Sol_Web_Dude - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I miss my pager all the time. (Score 1) 584

by Sol_Web_Dude on Tuesday November 11, 2008 @08:56AM (#25719021) Attached to: Where Have All the Pagers Gone?

I miss mine too.

I had a personal one that I carried so family / friends could contact me anytime. It was small and easy to have clipped on my belt all the time. Cell phones, though small still aren't as small. It was only $14 per month, much cheaper than my current, digital, cell phone. So when I got a page I went and found a ANALOG phone that I could understand the person on the other end. I have trouble und*rst#ing peo@@e whe* tal*** to peopl! on my dig@ cell pho!!#. I also miss my analog cell phone, but that's another story. Did I also mention it was cheap?

Milky Way Is Twice the Size We Thought 301

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday February 20, 2008 @04:01AM from the everything-you-know-is-wrong dept.

Peter writes to tell us about a research group at the University of Sydney in Australia, who in the middle of some calculation wanted to check the numbers everybody uses for the thickness of our galaxy at the core. Using data available freely on the Internet and analyzing it in a spreadsheet, they discovered in a matter of hours that the Milky Way is 12,000 light years thick, vs. the 6,000 that had been the consensus number for some time.

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