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  1. Re:Oy.... on Come on Up (to the ISS) You're the Next Contestant · · Score: 2, Funny
    I can see the problem of gravity-less-sex ... push for the "up-stroke" and you're out-a-there!

    I guess it'll have to be doggie style then, where you can grab the young lady's hips. Some sort of elastic band round both bodies to put the bounce back perhaps.

    Do they need research subjects ?

  2. Re:Umm..... right. on Electric Car Capable of 180mph · · Score: 1
    [picture fingers outlining box shape in air] - hey 8WD!

  3. Re:checked out the pics... on Electric Car Capable of 180mph · · Score: 5, Funny
    Just ask yer husband to park it for you.

    :-)

  4. Re:Umm..... right. on Electric Car Capable of 180mph · · Score: 2, Funny
    Electric cars have enourmous torque from zero revs, and most have to use clever electronics to prevent over enthusiastic drivers from lighting up the tires when they stomp on the go pedal. ... and this baby is large and heavy! I bet they thought "must have 4wd", then thought "outside the box" [picture fingers outlining box shape in air] - hey 6WD!

    OH YER!

    If that mother can put down 1000HP through 6 wheels, I bet it takes off like a scalded cat!

  5. Re:So they have invented on Self-Cleaning Glass · · Score: 1
    I had a windscreen wiper failure a few years back and discovered that while visibility was impaired greatly by the droplets, once sufficient water had been dumped on the 'screen, and once I had built up sufficient speed for the wind to take effect upon the water, the resulting sheet of water covering the 'screen was way better for looking through.

    I did have to question my sanity for driving through the "can't see" portion of the experiment, but I was more than happy with the results.

    Interestingly, slowing down didn't seem to make the water return through the opaque stage.

  6. Re:Spacious passenger compartment on More on GM's New Fuel Cell Cars · · Score: 1
    Actually, Rover belongs to Rover.

    BMW purchased Rover (The Rover Group) from a bunch of peeps, including (I think) British Aerospace, for a large sum of money. Ran it for a few years, and then sold them.

    Land Rover was picked up by Ford. Rover was purchased by a conglomerate of peeps, calling themselves MG_Rover, for £1 (that's one earth pound sterling - about a buck thirty!) and that included the MG brand. Unfortunately, BMW kept the Mini brand, and are now doing very nicely at selling Minis to everyone (as they are pretty good!). Rover are now doing very well out of the Rover 75, and the various MG branded saloons that are all absolute corkers, and the recently refurbished MGF (now MGTF) that's also a joy.

    Rover's Website for any that are interested.

  7. Re:Other ideas to ensure they're not distributed on Fighting Music Piracy with Glue · · Score: 1
    (Don't ask me how Tori Amos plays a trombone and sings at the same time - I'm an ideas man).

    Some sort of special mouthpiece to allow the required forced air, although mouthpiece might be a bit of a misnomer.

  8. The Global Grid on Danish Goal: 50% of Electricity from Wind · · Score: 1
    If there was a Global Grid (suggestd a few years back by some Japanese chap) then countries could export electricity.

    This'd be great for Hot countries who could build Solar Farms in their deserts, for Wet countries who could build Hydroelectric power stations, for windy desolate places - Wind farms.

    You get the idea.

    The Japanese chap suggested the use of Super Conductors or something.

    This would allow, for example, the Sunlit Side of the world to generate electricity and sell it to the Dark Side (Redmond?).

  9. Re:definitions of species on Evolution - Beyond the Popular Science · · Score: 1
    The could interbreed if they wanted to, and they'd find a way too! A good friend found his Great Dane servicing his Pekinese (sp?). Scooped the little tease up in his front paws - bless!

    I believe that the doggies are also rather lucky that the size of the offspring at birth is determined by the size of the mother.

    Though this could all be shaggy dog story.

  10. Re:Two finger^h^h^h^h^h^h eye typists... on Type With Your Eyes · · Score: 1
    OK, so it's not as quick as typing, but hey, what if you couldn't type! Now it might just be quicker than typing if typing involved holding a stylus in your mouth and pecking at the keys one by one.

    The words 'Dim' and 'Wit' spring to mind, but are typed, of course, the old fashioned way.

  11. Re:Do the math... on Fax-Spammers fax.com Sued For 2.2 Trillion · · Score: 2, Informative
    It makes more sense the UK way (to me, as a Brit anyway!) because you use the smaller named amounts when counting up.

    So, you don't need the US "billion", as we already have a name for that - "Thousand Million" (think "Hundred Thousand" and scale up!)

    • Ten
    • Hundred
    • Thousand (the US count in tens of hundreds here?)
    • Ten Thousand
    • Hundred Thousand
    • Million
    • Ten Million
    • Hundred Million
    • Thousand Million
    • Billion [Phew - here at last]
    • Ten Billion
    • Hundred Billion
    • Thousand Billion
    • Ten Thousand Billion
    • Hundred Thousand Billion
    • Million Billion
    • Ten Million Billion
    • etc etc
    you get the idea ...

  12. Superiority Complexes on Atlas V's Maiden Launch a Success · · Score: 1
    You're just mad because EU Superiority Complexes are better than US ones!

  13. What's with all the new species eh? on Doctor Phlox on Season 2 of Enterprise · · Score: 1
    If Enterprise is before TOS (and the others), how come there are aliens in Enterprise that we've not seen before?

    Surely the only aliens we should be meeting are ones we already know about (maybe one or two species, but each episode pretty much introduces a new one!).

    Kinda takes the edge off for me!

  14. Re:Common Courtesy on NYC Law Aims To Ban Cell Phones In Theatres · · Score: 1
    How about if they use Phone Mode on their vibrator?

  15. Re:Of course, I did the opposite... on Moving from Corporate IT to Science? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    One woman, once. Just once! Please.

    Pretty Please?

  16. Re:Yaiiii!!! on Lasers for Pain-free Dentistry · · Score: 1
    Perhaps that should be "Anonymous Dullard"?

    Try 'Streams' ...

  17. Re:11 lbs.... on Transatlantic Model Airplane Flight to Begin Shortly · · Score: 1
    If you read the article you will find the bit about the airbourne re-fuelling. It's gonna pull up behind the USAF tanker plane and fill up 7 times during the journey.

    Maybe :-)

  18. Re:PaperPlane over the Atlantic ... on Transatlantic Model Airplane Flight to Begin Shortly · · Score: 2, Funny
    That means we can fill a bowl with water from the Atlantic and fly a Paperplane over it - Hey Presto - We've flown a PaperPlane over the Atlantic ...

    Won't mum be pleased!

  19. Re:From the April 2001 /. postings on Transatlantic Model Airplane Flight to Begin Shortly · · Score: 1
    Er, yes actually I do - and I'm not anonymous either dammit!

    It seemed a reasonable comparison of this year's factoid with last year's jokette.

    Those Mods must be off their Rockers!

  20. Re:Good luck on Transatlantic Model Airplane Flight to Begin Shortly · · Score: 1
    I have been flying for about 2.5 years

    Isn't that some kind of record?

    Better watch out for those DVT's bud!

  21. Chest Strap or Musical Birthday Card on A Humanitarian Engineering Problem · · Score: 1
    A couple-a-ideas to be munged about with some of the more techy ideas posted ...

    Get a chest strap (maybe sewn into her night cloths - check with someone else regarding the best stitching to use, as that's really not my field!). Assuming She can control her breathing, a deep enough breath could break a contact as the strap expands. Use this broken contact to unleash the "Dogs of Hell" (suitable substitues for the "Dogs of Hell" would include, but should not be limited too, lights, bells, buzzers, etc).

    Those pesky birthday cards that play tunes must have a switch in them that takes little force to operate? Perhaps use such a switch as the "DoH" GateKeeper in some clever "\."y way?

  22. Re:Rabbit didn't fail because it was hotspotted on A Discomforting Precedent For WiFi "Hot Spots" · · Score: 1

    Not in the rush hour, no, not unless frottage is your bag.

  23. Re:Mobile Phones are not for this technology on A Discomforting Precedent For WiFi "Hot Spots" · · Score: 1
    I chap I worked with had one all those years ago, and it was cheap and it worked. You couldn't receive calls (obviously) but you could make them from anywhere around one of the little Rabbit signs, and there were quite of few of them (particular shop chains signed up to have the receivers).

    He loved it and continued to mourn it's demise well into the period he enjoyed his first (proper) mobile phone, which was big and pricey in comparison!

    Yes, it looks hella dated now, but back then it was pretty damn innovative, and combined with a bleeper, better than the Cell Phones of the time.

  24. Re:Why would they classify airships? on Big Black Delta Mystery Solved? · · Score: 1
    The best defense might just be to tell 'em the fuckers are nuclear powered and if they shoot 'em down they're gonna be toast!

    Neato!

  25. Re:My first reaction on 80% Of Incoming E-mail At Hotmail Is Spam · · Score: 1
    Firstly, it's easypeasy to write a bot to generate email addresses (at Hotmail or anywhere else) and simply fire the emails at all the addresses. If yer clever, you could trap the replies saying the addresses weren't valid, but why bother - just spam 'em all!

    Secondly, I don't use my Hotmail account for MSN/MS Passort - use your own private one ... then you don't have to admit to mates that you use Hotmail :-)!