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Comment in your heart, you know Mojo is right (Score 1) 269

by Thud457 on Monday April 07, 2014 @03:49PM (#46687059) Attached to: New Service Lets You Hitch a Ride With Private Planes For Cost of Tank of Gas

"You gotta be insane to fly in small private planes"

Comment Re:Didn't you guys get the message?? (Score 1) 100

by Thud457 on Monday April 07, 2014 @01:54PM (#46685877) Attached to: NASA Laying Foundation For Jupiter Moon Space Mission

I'd steer clear of Titan too, if I were you.

Comment and I'm going to be a racecar driver! (Score 1) 100

by Thud457 on Monday April 07, 2014 @01:49PM (#46685803) Attached to: NASA Laying Foundation For Jupiter Moon Space Mission

They still don't have the money for this, just a congressional mandate.

Typical.

Comment Re:Wikipedia has an update on this (Score 1) 641

by Thud457 on Friday April 04, 2014 @04:06PM (#46664419) Attached to: Linus Torvalds Suspends Key Linux Developer

That's a strange oversight, Wikipedia doesn't seem to have a "list of people so stupid they needed to be bitchslapped by Linus Torvalds"

Comment Re:The noise problem is not just a TV one. (Score 1) 544

by Thud457 on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:41PM (#46653301) Attached to: 60 Minutes Dubbed Engines Noise Over Tesla Model S

Or you could like we've done since time immemorial and stick a baseball card in the wheel.

Or just hire some bros to follow you around with a boombox playing your theme music.

Comment Re:Anti-nuclear power hype (Score 1) 66

by Thud457 on Thursday April 03, 2014 @09:40AM (#46648535) Attached to: Fukushima Photo Essay: a Drone's Eye View

The first one was knocked down by an earthquake.
But we built it again!
That one was knocked down by an earthquake and was washed away by a tsunami.
But we built it again! That one was knocked down by an earthquake and was washed away by a tsunami and the remains irradiated by several nuclear reactor meltdowns!
But we built it again!
And that's what you're getting Alex, the strongest vault in all the land!

Comment C Montgomery Burns for govenor! (Score 1) 66

by Thud457 on Thursday April 03, 2014 @09:25AM (#46648361) Attached to: Fukushima Photo Essay: a Drone's Eye View

Would you eat shrimp in New Orleans?

Comment obvious troll is so obvious you can't see him. (Score 1) 291

by Thud457 on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @04:10PM (#46642505) Attached to: NASA Halts Non-ISS Work With Russia Over Ukraine Crisis

Oh come on, you're being unrealistically tough on a fledgling company. Can't they first shoot for the Shuttle's safety record?

Comment MAIN SCREEN TURN ON (Score 1) 291

by Thud457 on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @04:05PM (#46642439) Attached to: NASA Halts Non-ISS Work With Russia Over Ukraine Crisis

It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind, ten years after the second Iraq War. The ISS Project was a dream given form. Its goal: to prevent another war by creating a place where Americans and Russians could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call - home away from home for astronauts, cosmonauts, scientists, and tourists. Russians and Americans wrapped in 450,000 kilograms of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the IIS stations. The year is 2014. The name of the place is the IIS.

WOW. SO FUTAR. Just like when they quarantined Clavius base.

Comment what's Cmdr Nowak doing these days? (Score 1) 465

by Thud457 on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @03:38PM (#46642177) Attached to: Indie Game Jam Show Collapses Due To Interference From "Pepsi Consultant"

I'm sorry, but Wikipedia apparently doesn't have a list of people punched by astronauts. Can you get right on that please?

Comment this will certainly lead to a cure for cancer. (Score 4, Insightful) 246

by Thud457 on Monday March 31, 2014 @02:43PM (#46623877) Attached to: Adaptation From <em>Flash Boys</em> Offers Inside Look at High-Frequency Trading

I sure am proud that our country's best and brightest are focusing their efforts on optimization of moving around virtual little green pieces of paper.
It's not like we have real problems that need to be addressed.

Comment are they going to cover it with concrete? (Score 1) 440

by Thud457 on Monday March 31, 2014 @09:13AM (#46620293) Attached to: Million Jars of Peanut Butter Dumped In New Mexico Landfill

ET likes Reeses Pieces, not potentially salmonella-ridden rancid old peanut butter!

Comment not sayin Google is blameless here... (Score 1) 144

by Thud457 on Friday March 28, 2014 @04:51PM (#46606169) Attached to: Microsoft Promises Not To Snoop Through Email

"Scroogled" sounds like something Jerry Seinfeld would come up with.

sorry for any bad MS - Seinfeld associations that brought up, complimentary mindbleach on the table by the door.

Comment read your NOTAMs, bitches! (Score 1) 143

by Thud457 on Friday March 28, 2014 @03:36PM (#46605561) Attached to: The Highest-Flying Wind Turbine

Aerostats are a real thing. They have the normal aircraft warning lights.
This one time, an unalert pilot managed to hit the lottery and fly into the tether line of an aerostat. Darwin ensued (better formatted for easier reading here). One time. Ever. I'm not too concerned about those odds. Don't drink & fly. Alaska has enough bush pilots go missing already, who's going to notice one more?

What do we do now sir?
We die.

Comment you're making zombie Robber Goddard angry... (Score 1) 143

by Thud457 on Friday March 28, 2014 @03:07PM (#46605321) Attached to: The Highest-Flying Wind Turbine

Yeah, that'll never work.

Fine, you found them out. This is actually just a stalking horse for materials testing for MIT's secret space elemavator protect. All the nerds are going to rapture to outer space to get away from the rest of us dangerously crazy motherfuckers.

Slashdot sure does seem to have a lot of New York Times Editorial writers.

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