Comment Re:This will be interesting (Score 1) 72
My 3a is about two years old, and works just as well as it did the day I first turned it on. I'm not sure I do, though.
Comment Re:Press release (Score 1) 116
Maybe it's "cofeve" in Chinese.
Comment Re:Daily Business Usage (Score 0) 535
Shows how much I pay attention to them any more. They're not even worth the comic value these days.
Comment Re:Goes both ways... (Score 0) 645
Did somebody add a corollary to Godwin's Law and not tell me? I know religion != Hitler, but sheesh...
Comment Daily Business Usage (Score 0) 535
When the Nigerian scammers are using Chinese for their daily business, then I'll believe that it's supplanted English as a major language on the Internet.
Big Dipper "Star" Actually a Sextuplet System 88
Theosis sends word that an astronomer at the University of Rochester and his colleagues have made the surprise discovery that Alcor, one of the brightest stars in the Big Dipper, is actually two stars; and it is apparently gravitationally bound to the four-star Mizar system, making the whole group a sextuplet. This would make the Mizar-Alcor sextuplet the second-nearest such system known. The discovery is especially surprising because Alcor is one of the most studied stars in the sky. The Mizar-Alcor system has been involved in many "firsts" in the history of astronomy: "Benedetto Castelli, Galileo's protege and collaborator, first observed with a telescope that Mizar was not a single star in 1617, and Galileo observed it a week after hearing about this from Castelli, and noted it in his notebooks... Those two stars, called Mizar A and Mizar B, together with Alcor, in 1857 became the first binary stars ever photographed through a telescope. In 1890, Mizar A was discovered to itself be a binary, being the first binary to be discovered using spectroscopy. In 1908, spectroscopy revealed that Mizar B was also a pair of stars, making the group the first-known quintuple star system."
Comment Absolutely amazing... (Score 0) 447
Does everybody else here enjoy the delicious irony of this? This is the same organization that, for the past several centuries, have castigated and demonized the very groups of early scientists who laid the foundation for this technology to begin with?
Sure, renounce your science, at least until we can use it and claim we're doing what's right for the planet.
Dead Goldfish Offered The Vote In Illinois 216
Election officials in northern Chicago want to know why voter registration material was sent to Princess, a dead goldfish. "I am just stunned at the level of people compromising the integrity of the voting process," said Lake County Clerk Willard Helander, a Republican, who said she has spotted problems with nearly 1,000 voter registrations this year. Beth Nudelman, who owned Princess, said the fish may have got on a mailing list because the family once filled in her name when they got a second phone line for a computer. When will we recognize a goldfish's right to vote?
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