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  1. Re:..And its against the Geneva Convention as well on Chinese Scientists Have Developed the World's First Destructive Laser Rifle (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    so what? China does not honor any treaty.

  2. Re:..And its against the Geneva Convention as well on Chinese Scientists Have Developed the World's First Destructive Laser Rifle (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    China rarely honors treaties, even those that they sign.
    In fact, many nations ignore treaties when it is in their advantage. W and Putin are good examples of that.

  3. perfect mirrors that are absolutely clean, will defeat them. Good luck getting them that way on the battle field.

  4. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes, go back home. the majority of illegals in America are here not because their nation is at war (i.e. refugee), but are here to make more money than they would in their own nation. Some of the illegals that I know continue to send money to Mexico and Brazil, to their wives, where they are buying up land for retirement.
    Now, I do not report them because sending them home will solve NOTHING. Instead, I continue to write CONgress critters and push for e-verify on all jobs and to cut off all funding to any state that is giving money to illegals (other than emergency medical, nothing should be given to them).

    And BTW, those illegals are here because they got shot down for immigration. Wny? Because they have no real skil. So they come here, work jobs that simply do not pay their taxes, so that they undercut the legal workers, including other immigrants.

  5. lots of ppl in America do not speak english.
    While I believe in enforcing our laws (including the ones about presidents that are traitors or businesses that hire illegal), you are accomplishing little to nothing.

  6. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Or simply leave the states if you are an illegal alien.

  7. uh no. India has NOT been stealing.

    This is India's work.

  8. yes, but, I think it is too slow on India's ISRO Conducts First Escape Test For Nation's Manned Mission To Space (hindustantimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, that is a VERY slow system. As such, I fear that it would be caught in the blast of any rocket, esp. when it is a combination of H2 and solid. Look at how fast Challenger blew up.

  9. Kepler was $.5B on Kepler Telescope To Send NASA Its Last Images (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Somewhere down the road, we need to develop sats in a way so that we can split it apart easily and add different units. The back-end should have been a small tug, ideally with small solar array for ion engines, gyroscopes, navigation, etc.
    Then another unit just up that has all of the missions electrical, i.e. batteries, solar panels, and ideally, the main CPUs/storage, etc.
    Finally, the rest should be in a unit that is mission specific. It could be communication sats. It could be spy sat. Or in this case, a telescope for locating planets.

  10. waiting for GOP knees to bend backwards on All-time Heat Records Are Being Set All Over the World (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I keep wondering how soon we will see a GOP that has knees that bend backwards, and they speak in weird languages?

  11. Re: When all you have is a hammer on Giant Tesla Battery Project Now Proposed For Silicon Valley (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL.
    Like the NRA, UCSUSA has far too many extremists.

  12. Re:When all you have is a hammer on Giant Tesla Battery Project Now Proposed For Silicon Valley (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    bingo.
    Obviously, longer is better, but there are times that even high tension lines have to come down. It could be as simple as moving to a new transformer for maintenance.

  13. Re:When all you have is a hammer on Giant Tesla Battery Project Now Proposed For Silicon Valley (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is EXACTLY why I spoke of WORKING on lines and then needing to take them down for 5-10 minutes.
    There is a HUGE difference between dealing with downed lines vs ones that you are working on, and you need them to be down for 5 minutes to move some lines.

  14. crash it into mars on Floating Between Mars and Jupiter, Ceres May Have More Water Than Earth (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    It would be nice to see Mars get an Ammonia-based asteroid, along with loads of fresh water.

  15. Re:Let me get this straight on Giant Tesla Battery Project Now Proposed For Silicon Valley (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    The term stable as applied to the grid is a joke.
    That is why 3DFS is making a killing and changing everything that we know.
    With their tech, they are stablizing the grid which cuts the electricity use in half AND actually improves the lifespan of electronics/electrical devices.

  16. Re:Tesla or Panasonic batteries? on Giant Tesla Battery Project Now Proposed For Silicon Valley (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 2

    no patents.
    The 2170 is supposedly based on Tesla's R&D and it is trade secrets, not patented. Panasonic contributed the equipment, that is all.

  17. Re: When all you have is a hammer on Giant Tesla Battery Project Now Proposed For Silicon Valley (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    so many lies there.
    1) we have a 2013 Tesla (i.e. 5 years old), and we are still at 95% load. Basically the same as what it was at 5K miles. According to others, it will remain above 85% clear until 300K miles. All of that is a little bit longer than 3-5 years.
    2) Tesla is already recycling their own batteries.
    3) Hydro does not work well without water. And considering that CA is being hit by longer and longer droughts, and many of the reservoirs are still down, means a number of hydrodams are about to no longer work.
    4) Energy storage spread around on a macrogrid, makes it possible for utilities to buffer their networks, handle varying demands and supplies, and deal with downtimes on the grids.
    5) If CA was smart, they would add a number of nuclear SMRs around the state to provide various capabilities.

  18. Re:When all you have is a hammer on Giant Tesla Battery Project Now Proposed For Silicon Valley (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    When the break is upstream, this is idea. IOW, these should be used to power macrogrids, that are fed by high tension lines. If the high tension lines go down, then the grids can survive for a bit. Likewise, when a utility needs to work on those lines, the battery power macrogrid can make it possible for having lines down for 5-10 minutes, which is plenty of time for switching.

  19. Shows why mbas are destroying America on Amazon Will Publish Toy Catalog This Holiday To Fill Toys R Us Void, Says Report (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, Sears, jc penny, Walmart, target, etc have brick n morters that are ideal for showing toys. Yet, not a one of them would think to jump all over this. In fact, right now would be a good time for Sears or jc penny to even push for new innovative American made toys. But they do nothing. Otoh, the engineer is all over it.

  20. LOL. Using crew to point to corruption on Scott Pruitt Resigns as EPA Administrator (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    is a true case of kettle calling pot black.
    Seriously, CREW is about as corrupt as they get.

  21. Why? Is Xiang a pedophile as well? Somehow, I doubt it.

  22. Seriously, they are no different than huawei. Nix them.

  23. Re: What a waste of a posting on Facebook Acknowledges It Shared User Data With Dozens of Companies (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    What data is Google selling to whom?
    Do you have proof of that?
    I know one company that tried to get data from Google and could only get aggregated, nothing personal.
    As to FB, MS, Apple, Yahoo, they were able to get anything that they wanted.

  24. remove monopoly and allow gov to put in fiber on AT&T Promised Lower Prices After Time Warner Merger -- It's Raising Them Instead (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Seriously, some of the best set ups is local gov running and owning the fiber, and then allowing a limited time monopoly managing it, ideally, allowing multiple providers over the fiber.
    BUT, at the least, it is time to destroy the monopolies.