mknewman - Slashdot User

Comment We all knew this was coming, right? (Score 1) 256

by mknewman on Friday April 29, 2016 @11:44AM (#52013361) Attached to: Doctor Ready to Perform First Human Head Transplant

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/...

Comment Bigelow Genesis modules (Score 1) 102

by mknewman on Monday April 11, 2016 @09:42AM (#51883683) Attached to: SpaceX Delivers World's First Inflatable Room For Astronauts

What about Bigelow's Genesis 1 and 2 inflatable modules. They have been on orbit for many years. http://bigelowaerospace.com/bi...

Comment Re:Citizen eco-drive atomic watches (Score 1) 291

by mknewman on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @09:39AM (#51699655) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To "Atomic" Clocks?

I have had one of these for about 15 years. WWV, Solar and tough as nails. The newer ones even look better, I bought one for my dad that looks like a normal watch. Batteries last about 10 years if you wear short sleeves enough to charge them occasionally. Without a solar charge the battery lasts about 6 months. I have replaced the battery twice, they are about $20 and fairly easy to replace if you are handy and careful. Just watch out for the tiny springs.

Submission + - The BBC is Bringing Back Robot Wars, the Original Robot Fighting Show (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by mknewman on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @12:57PM

mknewman writes: Sure, BattleBots was cool, but let’s not forget the real father of Robot TV deathmatches broadcast for our pleasure: the classic BBC series Robot Wars. Fans of violent robotic combat rejoice then, because the BBC are bringing back the series with more robots, and some mandatory science bits to distract you from the FIGHTING ROBOTS.

Comment The best and worst parts (Score 1) 242

by mknewman on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @10:04AM (#50670083) Attached to: Review: The Martian

Worst line: "I'm going to science the shit out of this!" (Not in the book). Best line: "You've got smoke coming off of you" (That line wasn't in the book but it was mentioned that he stunk). Unfortunate that Ridley changed the ending. The lame Ironman routine sucked big ones. Watch his hands after he cuts his suit, he would have been dead by the time he got to the airlock. On a positive, I liked the book and the movie as moderately scientific sci-fi. Mars' radiation would still kill you if you had been on it for 2 years in a tent though.

Comment Moon and Mars are both silly (Score 1) 684

by mknewman on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @04:35PM (#50577515) Attached to: Let's Not Go To Mars

Go to the Asteroid Belt and find nice valuable rocks and volatiles floating around. No need to expend Delta-V to land and take off. Even the big asteroids have minimal gravity. Really though, what we need to concentrate on is finding habitable extra-solar planets and send some probes there. Earth may be a burnt cinder by the time we hear back, but the longer we wait the longer it will be. Inhabit the Solar System and then move out, even if we get there and the planet is a dud we can live in space indefinitely.

Comment Re:TurboTax (Score 1) 889

by mknewman on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @01:39PM (#50480061) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Windows-Only Apps Would You Most Like To See On Linux?

+1 for TurboTax

Comment Past mission history (Score 2) 99

by mknewman on Friday September 04, 2015 @09:34AM (#50456849) Attached to: NASA To 'Lasso' a Comet To Hitchhike Across the Solar System

Seeing that the past tether attempts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... haven't been so successful I think this type of mission is a bit premature.

Comment Tag line (Score 1) 60

by mknewman on Friday August 21, 2015 @06:36PM (#50366415) Attached to: The Real NASA Technologies In 'The Martian'

I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this! Looks like the worst sci-fi movie since The Astronaut Farmer. Quit taking liberties, Hollywood. We are SMART.

Comment Rick Perry (Score 1) 686

by mknewman on Thursday August 13, 2015 @08:48AM (#50308197) Attached to: The current candidate I'd most like to see resign:

Rick Perry is not in office. He's currently fighting corruption charges in Texas.

Comment Like this? (Score 2) 80

by mknewman on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @10:27AM (#50255661) Attached to: Tilting 4WD 'Spider Car' Makes Light Work of Bizarre Terrain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Submission + - Amazon Announces New Car Show Featuring the Old Top Gear Presenters (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by mknewman on Thursday July 30, 2015 @11:05AM

mknewman writes: Amazon has announced that Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will be reuniting to create “an all-new car show” that will be exclusively on Amazon Prime.

The new show will be produced by the old-time Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman and is scheduled to go into production “shortly.” It will apparently appear on screens in 2016. For what it’s worth, Jeremy Clarkson has said that the move makes him “feel like I’ve climbed out of a bi-plane and into a spaceship.”

Submission + - Rocket Lab Unveils "Electric" Rocket Engine 1

Submitted by Adrian Harvey on Saturday April 18, 2015 @05:09AM

Adrian Harvey writes: The New Zealand based commercial space company Rocket Lab has unveiled their new rocket engine which the media is describing as battery-powered. It still uses rocket fuel, of course, but has an entirely new propulsion cycle which uses electric motors to drive its turbopumps.

To add to the interest over the design, it uses 3D printing for all its primary components. First launch is expected this year, with commercial operations commencing in 2016.

Submission + - The origin of the first light in the Universe

Submitted by StartsWithABang on Friday April 17, 2015 @07:55PM

StartsWithABang writes: Before there were planets, galaxies, or even stars in the Universe, there really was light. We see that light, left over today, in the form of the Cosmic Microwave Background, or the remnant glow from the Big Bang. But these photons outnumber the matter in our Universe by more than a-billion-to-one, and are the most numerous thing around. So where did they first come from? Science has the answer.

Submission + - CERN researchers confirm existence of the Force (web.cern.ch)

Submitted by mknewman on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @10:45AM

mknewman writes: Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider just recently started testing the accelerator for running at the higher energy of 13 TeV, and already they have found new insights into the fundamental structure of the universe. Though four fundamental forces – the strong force, the weak force, the electromagnetic force and gravity – have been well documented and confirmed in experiments over the years, CERN announced today the first unequivocal evidence for the Force. “Very impressive, this result is,” said a diminutive green spokesperson for the laboratory.

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