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  1. Re:It's not coming back out. on Mars Rover Ready for Risky Descent into Crater · · Score: 1

    NASA should have added a Confederate flag and a 01 decal. They'd have been able to get out of anywhere. No that'd be phasers, a deflector shield, a stargate, some tractor beam or shield, full impulse, or tape, a paperclip some rope and two eggtimers. I know. I've seen it happen.
  2. Re:Hah. on Intelligent Design Ruled "Not Science" · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...but it must be a decision, not a reaction


    Are you very certain that you can tell the difference between a "decision" and a "reaction"? Remember, human beings have developed a keen ability to fool themselves in this regard. But it IS the same! .. did i just confirm or deny your statement? I'm lost already.
  3. Re:Er...how? on WETA Working on Robotic Lizard For Science · · Score: 1

    Try the rotten kiwi. It tastes somewhat like alcohol too, an extra bonus.

  4. Re:Time is running out for Fermilab on CERN Announces Collider Startup Delay · · Score: 1, Funny

    the parts of the LHC that caused the delay were designed by Fermilab ;-) Most beleive that comming out of the trees was the first mistake.

    Delay due to fault?
    I beleive that in the year 3243 mankind embarks on the journey to go back to the past to prevent the 21st century misfire of this quantum shredder. Mankind found out about the action to undertake in a 11 page book found at a underground pyramid beneath a maya territory, and gave no clue as how or who put it there, and how they knew the change has to be made. Noone knows how the paradox history-pedia writers knew about it all, even where the timetravel technology came from is unanwered.

    Luckely in 2804 an covert organization finds another history-pedia explaining how to stop the (then in the future) 3243-pedia actions from succeeding. The 3243-pedia turns out to be a bigmistake and damages the climate beyond repair. Three covert agents beleive it wasn't a mistake at all, but a act of evil. They assumed it was nothing more than a coincidence that they shared a big portion of their DNA, upto matching fingerprint features. :(

    Noone knew what happened to bring it this far.. Who put the 3243-pedia there? How did they know it would be discovered at the right time, place, and organization? Was the big mistake actually a previous attemt to fix history, or did someone gain from it?
    Yet will never know as ultimatly it didn't happen, anymore.

    Or it could just be a stroke of bad luck for fermilab.
  5. Re:The inventor was never a kid? on Fiber Optic Table Illuminates Your Dining · · Score: 1

    What about the sun? Same. If the sun would be lighting from below it would look ugly too.
  6. Re:bullshit on Quantum Dots Might Be Key For Teleportation · · Score: 1

    I don't know that the Offtopic mod was all that fair on this post. Sure, it lacked a little detail, but what's with this "almost instantaneously" bullshit that keeps coming up every time we talk about teleportation?

    Maybe it's plausible in a Star Trek universe, but in our universe, we appear to be constrained by the speed of light, even for transmitting information through entanglement. Sure, one might argue that speed of light is instantaneous, but we all know that this kind of language gets a bunch of readers' hopes up every time. Sir, you asume its about human teleportation. Yes, if it where the case, i'd classify it as bull also.
    TFA however only mentions a quantumdot.

    About the speed of light: (SoL) It is relative.
    If i where to travel at 0,5*SoL, and would throw forward a baseball at 0,3*SoL, the light reflected of the baseball would travel at 1,8*SoL.
    And beyond that simple equation, quantum mechanics have displayed some weird time properties!

    Note the term instantaneous is very open for discussion.
    The definition of "instantaneous" is relative. Adding "almost" makes it an relative aproximate.
    Seen in a 10.000 year timeframe, taking the bus to the next country would seem almost instantaneous.
  7. Re:Will they be allowed to have sex? on Volunteer to Simulate a Mars Mission for the ESA · · Score: 1

    2. Also, perhaps some of the equipment on the mission could be dual-use. "Yes, Gyorgi, that IS the wet/dry space vac general-purpose attachment. And Protein Recycler."

    For the unknowing: that'd be the toilet.
  8. Re:By a woman? on Female Astronaut Sets Space Record · · Score: 1

    no. Heck, even toilets are still unisex. Good times the romans had indeed..

  9. Re:The fatal flaw in the argument... on The Impossibility of Colonizing the Galaxy · · Score: 1

    Exactly. And how would the 'children' grow up? Would they found a city from bricks? I do not rule out the possibility that life was inserted on earth this very way. A cloningmachine compiled dna in specially devised carbon-water cells. The senders could be anything from a cosmic intelligence**, methane based life, to a biological hivemind, akin the earth population. **) Imagine a galaxy to a braincell, and now imagine a lot of them. Thats the cosmic matter hivemind, cosmic- or emc2 intelligence. If what i just said doesn't mean shit to you, you probably ran out of imagination.

  10. Re:Yakov Smirnoff says: on ISS Computer Failure · · Score: 1

    You insensitive cloth! Its just a generation shift, people newer to the community find it quite funny to join in the rhetorical fun though. Moreover, you'll see old (fun) stuff reappear everywhere no the internet. Most fun-link blogs targeting kids keep dusting off and reblogging old stuff, because a grand portion of the audience had no prior exposure to a certain joke.

  11. Re:Make them bigger.... on ISS Goes Solar · · Score: 1

    Just imagine the lensing effect of that.

    Aliens closing in would go full reverse trust when they'd see a planet-size cow (hey it should lens something fun, no?) flinging around our sun.

  12. Re:Nuclear power and spacecraft on ISS Goes Solar · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd hugg it. Both. I love hugging bombs and babes.

  13. Re:0% on Can Statistics Predict the Outcome of a War? · · Score: 1

    Remember your roots, boy. Your forefathers joined the stupidity.
    In North-America they didn't even have any, at the time.

    (ignore if you are an Eskimo, native American or actually not residing in North-America at all)

  14. Re:Kudos to the editor on Matter Discovered Traveling at Near Light Speed · · Score: 1

    Sounds like they should recompile the kernel. Solves everything.

  15. Re:One ste closer... on Self-Healing Plastic Skin · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought China was already the #1 manufacturer of people. Always thought the USA was the #1 manufacturer of people. I count in total mass, not instances.
  16. Re:Pegs that variable in the Fermi equation... on Transit Method Reveals Many Extrasolar Planets · · Score: 1

    nice! .. predicting everything by random that wasn't, plausable it is.

  17. Re:Er...how? on WETA Working on Robotic Lizard For Science · · Score: 1

    But they don't mind, they have time enough anyway. What is happening now, and all our technological advancement in general, is just nearing its end in the creation of the final goal, the robot Tuatura sex slave. Damnit man, we're voluntarily building it for them! And you call us more intelligent than them! Did anyone ever gave YOU a robot sex slave for free? I like your comment. Actually that's how i see the world. (even before i read Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy) We're just planted here to get our hivemind harvested. *readjusts tinfoil glasses*
  18. Re:Gay gay gay gay gay!!! GAY on Far-Fetched Time Travel Concept Receives Private Funds · · Score: 1

    parent is underrated

  19. Re:Purity on Massive Cave Found on Mars · · Score: 1

    I so agree. With both options.

  20. Re:Only need a two foor diameter antenna... hmm... on MIT Wirelessly Powers a Lightbulb · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In Belgium & Holland, we've got a dead serious presented (but is actually comedy) documentary series called 'Neveneffecten'.

    One is about the Tupolev brothers.
    Explained in great detail is that they invented a electrical heating device, but dismissed it because the amount of light it generated was annoying.

    They're also creatively credited for the box, pancake, airplane*, and the list goes on.
    *) they where infact responsible for some aeronautic progress.

  21. Re:With one thing edited out that is.... on Terabytes of Mars Pictures Released to Public · · Score: 1

    Tell me, mister scientist, exactly what natural process puts eye-holes and oxygen-tube connectors in helmets? :) That'd be the action of a collection of evolved primate brains, sir.
  22. Re:In other news on The Big Bang Vs. the Big Rumble · · Score: 1

    It appears the once famous Flying Spaghetti Monster was found eaten to death. Only a noodly appendage remains. No word on any *burp* suspects. *Takes Tums for heartburn* In short, he assended and now exists in a form of pure (metabolic) energy.
  23. Re:Changes over time? on MacGyver Physics · · Score: 1

    Richard Dean Anderson does rock, but then again everything stargate rocks.

  24. Re:Too much for the 'Net on CERN Collider To Trigger a Data Deluge · · Score: 1

    I dreamt about that.

    To bad it wasn't me at the controls. :(

  25. Re:Philosophical question on Strange Alien World Made of "Hot Ice" · · Score: 1

    Thank you for showing me that pathetic websites still exist. I started wondering if __* was the only one left. *) left out, for i do not want to hurt your eyes above threshold.