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Comment Re:Mountain in a crater (Score 1) 42

Could it have been an initial impact in another part of the moon where the impactor fragmented and this piece "bounced" around before landing here? It does look strange, because anything that large which would land and make a depression that deep, it seems like there would be at least some ejecta rays or a crater rim or something. It looks like a big finger smushed the land down and then put a rock in it.

Or maybe it's a mountain feature where for whatever reason the ground around the base has eroded away. Maybe the mountain was warmer and caused nitrogen snow or something to sublime away.

I'd really like an explanation for it. The worst thing about missions like this is that we go zipping by taking awesome pictures of amazing things, and we can't easily go back and get better pictures of things we want to investigate.

Comment Re:worst quality in the history of broadcasting (Score 1) 574

I think you'll find most people making arguments against the thing have not heard it.

I've never even heard OF it. I'm not arguing anything, I'm just noticing your rhetorical devices, you make it pretty easy to dismiss anyone who disagrees with you (they must not know what they're doing; you obviously do). That's called No True Scotsman. If someone disagrees with you, then instead of debating their points and possibly conceding your own you just say they don't know what they're doing, they're not a "real audio guy", because a "real audio guy" wouldn't have that opinion. This attitude is all over the "high end audio" world. Just ask the guy who decided that the Pear Anjou cables are "danceable". I think of those kinds of reviews and people whenever I see or hear someone say something like "no one who knows what they're doing would say this doesn't sound good."

Comment Re:worst quality in the history of broadcasting (Score 2) 574

Everybody I know who has one or has heard one, who actually know what they're doing audio-wise, think it sounds great.

No true Scotsman, huh? What's that, you heard the Pono and don't think it sounds great? Hmm, you must not know what you're doing audio-wise.

Whatever, if Neil Young doesn't want me to listen to his music on a streaming site because it's the worst quality ever, fine, I'll just request and then record his songs on local FM radio the way he intended them to be heard.

Comment Re:Other opponents (Score 1) 446

Everybody in rich countries would pay more for food, while people in poorer countries would literally starve to death because of those labels. ... Informed consumers would not care about the label, while uninformed consumers (the vast majority, yourself included) would be actively killing people across the globe with their ignorance and fear.

I'm not sure that I quite understand, can you introduce an even more ridiculous level of hyperbole? How about some FUD? Maybe it would help if you compared me with a Nazi (c'mon, mandatory labeling? It shouldn't be that much of a stretch for you).

Comment Other opponents (Score 4, Insightful) 446

other opponents of labeling genetically modified foods

Now who the hell considers themselves an opponent of labeling GMO foods unless they have a financial stake in it? Is there anyone walking down the street who has nothing to do with the food industry and considers themselves an opponent of labeling GMO foods?

This... legislation will ensure that Americans have accurate, consistent information about their food

So a law that requires that GMO foods are labeled as GMO foods would be a barrier to accurate, consistent information? Someone wrote that quote without even bothering to check what the issue was, didn't they?

Comment Re:Question about deep space pictures (Score 1) 108

The sun actually looks remarkably like a star from the surface of the Earth, too. And Venus looks oddly like a planet for some reason...

The sun isn't going to just look like any other star from the surface of Pluto. The sun is many, many, many times closer to Pluto than any other star. Since the amount of light that is cast on an object is exponential with regard to distance, that means that the sun is shining a ridiculous amount of light onto Pluto compared with any other star. I would even bet that the sun illuminates the surface of Pluto significantly more than every other star combined.

Or are those really not pictures in the conventional sense and radar images?

They are visible light pictures, taken with optical cameras using a variety of color filters to try and get a true representation. There might not be a ton of light reflecting off Pluto back to the camera (relative to Earth, anyway), but Pluto is by far the brightest thing around the spaceship. The cameras can probably soak up that light for minutes without getting over-exposed.

Comment Re:Young surface (Score 1) 108

A major impact of some kind is the only thing I can think of.

Which would explain the giant, young impact crater that no one has noticed yet.

Pluto is too small for the heat to be internally generated

What are you basing that statement on, "currently accepted theories" that we had before flying a ship past Pluto and noticing relatively young features?

Comment Re:Meh. (Score 1) 265

Elizabeth Warren would have a great chance if she ran. Personally, I'd like to see both Trump and Sanders lose their respective primaries and then enter the general election as independents. I'd like to see the hand-wringing that occurs when people across the country question why only the Democrat and Republican are in the TV debates even though there are other popular candidates.

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