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  1. Re:Modern Day Alchemy on Super Bacteria Create Gold · · Score: 1

    you are so funny, lead to gold done over half a century ago with particle accelerators. tens of thousands of dollars worth of electricity to produce an amount of gold that couldn't even be rightfully called a speck.

  2. Re:Darn it! on Super Bacteria Create Gold · · Score: 1

    but they have to eat enormous quantities of regular baryonic cattle to do that. Do you realize how many hogs and cows it takes to crap a trip to the nearest star?

  3. Re:throw out the dictionary, you aren't using it. on Super Bacteria Create Gold · · Score: 5, Informative

    gold from lead was done in the 1950s with particle accelerators, and interestingly the reverse is easier, gold to lead in a fission reactor done by a series of neutron captures followed by beta decays to form the pretty dull grey metal from the ugly shiny yellow one.

  4. Re:Not really practical on Super Bacteria Create Gold · · Score: 1

    throwing in a load of hydrogen peroxide or iron is pretty damn cheap

  5. don't need bacteria, throw in iron or h2o2 on Super Bacteria Create Gold · · Score: 1

    Iron (FE 2+ specifically) or hygrogen peroxide will cause the gold to precipitate out

  6. Re:better probe plan: go all the way down on $1 Billion Mission To Reach the Earth's Mantle · · Score: 1

    it's about the "installed base" in U.S. gamma irradiation facilities (for sterilizing single use medical equipment). c-60 production could be stepped up for this experiment, by putting cobalt rods in CANDU reactors, for instance. very worthwhile for a trip to inner space.

  7. Re:But you can machine one if you have a CNC mill. on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    you're funny.

    a mill doesn't have to be CNC to make things.

    and it won't make a barrel. You'll be needing a gun drill (deep hole drill), a reaming machine, and a rifling machine

  8. Re:the message is clear: on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    terrorists machine and stamp their own AK-47s?

    used guns are VERY cheap and plentiful

  9. better probe plan: go all the way down on $1 Billion Mission To Reach the Earth's Mantle · · Score: 2

    Geophysicist David Stevenson of Cal Tech proposes we make a probe that rides a molten mass of iron, 10,000 cubic meters of it poured into a fissue 0.1 meter wide x 300 long x 300 meter deep, all the way to the center of the earth.

    http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcampanian.iodp.org%2FMantleFrontier%2F12_Ojovan%2520-%2520Self_Sinking_Capsules_-_Ojovan.pdf&ei=egNrUMiMKuOeywH48YFw&usg=AFQjCNF3htj3aVkXi4Ln7xttNgFiL4TW5A&sig2=-xgVnfbwNGwtVNN6w7s_ZQ

  10. Re:How high can it shoot? on The US Navy's Railgun Program · · Score: 1

    but that's different that theoretical impossibility which is of more interest in mechanics. there is even another impractical method for getting object into orbit with a gun that Newton explored, and with creative aerodynamics it is possible for the projectile to miss the impractically high gun platform.

  11. Re:It would be more exciting if... on The US Navy's Railgun Program · · Score: 1

    that would one very, very long gun. hundreds of miles long: think of how many miles a rocket with human crew is under acceleration. That gets you into Newton's "cannon on impossibly tall mountain" scenario to achieve orbit (though it's difficult to avoid the stable orbits that smack back into the tall mountain, or very difficult to achieve trajectory in earth-moon system that can achieve orbit)

  12. Re:Well... on The US Navy's Railgun Program · · Score: 1

    hurling big things is wimpy compared to nukes. 10,000 kg projectile going mach 100 = 1 measily kiloton equivalient. here's a quarter kid, get yourself a thermonuclear weapon.

  13. Re:How high can it shoot? on The US Navy's Railgun Program · · Score: 4, Interesting

    wrong. there are trajectories in a multi-bodied system such as the earth-moon one where orbit can be achieved. your teacher or urban-legend websource was only considering the earth as a lone body.

  14. Re:Java runtime vs. .NET runtime on New Java Vulnerability Found Affecting Java 5, 6, and 7 SE · · Score: 1

    nonsense, Microsoft still lets security flaws go for years without patch. Their pseudo "operating system" and major wares still install malware without any user interaction needed. Microsoft's softwares are not business grade and have no place in the corporate world.

  15. Re:Typical Douchebags out in force on GNOME 3.6 Released · · Score: 1

    yes, I'm watching Pokeyman, about these useless creatures with no arms, legs, powers or penises who are whining than Pokemon are getting all the mindshare.

  16. Re:Shut up Notch on Notch Won't Certify Minecraft For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    , Infiniminer was written in C# .NET, for NOT running on open source OS

  17. Re:Shut up Notch on Notch Won't Certify Minecraft For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    it was commercial, but Zachtronics dumped it one month after release, so short you missed it

  18. Re:meh... real_Men read_debugger() and write_hex() on WTFM: Write the Freaking Manual · · Score: 1, Funny

    any "developer" who uses more than a text editor, command line build tool such as make, and a compiler or interpreter, is a fucking pussy.

  19. Re:You spin me right round baby right round... on A Black Hole's Spinning Heart of Darkness · · Score: 1

    electrons have spin but they have no size, they are point entities. if they had any spacial extent at all they would have to be spinning faster than lightspeed to yield their obverved spin properties. how does that make you feel? how does a point entity spin?

  20. Re:Very Disappointed! on Slackware 14.0 Arrives · · Score: 1

    about a tenth the amount of those with same issue on Windows, I'd say

  21. jealous? on Notch Won't Certify Minecraft For Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Jealous of success? Notch did originally write Minecraft, yes it was inspired by at least two other similar games that didn't take off commercially. Notch's company Mojang pulls in $80M USD a year in revenue. Of course he's good at development, marketing, selling, PR.

  22. Re:Shut up Notch on Notch Won't Certify Minecraft For Windows 8 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    what's your point? no secret that the failed game Infiniminer (discontinued commercially after one month in marketplace) inspired Notch to write MINECRAFT. So Notch made the winning sandbox game, and you bring up a loser. so what?

  23. Re:Very Disappointed! on Slackware 14.0 Arrives · · Score: 1, Troll

    And then the rug gets pulled out from you with windows 8 which is crapware, just like Vista was. with linux if I find I don't like the UI in latest version of my distro I can change it with a single command. And of course Microsot sells variously crippled versions of Windows, from Starter to Home to Premium to Enterprise to Ultimate......changing my Linux from a "starter" to an Ultmate is just loading packages. software updates never take control and tell me they will reboot in 5 minutes. there is no activation process or Genuine Advantage check if I change my machine in a major way. Everythiing I need to do is covered by 25,000+ available packages.

  24. Re:Rolling Remotely? on Suitable Technology's Telepresence Robot Lets You Roll Remotely · · Score: 1

    you send your Beam to buy narcotics from the pusher Beam who gets it from the Beam at the lab house. the cops get confused, they all look alike and when you arrest a Beam they wipe their memories.

  25. Re:Water, or some other fluid? on Rover Finds Ancient Streambed On Martian Surface · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it wasn't a liquid form of the atmosphere, carbon dioxide goes to solid. wasn't the 3% nitrogen, too warm. certainly not the argon, also too warm. maybe the NASA boffins know a bit more than you?