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John Carmack To Cut Space Tourism Prices 50% 185

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like John Carmack, through Armadillo Aerospace, will be battling Burt Rutan and Richard Branson to make space travel affordable. From the article: 'Space Adventures is going to use an Armadillo Technologies rocket to launch amateur astronauts 62 miles into the sky. Nothing new, except that they will do it at half the price of Virgin Galactic's ticket, and in a real rocket!' Perhaps I'll visit space, after all."

Comment It's not just Bing... (Score 1) 315

It's not just Bing that lit the fire under Google that helped make this happen, Facebook is actually their most potent threat - wrote about it here. They're challenging Google for ad revenue, for search, for email, the list goes on. I saw some pretty compelling discussion on Twitter speculating about how long till Facebook comes out with their own browser.

So the question I have is, will we see a Facebook superbowl ad next year?

Comment Love the story, thought it was a dupe/old but... (Score 1) 149

I read this and thought, haven't I seen this before? But no, apparently The Telegraph published a similar story in 2008 about another gentleman, living in england, who has also taken some amazing space photographs from his "garden shed." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/3526362/Amateur-astronomer-captures-dawn-of-the-universe-from-back-garden-observatory.html - interesting.

Comment Re:Try to give them help and this is what they get (Score 1) 265

Right - communications off island provided by Ericsson? I don't think so. That and hams aren't trying to provide emergency communications forever- fundamentally they really are just there because they have radios and they hear people asking for help- if you had one and you heard someone asking for help would you respond? That's how it goes and that's basically how amateur radio helps out in disasters. Ham radios are everywhere - when disaster strikes the closest working radio is fired up and whoever hears the call from that radio on the other side does whatever they can do to help the person making the call. It's that simple.

Comment Jon St. John's Duke Nukem outtakes (Score 3, Funny) 195

I just have to share this here - if you are a Duke Nukem fan... or really if you are just a fan of 'the funnay' then be sure to visit 3D Realms' Duke Nukem outtakes collection page: http://www.3drealms.com/duke3d/outtakes.html (note, it says realplayer is required by they also have .wav links)

Comment Alien Swarm: Infested (Score 1) 100

Congrats to The Nameless Mod team, the mod (well, now a full retail game in development) I'm really looking forward to is Alien Swarm: Infested - been in development since 2005 - http://www.blackcatgames.com/swarm/ - I played the UT2004 total conversion mod back in the day and it was AWESOME.

Bring it on! (also DNF)

PlayStation (Games)

Journal Journal: eBay may be ripping off PS3 and Wii sellers

I was one of the lucky ones able to get a PS3 on launch day. I did what all but one other person my line did, I put it up on eBay.

However when I posted the auction I noticed that it wasn't getting any bids. Every other unit I looked at was getting bids within seconds of getting posted on eBay.

I decided to search for my auction. It wasn't listed. I was able to get to it through My eBay but no search I did turned up any results.

User Journal

Journal SPAM: Birds 2

Birds are said to be the direct offspring of dinosaurs. Dinosaurs extincted, but birds survived.

When the Ice Age arrived, birds were able to fly from cold countries to warm ones. Birds were small enough so they didn't have to have lots of preys. In the age few animals only survived, it must have worked well.

That's it.

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