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"one guy who wants to be the first to jump from a plane and land without a parachute (and live"
I have some bad news for this idiot. Plenty of people have survived jumping out of planes without parachutes.
Nick Alkemade was an RAF tail gunner in World War II who jumped out of his flaming plane and fell 18,000 feet. He only suffered a sprained leg after he hit a tree and landed in snow.
Vesna Vulovic was a flight attendant who fell out of a plane after an explosion, fell in snow, and survived.
Either move the official start date of spring up six to eight days or remove that many days from the calendar. Personally, I vote for the first week of the year, I always hated the first week of school back from winter vacation when I was a kid.
Context should be sufficient to tell what kind of 'pluton' is being discussed. It's not like plutonspluton through the atmosphere and become plutons all the time.
Seriously though, the word 'nucleus' has several different definitions in different branches of science, and I've never had problems with it.
"For most of those 'thousands of years' you talk about, people had lifespans of around thirty years."
So we went from a life expectancy of around 30 years before cheese was invented, to a current life expectancy of 77-81 years in our cheese-blessed society.
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I guess it's that time of the year again, eh?
http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/archive/2009/02/17/chrysler-takes-away-clocks-lightbulbs-decorations.aspx -- Chrysler has taken down the clocks in its headquarters to save money on batteries.
I would guess that the stimulus boosts the battery industry EXACTLY as much as Chrysler's cutbacks hurt it.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/18891/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-a-problem-for-dennis -- I think the submitter stole his story from a TV Show.
"one guy who wants to be the first to jump from a plane and land without a parachute (and live"
I have some bad news for this idiot. Plenty of people have survived jumping out of planes without parachutes.
Nick Alkemade was an RAF tail gunner in World War II who jumped out of his flaming plane and fell 18,000 feet. He only suffered a sprained leg after he hit a tree and landed in snow.
Vesna Vulovic was a flight attendant who fell out of a plane after an explosion, fell in snow, and survived.
Wow, they must have been pissed when it got cut in half for that Indiana Jones movie.
Gives a whole new meaning to "iPod Killer", huh?
ba-dum-ching. Thanks for coming to the show tonight. Try the veal.
640k should be enough for anybody.
Either move the official start date of spring up six to eight days or remove that many days from the calendar. Personally, I vote for the first week of the year, I always hated the first week of school back from winter vacation when I was a kid.
Obviously it was a joke... a thumbdrive has nowhere near the storage capacity necessary for the average /.er's porn collection.
And I think I represent most of /. here.
That strategy won't help me move out of my mom's basement.
Can the same system be used to throw chairs?
Context should be sufficient to tell what kind of 'pluton' is being discussed. It's not like plutons pluton through the atmosphere and become plutons all the time.
Seriously though, the word 'nucleus' has several different definitions in different branches of science, and I've never had problems with it.
"Is this the end for Apple?"
Just egg his house. That will surely make him realize his immaturity and bring a swift end to his harassment.
Well I wish I had checked the hardware section of Slashdot before I bought a Lenovo 4 hours ago...
I'm sorry, I can't find "non-sequiter" in my dictionary. Perhaps you meant "non sequitur"?
"...the Wilkes Land meteor could have been up to 30 miles wide..."
Wow, I knew some dinosaurs were big, but I didn't realize they were that big!
"Yeah, WTF? When has learning anything about organic chemistry prove useful?"
Other than the typo, that's exactly what I said to my parents after I failed Organic Chemistry last semester.
"For most of those 'thousands of years' you talk about, people had lifespans of around thirty years."
So we went from a life expectancy of around 30 years before cheese was invented, to a current life expectancy of 77-81 years in our cheese-blessed society.
A coincidence? I think not.
I was going to write an "In Soviet Russia" joke, but all my ideas already worked in their original order.
Are these guys sure that "Captain Copyright" doesn't infringe on the "Captain Planet" copyright?
"...may have discovered alien life in water collected from a unusually colored rainstorm..."
Last time I checked it was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, not alien bacteria.
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