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  1. Re:What I don't get.. on Astronomers Find Three Exoplanets In Old Hubble Images · · Score: 1

    I have an app with an exoplanet database. Every so often it goes "boop" and announces a new exoplanet has been detected and added to the database. It's like having a stock ticker for human awesomeness.

  2. Models? Pfft. on Astronomers Find Three Exoplanets In Old Hubble Images · · Score: 1

    As any climate skeptic will tell you, mathematical models can't prove anything, so they're going to have to go and bring the planets here before they're proven to exist.

  3. Re:Really incredible evidence! on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    Actually it refers to the system's temperature.

  4. Re:Er yes, what does it mean? on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    I'm no longer sure.

  5. Re:That's Bullshit, Explain This to Me Then on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    If he spent all his savings on it he's no longer independently wealthy and has a vested interest in making money off it, whether it works or not.

  6. Re:not touchpads on HP Investigates Android TouchPads Delivered With Android · · Score: 2

    They're bought from HP, shipped from HP, come in an HP Touchpad box and are clearly actually HP Touchpads. And you have somehow decided that they are off-brand Android tablets bought from Wal-mart.

    Do you make a game out of drawing conclusions from the most incorrect information possible?

  7. Re:Really incredible evidence! on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. The graph starts slowly sliding back down, as one would expect of a large metal container full of hot metal. The temperature of the steam stays at 100C, but that's axiomic - if it wasn't at 100C it wouldn't be steam.

  8. Re:This is scientifically impossible on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    And endothermic reaction is an endothermic reaction. Catalysts, novel mechanisms, etc. only let you alter the activation energy.

  9. Re:Really incredible evidence! on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    After reaching a temperature of around 450 to 500 Celsius, the reaction starts up. Once the reaction has started the input is lowered to around 80 watts.

    So, he heats up a pile of nickel to 450-500 degrees celcius, then he turns the heat off. And he's surprised that it keeps boiling water for some time afterward.

  10. Re:Catalyst or not? on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    On the FAQ:

    The two isotopes 62Ni and 64Ni are apparently being transmuted into non-radioactive isotopes of copper and trace amounts of other stable and non radioactive elements such as zinc.

    Where are the neutrons coming from?

  11. Re:My gut feeling? Scam. on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    The powerplant is quite clearly a shipping container in the second image.

  12. Re:Rossi on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    I would've thought that an independently wealthy man could afford to publish in an open-access journal instead of inventing his own.

  13. Re:Self Important Much? on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    I think most scientists are actually enthusiastic to talk about their work, so it doesn't hurt to ask for an interview.

  14. Really incredible evidence! on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    Look at this graph.

    Am I imagining that they've not actually graphed an object giving off energy over time, but an object being heated up and then slowly cooling?

  15. Catalyst or not? on Does Italian Demo Show Cold Fusion, or Snake Oil? · · Score: 1

    The summary says that the device consumes hydrogen and nickel to produce copper by fusion (something that seems naively likely given their atomic numbers but a bit unlikely given their mass numbers, unless we're creating weird and radioactive isotopes here) but the article says that the nickel is just a catalyst over which the hydrogen passes.

  16. Re:Accidentally Shipped? on HP Investigates Android TouchPads Delivered With Android · · Score: 1

    The disgruntled engineers are on the other side of the Pacific ocean from the people that are making the actual Touchpads.

  17. Re:Previous returns sold as new most likely on HP Investigates Android TouchPads Delivered With Android · · Score: 3, Informative

    The "Android Touchpads" that were delivered were actually in a much more advanced state (e.g. the touchscreen worked) than the Touchpad hacking scene had achieved.

  18. Re:Wrong title? on HP Investigates Android TouchPads Delivered With Android · · Score: 1

    The submission title was just "HP investigates Android Touchpads", apparently. Editing at its finest.

  19. Re:Hey! on HP Investigates Android TouchPads Delivered With Android · · Score: 1

    I think that the hacking community has already dumped the disk image and is furiously reverse-engineering it, so you might be able to just get a webOS Touchpad and upgrade in future.

  20. Re:Wrong title? on HP Investigates Android TouchPads Delivered With Android · · Score: 2

    HP delivered Touchpad tablets running Android OS (Android Touchpads), but they accidentally also delivered a humanoid automaton (Android) too.

  21. "Can" or "must"? on Calif. Appeals Court Approves Cell Phone Searches · · Score: 2

    If the police must act on specific grounds, then there's a defensible (and correspondingly, attackable) justification for the action. If the police are simply given an additional, flexible and wide-ranging power (perusing your cellphone) to use whenever a completely irrelevant situation (a traffic stop) arises, then there's a massive opportunity for abuse. You can probably guess whose cellphone pics are more likely to get snooped through on a traffic stop.

  22. Re:C&C on Android Malware Using Blog As C&C Server · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I was going to say that I didn't think C&C had dedicated servers, but renting fast nodes to online gamers might be a good way of monetising the zombies.

  23. Re:dark energy on 2011 Nobel Prize In Physics · · Score: 1

    Dark energy is "we observe this phenomenon, therefore we must insert a term into our equations that accounts for it, even if we do not yet have a physical understanding of its nature".

  24. Re:I call bullshit on Severe Arctic Ozone Loss · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That applies to a solitary chemical reaction. Atmospheric chemistry deals with equilibria. Equilibria shift with temperature.

  25. Re:Global warming on Severe Arctic Ozone Loss · · Score: 1

    Great rationalisation. So many uses! Nuclear testing:

    Can you point to a time... any time in history when earth was NOT experiencing "radioactive heating"?

    Mass poisoning:

    Can you point to a time... any time in history when this town was NOT experiencing "heavy metal exposure"?

    Taking a dump on your lunch:

    Can you point to a time... any time in history when your body was NOT experiencing "coliform bacteria in the digestive tract"?