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Comment Re:What about the need for uniformity? (Score 1) 405

However, editing an assembled program is verboten on these calculators.

Also, functions could be added that do much more interesting things. You could make the basic calculus functions, along with financial calculations. There's a bunch of areas of math that could make your life easier _if implemented_.

Im also thinking a lisp interpreter. Heck with basic.

Comment Re:My suggestions (Score 3, Insightful) 572

1. Like hell it's not.

Has Congress declared War? If not, then Habeas Corpus is in full effect.

2. Where does the Bill of Rights say "This only applies to citizens"?

Where?

3. Yes. End all "X race is more equal than Y race" rules. End all types of discrimination.

4. The ideal marriage law is none at all. Marriage is an institution of the church you belong to. Government should have no bearing in that, nor any tax breaks. Let those who can consent do as they wish.

Comment Re:I may be wrong, Im not an astrologer (Score 4, Interesting) 333

The idea of the ocean under Europa is that of an educated guess based upon tidal forces between Jupiter, and the fact that surface composition of Europa is frozen water. Flyovers have taken spectral pictures indicating that fact. They also have taken magnetic force readings and determined that any form of magnetosphere was Jupiters creating.

Ganymede has a liquid iron core, from which I dont understand how they figured that out. However, many sources say so, including NASA. And it's noted by the natural color of 'streaking on the ice' that the moon does have its own magnetosphere. And it was measured by Flyovers. It's strange that it still has a liquid iron core, al most over planets have frozen. The assumption is that Jupiter tidal forces have insulated it.

We dont need to understand why and how a liquid iron core creates a magnetosphere. We CAN measure more data points to see if our hypothesis matches with known facts. And this water-creates-magnetosphere seems debunked.

Comment Re:I may be wrong, Im not an astrologer (Score 5, Informative) 333

That's correct. According to their theory, moons like Europa should have a rather strong magnetosphere.

Europa is believed to have a warm, salty ocean under the ice crust. And yet, it shows only slight inducted magnetic field from Jupiter. Contrast that with Ganymede, the only moon with its own magnetosphere and a liquid iron core. Satellite photos dont show very much (or any) water on its surface.

Hmm.

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