stupid question, but isn't the energy released from a fusion reaction ALWAYS larger than the energy absorbed? I thought that was in the definition somewhere

my company's IT department has figured this out a long time ago

i was there and saw it happen

false freak out alert. I fail to see similar level of damage anywhere else on the wheels so maybe its just one area on the wheel that got dented during the landing.

or perhaps, Ubisoft archestrated the whole thing for promotional reasons.. ? (exercising my conspiracy theory skills)

Hitler finds out ..

haha ok you win. you sure know how to take excitement out of progress ;-)

I ran this article through my data analysis software , turns out the people behind this research have a 95% chance of being gay republicans drug users.

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"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams

I would have to disagree with your definition..

heal (hl)

v. healed, healing, heals v.tr. 1. To restore to health or soundness; cure. 2. To set right; repair: healed the rift between us. 3. To restore (a person) to spiritual wholeness.

there is nothing in the definition that implies the process by which it heals. I think you are missing a much more interesting implication of that article which is that an IC that can diagnose itself and then switch to an appropriate "spare" or re-route itself is pretty amazing and can lead to a whole new family of micro electronics that is extremely reliable and perhaps eventually to .. Borg. ;-)

perhaps we could see what the females on slashdot think? *crickets*

I personally don't see a problem with calling a chip "self healing" if its capable of regaining its functionality through some sort of automated process. If you guys are going to be picky, then even in nature nothing is REALLY self healing. When a cell in your body gets damaged, it is not "repaired" but is replaced by another cell that performs the same function. When you cut your skin, you replace damaged cells with new ones and form a scar.

is it going to run out of coolant in march and be "rendered blind" or is it going to produce new results for years to come"

i don't see any false advertisement in this article though, the chances of life on Europa went from most likely not to probably most likely not.

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its life Jim but not as we know it.

suddenly NASA budget cuts sound like a good idea..

I guess dealing with third world country's jail system has changed his mind quite quickly

cnn article from Dec 8th