Comment Assimilated by the Borg (Score 2) 405
Always was a team player...
Comment Careful There (Score 1) 658
Go back and get stepped on and eaten. Go forward and get stepped on but unnoticed. A little back and get locked up for being insane. A little forward and get exhibited as a curiosity. Anyway the speed of light as the arbiter of change is the law. Otherwise everything would have happened all at once at the big bang and how much fun would that have been?
Comment Miss Dubois relies on - (Score 1) 458
The kindness of strangers...
Comment Re:There is no... (Score 1) 314
Kudos, Renaissance man! You got 'em all!
Comment Re:Don't they even own a shovel? (Score 1) 413
He based the idea on an existing observed behaviour. But he's using a bio-degradeable bag instead of a polyethylene bag.
Exactly the point. This is the sort of practical solution that uses extant behavior rather than trying to force change which often fails. An good idea until the local economy affords graduation to composted toilets, etc.
Submission + - Peepoo bag saves world (nytimes.com)
captn ecks writes: A biodegradable and self sterilizing bag for people of the toilet disenfranchised world (40% of humankind) to dispose of their bodily wastes and turn them into safe fertilizer. Dead simple and brilliant solution to a vexing problem.
Comment Re:Very misleading summary (Score 1) 433
I agree. The Obama plan actually increases the NASA budget and refocuses it on the things NASA does best with the resources it has, like the continued and expanded deep space exploration of the moon and solar system by robotic probes such as the ongoing and currently very successful Mars program and Saturn orbiter. These are the appropriate areas to spend government money to do non-commercial explorations that will lead to actionable knowledge in the future. Support to bring commercial manned LEO space access to reality is also forward looking. At first glance I was disappointed in the new plan but with a little thought I've come to see that this may be the best long range plan we can actually afford to carry out and keep our options open. The Constellation programs were a slow motion disaster.
Comment Re:Quote attribution incorrect - C. H. Spurgeon's (Score 1) 133
This aphorism sure gets around. More from www.twainquotes.com/Lies:
A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
- This quote has been attributed to Mark Twain, but it has never been verified as originating with Twain. This quote may have originated with Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92) who attributed it to an old proverb in a sermon delivered on Sunday morning, April 1, 1855. Spurgeon was a celebrated English fundamentalist Baptist preacher. His words were: "A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on."
