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  1. Re:I don't believe it on Astronomers Have Spotted the Universe's First Molecule (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Where things don't quite seem to add up, and you have reason to suspect the involvement of journalists who are journalists, not scientists. Then you have to read much more carefully. Sad, but true.

    How do you know the correct interpretation. That sounds like religion - everybody "interpreting" instead of just looking at the words written on the page.

  2. Re:I don't believe it on Astronomers Have Spotted the Universe's First Molecule (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    You should try to read the text again, where it says in the last paragraph that they look for the spectral lines that shows what molecules are present.
    It isn't the actual first HeH molecule, because that would be impossible to determine, so read it as the 'first type of molecule', ie. a combination of different types of atoms, where H and He were the first.

    I have to read the headline in a special way that changes its meaning? How do I know to do that?

    We can detect single photons and every photon comes from inside a single atom. In theory you can detect single molecules by their emissions at any distance. This just leaves the question of how they know this molecule is "the one".

  3. Re: Meanwhile on Astronomers Have Spotted the Universe's First Molecule (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Made in China, no doubt.

    The sofa... or the molecule?

  4. I don't believe it on Astronomers Have Spotted the Universe's First Molecule (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It's a big universe and there's a lot of HeH molecules out there. How do they know this is the first one?

    (...and how do they even see a molecule from 3000 light years away? This "discovery" is very implausible to me)

  5. Re:Oceans on Planet's Ocean-Plastics Problem Detailed In 60-Year Data Set (nature.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Even if true, that doesn't free you from the responsibility to lead by example.

    PS: China has banned plastic bags.Most of Africa has banned plastic bags (four years prison in Kenya!). Has your country.

  6. Oceans on Planet's Ocean-Plastics Problem Detailed In 60-Year Data Set (nature.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We need oceans. The whole of life on earth is a chain of dependencies that goes back to them.

    Keep consuming, though, there's still a tiny bit of time left before they're permanently fucked.

  7. Re: Lets get some Conservatives in here to deny it on Microplastics Are Blowing In the Wind (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 0

    Except there is a world economy built on that model.

    Products can still be manufactured, they just need to be sold in packaging that's reusable or designed to be recycled easily.

  8. Re:Lets get some Conservatives in here to deny it on Microplastics Are Blowing In the Wind (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 2
  9. Re:Lets get some Conservatives in here to deny it on Microplastics Are Blowing In the Wind (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    China has banned plastic bags. https://www.google.com/search?...

    Most of Africa has banned plastic bags. (4 years jail in Kenya!)

    The USA? What plastics has the USA banned?

  10. Re: Lets get some Conservatives in here to deny it on Microplastics Are Blowing In the Wind (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Solution = Stop making/discarding that crap.

    It's not complicated.

  11. Re:I'll give you a huge hint on Microplastics Are Blowing In the Wind (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Asia.

    For manufacturing all the plastic crap that America consumes?

  12. Re:Block them all on European Commission Gives Final Seal of Approval To Copyright Law Overhaul (variety.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Huh?

    Nobody's blocking anything.

    News sites have lobbied for years to get this law passed, hoping Google (et al) will start paying for the privilege of linking to their copy-pasted stories.

    What will happen in reality is:
    a) Google will stop linking to those sites.
    b) The sites will disappear from the Internet.
    c) Karma.

    I can't wait.

  13. Re:why some couples do not have children on Baby With DNA From Three People Born In Greece (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Can't they adopt one?

  14. Re:Human population is increase on Baby With DNA From Three People Born In Greece (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The main problem is waiting until you're 40 before deciding to make babies.

  15. Re:The CD and the Damage Done on DVD and Blu-Ray Sales Nearly Halved Over Five Years, MPAA Report Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Young's entire argument applies at noticeably low resolutions. There is always a digital resolution at which any given expert will find a digital recording indistinguishable from a clean analog, assuming that such an analog recording exists.

    For playback, CD is enough for any human ear.

    There's a half-argument for going to 48kHz because it allows for a more gradual rolloff in the reconstruction filter, and I wouldn't argue against it, but all this 192kHz/24bit stuff being thrown around by "golden ears" is rubbish. 16 bits and 44/48kHz is more then enough for playback.

  16. Re:The CD and the Damage Done on DVD and Blu-Ray Sales Nearly Halved Over Five Years, MPAA Report Says (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    What a load of pretentious crap.

  17. Re:I predict on Tesla Ends Online Sales of $35,000 Model 3 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Self driving cars are going to be a pipe dream. One accident with no one to blame and thats it.

    Its one of those futurey things that sounds easy, but ends up being really fucking hard without sometimes killing people.

    Luckily for us, judges are as stupid as people who keep repeating that.

    Cars don't have to be be perfect, they just have to be better than the monkeys that are currently behind the wheels.

  18. Re:Cost of cars on Tesla Ends Online Sales of $35,000 Model 3 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Clearly they wouldn't make money on a $35K model 3, which has a 50 kWh pack.

    If Tesla is truly at roughly $100/kWh, as everyone speculates, that means the pack costs them an even $5,000.

    You seem to be ignoring that fact that economics can change as production processes are refined.

    It might not have made much sense to make $35K models six months ago, I might make perfect sense now. Who knows?

  19. Re:Software to limit functionality? on Tesla Ends Online Sales of $35,000 Model 3 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, it's intelligent inventory management and also avoiding the need for separate production lines.

    Lots of things are done this way now.

  20. +1 Insightful

    Everything about the list screamed "fashionable".

  21. OTOH if 7% of his genes had changed then he'd be a chimpanzee.

    What kind of clueless journalist would publish that 7% of somebody's DNA could change?

  22. Re:Forget Gigabytes or Terabytes on The Black Hole Image Data Was Spread Across 5 Petabytes Stored On About Half a Ton of Hard Drives (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    " the equivalent of 5,000 years worth of MP3s"

    Is that 128kbps or 320kbps MP3?

    (facepalm)

  23. Re:Silver lining on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe the USA has had time to cool off. Me? I'm betting he'll be over there within three months.

    I doubt it.

    Guess what? It's only been hours and he's already been arrested "on behalf of the United States", extradition warrant and everything.

    He didn't even have to pass through Sweden first.

    http://news.met.police.uk/news...

    PS: Has he committed any crimes in the USA?

    (apart from embarrassing them)

  24. Re:Wow. So Hillary is the entire DoD??? on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Interpol is only supposed to step in when crimes are committed by the same people in multiple countries (their job is to coordinate all the police forces involved).

    That didn't stop them putting out an arrest warrant for JA even though he's only wanted for "an interview" in a single country.

  25. Re:What a clown on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sweden was never the problem. The Swedes aren't really interested in him except as a favor to Hillary Clinton.