Comment Re:I like the idea (Score 1) 126
But then he will be chastised and told not to come back!
Comment Re:not true for everyone (Score 1) 201
And, no doubt, all the ramen you eat contributes to it all ;-)
Comment Re:Most porn isn't blocked (Score 2, Funny) 126
That's the censors "reviewing" the ..er.. material
Comment Re:Global warming is the cause (Score 2) 285
Smart people train themselves not to miss the forest for the trees.
Comment Re:Was Not Impressed at All (Score 1) 955
The difference between this and Star Wars is that George Lucas lost his touch after ep IV. The lost writers lost their touch after Season 1
Comment Re:Not impressed, but here's my take (Score 1) 955
Jacobs Ladder?
Comment Re:Mod parent up (Score 3, Informative) 269
Review is done by 'peers' i.e. other scientists, who do this as a service - no charge. The only cost incurred by the journal is typesetting and proofreading.
Comment Re:Blasphemy! (Score 1) 640
Don't forget- they are your ancestors too!
Comment Deus Ex - Hong Kong (Score 1) 385
They had this in Deus Ex hong hong, as a mechanism to prevent you from doing any shooting on that level
Comment 4D tris (Score 1) 303
Comment Re:xkcd (Score 1) 303
Funnily enough, when I read the comic early in the morning the reference to the game was absent (The 2nd panel was not there) though the theme was the same.
Comment Re:After Reading The IIPA Documents (Score 1) 650
Whaat?! He read the article? He even read the source documents? He even tried to understand it? He even tried to explain it to us morons who like to make knee-jerk reactions to the hyperbole headlines that is Slashdot? Who let him in? Who let him in?
Comment Re:Strange fascination (Score 1) 457
What is with you being so close minded, judgmental and groupist? Guns aren't bad and repulsive. Some people are sure, but that's hardly the guns' fault. Unless you are talking about this gun
Journal Journal: Rubble pile asteroids
As a child I learned about asteroids and have pictured them as solid pieces of rock of different sizes. Apparently, though, there have been suggestions since the 1970s and recent empirical data that some asteroids are actually collections of smaller rocks held loosely together by mutual gravity.
http://assorted-experience.blogspot.com/2010/01/rubble-pile-asteroids.html (blogspot, no advertising, single page
Comment Or they can make us Jaded (Score 1) 1
Because the future is hyped up to much. I remember being depressed for a while in my 20s because we didn't have moonbases and interplanetary spaceships as the books had promised me. It took me a while to realize I was actually living in the future. The advances were in a different field (computing) and I was living with the advances, but not noticing them.
