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  1. Re:RTG on What Would Have Happened If Philae Were Nuclear Powered? · · Score: 1

    and second-guessing is idle speculation

    No, there is plenty of data to show what would and would not work, pointing out the obvious design failure is not 2nd guessing.

    It was bad design from the word go.

  2. Re:RTG on What Would Have Happened If Philae Were Nuclear Powered? · · Score: 1

    Or corruption of data.

  3. Re:Heat pollution on What Would Have Happened If Philae Were Nuclear Powered? · · Score: 0

    You are an idiot, and I didn't need a probe to decide that.

  4. Re:Economies of scale of two probes on What Would Have Happened If Philae Were Nuclear Powered? · · Score: 1

    uhhhh... how many comets were available close by?

  5. Re:Philae will wake again on What Would Have Happened If Philae Were Nuclear Powered? · · Score: 0

    Yes and they fully expected it to work in the first place.

    I can no longer tolerate missions that fail on such basic functions, it shows a lack of understanding.

  6. Re:May 2015 on What Would Have Happened If Philae Were Nuclear Powered? · · Score: 1

    The kind of cold we are talking about can destroy just about any electronics.

    Except those designed for that environment, however your point re-enforces mine, that it was a gigantic blunder from the word go.

    FFS who makes excuses of temperature for space missions... a total fuck up that's who.

  7. Re:PR screwup on What Would Have Happened If Philae Were Nuclear Powered? · · Score: 1

    If your point is true then it was a colossal waste of money.

  8. You're missing the crucial point. on What Would Have Happened If Philae Were Nuclear Powered? · · Score: 0

    I know I'll be modded down, bu the mission was poorly planned and executed, after 10 years and X amount of dollars to fuck up at the crucial point shows this.
    The questions asked are not the ones that should be asked.

  9. A wiseman said on Is a Moral Compass a Hindrance Or a Help For Startups? · · Score: 1

    Ethics and morality are for the poor, it keeps them docile.

  10. Firefox sucks.

  11. Re:This is retro without the futurism. Why? on Collin Graver and his Wooden Bicycle (Video) · · Score: 1

    A hipster nerd would...

    Nerdster.

  12. Hipster pick up line on Collin Graver and his Wooden Bicycle (Video) · · Score: 1

    Is what "I build wooden bikes" sounds like.

  13. Really? on What the US Can Learn From Canada's Internet Policy · · Score: 1

    Obama calls for NN at a time when he has nothing to lose, a republican controlled congress that hates him, and he previously appointed a lobbyist for the industry to the head of the FCC.

    For 6 years Canada has had their policy in place, in those same 6 years the Internet issues have grown worse here in the US.

    Now put those 2 statements together and what do you think will happen here. -- notice no question mark.

  14. 1 reason, adverse weather.

  15. Laugh on Apple Disables Trim Support On 3rd Party SSDs In OS X · · Score: 0

    Keep buying that crApple fanbois.

  16. Re:Interesting photo on Alleged Satellite Photo Says Ukraine Shootdown of MH17 · · Score: 1

    Heh... since it's commercialized that would mean the military has had it for some time now.
    http://motherboard.vice.com/re...

  17. Interesting photo on Alleged Satellite Photo Says Ukraine Shootdown of MH17 · · Score: 2

    Implies that area (and possibly others) are under constant surveillance.

    I wonder how long until they can stream video from a satellite, store it, and go back later and watch the movements after a crime to see where and possibly who did it.
    If they can't already.

  18. Re:hmm on AT&T Stops Using 'Super Cookies' To Track Cellphone Data · · Score: 1

    The same way the NSA ships data to the 5 eyes and lets them do the things they can't.

  19. I think they just switched on AT&T Stops Using 'Super Cookies' To Track Cellphone Data · · Score: 1

    To a different way of doing it.

  20. Laugh on Japanese Maglev Train Hits 500kph · · Score: 1

    Japan is an advanced technological society with a high education index and strong cultural identity.
    The USA is the antithesis of those things with 3rd World Internet speeds, lagging behind (and dropping) other countries in education and overrun with illegal immigrants that have no desire to assimilate.

    Our trains routinely derail...

  21. Re:Golf Buddies on Comcast Kisses-Up To Obama, Publicly Agrees On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Nor forget that Obama appointed Tom Wheeler to head of the FCC.

    The future of the Internet is already decided.

  22. They are going to skin you alive on Comcast Kisses-Up To Obama, Publicly Agrees On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Because everything is already coming through your Internet or is about to come through your Internet provider shortly, Netflix, phone calls, music streaming, youtube, home security, etc.

    And then, they will apply datacaps.

  23. Sigh on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 3, Funny

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Prior to the 1956 Highway Revenue Act and the establishment of the Highway Trust Fund roads were financed directly from the General Fund of the U.S. Treasury. The 1956 Act directed federal fuel tax to the fund to be used exclusively for highway construction and maintenance. The Highway Revenue Act mandated a tax of three cents per gallon.

    It's been a political ping pong ball, and whenever I read the word "consumer" I think "stupid". seriously think of the implications of calling people " consumers, the psychology there.

    It's very much like a rancher discussing his cattle.

  24. The real issue on Philae's Batteries Have Drained; Comet Lander Sleeps · · Score: 0
  25. Yeah again on Philae's Batteries Have Drained; Comet Lander Sleeps · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Poorly planned and implemented, all that way, all that time, all that cost for this.

    Way to drop the ball ESA.