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  1. Re:It's not the gas... on NFL Asks Columbia University For Help With Deflate-Gate · · Score: 1

    Footballs actually use an inner bladder, so I wouldn't think the complexity of the leather outer would contribute all that much to its temperature susceptibility.

  2. Already debunked by one of Columbia's finest... on NFL Asks Columbia University For Help With Deflate-Gate · · Score: 1

    'gas physicists', Neil deGrasse Tyson. In a Jan 26th tweet he states, "For the Patriots to blame a change in temperature for 15% lower-pressures, requires balls to be inflated with 125-degree air." Full article here: http://uproxx.com/sports/2015/...

  3. Re:units on Drones Could 3D-Map Scores of Hectares of Land In Just a Few Hours · · Score: 1

    I take that back, it is actually roughly equal to 1 LoC. My original metric conversion was off by a factor of 1000.

  4. Re:units on Drones Could 3D-Map Scores of Hectares of Land In Just a Few Hours · · Score: 1

    200 square kilometers rather

  5. Re:units on Drones Could 3D-Map Scores of Hectares of Land In Just a Few Hours · · Score: 1

    3200.4 LoCs Yours truly, Unapologetic Pedant

  6. Re:units on Drones Could 3D-Map Scores of Hectares of Land In Just a Few Hours · · Score: 1

    Such a bizarre quantification. Why not just say "roughly 50 acres" or "200 square meters"?

  7. On behalf of Archimedes... on Solar Plant Sets Birds On Fire As They Fly Overhead · · Score: 1

    I find it hard to believe that nobody considered these effects on wildlife during conception of this and similar projects considering that the underlying technology has existed for over two millennia.

  8. Re:So say the biologists on Which Grad Students Are the Most Miserable? · · Score: 0

    hahah, or joey lawrence. i stand corrected.

  9. So say the biologists on Which Grad Students Are the Most Miserable? · · Score: 1

    Given that the article is written by a biologist (Jessica Palmer), and referencing another biologist (Mike the Mad), I can't help but feel like this is a "whoa is me" take on the subject. Aren't most graduate programs cutthroat and demanding? More importantly, shouldn't they be?

  10. Re:Is it just me? on Wikipedia Works To Close Gender Gap · · Score: 1

    Yes, its a win-win! We can simultaneously terraform Mars and even out the Earth's surface ratio of land and water, appeasing H2O equality activists while providing their opponents a new home where they can collectively disagree at a safe distance. There will of course be some minor details to resolve, such as the subzero surface temperatures and the lack of magnetic field to protect against the solar wind, but well cross that bridge when we come to it. As for how to get that water from Earth to Mars? Simple. Space-Siphon (patent pending).

  11. Re:Is it just me? on Wikipedia Works To Close Gender Gap · · Score: 2

    The earth's surface is 70% water but I wouldn't initiate a campaign to drain the world's oceans.

  12. Re:Is it just me? on Wikipedia Works To Close Gender Gap · · Score: 2

    So clearly the solution is to increase the commonality of autism in women such that it's more gender neutral and let everything else fall into place. I kid of course, but this does raise a good example of natural gender imbalance. Genetic disease. I don't imagine that anyone whose lives are affected by autism would waste their time consulting the ACLU.

    In regard to imbalance resulting from a culture of bias, I can't help but feel like imposing artificial equalizers does more harm than good by simply perpetuating the underlying discrimination, while depriving the oppressed of a natural opportunity to respectably bootstrap themselves into equality.

  13. Is it just me? on Wikipedia Works To Close Gender Gap · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or is imposed diversity actually more sexist than a natural gender imbalance?

  14. Playpad Cracking on NFL Teams Considering IPads To Replace Playbooks · · Score: 0

    If game time system penetration had some substantial and direct influence on the outcome I might finally take an interest in football. Especially if it were taking place across the field with lots of indiscreet high power directional antennas and such. A few playbook honeypots might REALLY make things interesting.

  15. Re:Bible-tech on Researchers Lift Fingerprints From Clothing · · Score: 1

    To be clear, that was tounge-in-cheek.

  16. Bible-tech on Researchers Lift Fingerprints From Clothing · · Score: 2, Funny

    I believe this is the same technique Jesus used to create the Shroud of Turin. (~)

  17. Forget about the future of Internet security... on World's Worst Hacker? · · Score: 1

    is there a future for CLI based sketch comedy?

  18. Re:Treat the disease not the symptom... on Scientists Work To Grow Meat In a Lab · · Score: 1

    There is more than enough food in the world to feed every human being on earth and then some. Production of food is at a surplus. Your point might ring true if the business of agriculture had any interest in feeding people, but the only sustenance of importance is financial. They will produce as much food as is most economically beneficial to them, despite who or how many people actually eat it. The supermarkets aren't stocked with the philanthropy of the worlds green thumbs.

  19. Re:Marketable to Vegetarians? on Scientists Work To Grow Meat In a Lab · · Score: 0

    Vegetarianism isn't a bool.

  20. Treat the disease not the symptom... on Scientists Work To Grow Meat In a Lab · · Score: 2

    Hunger and starvation isn't a production issue, its a distribution issue. If we're facing an inevitable meat scarcity resulting from land shortages perhaps the first solution to consider would be constructing fewer hamburger bioengineering laboratories.

  21. VIC20 on Are Gamers Safer Drivers? · · Score: 0

    My first driving game (perhaps video game overall) experience was a VIC20 based vertical scroller with keyboard controls, and I've never had an accident. Evidence conclusive.

  22. Re:Who Cares? on Last Available IPv4 Blocks Allocated · · Score: 1

    "So IPv6 you all know that we're almost out of v4 address space. I'm a little embarrassed about that because I was the guy that decided 32 bits was enough for the Internet experiment." -Vinton G. Cerf (Keynote at LinuxConfAU 2011)

  23. Dibs! on Ski Lifts Can Could Help Get Cargo Traffic Off the Road · · Score: 0

    ... on being the pioneering 21st century air-hobo.

  24. What I would like to do with 100x's the bandwidth. on UK Research Aims For 100x Speedup In Fiber-Based Broadband · · Score: 1

    Pay 100x's less.

  25. The wheel 2.0... on What Tech Should Be Seen At TED? · · Score: 0, Troll

    even more round.