> slamming a jet fighter into a large concrete block at 481 miles per hour (775 km/h)

The post I replied to specified a 747
- F4 30,000 kg empty, 747 > 162,400 kg empty, 300,000+ max
- the F4 test had water in the fuel tanks
- F4 impact speed 775 kmh, 747 mac speed 998 kmh (probably not worse case: fully loaded, descending, thrusts on).

So a fraction of the weight, no fuel, low speed: not very reassuring :-(

> Around here, the nuclear power plants are designed to survive a 747 flying into them.

Care to share a reference ? IIRC, the last I heard the *best* designs currently in use could only survive a direct hit from a light aircraft (sorry: no ref !).

Well if you had ever breathed the air we get round here this would not surprise you: all you need is a condenser :-)

This is Slashdot: the correct phrasing is "In space no-one can hear you whoosh" ;-)

> Electric vehicles for everyone powered by nuclear power are a complete zero emission system,

Only for a very limited definition of "zero emission".

(With a 5 digit Slashdot ID I am sure you know that the building and dismantling of huge numbers of cars, and some nuclear power stations create huge amounts of pollution. Then there is uranium mining, waste disposal...)

> It's not safe for the simple reason that the automatic cars will drive the speed limit, and cause accidents because everybody else is going 20 over.

Is this really true, or is it just an Urban Myth invented to justify breaking the law and endangering other road users lives ?
Citation ?

At the risk of killing my Slashdot cred: I love Firefox.
I have not noticed any memory leak problems, my 15+ Add-Ons have not broken with FF updates, I do not care what version they call it (major or minor number updates) and I can not remember when it last crashed on me.

Why not 4 space craft, to measure in 3D, like ESA's Cluster mission ?
NASA Budget cuts ?!
(The Cluster website is a bit out of date: the mission is currently extended to, IIRC, 2015.)

I have done it several times with 2 different keyboards on our "family" PC (i.e. the one that the grubby little kids used to use !). Warm shower, stiff brush and air dried, usually for several days whilst they were away visiting granny. Always worked fine afterwards.

It is my understanding that Stuxnet got in on a USB stick: nothing at all to do with the Internet !
(True the actual controllers were networked to the compromised Windows PCs, but still not the "internet".)

Dear Filmmakers,
If you want my Euros in your till, then try spending the money on scripts and acting, directing, costumes... !!
Regards, Another-Old-Fart

Anonymous Coward:

> Nothing to hide, nothing to fear.

Interesting that you post anonymously then !!

> whether there's still an ongoing debate about "emacs vs vi"

No: Xemacs won already !

Aren't all technical solutions to social problems doomed to fail in the end ?
My question is: why do so many people think so little of their fellow human's lives that there risk them for so little ? (also applies to drink/drive, RLJing, speeding, ...)

> Seriously, what does a "web app marketplace" have to offer that isn't already done better through one of the above resources?

My thought exactly: when I read "web app marketplace" not available on Linux I think "feature", not "bug" !