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  1. It was 2011... on MIT Creates Chip to Model Synapses · · Score: 2

    ...and war was beginning.

  2. "a" not "an" :) on Univ. Help Desk Staffer Extorts Over Copyright Violations · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just a quick grammar Nazi point, it should be "a University", not "an University"...

    Sorry this one annoys me, just because a word or acronym begin with a vowel does not mean you should use "an".

  3. i guess this is why i never go to london.. on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    It's full of hoards of stupid American tourists :)

    There's more to "Eng-er-land" than London. It's a piss-filled city and really not that nice, which is like most capital cities around the world.

    I personally wouldn't take a laptop, unless you like having a ball and chain around your neck.

    Take some warm clothes, and the minimum amount you need, use London as a launch pad to the rest of the UK and Europe

  4. Re:Can someone clarify the X-rays? on Black Holes No More -- Introducing the Gravastar · · Score: 1

    that's just Hawking's radiation

  5. Re:Power vs. Energy on World's Biggest Battery Switched On in Alaska · · Score: 1

    1 Watt = 1 Joule per second

    1 kWh = 1000 * 3600 = 3,600,000 Joules = 3.6MJ

    if this giant battery can provide 40MW for 7 minutes then thats 16,800,000,000 Joules, 16.8GJ, which is quite a lot...

  6. Re:Bizarre sequences of random numbers on LavaRnd: A Open Source Project for Truly Random Numbers · · Score: 1

    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 is a random sequence of numbers. It's like the old question of which of the following isn't a random set of numbers: a) 1, 26, 23, 17, 5, 11 b) 21, 7, 29, 6, 28, 1 c) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 the answer is of course they are all random, the chance of each one occuring is exactly the same, only our mind makes them significant