Comment And next week... The Greatest Keyboard Key Ever! (Score 5, Funny) 506
Wow with the backspace key I can remove my mistakes without having to put whiteout all over my monitor!
Comment Re:Not as exciting as it sounds (Score 1) 85
Well that’s disappointing. I remember reading about this some time ago, but didn't realize it had been debunked since then.
Comment Re:Not as exciting as it sounds (Score 1) 85
Reaction-less thrust would appear to be not only possible, but something that's in active development!
Here's the site for the group that's working on it: http://www.emdrive.com/
And here's the relevant research paper: http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/av/shawyertheory.pdf
Here's the site for the group that's working on it: http://www.emdrive.com/
And here's the relevant research paper: http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/av/shawyertheory.pdf
Comment Re:Noise canceling headphones (Score 1) 561
I actually have a set of a aviation active noise canceling headphones someone gave me as a gift. They are made to be standalone so they don't have any microphone and just take some 9v batteries. They work incredibly well at blocking out sounds and noise by themselves but I've found if you put some disposable earplugs in before you put the headphones on, then they block out ALL sound. I can't hear people who are standing 3 feet in front of me trying to talk to me much less someone who would be on the other side of a wall. Anything you wear on your head for long periods of time is eventually going to get uncomfortable, but as they are essentially aircraft headsets they are designed to be worn for long periods of time so you can wear them for some time before you have to take a break.
http://www.davidclark.com/HeadsetPgs/ENCHearProt.html
Comment Re:Card's gone over the deep end (Score 1) 1174
I liked Enders Game but I stopped reading after Speaker for the Dead, that book had way too much religion in it and I prefer to think in the future religion will be but a bad memory.
Comment Re:I think I must have missed something (Score 1) 233
I wonder if theres any asteroids out there with the right velocity and direction they could rendezvous with, and do some actual science.
Comment I think I must have missed something (Score 1) 233
Unless I'm misunderstanding what was in the article, they seem to be sending two people almost 2 years in space to just fly around Mars and their not even going to land there.
Comment Not all that surprising (Score 1) 34
Since ARM64 is going to be targeted for tablets an smartphones, and since a large portion of the tablet and smartphone market right now is Android. It's really not that surprising that the Linux kernel would be ported over so quickly.
Comment Not for me (Score 1) 379
I personally can't stand listening to recordings of myself, I sound like a complete idiot!
Comment This is what happens... (Score 1) 168
This is what happens when you outsource the search for Atlantis.
Submission + - Why the Arabic World Turned Away From Science (thenewatlantis.com)
Geoffrey.landis writes: "The historical period that we call the dark ages, from perhaps 600 to 1200 AD, was the golden age of Islamic science, when great advances in science and technology were taking place in the middle east. But somehow, as the west experienced its renaissance, the blossoming of the age of science, and the founding of the modern technological world, the Arabic world instead turned away from science. Muslim countries have nine scientists, engineers, and technicians per thousand people, compared with a world average of forty-one, and of roughly 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, only two scientists from Muslim countries have won Nobel Prizes in science.
Why? In an article "Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science" in The New Atlantis, Hillel Ofek examines both the reasons why Islamic science flourished, and why it failed.
Are we turning the same way, with a rising tide of religious fundamentalism and dogma shouting down the culture of inquiry and free thinking needed for scientific advances? Perhaps we should be looking at the decline of Islamic science as a cautionary tale."
