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  1. Re:Gerbels? on Reason Interviews Michael Powell · · Score: 0

    Gerbils? The Nazi??

  2. Re:I have some cdrws that are only 650 on Knoppix To Split Into 'Light,' 'Maximum' Versions · · Score: 0

    Try DSL, do! It downloads in a few minutes and fits on a tiny CDr (49Mb). It's like Knoppix's little brother (or sister, as it's really cute). Worthy carrying around, on a CD business card to impress Linux skeptics.

  3. Re:punk on Firefox Users Bad For Advertisers · · Score: 0
    People travelling in the left lane 1 MPH faster than the car in the lane to their right piss me off!

    People travelling in the left lane 1 MPH faster than the car in the lane to their right are usually (ex-) Volvo drivers- though now to be found in Audis or Rover 75s..

  4. Re:water is weird on Water Suddenly Becomes Mysterious · · Score: 0
    Rock, Paper, Scissors, Dynamite, Antimatter, Wool, Ectoplasm. All other elements are unrequired.

    Oh and Pizza.

  5. Re:When they outlaw balaclava's... on 3D Biometric Facial Recognition Comes To UK · · Score: 0
    Seriously, are the cameras going to be set to raise an alert when someone walks down the street that they can't distinguish? Will police occasionally stop you and ask you to remove your stetson so that CCTV can calm down?

    In the UK, they already do..http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3674430.st m

  6. Re:Damn it on Scientists Give Human Organs to Lamb · · Score: 1, Funny
    "At what level is a chimera 'too' human?"

    When it runs for President. And succeeds...

  7. Re:90 MPH???? on ZAP Smart Car Approved for Sale in the US · · Score: 1, Informative
    Is there some rule that says that no emission vehicles can't look good?

    Maybe, maybe not. The ZAP is not a 'no emission' vehicle...

  8. Re:Uh, wouldn't no laws at all be better? on Private Spaceflight Law Revived · · Score: 0
    4. You should not be able to carry explosives aboard.

    4a. You must achive orbit by flapping arms or concentrating really hard...

  9. Re:I would quite like one on Spies Riding Shotgun · · Score: 0

    In my experience most people who are convinced they "don't drive like a twat ", always stick to speed limits, etc, in reality do "drive like a twat" and are a menace on the road. Well said.

  10. Re:Irony on Kyoto Treaty to Enter Into Force · · Score: 0

    Hey! Alanis!

  11. Re:Please Save Our Earth on Public Interest Groups Face Uphill Battle at WIPO Meeting · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    OK!

    gmmmmmmph!

    !

    ....

    !

    GAH!!!

    sorry...

  12. The moon is not the earth... on Apollo 12 at 35 · · Score: 0
    ..the sedentary, fine-grained powder began to rise, billow and race off toward the horizon.

    Not unless it was a hollywood moon set. lunar dust does not billow or race off anywhere - in a vacuum it falls straight down again once the driving force- the engine exhaust in this case- is removed, despite the low gravity; dust, feathers and hammers all fall at the same rate.

  13. Re:Debian Troll's Best, wherefore art thou? on Students Tracked By RFID · · Score: 0

    apt-get install rfidfkoff

  14. Re:At Altitude... on Mach 10 X43A Flight Successful · · Score: 0

    ...the air was about 1% as dense as the air on the surface where the craft departed from. The pressure was about .7% of the pressure at sea level. The temperature was about -45 Celsius. It was a dark and stormy night...

  15. Re:WRONG on Mach 10 X43A Flight Successful · · Score: 0

    This could be the answer that the original poster was looking for!

  16. Re:PirateEye in Action on Automatic Scanning for Cameras in Theaters · · Score: 0

    Borg watching Startrek Insurrections.

  17. Ooh, I have a new sig! on Do Honeybees Defy Dinosaur Extinction Theories? · · Score: 0

    Ooh, I have a new sig! Too!

  18. Re:Britian was a Space Leader on US Ready to put Weapons in Space · · Score: 0

    The UK didn't have a fair share of German rocket scientists. The one the UK had died..

  19. Re:friends on Rules Set for $50 Million America's Space Prize · · Score: 0

    I'm in a band- and we have a huge rubber gremlin.

  20. Re:Probably much more useful than SS1 on Rules Set for $50 Million America's Space Prize · · Score: 0

    No, no! Real spaceships have fins and fire at one end, a point at the other end and a chequered band half way along. And they land on the fins. And a looong ladder comes down the side. Etc.

  21. Re:who says it's molten iron on Understanding Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 1, Informative

    Unfortunately, Faraday cages only shield out the electrical component of EM waves. To protect a volume from magnetic effects requires a high permittivity material, such as mumetal, which diverts the field through itself, and around the area to be protected.

  22. Re:Beagle 3...why? on Beagle 3 Plans Revealed · · Score: 0

    As a compromise, Beagle 3 will be a dog. Snoopy comes out of retirement, complete with flying helmet, perhaps?

  23. Re:Speaking of that exposure cycle... on Binocular Space Telescope in the Works · · Score: 0

    Ok, you are wrong. Which is why the moon waxes and wanes- the moon has to spin on it's axis to present the 'man-in-the-moon' face to us; the lunar night/day cycle covers all of the moon.

  24. clothes.. on World's First Single-Atom-Thick Fabric · · Score: 0

    made of this- to protect Natalie Portman from hot grits- without spoiling the view!

  25. Re:amsat on Students Design A Satellite Via Internet · · Score: 0

    Well, with the onset of IP over AC (power), satcoms will be all that's left for Ham traffic..