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  1. Re:what about the center core? on Elon Musk Explains Why SpaceX Prefers Clusters of Small Engines (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    IIRC it was a chemical that starts up the engines that ran out TEA-TEB (Triethylaluminum-Triethylborane) So they could not fire the others

  2. In USSR privacy protects you?

  3. https://drive.google.com/file/...

    that's a shuttle hanger....

  4. Re:It damaged a decommissioned space shuttle on ea on A Year After Sandy, Do You Approach Disaster Differently? · · Score: 1

    even worse, Enterpise isn't even a real shuttle, it's a full scale glorified mock up, to do glider tests et. c.

  5. Re:Production version on SpaceX Falcon 9 Blasts Off From California · · Score: 1

    We *have* to hire this man, he has the right mindset!

  6. Re:Production version on SpaceX Falcon 9 Blasts Off From California · · Score: 1

    And you have gotta love a company that advertises a position as:

        SOFTWARE DEVELOPER (BORG)

    Beautiful how they put in an extra paragraph to encourage new graduates. At last a company that does not expect you to be 25 and have 30 year of experience in Office 2010 :rolleyes:

  7. Re:Almost daily updates? on Ask Slashdot: Is GNU/Linux Malware a Real Threat? · · Score: 1

    Probably using testing or unstable. Debian stable has no daily updates.

  8. Re:Wow Slashdot! on Gamer Rewrites Valve's Steam Installer For Debian · · Score: 1

    We need a modern day digital Jesus

    We have Stallman... Errrr... wait nevermind...

  9. Re:Going to have a hard time topping modern remake on David Braben Kickstarts an Elite Reboot · · Score: 1

    Beg to differ on that. http://www.oolite.org/ is an open, modernized version of Elite, and has lots of 'old geezers' practically creaming their pants when they discover and play it for the fist time.
    Just look at their bulletin boards for all the kudos being strewn around to the developers.

  10. Re:Can someone explain... on Solid State Quantum Computer Finds 15=3x5 — 48% of the Time · · Score: 1

    Simple.

    run it, say, 100 times, you'll get a bunch of different answers, the right one is the one cropping up around 48 times :)

  11. Re:RTFA has never been more true on Tesla Will Discontinue the Roadster · · Score: 1

    Is topic starter some kind of troll or one of the paid shills that try to cast everything SpaceX (and so Musk's other ventures) into a bad light?

    Musk is getting a lot of far-fetched critiques, lately. Somebody really hates his guts.

  12. misleading description on European Parliament Hires 10-Year-Old Interpreter · · Score: 1

    From another article, it's clear she won a prize to VISIT the EU parliament, probably had a go at a bit of translating, but in no way it looks like she actually works there...

    http://www.firstnews.co.uk/news/blind-10-year-old-is-europes-youngest-interpreter-i4231

  13. Re:One more perspective on David Pogue Takes On Vista · · Score: 1

    Hey, I'mFlemish so I make those kind of mistakes myself all the time, so no worries :D

  14. Re:One more perspective on David Pogue Takes On Vista · · Score: 1

    >>I was able to go to HP's site and download most of the hardware.

    HP now into downloadable hardware, that's so cool! ;)

  15. Re:NUmber 10 is flat out silly on 15 Things Apple Should Change in Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Or click and hold... A bit slower but you don't need a two button mouse or touch the ALT-key...

  16. dvorak on The Failure of the $100 Laptop? · · Score: 1

    This article was reported and written by John C. Dvorak for MarketWatch.

    'nuff said...

  17. Re:"wealthy Canadian geologist" on The Next X Prize · · Score: 1

    Probably a guy in the oil-prospetor business. Good ones make lots of moolah...

  18. Autostitched and VR pano's from Mars on Mars Rover Reaches Victoria Crater · · Score: 3, Informative

    For people that like the rovers and hadn't stumbled upon it before:

    http://midnightmarsbrowser.blogspot.com/

    "the Midnight Mars Browser software, which allows home users to download images and view slideshows and "virtual reality" panoramas from the Mars Exploration Rovers "Spirit" and "Opportunity"."

    it is really awesome, try it out, you get the latest pics from Mars virtually real time (before they're up @ jpl's site.)

    Pannable and zoomable panorama's, false colour and true colour movies etc etc.

  19. Re:Amazing creativity.. on Jonathan Ive - Apple's Design Magician · · Score: 2, Informative

    The 'toilet seat' or clamshell was quite popular, and I still use it to this day occasionally, when I flip it open on the train, comments are invariably positive, so I wouldn't call it a stinker.

    (Likewise I preferred the puck above the later optical mouse, thought it fitted my hand better, but I guess I'm weird that way...)

  20. Re:Oddly enough... on Writely.com Beta - Google's Answer to Word · · Score: 1

    Neither is writely :)

  21. Re:Not really... on The Tale of Wal-Mart, Jack, and Bully · · Score: 1

    >But they had the SNES version becuase it was colored gray (sweat)

    Oh.

    Aaaah...

    I thought that was brain-tissue :s

  22. Re:Is bootup time really that big of an issue? on A Magnetic Memory Alternative to Hard Disk · · Score: 1

    Digital camera's. Today the cheap ones are dog slow.

  23. Re:You never see pictures inside the Soyuz... on Space Shuttle Gains Remote-Control Landing Capability · · Score: 1

    When Belgian astronaut De Winne was launched to the ISS with a Soyuz some years ago, we Belgians got live video coverage from inside the capsule.

    Ok so it's cramped, but there's enough room to put an extra camera in :)

  24. Re:A humble suggestion to NASA on NASA Hopes Discovery's Move Is Not The Last · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. There are no plans at all for a next generation shuttle in the near to intermediate future.

    For now (semi)expendable boosters are the way to go, shuttles are technically too complex hence not cost-efficient. I'd think the current line of shuttles has proven that more than adequately, no?

    SSTO, real reusable shuttles are quite a way off.

  25. Re:over a dozen filters.... on 8 MegaPixel Digital Sensor Unveiled · · Score: 1

    why do you talk as if the rovers are a thing from the past? They're both still functioning, sending pictures on a daily basis, see for example the latest great composite shots of Burns Cliff, generated out of separate pictures, on the fly on your own machine in the great browser: http://midnightmarsbrowser.blogspot.com/