Comment Senno ecto gammat! (Score 1) 233

by Microbomb on Monday March 26, 2012 @04:47PM (#39478497) Attached to: Findings Cast Doubt On Moon Origins

Wasn't the origin of the moon already covered in "The Fifth Element"?

Comment Re:What about MySQL? (Score 2, Informative) 906

by ungerware on Monday April 20, 2009 @02:35PM (#27649783) Attached to: Oracle Buys Sun

I don't know where the parent poster got the impression that Sun doesn't accept contributions to NetBeans. I'm a non-Sun contributor.

Major Cache of Fossils Unearthed In Los Angeles 215

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @02:18AM from the sticky-underfoot dept.

aedmunde sends along news from the LA Times: "A nearly intact mammoth, dubbed Zed, is among the remarkable discoveries near the La Brea Tar Pits. It's the largest known deposit of Pleistocene ice age fossils... in what might seem to be the unlikeliest of places — under an old May Co. parking lot in L.A.'s tony Miracle Mile shopping district. ...huge chunks of soil from the site have been removed intact and now sit in large wooden crates on the back lot... The 23 crates range... from the size of a desk to that of a small delivery truck... There were, in fact, 16 separate deposits on the site, an amount that, by her estimate, would have taken 20 years to excavate conventionally. ... Carefully identifying the edges of each deposit, her team dug trenches around them and underneath, isolating the deposits on dirt pedestals. After wrapping heavy plastic around the deposits, workers built wooden crates similar to tree boxes and lifted them out individually with a heavy crane. The biggest one weighed 123,000 pounds."