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  1. You have to build an entire new craft to complete the contract

  2. But...this company had everything! on Hello's Sleep-tracking Kickstarter Hit, Which Raised Over $42M In Three Years, Collapses (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    ...A founder who looks like he's about 15 and wears jeans and t-shirts all the time.

  3. What is brain?!?

  4. Re:Uh, why? on A 21st-Century Version Of OS/2 Warp May Be Released Soon (arcanoae.com) · · Score: 1
    >Windows 3.1 support? That's not a relevant feature.

    It is if you want to play Sid Meier's Civilization II

  5. Caught sayof school that has stoped Handstandsing " See, told ya so" Is He dead or not. CNN Says yes. St. Pete Times Looking for chads -OR- "hello, I am write single to salute and wait for answer again"

  6. Re:Arrest warrent is being drawn up now on A Teenage Hacker Figured Out How To Get Free Data On His Phone (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    But he's free of any artificial shackles!

  7. MMMM Powdered Cheese on Isolated NASA Team Ends Year-Long Mars Simulation In Hawaii (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny
    "They each had a small sleeping cot and a desk inside their rooms. Provisions included powdered cheese and canned tuna."

    So I am fully qualified for a mission to mars?

  8. Auto conversion is the bane scientists on 20% of Scientific Papers On Genes Contain Conversion Errors Caused By Excel, Says Report (winbeta.org) · · Score: 2

    Once we ran all our British chemical patent info through software to convert it to good old-fashioned American English. All instances of Tungsten Carbide (WC) were converted to "Toilet".

  9. Yellow stars are the best on Kepler Confirms 100+ New Exoplanets (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Already well-known from playing MoO for years.

  10. Re:And he means it .. literally .. on The NSA Would Be Eliminated Under President Gary Johnson (thehill.com) · · Score: 2
    >abolishing everything = idiotic

    This is why I can't seriously support the Libertarian party. They have some views I agree with, but they miss the fundamental truth that humans are social animals, and governments are just an outgrowth of our society. Their idea that our natural state is to be holed up in a house blasting away at anyone who steps on the lawn is based on pure ignorance.

  11. Convert energy into photons? on Finnish Scientist Provides Another Explanation For The 'Impossible' EM Drive (examiner.com) · · Score: 1

    So, all we need to do is shine a flashlight out the back of the spaceship and we are good to go?

  12. Re:Misleading Title on The Biggest Maker of Raspberry Pis Has Been Acquired For $871 Million (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Also it says "Raspberry Pis"

  13. Radiation on First SpaceX Missions To Mars: 'Dangerous and Probably People Will Die' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Has Musk yet explained how he plans to keep them all from dying of radiation overdose?

  14. Re:Lockdown - so? on Working at Facebook Sounds Like Joining a Cult (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm still curious as what they were supposed to do during this "lockdown".

    Call the police and report that they were being detained against their will?

  15. Re:Of course it's a Unix shell.. on Python/Unix Hybrid Demoed at PyCon (xon.sh) · · Score: 1
    >It's cleverly named "conch"

    And annoyingly spelled "Xonch"

  16. A computer reading my messages?? on Don't Use Google Allo (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    How else am I going to get them?

  17. I knew you were going to post this on Study Suggests Free Will Is An Illusion (iflscience.com) · · Score: 1

    A split second before you did

  18. I spent a year mopping floors and cleaning bathrooms at McDonald's.

  19. I assume that like Dyson's "bladeless" fans, it has the fan blades hidden within it? It's amazing to me how many people think those things are magic.

  20. Re:Why does it need to be political at all? on 2016 Hugo Awards Shortlist Dominated By Rightwing Campaign (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's "Leftwing" and "Rightwing" now.

  21. Re:Make USEFUL Metal Currency! on Should the US Change Metal Coins? (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I actually don't like "round to the nearest 5 cents". Let's just drop the hundredths altogether, and have the smallest coin be the 10-cent piece.

  22. Some of us carry on the tradition on The Most Disruptive Technology of the Last 100 Years Isn't What You Think · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and continue to consume great quantities of cheese, whiskey and hard cider.

  23. Re:Citation index on Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google Sooner Than Expected · · Score: 1

    In fact, Brin and Page wrote some early papers crediting Eugene Garfield as the pioneer of citation indexing.

  24. Except for one problem... on The Crowdfunded Board Game Renaissance · · Score: 1

    ...somebody is selling you a game based only on a list of components and a "theme". Except for a few that have been vetted by serious publishers, most "kickstarter" games I've played have been dreadful. Most should have been trashed after the first playtest. Many probably didn't GET a first playtest. Why bother, if everyone has ponied up their cash already?

  25. Not the first person to have this idea on Does Elon Musk's Hyperloop Make More Sense On Mars? · · Score: 1