Comment Re:Not so gentle, it has a Nuclear powered LASER! (Score 1) 218
At least it doesn't look like a shark... that'd be trouble. Ok, it'd be cool, but still trouble.
Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking 794
lord_rotorooter writes "Felix Ortiz, D-Brooklyn, introduced a bill that would ruin restaurant food and baked goods as we know them. The measure (if passed) would ban the use of all forms of salt in the preparation and cooking of food for all restaurants or bakeries. While the use of too much salt can contribute to health problems, the complete banning of salt would have negative impacts on food chemistry. Not only does salt enhance flavor, it controls bacteria, slows yeast activity and strengthens dough by tightening gluten. Salt also inhibits the growth of microbes that spoil cheese."
Comment Re:good (Score 1) 920
NASA does a great job on uncrewed probes, and that's a mission that can't be carried out by private enterprise.
Sorry... not quite right. Look a bit closer, and you'll find that in many cases, NASA only manages the development of those missions - the actual development, and often operation, of these *IS* being done by private enterprise.
As much as I hate to use Wikipedia:
Deep Space 1 - built by Spectrum Astro
Deep Impact - built by Ball Aerospace
Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Phoenix, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - Lockheed Martin
just to list a few...
NASA really needs to get back in the core research business - aerodynamics, propulsion, atmospherics, etc., and let industry apply that knowledge to fly missions that answer questions that further our knowledge. They don't need to be both the researcher and the manufacturer...
Comment Re:well this is where they are (Score 1) 133
floor(0.49)How do you write zero?
