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New Class of Galaxy Discovered 104

fructose sends along this excerpt from Space Daily: "A team of astronomers has discovered a group of rare galaxies called the 'Green Peas' with the help of citizen scientists working through an online project called Galaxy Zoo. The finding could lend unique insights into how galaxies form stars in the early universe. ... Of the 1 million galaxies in Galaxy Zoo's image bank, only about 250 are in the new 'Green Pea' type. Galaxy Zoo is claiming this as a success of the 'citizen scientist' effort that they spearheaded. ... The galaxies, which are between 1.5 billion and 5 billion light years away, are 10 times smaller than our own Milky Way galaxy and 100 times less massive. But surprisingly, given their small size, they are forming stars 10 times faster than the Milky Way. 'They're growing at an incredible rate,' said Kevin Schawinski, a postdoctoral associate at Yale and one of Galaxy Zoo's founders. 'These galaxies would have been normal in the early universe, but we just don't see such active galaxies today. Understanding the Green Peas may tell us something about how stars were formed in the early universe and how galaxies evolve.'"

Comment Re:Mutually Assured Destruction? I think not... (Score 4, Insightful) 416

Me neither.

What Google s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, has to fear more than anything else is that heâ(TM)ll awake one day to learn that the Google search engine suddenly doesn t work on any Windows computers: something happened overnight and what worked yesterday doesnâ(TM)t work today. It would have to be an act of deliberate sabotage on Microsoft s part and blatantly illegal, but that doesnâ(TM)t mean it couldn t happen. Microsoft would claim ignorance and innocence and take days, weeks or months to reverse the effect, during which time Google would have lost billions.

Does he _really_ think Microsoft would do that? How? Some intentionally broken windows update? If they really could do that (and I don't think it's possible in any way), and if they really did that, then:

1 - Google and people all around the world would figure out ways of making google work again in any Windows computer.

2 - Microsoft would drown itself in legal issues in no time.

Comment Re:Using M$ as a moniker for Microsoft (Score 1) 438

Are you sure that answer was for me?

I just thought it'd be funny remembering that NASA was using an Access ODBC driver in such a big project. It was just a counter-example of what the GP had said. I wasn't offended at all - I just think there is no reason to think there is a tendency in governments and etc of switching to Linux. I think they should, but I don't think it's happening. Citation needed, you know.

You seem to be a nice guy, sorry I made you so mad.

Look at this. That was me.

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