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  1. Re:Gattaca movie on Communities of Mutants Form as DNA Testing Grows · · Score: 1

    Species 1-3?

  2. Re:Incredible. on Toshiba Builds Ultra-Small Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Dunno, but that's the trick to make it perfectly save. Upon explosion you view it from the side, call it a Lebesgue null set and *poof*, it's gone.

  3. Re:Destruction! on Supernova Detonates In Empty Space · · Score: 1

    Actually my first thought was: Intergalactic "car" accident.

  4. Re:Despite the Humorous Overtoans, this is Amazing on Robots Assimilate Into Cockroach Society · · Score: 1

    Well, how do you know that it's peeing time?

  5. Re:Radiation Overdose? on Gamma Rays From Thunderclouds · · Score: 1

    Presumably such plants have very sensitive radiation detection equipment

    The scientists installed their own equipment. From TFA:

    "Installed at the rooftop of a building in this power plant, our [editor: the authors...] new automated radiation detection system has been continuously and successfully operated since 2006 December 22."

  6. Re:NO, a bus CAN NOT jump this on Bad Movie Physics Hurt Scientific Understanding · · Score: 1
    in reality they used a ramp

    Well, that's something i didn't assume. But thanks for the hint.

  7. NO, a bus CAN NOT jump this on Bad Movie Physics Hurt Scientific Understanding · · Score: 1
    ...even if it would jump in vacuum.

    50*0,3048m = 15,24m
    (70 miles*1609,344m*h)/(h*mile*3600s) = 31,3 m/s
    time t bus needs to cross gap: t = 15,24m/(31,3 m/s) = 0,49s
    distance y bus moves downwards in this timespan: y = 0.5*g*t^2 = 1,18m

    Last time i checked, there wasn't a bus with tires having a radius larger or equal to 1,2m.

  8. Re:four words on Homeland Security Commissions LED-Based Puke-Saber · · Score: 1

    one-way "mirror" sunglasses that will protect you from light reaching your eyes could easily be replaced by a much cheaper blindfold.

  9. Re:I tried to RTFA... on British Scientists Reverse Casimir Effect · · Score: 1

    Well, like the box of /. new discussion systems needs to cover part of the sites left column. Disable Javascript ( and return to /. old discussion system...)

  10. Well, it's _scheduled_ for publication on British Scientists Reverse Casimir Effect · · Score: 3, Informative
    http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/-page=forthart/1367- 2630#Papers

    Quantum levitation by left-handed metamaterials
    Ulf Leonhardt and Thomas Philbin
    Provisionally scheduled for August 2007

  11. I, for one on Nissan Turns to Technology to Stop Drunk Driving · · Score: 1

    welcome our new belt slapping^Wstrapping^Wtightening overlords.

  12. Re:Bad science or bad science reporting? on Cell Towers Not Responsible For Illness · · Score: 1

    and that they generally had no idea whether the mast was on or off. If they were truly ill from signal sensitivity they should be able to tell whether the mast was on or off depending on their general feeling of well-being. Maybe it's a long-term effect. Which you can't simply switch on and off in short timespans like this.
  13. Re:Hrm... on Too Many Linux Distros Make For Open Source Mess · · Score: 1

    It's not really a choice of 300 anyway for business; there are only two main distros: SuSE and Redhat. Sure, I've used others on production systems, but those two are focused on business users, On the desktop, maybe. But there are businesses who use GNU/Linux for their servers and then you should include at least Debian.
  14. Re:hmm on Scientists Find Water on Extra-solar Planet · · Score: 1

    The only solar extra planet I know of is Pluto, ... There, fixed that for you.
  15. data/mass ratio on Digitizing 100 Years of Astronomical Data · · Score: 1

    That's about 6e6 Bytes per gram. Digitizing that data means lots of redundancy while preserving the total mass of this collection.

  16. Re:obvious on DoD Offers $1 Million for Wearable Power Supply · · Score: 1

    Someone knows why this reminds me of LGBs?

  17. Re:Mechanization is the future on Robots To Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm sorry, but that's old news. I don't know if it's mentioned there (just read the first post), but changing from our current economic model to one which doesn't involve an entity like money will make lots of work unnecessary, too.

    It's odd: we're on the edge to a century-old human dream but can't change our work-centric life.

  18. Re:Both right? on The Impossibility of Colonizing the Galaxy · · Score: 1
  19. Re:First of all on Perfect Silicon Sphere to Redefine the Kilogram · · Score: 1

    And why a Sphere?? That's because physicists like spheric symmetric objects. Spheric coordinates in conjunction with symmetry make the math easier.
  20. Re:Losses? on MIT Wirelessly Powers a Lightbulb · · Score: 1

    Fairly sure they're using magnetic fields/induction and not EM radiation.
    What's the difference?
  21. Re:Redshift Increasing? on A Snapshot of the Universe 3 Trillion Years From Now · · Score: 1

    How will the redshift increase? AFAWKT the universe is expanding with an increasing rate, aka the expansion's accelerating.
  22. Re:The Problem with Something this Expensive on A Detailed Profile of the Hadron Super Collider · · Score: 1

    The problem is (from my point of view, of course :), that normal people just think different.

  23. Re:Mod my last post into oblivion on A Side Effect of Testosterone Poisoning · · Score: 1

    the @ in :@ looks more like open mouth with tongue to me...

  24. Actually, they got it from a german company on Japan to Launch Maglev Trains by 2025 · · Score: 1
  25. Re:It will fail for other reasons too on Why the Semantic Web Will Fail · · Score: 1

    human nature is deceptive Proof?