Comment Re:I'm highly skeptical. (Score 1) 233
Twenty-five KNOWN craters. The number is far, far higher, and expect that number to soar with better and detailed satellite imagery available to the general public.
Comment I'm highly skeptical. (Score 1) 233
The Earth has been hit literally countless times by meteors and the best places to find craters are ones which have very sparse vegetation like Australia (there are around 25 known craters in Australia). The fact that they tell 'lots of stories' about stars falling out the sky with a noise like thunder coupled with the relative commonality of impact craters on the continent along with the fact that there was not a precise location, just a general area, makes it sound an awful lot like coincidence.
I'm not dismissing it entirely, but it makes the connection seem a little weak to me.
Comment "A decade after the Y2K crisis" (Score 0, Troll) 269
Crisis? There was a crisis? Other than one invented by scam artists and the media?
Comment Thank you for watching. (Score 2, Funny) 218
You're tuned to the Headache Channel.
Comment Re:Flesh-eating Robots Will Devour Us All (Score 1) 146
How about the simple fact that there are a hell of a lot more plants then there are human corpses on and around the average battlefield? Hoping it will find a corpse to chow down on (after it gets through the body armor and so on) seems like a silly move if it can just start munching away on the local foliage.
Comment Wow. (Score 4, Funny) 84
It's so weird when reality looks like bad Photoshop.
Comment Re:China have copyright ? (Score 1) 247
Ancient Chinese secret, huh?
Comment On the other hand... (Score 4, Insightful) 450
It's not like they need to put a back door on it. There will be about 500 exploits found within the next year as it is.
Comment Re:Srsly? (Score 0, Offtopic) 643
Maybe you should try the many current events news websites out there if you want more pressing stories. This is slashdot, not CNN.
Submission + - Meteor explosion lights up sky over Utah (deseretnews.com)
skulluminati writes: A probable meteor likely exploded over Utah's western desert region Wednesday night, producing a flash that briefly turned night into day over a vast portion of the West.
According to Patrick Wiggins, a NASA ambassador living in Tooele County, the intense light was most likely a bolide meteor, one that becomes a fireball and breaks up.
People in Los Angeles, Nevada, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming reported seeing the meteor.
According to Patrick Wiggins, a NASA ambassador living in Tooele County, the intense light was most likely a bolide meteor, one that becomes a fireball and breaks up.
People in Los Angeles, Nevada, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming reported seeing the meteor.
Comment Any good audio engineer will tell you- (Score 4, Interesting) 849
If the mix doesn't sound good on almost any device, it wasn't mixed well. Audiophiles seem to think we don't take the fact that most people don't have high-end audio gear and lossless audio into account.
Comment Re:Dolls and tea sets? (Score 0) 614
[Citation needed]
Comment Re:Dolls and tea sets? (Score 4, Insightful) 614
So you're saying humans evolved to play with things that didn't exist when we became humans?
Comment Re:It's the chemicals!? Bollox to that! (Score 1, Flamebait) 614
they'll be expected to do their share of the child rearing
What? The nerve! Everyone knows fathers are supposed to ignore their children at all times, even if they're on fire.
Comment Re:In Defence of CNN (Score 1) 383
It's definitely a problem, but as you said, it's a decades-old problem. It is not a top headline and certainly not more important than the economy or the wars.
