Comment And I believe (Score 5, Funny) 55
These are the days of lasers in the jungle.
Lasers in the jungle somewhere.
Comment Re:The leaking pipe isn't 5 feet in diameter (Score 1) 799
If it is 53 cm instead of 5 feet, then scaling from the video is off by a factor of (5 feet/53 cm)^3 = 24 and his 4 bbarrels per second becomes 15 thousand barrels per day, assuming he only made that one mistake.
This is not good, but it is closer to the mainstream media than to the Revelation-quoting Alabaman.
Comment Re:Isn't this a waste of time? (Score 1) 69
There's no reason to believe a brute force attack on AES128 will ever succeed.
There's no reason to believe a brute force attack on AES128 will never succeed.
Comment They really Polished off that Hamas guy (Score 0, Offtopic) 291
Also implicated in the assassination was Prawo Jazdy.
Comment The grave's a fine and private place (Score 1) 424
The most ecologically sound place to put people is underground. The dead don't reproduce (though, surprisingly, their number increase every day) and they don't use energy, food, or other resources.
That doesn't mean that it's a good way to live.
California Legislature Declares "Cuss-Free" Week
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shewfig writes "The California legislature, which previously tried to ban incandescent light bulbs, just added to the list of banned things ... swear words! Fortunately, the measure only applies for the first week of March, and compliance is voluntary — although, apparently, there will be a 'swear jar' in the Assembly and the Governor's mansion. No word yet on whether the Governator intends to comply."
Comment Re:Delicious (Score 1) 140
Much better than that 2 trillion degree quark vichyssoise.
Comment Re:Clever girl (Score 3, Funny) 371
Comment Re:Frist Post! (Score 1) 162
The energy released was mind-numbing: in one-fifth of a second, this supercharged magnetic neutron star blasted out as much energy as the Sun does in 250,000 years!"
There's no way for me to get my head around these numbers to "truly" feel it. What methods can you use to visualize such extreme numbers?
A fifth of a second is about the time it takes to blink. It's about 12 frames of a 720P HD video signal.
NASA Tests Flying Airbag
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coondoggie writes "NASA is looking to reduce the deadly impact of helicopter crashes on their pilots and passengers with what the agency calls a high-tech honeycomb airbag known as a deployable energy absorber. So in order to test out its technology NASA dropped a small helicopter from a height of 35 feet to see whether its deployable energy absorber, made up of an expandable honeycomb cushion, could handle the stress. The test crash hit the ground at about 54MPH at a 33 degree angle, what NASA called a relatively severe helicopter crash."
Zombie Pigs First, Hibernating Soldiers Next
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ColdWetDog writes "Wired is running a story on DARPA's effort to stave off battlefield casualties by turning injured soldiers into zombies by injecting them with a cocktail of one chemical or another (details to be announced). From the article, 'Dr. Fossum predicts that each soldier will carry a syringe into combat zones or remote areas, and medic teams will be equipped with several. A single injection will minimize metabolic needs, de-animating injured troops by shutting down brain and heart function. Once treatment can be carried out, they'll be "re-animated" and — hopefully — as good as new.' If it doesn't pan out we can at least get zombie bacon and spam."
Comment Re:A Scientific Protest (Score 1) 746
Fact: Every year, the temperature rose on average 0.01K or 0.0039 percent.
Fact: Temperature differences of less than 0.01 K require very sensitive equipment to be measured correctly.
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Let's imagine that out of 73000 temperature readings only 3 values were only 1 degree Celsius off. The person reading the temperature scale made an error and incorrectly reported 21 degrees when the true daily average was 20 degrees.
If we have 3 erroneous readings out of 73000, the error is 50% higher than the assumed increase in global temperature.
Fact: 3 measurements out of 73000 being 1 degree off is an error of 0.00004 degrees. This is 1 day's worth of global warming.
If we thought we were able to predict when a specific global warming event would occur, and we we were actually wrong by an entire day, then obviously global warming is a crock.
Comment Re:No boom today... (Score 2, Funny) 600
On a totally unrelated note, NASA will try launching its new ARES X-1 rocket tomorrow.
Comment Crowdsource it (Score 4, Funny) 568
But is it wiki'd so that people can make corrections to it?
Comment Singularity Sky (Score 1) 541
"The day war was declared, a rain of telephones fell clattering to the coblestones from the skies above Novy Petrograd."
Charles Stross
