meisteg - Slashdot User

Comment I'm skeptical... (Score 1) 92

by meisteg on Friday October 05, 2012 @09:25AM (#41557885) Attached to: Curiosity Rover Makes First Foursquare Check-In On Another Planet

I find it hard to believe that Curiosity actually did the check-in from Mars. It's more likely a NASA PR person did it, just like they do for their Twitter posts "from Mars" (see @MarsPhoenix for example).

Comment Re:S, Galaxy, and ...? (Score 3, Informative) 128

by meisteg on Thursday January 12, 2012 @10:17PM (#38681360) Attached to: Google Launches Style Guide For Android Developers

Anyone know what that tablet is behind the Nexus S and the Galaxy Nexus?

It's the Motorola Xoom.

Submission + - Asteroid impact threat

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Maggie McKee

on Saturday February 17, 2007 @12:43PM

Maggie McKee writes: "Kamchatkans and Venezuelans beware. A 20-million-tonne asteroid could be heading your way. Californians have even more reason to worry — the asteroid is more likely to hit the Pacific Ocean, triggering a tsunami that could devastate the west coast of North America. These are among the scenarios projected for asteroid Apophis, which researchers now say has a 1 in 45,000 chance of hitting Earth on 13 April 2036. Calculations show it would strike somewhere along a narrow track that stretches eastward from Siberia to the west coast of Africa. The threat, while small, is real enough to merit a United Nations protocol for dealing with the problem, experts say."

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