esoterus - Slashdot User

Comment Re:to echo a commenter on TFA.... (Score 2) 322

by esoterus on Sunday March 06, 2011 @10:38PM (#35402088) Attached to: Chandrayaan-1 Spots Giant Underground Chamber On the Moon

The Moon is indeed... a harsh mistress.

Comment Unsaid but... (Score 5, Funny) 181

by esoterus on Friday February 25, 2011 @08:37PM (#35319198) Attached to: HarperCollins Wants Library EBooks to Self-Destruct After 26 Loans

Harper Collins also wants libraries to self-destruct after being used 26 times.

Comment it's coming... (Score 3, Funny) 236

by esoterus on Thursday February 17, 2011 @09:00PM (#35239610) Attached to: New Android Malware Robs Bandwidth For Fake Searches

McAfee for Droid... ugh

Comment Light pollution is fixable (Score 4, Insightful) 612

by esoterus on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @11:55AM (#28266729) Attached to: One Fifth of World's Population Can't See Milky Way At Night

If we could start getting in the habit of focusing our lights down through the use of hoods and lamp covers we could probably make fast, cheap improvements on this problem. Light is wasted going up, with the exception of cool satellite shots showing the Earth at night. I for one would love to be able to see more than magnitude 1 and brighter stars from my rooftop in Brooklyn.

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