bluie- - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Lidar (Score 1) 169

by bluie- on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @04:08PM (#32173980) Attached to: Lidar Finds Overgrown Maya Pyramids

I'm also a fan of gaydar

Comment Re:Cool. (Score 1) 169

by bluie- on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @04:07PM (#32173956) Attached to: Lidar Finds Overgrown Maya Pyramids

Or! The total collapse of the ecosystem and biodiversity could have happened thousands of years ago. Then again, it would be cool if they had gotten past all of those problems, so we'd all be happily enjoying clean cold fusion and colonizing space by now ;)

Comment old civs couldn't have been THAT smart. (Score 1) 169

by bluie- on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @03:58PM (#32173818) Attached to: Lidar Finds Overgrown Maya Pyramids

if they were so smart, how come they're dead?

Comment Re:Odd, how great minds think alike... (Score 1) 799

by bluie- on Tuesday May 11, 2010 @03:52PM (#32173716) Attached to: Oil Leak Could Be Stopped With a Nuke

I was literally just a day or two ago wondering if there was a way they could seal the hole with a nuke. I'm glad to know another slashdotter and a crazy country thought about the same thing!

Comment Video Footage (Score 1) 40

by bluie- on Wednesday May 05, 2010 @03:52PM (#32103484) Attached to: Spider-Man Foils Comic Book Thief

Here's the video footage for anyone interested:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SneK7Y7Sl7Q

also a news article with slightly better footage and an interview:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcFFKsskSp8&NR=1

Comment Re:What do the British call real torches? (Score 1) 271

by bluie- on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @02:34PM (#32088860) Attached to: Intel Shows Off First Light Peak Laptop

Ahahaha, mod up!

Comment Re:Spltting hairs, are we? (Score 1) 449

by bluie- on Friday April 23, 2010 @10:40AM (#31955208) Attached to: At Issue In a Massachusetts Town, the Value of Two-Thirds

We humans make so much ado over meaningless arbitrary demarcations. Life situations are fuzzy and spread out, not the digital of "on/off". It all seems rather a bit silly! Splitting arbitrary hairs without real meaning.

I think my sig exemplifies the kind of silliness you're talking about.

Comment Re:Interesting, but (Score 1) 92

by bluie- on Thursday April 22, 2010 @04:48PM (#31945548) Attached to: World's Fastest Robot Versus the Wiimote

I'm waiting for the day that people, rather than working, simply buy a robot or several robots and are in charge of making sure they do their jobs. Then, we can hire chinese people to maintain them for us, so we never have to work.

Comment Big Brother in Space (Score 1) 351

by bluie- on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @02:01PM (#31927290) Attached to: New Speed Cameras Catch You From Space

I somehow don't think even Orwell predicted big brother's eyes peering down from space! It's so great for the metaphor that they're so high up as to be out of reach of ordinary citizens.

Comment Skynet... (Score 1) 776

by bluie- on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @01:24PM (#31511288) Attached to: ACLU Sues Over Legality of "Targeted Killing" By Drones

...is no joke.

Comment Re:Hmmm... (Score 1) 183

by bluie- on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @02:30PM (#31428948) Attached to: LHC Will Be Shut Down In 2011 Because of "Mistake"

Don't you mean, 'prevents' humanity?

Comment Re:Ah, I unplugged the atomic clock... (Score 1) 193

by bluie- on Friday February 05, 2010 @03:18PM (#31037854) Attached to: New Most Precise Clock Based On Aluminum Ion

1.21 jigga watts!

Comment Re:How long (Score 1) 250

by bluie- on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @12:03PM (#31010732) Attached to: Harder-Than-Diamond Natural Carbon Crystals Found

Wow, I hope I'm never stuck with someone so superficial they need me to buy them a hunk of material to judge how serious I am about them.

Comment I think that headline should read... (Score 1) 307

by bluie- on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @11:48AM (#31010468) Attached to: ARM Exec Says 90% of PC Market Could Be Netbooks

...ARM Exec Wishes 90% of PC Market Could Be Netbooks

Comment Re:Entropy increasing, Slashdot-style (Score 5, Informative) 237

by bluie- on Tuesday January 26, 2010 @11:50AM (#30905192) Attached to: Universe Closer To Heat Death Than Once Thought

best short story ever.

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