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  1. Re:counting unhatched chickens on Space Shuttle Atlantis Last Night In Space Orbit · · Score: 1

    Research the reasons for the catastrophic failures, if certain design and managerial blunders had not been made, all the crews and all the shuttles all would have returned safely. My math is fine, all those failed shuttles were designed for more successful missions than they had.

  2. Re:Yawn... on Fermilab Scientists Discover New Particle · · Score: 1

    so those QCD calculations tell you if the Higgs exists and if it is composed of two tops? My former employer sure is spending a lot of time and money on Top experiments, must be a wee bit those numeric methods can't do....

  3. Re:Yawn... on Fermilab Scientists Discover New Particle · · Score: 1

    No, in the 70s we had a model which might or might not have given useful physical results. Now we discover a neutral combination of strange, up and bottom quarks that further prove the model is useful (an ongoing endeavor for decades). this is a big deal, a fundamental discovery in physics that further validates a model that needs continued validation, not a mere "engineering accomplishment".

  4. Re:Space traven with chemical fuels is a dud on Space Shuttle Atlantis Last Night In Space Orbit · · Score: 2

    Specific Impulse is more important than energy density. Lithium/Flourine/Hydrogen liquid propellant is the best. No worries, once off earth better to burn "longer" than "harder" and we have other technologies with higher specific impulse, 8 to 25x that of liquid chemical

  5. Re:counting unhatched chickens on Space Shuttle Atlantis Last Night In Space Orbit · · Score: 1

    My safety threshold isn't high at all, we're talking about 40% failure rate the way I count, five shuttles used for launches, two kill their crew. Would any model of airplane with those statistics be used to fly, regardless of number of flights?

  6. Re:counting unhatched chickens on Space Shuttle Atlantis Last Night In Space Orbit · · Score: 2

    I'm an engineer who can reason and point out truths that make wimpier people uncomfortable. 2/5 of all shuttles launched have killed people.

  7. Re:counting unhatched chickens on Space Shuttle Atlantis Last Night In Space Orbit · · Score: 1

    There are not 135 shuttles. two out of five that went into space have killed their crew.

  8. Re:I am not worried on Fake Apple Stores Mushrooming In China · · Score: 1

    Yes, they put the ball in motion, but I was specifically referring to the January 1, 1979 recognition of the People's Republic as the sole government of China and reestablishment of normal diplomatic relations, and the breaking of relations with Taiwan.

  9. counting unhatched chickens on Space Shuttle Atlantis Last Night In Space Orbit · · Score: -1, Troll

    with unreliable history of that death trap, might be the last shuttle to burn up, the last crew to die

  10. Re:Pluto it not a planet on NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto · · Score: 1
  11. Re:I am not worried on Fake Apple Stores Mushrooming In China · · Score: 1

    That was jimmy carter-o-nomics that snubbed taiwan to open trade with China.

  12. Re:Opting out of FICA on Hillary Clinton Takes Data.gov Overseas · · Score: 1

    they are IOUs, and that is what will crash in value on the world market if we default on national debt payments.

  13. Re:Incoming Bad Taste Wrong Ethnicity Joke on Fake Apple Stores Mushrooming In China · · Score: 1

    I always look for the Inter Inside sticker

  14. Re:For Americans on Hillary Clinton Takes Data.gov Overseas · · Score: 1

    Indians are better programmers
    No, they are mostly forced to being uncreative mindless drones because of culture and "the system" over there. The ones who can get out of that mindset, usually by going to foreign land and getting fired up about being self-empowered and innovative , now that's another matter.

  15. Re:Opting out of FICA on Hillary Clinton Takes Data.gov Overseas · · Score: 1

    as opposed to subjected it to the bust of a beyond bankrupt government. The social security monies really were looted and replaced with IOUs; many shills for the system are trying to portray it otherwise.

  16. Re:At last! on Dismantling a Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 1

    Not really, this is a device for a one-off reactor design. Removing the fuel rods from a normal reactor isn't a big deal. Still, the costs of decommissioning a reactor in the U.S. is estimated at over $300M

  17. Re:OpenBSD Rock Solid OS without fluf. on OpenBSD Marches Toward 5.0 Release · · Score: 1

    and what's with that "architecture" crack? It runs on more architectures than most Linux multi-arch distros. For example, comparing it with Debian, it doesn't run on the S/390 or Itanium but all the others, but also supports four more Debian doesn't have.

  18. Re:That's why on Tae Bo Workout Sent Skyscraper Shaking · · Score: 1

    I knew their acting couldn't bring down the house.

  19. Re:It's that bridge all over again on Tae Bo Workout Sent Skyscraper Shaking · · Score: 1

    heh, meant to write "a damper lowers".......they don't use wet washcloths 8D

  20. Re:It's that bridge all over again on Tae Bo Workout Sent Skyscraper Shaking · · Score: 1

    A dampening system can be added, which might take the form of a weight attached by springs. The dampener lowers the amplitude of oscillations, and also happens to lower the resonant

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuned_mass_damper

  21. Re:OpenBSD Rock Solid OS without fluf. on OpenBSD Marches Toward 5.0 Release · · Score: 1

    It is funny that there was nothing in -current serious enough to be a security/errata patch yet with 4.9; with most releases there would be a few by now. Maybe it'll be known as the "golden release" if that turns out to be true for another couple months.

  22. Re:OpenBSD Rock Solid OS without fluf. on OpenBSD Marches Toward 5.0 Release · · Score: 2

    What an ignorant set up statements, the application set is huge (over 6000 binary packages for amd/intel) and includes all the common apps for desktop, languages, web.

    The users number in the thousands at least, and moreover, unless your a windoze weenie, you are likely typing your troll into a machine with code on it from the OpenBSD team.

  23. awesome -the BSD are very incestuous on OpenBSD Marches Toward 5.0 Release · · Score: 1

    for the last couple years, http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html#hardware very good, works with all the wireless and USB devices I've plugged into it including cameras, several types of wireless ethernet, usb to serial. Yes, it works on my Toshiba and Thinkpad laptops with all video and sound ok, admittedly as one of two alternate partitions for grand occassions with windows xp, and not my main Linux one.; A lot of the recent device additions of that is due to NetBSD and FreeBSD, the BSD license is great for spreading the device love around.

  24. Re:Linux is stuck in the 90s on Linux 3.0 Release Delayed · · Score: 1

    my Ubuntu goes all the way to 11!


    p.s. (then it jumped the shark)

  25. Re:GNU/gle+ on Linux 3.0 Release Delayed · · Score: 1

    abort gay whales for jesus!