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  1. Re:anything special? on Laser Turns All Metals Black · · Score: 1

    That depends on what you scratch it with. If it were black tungsten you'd probably need a carbide tool.

  2. wtf on Michigan Teen Creates Fusion Device · · Score: 1
    "Originally, he wanted to build a hyperbolic chamber,"
    You mean for ricochet juggling?
  3. Re:Anyone here care to try to poke holes in this? on 9 Billion-Year-Old "Dark Energy" Reported · · Score: 1

    I should have linked only to the section on gravity. My point is that according to the SEP space must be created somewhere beneath us to account for the acceleration. I should have added also that this only applies in a flat space universe (maybe like the gauge space of Hestenes)

  4. Re:Wow on Peter Jackson Will Not Be Making The Hobbit · · Score: 1

    I'm really Arrowroot Son of ArrowShirt, but folks call me Stomper.

  5. Wow on Peter Jackson Will Not Be Making The Hobbit · · Score: 1

    I guess lawyers really are the foul mouthpieces of Sauron.

  6. Google Employees on Should Google Go Nuclear? · · Score: 1

    Does anyone besides me find it ludicrous to hear a Google employee asking how to find a PDF on the internet?

  7. Becker Again on Scientists Regrow Chicken Wing · · Score: 1

    I hate to keep harping on this - the reason I do is because the man's research was so profound and he was sooooo screwed over by the establishment.

    In The Body Electric, Robert Becker describes how he was able to induce blastema formation to re-knit bone fractures.

  8. Anyone here care to try to poke holes in this? on 9 Billion-Year-Old "Dark Energy" Reported · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Dark energy doesn't exist. Rather, the strong equivalence principle is exactly correct: Matter creates space-time and gravitational effects are due to space being created by a massive body, making a reference frame at rest with respect to the massive body an accelerated frame.

    This obviates the need for "dark energy". If matter creates space then of course the universe will expand. No need for a fudge factor. I have read through James Lawler's "photonic theory of matter" several times and I can't find much wrong with it.

  9. Other Possible Neanderthal Genes on Did Humans Get Their Big Brains From Neanderthals? · · Score: 1

    What about the Rh blood gene and the gene or gene complex that confers lactose tolerance past puberty. Both of these traits are concentrated in western Europe.

  10. Re:Cannabis Effects on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that was the Ford administration. Maybe they are right about cannabis after all....

  11. Re:War on Drugs - the American example on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    You mean THEY'RE NOT???!!!

  12. Cannabis Effects on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1
    This doesn't change the fact that medical research does show it has harmful effects.

    ... and has also shown its beneficial effects.

    Not only did a study in Madrid in 2000 show anti-carcinogenic properties of cannabis, but a similar project in Virginia which showed similar reults was squelched by the DEA under Reagan .

  13. Peruvian Amazon on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    I'm currently living in Chicago and I want to move to the Peruvian Amazon. I want to have an opportunity to catalog a new species. I want to see a jaguar in the wild. I want to try ayahuasca. I want to raise tegus for profit. I will go as soon as I can get an effective malaria vaccine and broadband.

  14. That was a restrained article on Globalization Decimating US I.T. Jobs · · Score: 1

    Just wait 'til Microsloth collapses. The rest of the world has been hedging with Linux but not the good ole US/A. Clinton & Bush are both on MS's payola roll and made sure that windows was used on the Fed's machines (of course not those machines that are doing something important.) That "great big sucking sound" is about to become a super-massive black hole.

  15. Re:Range is a function of the reader on RFID-Reading Passport Scanners Installed · · Score: 1
    In this case, the readers are rather limited. 10cm, give or take.

    You're talking about the ones in plain sight.

  16. Whatever happens, on Experts Fear Future Will be Like Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 1

    The RIAA should not be allowed to read The Proud Robot. The story references a solution to unauthorized copying using infrsound that sends would-be pirates running away in terror while soiling their pants.

  17. New to NewSpeak anyway on DARPA Sponsoring Limb Regeneration Research · · Score: 1
    Apparently this is a relatively new area of research,

    Complete Bull Shit.

    The Body Electric, Robert O. Becker, copyrighted 1985.

  18. Re:Not possible on Thrust from Microwaves - The Relativity Drive · · Score: 1

    I can provide an example: The IBM PC

  19. Re:'bout damn time I get my flying cars on Thrust from Microwaves - The Relativity Drive · · Score: 2, Insightful
    In no time there would be more flying lawsuits than cars.
    Simple. Just shoot all the lawyers first and let natural selection have its day.
  20. Re:Forgetting some things? on Thrust from Microwaves - The Relativity Drive · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Seems to me you only need to incorporate this idea to reduce the inertial mass of the craft and then your radiation pressure can really make things happen. You then have... a flying saucer.

  21. Linux not invulnerable to Microsoft on Maryland Fights to Keep E-voting · · Score: 1

    I had a SuSE Linux installation running continuously as my personal computer for well over two years. Then, alas, I installed SAMBA on it and tried to transfer some files from a Windows box on the LAN. Linux crashed and I had to reboot. It's like the Nazgul, all they have to do is touch you and you die.

  22. Re:The Real News on Hezbollah Hacked Israeli Military Radio · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should stop being surprised and re-examine Hizbollah's motives. I'm not trying to be a chauvinist but do you really think they could have cracked the Israeli code without help from the US? Until it was made public on a blog, nasrollah.org was hosted by a *US defense contractor* based in Saudi Arabia. Also reports have surfaced of Hizbollah fighters receiving arms directly from the US. To boil things down, the entire Israel-Hizbollah conflicted was staged.

  23. Come again? on What Is Real On YouTube? · · Score: 1

    What do you mean "Will"?

  24. Re:Yay, I get to be biased for once. on Bayer Petitions For Approval of Biotech Rice · · Score: 1

    I can't think of better hands to handle GM: Bayer!

    They're socially conscious ...
    http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/05/01/27a.php

    They provide health-care products to the world ...
    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=hea lth&res=9B0DE7D91239F93BA25750C0A961948260

    We should probably turn over the nuclear arsenal to them while we're at it.

  25. Re:If it walks like a duck on Bayer Petitions For Approval of Biotech Rice · · Score: 1

    That's right. Genetically engineered pider-goats and jellyfish-pigs are no different from those found in nature.