Comment Not so great British intelligence test? (Score 1) 195
Or... maybe if you sufficiently muck up an IQ test you get results that don't correlate with reality.
Submission + - Alpha Centauri has an Earth-sized planet
The Bad Astronomer writes: "Astronomers have announced that the nearest star system in the sky — Alpha Centauri — has an Earth-sized planet orbiting one of its stars. Alpha Cen is technically a three-star system: a binary composed of two stars very much like the Sun, orbited by a third, a red dwarf, much farther out. Using the Doppler technique (looking for very small changes in the velocities of the stars) astronomers detected a planet orbiting the smaller of the two stars in the binary, Alpha Centauri B. The planet has a mass only 1.13 times that of the Earth, making it one of the smallest yet detected.However, it orbits the star only 6 million kilometers out, so it's far too hot to be habitable.
The signal from the planet is extremely weak but solidly detected, giving astronomers even greater hope of being able to find an Earth-like planet orbiting a star in its habitable zone."
The signal from the planet is extremely weak but solidly detected, giving astronomers even greater hope of being able to find an Earth-like planet orbiting a star in its habitable zone."
Comment womb for improvement (Score 3, Interesting) 358
From the spacetime topological perspective, would this make her the first human Klein bottle?
Comment Memory preservation (Score 1) 527
This may be taking your question too literally, but hey, this is Slashdot. Currently, the best chance of actually preserving your wife's memories is cryopreservation, through an organization such as Alcor. This is, of course, a huge long shot -- but there is a small chance that something like this might work, so it's worth considering. Another up-and-coming technique for preservation is brain plastination.
Comment Re:No experimental basis for a theory of everythin (Score 5, Funny) 511
Yah, OK, so please, you try it.
-Garrett
-Garrett
Comment 486/25 for $100 (Score 1) 732
A month or so ago, I picked up a Compaq LTE Lite/25 with a 200Mb HD, 20MB RAM, and a 9600-baud modem, and Win95; the seller threw in a second full machine (which needs a bit of tinkering to get working), plus an 800Mb HD, for free.
The total cost? A flat CAN$100, or about US$65.
This li'l thing does everything I need a computer to do, with two exceptions: 1. I don't have the right set of solar panels and adapters, so it's still tied to power sockets, and 2. Similarly, I don't have the right adapters to connect the modem to my cell phone, so I have to attach it to a phone outlet to connect to the 'net (my ISP being, of course, the local freenet).
The total cost? A flat CAN$100, or about US$65.
This li'l thing does everything I need a computer to do, with two exceptions: 1. I don't have the right set of solar panels and adapters, so it's still tied to power sockets, and 2. Similarly, I don't have the right adapters to connect the modem to my cell phone, so I have to attach it to a phone outlet to connect to the 'net (my ISP being, of course, the local freenet).
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