Comment Re:Slashcott for a week... Dice-cott forever! (Score 1) 40
Yep, pretty much that.
Oh, and AC, in case I don't see you again, let me thank you for your contributions to
I hope AC stops by at soylentnews: it wouldn't be the same without him.
Journal Journal: Last log entry
I'm leaving my excellent karma here (probably worth shit nowadays, anyone has now excellent karma but I had it before it was cool): I've seen beta and it is what pushed me over the edge.
Goodbye, thanks for all the fish, and hop by at http://soylentnews.org/~Jerry+Smith.
Signing off.
Comment Re:No progress at all... (Score 1) 160
Sorry, but that's just Double Dutch to me.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
It's a genuine sentence. A VERY typical one, but a correct one.
Comment No. (Score 1) 2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
They might rename it, like was done with the KGB, but the "lights will not go out".
Comment Re: 82 years old (Score 1) 401
So
Try thinking before posting.
Peer pressure and social contagion. Youngsters see older people smoking and feeling good about it (the older ones being addicted, and really liking it), and there you have it.
Comment Re:Standard practice... (Score 1) 192
generally on the order of 1/100000000000 000000000 000000000 0000000 0000000 0000000 00000 00000
So basically, one molecule of the thing in a gallon of water?
No. It's much, much less than that. The quoted value there is one part in 10^60. A mole is 6.02x10^23. There's about 200 moles of water molecules in 1 gallon (3.8 liters and 55 moles per liter for water). So one molecule of water in one gallon is one part in 10^26. To get one part in 10^60, you'll need about 10^34 gallons of water. Wikipedia indicates this is the volume of Betelgeuse (a massive star that's about a million times the volume of the sun.)
And this is why I don't skip AC's.
*stands up and applauds*
Comment Re:So what happens to the hydrogen? That's usable. (Score 1) 375
nothing happens, its NOT a product, its a pretty 3D render and a VC bait,
Exactly. This is a DESIGNER at work, not a scientist. It's about selling pretty pictures, and interesting ideas, but nothing more.
Submission + - How Do You Move a City? (gizmag.com)
Zothecula writes: The town of Kiruna in Lapland, Sweden, is known for its Jukkasjårvi Ice Hotel and for hosting the recent Arctic Council summit. It also sits within the Arctic Circle, on one of the world’s richest deposits of iron ore. Now in danger of collapse due to extensive deep mining, the city center is to be relocated.
Submission + - Canada (quietly) offering sanctuary to data from the U.S. (thestar.com)
davecb writes: The Toronto Star's lead article today is Canada courting U.S. web giants in wake of NSA spy scandal, an effort to convince them their customer data is safer here. This follows related moves like cisco moving R&D to Toronto. Industry Canada will neither confirm nor deny that European and U.S. companies are negotiating to move confidential data away from the U.S. This critically depends on recent blocking legislation to get around cases like U.S. v. Bank of Nova Scotia, where U.S. courts "extradited" Canadian bank records to the U.S. Contrary to Canadian law, you understand ...
Submission + - The True Color of Ancient Sea Creatures (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: Looking a bit like a dolphin, but with a long slim snout filled with pointy teeth, one species of ichthyosaur was practically invisible in the murky depths of Jurassic seas, thanks to dark pigmentation that covered its entire body. That’s one conclusion of a new study that provides an unprecedented peek at the coloration of sea creatures alive during or soon after the dinosaur era. The approach involves bombarding fossils with charged particles and then analyzing the particles that are knocked from the surface, which reveals remnants of ancient pigments. Dark pigmentation may have helped ichthyosaurs and other predators camouflage themselves in the murky depths while they hunted prey.
Submission + - Chang'e-3 lunar rover landing tomorrow at 13:40 UTC (planetary.org)
savuporo writes: The Chinese Chang'e-3 probe will be landing on the moon tomorrow, 13:40 UTC. CCTV is likely to carry the event life as they did for initial launch. According to technical overview of the mission scenario and instruments the landing will be fully autonomous with active landing hazard avoidance, which is the first time this has been attempted on any planetary landing. More real-time updates can be found on Twitter with ChangE3 hash tag and NASASpaceFlight forums live event section.
Comment Re:Holy Biased Presentation Batman! (Score 5, Informative) 466
But were they Bald Eagles? Cuz let's be honest, no one gives a fuck about sea gulls.
In all fairness: most of the world doesn't give a fuck about bald eagles.
Comment Re:What a bunch of idiots (Score 1) 462
As a conservative, religious man, I find the religious anti-vaccination crowd a bunch of blind ninnies. I have a few at my church like that, and I want to smack them as they put my children who are too young to receive these vaccination at risk of catching a deadly disease.
Yet you still go that church? Might as well stop that, for your childrens' health.
Comment Re: modpoints (Score 1) 3
Done. Sent to 4 known addresses so I hope one of them hits your bullseye!
Comment modpoints (Score 1) 3
You got my 5 recent ones. They're given out like cheap candy, who cares.
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