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  1. Re:Big Bang? on Big Bang Really a Big Hum · · Score: 1

    From these variations, he could calculate the frequencies of the sound waves propagating through the Universe during its first 760,000 years, when it was just 18 million light years across. At that time the sound waves were too low in frequency to be audible. To hear them, Cramer had to scale the frequencies 100,000 billion billion times.

    I just want to know how the universe got to 18 million light years across in only 760,000 years.

  2. Non-issue on Microsoft Fires Mac Fan For Blog Photo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm pretty sure that if I posted confidential information about my company, they would fire me too. All I have to say to this person is, duh.

  3. Re:Stupid Quote on Diebold Chases Links To Leaked Memos · · Score: 1

    No, he just executed the 2 tenths of a percent of the population that voted against him in the previous election.

  4. Re:Flight sims (generic term) do help - sometimes. on Flight Sims As Effective Pilot Learning Tools · · Score: 1

    Another focus method for landing is to look at the 10 O'clock position. This is how I developed my landings. At full flare in a Cessna, you really should not see the end of the runway (unless the seat is set very high and you are 6'4".) It is a bit unnerving, but it really helped me judge distances and altitudes in those last fearful seconds before touchdown. I am based out of 15G, which has a tiny runway (2360'x37') so those last seconds can be fearful. :) Happy flying.

  5. Re:Flight sims (generic term) do help - sometimes. on Flight Sims As Effective Pilot Learning Tools · · Score: 2, Informative

    I can't see how X-Plane helped on spins and landings. X-plane is great for procedures, instrument enroute and general flying work; but should not be used for training for spins, stalls or slow flight. X-plane utilizes flow algorithms that assume laminar air over the surface of the aircraft, including the airfoils. This means that it does not model the edges of the speed envelope.

    The problem with all PC simulators is the inability to teach real world landings. There is no cheap method to create the proper perspective with a PC simulator. I will always remember my instructor yelling at me for landing like I was flying a PC.

    I do agree that it does serve as a useful supplement to actual flying (so long as you turn it off when you reach decision height) and I attribute MS Flight Simulator for allowing me to finishing my ticket in 41.3 hours. I continue to use it for approach and enroute practice. I often fly approaches on MS FS before flying them in real life, and I am often amazed at the likeness between the two.

  6. Ouch... on New Metal That's Full of Holes · · Score: 4, Funny

    Aircraft crumple zones....

    That can't be good

  7. Re:Troubling. on Pilot a Plane with a PDA? · · Score: 1

    Oh man... I think that's my house.

  8. Yeah... on Highway Shooters Claim To Emulate GTA · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe they should outlaw tractor-trailer rigs. That will fix this little problem.

  9. Re:Excellent! on Online Voting In 2004 To Require Windows · · Score: 1

    I like our voting system, it's simple and pretty much foolproof.

    While I know this may piss a few people off...

    I want a system that discounts fools' votes.

  10. Once again on Scientists Say Cosmic Rays May Cause Global Warming · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those damn Republicans always helping big corporations spew out cosmic radiation and causing global warming....

    ...oh, wait a minute....never mind.

  11. Re:You are kidding, right? on .Net:... 3 Years Later · · Score: 1

    700 days is 70 weeks.

    I guess in Soviet Russia, it feels like there is 10 days in a week.

  12. Wow on Matrix MMORPG · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here I thought we were already in the Matrix MMORPG

  13. Re:Just Jump! on Three Gorges Dam Begins Storing Water · · Score: 1

    You forget the fact that most of the population of China has been starved for the past 50 years. The average weight is no where close to 150 lbs.

  14. Re:If they SO BADLY needed the power ... on Three Gorges Dam Begins Storing Water · · Score: 1

    "tens of millions of people will die"

    --I can think of no better monument to the greatness of socialism.

  15. In other news... on New Zealand Exterminates Rats · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Committee To Maintain The Status Quo (CTMSQ) is creating a plan to exterminate humanity. Afterwords 14 species of Dinosaurs will be introduced to the world.

  16. How about.... on The Perfect Formula For Box Office Success · · Score: 1

    How About Story 80pc Just a thought.

  17. Re:My torture tests on Projector Torture Test: LCD versus DLP · · Score: 1

    This gives a new meaning to the statement "This movie stinks"

  18. Russia on Krawtchouk's Mind · · Score: 2, Funny

    In Soviet Russia.... ...oh, never mind.

  19. Re:don't use the word WAR on Updates on War in Iraq · · Score: 1

    How about the resumption of hostilities, due to the Iraqi non-compliance with the 1991 Gulf War Ceasefire Agreement

  20. Wait a minute.... on Why Nerds Are Unpopular · · Score: 1

    Nerds aren't cool... Aw, crap.

  21. Re:Control? on Cellphones On Airplanes · · Score: 1

    Cell phones will work fine in an airplane (maybe not at FL310), but the cell companies will terminate your service if the suspect that you are doing this.

    As a pilot, I have heard of this happening. (Second hand, so take it with a grain of salt.) I did look into it and it is a policy of my carrier, and I don't feel like pushing my luck.

    Why they even care is my question.

  22. Re:Schroedingers Cat.... on Unauditable Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    Actually it is both alive and dead. Until you open the box and collapse the wave function.

  23. Re:Just Some More Anti-RMS Propoganda Is All on Joel On The Economics of Open Source · · Score: 1

    Actually the number of people killed by Stalin is most likely in the range of 31 to 35 million people. The 20 million number is normally associated with an pre-glasnosts western estimate of the death toll from WWII.

  24. Re:You've got the right vision... on How Yoda Became an Action Star · · Score: 1

    Hey, I liked that little green jumping-jack I just expected him to fizzle out and spin on the floor like some kind of brake-dancer

  25. Re:well now... on Subversive Gifts for New College Students? · · Score: 1

    Still to this day I can not even think of Ramen noodles and not feel sick to my stomach. For a year and a half, I lived on Ramen and Beer. At least I had something to upchuck.