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Comment Re:What am I missing here... (Score 3, Insightful) 166

Ever played with LEGO? Ever built your own fort or tree house? Ever went on a beach and built up castles or simply dig holes? Minecraft if the digital version of all of these activities and more (adventure, exploration, unusual landscapes, 3D viewer for models impossible to see otherwise - Star Trek ships for instance).

Comment How about nuclear tests? (Score 4, Insightful) 964

I find it amusing how US media is worried about Fukushima nuclear contamination of Japan and surrounding arrea, including US territories or... Europe. They seem to forgot hundreds of nuclear tests made by the US both in Pacific and continental US. I wonder which event released more radioactive material in the atmosphere, a few hundreds nuclear test or the damaged reactors from Fukushima? (and I'm not even considering detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki).

Comment Private sector (Score 1) 244

This will never happen due to massive cost a Shuttle needs for operation. A private company will pursue financial profit and the Shuttle is anything but financially profitable. It would have been if the initial projection of 60 flights/year were a reality, but that never happened and never will. Ad this to decaying infrastructure (no more ET being build) and personnel layoffs. If the remaining Shuttle mission will be successful, their place should be in museums. They've done their job, bringing Man into orbit and building the ISS. Don't push their luck, a Shuttle is a very, very fragile system and only very skilled men a huge amount of luck made it possible to fly so many missions with only two total failures. As for the plans for a new shuttle, it's futile as long as we don't have a clear destination for it. The STS program was intended for LEO, not GEO, not Moon flyby, no Mars landing. We've been to LEO, we already have a huge space station there, let's go further. Makes no sense to have a shuttle fly astronauts to asteroids or Mars. Don't get me wrong, I love the Shuttle. It's a brilliant flying machine and she did a really good job. But it's time for a new vehicle.

Comment Oh, noes. not extensions again... (Score 2) 296

Extensions were nice when they first appeared on Firefox. Then they become a pain, causing all sorts of problems. Your Firefox is crashing too often? Try disabling the extensions! Your Firefox is eating up your RAM? Try disabling the extensions! Headache? Have you tried disabling the extensions? I really liked browsers who stand out of extensions bandwagon, but now it's really hard to find one: Chrome, Safari even Opera have them now. I don't need to change my Twitter status form the extensions, or to learn about latest whether updates. I usually use my browser to surf the web.

Comment Autoupdate feature (Score 1) 307

An autoupdate feature would be nice. I had download the latest version, close my running Dropbox, wait a few seconds to close all its files and handles, then copy the newest version and overwrite the old one. All by myself! Then run it again. A little to much work for a Mac user, don't you think?

Comment Re:Hypocrisy. (Score 1) 503

And keep in mind that the US is not the only player here. The 100 billion dollars will be divided between Russia, Japan, Canada. Off course, NASA takes the biggest chunk here, but anyway, in the end it really comes up to probably around 25$/year for each American.

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