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  1. Re:Smoking seriously harms you and others around y on Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Children · · Score: 1

    The higher incidence of asthma of children with smoking parents is well known, except by you apparently.

  2. Re:Prior art? on Sarah Palin Seeks To Trademark Her Name · · Score: 1

    I'll post it, no pop-unders for me, with noscript and adblock plus http://howmanyofme.com/people/Sarah_Palin/ I would assume the other two Sarah Palin's aren't nationally known dumb ignorant cunts

  3. Re:Sketches? on Supernova 2011b Gradually Fading · · Score: 1

    that's for w33n0rz, what you really want is the software Decker uses. "track 45 left....stop....enhance!"

  4. Re:Slasdot slow as usual on Supernova 2011b Gradually Fading · · Score: 1

    Those with 3 digit IDs tell me Slashdot did report it 64 million years ago, this is just a dupe

  5. Re:Okay, hold on a minute. on NASA Finds Family of Habitable Planets · · Score: 1

    Nope, your statement falls over. Living things get iron and phosphorous as minerals, phosphates and ferrous compounds. Hope you aren't eating nails and phosphorous grenade charges. Don't huff nitrogen from a tank, your body can't use that either. And don't eat charcoal, your carbon has to have more structure than that.

  6. Re:Overkill, but... on 1948 Mayor To MIT: Use Flamethrowers To Melt Snow? · · Score: 1

    what percentage of our corporates employees really even need to be present, 25%? 15%?

  7. Re:Go China! on China Starts Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Project · · Score: 1

    Actually it's Japan that is leader, has done it on bigger than lab scale, selective absorbent fabric, but it took 240 days with 350 kg of fabric to get a kg of yellowcake. They then claimed that method could be scaled to get uranium at $300 per kg. Regardless of market price, the current cost of mining uranium is $40 / kg.

  8. as long as it doesn't want to "touch God" on Texas Student Attends School As a Robot · · Score: 1

    Hope Vgo doesn't take after his brother Vger, what a PITA that robot was

  9. Re:this is ridiculous on Texas Student Attends School As a Robot · · Score: 1

    The same argument has at least a fifty percent chance of applying to you. Maybe, unbeknownst to you, a vaccination or a tetanus shot or course of antibiotics saved you from death, maybe the HVAC in your house kept you from being dead in the winter had you been living as people did a thousand years ago. The entire human race is in unchartered territory because of progress.

  10. Re:Doh.. on Researchers Lift Fingerprints From Clothing · · Score: 2

    another assumption you should discard after learning the truth is the business of "fingerprint matching"

  11. Re:Okay, hold on a minute. on NASA Finds Family of Habitable Planets · · Score: 2

    actually, other elements for life are implied by the very existence of a *rocky* planet in the "habitable zone". did you know carbon, nitrogen, iron, phosphorous MUST be there also? It has to do with the nature of the ash of stars.

  12. Re:The Universe Is Infinite Big bang Is Crap on Universe 250+ Times Bigger Than What Is Observable · · Score: 1

    to complete what is implied by Rubycodez, that density of intergalactic space implies a mean free path of photons of 10 billion light years. in other words, to imply that red shift is due to scattering is quite absurd.

  13. Re:It's NOT SPACE on Low Budget Air Space Photography · · Score: 1

    that's one vague boundary, could make arguments for something more than half that distance. anyway, the record for a balloon is 52km, by the Winzen Research Balloon.

  14. Re:The Universe Is Infinite Big bang Is Crap on Universe 250+ Times Bigger Than What Is Observable · · Score: 1

    false, the Big Bang is a theory predating dark matter and dark energy; and was made as a result of observation of expansion; cosmic microwave background; the observed abundance ratios of helium-4, helium-3, deuterium and lithium-7 directly calculated from baryon (proton) to photon ratio, and the morphology of the evolution of early quasars and early galaxies to their present configurations steady state universe would not result in these things. your nonsense about red shift via scattering is laughable, we even see "red shift" effect on photons due to velocity on earth with simple police radar guns. Intergalactic space has a density of about 40 proton per cubic meter, the only thing scattered is the brain of your theory's inventor.

  15. Re:OK - I know this headline sounds bad on Pub Patrons Down Under Subject To Biometric Datamining · · Score: 1

    4. they hang upside down from the globe by their feet like bats, who cares what batty people do. 5. they talk funny

  16. Re:Go China! on China Starts Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Project · · Score: 1

    no, you're misleading by talking about uranium that isn't concentrated in ores. we can't use those, there is currently no cost-effective way to strain cubic miles of seawater for a lump of uranium, for example. In the real world, the peak production of uranium from ore is a few decades away, and then known reserves exhausted in less than 80 years.

  17. Re:Go China! on China Starts Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Project · · Score: 1

    rubbish, those waste products that make such a problem in conventional reactor's spent fuel gets bred into fuel in the breeder. quit talking out of your ass, the world is in a renewed R&D phase of thorium breeders and it is thus premature to talk of recouped costs.

  18. Re:Go China! on China Starts Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Project · · Score: 1

    Bad summary, thorium reactors were built and researched in the 60s, then abandoned as uranium reactors easier to make. But now there is a renewed interest and investment by China, Russia, and India. India actually is the leader, having working fast thorium breeder and several research reactors. India is now working on thorium fuel cycle. Reason for revival is that uranium supply will run out in about 70 years, but earth has thorium for four thousand years of use. Low proliferation risk, and the reactors can also burn and breed our stored reactor waste as fuel.

  19. Re:We could be unseen and should *not* be messagin on Physicists Call For Alien Messaging Protocol · · Score: 1

    thanks Hindmost, spoken like a sane puppeteer.

  20. Re:We could be unseen and should *not* be messagin on Physicists Call For Alien Messaging Protocol · · Score: 1

    our higher creatures kill, even killing their own kind (humans, chimps, big cats, bears, etc.). No reason to think it would be different anywhere else, limited resources and ensuring the "right" genes get propagated means creatures often are killers. with the activated elements from decades of nuclear explosions still in our atmosphere, we might have already lost in the "present ourselves as non-threat" department

  21. Re:Buyer's remorse on Sizing Up the Daedalus Interstellar Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    this is why we still burn oil and coal

  22. Re:Think Positron Engine Drive on Sizing Up the Daedalus Interstellar Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    production is 500 particles per year, perfect. Assuming there would be a way to harvest them, a gram of ionized anti-hydrogen (anti-protons) has 6x10^23 anti-protons. I see a wee bit of a problem there, we need 1.2x10^20 years to get that much using the thunderstorm method, sun will last only 5x10^9 more years.

  23. Re:That's the nutty thing about this on Sizing Up the Daedalus Interstellar Spacecraft · · Score: 1

    why do you think no useful science could be done at 10% C. optical telescopes and spectroscopy would still work, but with blue and redshifting which can be corrected. No problem

  24. Re:Of course my employer gave me a paid vacation d on Today Is EPOCH Day 15000 · · Score: 1

    no, there are days that are not holidays anywhere. For example, 30 January 2011, not a holiday anywhere. It happens to be an "awareness day", World Leprosy Day, but that doesn't count as a "holiday".

  25. Re:you know what else won't work? on 3D Cinema Doesn't Work and Never Will · · Score: 1

    well, if you're going to make sophomoric fun of the similarity to certain English words.............two of the regional names of the aswang (female vampire-like creature in Phillippine mythology) are the wak-wak and the soc-soc.