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That's a tiny server

On: Star Wars Galaxies Only to Allow One Character Per Account

It can only store a single ASCII character per purchased account?

They're missing one subatomic particle

On: Keeping Track of Your Subatomic Particles

CmdrTaco's brain.

1-2-1

On: Mozilla 1.2.1 Released

Sounds like the bust-waist-hips measurements of the red lizard mascot in decameters.

Nice touch from the Brits

On: British To Release UFO Files

Letting the Americans have one last turkey feast before announcing the alien invasion.

Not quite 3 dimensional

On: eDimensional Wired 3D Glasses Review

eDimensional means 2.71828dimensional.

Re:Not a whole hell of a lot.

On: Quark Matter Blamed for Paired 1993 Seismic Events

Actually we can do the math pretty easily:

article quote: "a one-tonne spec would release the energy of a 50-kilotonne nuclear bomb, spread along its entire path through the Earth."

So the energy released is something like 50 kilotonnes / 10,000 km
= 5 tonnes of TNT / km
= 5 kg of TNT / m
= 0.5 kg of TNT / 10cm

So this thing traveling through your skull would be like detonating a pound of TNT inside of your head. The brain damage would definitely register. :)

Re:100 Terabytes!

On: Interview with Brewster Kahle

For comparison I did a quick price check and for 3000 miles of shelf space on 5x26.25" bookcases (best price/size ratio I could find), that's about $29M worth of bookcases. Using harddisk drives was a smart decision.

Re:Math in Nature

On: Searching for Life's Blueprints

EVERYTHING in nature has an underlying mathematical basis.

Possibly. But if we ever come up with a mathematical theory explaining female behavior, it will make heavy use of imaginary numbers.

Spaceship not large enough

On: An Interstellar Lifeboat for Humanity

We would need a Beowulf cluster of these to save humanity.