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Comment Re:Big game sheep hunting? (Score 3, Informative) 109

Marco Polo argali sheep look very similar to North America's bighorn sheep, with the wrap-around horns. I imagine most of the offspring went to hunting ranches where well heeled trophy "hunters" could collect an apparent trophy without having to win a permit to hunt a real bighorn sheep. Not many bighorn permits are issued and most are by lottery.

Comment Re: Ah HA! I knew it (Score 2) 85

Not sure how I'd establish an improved IQ. I have no idea what my IQ is. I do feel smarter after a few beers, but that hasn't translated into quantitatively positive results. Also, once I wake up I'm not able to fall back asleep (except for a pee break in the middle of the night) so I couldn't check your hypothesis without ingesting some sort of sleeping aid.

Comment Re:You can delete some of the 200,000 old emails (Score 1) 146

It would be helpful if Google made it easy (possible?) to free up space with command strings such as "delete all emails labeled Promotions which are more than a year old". Filters only apply to incoming mail; once an email reaches the Inbox, those operators don't work. Search kinda works, but not well, and limits the number of search results.

Comment Jump on a LEAP chair! (Score 1) 742

I was lucky enough to get a LEAP chair at work.. and a year later, I went out an bought one for my home office (I work from home 2-3 days a week now). For me, it gives more solid support than an Aeron, has all the adjustments I need, and is just a solid, comfortable chair for long days in front of a computer. Highly recommended.
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Submission + - Newfound Planet Has Earth-Like Orbit (space.com)

Raver32 writes: "The new planet, spotted using the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at the McDonald Observatory in West Texas, circles its bloated parent star every 360 days and is located about 300 light-years away, in the constellation Perseus. The red giant star is twice as massive and about 10 times larger than the sun. Its planet is about the size of Jupiter or larger and was discovered using the so-called wobble technique, in which astronomers look for slight wiggles in a star's motion created by the gravitational tug of orbiting planets. The discovery could help astronomers understand what will happen to our sun's brood of planets when it exhausts its store of hydrogen fuel and its outer envelope begins to swell. When that happens in an estimated 5 billion years, our sun will be so big that it will engulf the inner planets and most likely Earth. But long before that happens, life on our planet will have perished and its seas will have boiled away."

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