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Comment Re:Receiver works how? (Score 1) 262

If neutrinos can pass through thousands of miles of solid rock without apparently being affected by it, how are you going to make a receiving antenna of any practical size?

Well we know from the FTL neutrino saga that it can be done. The idea I believe is that if the beam can be focused enough you make up for it by sending a massive quantity of neutrinos and hoping that just one of them hits... A bit like a telescope taking a picture with exposure times on order of minutes to hours.

For the neutrino sources on earth I forget exactly how it works but the signature you get in the detector registers a double hit that allows you to separate it from noise of other sources so these things don't need to be burried under thousands of feet of rock either as they are normally.

There are a couple of ways you can detect neutrinos. The easiest to imagine is chenerkov radiation. To understand this, acknowledge that the speed of light slows down in different mediums - water for example. A neutrino traveling through water moves faster than light through the water (but still slower than c). The neutrino creates - in essence - a shock wave behind it as it travels through water. As the light hits the shock wave, it is defracted and emits light of different colors - other various wavelengths. By looking at the amount of diffraction, you can indirectly measure the amount of shock waves --> amount of neutrinos.

Comment Just Read FoxNews Re:obviously (Score 0, Flamebait) 429

I think the quality of the posts are directly related to the average intelligence of the article posting. I also think that as soon as you have to log in with a real name/facebook account, the quality of the postings does go up. I have participated in many insightful threads on /. and other tech forums. However, usually daily, I read the threads on virtually any FoxNews article just to make sure that their posters are just as racist, bigoted, niece, and hateful as they were the day before. I would assume that their readers think slightly different than the rest of us here. So while as a whole, I think Gawker was right in saying that forums are a bad idea.

Comment finally something (Score -1, Offtopic) 213

the search features on myspace have been slow/pathetic. hopefully google with their vast infrastructure will speed up some of the site by using some sort of distributed computing for the search features, which i'm sure requires a lot of cpu speed to search close to 100 million users. i just hope google doesnt try to merge my myspace account with my google account.

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