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Comment Re:You can't dumb down rocket science (Score 2, Informative) 177

by DarkSkiesAhead on Thursday September 17, 2009 @02:19PM (#29456591) Attached to: Gravitational Currents Could Slash Fuel Needed To

starglider29a

TFA makes this sound really easy, cheap and quick.

From TFA

The trade off was time, he said. It would take a few months to get round the Jovian moon system.

Wouldn't that be the opposite of what you just said?

Garlic Farmer Wards Off High-Speed Internet 475

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 17, 2009 @12:14PM from the attack-of-the-killer-garlic dept.

DocVM writes "A Nova Scotia farmer is opposing the construction of a microwave tower for fear it will eventually mutate his organic garlic crop. Lenny Levine, who has been planting and harvesting garlic by hand on his Annapolis Valley land since the 1970s, is afraid his organic crop could be irradiated if EastLink builds a microwave tower for wireless high-speed internet access a few hundred meters from his farm."

Submission + - How To Go To MIT For Free

Submitted by

theodp

on Saturday January 06, 2007 @01:15AM

theodp writes: "Can't scrape up the bucks for junior college tuition? Don't worry, there's always MIT. By the end of 2007, the contents of all 1,800 courses taught at MIT will be available online to anyone in the world, anywhere in the world thanks to OpenCourseWare (OCW). Learners won't have to register for the classes, and everyone is accepted. The cost? It's all free of charge."

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