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Submission + - Chandrayaan-1 finds organic matter in the Moon (dnaindia.com)

Submitted by Titoxd on Monday December 14, 2009 @01:05PM

Titoxd writes: DNA India reports that data collected from the Indian Space Research Organisation's Chandrayaan-1 might have found "signs of life in some form or the other on the Moon". Chandrayaan-1's sensors detected organic matter signatures shortly before its Moon Impact Probe crashed into the lunar surface late last year. Interestingly, the article points out that Apollo 11 found similar traces back in 1969.

Submission + - Most revolutionary videogames of all time (financialpost.com)

Submitted by JamJam on Monday December 14, 2009 @12:44PM

JamJam writes: The trailblazing games on this list are not necessarily the "best" games ever made or even best sellers. Some, like "Dune II" (1992), were out-and-out commercial flops. But they all have one feature in common--they changed the way people play. Some introduced innovative controls or enhanced graphics. Others defined a genre or expanded gaming to entirely new audiences. All altered the industry.

Submission + - SPAM: NASA WISE satellite blasts into space

Submitted by coondoggie on Monday December 14, 2009 @11:25AM

coondoggie writes: After a three day delay, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer this morning blasted into space courtesy of a Delta II rocket and will soon begin bathing the cosmos with infrared light, picking up the glow of hundreds of millions of objects and producing millions of images. The space agency says the WISE spacecraft will circle Earth over the poles, scanning the entire sky one-and-a-half times in nine months. The idea behind the spacecraft is to uncover objects never seen before, including the coolest stars, the universe's most luminous galaxies and some of the darkest near-Earth asteroids and comets.
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Comment Re:do not want (Score 4, Insightful) 179

by MrFurious5150 on Thursday December 03, 2009 @10:20AM (#30309796) Attached to: FCC Lets Radar Company See Through Walls

Oh, I'm sure it'll never be abused...like wiretapping, or tasers. *cough*

Comment Re:You think your job is crazy? (Score 1) 206

by MrFurious5150 on Monday October 12, 2009 @09:54AM (#29718167) Attached to: About X% Of My Daily Co-workers Are Remote.

Anyway, I drive these fucktards around in my van and we solve mysteries and shit.

When I read the last line, I spit coffee all over two monitors, a docking station, keyboard, mouse, and computer speakers. Bravo, sir.

Comment Re:Reminds me of Elite (Score 1) 322

by MrFurious5150 on Thursday October 08, 2009 @01:37PM (#29683361) Attached to: Hyperdrive Propulsion Could Be Tested At the LHC

In the non-canon Trek novel Prime Directive, they referred to this as the Danylkiw Limit. Perhaps the Reeves-Stevens got this idea from Elite. In canon Trek, they're horribly inconsistent on this. In TMP, they "risk going to warp while still in the solar system", while in TVH they take the Klingon Bird-of-Prey to warp while inside the Earth's atmosphere. :P

Comment Re:And because of piracy... (Score 2, Insightful) 261

by MrFurious5150 on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @11:09AM (#29657435) Attached to: Why the Sony PSP Had To "Go"

Logically, then, once a user has licensed a particular piece of content, that same piece of content should then be available to the user for each succeeding generation of media. Buy a movie on VHS, get the DVD five years later for only the cost of the media. Five years later, get the Blu-Ray for only the cost of the media. Five years later, get the UberVideoHiRes digital download for only the cost of the bandwidth.

Right?

Content providers should not get to have it both ways.

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