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Comment: Re:Science is Beautiful (Score 1) 61

by JavaBasedOS on Sunday August 14 2011, @07:27PM (#37089704) Attached to: Astronaut Photographs Perseid Meteor — From Space

Hear! Hear! Most of my desktop backgrounds come www.nasa.gov's image gallery. The current one in use is titled "Sunrise over Mars", taken by one of the rovers.

BTW for the curious: I tried to find it on NASA's image gallery, and failed(was going to link to it). A Google image search for that title found it. :-) This is it, but not the higher resolution image I got from NASA's sight a few years ago.

That image blew my socks off! Wow! A picture from Mars I can relate to! I've seen many sunrises from good old planet Earth, but from another planet?!?!? It gives me goose bumps!

Speaking of which, I've been looking all over for a high resolution version of that beautiful image. Would you mind posting it somewhere to share? :)

Comment: Re:Selection bias (Score 1) 335

by JavaBasedOS on Wednesday May 11 2011, @08:14PM (#36101110) Attached to: Do Geeks Make Better Adults?

Why would his penis have a glass jar full of needles to begin with?

Comment: Re:Overlords (Score 1) 184

by JavaBasedOS on Wednesday February 02 2011, @07:25PM (#35085452) Attached to: NASA Finds Family of Habitable Planets

This tells us that 57 were identified in 2009. It could have grown since then.

Comment: That's what I've been trying to tell you! (Score 2) 326

by JavaBasedOS on Wednesday January 05 2011, @04:19PM (#34768980) Attached to: Doctor Marries Doctor's Daughter, TARDIS Explodes

Who is the doctor!

Comment: Re:My favorite part (Score 1) 238

by JavaBasedOS on Wednesday December 01 2010, @04:09PM (#34408980) Attached to: Torrent Users Fight Back

Damn it, Jim!

Comment: Re:This is just getting shameless (Score 3, Informative) 1018

by JavaBasedOS on Tuesday November 30 2010, @04:54PM (#34394622) Attached to: WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal

The thing is that someone has to put themselves out for Wikileaks. Someone has to stand and defend its credibility. By putting himself out there, it's arguable that
he's doing it to ensure Wikileaks continues to be a presence.

I could be wrong though, maybe he is doing this for publicity. What we deem of his actions and what his rationale turns out to be are two different things.

Comment: Those that fall under public scrutiny... (Score 1) 1018

by JavaBasedOS on Tuesday November 30 2010, @04:45PM (#34394422) Attached to: WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal

should get the full force of it.

Terry Pratchett's Self-Made Meteorite Sword 188

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday September 21 2010, @10:15AM
from the x4-crit-modifier dept.

jamie writes "Fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett says he was so excited after being knighted by the Queen that he decided to make his own sword to equip himself for his new status... the author dug up 81kg of ore and smelted it in the grounds of his house, using a makeshift kiln built from clay and hay and fueled with damp sheep manure."

Comment: About time. (Score 3, Insightful) 156

by JavaBasedOS on Monday August 16 2010, @11:49PM (#33272128) Attached to: Democrats Pan Google-Verizon Net Neutrality Proposal

They're finally realizing that you can't let corporations have their way with the internet? Hopefully, this leads to a reversal that grants the FCC the proper powers to uphold these rules should they actually make the climb.

Comment: Re:Fucking magnets, how do they work? (Score 1) 198

by JavaBasedOS on Monday June 21 2010, @06:39PM (#32647012) Attached to: Noisebridge Attempts to Teach Science To Juggalos

No. It isn't. Also, Santa Claus and the tooth fairy died when they collided in mid-air, and remember last year's rabbit stew? Yeah, that was the Easter bunny.