Comment: Re:I am shocked! Surprised! Horrified! (Score 1) 173
But since they didn't get their funding, we'll never know how that would have played out.
But we do know how it played out.
Comment: Re:This is important (Score 1) 380
Battlestar Galactica
Comment: Re:Waste of time. (Score 1) 1128
He was a real loose cannon, politically. He alienated His own party before the primary and they didn't want him there. He was contentious about everything. It was all about him anyway. He seemed to be the only person that didn't realize the republicans had voted him in during the primary, knocking out a perfectly reasonable candidate. That alone tells you a lot.
Comment: Re:Waste of time. (Score 1) 1128
This never works.
Of course it does. In the Michigan governor's race a while ago, the Republicans crossed over in the primary and got Jack Kavorkian's Lawyer selected for the democratic candidate. Needless to say, he lost.
First Measurement of Magnetic Field In Earth's Core 34
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from the best-place-to-try-it dept.
from the best-place-to-try-it dept.
An anonymous reader writes "A University of California, Berkeley, geophysicist has made the first-ever measurement of the strength of the magnetic field inside Earth's core, 1,800 miles underground. The magnetic field strength is 25 Gauss, or 50 times stronger than the magnetic field at the surface that makes compass needles align north-south. Though this number is in the middle of the range geophysicists predict, it puts constraints on the identity of the heat sources in the core that keep the internal dynamo running to maintain this magnetic field."
Judge Berates Prosecutors In Xbox Modding Trial 285
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Soulskill
from the your-uppance-has-come dept.
from the your-uppance-has-come dept.
mrbongo writes with this excerpt from Wired:
"Opening statements in the first-of-its-kind Xbox 360 criminal hacking trial were delayed here Wednesday after a federal judge unleashed a 30-minute tirade at prosecutors in open court, saying he had 'serious concerns about the government's case.' ... Gutierrez slammed the prosecution over everything from alleged unlawful behavior by government witnesses, to proposed jury instructions harmful to the defense. When the verbal assault finally subsided, federal prosecutors asked for a recess to determine whether they would offer the defendant a deal, dismiss or move forward with the case that was slated to become the first jury trial of its type. A jury was seated Tuesday."
The First Photograph of a Human 138
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samzenpus
from the fist-cheese dept.
from the fist-cheese dept.
wiredog writes "The Atlantic has a brief piece on what is likely to be the first photograph (a daguerreotype) showing a human. From the article: 'In September, Krulwich posted a set of daguerreotypes taken by Charles Fontayne and William Porter in Cincinnati 162 years ago, on September 24, 1848. Krulwich was celebrating the work of the George Eastman House in association with the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County. Using visible-light microscopy, the George Eastman House scanned several plates depicting the Cincinnati Waterfront so that scholars could zoom in and study the never-before-seen details.'"
New Fish Species Discovered 4.5 Miles Under the Ocean 96
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Soulskill
from the how-does-it-taste dept.
from the how-does-it-taste dept.
eldavojohn writes "The University of Aberdeen's Oceanlab (a partner in the recent census of marine life) has discovered a new snailfish. That might not sound very exciting, unless you consider that its habitat is an impressive four and a half miles below the ocean's surface (video). If my calculations are correct, that's over ten and a half thousand PSI, or about seventy-three million Pascals. The videos and pictures are a couple years old, as the team has traveled around Japan, South America and New Zealand to ascertain the biodiversity of these depths. The group hopes to eventually bring specimens to the surface. It seems the deepest parts of the ocean, once thought to be devoid of life, are actually home to some organisms. As researchers build better technology for underwater exploration, tales of yore containing unimaginable monsters seem a little more realistic than before."
Collision of Two Asteroids Spotted For the First Time 31
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timothy
from the delicious-space-dust dept.
from the delicious-space-dust dept.
sciencehabit writes "Astronomers report that a small asteroid located in the inner asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter took a major hit early last year. Previously rendered only in artists' conceptions, the first asteroid collision known in modern times revealed itself in a tail of debris streaming from what astronomers at first assumed was a comet. Instead of a steady stream of dust, however, they found boulders near the object with dust moving away from them."
Comment: Re:Socialism in Nowhere, Tennessee (Score 1) 2058
Nice. I have been burglarized/robbed 8 times so far. Nothing has ever been found and no one ever caught. Those state funds are working well, aren't they? I have a home security system now and that seems to have alleviated most of the problem. The thieves seem to go to the other houses in the neighborhood are not willing to pay the private company for the service. Put the money where it does the most good.