Comment Re: I imagine ....the solution is (Score 1) 132
Comment Re:KSP (Score 1) 150
Comment Re: Thanks for making my point (Score 2) 928
Comment Re:Ridiculous (Score 1) 139
and a lever-arm on the parachute rig to angle the capsule on the descent (not sure why, I guess for a better landing).
Wild guess: to make splashdown less impactful by avoiding a "belly flop" and hitting the water edge-first.
Comment Re:It's not your phone (Score 1) 610
Comment Re:Practical applications? (Score 1) 238
Comment Of course cisco opposes neutrality... (Score 1) 337
Translation:
"Different bits do matter differently. We SELL systems that allows this to occur."
Comment Advantages? (Score 1) 59
> ISS-Above has an advantage or two over those apps
But the advantages it supposedly has have nothing to do with it being a dedicted piece of hardware, and could be implemented better and cheaper in an app...
Comment Nonsense (Score 4, Interesting) 293
"The thinking is that about 100 million years after the Big Bang, this supermassive object attracted the gas and dust that eventually became the Milky Way. But there is a problem with this theory--100 million years is not long enough for a black hole to grow so big. The alternative explanation is that Sagittarius A* is a wormhole..."
No, the widely accepted alternative (aka, the actual mainstream consensus) is that the supermassive black hole and the galaxy grew together, not that the black hole came first and was supermassive before the galaxy existed. This wormhole theory is an answer to a question no one is asking.
Comment Re:What about NNTP? P2P? (Score 1) 517
They said the web, not the internet.