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  1. Re:Geothermal Is Expensive on Australia Pushes Geothermal Energy · · Score: 1

    why is it a problem to have corosive fluids?. I mean glass plastics porcelain there a lot of industrial materials how can deal with that. Plastics must be the cheapest of all to produce, and ideal for pipes. Today plastics can even be stronger then steal. might it be that it's just a question of time before new tech is cheap and adapted in this industry ?

  2. Re:Geothermal Is Expensive on Australia Pushes Geothermal Energy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have been to Iceland, whole Reykjavik is running on thermal energy. They warm a city with it, and get all of the electric power with it. And they investigate H2 production for their traffic some busses run on H2. In fact it gives them so much energy that they to use it for aluminum production which is a heavy power consuming electric melting industry.. If that doesn't prove that this is technology of today then the oil companies have all blinded us I'm afraid. There is also a much bigger bonus that is; it can make a country independent of the global oil economy. And that is something quite important as we all now that oil prices will go sky high as the world is running out of oil, so alternative energy sources are needed. So to start it might be high cost but in the end it's the only natural non polluting energy source that can give a constant energy power, and is unlimited (I mean the cold surface of the earth is about 1% while the rest is quite hot inside). Also our technology has grown we can build tunnels from France to England, so why not go down and collect some heat.. And remember plastics don't erode.

  3. Re:he's not the first on Man Cures Himself of HIV? · · Score: 1

    only for creationists, it's hard to except.. Anyway the way we human reproduce is quit complex and doesn't follow the normal evolution rules. I mean look at the wildlife the strongest survive there. This is not the case for humans, since we cure the weak and rather let our favourites kind og people prefer by glossy magazins or comercial babes, or just by a lot of beer and hard music. So what we humans do is not so logic at al and in effect a quite close to random reproduction.

  4. Re:he's not the first on Man Cures Himself of HIV? · · Score: 1

    Ehm think twice :) First not only gay people can get HIV. Second treuly gay people cann't pass trough their genetics to next generations. The way he was born was genetics and evolution at work. So evolution did give him thos abilities but if he is gay then it's unlikely he will pass trough his DNA. hmm what a genetic cure it then might become, you won't able to get hiv but might turn gay... Ehm since i myself prefer girls i'm not sure if i would take such drug.

  5. he's not the first on Man Cures Himself of HIV? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There have been more reports of people who cured themselves alltough they are exremly rare. Anyway it is how evolution works, by random creations and statistics i gues in the end a few survive. How would they test this man i wonder? Would they clone his bone cells to to make white bloodcells? what's next in genetics analyse thos cells and combine with people who survived other diseases, and then give everyone a DNA upgrade ?

  6. the biggest mistake on Backup Solutions for Small Tech Companies? · · Score: 1

    Well the bigest mistakes companies make. Is that they buy backup software and never test a rampage lightouts scenario in which they try to rebuild from backup software. So they don't no how to use their software and as a result they don't know how long it takes to bring it up again. What extra configs or pre configurations would be required. They just don't no it. Just buy an old PC and try to restore server X on it.... Some also don't catalog their tapes or accedently delete tape's belonging to tape sets....

  7. this proves on Google and Oregon Launch Open Source Initiative · · Score: 1

    Well finnaly something that does proof, there is no such thing such as inteligent design

  8. Re:Fighting Evolution... on Glowing Mosquitos Aid Malaria Battle · · Score: 1

    Don't under estimate evolution.. The female bugs who mate with a light emitting bug, will dy out. So in a few generations they will prefer non light emitting bugs. Actualy this is quite simple.

  9. what's next on Glowing Mosquitos Aid Malaria Battle · · Score: 1

    what will be next i wonder Red light emitting girls or green light emmitting men, could be handy at night ;)

  10. Re:What about the Asimov rules? on Korea To Build Front-line Combat Robot · · Score: 1

    They don't aply until someone can convert them to C# By the time we can do such things the azimov project will lack funding. As it will reduce the price of a unit, if it can be build without it. suddenly i hear some metalic sounding footsteps behind the door. ohnoo it's a late cheap dirty model QRX01D.. .. ..

  11. trick on Data Storage For Home? · · Score: 1

    Well if collecting is you're sport you can start again try: del *.* Hmm you might burn the family photo's on CD first before you try this magic trick, otherwise you're family might get a bit angry.

  12. Rusia the better tech... on US Senate Allows NASA To Buy Soyuz Vehicles · · Score: 1

    Wise from Nasa to buy more advanced tech then they have. The russians, have still the only turbo charged rocket engine, with an afterburner, in the world. As always it's hard to admit that another nation might be sometimes better in science.

  13. send me a post card if you find my baloon :) on Skyhook Robot Passes 1000 Foot Mark · · Score: 1

    Please send me a postcard if you find my baloon (hot to get in space from just 1000 feet?, using another baloon? and again and again... ohmy..)

  14. You sure ? on Microsoft's Nightmare Scenario · · Score: 1

    I rather think that MS will create web based office servers. Imagine i have a company, i wouldn't type my data on a public webserver. No i would use company servers for security reasons, but the thin client market isn't going that rapid either, and that's an example i gues for the webclient market. At the home side probaply we would see some, small web office version. But think again fully blown text editor, based on some kind of java tech. naah to slow, only if it would be some kind of a terminal server perhaps.

  15. wind drag on Space Elevator Gets FAA Clearance · · Score: 1

    It may sound great an elevator. I just wonder how to keep a rope straight up in the sky, while the wind is blowing. You don't want it to come down and fall on a nearby city, loaded with heavy cargo. Perhaps that may require a lot of feul. (it's not a small rocket blowing it's full away this thing has to stay up forever) And uhoh forever... ehm how about radiation and UV light it will break down a lot of materials, over time..(oops).