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  1. Re:Hey, rember in the TNG finale on PhD Candidate Talks About the Physics of Space Battles · · Score: 1

    And then it flew it straight lines over cool impressive scenery while an orchestra played classical sounding music for the rest of the movie, that was like so totally cooler than Star Wars....

  2. Re:Babylon5 on PhD Candidate Talks About the Physics of Space Battles · · Score: 1

    The "support struts" only really supported the Solar arrays and microgravity bays, things you wanted to either keep in zero-G or keep pointed at a star.

    But most of the mass you wanted to have gravity so most of it rotated....

    Of course Babylon 4 was batter station but some jerkass stole it. It had counter rotating sections whicvh meant it would spend less in fuel to stabilize itself that B5. Probably why they torn down B5 after about 20-30 years worth of service....

  3. Why not lower it slightly? on BBC Lowers HDTV Bitrate; Users Notice · · Score: 1

    Why not lower it to 12Mbps? Seems like a good compromise don't you think?

    Going from 16 to 9.7 is like going from 100% to almost 50%, 100% to 75% @ 12Mbps is a lot easier to swallow.

         

  4. Doctor Who hit hardest... on BBC Lowers HDTV Bitrate; Users Notice · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now when we go to watch the Christmas special it will look like Cardboard sets, that wibble and wobble. The TARDIS will look utterly horrible and the Doctor will revert to a bloke from Liverpool with big eyes, big teeth, curly hair and a long scarf.

    They also lowered the audio rate down to 16Kbps, so that rich orchestral music will sound like it came out of a cheap 1970's Moog.

    Great, just when they updated the look of the show this will undo all of their work and it will look like the viewers were taken back to the 80's in an actual TARDIS.

    Bravo BBC, Just Bravo......

  5. Re:good job on Dying Star Mimics Our Sun's Death · · Score: 1

    It is funny that American Dad has been somewhat funnier than Family Guy in the last year....

    The Cleveland show is a bit of a disaster and I wish Cleveland would move back to Quahog...

  6. LOLCats and Social Networks. on Student Banned From Minnesota Campus Over Facebook Comments · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is why I only post pictures of LOLCats on any social network I am part of.

    She just needed to post a pic of a kitten in the morgue with the caption "I am in yur Morgue, stabbing yur throt!"

  7. Re:Democracy ? on UK Government Seeks New Web Censorship Powers · · Score: 4, Informative

    " In the infaliable United States Democracy (in which I do not reside) - those people have their democratic rights MEMORIZED, printed off, laminated, and FRAMED above their mantlepiece. "

    If only every citizen in the United States did this then the United States would be a somewhat decent country.

  8. Re:What happened to you, UK? You used to be cool on UK Government Seeks New Web Censorship Powers · · Score: 1

    Of course how do you define "Hate Site"?

    A site that denounces Global Warming could be described as being a hate site.

    Who decides what is hate and what isn't.

  9. Re:Do we care? on Dying Star Mimics Our Sun's Death · · Score: 2, Funny

    When Jesus comes back it will rock, I hope to get a ride off the planet if I am not raptured with an alien, "One of God's side projects."

  10. Re:Do we care? on Dying Star Mimics Our Sun's Death · · Score: 1

    Everything Dies Rose, Everything Dies.....

    Sadly the only Humans around to witness the death of earth will be a bitchy trampoline and temporally displaced young girl who is the traveling companion of a rather creepy 900 year old man....

    But they will play "I want to get away" by softcell and "Toxic" by Britney Spears and the sun expands and burns earth to a crisp....

  11. Re:The Yahoo answers version on Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Yahoo" lives up to it's namesake again.....

  12. Re:I recently needed to learn how to set a live tr on Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki · · Score: 4, Funny

    I learned how to clean up forensic evidence from my basement....

    Thank you Wikipedia!

  13. James Bond Villian on Swiss Geologist On Trial For Causing Earthquakes · · Score: 1

    Switzerland: The Bond Villain of the European Union...

    No wonder they have all of the Gold there.....

    "Pay us one Beeellion dollars or your cities get shaken, not stirred..."

  14. Re:I'm gonna miss yellowstone.. on Yellowstone Supervolcano Larger Than First Thought · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yellowstone has gone off in the past and it didn't kill off all the large land animals, sure it screwed up North America for a whiel and lowered global temps several degrees, but it isn't the end of the world.

  15. Re:final term of the drake equation on NASA WISE Satellite Blasts Into Space · · Score: 1

    VASIMIR powered asteroid sized colonies with IR telescopes launched in opposite directions parallel to the galactic axis.

  16. Re:Red and Brown Dwarf companion stars... on NASA WISE Satellite Blasts Into Space · · Score: 1

    Not sure how far away a brown dwarf could be from the sun and yet still be gravitationally bound to it....

    Is there a limit to this?

  17. Re:Not bathing the cosmos on NASA WISE Satellite Blasts Into Space · · Score: 1

    They got the mechanism wrong but the idea right that as we observe things the "eye rays" actually work to collapse the quantum wave form, thus by existing we are screwing up the universe!!!!

  18. Re:Ask a silly question... on NASA WISE Satellite Blasts Into Space · · Score: 1

    Yeah but kids will need a new Mnemonic device and the star will have to be named. Unless we just call it "Sol II".

    What sort of name would we call this new star, one idea would be to call it Apollo after the sun god who drove his chariot across the heaven during the day, but would that be appropriate for a star barely visible to the naked eye?

    And just imagine the flood of new disaster movies that could be made about this new stellar companion blowing up or being blowed up by aliens etc.....

    It would be a bigger thing than you know.

  19. Re:SETI Application? on NASA WISE Satellite Blasts Into Space · · Score: 1

    Maybe we could see Dyson Sphere (Dyson Swarms) with this thing!

  20. Re:This satellite will cause massive disruption!!! on NASA WISE Satellite Blasts Into Space · · Score: 1

    OMG so it is this satellite that kick starts the apocalypse and rapture that will occur in 2012!!!

    Quick get your guns and bibles!

  21. Red and Brown Dwarf companion stars... on NASA WISE Satellite Blasts Into Space · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wonder if this will find any stars closer to the earth that proxima centari?

    It would be interesting if it found a brown or red dwarf companion to our star which orbits out beyond the ort cloud. An Ion or VASIMIR powered probe to this star would be cool and feasible even if it were up to 1/2 a light year away.

    What would everyone think if we found out that our solar system is just another binary star system amonst the trillions and quadrillions of other multiple star systems out there....

     

  22. Florida Lawyer Jack Thompson is Lonely. on Judges Can't "Friend" Lawyers in Florida · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is lonely because no one wants to friend him in Facebook.

  23. Quick someone tell the guy in the Avatar Movie!!! on Method To Repair Damaged Adult Nerves Discovered · · Score: 1

    That way he can get his spine fixed and I can get my $7.50 back.

  24. Re:Momentum Conservation on How To Build a Quantum Propulsion Machine · · Score: 1

    What if the opposite reaction is the release of thermal energy in all directions?

  25. Re:Probably the only chance there is on How To Build a Quantum Propulsion Machine · · Score: 1

    Forget Interstellar travel if we can open up interplanetary travel at the very least it is a good thing.