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Comment Asking scientifically aware people is dangerous (Score 0, Flamebait) 308

"The members of the study committee are interested in the views (positive or negative) of the general public, particularly those people with a scientific and/or technological interest."" While you're at it, why not ask such people (those who are neither cretinous nor scientifically dysfunctional nor extremely gullible) what they think about a fable concerning 19 individuals armed with nothing more than religious faith and box cutters who managed to create murder and mayhem on a Herculean scale and thereby triggering continuous war in the West Asia.

Comment Re:Linux has already succeeded. (Score 1) 696

AMD64, Alpha, Arm, Armel, HPPA, i386, IA64, Mips, Mipsel, PPC, S390, Sparc List of CPU architectures that are supported on Debian Linux 5.0. The majority of people are totally oblivious to computers other than the overpriced overspecified boxes they use themselves for emailing and porn hunting. How the real world uses IT is beyond their ken. Who cares?

Comment Re:If it doesn't work... (Score 1) 421

Isn't amazing? First of all we find that WTC7 collapsed internally as a result of uneven heating of the steel members before falling, a phenomenon which has never been documented before. Now we find that WTC1 & 2 collapsed because of magnetism caused by heating, a phenomenon that has never been documented before. So on 9/11, 3 steel framed skyscrapers collapsed as a consequence of fire, phenomena which have never occurred before for two different reasons previously unknown to science. For the benefit of whoever posted about a tanker fire under an underpass causing a collapse, please understand that the type of steel used would not assume fire as a possible hazard; steel has different characteristics depending on it's composition and manufacture: for instance, steel used in skyscrapers is designed to withstand fire, obviously unless it is of the intensity created by, for example, thermate. Nor is construction steel brittle: as it warms it will lose rigidity and become more plastic - it will not break, it will buckle, but not until temperatures caused by burning fuel have been considerably surpassed. Here's a thought: if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck rather than a a member of a species previously unknown to science. OK?

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