Comment Re:What about...... (Score 1) 1165
Yes. That was my first thought.
Comment paper format only... for the time being (Score 1) 1
“And for that reason, we're going to hold off on e-publishing this one for the time being."
The CSMonitor headline writer blew it, but the poster could have corrected the info for the slashdot title.
Submission + - US Military Donates Two Spare Space Telescopes to NASA
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Alexis Madrigal reports that NASA, dealing with cost overruns on the next-generation Hubble which have been eating up the science budget, just got a surprise gift from the Department of Defense — two, unflown, better-than-Hubble space telescopes that the US military just happens to have sitting around. Designed for surveillance, the telescopes from the National Reconnaissance Office are no longer needed for spy missions and can now be used to study the heavens. But the gift raises an interesting question. If the DOD doesn't need these two birds, which are both better than any civilian telescope, what *do* they have? Are drones replacing space telescopes? Are there much better telescopes already up there? NASA doesn't have the money to launch either telescope at the moment, and at the very earliest, under reasonable budgets, it will be 2020 before one of the two gifted telescopes could be in order. "This is the state of our military-industrial-scientific complex in miniature," writes Madrigal. "The military has so much money that it has two extra telescopes better than anything civilians have; meanwhile, NASA will need eight years to find enough change in the couches at Cape Canaveral to turn these gifts into something they can use. Anyone else find anything wrong with this state of affairs?""
Submission + - American Kids & Science Education: The Exaggerated 'Dismal' Claims (usatoday.com) 2
TaeKwonDood writes: We've all seen the stories about how 'dismal' science education in America is. It turns out that it's kind of a straw man. America has long led the world in science but the 'average' score for Americans on standardized tests has never been good. Instead, every 2 years American kids get better but we keep being told things are terrible. Here is why.
Submission + - NASA Gets Two Military Spy Telescopes for Astronomy (washingtonpost.com) 1
SomePgmr writes: "The U.S. government’s secret space program has decided to give NASA two telescopes as big as, and even more powerful than, the Hubble Space Telescope. Designed for surveillance, the telescopes from the National Reconnaissance Office were no longer needed for spy missions and can now be used to study the heavens."
Submission + - There Is a Link between Genius and Insanity (medicaldaily.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Genius and insanity may actually go together, according to scientists who found that mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are often found in highly creative and intelligent people.
The link is being investigated by a group of scientists who had all suffered some form of mental disorder.
The link is being investigated by a group of scientists who had all suffered some form of mental disorder.
Comment You can do voice-only prepay on a smartphone. (Score 1) 97
I have a Droid with prepaid Verizon ($100 / year) and no data plan. Works great.
Comment This is known as a Fat Binary. (Score 1) 1
Look at Wikipedia for specific examples from the early nineties for Apple and Mach (supporting 680x0, PowerPC, and x86), and earlier support by CP/M and DOS (8080 vs 8088).
Comment Re:It's every *even* number (Score 1) 170
The number 1 is not prime. If it were, the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic (every integer can be written as a unique ordered product of primes) would be false because you could represent, say, 4 as 2x2, 1x2x2, 1x1x2x2, 1x1x1x2x2, etc.
Comment Re:It's every *even* number (Score 3, Informative) 170
Actually... every even integer GREATER THAN TWO. See http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldbachConjecture.html
Comment Terminal? (Score 4, Funny) 255
How could it be a terminal mixup if no one died?
Comment Re:it's own antiparticle? (Score 2) 128
Neutrons are actually composite particles made of three charged quarks whose charges add up to 0. Antineutrons are made up of the corresponding antiparticles.
