Comment So, you're littering in space? (Score 1) 62
Can you explain more about "[w]e help each other getting trash off the space station without telling the folks in Houston."
This sounds very suspicious.
Comment No Max lifespan? (Score 1) 290
What about the Indonesian man who's 145 years old?
Comment Quadcycle (Score 1) 99
I count four wheels, not two.
Comment Don't forget (Score 1) 12
The party's tomorrow, guys! =)
Submission + - Einstein letter calling Bible "pretty childish" to be auctioned on eBay (theatlantic.com)
cheesecake23 writes: In an admirably concise piece in The Atlantic, Rebecca J. Rosen summarizes Einstein's subtle views on religion and profound respect for the inexplicable, along with the news that a letter handwritten by the legendary scientist that describes the Bible as a 'collection of honorable, but still primitive legends' and 'pretty childish' will be auctioned off on eBay over the next two weeks. Bidding will begin at $3 million.
Submission + - Pedagogical Bundle Lets You Pay What You Want For Educational software (pedagogicbundle.com)
rycks writes: "Following on the success of the various Humble Bundles for DRM-free video games and eBooks, there is now a new http://pedagogicalbundle.com/ offer. It includes Mulot for mouse training (childrens or old people), Fubuki the brain breaker with mathematical problems, Mental Calculation to learn and train with mathematical tables, Raconte-moi to share voice over pictures stories, and a package with drawings to paint on. The software is GPL'd, without DRM :) As with the Humble Bundles, you can choose how much you'd like to pay, and how the proceeds are split between any of the authors and others."
Comment LIFT OFF! (Score 1) 2
Stratos has lifted off and Felix is on his way to make history!
Submission + - The Stratos balloon is filling! (redbullstratos.com) 2
madcarrots writes: The Red Bull Stratos space jump is about to take place. The balloon is filling up and launch is expected around 10 AM MDT. Check out the live feed of the inflation process... it's beautiful!
Comment Re:I thought they were both the same. (Score 5, Informative) 130
as i understand it, the Event Horizon is the singularity limit from which light cannot escape. the Innermost Stable Orbit is the closest distance a physical object in space can orbit the black hole without being sucked into it.
Comment That link cleaned up (Score 5, Informative) 130
If you're too lazy to cut and paste.
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/10/point-of-no-return-found/
Comment AWESOMESAUCE (Score 0) 12
It'll be cool to hang out with some
Comment Re:Knife professional (Score 0) 298
I prefer "Blade Master."
Comment "Pam, call 911" (Score 0) 237
I love that they were ready (by the phone) for any emergency situation.
Submission + - U.S. military commissions sock puppet program (guardian.co.uk)
chrb writes: The Guardian and The Telegraph are reporting that U.S. based Ntrepid Corporation has been awarded a $2.76 million contract to develop software aimed at manipulating social media. The project aims to enable military personnel to control multiple "sock puppets" located at a range of geographically diverse IP addresses, with the aim of spreading pro-U.S. propaganda. The project will not target English speaking web sites (yet) but will be limited to foreign languages, including Arabic, Farsi, Urdu and Pashto. The project will be funded as part of the $200 million Operation Earnest Voice (OEV) program run by U.S. Central Command.
Submission + - Android Spanks Iphone 4 in web browsing (bloomberg.com)
bongey writes: In a series of measuring real world web load speeds on the Android base Nexus S phone spanked the iPhone 4. The android phone and Iphone 4 median load times were 2.144s and 3.254s respectively. The sample size was 45,000 page loads, across 1000 web sites. It also follows rumors that Apple is intentionally slowing down web apps to make there native apps more favorable. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/03/app-store-html5-slowdown/
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