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Are the World's Religions Ready For ET? 534

Science_afficionado writes: At the current rate of discovery, astronomers will have identified more than a million exoplanets by the year 2045. That means, if life is at all common in the Milky Way, astronomers could soon detect it. Realization that the nature of the debate about life on other worlds is about to fundamentally change, lead Vanderbilt astronomer David Weintraub to begin thinking seriously about how people will react to such a discovery. He realized that people's reactions will be heavily influenced by their religious beliefs, so he decided to find out what theologians and leaders from the world's major religions have to say about the matter. The result is a book titled Religions and Extraterrestrial Life, published by Springer this month. He discovered that from Baptists to Buddhists, from Catholics to Mormons, from Islam to the Anglican Communion, religious views on alien life differ widely.

Comment If Ebola cross-mutates with the (Score 5, Funny) 475

rabies virus, it could result in the infected person becoming insane and attacking everyone that he sees. But unlike regular rabies, you don't have to get bitten to become infected... Ebola can be transmitted simply by touching someone. This could result in extremely rapid disease transmission, perhaps triggering a worldwide pandemic.

If this happens, millions of Resident Evil fans all over the world will be writhing on the floor in full nerdgasm.

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HP Introduces Sub-$100 Windows Tablet 182

jfruh writes While Windows-based tablets haven't exactly set the world on fire, Microsoft hasn't given up on them, and its hardware partners haven't either. HP has announced a series of Windows tablets, with the 7-inch low-end model, the Stream 7, priced at $99. The Stream brand is also being used for low-priced laptops intended to compete with Chromebooks (which HP also sells). All are running Intel chips and full Windows, not Windows RT.

Comment Re:Exploit that only affects Mac and Linux (Score 1) 174

Exactly. This is a problem Microsoft has had for several decades they lack mechanisms to generate internal consensus. So they build a capabilities based security model but then don't build all the tools and support that their user community will need to make it work so everyone just runs as admin. Then they tone it down and put a permissions based system in place. But that still has problems. Then they start tightening and then use sandboxing for yet another capabilities system...

Comment Re:It's a queue for the scraps (Score 1) 517

I've been fairly civil with you despite your pushing so many things that do not refute my statement that the wind is always blowing somewhere so what's the big deal here?
I see odd points on that graph but no trend - and besides it's a portion of the European grid and my statement above was clearly about dealing with large grids and not point sources.

Comment Re:Ten pages in - why didn't you just quote? (Score 1) 517

I will be sure to remind you in the future that you contend wind needs a lot of down time for maintenance.

So? It's true in comparison to thermal power and photovoltaics. You are interested in the topic so I'm telling you stuff and also part of the reason why I wrote way above "I've never had anything to do with windmills and don't even like them much". Way above I was kicking back against an idiot "ends justifies the means" nuke fanboy on the attack on another alternative energy - you just decided to jump and and get caught in the backwash of his ridiculous lie.
Like windmills or not they are mainstream things now because they have a niche where they can be useful. The Chinese are not "green" yet they have a lot of the things.

Comment It's a queue for the scraps (Score 1) 517

I have shown you the actual law that required use of all available wind power

Without base load, typically sold in 1GW+ chunks, you have nothing. That law appears to be a priority queue for the scraps.
I wish you would have actually quoted the bit that supposedly proves something you are asserting and saved me the time.

All the wind all the time - what rubbish - it's not implemented and it would be stupid if it was.

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