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Comment Re:Stupid (Score 1) 252

IT needs to improve very FAST or we will face a serious problem. If our kids are not tought(sp?) engineering-entry-to-uni level of IT in primary school, they are not going to do any good in modern world. Otherwise will face the fact that the world is driven by technology which is only understood by small fraction of population, and this fraction is getting smaller.

Comment Re:200 light years (Score 2, Insightful) 358

Now this is what I haven't written in the post before, since I wasn't sure. I know that it would be dangerous, but just how dangerous? I took a look and it seems it has been proposed that a supernova explosion at the distance of roughly 100 light years away was the cause of Ordovician Extinction which killed 60% of species on Earth by depleting the ozone layer through chemical reactions in the atmosphere that were the aftermath of the explosion.

Further reading of this article says apparently in 1998 we were hit by gamma/x rays from supernova explosion 600 LY years away. So there definitely is a danger zone up to where? 300 LY? Another question: Would the explosion that is near enough to cause serious damage (as in, killing most people) be visible by observers BEFORE gamma and x rays do any visible damage?

Comment Not possible (Score 2, Insightful) 120

This time around, maybe we can be a little more proactive.

Different people will make same mistakes that our fathers did. They will learn from their mistakes, just as our fathers learned, but the next time around new people will make same mistakes again anyway.

Comment Re:RTFA, it's not about hot linking (Score 1) 333

I personally think these litigous bastards really have just no idea what people usually think about litigous bastards and that unlike IRL, the people of the internet can still fuck up litigous bastards like them. Its not just because they are litigous bastards, its more because litigous bastards fucking with internet will get what litigous bastards deserve.

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