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  1. Re:Aim it at the moon... on ESO's Very Large Telescope Now Delivers Images Sharper Than Hubble (eso.org) · · Score: 1

    ...and take pictures of the Apollo landing sites. That should shut a few mouths.

    No, it won't. When someone "wants to believes", facts won't change their opinion. They will see VLT as part of the conspiracy.

  2. Re:Uninstall the app. on Spanish Football League Defends Phone 'Spying' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I agree, but what exactly are YOU going to do? Nothing? Yup, me either.

    Yes, I have nothing to hide. So they can listen to my private conversations as long as I can hear the private conversation of La Liga executives. Or, do they have something to hide?

  3. Re:Uninstall the app. on Spanish Football League Defends Phone 'Spying' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    problem solved.

    It is not that simple. You will not install it if you don't want to be spied. But if someone next to you do have that app installed in their phone, its microphone will record you anyway.

  4. Re:Less than a bag of sugar? on Nokia, Vodafone To Bring 4G To the Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Will it weigh less on the Moon than a bag of sugar weighs on Earth?

    1 kg of sugar will weigh 167 g on the Moon, but the same will happen with the weigh of a "small piece of hardware".

  5. Re:interstellar mission on Astronomers To Announce Discovery of a Nearby 'Earth-Like' Planet (seeker.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't you realize that anti-matter is simply a theory?

    Scientific theories are the most reliable, rigorous, and comprehensive form of scientific knowledge.

  6. Meters? on New Mars Crater Spotted In Before-and-After Pictures · · Score: 1

    The equivalence is in TFA for those metric-impaired: "At 50 meters or so across, it's half the length of a football field"

  7. Re:By Toutatis! on Chinese Moon Probe Flies By Asteroid Toutatis · · Score: 1

    I have no intention to hit Earth,

  8. Re:Misleading summary on Research Suggests Apes and Humans Separated By a Single Gene · · Score: 2

    I was thinking something similar. That separation is always expected to star by a single gene.
    This is like surprising at realizing that two branches of a tree are separated at the beginning by a single micron.

  9. Run out and find me a three-year-old child on Are Windows XP/7 Users Smarter Than a 3-Year-Old? · · Score: 1

    Obligatory Marx Brothers' quote

    What can the rest of us do without a 3-year-old at hand?

  10. It has already happened on A Few Million Virtual Monkeys Randomly Recreate Shakespeare · · Score: 1

    It can't be so difficult to get it.

    Experience says that once there were a bunch of monkeys and in a few millions years all of Shakespeare works were written. In order!

  11. Re:Isn't this... on First Anti-Cancer Nanoparticle Trial On Humans a Success · · Score: 1

    How long before this technology can be tuned to other types of infected cells like HIV?

    Maybe It can be tuned to attack HIV but HIV is a virus and virus use our own healthy cells and its resources.

  12. Re:Vive la on France Passes Harsh Three-Strikes Legislation, Again · · Score: 1

    I think that Internet in France will be full of people like you: Anonymous Cowards.

  13. Re:From a Galactic Origin on Galactic Origin For 62M-Year Extinction Cycle? · · Score: 1

    I think you read more Nietzsche than me.
    My message was about Battlestar Galactica (2004).

  14. From a Galactic Origin on Galactic Origin For 62M-Year Extinction Cycle? · · Score: 5, Funny

    All this has happened before and will happen again.

  15. Re:"H1N1" on WHO Declares H1N1's Spread Officially a Pandemic · · Score: 1

    Spanish Flu came from Kansas. The reason it's called the Spanish Flu is because Spanish newspapers covered it first.

    Spanish newspapers covered if frist because in 1918 Spain's neighbor countries were in WW1 and censoring its problems.

  16. Re:Reach for the switch... on New Contestants On the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    Right! Actually they are the most intelligent beings on this mostly harmless planet.

  17. Re:not alive on Viruses Infected By Viruses · · Score: 1

    So cuckoos aren't alive either, since they rely on somebody else's 'machinery'?

    Cuckoos don't rely on somebody else's 'machnery' to self-replicate but to raise its offspring.

    When we send our children to school we too rely on sombody else's 'machinery'

  18. Re:I'm not worried on Paul Vixie Responds To DNS Hole Skeptics · · Score: 4, Funny

    How can you know then that the flaw isn't in your mind too.

  19. Re:They obviously didn't consider.. on Ray Gun Puts Voices Inside Your Head · · Score: 2, Funny

    On the contrary, those people will be able to do some thinking while the old voices in his head talk with the new ones.

  20. Re:hmmmm on Poker Program Battles Humans In Vegas · · Score: 1

    Obviously, in that case they'll look for a third, human, player to play with them.

  21. Re:Hmmm... on First Look At Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 · · Score: 4, Informative

    It hasn't been fixed yet, but you can take the test here: http://www.hixie.ch/tests/evil/acid/002/

  22. Re:5 Year Limit on FTC Announces Crackdown on Do Not Call Violators · · Score: 5, Funny

    There is no need to register again. Someone will call you to remember you are unregistered.

  23. Re:Elevated Heart Rate? on Big Brother Really Is Watching Us All · · Score: 2, Funny

    You shouldn't worry about court if you're going to jail in a S&M outfit.
    Have fun!

  24. Re:An idea on Solar Craft Flies Through Two Nights · · Score: 1

    Don't make it so hard. Try it near a pole (on summer).

    It won't be indefinitely, but maybe you could go around the globe several times.

  25. Re:who knew? on Spanish TV Channels Vandalize Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    You have some here in the Non-English part.