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Comment Re:just buy an costa rica island to put them on (Score 1) 168

I saw an episode about getting hair off udders when watching "dirty jobs". Perhaps we can use natural gas to avoid the gigantic amounts of wax needed? I quick puff of flame is all that is needed.

I've tried pitching it to bankers to do that with humans, but they all look at me like I've lost my mind.

It works. When my propane grill screwed up, it took a an eyebrow and half of my scalp. My guess is that it was less painful then wax pulling it all off.

Comment I used to be a microsoft shill (Score 2) 392

Sorry, but I had to set up a pc for my half blind dad that just uses the PC for audio books.

Windows 8 is waaaayyy overpriced at free. If they'd pay me 2 grand a month , maybe I would try to use it.

I'm hoping the steam/ubuntu gaming Port gains traction. If I could play all my games on Linux and just safely surf on Linux - I would have absolutely no need for microsoft.

Comment Re:Bandwidth (Score 4, Funny) 216

It's awesome to know that nothing will ever go wrong in five minutes.

Altho, it's amazing that all captains who had at least five minutes to respond to everything ever lost a ship.

It's going to be awesome to have the best new captains who can respond to everything with five minute breaks during their shift! Thank you for your insight! You are exactly what I expect from anon cowards! I bow to your creativity!

Comment Bandwidth (Score 1) 216

Are they planning to launch a series of satellites for this?

Anyone who has used a satellite uplink for the web can tell you that the bandwidth is oversold, and if you even try to stream video you get nailed by the FUP (fair use policy). It drops you to pre 56k modem speeds.

For a 360 panoramic with control and command monitored 24/7 you are looking at a lot of bandwidth streamed to space (or very long cables) to make it work.

It's kinda surprising that this would even be looked at as feasible.

Comment Re:I think I've seen this plan (Score 1) 330

We can't ship a fab up to the space station let alone the moon anytime soon. look at what it costs the nations launching to the space station just to provide food and parts. Hell, we we won't have the ability to have a working moon base until we rethink the global way of doing things and remove profit motives from nations launching materials.

If we're going to have any serious moon based or orbit based things happen, all the space launching nations need to get together and share the pain of the investment to get it done.

China doing a moon landing for China's sake, or Japan sending a probe to the moon for national honor, or Argentina launching a camera around the earth just to build national price mimics the cold war contest between Russia and the USA about the moon. (And now USA has no real orbital capacity, and pays craploads of money to Russia to launch their astronauts.)

Pool the money, Share the costs, and get it done for Terra. Until we get there - we won't get anywhere. The world together can do wonders. What we have now is wasteful to say the very least.

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