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Comment Summary left out the word: ACCESS (Score 1) 875

The summary left out an important word. The right appears to be ACCESS to a 1Mb connection, not a right to the connection itself. In other words, the gov't isn't paying for the broadband, you are. The gov't (and therefore the people) just pay the lawmakers and if you're lucky enough to work in the telecom industry, you're set for life.

Comment Re:Wrong Question (Score 1) 191

Hundreds of billions (1*10^11) IS ridiculously minute, as there are 6*10^23 atoms in just a gram of Hydrogen. To give you some idea of how great a difference that is, Pluto is on average about 6*10^12 meters (not km) from the Sun. Fortunately we don't need that much for the sorts of experiments they'll be doing.

Comment Launched or not? (Score 4, Informative) 245

The article says it has launched.
The summary says it has launched.
The Acrossair page says they need beta testers.
The app page (on the Acrossair site) says it will launch when Apple approves it.

Does anyone know which is correct? I tend to believe it has already launched since the article and summary corroborate.

Perhaps someone on the other side of the water could try to pull it up in the iTunes store.

Comment Re:Um, first observed in 1887 - well before shuttl (Score 3, Interesting) 132

Had you RTFA you would have seen this:

Scientists at the time suggested that the night-shining clouds over London were made of meteoritic dust. But those aerosols are typically too small to reflect sunlight efficiently, Kelley argues, suggesting the clouds above Europe were made of ice crystals. This assumption, along with the new analysis of shuttle plume movement, strongly suggests that the object that blazed into the atmosphere and disintegrated above Siberia was a moisture-rich comet rather than a relatively dry asteroid.

Comment Re:got volume? (Score 1) 132

Easy enough to verify. Aaaaaand, nope. Only the shuttle's main engines use liquid oxygen/hydrogen. The boosters use a solid mixture and each one provides over twice the force generated by all three main engines combined (therefore it's safe to assume the boosters are expelling a significant amount of the total exhaust).

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