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Sounds like a good idea. Now, let's get the NSA and FBI to fill one of these out.
Sounds like a good idea. Now, let's get the NSA and FBI to fill one of these out.
Bingo!
The assumption that low voter turnout is a bad thing always puzzles me, as it seems to suggest that it is better to have a larger number of uninformed people voting... rather than a smaller # of people who can at least be bothered to get up off their arse and do something.
The actual experience shows that the lower the turnout, the more likely the electorate is to do something stupid.
If we are discussing it on Slashdot, it's not secret.
That weight would have gone to Pluto anyway; the ashes (plus the coin) were used as counterweights, for trim.
It would be more than slight
On the other hand, if there are any unknown tiny moons of Pluto, he might get interred on one of those.
New Horizons will start imaging (and optical navigation) this month, but it won't be better than Hubble until mid-May. That's when the fun will really start.
Lunar Prospector carried Gene Shoemaker's ashes to the Moon, and was "deliberately targeted to impact in a permanently shadowed area of the Shoemaker crater near the lunar south pole." Now, they did that for science reasons, but it was still a very fitting end (they could have chosen another crater, of course).
Clyde Tombaugh will really be interred in interstellar space, as New Horizons has no means of scattering his ashes on Pluto.
Nothing is new here. J. Robert Oppenheimer was legally crucified by Lewis Strauss, recently appointed head of the AEC, back before most slashdotters were born, in May-June, 1954. That was, in many ways, the mother of all swiftboating.
You realize to half the country "swiftboating" means "pointing out facts you'd rather nobody knew"?
In the words of the late Senator McCarthy, "Facts, which if true..."
They ain't. The fact (and it is a fact) that some 40% of the populace is bamboozled by demagoguery and Fox News makes it easier to propagate this BS, but it doesn't change its truth value.
Is it really a motional term (i.e., due to a higher level of quantum jitter)?
Entanglement Makes Quantum Particles Measurably Heavier
One part in 10^37 is not measurably heavier. No measurement in science has anything like 37 significant figures*.
*No, the cosmological constant does not count, as it was not measured from quantum principles, but from cosmological ones.
It's a concept car. Concept cars never are almost never turned into a product, they are intended to generate press and publicity, which this one is succeeding in doing.
He doesn't like assignments either. As he says, the variable "x itself doesn't change. Ever. The value it holds is just replaced by another." So he would probably want you to say "the program contains a variable whose value stores your name"
Wealthy people said pretty much the same thing in (pre-August) 1914. Didn't mean much.
"If I do not want others to quote me, I do not speak." -- Phil Wayne
