Comment Re:Thrown from the vehicle (Score 5, Funny) 443
There have been two deaths resulting from a Tesla crash.
Comment Re:Web of Trust (Score 1) 178
That sounds more like a popularity contest than a peer review system.
Comment Re:Wikipedia (Score 1) 178
I don't think that is the same Peter Chen.
"You've got the wrong guy. I'm the Dude, man"
Comment Whitehouse is blocking petitions with robots.txt (Score 1) 765
I wanted to try searching for other petitions that have been similarly denied comment, but I couldn't because whitehouse.gov/robots.txt disallows all petition and response pages. Seems that the petition pages are the only ones they disallow. Also, the petition search on the site doesn't return 86ed petitions.
Submission + - Astronomers Again Baffled by Solar Observations
SteakNShake writes: Once again professional astronomers are struggling to understand observations of the sun. ScienceDaily reports that a team from Saint Andrew's University announced that the sun's magnetic fields dominate the behavior of the corona via a mechanism dubbed the "solar skeleton". Computer models continue to be built to mimic the observed behavior of the sun in terms of magnetic fields but apparently the ball is still being dropped; no mention in the announcement is made of the electric fields that must be the cause of the observed magnetic fields. Also conspicuously absent from the press releases is the conclusion that the sun's corona is so-dominated by electric and magnetic fields because it is a plasma. In light of past and present research revealing the electrical nature of the universe, this kind of crippling ignorance among professional astrophysicists is astonishing.
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