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  1. Re:What's the Motive? on Paramount to Drop Blu-Ray for HD-DVD · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Digital distribution wont never be ubiquitous for one reason that nerds always fail to appreciate. People like buying things.

  2. Re:the fi in sci-fi on Bad Movie Physics Hurt Scientific Understanding · · Score: 1

    I always liked this exchange where Kirk makes fun of Spock's accuracy/nerdiness:

    Kirk: What would you say the odds are on our getting out of here?

    Spock: It is difficult to be precise, Captain. I should say approximately 7,824.7 to one.

    Kirk: Difficult to be precise? 7,824 to one?

    Spock: 7,824.7 to one.

    Kirk: That's a pretty close approximation.

    Spock: I endeavor to be accurate.

    Kirk: You do quite well.

  3. Re:I disagree with TFA on Bad Movie Physics Hurt Scientific Understanding · · Score: 1

    There is no evolutionary instruction in our genes that tells us that objects fall. It's just a conclusion we quickly draw from the world around us.

    And Newtonian physics certainly isn't intuitive. Intuition tells us the earth is a rest, and that objects come to rest unless acted upon.

  4. Re:Others? on Scientists Offer 'Overwhelming' Evidence Terran Life Began in Space · · Score: 1

    The stuff that dented the moon was hanging around the solar system already.

  5. Re:Sounds we can and cannot hear. on Does Going Digital Mean Missing Music? · · Score: 1

    That "explanation" is a bunch of crap. CD have a wider frequeny response than vinyl and CD can quantize more precisely and more accurately that vinyl ever can.

  6. Re:tebi? shut up. 1 terabyte drive still NOT here on Terabyte Hard Drive Put To the Test · · Score: 1

    Nope. A kilobyte is 1000 bytes. That's how it should have been from day one, but unfortunately some twit decided that 1024 bytes was close enough to 1000 bytes to give it the SI prefix for 1000. That's where all the trouble started.

    The SI units are the correct ones.

  7. Re:tebi? shut up. 1 terabyte drive still NOT here on Terabyte Hard Drive Put To the Test · · Score: 1

    Keep your rotten metric system out of this.

  8. Re:Another Reminder How BIG This Place Is on Identify Galaxies Using Spare Wetware Cycles · · Score: 1

    A galaxy like ours actually contains hundreds of billions of stars, which out of interest is about the number of neurons in a brain like ours.

  9. Re:No Chance Of Life?!?! WTF? on Scientists Find Water on Extra-solar Planet · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So for some scientist to say that there can't be life, I just have to role my eyes.

    yeah, what do they know. I mean after all, some scientists in the past have made predictions that were wrong, so you'd be a fool to listen to anything a scientist has to say.

  10. Re:Salt Water on Floating Wind Turbines · · Score: 1

    Paint isn't much good against salt attack.

  11. Re:MWI is cool and all.... on 50 Years of the Multiverse Interpretation · · Score: 1

    "I think therefore I am" isn't valid.

    You can't be certain you exist based on the existence of thoughts. All you are entitled to say with confidence is that "there are thoughts".

  12. Re:An open question...why 44.1? on The History of the CD-ROM · · Score: 1

    use high-frequency information for things like localization

    That sounds suspiciously like hearing to me.

  13. Re:Power from the Moon's Gravity: on Perpetual Energy Machine Getting Lots of Attention · · Score: 2, Informative

    Tide 2 isn't caused by a centrifugal effect. Tidal forces are do due variation in gravitational field from one side of a body to another. If the earth and moon were static (and held in place some how), there would still be two tides.

  14. Re:Well, he was (and still is) of poor character.. on Genome of DNA Pioneer Is Deciphered · · Score: 1

    If it's truly HER body and HER choice, then why should someone else's opinion of her reasons matter at all?

  15. Re:Falsification on Creationism Museum Opening in Kentucky · · Score: 1

    Not to the creationist. Creationists observe that only coherent sensible animals exist in fossilized form. They then exclaim "AHA! why do we not see the ridiculous halfway creatures as proposed by this ridiculous theory of evolution!"

  16. Re:Falsification on Creationism Museum Opening in Kentucky · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It HAS been tested -- undergrad students (and even high school students) routinely run experiments in which they allow various traits to evolve in micro-organisms.

    Creationist folk argue that this is a case of microevolution, much like the breeding of dogs. To prove macroevolution is true they demand to see a transitional fossil, e.g. a mudskipper with monkey paws or something.

  17. Re:Heading off at the pass on Creationism Museum Opening in Kentucky · · Score: 1

    But do you believe in evolution by natural selection?

  18. Re:The two sides of Wikipedia on Visualizing the Wikipedia Power Struggle · · Score: 1

    What source would you consult for a balanced view of the Palestine issue?

    Here's a balanced view - Both sides are assholes.

  19. Re:Welcome! on Fruit Flies Show Spark of Free Will · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Anyone with who is physically identical to you in an identical situation (with the requisite identical past experiences) would do exactly the same thing as you are doing right now and at every moment from now until you're dead. At which point their body would decompose in an identical manner.

    If two identical atoms don't behave like that then why should a hundred quadrillion of them lumped together be expected to do so?

  20. Re:Possibly better than CDs? on The Rise of "Hybrid" Vinyl-MP3s · · Score: 1

    Nope, it's been proven that humans cannot hear ultrasonic sounds.

    I can reliably hear ultrasonic under controlled sighted listening test conditions.

  21. Re:Don't take those Pastors & Darwins either.. on Ancient Star Found, Estimated at 13.2 Billion Years Old · · Score: 1

    Owing to variation within that species, however, it gradually split in two, by way of natural and sexual selection, with one branch evolving into apes whilst the other evolved into humans (and other, now extinct, branches).

    Human's are a sub-branch of the ape tree, not a separate branch.

  22. Re:Traditional Chinese Medicine Recognizes This on Treating the Dead · · Score: 0, Troll

    TCM is bunk. Tiger penis makes your cock bigger, tiger bone makes you a strong man, bah, utter bunk.

  23. Re:No randomness? on Mouse Brain Simulated Via Computer · · Score: 1

    Why do so many people refuse to entertain the possibility that they might be deterministic? Seems like people get overly defensive about their free will.

    If they don't have a choice in the matter, why even ask the question?

  24. Re:Still fighting old battles on When the Earth Was Purple · · Score: 1

    I'm not religious but if I was I would have no problem with extra terrestrial life. It would just be more evidence of God's wondrous creativity.

  25. Re:how to destroy a building on Shaking a 275-ton Building · · Score: 1

    Those devices are a myth.