Comment A very invasive species (Score 5, Funny) 173
I'd hate to see those Japanese tentacle monsters I hear so much about surf their way to the US—I'm not in to that sort of thing.
Comment Re:About the dog (Score 1) 36
Oh, so the dog which was trying to do everything in its power to save its suicidal owner was the one that ended up dead? Fair enough.
This is why people can often feel more emotional attachment to animals they don't know than to people they don't know.
Comment What I am most interested to know from this... (Score 1) 302
Do they really sound as dull as Ray Romano?
Comment Really...? (Score 1) 131
I still remember the inside cover of my StarCraft CD case saying "Coming in 1999: Diablo 2".
Comment The real question... (Score 1) 353
How many experience points is a prison guard worth? I really need to gain that level so I can finally get my "Weapon Focus (Shiv)" feat.
Comment Results! (Score 2, Insightful) 1060
It's good to know when they put their minds to it, the US government can get results. I just wish they would do it for the good of the nation and its people and not just to save their own greedy asses.
Comment [Insert Obligatory Soviet Russia Joke Here] (Score 3, Funny) 146
Now the rest of you can concentrate on real, intelligent responses.
Don't say I never took one for the team.
Comment So... (Score 0) 93
Does this mean I get another extension...?
Comment Re:No option to go back (Score 0) 72
Oh, God, another false dichotomy! Can we divide and conquer ourselves in any more ways?
You antidichotomites are all the same, trying to tell me how to live my life!
You antidichotomites are all the same, trying to tell me how to live my life!
Submission + - Strange Asteroids Baffle Scientists (space.com)
Raver32 writes: "Two space rocks in our solar system's outer asteroid belt might contain mineral evidence for a new class of asteroids or long eroded mini-worlds.
The asteroids, (7472) Kumakiri and (10537) 1991 RY16, were found to contain basalt, a grey-black mineral that forms much of the crust on Earth and the other inner planets.
Basalt has also been found in space rocks shed by Vesta, the third largest object in the asteroid belt, located between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars. The presence of basalt is evidence that an object was once large enough to sustain internal heating.
"We need now to observe both objects in the near-infrared range to confirm whether they have a basaltic surface," said study leader Rene Duffard of the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia in Grenada, Spain. "If they do, we will need to try to work out where they came from and the fate of their parent objects. If they do not, we will have to come up with a new class of asteroid."
The finding, made using photometric data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), was presented at annual European Planetary Science Congress in Potsdam, Germany"
