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Submission + - European Space Agency picks site for first comet landing in November

An anonymous reader writes: Europe's Rosetta mission, which aims to land on a comet later this year, has identified what it thinks is the safest place to touch down. From the article: "Scientists and engineers have spent weeks studying the 4km-wide "ice mountain" known as 67P, looking for a location they can place a small robot. They have chosen what they hope is a relatively smooth region on the smaller of the comet's two lobes. But the team is under no illusions as to how difficult the task will be. Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, currently sweeping through space some 440 million km from Earth, is highly irregular in shape. Its surface terrain is marked by deep depressions and towering cliffs. Even the apparently flat surfaces contain potentially hazardous boulders and fractures. Avoiding all of these dangers will require a good slice of luck as well as careful planning.

Comment Re:Where is the misuse of military equipment charg (Score 1) 286

It's not clear that what he was doing was against the law. He had no authority to provide evidence against a civilian to local authorities, so it couldn't be used against the defendant; but if the defendant had been in the military there wouldn't be any issue.

Comment Re:Eh... (Score 1) 196

The most reasonable explanation why we haven't found alien life is...

...the aliens live (or used to live before their star blew up) light years away from us, and they have to follow the same laws of physics as us.

Comment Re:Baking Soda May Help! (Score 4, Insightful) 140

Those links talk of "studies" and "journals" but don't provide links to them. I did find this link

The main proponent of sodium bicarbonate as an alternative cancer treatment is Tullio Simoncini, MD. ..

According to the Cancer Treatment Watch Web site, "[Dr. Simoncini] has been using unsubstantiated cancer treatments for 15 years in 2003, his [Italian] license to practice medicine was withdrawn, and in 2006 he was convicted by an Italian judge for wrongful death and swindling"

Comment Just imagine (Score 1) 210

a 512GB model that represents a 1,000-fold increase over the company's first 512MB card...The card is rated to function in temperatures from -13 to 185 degrees Fahrenheit. The 512GB model retails for $800.

All that in a standard 1 1/4 x 1 inch package. Amazing.

Comment Re:Why is this legal in the U.S.? (Score 1) 149

They just raise federal taxes and send piles of money back to individual states as long as those states fall in line

That only works if the federal dollars are cost effective compared to the mandate. Obamacare goofed on that by assuming states would want to run their own exchanges. Plus if the feds get too heavy handed the constituents will vote them out - which is the main reason Ms. Pelosi is no longer Speaker.

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