Gartner gives the numbers the group contracting the study want.

Detaching boosters does not provide boost.

They ran out of fuel, and then just barely escaped the falling into the black hole in the slingshot maneuver by disconnecting the dead weight, which magically accelerated backwards propelling the spacecraft it detached from magically into Mars orbit.

There's artistic license (like the drawing of the wormhole, which is whatever, it doesn't bother me), and then there's a landing shuttle which can magically boost in and out of a .99999C gravity well without ill effect or expending much any fuel at all, and yet magically has to expend all of its fuel supplies to slingshot around the black hole, and then accelerates further by detaching boosters, and all sorts of dumb shit like that.

>It's a movie. Most people don't care but for those sticklers, all they have to do is release a special edition that contains a "director's cut" of the film as well as a "science advisor's cut."

There wouldn't be much left, then.

As much as Kip Thorne and NDT have touted the science of it, anyone with even a basic understanding of physics would develop a severe allergic reaction from watching the movie.

No, Nolan, disconnecting an object travelling with you doesn't magically boost you out of a gravity well.

No, Nolan, there is no way to have enough delta-V to boost out of a .99C gravity well.

Kip Thorne has defended the notion of a stable planet right next to the event horizon of a black hole, and maybe he's right, but horrid mistakes like this are scattered throughout the movie.

"Our goal has always been to build the smartest, most secure, user-friendly mobile wallet experience"

Always or only since Apple released ApplePay?

>Pro-tip: When posting to Slashdot, or any other website, write your post in an off-line text editor, then cut-and-paste it into the textarea. That way if their buggy JavaScript, or you fat fingers, delete it, you can just re-paste.

OR you could just install Lazarus and let technology handle the grunt work for you.

http://getlazarus.com/

I suspect you'd get false positive every day, as kids love to open and close cabinets, especially if you're going to put a teddy bear inside.

But yeah, great idea.

As of right now, I would like to vote for Rand Paul. Only person who believes in the Constitution.

His foreign policy isn't as nutty as the media has made it out to be.

You can pass over ads in printed media or online. On TV or radio it eats up your time.

Nah, I'm pushing 50 :) School decades ago.

>>You know what they call "alternative medicine" that is proven to actually work? MEDICINE.

Do you know what they call people who quote memes without knowing that they're actually wrong?

Urban legend spreaders.

Ok, I guess that's not as pithy.

But seriously, that's not the difference between alt med and medicine. Even though peppermint oil has a strong research base showing its effectiveness for IBS, it will never be medicine, even though it works, because it's something you can pick up at any supermarket or GNC.

And that's not splitting a hair, either. It is not regulated by the FDA as a drug, so it is not "medicine", even though it is highly effective.

The official definition of alt medicine (from the FDA, WHO, NHS, NIH, etc.) is any medical practice not typically performed in usual practice of medicine.

Hey man, he saved one whole byte doing that.

>I'm disappointed that even the geeks of /. are so easily persuaded by pharmaceutical industry propaganda.

Even though Peppermint Oil had the highest ratings in both quality of research and effect size, of any of the studied IBS treatments in the paper, I'm sure there are a number of people reading this on Slashdot right now secretly suspecting that it must be bullshit because it sounds too "alt meddy" to them.

>Meanwhile, a lot of prescription medication is clearly dangerous. How many herbal supplements have been taken off the market recently because of health risks? Ephedra is the only one that comes to mind, and it isn't even all that dangerous by pharmaceutical standards. How many FDA-approved drugs have been taken off the market recently? Dozens.

In the IBS paper alone, there were several drugs that were pulled from the market for being too dangerous.

But it works the other way as well. Just because something is all hippie and natural doesn't mean it's inherently safer or doesn't have side effects. St. John's Wort has drug-drug interactions with many many drugs due to its effect on CYP3A4. Grapefruit juice, incidentally, is dangerous as well if you're on a lot of drugs due to its opposite effect on it.

Just because the FDA doesn't ban them doesn't mean they aren't going to be bad for you. In general, the FDA does not regulate herbs unless they can no longer be generally regarded as safe (GRAS).

So I've been in meetings all day, then finally get home and I saw this story on /.'s feed. I thought, "ah, it'll be good for some immature homo jokes"

Thank you, /., you did not disappoint. I'm crying from laughing so hard at the from the inane, puerile jokes that I seek out at times likes these.
If you don't like that, well fuck you, too.

>>Your either from Pakistan, India or a CTO with a budget.

Pretty sure he's from Whooshistan.

While you are right that there are a lot of studies showing no effect or a negative effect from alt med drugs, there are also peer-reviewed and high-evidence studies showing that some of them do work and are effective.

My wife is a member of ASPEN, and so I get to read through a lot of their journals with her. In a paper on treatments for IBS, the "drug" that had the highest strength of evidence, and effect size was... peppermint oil. The research shows pretty conclusively that it is better than a lot of IBS-specific medicines that have come out in recent years, several of which got pulled from the market for being dangerous, and now can only be prescribed in limited situations.

Peppermint oil will never be a medicine, because you can buy it at the grocery store. But it *is* highly effective at treating a very serious disease.