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Hey thanks! That middle photo looks like it is from the 80's. :p
Share the photos!
Don't mention it! I like it too. But maybe not as much as insomniasexx. :D
I agree with both of you. this is a question of the type of society we want to live in. Very big changes are happening and although we have a personal choice, we don't have much say in the way things are changing in general. Soon our personal choices could become irrelevant.
Yep the new date is March 16th.
greedo · 4420 days ago · link · · parent · post: Extraterrestrial intelligence: Lonely planet | The Economist
Maybe everyone else is dark matter. :)
Better yet, a gif of one caught by one of the rovers!:
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~lemmon/mer_dd/dd_enhanced_496a.g... Lots of videos here:
greedo · 4432 days ago · link · · parent · post: Unexplained "craft" discovered at the bottom of the baltic.
"It's also worth noting that UFOs may not be saucer-shaped. The famous "flying saucer" description of the first UFO has since been revealed as a reporting error.
Lindberg said his team has neither the interest nor the resources for further investigation of the anomaly. Deep ocean research is time-consuming and expensive. If the object were indeed a flying saucer, recovering it could be worth millions or billions of dollars. If it's a natural formation, on the other hand, it would probably be a waste of time and money."
What?
greedo · 4434 days ago · link · · parent · post: Zen Pencils, CARL SAGAN: Make the most of this life
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+! :D
Like a beanstalk!
No way. I just wouldn't do it. There are some times that you can't be blamed for being completely irrational.
greedo · 4435 days ago · link · · parent · post: Why Microsoft must buy Facebook in order to defeat Apple
I agree with that. I don't have much evidence that MS could do anything but make FB worse. Also, the courts would probably hold up this merger for a long time if they ever let it through.
Apple has a real advantage as they are coming from the angle that they are providing "tools for living", not taking your list of friends and integrating it in your computing experience. I have zero interest in this type of future.
Leucochloridium paradoxum made me want to puke.
So wonderful. Everyone should be familiar with this.
greedo · 4484 days ago · link · · parent · post: Gizmodo: This girl sneaked into this Russian military rocket factory
The complexity is amazing and beautiful. Thanks.
This is the best part:
"Construction is conceived as the deployment of a long cable from a large spool. The spool is initially parked in a geostationary orbit above the planned anchor point. When a long cable is dropped "down" (toward Earth), it must be balanced by balancing mass being dropped "up" (away from Earth) for the whole system to remain on the geosynchronous orbit."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s
Good game . :)
Where n is the highest clout, let greedo's clout = n + 1. I've seen the code! :p
Gold leader, standing by.
Thank you for this.
It's almost unbelievable! Now I would bet that phenomenon has been mistaken for a UFO...
Meanwhile, in China...
Nice.
You could make this argument about industrialization right? I believe the idea with a lot of progress is that it will get worse before it gets better. Sometimes it takes a long time though.
greedo · 4582 days ago · link · · parent · post: Shorter Cosma Shalizi: "data science" is undergrad stats
Is that really fair? I think she was talking about someone that was a particularly competent programmer.
greedo · 4602 days ago · link · · parent · post: Court allows suit against Toyota's stalking ad campaign
Agreed. I never consider reading them. I wonder if they are of actual benefit, or if they are just considered to be so.
Great graphic. Monopoly!
Edit: what was so special about 1998?
I wonder the effect of an eruption would have on air traffic.
I can't wait until we start bringing asteroids into orbit for mining.
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