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Comment Re:Venus (Score 1) 435

There isn't any current history of temperature trends on Venus.

However, there are of Mars, Jupiter, Triton, Neptune, and Pluto.

As the most mind-boggling coincidence EVAR, all five show global warming over the last 30 years that correlate with the rising temperature trends on Earth in that period.

[citation needed]

Comment Insubordination (Score 1) 799

I love the show, but from what I can see, just about every single character should have been pushed out the airlock for insubordination at least twice. I can't imagine a real military functioning at all like the Galactica.

Comment Re:Slow connections! (Score 1) 504

As far as the blog thing goes, use your free official E-mail addy to send plaintext to somebody else who will maintain your blog for you and send you plaintext wikipedia articles as desired, and do that as much as possible so that you can save your precious 125 minutes - It won't be a real-time thing, but that's one of the whole points of being at sea(or camping, for that matter).

I have to second this, at least for Wikipedia. A person will do much better at getting you the correct article, and providing annotations as to any important illustrations or pictures. It shouldn't be difficult to update your blog by email, and I'm sure a google search could have turned up a plethora of suitable options.

Comment Re:This can be improved by removing some text (Score 2, Insightful) 639

Every time I see a woman who is immaculately dressed and made-up, I think:

  • She obviously makes enough money to afford those clothes, makeup and haircuts.
  • She must spend a lot of time working on looking like that, which means that she has risen far enough above subsistence living to have free time
  • etc.

She is signaling that she is a desirable mate, and not just cause you would enjoy mating with her. She is desirable because she is successful and will give your children a higher chance of likewise being successful and producing viable offspring.

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Submission + - Detecting when an elderly person falls

JLDohm writes: My grandmother isn't getting any younger, and the risk of a fall seems to be increasing daily. Google helped me find a lot of products that will place a phone call if she presses a button, but what if she is unconscious? I found one company that seems to offer a product that automatically detects falls, and calls regardless of whether a button is pressed or not. It seems to me like this would be a fairly complicated thing do to. Does anyone have experience with this product or any other product that does the same thing?

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