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  1. Re:Denser will make landing easier on Pluto's "Thick" Air Isn't Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    The New Horizons mission is a Flyby, not a Landing . . .

  2. Re:Gov't project on Administration Admits Obamacare Website Stinks · · Score: 2

    I don't understand why the Obamacare website is still working
    I thought the government was shutdown ?

  3. The Pluto site on Pluto's "Thick" Air Isn't Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    Here is the New Horzens website http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/

  4. Re:Google, really? on Could IBM's Watson Put Google In Jeopardy? · · Score: 1

    How can a person compare an Answer Machine to a Search Engine ?

  5. Re:Clearly man made on Cassini Probe Sees Plastic Ingredient On Titan Moon · · Score: 1

    But the Storm troopers had plastic suits . . .

  6. Re:Awesome. on New Solar Cell Sets Record For Energy Efficiency · · Score: 1

    It would be so cool to get solar power from the cloud . . .

  7. Re:No on Can There Be a Non-US Internet? · · Score: 1

    Crypt Kiddies . . . I like it . . .

  8. Re:DAMN HIPPIES !! on Join the Efforts of a Manned Mission To Jovian Moon Europa · · Score: 1

    That's No moon . . .

  9. Re:FFS on Join the Efforts of a Manned Mission To Jovian Moon Europa · · Score: 1

    "All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landing there."

  10. Re:LOL ... on It's Official: Voyager 1 Is an Interstellar Probe · · Score: 1

    Well, this is, what, the 3rd time it's been 'official'?

    So now we have a Probe that's going in and out and in and out . . .

  11. Re:Betteridge's law on Is It Time to Replace Your First HDTV? (Video) · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Well, it was a blast on First Asteroid Discovered At Uranus's Leading Trojan Point · · Score: 1

    That's No Moon . . .

  13. Re:Not seeing a problem with that. on Indian Government To Ban Use of US Email Services For Official Communications · · Score: 1

    Encryption of the actual text before sending it is the only way to be completely secure.

    But there may be a NSA backdoor to any encryption that you may use.

  14. That MoFo on OmniPage Maker Nuance Loses Patent Trial Over OCR Tech · · Score: 4, Funny

    That Mofo didn't know what he was talking about . . .

  15. Re:Combining articles on For Overstated Claims, Gore, Tesla Upbraided By NWS, NHTSA Respectively · · Score: 1

    Yes the aggregated 2 unrelated stories into 1, They are trying to make s smaller footprint so a hurricane will cause less damage . . .

  16. Re:A whole news post on For Overstated Claims, Gore, Tesla Upbraided By NWS, NHTSA Respectively · · Score: 5, Funny

    If a Hurricane is strong enough to tip over a Tesla model S, then it should get a Category 6 rating . . .

  17. Re:so who to blame , wallst or govt or fiat money? on What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything. · · Score: 1

    We are exposed to Natural radiation all the time
    http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/glossary/background-radiation.html

    Background radiation
    The natural radiation that is always present in the environment. It includes cosmic radiation which comes from the sun and stars, terrestrial radiation which comes from the Earth, and internal radiation which exists in all living things. The typical average individual exposure in the United States from natural background sources is about 300 millirems per year

  18. Re:FP on What's Causing the Rise In Obesity? Everything. · · Score: 1

    we might want to shorten the work day, but increase the efficiency of the work during that shorter period). Too much stress, not enough proper outlets , results in a catastrophic / cascade failure scenario.

    That looks like it's going to happen here in the USA because Obamacare is redefining the workweek as 30 hours instead of the current 40 hours.

  19. Re:Wrong question... on Can There Be Open Source Music? · · Score: 1

    what is considered "good" in Toilet Cleaning is usually subjective.

  20. Re:For the love of Junior Johnson... on Report: By 2035, Nearly 100 Million Self-Driving Cars Will Be Sold Per Year · · Score: 1

    Can you get arrested for driving drunk in a driverless car You could say that the car knows the way home . . .

  21. Where is my Flying Driverless Car . . .

  22. Re: How old are you? on The Death of the American Drive-in · · Score: 1

    You could put 4 of your friends in the trunk of the car and save a tone of money . . .

  23. Re:Need to diffuse the light a bit... on Illuminating Window-Less Houses With a Plastic Bottle · · Score: 2

    depending on the plastic, it may cloud up as it ages in any case, or start with cloudy plastic (i.e. plastic milk bottles).

    I wonder how long one of these bottles will last out in the Sun and Weather? Aren't these plastic bottles made to biodegrade?

  24. Virtual Agmented Reality on IKEA Augmented Reality Catalog Lets You Preview Products In Your Apartment · · Score: 0

    Who needs Augmented Reality when we already have Virtual Reality already ?

  25. Re:How is it made? on Scientists Demonstrate Ultra-Fast Magnetite Electrical Switch · · Score: 2

    It's made from Tight Magnets . . .