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  1. Re:Unfunded mandate? on U.S. House Wants 'Sustained Human Presence On the Moon and the Surface of Mars' · · Score: 1

    it's not a "crystal sphere" - that would be round, it is a FIRMAMENT - a flat roof.

  2. Re:Majority don't understand the extent & issu on Majority of Americans Say NSA Phone Tracking Is OK To Fight Terrorism · · Score: 1

    It's very simple. Just make sure no American teenager studies the Constitution or their rights in school.

  3. Re:No Amphibians Listed in Article on Mice, Newts Retrieved After a Month Orbiting Earth At 345 Miles Up · · Score: 4, Informative

    No LIZARDS on this spacecraft. Newts are amphibians!!!!

  4. Re:No help for the OED until they change pricing on Help the OED Find a Lost Book · · Score: 1

    if you were doing a PhD in the history of philosophy or modern thought, you would pay such an investment, so you could understand those 16th and 17th century works that you are reading.

  5. Re:Tell them on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Sell an Algorithm To Venture Capitalists? · · Score: 1

    your technology, its history and power and your abilities are completely and utterly irrelevant. If there is no business plan how you will make money with it you have simply wasted your time.

  6. Re:Or... maybe your assumption is wrong on Moore's Law and the Origin of Life · · Score: 1

    Be skeptical, but don't just be cynical. The Fermi Problem may apply here!

  7. Re:dangerous? on The Search Engine More Dangerous Than Google · · Score: 0

    But Dinitrogen Monoxide is!

  8. Re:Good! on Beyond Kepler: Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Set For 2017 Launch · · Score: 3, Insightful

    not more interesting, just different - both are incredibly valuable and interesting - and they will both have effects on each other.

  9. what happens to the remaining carbon? on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 2

    If you take H away from sugars the carbon has to go somewhere. Does it become charcoal, buckyballs, hydrocarbons, alkenes or an aromatic nasty?

  10. Re:Dark matter on Dark Matter Found? $2 Billion Orbital Experiment Detects Hints · · Score: 1

    probably not, because you would have to expend energy to move the stuff around in to the position and density to do your bidding, perhaps a bit like moving a moon in front of your spaceship to be pulled along by its gravity, or perhaps like putting a big fan on a yacht to blow wind into the sails.

  11. Re:Ripe for problems on Why Your Next Phone Will Include Biometric Security · · Score: 1

    then you tap the login button and type in your password. Some problems are really simple to solve

  12. Re:Fingerprints? On a touch screen? on Why Your Next Phone Will Include Biometric Security · · Score: 1

    if the hires camera is watching for the blood pulsing through the veins and fulling the warmth that is a different story.

  13. Re:Enter the new airship age ... on Graphene Aerogel Takes World's Lightest Material Crown · · Score: 1

    Just make a bag and remove the air for an airship. I don't see this aerogel contributing to either vacuum or bag stability.

  14. Re:enjoy your socialist wonderland, suckers on Adobe To Australians: Fly To US For Cheaper Software · · Score: 1

    haha you just gave away your age, 80's boy!

  15. Re:And where's the mass of the universe? on Astronomers Discover Third-Closest Star System To Earth · · Score: 1
  16. Re:It is disturbing... on Rand Paul Launches a Filibuster Against Drone Strikes On US Soil · · Score: 1

    "public danger"="war on terror", so this part of the constitution hasn't applied on US soil since 2001.

  17. Re:"breaks" = "brakes" on Oxford Tests Self-Driving Cars · · Score: 2

    don't you mean peek/peak/pique?

  18. Re:Buy local honey on Laser Intended For Mars Used To Detect "Honey Laundering" · · Score: 1

    it may easily be twice as good. Because you KNOW that the bees where not carted around the country on trucks, and that the bees ate pollen from a diverse range of flowers and trees rather than a monoculture covered in herbicide or fungicide. You are also directly contributing to the pollinators in YOUR own back yard - consider it a sound investment in local biodiversity.

  19. Re:Some minor deficiencies on How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? · · Score: 1

    a maze has 3 properties (1) an entrance, (2) an exit and, (3) at least one path between them. This pattern has none of the 3. the second "maze" has no paths from left to right, but 3 from top to bottom. (Just paste screenshot into your favorite graphics progam and floodfill the lines)

  20. the USA will drop the Dollar Bill... on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 2

    ..when they drop inches, Fahrenheit, SUVs, bipartisan politics, Creationism, buying on credit, pork barrelling, guns, corn syrup, jingoism, Hollywood and voting machines.

  21. just out of curiosity, not trolling.... on UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact · · Score: 1

    As a Creationist, how do you account for the 52,800 years of leaf layers found in this Japanese lake? Time-capsule’ Japanese lake sediment advances radiocarbon dating for older objects

  22. Re:Around here on 26 Nuclear Power Plants In Hurricane Sandy's Path · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And Japanese East Coast Ones were IMPERVIOUS to impossibly high TWELVE meter tsunamis plus backup + failsafe + ..... I am not worried about a breeze, but a river surge throwing muck into all cooling inlets and flooding the generators...

  23. Re:Are Teachers Headed For Obsolescence? on Are Teachers Headed For Obsolescence? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Talking Heads are headed for obsolesence - yes, but mentors and facilitators are not.

  24. Re:divine punishment on Hurricane Sandy Nears East Coast · · Score: -1, Troll

    No, you are being punished for your energy sins and raping the earth for the last 100 year and Obama is your Messiah.

  25. Re:How much Helium was used... on Felix Baumgartner's Supersonic Skydive Attempt · · Score: 1

    actually not a balloon full.. It was almost empty when launched, and filled up only at 120,000 feet. I read somewhere that it was "2 trucks" worth - would like to know more.