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  1. They probably ignore URGENT messages just a bit longer than normal ones.
    When I get an IMPORTANT eMail it is quite likely I ignore it for so many days that it is suddenly no longer on fhe first page of my email list, and then I forget it :)

  2. Re: Clearing its orbit on Pluto Should Be Reclassified as a Planet, Experts Say (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    For a few month ... not for the typical life span of a human.

  3. Perhaps you should at least try it once, before making such gross claims.

  4. Re:Earth too! on Pluto Should Be Reclassified as a Planet, Experts Say (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Jupiter has two huge blobs of so called Trojany (asteroids) sitting in the two langrange points 60Â in front and behind on its orbit.

    I doubt it is actually possible to "get rid of them" in the sense of clearing your orbit :D

  5. Re: Clearing its orbit on Pluto Should Be Reclassified as a Planet, Experts Say (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    Ceres has not enough gravity to be habitable, regardless what you build there.

  6. Re:Clearing its orbit on Pluto Should Be Reclassified as a Planet, Experts Say (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    According to some definitions, Earth + Moon s a binary planet system.

  7. Re:Clearing its orbit on Pluto Should Be Reclassified as a Planet, Experts Say (sciencedaily.com) · · Score: 1

    There actually is no planet that has "cleaned its orbit".
    How actually is that supposed to work?

    All majour planets have asteroids accumulated in the two troyan points in front and behind them, how are they supposed to "clear that"?

  8. Re: Third, not first on Japan Confirms First Radiation-Linked Death Out of Fukushima (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There is a german saying: Humor ist, wenn man trotzdem lacht.
    You can not really translate that to english. Try your luck with google :)

  9. It is common knowledge that at a construction site about 1 to 10 people die per million of dollars of total construction costs.

    YMMV

  10. Re: Third, not first on Japan Confirms First Radiation-Linked Death Out of Fukushima (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I was more joking about those idiots who claim Europe is overun by millions of islamists.
    Anoying that no one yet has modded me +5 funny ...

  11. Re:Don't give professional tools to amateurs on How Linux's Kernel Developers 'Make C Less Dangerous' (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    We talked about a datatype that carries a dimension, a unit and a value, that has nothing to do with pointers.
    You cyn have a pointer to such an instance, no one would care.

  12. Re:Eisenhower's Farewell Address on Boeing Wins Bid To Build the Navy's Carrier-Launched Tanker Drone (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    while making statements like that Germany can control wind
    Are you retarded?
    I never made a statement like this.

    Considering thatwe talked in this thread about healthcare in Finnland, you now lost al credibility ... I guess I find one who is more sane.

  13. The Poles don't complain.
    It is a /. or american internet myth.
    As I stated before: you can not transfer more power from Germany to Poland than all polish customers bought together.
    Laws and safeguards forbid that.

    Your 'controlling wind' myth astonishs me.

    Anyway, if you want to know how power transfsr works:
    A) ask, and stop insulting me, or
    B) google it

    If you find a way to transport more power to Poland than their grid can handle, you get my car, my house, my wife, my bank account and my firstborn, stupid idiot!

    I keep my motor bike, though, moron.

  14. Re:there will be more on Japan Confirms First Radiation-Linked Death Out of Fukushima (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I did not state that Germany controls wind, you did.
    Are you on drugs?

  15. Re:Plants & CO2 & sunlight on NASA Is Offerring $1 Million To Turn CO2 Into Sugar (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Also note that bit about "efficient". Photosynthesis is at best 2% efficient,
    That is nonsense.
    Photosynthesis is probabaly the most efficient process on the planet. A single electron triggered by a single photon is performing the proton transport to build up starch or sugar.
    What do kids learn in our days in school?

  16. Re:Plants & CO2 & sunlight on NASA Is Offerring $1 Million To Turn CO2 Into Sugar (space.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not like human legs are likely to evolve into wheels any time soon.
    That would suck! Somehow I like kissing the legs of my GF.

  17. Re:Plants & CO2 & sunlight on NASA Is Offerring $1 Million To Turn CO2 Into Sugar (space.com) · · Score: 1

    The clorophyll process is likely optimal as-is though.
    Considering that a single electron is 'trigerring' or 'performing' it, yes.

    they never developed any kind of electronics.
    They did! But instead of transporting electrons, they transport protons.

  18. Re:Price wtf? on World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Northwest England (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Well,
    there are specialized companies that craft and sell localized wind prognosis data.
    That is used to 'predict' the output of windfarms up to 4 hours ahead (actually up to 40h but only 4h are relevant for scheduling your other power plants). The data is used to determine how to dispatch your dispatchable plants (or plan for it).
    Similar companies make prognosises for solar power.

    The dispatcher of a fleet of plants usually knows quite accurately how his wind and solar plants will perform in the foreseeable future and plans his dispatchable plants a few hours ahead.

  19. Not sure what you are trying to say here, but every energy source has a cost in lives. People fall off roofs and wind towers and die all the time.
    Because that are work accidents. The people would fall from the roof if they put up shingles there, or what ever.
    Claiming that solar power causes more death than nuclear, because construction workery don't follownsafty regulations is just fraud, fud, a lie.
    Ever nuclear power plant has (had) about 10 to 100 dead during construction (just like coal plants) ... But for some reason, idiots like you, don't count them, but you try to count people dropping from a roof when they install a solar panel.
    Ha ha ha ha, from where actually would you get a reliable number?

    You can have as much nuclear power as you want, as long as an accident does not hit my country. Hint: my country already got hit once. And after 30 years it is still not save to eat mushrooms or wildlife shot in south or east Germany.

  20. Re: there will be more on Japan Confirms First Radiation-Linked Death Out of Fukushima (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Why don't you google a bit more?
    The flew in replacement genertors.
    The ersatz generators could not cool the plants?
    Why? Because the pipining system was destroyed by the quake.

    This is all actually old news, we know that since shortly after the final desaster.

  21. Re:Eisenhower's Farewell Address on Boeing Wins Bid To Build the Navy's Carrier-Launched Tanker Drone (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't really care how you define it.

    I simply pointed out that the terms private and public are used different in the rest of europe.

    If a company is forced by law to provide a health insurance (as it is in germany) it is PUBLIC!

    It is up to any citizen to have an additional private one, or not.

    On the other hand a car owner is forced to privately insure his car, so obviously the 'naming' is a bit arbitrary.

    Why do you always seek an dispute, where we are onky discussing?

  22. What kind of moron are you?

    The topic was power transfer from Germany to Poland.

    And we don't transfer more power to Poland than one is buying there, or is reselling tomanother country.

    No idea why you are so ignorant about physics and powermanagement that you run around here and insult me.

    Why don't you read a bit how trans national power trade works? Moron ...

  23. Re:there will be more on Japan Confirms First Radiation-Linked Death Out of Fukushima (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    due to lack of even cursory understanding of the topic of power generation.
    Actually I'm a kind of expert for power generation, and distribution.

  24. Re:Will this one lose money too? on World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Northwest England (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Hope and wishful thinking doesn't keep the lights on.
    But being interconnected with the rest of Europe does, and being interconnected with the largest synchronized grid of the planet does.

  25. Re:Will this one lose money too? on World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Northwest England (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    God knows but by the time wind and weather have wrecked them the original builders will be long gone and unaccountable to anyone.
    And to where would they be gone?

    Offshore wind farm power availability is about 30% of dataplate
    Hint: don't build your wind plant at a place where you only get 30% nameplate.