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  1. Rocks are basically round on Flat Earther Now Wants to Launch His Homemade Rocket Into Space (phillyvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    nt

  2. Flying cars may one day be great, but we won't be able to rely on them. In heavy winds, rain or snow they will be grounded and people will have to use alternative systems.

  3. Why do they never consider using up phosphorous and nitrogen eutrification of waterways with in these scenarios? Why would we use up precious resources (clean water and phosphorous) to drive vehicles, when they should be dedicated to food?

  4. Re: "No one is above the law." on Wikileaks Co-founder Julian Assange Arrested in London (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The Queen is above the Law.

  5. Re:OS means nothing on Why Aren't People Abandoning Windows For Linux? (slashgear.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and the number 1 thing that Linux is missing is MS Excel,and that is why businesses will never switch, because EVERY business uses Excel.

  6. MS Office on Why Aren't People Abandoning Windows For Linux? (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1

    Business users invariably use MS Excel and Word in their job. They won't change. There is no alternative to Excel. If you give a business user Google Sheets, they will export Excel, work it and then import them back to Google. Google Sheets cannot do filtering, sorting and scrolling at the speed of Desktop Excel.

  7. Re:Sounds good on More Colleges Try Forgoing Tuition For A Percentage of Future Income (yahoo.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is similar to HECS (Higher Education Contribution Scheme), how Australians have payed for University since 1991, and payed back through taxes after you start earning.
    What is interestingly different here is that those with better paying jobs pay more under ISA, and that could lead to discrimination against students who are studying courses that pay less in jobs.
    https://www.studyassist.gov.au...

  8. Re:Totally disrepectful to the earth on First-of-Its-Kind US Nuclear Waste Dump Marks 20 Years (apnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That Plutonium did not come from the ground; it was manufactured by humans from uranium that came from somewhere else, probably far deeper and definitely far less densely arranged. There is no comparison to be made with dissolving the same salt back into the liquid from which it came, which can redisperse it.

  9. I give seminars, and each seminar has it's own board for participants to interact with each other. - thus I have dozens and dozens of boards.

  10. Re:rather stupid on Las Vegas Approves The Boring Company's Underground Loop (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No-one uses the Las Vegas Monorail anyway, why would they use the Boring Tunnel?

  11. Why doesn't anyone talk about the NSA's known actions to install physical and software backdoors in American hardware, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., and that Huawei has never been shown to do that?
    This looks like a Trump MAGA Tamtrum to protect Cisco, etc, and wage a useless trade ware.

  12. many animals are nocturnal, and many archaic animals live in the dark depths of the sea without light, so your answer doesn't hold. Even burrowing mammals, like blind moles sleep.

  13. Re:Wow on The Cassette Returns On a Wave of Nostalgia (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot about the tape being chewed up, the dropouts from stretched tape sections and playing too much.

  14. nt

  15. Re:Wrong title. Renewable energy will not dominate on Renewables Will Be World's Main Power Source By 2040, Says BP (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You didn't mentioned pumped hydro, which places like South Australia are doing in non-mountainous arid regions (not like the Austrian Alps) so that they can completely wean themselves off local gas and imported brown(!) coal electricity from Victoria.
    https://www.theguardian.com/au...
    https://www.tiltrenewables.com...
    https://www.corrs.com.au/think...
    Look how they already got rid of local coal completely 3 years ago, and now have 38% wind, and are increasing exports. https://opennem.org.au/#/regio... (click ALL)

  16. Re:And the US have the PATRIOT Act on Huawei Admits To Needing 5 Years, $2 Billion To Fix Security Issues (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Until Russia "acquires" Finland...

  17. Re:It is time to by pass the ISP's on FCC Struggles To Convince Judge That Broadband Isn't 'Telecommunications' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Go and look up the latency from Elon Musk's space internet - you will be pleasantly surprised - is 25ms ok for you? - he is not using geostationary satellites 36,000 km away.

  18. Re:I don't get it. on Fortnite Star Ninja Says He Raked in Millions of Dollars Last Year (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    but when you watch Ninja snipe someone at 200 yards while jumping and take down three opponents in 5 seconds you may be impressed. I played 50 games and killed NOONE. And the way these guys build & edit forts is amazing - they click faster than I can think - that is interesting to watch. People watch chess and billards too, which involves no danger nor expense - it's all about skill.

  19. Why is everyone talking about memes and aliens.. on New York Sky Turns Bright Blue After Transformer Explosion (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    .. and not about the serious issue of infrastructure breakdown? What actually happened here and why did it happen?

  20. There is also the issue of eating an animal that is as old or older than you yourself. These animals have relationships that last decades. When you eat them you are eating someone's relative or friend, who was relying on them for companionship and/or survival.
    Why eat someone like this when a million sheep are slaughtered all the time, and are in no risk of vanishing?

  21. I got 3.98 at University over4 years in.. on 'What Straight-A Students Get Wrong' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    theoretical physics and have had a very successful career for over 20 years.

  22. Re:Exaggeration on Elon Musk Renames Big Falcon Rocket To 'Starship' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The Starship will "steer" and de/accelerate to where it is going (Moon, Mars, beyond) by using a Star's gravitational field, so it can be called a starship.

  23. Re:Gravitational Field Varies on Kilogram Gets a New Definition (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I suppose you could measure the force on a charged molecule of known mass...

  24. Re:Gravitational Field Varies on Kilogram Gets a New Definition (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You need to calibrate your Kibble Balance with an accelerometer which needs calibrating from your cesium clock and krypton-86 laser.
    But the kilogram is now defined by the Ampere, which is defined as the current which creates a Force of 2×107 newtons per metre between wires 1 meter apart. but how do you measure a Force without knowing what a kilogram is?

  25. Re:I prefer the pound on Kilogram Gets a New Definition (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong, the pound was defined as that in 1959. nothing changed here