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Comment: Mechanical Adding Machines (Score 1) 790

by UncleWilly on Saturday January 10, 2015 @08:11PM (#48783869) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More?

Shorter span then the typewriter I believe. My dad had one up to the 1960's.

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Comment: Hubble EOL (Score 1) 70

by UncleWilly on Saturday December 27, 2014 @02:51PM (#48681011) Attached to: Hubble Reveals a Previously Unknown Dwarf Galaxy Just 7 Million Light Years Away

Isn't the Hubble past end-of-life? (per specs) Simply amazing. The Hubble telescope is like my old Jeep. Old technology, not much to look at, lots of dented/squeaky bits, but it just keeps ticking without much maintenance.

Comment: next gen batteries (Score 1) 293

by UncleWilly on Monday November 24, 2014 @09:04AM (#48448529) Attached to: Multiple Manufacturers Push Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars, But Can They Catch Tesla?

I believe next generation batteries will be able to charge much faster; a 5-10 minute full charge seems to be achievable.

Comment: There's a throwback 1950's movie idea (Score 5, Funny) 399

by UncleWilly on Monday October 20, 2014 @04:11PM (#48189769) Attached to: NASA's HI-SEAS Project Results Suggests a Women-Only Mars Crew

First spaceship to Mars; one male captain and a crew of women!

Comment: Do I see..? (Score 1) 113

by UncleWilly on Friday September 26, 2014 @01:08PM (#48004579) Attached to: Indian Mars Mission Beams Back First Photographs

Is that Curiosity? I can't tell if it's waving..or giving the finger?

Comment: Re:Of course it does. (Score 2) 173

by UncleWilly on Thursday September 25, 2014 @01:41PM (#47996063) Attached to: Solar System's Water Is Older Than the Sun

I agree, not being an astrophysicists, but it just makes common sense.

Comment: Re:Public access (Score 1) 47

by UncleWilly on Saturday September 20, 2014 @07:11AM (#47953035) Attached to: Boeing To Take Space Tourists On Its CST-100 Spacecraft To the ISS

Am I missing something? Won't NASA pay (Boeing, or whomever) for uplifts aboard the CST-100? Or is NASA buying CST-100's, like the next shuttle.

Comment: Re:Do We Want Our Gov't to regulate the drones? (Score 1) 94

by UncleWilly on Saturday September 13, 2014 @09:29AM (#47896799) Attached to: Drone-Based Businesses: Growing In Canada, Grounded In the US

What bothers me more is how the FAA didn't see this coming. Really? Seems more like "we need to let all the lobbyist voice ($) their opinions so we know what regulations to make".

Comment: Re:Simple answer (Score 1) 800

by UncleWilly on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @05:49AM (#46937767) Attached to: Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit?

Another vote for this being the correct answer.

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Comment: I thought it was a piece of comet (Score 2) 196

by UncleWilly on Friday February 15, 2013 @05:59PM (#42917191) Attached to: Russian Meteor Largest In a Century

I thought it was a piece of comet that exploded over Siberia's Tunguska river in 1908 - I also thought it was common knowledge - go figure.

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Comment: IBM (Score 5, Funny) 491

by UncleWilly on Thursday November 29, 2012 @11:04AM (#42130489) Attached to: In a Symbolic Shift, IBM's India Workforce Likely Exceeds That In US

India Business Machines!