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Comment Re:Federal Funding is not contingent on speed limi (Score 1) 525

That was an idiot driver in Belgium moving into a lane where he had no visibility.

and judging by the fact that the video was taken from a lorry and the vehicle in front was a lorry and the car wasn't travelling much faster, it is unlikely that anybody was doing much more than 65mph

Comment Re:I'm quite surprised it wasn't (Score 1) 523

I wouldn't have thought there was enough light that far out even without the shadows.

Could you post your calculations that lead you to that conclusion. Do you think that the engineers who designed the space craft forgot to make the same calculation?

Sure it's an assumption but it's not baseless,

Yes it is unless you did the calculations to show that there is not enough energy out there for the specific solar cells on this craft.

previous deep space probes such as Cassini, pioneer, and voyager are all nuclear powered.

They were all designed to go much further than Rosetta.

Comment Re:Terrible (Score 4, Insightful) 430

You're overthinking it.

I'm heterosexual. I cannot choose to be sexually attracted to other men, I'm just not attracted to them. Whether this is caused by psychological reasons, the chemical environment in my mother's womb, or genetic factors is irrelevant. I cannot choose.

It should be pointed out that the choice thing is really a red herring. If homosexuality were a choice, that would still be no reason to persecute gay people.

Comment Re:Tip of the iceberg (Score 1) 669

However, keeping all options open is what a scientist ought to do.

Wrong. Science should only keep options open if they are not contradicted by the real World. For example, no scientist keeps the option of the Earth being flat open because there is a mountain of evidence that says it is not flat. The Biblical account of creation is flatly contradicted by evidence from reality.

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