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  1. Re:calculations wrong I think on Could a Meteor Have Brought Down Air France 447? · · Score: 1

    It would also be interesting to look at the change in velocity as the air density changes. As it falls, the air density increases, so the rate of change in mass increases (getting smaller at an increasing rate) - so momentum gets smaller.

    How much does it slow down in that last 10km?

  2. Re:5,013? on GM's Hummer Brand To Be Sold To a Chinese Company · · Score: 1

    Probably doesn't leave the driveway, since you'd need a lift kit in order to get the wheels to turn.

  3. Re:Heads aspode on GM's Hummer Brand To Be Sold To a Chinese Company · · Score: 1

    You might be surprised to learn that most of our imported oil doesn't come from Arab countries.

  4. Re:Yay on GM's Hummer Brand To Be Sold To a Chinese Company · · Score: 1

    I can get fuel economy almost on par with a Smart Car, and my Escort is 2.5 times it's size. But American car companies can't even make efficient, cheap cars that are easy to fix anymore.

    Uh... You did read what you wrote, right? Or did you trick yourself by putting Hyundai badges on your Escort?

  5. Re:Let me be the first to say. . . on Sedate Your Kids While They Play · · Score: 2, Funny

    Your journal hasn't been updated for 7 months... just sayin'.

  6. Re:Mostly just for cars on US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016 · · Score: 1

    Check the bed - not every trailer hooks to a bumper.

  7. Re:Mostly just for cars on US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You know what's really fucking horrible, seeing that on a computer, with a quad-core CPU, just for a browser and email, and half the time idle... what exactly do you need that CPU for, again?

    Fixed that for ya. Just because his toys don't appeal to you doesn't make it wrong.

  8. Re:Collusion on US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Probably for the same reason you see chihuahuas in purses.

  9. Re:Stereotypes usually have some kernal of truth on Does Dell Know What Women Want In a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    It's marketing though - no sense getting offended, just shop somewhere else.

  10. Re:No. on Court Orders Breathalyzer Code Opened, Reveals Mess · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you really think that you should receive the same consideration as a guy that's 3x over the limit? Blowing .08 and .18 are quite different in terms of state of mind.

    Definitely possible that there's no false negatives, but for a device that can have such this level of an impact on someone's life, you'd think it would be held to a higher standard.

  11. Re:Well, we're borked.... on Minor Damage Found On Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    While you're at it, get some tips from the Amish - they seem to have transportation nailed down.

  12. Re:Getting to ISS on Minor Damage Found On Space Shuttle · · Score: 1

    The shuttle actually has several ascent abort scenarios

  13. Re:Greed is Good on College Threatens Students Over Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    And:
      - wiki links to every word that might not be common knowledge
      - specify any voice inflection that must be read into the comment so no one will miss jokes or sarcasm
      - translate your comments into multiple languages for the non-English speakers
      - please mow my grass because I'm kinda tired today

    [/completely, totally, absolutely serious]

  14. Re:Sensationalism on Twitter Considered Harmful To Swine-Flu Panic · · Score: 3, Informative

    If it's any consolation, I read this story on CNN and had the same reaction: Pot, meet Kettle. What the GP doesn't seem to grasp is that local Fox station != Fox News.

  15. Re:Why does it matter? on GE Introduces 500GB Holographic Disks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How long does it take you to transfer 250 GB to the other side of town?

  16. Re:Shark... on LEGO Rock Band Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Lego surprised me once, I just don't think I'm ready for Netcraft to confirm anything because the appeal isn't obvious to everyone. :) But I've got young kids too. The 9-yr old does a good job tearing it up on GH, and I'm probably a bit biased because I'm ready to see my 3-yr old start tackling it too.

  17. Re:Shark... on LEGO Rock Band Confirmed · · Score: 1

    I bet you're the first to say it. And heck, after only what, a dozen or so games? [/sarcasm]

    DLC essentially can make new releases obsolete, but I really think this will do well. I never would have seen the appeal in the Lego Star Wars games, but they're pretty good.

  18. Re:Why Pay for a Degree on BYU Prof. Says University Classrooms Will Be "Irrelevant" By 2020 · · Score: 1

    Whoa - if I go to college, you mean I might get a female as a roommate?!

  19. Re:Terrible on South Park Creators Given Signed Photo of Saddam Hussein · · Score: 1

    I thinking your reading something and believing what you want. TFA and the summary both say that he was forced to watch it over and over.
    - Twice is over and over.
    - forced? So... it was on within his viewing area or do you think he was bound and gagged?

    Anything beyond that is a lot of assuming and reactionary knee-jerking at the thought of Bush. Try looking at things a bit more objectively. You have no idea what the nature of the relationship was between the Marines and Saddam.

  20. Re:He knew things that people didn't want to hear on South Park Creators Given Signed Photo of Saddam Hussein · · Score: 1

    Nice theory. And somehow we got the Iraqis to go along with it too and execute him, right?

  21. Re:Glad to see.. on Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town · · Score: 1

    +1, but as you can see the me-first'ers don't agree. *shrug*

  22. Re:Slashdot achievements on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    I don't understand

  23. Re:not-so-good? on Mixed Outcome of Texas Textbook Vote · · Score: 1

    So you don't know how we got here, but you certainly know how we didn't. That certainly doesn't lend your argument any credibility. To believe that we understand enough to rule out theories simply because we have no means of testing them is a very obstinate position.

    While you're at it, lay off the personal attacks.

  24. Re:not-so-good? on Mixed Outcome of Texas Textbook Vote · · Score: 1

    Yet, the best explanation offered by science is a big explosion of a big-ass ball of shit that has always just been there, with no creator nor concept of time.

    Sorry, I can't accept that. And if you see it as a setback to simply question if that is fact, then let's just toss aside that whole scientific method thing too.

    There's still a lot left to prove in the whole scheme of how and why we're here, and yet while we learn more everyday, the zealots who like to pretend to know that the concept of a creator is absolutely outside the realm of possibility, and even ridicule those who suggest it.

    You have no explanation for t=0-. Until you do, it's wide open.

  25. Re:not-so-good? on Mixed Outcome of Texas Textbook Vote · · Score: 1

    No one? Why does kdawson think that analyzing strengths and weaknesses is a setback? Seems to me that he'd rather see an evolution-only curriculum.