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Comment brawl of the nanocentury! (Score 2) 22

Coming this Sunday! SUNDAY! SUNDAY!
In the Extra-LARGE Nanocage!

The Maryland University Laboratory for Physical Sciences -vs- DWave!
in an no-holds barred entangled deathmatch!

1QB -vs- zombEinstein

NIST -vs- Hal Puthoff
in a teleportation race for the cash!

and a special guest appearance by Oderus Urungus singing the National Anthem before the show

general seating only $11.11 at the door
BE THERE! or maybe not.

Comment who said you have to have a job? (Score 1) 367

Whatever happened to automation leading to a leisuretopia with a five-hour work week?
Oh, right, the people buying the robots that are replacing workers are keeping all the productivity gains 100% for themselves.

In a rational society, we would have a robot tax.
In our society we pit the eroding middle-class against the poors and lock up more people than we can afford to.

Don't put me in a cage for taking bread from your yacht.
Space

Congress Decides To Delay US-Launched Astronauts, Keep Using Russian Services 173

New submitter surfdaddy writes: In order to protect the entrenched big aerospace companies, the Congress has increased NASA's budget for FY2016 but has cut funding for "commercial crew." Commercial crew is the funding used by SpaceX for the planned initial manned launches in the first half of 2017. With this cut, the launch of U.S. astronauts from U.S. soil using U.S. rockets will be delayed two years, and we will continue to send millions of dollars to Russia for launch services. "Senate appropriators suggested that NASA’s plans announced earlier this year to procure Soyuz seats for missions in 2018 indicated that the agency was not confident at even this early stage that the two companies with commercial crew contracts, Boeing and SpaceX, could remain on schedule to begin flights in 2017. ...

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