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  1. Re:To the sun! on U.S. Nuclear Cleanup Carries Major Risks · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure how much this liquid radiation weighs, but if it's about the same as water, that's around 421,618,593 pounds. Anyone know the cost per pound to send things into space? If it's just $100 per pound (which I know is probably shooting way low), that's at least 42 billion just for the liquid radiation. I also doubt that would all go up on the same space craft, which means each installment has a chance to fail and cause some nasty effects, like 190 million liters of liquid radtion rain. So it's probably a combination of cost and danger.

  2. Re:Sounds familiar on Metal Velcro · · Score: 1

    Beam of electrons? Vaccum chamber? Yeah that sounds like a soldering iron all right.

  3. Re:Too bad they didn't come out with this zelda ga on E3 - Nintendo Shows DS Details, Realistic Zelda · · Score: 1

    Haha, Wild Walker? But yeah, I agree. The originals were all happy and cartoony, Ocarina was more serious and dark.

  4. Re:The restaurant at the end of the universe on New Clues About the Nature of Dark Energy · · Score: 1

    I've seen it. It's rubbish, nothing but a gnab gib.

  5. Re:No crashes here. Never! on Opera Browser Creators Planning IPO · · Score: 1

    Does it do anything other than just search? If not, Opera has that, either you have an old version, or you need to enable it. You can also add like 15 other quick searches including ebay, amazon, google groups, and "find in page." I really like the ease of customizing Opera.

  6. Re:Why Pay? on Opera Browser Creators Planning IPO · · Score: 1

    What do you have against the people who make Opera? Or are you just against every business?

  7. Re:More like.... on Astronomers Look for Potential Life Zones · · Score: 1

    Apparently it has to be able to talk.

  8. Re:perch and bass are NOT native on Australia To Use GM To Control Carp · · Score: 1

    It's not just about which fish was there first, it's about perch and bass tasting good and being desirable, while carp not tasting good and being undesirable.

  9. Re:It's dead, Jim. on Mars Crater Theory Tries To Explain Missing Beagle · · Score: 1

    If something is hard, it obviously isn't worth doing.

  10. Re:you can overdose on water on Measuring Pollution In Humans · · Score: 2, Funny
    you can overdose on water

    Isn't that called drowning?

  11. Re:I thoroughly hope this succeeds on Jodrell Bank Telescope Gets No Signal From Beagle · · Score: 1

    Remember, what is .25 USD to us is going to cost 100 USD for the government.

  12. Re:I thoroughly hope this succeeds on Fighting Cancer With The Common Cold? · · Score: 1
    I may very well be wrong, but this is what makes sense to me.


    I thought subsidies (to the producer, such as farmers), actually decreased the supply, bringing prices up. It was supposed to accomodate for the high supply of food farmers had to meet during and immediately after the war when it was in great demand, but then dropped largely when other countries started recovering and supplying their own food.


    The demand for food is pretty inelastic, you're going to eat around the same amount of food unless there are drastic changes in the price. However, the demand for an individual farmers good is very elastic, they can charge a higher price, but consumers will go the next farmer who has identical crops and is willing to sell for less.


    I figure the problem with foreing farmers was import taxation and regulation of farming techniques. I also don't see why they'd be making more farm land to stay in business. Don't we give out subsidies to keep people from farming more land?

  13. Re:Congrats, RIAA on RIAA Extends Legal Action · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well the RIAA doesn't consider the fileswappers customers, whether they actually are is an entirely different topic. Look at it from their point of view, if someone steals from your store, do you consider them a customer or a theif? And when you tell them to never come back, are you distressed that you lost their business, or relieved that they won't be stealing anymore?

  14. Re:one problem on The Future of Battlefield Robots · · Score: 4, Funny

    But how on earth will he heard his sheep without an assault rifle?

  15. Re:Dinty names on Meteorite Strike Creates New Type of Mineral · · Score: 1

    If the scientific community is anything like the internet community it would be embraced with a whole hearted "LOL!!11"

  16. Re:Solid game. on Final Fantasy XI Nears EverQuest In Subscriber Numbers · · Score: 1

    What? That's the best part!

  17. Re:If they were practically immortal... on Red Sea Urchins Nearly Immortal · · Score: 0
    You obviously didn't read the article, or you wouldn't be so hung up on the word 'immortal' (the actual article did say 'practically immortal'). They of course meant that they do not die from old age, but they are not, however, invincible. In other words:

    "They can die from attacks by predators, specific diseases or being harvested by fishermen. But even then they show very few signs of age. The evidence suggests that a 100-year-old red sea urchin is just as apt to live another year, or reproduce, as a 10-year-old sea urchin."

  18. Re:100 ~ infinity? on Red Sea Urchins Nearly Immortal · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Yes, but parrots and sea turtles show signs that they are wearing out, and will soon die. The urchins are living to the age of 120 and showing no signs of being less able to going on living for a long amount of time than very young urchins, which is why they're being labeled "immortal."

  19. Re:Sweet on Uranium Pebbles May Light the Way · · Score: 0

    Isn't the reason the cost is so high because of regulation? So wouldn't the capitalist be for getting rid of the regulations and using nuclear power?

  20. Re:no such thing as a british accent on Head Injury Induces Foreign Accent Syndrome · · Score: 0
    Americans are funny when they try to do an English accent, though.

    I'm sorry but you must be horribly mistaken, unless for some reason we're just stumbling upon the definition of "funny." I think the words you were looking for were "incredibly annoying" or "cheap bastards that think people like them."

  21. Re:Glossalalia on Head Injury Induces Foreign Accent Syndrome · · Score: 0

    I wonder how Neal Stephenson would feel about this.

  22. Re:Imagine this other African language..... on Whistle While You Work · · Score: 0

    Who can blame them? They apparently thought Africa was a country.

  23. Re:I think Shakespeare said it best... on Billy the Kid Faces The Law... Again · · Score: 0

    How do we know it's really William Shakespeare? Only one way to find out...

  24. Re:This is not on Billy the Kid Faces The Law... Again · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not to mention the poor sap in the other grave who will be given the attitude: "ah shit, no one cares about you, do we even have to bury you again?"

  25. Re:This isn't really too suprising on Take Your Vitamins, On Pain Of Pain · · Score: 0
    At my high school they require us to take a semester of Personal Fitness and a semester of Life Management. Life Management is all about eating healthy, motivation, goals, drugs, and sex. Personal Fitness is about the importance of exercising and stretching, and how to do both of them, also again emphasizing a healthy diet based on how active you are.

    Maybe it's just my high school, or maybe this is new and you're just old as shit ;).