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  1. Re:The Russian space program was amazing on First Man To Walk In Space Reveals How Mission Nearly Ended In Disaster · · Score: -1

    In soviet russia, history makes you!

  2. Re:The Nobel Prize Committee blew it on No Nobel For Nick Holonyak Jr, Father of the LED · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everyone but Holonyak.

  3. Re:Jane/Lonny Eachus goes Sky Dragon Slayer on NASA Study: Ocean Abyss Has Not Warmed · · Score: 1

    Do you also sell perpetual motion machines?
    Without a car analogy that whole rant just falls apart.

  4. Re:Wiring on Ask Slashdot: Designing a Telecom Configuration Center? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you work for a wireless company, or something small and or new.
    Color coded cables that are labeled please.
    --
    Hey Barney, which wire is going to the extranet, intranet, Lilo port?
    What's that? They all look the same? Bummer.
    Bringing in various colors is not difficult nor does it appreciably change your costs you racist!

  5. Re:A Quandary on Study: An Evolutionary "Arms Race" Shaped the Human Genome · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia Evolution Arms You!
    Does that help?

  6. Re:The summary title is an outright lie on Breakthrough In LED Construction Increases Efficiency By 57 Percent · · Score: 1

    Okay, so what is the difference between "LEDs", "Organic LEDs", and "Gluten-free LEDs"?

  7. Re:Woo hoo!! on Breakthrough In LED Construction Increases Efficiency By 57 Percent · · Score: 3, Informative

    A friend wanted to replace his landscape bulbs with LEDs, the flicker was horrible.
    We added a bridge rectifier and the 120 hz flicker was less offensive.
    So, we added a capacitor, the flicker was gone and the LEDs were much brighter.
    I noticed they were also becoming warm so I measured the voltage which was now over 18vdc.
    I suddenly recalled that a load resistor was always added when I used to make linear power supplies, a few years ago.
    Can't remember the formula I used to use but google found a nice article about this:
    http://mysite.du.edu/~etuttle/...

  8. Re:Muck funny in politics and muck Ficrosoft. on Microsoft On US Immigration: It's Our Way Or the Canadian Highway · · Score: 1

    That was beautiful.
    Need a 'Sad but True' mod.

  9. Re:It might move like an octopus... on Octopus-Inspired Robot Matches Real Octopus For Speed · · Score: 1

    Finally an answer to the question:
    "What looks like an octopus and is filled with sea men?"

  10. Re:um... on Octopus-Inspired Robot Matches Real Octopus For Speed · · Score: 1

    That's no balloon.

  11. Re:Also... on Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave · · Score: 1

    And if you don't believe him just Lois Armstrong, the first man on the moon.

  12. Re:A test fire? on Update: Mangalyaan's Main Engine Test Fired, Maven In Orbit · · Score: 3, Funny

    If there is one thing India has a lot of experience in it is remote support.

  13. Re:Golden opportunity missed... on Wave Power Fails To Live Up To Promise · · Score: 1

    What we need here is a car(p) analogy.

  14. Re:Golden opportunity missed... on Wave Power Fails To Live Up To Promise · · Score: 1

    Wave power has always had its ups and downs.

  15. Re:I hate to be this guy... on NASA's Manned Rocket Contract: $4.2 Billion To Boeing, $2.6 Billion To SpaceX · · Score: 1

    Hhow, slow down there.
    He didn't say he felt THAT guilty.
    Besides, he needed to brag about having 'a newer model Honda Civic'.

  16. Re:It's a bad sign on U.S. Threatened Massive Fine To Force Yahoo To Release Data · · Score: 1

    It's a bad sign when people blame long dead politicians for the actions of people they just voted for.

  17. Re:forest on Scientists Capture the Sound Made By a Single Atom · · Score: 1

    You might want to read up on the ground breaking research by Dr. Wonhan Clapping.

  18. Re:Depressing News on Universal Big Bang Lithium Deficit Confirmed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stop blaming obama for failures he clearly inherited from previous administrations.

  19. Re:Now comes the Time of the Envirowackos on US Rust Belt Manufacturing Rebounds Via Fracking Boom · · Score: 1

    Drinking more causes this kind of reasoning.
    And it makes you call your ex girlfriend early in the morning.
    Or so I hear.
    Time for coffee.

  20. Re:what's wrong with cherry picking? on CenturyLink: Comcast Is Trying To Prevent Competition In Its Territories · · Score: 1

    No.
    They all server the same food, dude.
    The choice is delivery by car, bus, or air mail.
    Each delivery system has acquired exclusive rights to that delivery system in specific regions.

  21. Re:Well color me surprised! on Fish Raised On Land Give Clues To How Early Animals Left the Seas · · Score: 2

    I heard that you have to pay them scale.

  22. 3 steps. No, 4. on Indiana University Researchers Get $1 Million Grant To Study Memes · · Score: 2

    1: Find idiots in government handing out other peoples money (redundant)
    2: Apply for grant
    3: ???
    4: Profit

  23. Re:Does it really matter ? on Would Scottish Independence Mean the End of UK's Nuclear Arsenal? · · Score: 1

    Are you thinking of one of the Americas as an ally?
    One of today's Americas?

  24. Re: ZERO jobs "come from HR." on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Online Job Applications So Badly Designed? · · Score: 1

    You might be right.
    HAL after all his memory had been removed.

  25. Re: ZERO jobs "come from HR." on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Online Job Applications So Badly Designed? · · Score: 1

    Business need first???
    You've never worked for the government.