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Comment Re:Now to bring them back (Score 2, Informative) 347

by mnbob on Friday October 08, 2010 @08:28PM (#33842440) Attached to: Mystery of the Dying Bees Solved

Consider getting a colony of your own. It's the closest thing you'll ever have to an alien civilzation in your backyard.

I started this year and the time investment is very low once the colony is established. Most of the time they'll be happier if you just leave them alone.

http://www.beesource.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=275

Yellowstone Supervolcano Larger Than First Thought 451

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @11:50AM from the even-superer dept.

drewtheman writes "New studies of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park shows the plume and the magma chamber under the volcano are larger than first thought and contradicts claims that only shallow hot rock exists. University of Utah research professor of geophysics Robert Smith led four separate studies that verify a plume of hot and molten rock at least 410 miles deep that rises at an angle from the northwest."

Comment Re:Electric car with problems? (Score 1) 308

by mnbob on Thursday December 03, 2009 @07:16PM (#30318320) Attached to: Electric Mini Cooper Has Rough Start

It would take a few thousand watts just to keep the cabin above freezing on those days. 20 years from now we might have cars catching fire because our dino-fueled space heaters tip over on the onramp...

Hitler's Stealth Fighter 582

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 24, 2009 @09:36AM from the time-for-a-whole-new-round-of-ww2-games dept.

DesScorp writes "Aviation Week reports on a television special from the National Geographic Channel on what may have been the world's first true stealth fighter, the Horten Ho 229, a wooden design that was to include a layer of carbon material sandwiched in the leading edge to defeat radar. Northrop Grumman, experts at stealth technology from their Tacit Blue and B-2 programs, have built a full-size replica of the airframe and tested it at their desert facilities where they determined that the design was indeed stealthy, and would have been practically invisible to Britain's Chain Home radar system of WWII."

A History of Rogue 240

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @04:51AM from the not-rogue-origins dept.

blacklily8 writes "Gamasutra has published "The History of Rogue: Have @ You, You Deadly Zs." Despite only the most 'primitive' audiovisuals, Rogue has continued to excite gamers and programmers worldwide, and has been ported, enhanced, and forked now for over two decades. What is it about Wichman and Toy's old UNIX RPG that has sent so many gamers to their deaths in the Dungeons of Doom, desperately seeking the fabled Amulet of Yendor? This article covers the history of the game, including the Epyx failure to make a ton of cash selling it in 1983. It also goes into rogue-like culture and development."

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