Comment Re:I really wish they named the ship something els (Score 1) 75
Pfft! We can still be disappointed.
Comment Re:I really wish they named the ship something els (Score 1) 75
You and me both. Let's spread the tag !nuclearpulsepropulsion to show our dismay!
NASA's Orion Spaceship Passes Parachute Test 75
An anonymous reader writes The spacecraft it is hoped will take man to Mars has passed its first parachute tests. Nasa's Orion spacecraft landed gently using its parachutes after being shoved out of a military jet at 35,000 feet. "We've put the parachutes through their paces in ground and airdrop testing in just about every conceivable way before we begin sending them into space on Exploration Flight Test (EFT)-1 before the year's done," Orion program manager Mark Geyer said in a NASA statement. "The series of tests has proven the system and will help ensure crew and mission safety for our astronauts in the future."
Comment Re:Awesome! (Score 1) 276
Actually, this is also incorrect. They do not decide what the law means, there is no decision involved. They attempt, to the most exactingly precise level possible, to determine what congress intended when the law was enacted. It is rare indeed that a law is so vague that it's intent cannot be determined with a reasonable amount of clarity.
Or, should I say, it used to be rare...
Comment Re:Great deal! (Score 2, Interesting) 365
It's more brilliant than you think—now the Microsoft employees who came up with this idea can get MacBooks without getting their boss's signature! In theory, anyway.
Comment Re:No winners economically (Score 1) 268
Well... there's the beachfront property market.
Comment Re:Slashdot (Score 1) 197
See also: Slashdot and unicode support.
Comment Re:Yeah, right (Score 1) 231
Hey, definitely. I'm all for this sort of interest piece; I've done some truly worthless statistical analyses purely for the geek value. But it shouldn't be mislabeled, much less sitting on Arxiv. I guess maybe this happened because the lead author is a physicist? Assume a spherical cow, etc.
Comment Re:Yeah, right (Score 2) 231
Exactly. The results of this study could not be more bullshit. It's the kind of "why would you even bother doing that" study that should make people double over laughing.
Comment Re:Russia (Score 1) 417
We'd deal with them the same way we dealt with Denmark. Simple.
Comment Re:Russia (Score 1) 417
develop nuclear weapons.
As another commenter said already, Canada went through nuclear disarmament in 1984. (The US wasn't pleased.) "Develop" is definitely the wrong word.
Comment Re:Speculation (Score 1) 475
It must be comforting, living in a world of such naivete. At least, it will be until you wake up and realize where you are.
Comment Re:Do you give up higher cerebral function (Score 1) 211
Alas, they also noted differences in brain activation when the subjects were shorn pornographic imagery, so that joke doesn't quite work, unless they were secretly controlling their muscles for the elbow and wrist in the MRI tube. But we can pretend it does!
Comment Re:Do you give up higher cerebral function (Score 1) 211
The study asserts that there is; alcoholism and other drug addictions are already associated with striatum differences.
Comment Re: Hmmm (Score 3, Insightful) 84
That's unfortunately quite a tall order for the Slashdot community. Now, if you'd wish they'd ramble tiresomely about tiny mosquito-decapitating robot overlords running out of control, you might not go home quite so disappointed.
