justfred - Slashdot User

Comment Hormel is the only option that makes sense. (Score 1) 284

by justfred on Monday December 29, 2008 @03:57PM (#26260903) Attached to: What Will Spam Be Like In 20 Years?

The poll was asking about Spam, not spam, though it should probably have said Spam(tm). Speaking of which, I think we need more Spam spam. In fact I demand it on behalf of the Buffalo buffalo.

And "disgusting" is a matter of opinion.

Submission + - Space Shuttle Endeavour Lands Safely

Submitted by Limburgher on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @12:34PM

Limburgher writes: I just watched her land on NASA TV. What a relief! I'm glad they all made it back safely. Still think they should have patched, but it looks like NASA's decision was justified.

Submission + - Frozen Smoke (AreoGel) New Miricle Substance (timesonline.co.uk) 1

Submitted by thejuggler on Monday August 20, 2007 @02:33PM

thejuggler writes: Scientists hail 'frozen smoke' as material that will change world. A MIRACLE material for the 21st century could protect your home against bomb blasts, mop up oil spillages and even help man to fly to Mars. Aerogel, one of the world's lightest solids, can withstand a direct blast of 1kg of dynamite and protect against heat from a blowtorch at more than 1,300C.

I had to keep checking to make sure I wasn't reading The Onion. It seems that this AeroGel can save "The World" by stopping global warming, saving whales and polar bears, eliminating our need for oil. Never has so much been said about something that isn't even there (or at least 99%) of isn't there.

Submission + - Major New Discovery in the Ancestry of Man (hughpickens.com)

Submitted by

Pcol

on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @08:41PM

Pcol writes: "The New York Times is reporting a major new discovery in the ancestral line to Homo sapiens that challenges the conventional view that Homo erectus evolved from Homo habilis. Instead, the two hominid species apparently lived side by side in eastern Africa for almost half a million years suggesting "that they had their own ecological niche, thus avoiding direct competition," said Dr. Meave Leakey, one of the co-authors, in a statement from Nairobi. The discovery leaves the early evolution of the genus Homo even more shrouded in mystery and means that both habilis and erectus must have originated from a common ancestor between two million and three million years ago. A fossil search for the common ancestor has drawn a virtual blank. The size of the new Homo erectus skull was also a surprise. "The fact that the skull — probably belong[ing] to a young adult — is so small suggests that the size range of Homo erectus was much larger than we imagined," said Fred Spoor, who discovered the hominin fossils. Homo erectus has always been viewed as similar to Homo sapiens in both body shape and lifestyle but the new discovery of a large sexual dimorphism suggests a family set-up more akin to that of modern gorillas in which dominant males mate with a harem of females."

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