Comment Re:And still (Score 4, Interesting) 196
Jupiter emits more heat into space than it receives from the Sun.
(I agree with you, just playing devil's advocate).
Comment Re:And still (Score 5, Interesting) 196
Really, the only categorization issue that I'm adamant about is that Pluto-Charon is called a binary. The Pluto-Charon barycentre is not inside Pluto, therefore Charon is not rotating around Pluto, the two are corotating around a common point of space between them. That's a binary.
The barycenter of the Sun-Jupiter system lies at 1.068 solar radii, outside the Sun. Do you think they should be called a binary?
Comment Re:Who wants to bet they shit crude oil? (Score 1) 69
Classic joke, but it obscures the fact that an actual solution to these jokes exists.
Uranus's Roman name is Caelus and since all the other planets use Roman rather than Greek deity names in English, there is no reason this name could not be adopted for the 7th planet.
Comment Re:Not even close (Score 1) 146
I agree... but let's give a link, shall we?
Comment Re:6 is on the wrong side (Score 1) 146
6 on the left half is a side effect of the continued stupidity of staggered key columns.
He should have used a TypeMatrix as his base to work from.
Comment Re:Wrong Koch (Score 1) 222
No, there are four brothers. The youngest two are twins.
Long story but interesting: http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
Comment Re:Counterclockwise? (Score 2) 141
The only planet whose north pole is not on the same side of the Ecliptic as the Earth's north pole is Uranus.
Venus's axial tilt is 177 degrees, that's about "not on the same side of the Ecliptic" as it could be.
Comment Re:English to American (Score 1) 122
first floor in British English = second floor to Americans, first floor in American English = ground floor to Brits.
Does this difference also occur in elevator controls?
Comment Re:Any Earthlings using 12-year-old flash devices? (Score 1) 105
I still have my PS1 (128KB) and PS2 (8MB) memory cards.
Comment Re:War Nerd on the F-35 (Score 1) 279
Decent rant, but he contradicts his own argument about how the USAF only likes sleek, fast air-to-air planes when he rambles on about how they loved the ugly, slow, air-to-ground F-117.
Comment Re:the problem with stealth technology (Score 1) 279
Plenty of Iraq pilots got shot down by missiles far beyond the 100miles range without even ever noticing the F-15 or F-16 that shot the missiles.
Bullshit.
The only operational US missile to have sort of range was the Phoenix, which was carried by neither the F-15 nor the F-16.
It was launched exactly twice in its service history on the F-14 with no hits scored.
Comment Re:Cd of 0.36 in the 21st century??? (Score 1) 128
2 factors come to mind:
Sports oriented vehicles often sacrifice Cd to obtain downforce, since top speed is not advertised as heavily or reached as easily in many modern designs.
Short body length vehicles have less space to adopt Cd optimized forms than longer vehicles. The larger Model S has a claimed 0.24 Cd.
Julian Assange Trying To Raise Nearly $200k For a Statue of Himself 171
Rei writes Julian Assange, from his refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy, has recently taken to Twitter to try to raise nearly $200,000 for a life-size bronze statue of himself. The statue would have him standing front and center between Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning (with Manning pictured as male); the art piece would be then shipped around the world on tour.
Comment Re:the pirate bay is important (Score 1) 251
The liberal Democrats of 2000 are not the liberal Democrats of 1940. Why didn't you call them neoliberals, you moron?
The fact that the core missions of Democrats and Republicans have varied wildly over the existence of both parties just shows how limiting and misleading the whole R/D
Comment Re:I still use it (Score 2) 251
When Slashdot first gave me the option of disabling ads I had the same reaction...
"This site has ads?"
