Comment Re:can a non-planet have moons? (Score 1) 194
It can in theory, if the moonlet is within the Hill sphere of a moon. But I don't believe there are any known instances of this in the Solar system.
It can in theory, if the moonlet is within the Hill sphere of a moon. But I don't believe there are any known instances of this in the Solar system.
Hades isn't the same place as Hell.
Hey, hold on there, this is a pretty exclusive place.
Speaking of 80's rock, even worse would be a moon named 'Europe'. Oh wait...!
You definitely want to attempt no landing there!
These terrible jokes! I've gotten weary and I've had enough!
So, you're saying that both Safari and Slashdot need these special new contact lenses?
The joke is that when most people say "diploma mill" what they mean is "Any school less prestigious, however slightly, than the one I attended." But the term means something specific: fake schools that offer no instruction and just sell unrecognized credentials for cash. Many for profit schools may be expensive and unremarkable, but that doesn't mean they're diploma mills.
Maybe not -- at this rate it will probably take us until 2061 to get out of LEO again anyway.
They have been testing a lightweight system to protect astronauts and spacecraft components from harmful radiation and working with colleagues in America to design a concept spaceship called Discovery that could take astronauts to the Moon or Mars.
Shouldn't a ship called Discovery take them to Europa? (Or Iapetus?)
Look, let me put it in terms you can understand: If your company is losing market share to a bunch of people who do this for shits and giggles in their spare time, maybe you should be polishing up your resume instead of bemoaning the situation. I mean, that's the free market at work, right?
Yes, actually. Unfortunately, though, not everyone who runs a business believes in competing in a free market. Many of them, especially executives at large corporations, believe in exploiting government to given themselves an artificial advantage over their competition. Copyright is related to this, because it's a state-granted entitlement, so it wouldn't even exist in a free market.
When did the foundation become a money transmitter? Oh yeah, it didn't.
Neither was e-gold, but this is exactly what the feds used to bring them down.
The assumption seems to be that the U.S. federal government is the moral equivalent to the Assad regime. I may have a lot of concerns about the former, but I don't believe it's as bad as the latter.
Well, you get points for snarkiness, but you should have a few beers with me before you decide it's either paranoia or a delusion of grandeur. I don't think I'm important, if that's what you mean, but I used to do moneypunk stuff (like Bitcoin, except with gold and it was twelve years ago) and a number of people I worked with in that time have been imprisoned. Besides, I expect their watchlist is long, that the threshold for being on it is low, and that being on it doesn't lead to immediate obvious consequences.
Not exactly. The Russians are arming a mass murdering dicatator, the Americans are arming the allies of al-Qaeda. The responsible thing would be to do neither.
Sad about it, I agree with you. But only that.
"The medium is the massage." -- Crazy Nigel
