Posts by Grave

Incoming comet will probably miss Mars, says NASA

Re: IT BEGINS!

well we better hurry up or the seed ship from alpha centauri camouflaged as comet will colonize mars first

or maybe its just damn bugs sending greetings from klendathu

US gov cash slash threatens manned trips to asteroids and Mars

Re: Bah@Thomas 4

nsol probes to closest star system, contact with more advanced civilizations:

best case scenario - our technology jumps several orders of magnitude if they are peaceful and benevolent

worst case scenrario - we get wiped out or enslaved if they are malevolent

SpaceX Dragon eventually snared by ISS

Re: I wonder

and then it will take chinese to make it cheap and unreliable :)

Re: @Vladimir: There's an important difference between Apollo or Soyuz and Space X

both usa/cccp built theirs on stolen german research (rocket, nuclear and medical research among tons of other research). and the same people have the impudence to whine about copyright, patents, etc :|

Tito's Mars mission to use HUMAN WASTE as radiation shield

Re: We come in peace, and we're wrapped in dung and piss.

"we come in feace" :)

Squillionaire space tourist offers oldsters a holiday to Mars

Re: @NomNomNom

"You don't think playing Doom on the way to Mars is tempting fate?"

it's called practicing for unforeseen mission objectives :)

Re: Reason for an older couple?

thats wrong on so many levels. if you're worried about space madness then you should not send extrovert people in a first place (they wouldn't be married otherwise). what you need is introvert people who are capable of dealing with solitude over extended periods of time. not many are because people are extensively conditioned into socializing right from birth.

Earth escapes asteroid flyby, boffins want lasers aimed at next one

Re: Rather than a laser...

its called mass driver

Permafrost melt to boost atmospheric CO₂ faster than thought

yeah because there's no such thing as "breaking point" or "critical mass"

do you know just how huge the permafrost areas are? =siberia (and on top of that, frozen peat bogs contain huge quantities of methane which is 22 times more powerful greenhouse gas than co2, not to mention large carbon pool which represents more carbon than currently exists in all living things and twice as much carbon as exists in the atmosphere)

Curiosity photographs mysterious metal object on Martian rock

it's a

zerg

ESA proposes 3D printing on the moon

Re: Mechanical Parts vs Lunar Soil

"Tunneling as the basis for the beginning of a lunar base has to be the only answer, someone said plasma drill? How are you going to power it?"

the beauty of plasma is it has plasma convertor at its basis, and after initial power up needs (which could be provided by a solar reactor) it is self-powered as long as you supply matter for conversion. conversion produces syngas and molten slag, syngas can be used to power gasturbines = power source. basically to self-sustain it needs about a third of energy it can produce.

Re: more techo-wanking

"A far more sensible approach would be to use a cnc router to carve out your habitats"

or use a plasma drill, which could carve out rooms underground and turn molten matter into fortified walls in one pass. can use excess energy to sustain plasma convertor and have lots of excess energy to power entire base.

Asteroid mining and a post-scarcity economy

Re: hmm @Grave

"Problem actually IS the population size, as STUPID people tend to be the most active breeders... so it's a spiralling problem: population too big -> more stupid people -> breed more so population bigger -> stupid contingent bigger -> etc. etc."

while it might seem like a catch22, the problem of stupid people can be solved by education, but its slow multigenerational process, if there are no incentives general population tends to be lazy and not interested in education and gaining knowledge. one possibility of incentive would be to shift from materialistic/capitalist/profit democracy towards knowledge/wisdom/intelligence based geniocracy.

Re: hmm

"The survival of the human race depends on getting off this rock. Already too many people living here so the more you can ship out the better."

problem is not really with population size, there are too many STUPID people living here. so many resources wasted because of complete stupidity (greed is just one of the facets of STUPID)

Western Digital leaps out of a plane, forgets to pull the 'chute

wd hq:

wd hq:

boss - we need another price gouging hoax to increase $$profit$$

pr drone - some toilets got flooded in thailand

boss - CALL THE PRESS!! RAISE THE PRICES NAO

Megaupload outed file-sharers to Feds months before Dotcom raid

Re: I'm not sure why El Reg is on a vendetta against Kim Dotcom

at least it's not the other uk it website (name of which i no longer remember - its been years since i've stopped reading it), the one with a moron writer with a bitter, hateful personal grudge against nvidia.

Re: Old news

are you for real? there is only one truth. it's not located between truth and lies. or are you saying if an innocent person (truth) is accused of murder (lie), the truth is somehow between???

Swartz suicide won't change computer crime policy, says prosecutor

Re: Pressing further

this is really starting to sound like those cliched movie plots, where "they suicided him"

[tinfoil hat] i wonder how much investigation went into the supposed "suicides"[/tinfoil hat]

Kim Dotcom's locker may be full, but the cupboard is bare

"as a consequence, the digital economy today isn't much more advanced than Somalia's real economy"

or perhaps this is the new society, economy, culture and world emerging, and the current failed and broken ones are going the way of dodo, no matter how much big media dinosaurs pay their shills to write otherwise. (how much they pay you?)

Pubic louse falls victim to eager Brazilian strippers

Re: Hmmmm and what about FACIAL HAIR.......

^this

full beard was considered a sign of an adulthood because only adult men have beards, neither women nor children do (it was easy to observe and come to this basic common sense conclusion for millennia. lion without its mane is no lion at all but a lioness :))

it was/is pretty universal in all ancient cultures (until the decadent societies arose which promoted effeminate/prepubescent looking males (like the roman by which western culture is influenced)

act of shaving is a subliminal act of demasculinization :)

shaving pubic area = trying to look prepubescent = supporting paedos

British armed forces get first new pistol since World War II

Re: @Zmodem

what about k100/gp6? http://youtu.be/AxHIKfyFuDU

reliability supposedly in a range of 1mil rounds

Latest exoplanet discovery is a virtual CLONE of Earth

depending on the distance it might fall within astroarcheology (which radioastronomy is a subset of)

(listening to stuff that happened "distance" years ago)

we don't have the tech to listen/communicate instantly yet (it will be probably something based on quantum entanglement)

Re: How old is the star?

was just going to write something similar (but instead of buried i was gonna say recycled), thumbs up :)

and what kind of materials (buildings/machines) would survive ages under such a pressure and heat.

i havent really given a thought on how long it takes satelites/exploration craft like those on mars to disappear/disintegrate completely. i guess much less than 500my

so when is the elysium leaving for tanis, and where do i sign up? :)

Report: Tablets to outsell ALL PCs by 2016

Re: tablets, as they are now, are a dead end

>For real heavy-lifting, why buy the fancy CPUs yourself for intermittent use, when you can rent it by the cycle? (suits some tasks better than others)

i see this as a next logical step too, but as a mainstream service fully replacing pc probably not before 2020. only when the rented cloud/virtual/whatever comes within lets say 75% of current pc hardware capabilities, right now the bandwidth just isn't there (like an average apartment building over here houses like 100 flats, that would mean 100gigs sustained, multiply by blocks and blocks and poof :))

tablets, as they are now, are a dead end

what might save tablets from dodoway is this (you heard it here first :)):

instead of pretending to be a full featured computer they will become an i/o accessory (just like mouse/keyboard/display).

it can still run as an underpowered standalone device but can be paired with full pc as necessary (probably wireless connection)

using "dock station" etc is also a dead end, why do you need useless lump of dead hw when you can have it the other way (tablet being slave to full master pc and not tablet being master to otherwise dead slave dockstation)

i (and a lot of other ppl) wouldn't mind having portable screen with touchability which is connected as an i/o device to my powerful pc at home (like reading a book on it while in bed or taking a bath etc, or on a subway while its connected to master pc using wifi)

why dead end?

-communication ? mobiles, which are no longer phones but portable computers with a/v capabilities

-portable computer? huds/vglasses are on the horizon, paired with hand motion sensors and wifi will kill tablets (i've seen some amazing hud tech, like the guys i think in netherlands made, small one pixel projector built in/clipped onto glasses projecting image directly onto your retinas, now thats some pretty cool tech)

Hunt is on for Jupiter-sized HIDDEN planets stuffed between star's belts

Re: Flawed Cosmology

riiiight, lets keep wasting billions on various religious nonsense like it has been done for thousands of years.

after all it delivers its spoiled fruits consistently, being it misery, hatred, bigotry, genocide and other inhuman atrocities. and without fail fulfills every overlords wet dream in decreased cognitive and objective reasoning abilities.

US gov blames Iran for cyberattacks on American banks

Re: Both Ways?

it's called propaganda

next step in media brainwashing:

it was iran/nkorea who stole all your money from our banks, we swears its dem internets terrorist.

Texas schoolgirl loses case over RFID tag suspension

Re: To be literal or not to be literal...

http://bayimg.com/oaIoOAaeF

Scientists snap first film of giant squid in action

just like whales. inhumane.

Ancient Mars: Covered with life, oceans, clouds, and imagination

Re: Life existed on Mars

yes thats true, but so many variables are out of our hands

say some kind of lifeform hitches ride during atmospheric lift and it has very fast life cycle, and some mutations later can survive vacuum/temps/radiation and later on reentry bunch of them mutate just the right way to survive martian ecosystem and thrive on eating iron/co2, poof life on mars originating from earth :)

Re: Life existed on Mars

under conditions true to our star system and earth environment this might be true to a certain degree

but under vastly different conditions (binary star system, etc), no magnetosphere or extremely huge one there might be just right conditions for lifeforms based e.g. on silicon, noble gases, etc

and if you let your imagination go a bit, even earth and humans might evolve in a very different way, lets say we hit technological singularity and there's no longer need for biological life forms and we continue to evolve in virtual environment :)

Re: Life existed on Mars

just by sending probes there we might have already introduced terrestrial lifeforms.

anyway, natural selection at work.

Segway daddy unveils DIY weight-loss stomach pump

how about

some healthy workout?

shocking i know... :rolleyes:

Microsoft burgled, only the APPLE iPADS stolen - cops confirm

Re: If I had broken in

probably easier because crapple users aren't the brightest bulbs in a box so they pretty much buy even clay-brick with crapple logo on it

//code cipher:

downvote = agreed

Official science: High heels make you sexy

Re: Circular reasoning?

decades of targeted social conditioning and subliminal media brainwashing

Ten… top tech cock-ups of 2012

bailed

microsoft should have never bailed them out

it world would be a much better place without mediocre crapple

Naked Scarlett Johansson pic snatch bloke gets 10 YEARS

10yrs, ridiculous

they should have just taken his naked pics and posted them online and justice would have been served

Elon Musk envisions small town of vegetarians on Mars

juvenile ideas indeed

1. you do not pay to go and "colonize" other planets

it's in our (humanity) best interest to colonize as many planets, moons, asteroids, orbital stations etc

as possible.

when you look at the bigger picture, we are very fragile right now and a good number of catastrophes would simply end our species.

2. there has to be an international cooperation to colonize moon and mars asap

build an underground complex instead of naive "domes". (too many benefits of living underground to list)

as a power source use for example multiple small thorium reactors and plasma convertors, sufficient and long lasting energy generator are most important, when you have energy you can produce the rest of necessities.

ability to close off any segment of habitat in case of outbreak, failure, etc

3. do not send people who buy there way in, thats just not smart

you need smart and intelligent people each with multiple skillsets (so there is no single point of failure)

scientists, engineers, etc

definitely no single-skill people like janitors, chefs, lawyers and other lols etc

4. preselected people based on a number of psychological traits, should include ability to work both in team

and alone for extended periods of time, no egotistic, narcissistic personalities, religious people, no addicts of any kind (including smoking, drinking including "socially acceptable" drugs like coffee)

if you're building a new technological colony the last thing you need is personality cults

5. could become a new kind of society unlike the failed ones on earth (which are based on a number of traditional/cultural/social features which promote greed, selfishness, etc)

maybe some form of geniocracy

every colonist has medical diagnostic/monitoring implants

6. do not waste energy on pointless secondary resources like raising animals for food

much smarter to just grow primary food sources using aeroponics

(preferably fruits like tomatos, cucumbers, bananas, strawberries, pears, kiwis, and so on selected to fulfill complete nutrient needs of a human body) - natural and healthy fruitarian diet

China blocks all Google services as new leader anointed

Re: Communists are all idiots of the worst kind!

its plutarchic capitalism (like usa)

any form of capitalism inevitably leads to plutarchy.

What made us human? Being armed with lethal ranged weapons

Re: "powerful, lethal ranged weapons is a vital part of what makes us human"

what makes us human is the ability to think and imagine

emotions/instincts, etc, are basic animal traits

Monitors to grow half an inch in 2013

crt > lcd

i'm not planning to downgrade my primary display from Eizo F931 to some crappy lcd :)

(it can do 160Hz but i'm running 1600x1200-96Hz = smoooooth video playback with mpc-hc)

working in IT i've seen my share of lcd's (hundreds) and none come even close

(compared side by side and the colors on lcds are always horrible)

i dread the day my trusty crt croaks :(

Slideshow: A History of First-person Shooters in 20 Games

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haha yeah right, keep dreaming

Protestors target Google over that video

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those who THINK do not believe

those who believe do not think

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religion is a psychological virus causing mental disorder called religiousness.

it should be classified like any other mental disorders like schizophrenia, etc

and studied, unfortunately this is prevented by people infected by religion

ppl first have to admit they are ill, then it can be treated

think about the symptoms:

-hearing voices - check

-seeing invisible things - check

and so on.

on a side note:

abrahamic religions were created as a tool to control global society using a simple setup:

there is a master religion which controls two slave religions,

these slave religions are then periodically pitted against each other,

for power, resources, abuse, exploitation, ethnic cleansing, genocide, etc

templates for all basic ideas were taken from various older religions ranging from

egyptian, babylonian, cimmerian, hittite, etc

learn and THINK, this is the only way to keep your mind healthy and uninfected.

God particle may be within our grasp

dog particle

should be called uber or epic particle or particle king or better yet:

"One Particle to rule them all, One Particle to find them,

One Particle to bring them all and in the darkness bind them"

løl

Ubisoft to turn games into movies, TV shows

uwe boll

uwe boll - please watch some of his latest movies like darfur or rampage

before you start parrotting

'Iranian' attackers forge Google's Gmail credentials

lmao

anyone skilled enough to break into remote computers is certainly more than capable of masking his actual ip (and make it look like the attack originated pretty much anywhere in the world).

smells of anti-iran propaganda and smear campaign as usual but dumb masses are easy to fool

Speak geek: The world of made-up language

slovio

how about slovio.com ?