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  1. Re:Trip to Mars takes 9 months on Six Men Endure 105-Day Mars Flight Simulator · · Score: 1

    Once again, if something went wrong (providing it wasn't catastrophic), everyone could jump in the soyuz lifeboat and have air, beer and babes.

  2. Re:You are standing in a dimly lit room on Judge May Take "Fair Use" Away From Jury · · Score: 1

    What the hell does AGI stand for?

  3. Re:Just Remember on Judge May Take "Fair Use" Away From Jury · · Score: 1

    lol i get it: boxes

  4. district energy on Expanding the Electricity Grid May Be a Mistake · · Score: 1

    I agree. District energy is the future! It's wasteful to push electrons down miles of wire, and if the owners are local then they have a vested interest in making sure the district energy system is efficient and nice to live around.

  5. Re:News? on Endeavour's Launch Once More Delayed · · Score: 1

    So what does that make an Irish shuttle bomb?

  6. Re:Here's an idea on Lightning Strikes Delay Shuttle Launch · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they use a train to carry the boosters to the launch site. No trains to Hawaii! We need a chunnel 2.

  7. I wonder... on Lightning Strikes Delay Shuttle Launch · · Score: 1

    Could this be used to collect lightning?

  8. dextrocardia on Need a Favor? Talk To My Right Ear · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My girlfriend is left handed, BUT she has dextrocardia, a condition in which her heart is on the left side of her chest. Her liver is also mirrored. Persons with this condition often show mirroring in all of their organs, including the brain. She talks with the phone against her left ear...which I suppose would make sense according to this study.

  9. not surprised on China Dominates In NSA-Backed Coding Contest · · Score: 1

    This isn't anomalous. There are many more Chinese, after all.

  10. Re:What used games market? on Publishers Want a Slice of Used Game Market · · Score: 2, Insightful

    now Steam's here, very soon there won't be such things as publishers!

    Steam is a publisher.

    Steam is a distributor.

  11. Re:deserts move all the time on Bacteria Could Help Stop Desertification · · Score: 1

    The whole notion of "sustainability" is somewhat contrived on that time scale. Everything we're doing is just a stall, as the sun will eventually cool.

  12. Re:Is this flu really "special"? on US Declares Public Health Emergency Over Swine Flu · · Score: 2

    I had to read those three times before I found the difference.

  13. Re:Sharks on A Monster LED Array For Irresponsible Fun · · Score: 1

    Many places use high pressure sodium lamps for municipal lighting so that nearby observatories are not washed over with light pollution. The reason being the sodium lamps emit on a single spectrum, making it easy to subtract that light from the observations.

  14. Re:Damn Mythbusters. on Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists · · Score: 1

    I accidentally a singularity.

  15. Re:Story is meaningless without LOC measurement on Internet Archive Gets 4.5PB Data Center Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Google needs to add this to their unit conversion table so that I can convert "number of horns on a unicorn petabytes in libraries of congress".

  16. Re:Seems like a futile attempt on .CA Registrar Trying To Preempt Conficker · · Score: 1

    What? Good luck installing gentoo on cygwin.

  17. Re:"public" schools? on Strip-Search Case Tests Limits of 4th Amendment · · Score: 2, Informative

    I went to a private school for 5 years, and it wasn't of the religious variety. Students and parents benefit from private schools because everyone gets more time with the teachers, and everyone knows everyone a lot better. There's less anonymity, and the teachers are able to connect to the students in a way that's rarely possible in the industrialized public schools of today.

  18. Re:$60 million on Tickets On Sale In Sweden For Space Tourism, Starting In 2012 · · Score: 1

    How do you know that? Maybe you're him, and you're trying to throw us off your trail.

  19. Re:Or they're terrified on Study Finds the Pious Fight Death Hardest · · Score: 1

    Or the Vestibule? Ahh conflicting mythologies.

  20. Re:Voice of sanity on Study Finds the Pious Fight Death Hardest · · Score: 1

    Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. - The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy of the Extraordinary Twins

  21. Re:FIRST Robotics on How To Get High-Schoolers Involved In Real Science? · · Score: 1

    Team 675 represent! My high school's robotics team was equivalent to any other school's football team. If it hadn't been for that, school would've been another order of magnitude of suckage.

  22. Re:lame movies now have new areas on Flying Car Passes First Flight Test · · Score: 1

    Instead of tying a chain to the bumper you'll tie a chain to the empennage?

  23. Re:Deep Blue on Believable Stupidity In Game AI · · Score: 1

    But can Deep Blue beat Kasparov at a game of chess boxing? I'm not trying to troll, just pointing out the versatility of Kasparov vs Deep Blue.

  24. Re:Deep Blue on Believable Stupidity In Game AI · · Score: 1

    But can Deep Blue beat Kasparov at a game of chess boxing?

  25. Re:Bats are _not_ rodents, dangit! on Did Bat Hitch a Ride To Space On Discovery? · · Score: 1

    I think because they resemble flying rats. And are as pestilent in some areas.