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  1. Per battery on ORNL Restores US Capability To Produce Plutonium-238 (ornl.gov) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It looks like about 4 kg of plutonium-238 is required for a Mars Rover type mission. (Inferred from wikipedia article)

  2. Re:Based on your criteria, helicopters can't fly. on Miniature Flying Car Receives US Airspace Approval For Testing · · Score: 1

    Aircraft are subject to a cube-square law. The model might well fly, and the full size version stick to the ground as if glued.

  3. Re:Seems reasonable on Landlords Want a Share of Renters' Airbnb Revenue (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Consider this: it's wartime, and the lessee subleases the apartment to an enemy saboteur. Without his knowledge, the landlord is now guilty of harboring an enemy combatant. Still no problem?

  4. Re:Seems reasonable on Landlords Want a Share of Renters' Airbnb Revenue (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    The landlord has the right to by contract set the conditions under which the property is used. The terms don't have to be reasonable, the prospective tenant has the right and ability to not sign the contract and to seek lodging elsewhere, or to bargain for a different contract.

  5. Re:History? Really? on British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    Science deniers need to be ineligible from holding public office.

    And I suppose that you are the authority that decides what is valid science.

    About 90% of the population of the U.S. believes in a religion of some sort, and all of the religions of which I'm aware deny science in some manner. You are proposing to prevent 90% of the U.S. population from holding public office.

  6. Ask a Lithuanian or an East German whether Reagan was good for them (Stasi members excepted).

  7. Re: Huh? on British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The dominant force opposing enforcement of immigration laws is Democrat politicians, not the bulk of the population. Increased federal enforcement of immigration laws would be effective, and jailing of local politicians and policemen who thwart the laws would be very effective. Opposing the passive-aggressive philosophy that's called "political correctness" is long overdue.

  8. There are plenty of good reasons to oppose Trump without fabricating a charge of racism.

  9. Re:This is so ridiculous on Mars Colonies and Class Warfare (examiner.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Gravity is 0.38 g. Radiation and lack of oxygen are handled by living underground in sealed buildings, food grown in sealed surface greenhouses.

    Expensive. Difficult. Not fun. Possible.

  10. Modern indoor pipe is plastic and costs less than 50 cents per foot. This is something a homeowner can do himself, although in many places he may have to consider building code enforcement. Plumbers are expensive.

  11. Re:Question is what the source is... on Flint, Michigan Declares State of Emergency Over Lead In Children's Blood (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Think about the construction of a soldered pipe joint. The actual area of exposed solder is very small.

  12. Re:Question is what the source is... on Flint, Michigan Declares State of Emergency Over Lead In Children's Blood (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    More likely the 1953 piping was iron, not steel. Large municipal water pipes should last over 100 years. Indoor pipes should too, it's not good planning to rip up the walls and slab foundations every 50 years.

  13. Re:Its always someone else's problem on Flint, Michigan Declares State of Emergency Over Lead In Children's Blood (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You got it backwards. Low pH is acidic, attacks the lead and forms water soluble lead compounds.

  14. As far as I can tell, Mark Hamill played himself:a not particularly bright young adult with a special ability, thrust into enormous events.

  15. They've taken 4 years to figure out that parameters need to be optimized per film to produce optimum results for that film, and then to re-encode some films. The decisions for new parameters apparently aren't being made automatically, it's human choice. They're just beginning to consider that they may want to change parameters dynamically as a film progresses. This could and should all have been done in 2 months.

    They haven't invented a new codec technology; they haven't advanced the state of the art at all.

  16. Re:JUSTICE on Leaded Gas, CFCs, and the Dark Side of Progress (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    He was the meteor that landed 65 million years ago! Wow!

  17. Re:Lateral aerodynamics on Steel Treatment Paves the Way For Radically Lighter, Stronger, Cheaper Cars (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Additional factors include the relative positions of the CoP and the center of the wheelbase, and the size of the wheelbase.

  18. Re:Why do you say that? on Steel Treatment Paves the Way For Radically Lighter, Stronger, Cheaper Cars (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Strength of metal is generally regarded as ultimate tensile strength (or other similar measures), whereas modulus of elasticity is a measure of inverse stretchiness. Nonetheless, your point stands: titanium is weaker than most mild steels, and less than 1/10th the strength of high strength steels.

  19. Re:Documents that made him look like an stupid jer on Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump · · Score: 1

    Hillary Clinton lies so much that it's hard to believe she ever tells the truth. Her Politifact rating serves to discredit Politifact, not polish her reputation.

  20. Re:Documents that made him look like an stupid jer on Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump · · Score: 1

    People who think Trump isn't intelligent are going to find plans made on that belief failing. What he appears to lack and may never gain is the ability to recognize, admit to, and correct his own flaws.

  21. Re:Documents that made him look like an stupid jer on Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump · · Score: 1

    Politifact is very biased, and so blinded by their own presumptions that they think their evaluations are true.

  22. Re:Documents that made him look like an stupid jer on Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump · · Score: 1

    The Democrats need to grow up and start lying.

    Start?!! Democrat lying is has been policy so long that for the practitioners it's such an ingrained habit that it's no longer recognized as aberrant behavior.

  23. Re:Get an anti bark device on Ask Slashdot: Cost Effective Way To Soundproof My Home? · · Score: 1

    Baker's chocolate tastes nasty. I don't know, but a dog might also reject it on the basis of taste.

  24. Re:neighbor on Ask Slashdot: Cost Effective Way To Soundproof My Home? · · Score: 1

    Big dogs tend to be quiet, small dogs tend to be yappy. A big dog is less likely to feel threatened, so it will be calmer.

  25. Re:neighbor on Ask Slashdot: Cost Effective Way To Soundproof My Home? · · Score: 1

    The first legal document should have been enough for the dog's owner to change his ways. The owner's the asshole for disturbing his neighbors.

    If the dog wasn't an actual problem, the first complainer wouldn't have been able to persuade his neighbors to also file complaints.