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Comment Re:Unconcerned (Score 0) 157

You don't tell me anything new. Birthday number x marks the end of year number x of your life. The same applies to years: new year 2000 marks the end of year 2000. If you begin counting at zero (like with birthdays), of course, as the ISO standard does. If you prefer the gregorian calender, then new year 2000 is actually the beginning of year number 2000. Because there's no year zero in this calendar.

Comment Re:"Valued"? (Score 1) 221

First picture from the bottom on the left side: http://www.sdtb.de/Marine-Propellers.1945.0.html

On page ten (Warning: Large PDF): http://www.mmg-propeller.de/fileadmin/mmg/download/MMG_Image_BR_Eng.pdf

"Even ship propellers of more than eleven metres in
diameter can thus be machined with an
accuracy of a few hundredths of a millimetre."

Ok, it's made for machining casted propellers, but the dimensions come close :)

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Australian Prime Minister's Spoof "Apocalypse" Speech Goes Viral In China Screenshot-sm 225

brindafella writes "Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, recorded a spoof speech about the Mayan calendar apocalypse several days ago, for radio station "Triple J". Gillard said in part, 'Whether the final blow comes from flesh eating zombies, demonic hell beasts or from the total triumph of K-pop, if you know one thing about me it is this: I will always fight for you to the very end.' The speech has been picked up in China on Sina Weibo (China's Twitter) and has achieved well over 23,000 repeats, without anyone picking up the irony." This comes on the heels of the online version of China's Communist Party newspaper picking up an Onion story about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un being named the "Sexiest Man Alive."

Comment Re:Couple of points (Score 1) 618

Picard went back in time and brought back Data's head. Kirk brings back two whales and picks up a blonde.

How about: Picard went back in time and eradicated the Borg after surviving assimilation?

Comment Re:Couple of points (Score 1) 618

And that's the difference between Sisko and Picard. Picard wore his uniform on the inside, Sisko wore it on the outside.

Because I can live with it. I _can_ live with it. Computer. Erase that entire personal log.

Comment Re:Simple optics. (Score 1) 472

Nice. Never heard of these advances: http://phys.org/news93882787.html
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-36-6-1014
http://lib.semi.ac.cn:8080/tsh/dzzy/wsqk/science/vol315/315-47.pdf
http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.1177 (see last page in this paper for transmission spectra)
Last thing i heard of was NIR. And I'm still not convinced these approaches could be used for broad spectrum applications, like across the whole visible spectrum. That you use only blue and red light seems to suggest that as well. :)
Also, the Science and arxiv articles suggest it can only be used for cases where you can crank the illumination way up to compensate for metamaterial losses (like, in microscopy).

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