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  1. Re:Confused... on Biologists Debunk the "Rotting Y Chromosome" Theory · · Score: 1

    no, those theories were instead based on the known degeneration over time of Y. what this study shows is that the degeneration, once exponentially fast, keep to a skidding halt in our immediate primate ancestors

  2. Re:Who actually thought that? Why? on Biologists Debunk the "Rotting Y Chromosome" Theory · · Score: 1

    wasn't really called that, you can look for "y chromosome degeneration" http://www.physorg.com/news167026463.html

  3. Re:Wanted to buy... on Biologists Debunk the "Rotting Y Chromosome" Theory · · Score: 2

    that "hitting them on the head with club" is a myth, marriage in the sense of a pair bonding for a time is ancient. and in primative hunter-gatherer tribal settings the father wouldn't be known

  4. some feminists on Biologists Debunk the "Rotting Y Chromosome" Theory · · Score: 1

    I remember some rabid man-hating feminists really trumpeting the theory that in 100,000 to 2 million years y chromosome would disappear. hah!

  5. Re:Keys and values? on Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0? · · Score: 1

    eh, all XML is structured, hierarchically.

  6. Re:Keys and values? on Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0? · · Score: 1

    the topic was storage and querying of xml, plenty of products do that, some without involving an sql database at all

  7. Re:Hooray! on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    sure we can. not its vacuum speed, though

  8. Re:Face it on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    but communication only takes 4 years, only need information flow

  9. Re:Face it on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    nonsense, we wouldn't use chemical rockets. with today's technology a fission fragment motor could get to 12% C, making trip time including deceleration 46 years.

  10. Re:Using nanotubes = bad idea on Obayashi To Build Space Elevator By 2050 · · Score: 1

    nope, cut the cable at the anchor point and the whole thing is pulled by the counterweight into interplanetary space.

  11. Re:Great concept except for .... on Obayashi To Build Space Elevator By 2050 · · Score: 1

    we do in fact have the materials, we cannot extrude them in long enough length yet (tens of centimeters thus far)

  12. Re:Good luck and I want the 13th ride up on Obayashi To Build Space Elevator By 2050 · · Score: 1

    there is related concept of "precessing orbital ring" that puts down space elevators where needed on any meridian on equator

  13. Re:Not going to end well... on Obayashi To Build Space Elevator By 2050 · · Score: 1

    don't forget the weird pull to the side as you go up.

  14. Re:Tra-la-la.... on Obayashi To Build Space Elevator By 2050 · · Score: 1

    could be rock bottom, those japanese romantic oldies, Enka music.

  15. Re:wow... maybe I don't want to delete my history on Last Day To Tell Google To Forget You · · Score: 1

    shame on you, you pervert, most donkey fucking girls are quite modest and would never pose for a nude picture

  16. Re:Today is Feb. 29? on Last Day To Tell Google To Forget You · · Score: 1

    whot we haf hyar is one those damned Leap Weeks

  17. Re:Wow! That's some neat Progress! on Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0? · · Score: 1

    oops, my brain read your post as "problem with nosql is scalabilty", the exact opposite of your meaning. guess I should switch my neurons to no-sql.

  18. Re:Keys and values? on Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0? · · Score: 1

    there are indexed xml retrieval systems with their own query languages to boot. Oracle XML DB is one (built on top its sql dbms)

  19. Re:Wow! That's some neat Progress! on Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0? · · Score: 1

    bwahahahaha, you're kidding right? because sql dbms like db2 or oracle dbms can scale bigger than google's search engine db? n

  20. Re:Hot and steamy? on Astronomers Confirm a Hot and Steamy Exoplanet · · Score: 1

    vulcans are total horn dogs when they get the itch

  21. Re:Can we just ban it? on The Pirate Bay On Track To Be Banned In the UK? · · Score: 3, Funny

    why shouldn't children be allowed to use Pitman shorthand?

    if you were making some irrelevant statement about child pornography, on the other hand, 1. it's already banned 2. the Pirate Bay doesn't have any

  22. happily on Test-Tube Burgers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    the hamsters are augmented with 200 lbs. of stem cell meat muscle, and can turn a dynamo from a locomotive

  23. can they do other tissues to go with the muscles? on Test-Tube Burgers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    can they make living fleshlights? if it could tense and relax to electric pulses, you'd really have something there. geeks would even give up porn

  24. Re:Excited on Test-Tube Burgers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    and tuna are sea unicorns that shit rainbows and ejaculate skittles

  25. Re:Question for the other Catholics on Test-Tube Burgers Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    that's what Eddie Haskell said