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  1. Re:Shape of these small computers... on Review of the New Shuttle XPC Chassis · · Score: 1

    In practice, yes, in theory, no.

  2. IT'S A GOATSE LINK!!! on Review of the New Shuttle XPC Chassis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's a goatse link!

  3. Re:Shape of these small computers... on Review of the New Shuttle XPC Chassis · · Score: 1

    If you want a compact computer, then just get a nice long strip of paper, add a pencil with rubber, and you've got yourself a makeshift Turing machine! And the best thing is that it doesn't take up any room whatsoever, simply because it's one-dimensional!

  4. Re:Small form factor MB's on Review of the New Shuttle XPC Chassis · · Score: 1

    Can't we just stick with good old-fashioned Turing machines?

  5. Re:Not a whole hell of a lot. on Quark Matter Blamed for Paired 1993 Seismic Events · · Score: 1

    It might still be possible to sythesyse them.

  6. Re:When the dogs changed sides on Ancient Hyenas and The First Americans · · Score: 1

    Just as I expected.

  7. Re:When the dogs changed sides on Ancient Hyenas and The First Americans · · Score: 1

    Tell me, do you feel secure about your intelligence/sexual orientation/looks/sexual prowess/talent? Because in my experiece, when someone calls someone else gay/retarded/ugly/useless, they are either projecting one of their own flaws, or are simply playing the old game of 'blemish'.

  8. Re:Not a whole hell of a lot. on Quark Matter Blamed for Paired 1993 Seismic Events · · Score: 1

    This reminds me a lot of a theory I heard a while ago about minute black holes, that when they become so large that they can no longer fit in the extra dimensions that are supposed to exist at that scale, they will be forced to re-shape themselves in order to fit into the 3 normal dimensions. This process will create a blast several billion times greater than the sun. So really you should just consider yourselves lucky that our entire sloar system hasn't been vapourised by a black hole the size of a quark yet.

  9. Re:Old stuff - Heinlein "invented" it years ago :- on Research Promises Full-Spectrum Solar Cell · · Score: 1

    New scientist says:
    Biodiesel made from recycled cooking fat or plant extracts produces 30% less emmisions than regular diesel, but still more than petrol.New scientis also says:
    With all things taken into account, 1 gram of black carbon is between 380,000 and 850,000 times as powerful a warming agent than petrol.(admittedly this isn't word-for-word, but it's close)I know who I trust more, it begins with 'N' and ends with 'ew scientist'.

  10. Re:When the dogs changed sides on Ancient Hyenas and The First Americans · · Score: 1

    Well, maybe not all of them.

  11. Re:Hmmmm on The Origin of Dogs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't know about you, but I do it all the time!

  12. Re:When the dogs changed sides on Ancient Hyenas and The First Americans · · Score: 1

    Actually I was referring to natural selection, what you referred to is artificial selection.

  13. Re:Mistake on Two Black Holes to Merge · · Score: 1

    Surely some mistake!

  14. Re:Mistake on Two Black Holes to Merge · · Score: 1

    BUT, the Earth's orbit will decay over the course of around 5 billion years, so we are going to get sucked in, one way or another.

  15. Re:What should I believe? on Fast-Moving Black Hole · · Score: 1

    *Head explodes* Oh, now look at what you've gone and done!

  16. Re:High-temperature cells. on Research Promises Full-Spectrum Solar Cell · · Score: 1

    Well, hopefully sometime in the near future we'll be using diamond semiconductors, so we'll just have to wait and see.

  17. Re:OH BLOODY FUCKING HELL on High Tech Shopping Carts Offer Discounts, Ads · · Score: 1

    Can I join in? Please?

  18. Re:When the dogs changed sides on Ancient Hyenas and The First Americans · · Score: 1

    You have to remember that back then, dogs were actually useful, the reason dogs are so crap today is because millions of years of evolution have honed the dog's 'cuteness' for maximum effect, unfortunately this change took place at the expense of everything else.

  19. Re:Old stuff - Heinlein "invented" it years ago :- on Research Promises Full-Spectrum Solar Cell · · Score: 1

    Only 30% less emissions than regular diesel, and soot is over 300,000 times better at trapping heat than CO2, which more than makes up for the lower C02 emissions.

  20. Re:Cartoons Hold The Answer on Fast-Moving Black Hole · · Score: 1

    The pinky and the brain,
    The pinky and the brain,One is a genius, the other's insane...

  21. Re:What should I believe? on Fast-Moving Black Hole · · Score: 1

    Now that would be fun, but somehow, I think that gravity does exist, oh wait, the cat's started flying again.

  22. Re:Can they be nullified? on Two Black Holes to Merge · · Score: 1

    I hope that you realise that the energy produced by a matter-antimatter reaction usually turns straight back into matter and antimatter.

  23. Jumping to conclusions on Two Black Holes to Merge · · Score: 1

    Aren't you all forgetting that we don't even know if black holes exist yet? For all we know, it's just 2 gravastars or neutron stars, after all, don't forget that no one has ever seen a black hole, and probably no one ever will.

  24. Re:Blood Pressure? on More To Coffee Buzz Than Caffeine · · Score: 1

    Research has shown that many chemicals have greater effects at low doses (estrogen, pesticide etc, etc.)

  25. Re:The real mystery on More To Coffee Buzz Than Caffeine · · Score: 1

    Maybe it was one of those funny chinese men who work in circuses and get paid for sitting inside small boxes, you know the ones I mean, right?