Tom K - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Not in like a "that's wrong" way (Score 1) 441

by Tom K on Monday December 22, 2014 @05:21PM (#48655273) Attached to: How Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Plans To Live 120 Years

"I'm selling lots on my man-made floating island nation. I can see you're skeptical, but don't worry, it's not up to code."

Comment Not in like a "that's wrong" way (Score 1) 441

by Tom K on Monday December 22, 2014 @05:14PM (#48655223) Attached to: How Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Plans To Live 120 Years

I mean, I kinda get it, but there's always going to be something undeniably hilarious about declaring "I want to live somewhere with looser building codes."

Comment Blue Harvest (Score 1) 390

by Tom K on Friday November 28, 2014 @10:20PM (#48482681) Attached to: First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released

Now with more blue.

Submission + - Billion Star Surveyor 'Gaia' Lifts Off

Submitted by mrspoonsi on Thursday December 19, 2013 @08:57AM

mrspoonsi writes: BBC Reports: Europe has launched the Gaia satellite — one of the most ambitious space missions in history. The 740m-euro (£620m) observatory lifted off from the Sinnamary complex in French Guiana at 06:12 local time (09:12 GMT). Gaia is going to map the precise positions and distances to more than a billion stars. This should give us the first realistic picture of how our Milky Way galaxy is constructed. Gaia's remarkable sensitivity will lead also to the detection of many thousands of previously unseen objects, including new planets and asteroids. Gaia will use this ultra-stable and supersensitive optical equipment to pinpoint its sample of stars with extraordinary confidence. By repeatedly viewing its targets over five years, it should get to know the brightest stars' coordinates down to an error of just seven micro-arcseconds. "This angle is equivalent to the size of a euro coin on the Moon as seen from Earth," explained Prof Alvaro Gimenez, Esa's director of science.

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