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Comment Re:Traditional fishing (Score 1) 57

Traditional fishing would be obsolete. Just "recruit" the fish into the net.

Great. So, only the dumb fish that can't distinguish between natural fish and robofish are the ones that will be tricked into our nets. This leaves only the most intelligent fish left in the sea. What, are you trying to speed-along evolution and create a new breed of smart-fish that will probably eventually turn against mankind for abusing/polluting their habitat? ARE YOU MAD?!

Comment Semantics (Score 1) 56

In his April speech outlining NASA's future, President Obama said there would be $3.1 billion for the development of a new heavy lift rocket to fly manned and unmanned spaceflights into deep space. Obama said he wanted this technologically advanced rocket to be designed and ready to build by 2015

Funny. I always thought "deep space" was like "other star systems". So I looked it up.

One definition: any region of outer space beyond the system of the earth and moon

And another: space beyond the limits of the solar system

I'm guessing he meant the former definition since it's such a short timeframe.
Just thought I'd share!

Comment Why did this take so long? (Score 1) 266

So, why have they been rejecting it for so long?

If the religious fanatics say "sex is immoral", well, it's not like there's gonna be any MORE pr0n online. It's just giving them a different web address to use.

And by using .xxx it will make censoring it on your home computer(s) a LOT easier for parents who don't want their kids looking for any of it.

Or has it always been big corporations that have been opposing it, so that no one buys up coca-cola.xxx or something?

Comment Re:Something I was wondering (Score 1) 364

if you'd take a lot of stars and planets, and put them together (but not too close together), then at one point if you make this large enough, it'll also be a black hole: there appears an event horizon around all this matter. But inside of it are still stars with gaps between them, maybe some planets orbiting around them

Are you suggesting gravity doesn't exist inside an event horizon? O.o

All of the matter making up these stars and planets would gravitate towards each other and become one massive object.

And if they are far enough apart that gravity can't pull them all together, you get.... what? a "solar system"? Clearly there's no event horizon around us, because then we wouldn't be able to observer other solar systems. So lets go bigger... galaxies? No, we can see other galaxies too, so no event horizons around them either.

Basically, if your body of matter isn't dense enough, then you're not going to get an event horizon because light should be able to easily move away from your body of matter. I'm sure some physics major could supply you with the appropriate equations (i'm just a lowly comp sci geek... and should be working and not trying to explain this right now! lol) but simply put: gravity gets weaker as you move further away from the center of your body of mass. If you have light moving about freely inside your event horizon... then, um... you're using the wrong definition of "event horizon".

Comment Mmm hmmm... (Score 1) 93

Maybe I just don't know enough about the biology and mentality of snails, or even the psycological effects of meth... but did they really come to the most logical conclusion here?

Maybe the snails that were submerged in the meth-water just remembered: "hey, last time i was in this situation, i got a wicked-high! Tube down! Tube down!" Whereas the normal-water snails were like "suffocation? Eff that noise."

Comment I feel a sneeze coming on... (Score 2, Funny) 121

Just think, with this no-touch screen, sitting infuriatingly still becomes a requirement for your computer to continue doing what it was doing.

Aahhh aaahh AHHH ACHOOO!

You have just motioned that you want to reformat your D partition. Is this correct?

"What?! No I didn't!!"

You nose appears to be pointing towards the YES button and your emphatic gestures indicate the CLICK action. Formatting now.....

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