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  1. Re:So far the moon has... on Privately-Funded Moon Mission Will Try Again. 'Lunar Library' May Be On The Moon (space.com) · · Score: 2

    Three very neat electric cars.

  2. You are presupposing that the women actually exist in the first place

    Plenty of real women there. Take my word for it.

  3. Crypto is just mathematics. You can't unlearn maths. For sure, popular apps with strong crypto can be banned or whatever but people can have privacy if they want it.

  4. Did both parts have a high rotation? on New Images of the Distant Ultima Thule Object Have Surprised Scientists (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't one of the moons of Saturn have an equatorial mountain range, apparently caused by deposition in the plane of the equator only?

    So maybe the larger lobe formed out of a disk of material which was deposited at the equator, and built the object up into this pancake shape.

  5. Re:Open source monetization on Red Hat Rejects MongoDB's 'Discriminatory' Server Side Public License (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The Emacs lisp interpreter is sort of a nosql database. It was built before nosql was cool.

  6. Re:Where is sex robot? on Ask Slashdot: Is Today's Technology As Cool As You'd Predicted When You Were Young? · · Score: 1

    Hang on Deckard nearly died fighting one of those.

  7. Heinlein had them in "Space cadet" in the late 40s. Clarke had them in "Imperial Earth" in 1976.

  8. Re:Next target? on A Journey Into the Solar System's Outer Reaches, Seeking New Worlds To Explore (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Found this:

    The flyby of 2014 MU69 is just part of New Horizons’ extended mission that runs through 2021. The spacecraft will perform more distant observations of dozens of other Kuiper Belt objects and also heliophysical studies.

    Stern is optimistic that this extended mission will not be the last for New Horizons. The lack of features in the lightcurve of MU69, he said, means that the spacecraft won’t need to maneuver as much to optimize the flyby trajectory. “It doesn’t matter where in the rotation phase we show up,” he said. “We’re going to see about the same amount of terrain.

    That frees up fuel reserves on the spacecraft, he said, that could be used to target another Kuiper Belt object flyby in a second extended mission that would run out to 2024 or beyond. “We are currently searching for new close flyby targets, and we have some very promising techniques” for doing so, he said. With the fuel reserves not needed for the MU69 flyby, “we have a fighting chance of having a second KBO flyby.”

    There are also opportunities, he said, for additional remote observations of Kuiper Belt and other objects, distant observations of the giant planets, and heliospheric and even astrophysics studies using the spacecraft. “I think New Horizons has a bright future, continuing to do planetary science and other applications,” he said. “There’s fuel and power onboard the spacecraft to operate it for another 20 years. That’s not going to be a concern even for a third or fourth extended mission.” [1]

    https://www.quora.com/Could-Ne...

    The upshot seems to be there is no next target right now but they are looking for one and the vehicle is in good shape.

  9. In Melbourne this would be a normal Saturday night with 300 Sudanese teenagers.

  10. Re: I know this is too ideal, but ... on 'Two Years Later, I Still Miss the Headphone Port' (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Due to channel congestion?

    Also, bluetooth doesn't work on my phone at all when wifi is enabled.

  11. Re:Asimove had this in a story... on Researchers Show Parachutes Don't Work, But There's A Catch (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Yeah it was 0.6g and > 1 earth atmosphere so terminal velocity was survivable.

    Terminal velocity on Earth is 200 km/h, but I do wonder about using a small drag parachute to cut your speed at impact.

  12. Re:Redit Cesspool on Reddit-Quoting Alexa Tells a User: 'Kill Your Foster Parents' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Slashdot on the other hand...

  13. Re:Oracle = the Nazis on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Atlassian are heading in the same direction but in a more passive-aggressive way.

  14. Re:Not dealing with Oracle = big win on Oracle's CTO: No Way a 'Normal' Person Would Move To AWS (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    I tried multiple times to apply for their advertised jobs but the job application software kept breaking.

  15. Re:What is a day worth on A New Engine Could Bring Back Supersonic Air-Travel (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    This is how business class works. Time is money, and for some people it is worth paying more money to save time. In the case of business class seats you save time because the passenger can go to work right when they get off the plane.

  16. Re:Hmmmm.... on Some Birds Are Excellent Tool-Makers (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Husbands hardly ever get screwed.

  17. Re:Thanks for nothing asshole on It's Ham Vs.Ham As Radio Amateurs Are In Conflict At ARRL (perens.com) · · Score: 1

    American radio relay league.

  18. Re:I put my money on on Physicists Investigate Why Matter and Antimatter Are Not Mirror Images (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    But it would emit more if antimatter fell up.

  19. Re:1st question. on Physicists Investigate Why Matter and Antimatter Are Not Mirror Images (economist.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    That sounds very improbable.

  20. ampersand l t semicolon

    ampersand g t semicolon

  21. Re:Anti-neutrons are Different on Physicists Investigate Why Matter and Antimatter Are Not Mirror Images (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Only bosons, like the photon, have the same particle and antiparticle states

    Hang on a minute. TFA mentions trying to measure whether anti particles fall or rise in gravitational fields. Presumably because if there is repulsion, then most antimatter will be long gone. But photons fall in gravitational fields, so has the question been answered?

  22. Thats easy on What Will Happen When Killer Robots Get Hijacked? (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    <tars>Nothing Good</tars>

  23. Re:There is a lot of them around now on Tesla Meets Q3 Product Goals of 50,000 To 55,000 Model 3s (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Sorry, model; S.

  24. There is a lot of them around now on Tesla Meets Q3 Product Goals of 50,000 To 55,000 Model 3s (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    I saw a model 3 yesterday with the following rego: OILLOL

  25. Re:Coding error? yeah sure blame the programmer. on Coding Error Sends 2019 Subaru Ascents To the Car Crusher (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I doubt that robots are directly coded anyway. Coders write the underlying control software, and a UI to train the robot.