Re:They needed space to test a vacuum?
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"so to see that lichen can indeed survive in space, if only for a short time.."
The headline is wrong. TFA says that they were alive and well when they came back to earth after being exposed for 15 days. So for all we know, they can survive in space indefinately.
BTW, before you start bashing FF and trying the "new" browser, I think it would help if you went over to the Flock site and clicked on "extensions". Note that all the descriptions say that they are for FF. At least right now it looks like this non-Microsoft "competition" is once again going to be between the Gecko rendering engine and the Gecko rendering engine.
"I decided to try out Linux, so I downloaded Ubuntu and ran the boot disk. Unfortunately, both my hard drives are NTFS, and Ubuntu doesn't know how to partition them. After half an hour looking around the net for a way to partition an NTFS drive without endangering the data on that drive, I gave up. No Linux for me, because I'm not willing to endanger all my system files or buy a new hard drive just to play around with another OS. "Insert disk and press Enter" my ass"
you ever heard of a LiveCD? you don't have to install shit. it runs right off of your CD drive. if all you want to is "play around with another OS" like you state, that's all you'll ever need.
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"so to see that lichen can indeed survive in space, if only for a short time.."
The headline is wrong. TFA says that they were alive and well when they came back to earth after being exposed for 15 days. So for all we know, they can survive in space indefinately.
BTW, before you start bashing FF and trying the "new" browser, I think it would help if you went over to the Flock site and clicked on "extensions". Note that all the descriptions say that they are for FF. At least right now it looks like this non-Microsoft "competition" is once again going to be between the Gecko rendering engine and the Gecko rendering engine.
"I decided to try out Linux, so I downloaded Ubuntu and ran the boot disk. Unfortunately, both my hard drives are NTFS, and Ubuntu doesn't know how to partition them. After half an hour looking around the net for a way to partition an NTFS drive without endangering the data on that drive, I gave up. No Linux for me, because I'm not willing to endanger all my system files or buy a new hard drive just to play around with another OS. "Insert disk and press Enter" my ass" you ever heard of a LiveCD? you don't have to install shit. it runs right off of your CD drive. if all you want to is "play around with another OS" like you state, that's all you'll ever need.
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