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  1. Re:But... on Fuel Cell Powered Japanese Trains on Trial in July · · Score: 1

    It could be possible to get the Oxgen an Hydrogen from sources other than water, some sort of metastable source(s). Then it is possible to get more energy out than you put in even with inefficiency because, for your part, it's not a full cycle. The same is the case for petroleum. It doesn't take more energy the drill, pump, refine, and transport it than we get by burning it.

  2. Re:videos on Two Legged Robot Sets Speed Record · · Score: 1

    Those videos go well with techno music. Very Herbie Hancock

  3. Re:Mermaids on Here There Be Dragons · · Score: 1

    Sorry, no mermaids or minotaurs. G.W. forbade the creation of human animal hybrids.

  4. Re:Et tu, Britannia? on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 1

    Knowing more about evolution than most does not necessarily mean you know much about it. Knowing more than the people you know means nothing to those of us who don't know the people you know and amounts to mere anecdotal evidence. "Evolution is simply a theory." Written like a true non-scientist.

  5. antimatter on First Results From Deep Impact Mission · · Score: 1

    I guess this means these guys are wrong
    We'll have to wait a lot longer for the Star Trek dream. :-(

  6. Re:CNN's AP story on Reintroduce Megafauna to North America? · · Score: 1

    Just remember all of the stink about re-introducing wolves to Yellowstone. Lions are a lot scarier than wolves.

  7. Argon on AgroWaste to Oil a Growing Market · · Score: 1

    Here at our multi-billion dollar refinery in Fairbanks, we're extracting 2.5 billion barrels of crude oil each day from teenagers' faces

  8. Re:Funny... on China to Pioneer Melt-Down Proof Reactors · · Score: 1

    UC Davis' campus is not Nuclear Free, however. Since the Crocker Nuclear Lab does not actually sit on Davis City land, I'd guess the sign might be correct, if it weren't for the fact that every atom in Davis has a nucleus.

  9. Re:Shame on 25th Anniversary Of Three Mile Island · · Score: 1

    I searched vitrification in Google and got this site. It's informative (if not biased) and contains info on waste management.

  10. Re:Reporter Michael Bolton was heard to say: on Debunking the Trillion-Dollar Space Myth · · Score: 1

    Similar to the time when USAToday reported in 1997 that the Whitbread Cup boat Silk Cut broke the monohull speed record by sailing 449.26 knots! What they meant was 449.26 miles in 24 hours. I'd link to the story but you'd have to pay for it.

  11. Re:Centre of balance on Powered Exoskeleton Legs · · Score: 1

    That's why it comes equipped with Life Alert(R)

  12. It will just grow back then... on Weighing An Attogram · · Score: 2, Funny
    But their real goal is to detect and identify viruses.

    A virus is what we doctors call very very small. So small in fact it could not possible have made off with an entire leg.

  13. ammonium perchlorate on Fatal Fire at Indian Space Center · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lucky for them they didn't have a large store of ammonium perchlorate go up. Remember this explosion in NV in '88

  14. Re:At least.. on A Way to Save Hubble? · · Score: 1

    Someone should buy it, bring it down, and use it to spy on the girl nexdoor.

  15. Re:A true advance in science on At Long Last, Mice Produce Sperm From Monkeys · · Score: 1

    It won't be long before they can splice some chalk, a beard, and a piece of cheese.

  16. Re:Cruel Intentions... on Shocking Clothing · · Score: 1

    That's if she intentionally charged it while wearing it on the subway or if the saftey malfunctioned.

  17. Re:Sounds like a poor idea. on Washington State Legalizes NEVs on Public Roads · · Score: 1

    I don't want to drive a clean, fast electric car...

    N.B. electric cars are not clean. They just transfer the polution to the electric plant which supplies them. More efficient than combustion? Maybe, but no more so than said electric plant.

  18. Just a thought on Diamond-coated Steel · · Score: 1

    Diamond coated surfaces may display low friction coefficients due to the lack of shearing on the molecular scale at the interface of such objects.

  19. Re:Funride on NASA Ames Research To Close Largest Windtunnels · · Score: 1

    You could play who can stay on their feet the longest.

  20. Re:Fox News on Reading Lips In Software · · Score: 2, Funny

    Next test subject: The Vagina Monologues

  21. Fox News on Reading Lips In Software · · Score: 2, Funny

    It probably wouldn't work for Greta "Lips" Van Susteren

  22. I've never seen proof on Still More on Global Warming · · Score: 1

    that global warming is caused or accelerated by human activity, however a plausible mechanism has been put forth: we produce C02 etc. which allow short wavelenghts in but trap IR. Fine. Is that the only mechanism at work? What about the particulate matter that is released by man that is highly reflective and may raise the Earth's albedo? Perhaps the net effect of man is to cool the planet. The earth is on a natural warming trend. I have no references but saw plots to this effect in a class I took on Global warming from BCs Geophysics dept. The question is how much does man contribute to that trend. Those plots didn't show conclusively that man was having any effect, but that in no way proves that we aren't. So what do we do? Mine is just a lowly opinion, but I think it's wise to err on the side of the conservative and do what we can to limit emmissions of greenhouse gasses.

  23. Re:Name already taken? on Newly Discovered Fault Under L.A. · · Score: 1

    I thought it was a Bachman Turner Overdrive cover band.

  24. That's why on Biological Clock Found in Plants · · Score: 2, Funny

    a certain plant gets very nervous at 4:20

  25. My favorite photo on Photographer Fired For Digitally Altering Photo · · Score: 1
    I'm sure this one's real

    Famous Physicists