kn0tw0rk - Slashdot User

Comment Test it on Europa (Score 3, Insightful) 210

by kn0tw0rk on Friday April 24, 2009 @02:28AM (#27698711) Attached to: Using Light's Handedness To Find Alien Life

Surely this would be a good test to check out Europa?

Even though the ice crust might obfuscate things, if the light was from reflected from the area of a crevice/crack then there would be elements (or the lack thereof) in the frozen water that give some indication.

Comment Already 3 books written by KW Jeter (Score 1) 585

by kn0tw0rk on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @08:22PM (#26647361) Attached to: Please No, Not a Blade Runner Sequel

There are 3 decent books that were written by KW Jeter that are a good way to extend the movie.

I'd get links to them if I werent busy/distrated by other things.

Comment Re:LOL (Score 5, Insightful) 1235

by kn0tw0rk on Monday January 26, 2009 @08:43PM (#26615785) Attached to: New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click"

If taking pictures covertly of women isnt right then why do people buy magazines with pictures of celebrities taken by the paparatzi in this manner?

Comment Re:0_o (Score 1) 343

by kn0tw0rk on Sunday October 19, 2008 @07:18PM (#25435371) Attached to: B&W TV Generation Has Monochrome Dreams

No thats not wierd. Try dreams of worlds done in celtic knotwork. This after a weekend of drawing knotwork in almost every waking moment.

Submission + - FBI's Unknown Eavesdropping Network (wired.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29, 2007 @01:25AM

An anonymous reader writes: Building off the design mandates of CALEA, the FBI has quietly built a sophisticated, point-and-click surveillance system that performs instant wiretaps on almost any communications device, according to nearly a thousand pages of restricted documents newly released under the Freedom of Information Act, Wired News reports. The surveillance system, called DCSNet, for Digital Collection System Network, connects FBI wiretapping rooms to switches controlled by traditional land-line operators, internet-telephony providers and cellular companies. It is far more intricately woven into the nation's telecom infrastructure than observers suspected.

Submission + - The Solar oxygen crisis

Submitted by Astrophysicist on Monday April 23, 2007 @12:02AM

Astrophysicist writes: The Astrophysical Journal publishes this week an article about the abundance of oxygen in the Sun. Oxygen (O) is the third most abundant atom in the universe, behind Hydrogen (H) and Helium (He). Most of the H and He was formed in the Big Bang, which means that O is the element most frequently produced by nuclear fusion reactions in the interior of the stars. The solar abundance of O, which is key in Astrophysics because of its use as a calibration reference for other objects, was thought to be well established since the 80s. However, recent evidence indicates that it has been overestimated by almost a factor of two. A revision of the Solar oxygen abundance would have a cascading effect on other important elements, such as Carbon, Nitrogen and Neon, whose abundance is only known relative to that of O. In addition to the impact on the chemical composition of many stars, models of solar interior may require some reworking in order to be consistent with the new data.

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