Comment Re:Successful troll is successful (Score 1) 200
Still, it would be awesome if both SpaceX and SNC got fully funded.
Watching the press conference now. Looks like they are in fact awarding the contract to both Boeing and SpaceX.
Still, it would be awesome if both SpaceX and SNC got fully funded.
Watching the press conference now. Looks like they are in fact awarding the contract to both Boeing and SpaceX.
The tool looks at the rest of your music collection while it's deleting the U2 album and judges you accordingly. "Oh, the Justin Beiber gets to stay but you're deleting the U2 album? OK I see how it is!"
Wait until Apple starts pushing Justin Bieber albums to people's iphones.
Recent signals from the Obama administration, according to the officials, indicate that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's leadership has concluded on a preliminary basis that Boeing's proposed capsule offers the least risky option, as well as the one most likely to be ready to transport U.S. crews to the international space station within three years. The officials cautioned that a last-minute shift by NASA chief Charles Bolden, who must vet the decision, could change the result of the closely watched competition.
Here is a non-paywalled link to an article at CNET
As the area covered in sea ice expands scientists have said the ice on the continent of Antarctica which is not over the ocean continues to deplete. CEO of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC, Tony Worby, said the warming atmosphere is leading to greater sea ice coverage by changing wind patterns.
This isn't dissenting data.
I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what Amazon was thinking when they released the thing.
No shit. As far as I could tell, the selling point of the phone was: "It shows you lots of ads!" Who the fuck would want a phone like that?
Yep... And — for a car analogy — if I'm driving, I want to be able to drive on any road with any speed by car can go, and park wherever I see fit. No matter, who built the road or attends to the parking lot.
How about a phone analogy? When I pick up the phone, I want to be able to call anybody else who has a phone.
Read on for the rest of Bennett's thoughts
This is pretty much always bad advice.
We need way, way, more women like her on TV.
Yes, let's over-represent a minority group on purpose.
Women are a majority in most developed countries. Where do you live, Afghanistan?
Pu-240 isn't used for nuclear weapons, though.
Oh, shit. You're quite correct. Please consider me appropriately chastised.
Aren't uranium (as opposed to plutonium) bombs pretty bulky?
Not really. The critical mass for U235 is 50 kg or so, while for PU240 it's about 40 kg. Moreover, a U235 bomb is way easier to make, because it doesn't have a predetonation problem like plutonium. Just take two hunks of U235 and drive one into the other with an explosive charge. Bang. City gone. This was the way Little Boy worked. It was so simple they didn't even bother to test it before dropping it on Hiroshima. You can't do that with PU240: the neutrons get so thick as it nears criticality that it blows the charge apart in a sub-critical burst. This is why you have to use very sophisticated shaped charges to assure a perfectly spherical implosion.
PU240 is easier to produce. U235 is easier to build a bomb with. It has proved very fortunate for the world that these two things are true.
When a stupid law says X, you follow it at your own risk
Which is exactly why we need driverless cars: dumb fucks who believe they're such exceptionally good drivers that the rules don't apply to them.
Erm, you are mixing up stuff.
The anti nuclear horde always pointed out that the current plants are not safe. (And on top of that they don't want new ones).
And now you try to use that as a stick against them?
The plants weren't unsafe when they were built. They are unsafe now because they are far beyond their design lifetime. We have better plant designs now. Why is this so hard to understand?
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. -- Plato
