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Comment Re:Still a ways to go...until we get where? (Score 1) 131

yes people, this is an interesting discussion, but we do really want to know about the efficiency of unicorn farts. I've heard so much mentioned of them lately but no hard core mathematics or science about it. Do we need to ask the CSIRO for an opinion once they have finished their dragon reasearch?

Comment Re:Boo fucking hoo (Score 1) 146

Why would you want to cry? You got emotional problems you want to tell us about? You do want to read the article and think about it since that is the whole point of these sort of articles. He started a company, he left, people want to know why, its tech and gaming related so its totally relevant. So AC go off and cry about your lack of imagination and sense of interesting.

Comment Re:iDesk (Score 1) 234

It is moronic not to. Daughters' school implemented this this year (in Australia). Cheaper than text books, lighter in carrying than the full bag the older one had to transport the year before, more effective. I was doubtful early, but it has to be considered a success. Apple - Ipad -> yeah we can hate apple, but give me another suggestion that would work better? Apple did it back when I was a kid making a good education environment, and it seems they've done it well here again.

Submission + - Comet ISON Fizzles as it Rounds the Sun

rtoz writes: Comet ISON went around the sun on Nov. 28, 2013.
Several solar observatories watched the comet throughout this closest approach to the sun, known as perihelion. While the fate of the comet is not yet established, it is likely that it did not survive the trip. The comet grew faint while within both the view of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, and the joint European Space Agency and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory.

The comet was not visible at all in NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.

"We didn't see Comet ISON in SDO," said Dean Pesnell, project scientist for SDO.

"So we think it must have broken up and evaporated before it reached perihelion."
While this means that Comet ISON will not be visible in the night sky in December as previously specified by NASA in this timeline of Comet ISON.

Submission + - Cancel the eulogy: ISON survives brush with Sun (spaceweather.com)

ihtoit writes: Comet ISON flew through the sun's atmosphere on Nov. 28th and the encounter did not go well for the icy comet. Just before perihelion (closest approach to the sun) the comet rapidly faded and appeared to disintegrate. This prompted reports of ISON's demise. However, a fraction of the comet has survived. Spaceweather.com has an animation captured from satellites showing the emergence of what remains of our visitor.

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