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Comment Re:something I could not figure out about waterwor (Score 1) 107

by BlackHwk98 on Thursday December 24, 2009 @02:24PM (#30545812) Attached to: More on the Waterworld Goldilocks Planet

Problem is with the oil tanker, that's unprocessed oil, unless they actually had built a refinery right on the tanker, the jet ski's wouldn't have been able to operate on pure crude.

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Submission + - A Waterworld Goldilocks Planet (goldilocksmission.com)

Submitted by goldilocksmission on Thursday December 24, 2009 @09:40AM

goldilocksmission writes: News spread recently about a super-earth sized planet that has been recently discovered to contain one of the most essential compounds for life to exist in the universe, water. GJ1214b, a massive planet that can house about six earths and is about forty light years away from us. The significant discovery leap of detecting Gliese 581 d to the more goldilocks planet oriented GJ1214b is a testament to the advances in the technology of detecting earth-like exoplanets.

Submission + - Steam Train Hauls Stranded Commuters Home (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by TheMrWright on Thursday December 24, 2009 @05:04AM

TheMrWright writes: Recently, in an interesting twist, old technology proved more robust than and superior to modern technology. Fine powdery snow caused enough trouble for the modern electric trains in part of England such that they were unable to operate. A recently constructed coal-fired steam locomotive that was in the area pulling some dinner-train passengers provided a ride for some commuters stranded by the shutdown of the regular electric commuter trains.

Hybrid Cars to Get New Mileage Ratings 781

Posted by samzenpus on Monday May 14, 2007 @12:22PM from the creative-math dept.

Skidge writes "Wired is running a piece showing the drastically reduced mileage ratings for hybrids after the upcoming changes in gas mileage calculations by the EPA. While the cars themselves aren't changing, plugging these new numbers in to the equation makes a hybrid much less cost effective: "The two top-selling hybrid vehicles, the Prius and Honda's Civic Hybrid, will lose 12 and 11 miles per gallon respectively from their city driving estimates." The new values come from more realistic testing; the old, over-inflated ratings were higher in part because the cars idled a lot, allowing the hybrids to completely turn off their engines. The new ratings should be more in line with what hybrid drivers are actually seeing."

Study Says No Future for Video iTunes 189

Posted by samzenpus on Monday May 14, 2007 @10:56AM from the video-wants-to-be-free dept.

eldavojohn writes "Reuters is running a story on a study that claims "Online video sites that sell shows and movies such as Apple Inc.'s iTunes will likely peak this year as more programming is made available on free outlets supported by advertising." Many channels have wised up to offering their content hosted from their own sites for free — with commercials — to cut out iTunes as the middle man. End result? Predictions that services like iTunes-Video have no future."

Teachers Fake Gunman Attack 863

Posted by samzenpus on Monday May 14, 2007 @09:33AM from the stop-crying-teacher-would-never-really-kill-you dept.

Anti_Climax writes "Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables. It'll be interesting to see what happens to these teachers after the charges brought against students in recent months."

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