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  1. Re:Relativistic Species on Complex Life May Be Possible In Only 10% of All Galaxies · · Score: 1

    Since mas dilates your ship would have the mass of a black hole
     
        that's a meaningless statement, a black hole can have any mass.
     
        You misunderstand time dilation, nothing inside the ship slows down for the passengers, everything inside the ship is normal in duration. Starlight is faint, protection from blue-shifted light seeming to be gammas is only a matter of shielding.

  2. Re:Let's do the math on Complex Life May Be Possible In Only 10% of All Galaxies · · Score: 1

    being able to travel at near light speeds would allow humans to go anywhere without limit. time dilation brings any galaxy close

  3. better hand sensory illusion on Raspberry Pi-Powered Body Illusion Lets You Experience Parkinson's · · Score: 1
  4. Russia. China. Former Soviet Block Crapholes on Blame America For Everything You Hate About "Internet Culture" · · Score: 1

    Most of what I hate about the internet originates in my subject line; LOLcats won't reach through your computer and steal your credit card.

  5. Re:Er on Prospects Rise For a 2015 UN Climate Deal, But Likely To Be Weak · · Score: 1

    Those years were "hottest" only on a multi-year averaging system. I'm not denying we've had a hot spell.

  6. Re:Single-year does not make a decadal trend. on Prospects Rise For a 2015 UN Climate Deal, But Likely To Be Weak · · Score: 1

    Yes I agree that one year doesn't make a trend. However there definitely was a cool period in the 20th century, so your claim of no abatement from warming is rejected because of reality.

  7. Re:Not easy to go nuclear, though it's the answer on Prospects Rise For a 2015 UN Climate Deal, But Likely To Be Weak · · Score: 1

    no, India, China, Russia, and South Korea are not

  8. Re:Er on Prospects Rise For a 2015 UN Climate Deal, But Likely To Be Weak · · Score: 1

    That hottest year in 1998 did give opportunity for a lot of profitable agenda driven nonsense; remember to live as Al Gore says, not as he does with his 20+ family equivalent carbon footprint (give the hypocrite some credit, it used to be 30+ until he put some "green" tech in his mansion)

    Of course, the fact of global cooling showing that most the issue was cyclical rather than man-driven might get notice even from the unwashed masses soon

  9. Re:Not easy to go nuclear, though it's the answer on Prospects Rise For a 2015 UN Climate Deal, But Likely To Be Weak · · Score: 2

    plenty of smarter countries have a full-on nuclear program, too bad the USA isn't one of those.

  10. Re:Helium shortage on Google's Project Loon Can Now Launch Up To 20 Balloons Per Day, Fly 10x Longer · · Score: 1

    the second most abundant element in the universe is not a "finite resource"

    you are being silly with that alarmist nonsense about superconductors, we already have had superconductors at liquid nitrogen temperatures for 30 years

  11. you are confused, there is helium in the atmosphere which can be recovered by liquifiying, the escape and loss of that will be over geological time scales

  12. Re:So is it two or ten times tougher? on Corning Reveals Gorilla Glass 4, Promises No More Broken IPhones · · Score: 1

    in the ear?

  13. Re:So is it two or ten times tougher? on Corning Reveals Gorilla Glass 4, Promises No More Broken IPhones · · Score: 1

    not true at all, a few languages in this world use base 5

  14. Re:Helium shortage, US govt effed-up on Google's Project Loon Can Now Launch Up To 20 Balloons Per Day, Fly 10x Longer · · Score: 1

    Most helium from the earth is just vented right now, the "shortage" is artificial. And it can be recovered from atmosphere just at greater cost than from venting at natural gas sites, which in the future will be how it is "mined". We'll never run out on any timescale that matters, the loss to outer space is only concern over geological time spans. Only economic "shortage", not material one.

  15. it is not "hard to mine", right now most of it is just vented at natural gas sites. the only "shortage" is due to waste and stupidity. Even after the last natural gas field stops giving helium it can just be recovered from atmosphere at greater cost. We'll thus never run out for millenia

  16. Re:Helium shortage on Google's Project Loon Can Now Launch Up To 20 Balloons Per Day, Fly 10x Longer · · Score: 1

    helium is usually with natural gas; most helium right now is just vented right to the atmosphere, there is no real shortage on planet earth just wasting.

  17. Re:Most expensive sushi ever on Extreme Shrimp May Hold Clues To Alien Life On Europa · · Score: 5, Funny

    all these shrimp are yours, except Europas, eat no crustaceans there

  18. Re:Easiest way... on Ask Slashdot: Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    none of that changes the truth of what I said

  19. Re:Easiest way... on Ask Slashdot: Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    Unix is a trademark brand and certification. OSX is indeed a Unix(tm)

  20. Re:Easiest way... on Ask Slashdot: Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    wrong answer

    1. has launchd which is systemd-ish and can be pain for custom daemons (plists for non-apple things don't always work)
    2. has many, MANY extra processes running, for added bloat one doesn't need or want
    3. can't even change system font size or face, very UNCUSTOMIZEABLE UI. Don't they even consider the sight-impaired?

  21. Re:On the other hand. on Major Brain Pathway Rediscovered After Century-old Confusion, Controversy · · Score: 1

    You're talking about eunuchs? neither the two females on slashdot post AC

  22. Re:Aren't mammoths just elephants with long hair? on Scientists Optimistic About Getting a Mammoth Genome Complete Enough To Clone · · Score: 1

    We have plenty of very cold places in the world

  23. Re:Imagine if it grows up and starts talking on Scientists Optimistic About Getting a Mammoth Genome Complete Enough To Clone · · Score: 1
  24. Re:non-issue? on Machine Learning Used To Predict Military Suicides · · Score: 1

    No, you're citing the incorrect statistic of the article.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05...

  25. Re:Pre Paid Health Care and Non-Native Majority on The Dutch Village Where Everyone Has Dementia · · Score: 1

    I can think of a lot of bad things to say about most muslim countries, but you're just saying everyone would agree their children are more important than themselves in old age when they're no longer productive? I can't say that's bad or wrong.