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  1. Re:Interesting engineering opportunities on Researchers Create Beating Heart In Lab · · Score: 1

    I think they would prefer to have some glucose/lactic acid sequestering glands placed within large muscle groups. Imagine a 2 km sprinter.

    Captcha = Turgid

    Violent action ensues.

  2. Re:That's a laugh! on US Satellites Dodging Chinese Missile Debris · · Score: 1

    Us here in Birmingham AL are just waiting for them to try something like that. We've got the iron. We've got the coal. We've got the flux. All we really need is for high capacity steel production to become economically viable again with American labor costs and environmental restrictions.

    U.S. Steel is just itching to push Shanghai Baosteel Group Corporation out of fifth place of the global steel producers.

    America really could be self sufficient if it needed to be. It would be rather difficult though, and would most likely piss off a lot of whiny people who like cheap shiny stuff.

    China however is very precariously balanced. It exports a lot of stuff in exchange for liquid capital. It invests a lot of that capital in purchasing US debt to back its currency. (It might be changing policies soon though as its own economy ramps up.) If the US economy goes belly up a lot of that debt may very well become worthless paper, and at the same time China's primary purchaser of goods finds that it doesn't really have the money to purchase what it used to.

  3. Re:Stereo = misnomer on Material Turns All Surfaces into Stereo · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can divide the surface up and project different sounds from different sections of the panel. Thus you could have the right side of the monitor project the right audio channel and vice versa.

  4. Re:That's Incredible. on Comcast Promising Ultra-Fast Internet · · Score: 1

    Nah you will see those speeds.... on your billing statement, and the advertisments.

    Of course they will always have a little * next to them with small print on the bottom of the offer that says "* Not a guarantee. Actual speeds vary according to how well we are screwing you."

  5. Re:Uh... all of the above on Did Insects Kill the Dinosaurs? · · Score: 1

    You missed the one about the decrease in the percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere making large creatures be unable to acquire enough air.

  6. Re:I am be on Molten Salt-Based Solar Power Plant · · Score: 1

    Is this can be post-hydrocarbon time now please?

    Attach it to this picture = internet gold

  7. And which would you prefer? on Wii Can't Replace Actual Exercise · · Score: 1

    Of course arm movement alone is not the same a full body movement. But I would prefer that the kids at least get some exercise. I wonder if it would have been different if they had tested the boxing game as it is much more physically involved.

  8. Re:I am in AWE on The LCD Panel vs. The Crossbow · · Score: 1

    A bullet wouldn't scratch the screen because lead is soft and sapphire is hard. It would however most likely crack it and puncture through.

    Running a diamond ring across it would scratch it easily.

  9. Re:Sure on Is There Such a Thing As Absolute Hot? · · Score: 1

    If you put enough energy together wouldn't it just turn into matter?

  10. Re:Hmm on The Role of Retroviruses in Human Evolution · · Score: 1

    Before someone makes a sex with monkeys joke, I would like to point out that HIV is not entirely a sexually transmitted disease. It is actually spread by blood contact due to damaged tissues during sex. SIV most likely made the leap over to humans due to hunting and consumption of simians.

  11. Re:Just a thought about Gitmo on Diffing Guantanamo Bay SOP Manuals · · Score: 1

    You throw yourself over its head and slide your legs around its body. Use your bodyweight to pin it to the ground.

    A single wolf, while dangerous, is not generally much of a challenge if you are prepared. If you are not prepared, and it came close enough that you had to grab it by the ears then it would have killed you already if you hadn't.

    If there is more than one wolf then the best you can hope for is to take this one with you or injure it enough to make it wary of humans in the future.

  12. Re:Virus on Using Wireless Signals in Games · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of Brutal File Manager

  13. Re:Just a thought about Gitmo on Diffing Guantanamo Bay SOP Manuals · · Score: 1

    What do you do when you've managed to grab a wolf by the ears?


    Slit its throat.
  14. Re:Interesting photo question... on A Look at Microsoft's Security War Room · · Score: 1

    Its in case someone turns on a gravity hack.

  15. Re:hypocrisy? on Greenpeace Admits Targeting Apple Grabs Headlines · · Score: 1

    Well yeah. I mean if you want to point at them for being hypocritical you would really be wanting to make waves about how they were killing all those animals, and dumping them in the garbage a while back.

    Captcha = Abortive
    I swear those things are context sensitive.

  16. Re:It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. on Human-Robot Love and Marriage · · Score: 1

    Bah the science is only there to make the curtains seem more hygienic.

  17. Re:This was a triumph on Human-Robot Love and Marriage · · Score: 1

    That's "Weighted Companion Cube".

    The "Companion Cube" is the older model that along with stabbing you would talk smack about your mama.

  18. Re:Use Opera on Google Mulling Video Ads In Search Results · · Score: 1

    Or for a more targeted approach use any adblocking system and block http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/google adplayer.swf

  19. Re:Political Power on Solar Power Headed For 45% Annual Growth · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fuel for solar power isn't free. It is very expensive to expensive to extract it from the center of the sun.

    And don't even get me started on the inefficiency of it. More than 99.9% of the Sun's energy misses the Earth entirely! I don't think solar power will ever really take off until we develop giant space based mirrors to cut down on the needless waste of the Sun's irreplaceable hydrogen reserve.

  20. Re:Real Test is the Presidential Election on Researchers Crack Every Certified CA Voting Machine · · Score: 1

    But then we would have to issue all the marines radios and invisible guns. Plus all military vehicles would explode violently when hit by small arms fire.

  21. Re:IE problem, but also Firefox problem. on Firefox Quickies · · Score: 1

    If you have mIRC you probally also have IRC://.

    Like so.

  22. Re:Of course its not junk on Human Genome More Like a Functional Network · · Score: 4, Funny

    A metacar?

    Or would that be a car that would only allow other cars to ride in it?

  23. Re:Ahhh on Backyard Chefs Fired Up Over Infrared Grills · · Score: 1

    Feel love or remorse?

    I for one welcome our uncaring vaporous overlords.

    CAPCHTA = culled

  24. Re:What about the men? on 3-D Model of Breast Cancer in the Lab · · Score: 1

    Nope women have different symptoms and causes. You were not aware of that. Hence my point.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=heart+disease+gende r+differences

  25. Re:Just administer the Voight-Kampff test on Soldiers Bond With Bots, Take Them Fishing · · Score: 1

    To clear a mine field you have to survive setting off all the mines. To fail to safely traverse it you just have to fail to survive one.