thought police), and the home of brave
    > (hence the amount of security in the US). What went wrong?
    106 years of American Hegemony . Its been "wrong" for a l-o-n-g time! That's in regard to How the US Political-Military-Industrial combine treats the rest of the world, and How it treats its OWN citizens.
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  21. Why 're-invent' when the tech already exists? on Mozilla, Opera Form Group to Develop Web App Specs · · Score: 1

    Doesn't REBOL already allow these services that they are working to implement?

    REBOL Advanced Language Technology
    "REBOL is the first messaging language designed specifically for distributed Internet applications and data exchange across all devices."

    "Applications run faster, take less bandwidth, and are easier to create with our unique, dialect-based computing model that rebels against the idea that distributed applications must be built on layers of large, complex, expensive software."
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  22. The right to vote issue may come as a surprise! on China Developing own Standards · · Score: 1

    Isn't it "political" when the right-to-vote is denied those who've completed their sentences? That, due to the higher numbers of black Americans passing through the prison system - FAR more B.A. are being denied the right-to-vote?

    I notice that you ignored the "slave labour" issue?

    I do not deny the lack of freedom, etc. in China; but its still surprising what's lacking in the US!
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  23. This may come as a surprise! on China Developing own Standards · · Score: 1

    > No thinking person denies there are problems with the US system of government, it's current
    > government, and many of the social, political and economic systems we have here.

    > We don't run slave labor camps, populated by people whose opinion on political matters differs
    > from that of the government.

    Don't be so certain about THAT!?! The US has 1 in 37 adults living behind bars; the highest incarceration level in the world. Many US states "farm" their prison inmates out as slave labour!
    US notches world's highest incarceration rate
    This rate is FIVE times higher than China! So who's living in the Free World?
    "If current trends continue, it means that a black male in the United States would have about a 1 in 3 chance of going to prison during his lifetime. . a white male, 1 in 17."
    Which nation is a police state?
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  24. Re:"Three spheres--Earth, the moon and Mars" on NASA's New 'Exploration' Insignia · · Score: 1

    > Its triplanetary! Curse those filthy Boskonians....
    Aye! Wait till they run into Grey Roger, and Chicago gets slagged-down! They'll be in need of Conway Cosstigan . . . Shhh!
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  25. WHY look for something already found? on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 1

    Noah's Ark
    "The Bible does not say the ark came to rest on Mt. Ararat, but on the mountain range of Ararat. That is exactly where we find this boat shaped object, it is located about fifteen miles south of Mt. Ararat.The names of the surrounding places are interestingly associated with the Biblical account of the flood. The valley is called 'The Valley of Eight', in reference to the eight survivors of the flood, Noah and his wife, their three sons and their wives. A village in the valley translates to 'The Village of Eight',where several giant anchor stones can be found thousands of feet above sea level and hundreds of kilometers from the nearest sea."
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