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Comment Re:A Constitutional Rat's Nest (Score 1) 698

Wrong, it doesn't ever "cross the line", free citizens must always have the ability to be sufficiently armed and equipped with the latest in INDIVIDUAL weapons technology to protect against tyranny. It doesn't matter if the year is 1800 with flintlock muskets, the year 2015, with modern semi-automatic rifles and handguns, or the year 2500, with directed energy weapons and god knows what other technology will be available in that time frame. Protection against tyranny doesn't ever cross the line, no matter what year it is.

Submission + - The Universe Is Dying, Galactic Survey Shows (discovery.com)

astroengine writes: A study of more than 200,000 galaxies, encompassing wavelengths of light from the far ultraviolet to infrared, shows that the universe is producing half as much energy as it did 2 billion years ago and continues to fade. “Newer galaxies are simply putting out less energy than galaxies did in the past,” astronomer Mehmet Alpaslan, with NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., told Discovery News. In other words, astronomers, for the first time, have gathered observational evidence that our universe is slowly marching toward its eventual heat death (in a few trillion years time).

Comment Complete BS (Score 1) 1197

Doesn't matter what some BS law says regarding drones over private property, you are well within your rights to shoot the drone out of the sky if it is invading your privacy and on your property. In this instance, the man acted appropriately and used birdshot to knock it out of the sky. This man is being illegally charged for a nonexistent crime, I smell a major lawsuit in the making against the asshats who ILLEGALLY CHARGED HIM.

Comment The general public tends to ignore warnings (Score 1) 630

Alcohol and cigarettes have health warnings on them and people still buy these products. To think that most people know the differences between artificial sweeteners like sucralose and aspartame, and to believe that most people will not buy a product due to a belief that a particular sweetener is more harmful than another, is absolutely ludicrous.

Comment My school district issues iPads (Score 2) 325

My school district has about 5000 students give or take and currently issues iPads to all middle and high school students. The students use their Ipads for virtually all assignments and this is achieved through an app called notability, this works in conjunction with another app called iTunes U which organizes assignments and courses. This program seems to be successful when deployed on a small scale as seen in my school district. However, successfully enacting this program on a scale the size of L.A could prove extremely difficult to say the least.
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Organic Molecules Found Circling Nearby Star 33

sciencehabit writes Astronomers have detected chemical precursors of building blocks of life in the large disk of dust and gas whirling around a young nearby star. These complex organic molecules, two forms of cyanide and one chemically related compound, likely formed after the protoplanetary disk collapsed, the researchers say. The same chemicals are found in roughly similar proportions in comets circling our sun, which may have brought them to Earth billions of years ago. "We know that the solar system isn't unique in its number of planets or abundance of water," says Karin Öberg, an astrochemist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "Now we know that we're not unique in organic chemistry. From a life in the universe point of view, this is great news."

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