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Comment faster than the speed of light? (Score 1) 37

by roygbivjr on Saturday April 01, 2023 @05:54PM (#63417560) Attached to: Space Scientists Reveal Brightest Gamma Explosion Ever

How can something be seen here on earth that occurred 1.9 billion years ago but is 2.4 billion light years distant? I suppose the reason is that 500 million years ago it was closer to us, or around 1.9 billion light years away. Maybe a bit closer since the ejected material was traveling 99.2% of c.

Comment Re:In other news ... (Score 1) 273

by roygbivjr on Saturday June 08, 2019 @11:14AM (#58730630) Attached to: EU Laws Requiring Audible Warning Sounds For Electric Cars Take Effect July 1

This is the obvious bicycle sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... the delightful clip clop of coconuts from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

The 10 Most Absurd Scientific Papers 127

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 11, 2010 @03:14PM from the burning-potential-of-fire dept.

Lanxon writes "It's true: 'Effects of cocaine on honeybee dance behavior,' 'Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time,' and 'Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull?' are all genuine scientific research papers, and all were genuinely published in journals or similar publications. Wired's presentation of a collection of the most bizarrely-named research papers contains seven other gems, including one about naval fluff and another published in The Journal of Sex Research."

The Grid, Our Cars, and the Net 222

Posted by kdawson on Saturday May 09, 2009 @08:32PM from the one-idea-to-link-them-all dept.

Wired is running a piece on the big idea of Robin Chase — the founder of Zipcar — that we need to build our smart power grid on open standards and include cars as nodes in a mesh network. "'Today in Iraq and Afghanistan, soldiers and tanks and airplanes are running around using mesh networks,' said Chase. 'It works, it's secure, it's robust. If a node or device disappears, the network just reroutes the data.' And, perhaps most important, it's in motion. ... Build a smart electrical grid that uses Internet protocols and puts a mesh network device in every structure that has an electric meter. Sweep out the half dozen networks in our cars and replace them with an open, Internet-based platform. Add a mesh router. A nationwide mesh cloud will form, linking vehicles that can connect with one another and with the rest of the network. It's cooperative gain gone national, gone mobile, gone open."

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