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Comment Re:My heart goes out to him... (Score 3, Interesting) 139

by Polybius (#30498600) Attached to: <em>Alien</em> Screenwriter Dan O'Bannon, Dead At 63
If it doesn't gross you out too much you may want to find and take part in a controlled study like this: http://www.drugs.com/forum/alternative-medicine/worms-crohns-disease-23351.html
Purposely infecting oneself with parasitic worms (helminths) and reaping the benefits of their immunosuppression. The results look promising.
Idle

Hand Written Clock 86

Posted by samzenpus from the up-to-the-minute dept.
a3buster writes "This clock does not actually have a man inside, but a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009."
Transportation

Lotus Teases With a Fuel-Agnostic Two-Stroke Engine 269

Posted by timothy from the ask-a-lotus-eater dept.
JohnnyBGod writes "Lotus claim to have invented a new, more efficient engine design. The two-stroke, flex-fuel engine can achieve, according to the surprisingly technical press release, 'approximately 10% better [fuel consumption] than current spray-guided direct injection, spark ignition engines.' The engine has a sliding puck arrangement to control its compression ratio, and has direct injection and a wet sump, to eliminate fuel leakage to the exhaust and the need to mix oil with the fuel, two common problems with two-stroke engines. Lotus engineering have released a video explaining the engine's operation."
The Almighty Buck

Virtual Bank Woes 127

Posted by Soulskill from the all-about-the-iskamins dept.
bobmorning writes "EVE Online's largest player-controlled virtual bank, Ebank, just can't seem to catch a break these days. A few months after it was revealed that the company had been defrauded of a staggering amount of virtual cash, it turns out that the institution's digital vaults are far more barren than many realized, leading to an in-game freezing of accounts for any individual or organization that happened to have invested any InterStellar Kredits (ISK) with the bank. Early this summer, it came to light that a veteran EVE player (known only as 'Ricdic') had embezzled — and then sold in the real world — over 200 billion ISK from Ebank, causing a run on the virtual financial institution. However, this was just the beginning of the problems for the player-owned bank. Recently-installed Ebank Chairman Ray McCormack admitted that the bank had been mismanaged, and rules, safeguards, and controls were not enforced. As a result, it's been revealed that Ebank is 380 billion ISK poorer thanks to a number of defaulted loans. Because of the aforementioned mismanagement, it apparently took the bank's new officers a while to figure out just how far in the red their institution is."

Comment Moon (Score 1) 554

by Polybius (#28678457) Attached to: NASA Plans To De-Orbit ISS In 2016

Divert the money to a permanantly manned Moon base and send up some metallurgists to play around with alloys in the low gravity and near-vacuum. Could probably just use some frensel lenses to heat the forge. Maybe they could find some new super mega alloy, produce it on the Moon then construct a ship there to send to Mars with the newly gained "how to run a moon base" knowledge.

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