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  1. Re:new news or old news? on One Small Breath For Man · · Score: 1

    spraying a clumping agent around the base

    You mean like water? So my taxes will be paying for astronauts making mud pies on the moon? What other summer-time activities should I be supporting, a Martian Slip-N-Slide?

  2. Re:Never? on Space Elevator An Impossible Dream? · · Score: 1

    Just splash the wall with a cup of very hot tea and hope you don't turn into a penguin once you reach the other side...

  3. Re:We are emotionally sticky creatures on Soldiers Bond with Bomb-Defusing Robots · · Score: 1

    Well, it's not like they put their arms over the range, per se, but when their dinner caught fire, they did. But yeah, lock a Sim in a kitchen with no doors but tons of food, and they'll eventually try to cook.

  4. Re:We are emotionally sticky creatures on Soldiers Bond with Bomb-Defusing Robots · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's nothing. I often liked getting a small house built at first, then trapping the person in a room that was two-by-two tiles across with no door or windows and just let them stay there just to create a tormented enough ghost to scare the hell out of the rest of the family. Then of course, was the people I made try to cook on the stove with absolutely no skills and ended up setting themselves on fire.

  5. Re:Hypocrisy on Miyamoto Says Sony Controller is 'Flattering' · · Score: 1

    Actually, Chronicles, Anthology and Origins were rehashes of 5&6,4, and 1&2 respectively. But you're right, the series was more of an anthology than a series, much like the Zelda series one could argue.

  6. ODQ on Japan's JT-60 Tokamak Sets New Plasma Record · · Score: 1

    There is another place that hasn't used all of its energy -the past. All we need to do is develop a way to acquire this vast resource through temporal wormholes and we'll have all the energy we need today. That is, until those self-serving asshats in the future come up with the same idea...

  7. Re:Yay! For the USA! on Americans Not Bothered by NSA Spying · · Score: 1

    One could argue that one's mail should be subjected to such policies, as it is handled by a government agency to begin with. Or, if one uses a private carier such as Fed-Ex, one could argue that they do not own the carier service, and thus are not entitlted to privacy.

    One could further argue that between land tax and emminent domain, individuals do not own land (as is mentioned in the Constitution), but merely leases it from the government.

    What liberties are essential then? The quote may correctly contain that word, but it cancels out any meaning it has once certain liberties are viewed by the citizens as "frivolous".

  8. Re:dolphins on A Dolphin By Any Other Name · · Score: 1

    That's pantomimed via an intricate double backwards somersault through a hoop while whistling "The Star Spangled Banner"...

  9. Re:Spaceballs... on Mirror Jams on Venus Express Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    -1 {Incorrect reference} "THere's only one man who would dare to give me the raspberry. Lonestar!"

  10. Re:Too funny.. on New Disclaimer for the Internet · · Score: 2, Funny

    This transaction is not reversible. You may not re-enter the Womb(tm) once you are born.

    This is /., I don't think re-entry is going to be much of an issue for most of the visitors here.

  11. Re:Better question... on One Big Bang, Or Many? · · Score: 1

    It could be that the universe is shaped a bit like a cross between a torus and a möbius loop. With the "center" at the area where the hole of the "doughnut" is, the universe would expand until it folds back in on itself...

  12. WTF? on 2006 Robot Hall of Fame Inductees Announced · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe I just can't find him listed on their site, but why isn't Marvin in there? Not mainstream enough? I'm willing to bet that quite a few of the inductees wouldn't be known outside the geek circle. If fuggin David came make it in, why not Marvin? Haley Joel Osment is a helluva actor, but Marvin is your plastic pal who's fun to be with!

  13. OAQ on NASA Achieves Breakthrough Black Hole Simulation · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not mentioned in the article of course, is that shortly after the simulation, the software collapsed in on itself as it underwent a Massive Total Existence Failure.

  14. Oblig MP reference... on The World's Strongest Glue · · Score: 1

    Peace?

  15. Re:Only 68 miles bigger on The Tenth Planet Shrinks Under Hubble's Gaze · · Score: 1

    But as everyone around you is evaporating into whiffs of hydrogen, ozone and carbon monoxide, you'll be too busy evaporating yourself to care...

  16. Re:Xena on The Tenth Planet Shrinks Under Hubble's Gaze · · Score: 1

    Either way, it'll muck up my horroscope...

  17. Re:Has arrived on Venus Probe Set to Reach Target · · Score: 1

    All thanks to Hactar...

  18. Re:Cannot? on ABC To Offer Full Shows Online · · Score: 1

    It means there are hypnotic signals in the program that command you not to get up to use the lavatory or get snacks during commercials...

  19. Re:Terraforming on ESA to Send Spacecraft to Venus · · Score: 1

    What the...? That link worked in the preview...

    Spiedies.

  20. Re:Terraforming on ESA to Send Spacecraft to Venus · · Score: 1

    It's funny you should make those two analogies, as the solution is simple. Suburban backyards are known for barbeques. Just take the bricks of carbon to Mars along with some burgers, spiedies and beer for a nice cook-out...

  21. Re:Successful? on X-37 Flies but Runs Off Runway · · Score: 1

    Apparantly the X-37 wasn't properly distracted at the critical moment. Either that, or one of the project's critics jumped out and said "You can't possibly be flying!", at which point, it became true. Yes, yes, I know the issue wasn't exactly with the flight, but with the landing. However, landing is arguably part of flight, and still needs control...

  22. Re:any landing on X-37 Flies but Runs Off Runway · · Score: 1

    I suppose then that seaplanes that safely land in the middle of the Pacific aren't good then?

  23. Re:Consciousness on Stone Age Dentists · · Score: 1

    Although an ancient race may well have believed that trepanation helped patients by "releasing demons", modern studies, as well as practice has shown that the process can relieve cranial swelling in cases of sever concussion. Not sure if you were aware of that, but your post seemed to me to imply that you deemed the procedure akin to garlands of garlic and crucifixes.

  24. Re:Same will happen to reading & writing on Design Software Weakens Classic Drawing Skills · · Score: 1

    Many already don't, and many of those don't have a computer.

    Now that's what I call influence of technology...

  25. 404: Subject not found... on Satellite Navigation a Real Crackpot! · · Score: 1

    You know, left is good too...