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BT settles pay row with union

BT announes...

BT announes...4% increase in the cost of it products and services to cover "inflation and rising costs of operating in the UK"

BT profits...

mines to one with the crystal ball in the pocket

Hayabusa in fiery return to Earth

highly irresponsible

did these people never watch the creep show movies?!

So we've sent a probe to an asteroid and are now bringing back smaples? Did anyone not think this might possibly be a little bit dangerous? Did anyone even consider that there may be life/virii on that asteroid?

Maybe even the kind of virus that could possibly wipe out off life on earth?

Just saying...

mines the one with the tin foil hat in the pocket.

Google mocks Steve Jobs with Chrome-Flash merger

@flashing

[quote]"look, at the end of the day, Flash is needed because HTTP5 is based on the Flash engine. Without TCP/IP, Flash is basically useless anyway, unless you only use Email, and in that case you don't really need the Internet because Email goes over a separate protocol to web traffic. I only ever use the Email protocol to browse the web, meaning I don't use the Flash engine."[/quote]

I nonimate this for FOTW

Apple uncloaks deep details of its 11 iPad apps

RE: So...

Stated on the Apple site there's a 10 hour battery life. This is probably at lowest use. So i should imagine that once you turn on your wireless and start actually using it...like any device... the battery life is going to decrease.

My real world expectations are around 6-7 hours of light use...which lets be honest... is what this is designed for.

BT hijacks business browsers

help for numpties is help for numpties...

If you can't install a router on your own then you most likely run the install CD...

This hijack only comes to you if you install via the CDs...

Bottom line...working as intended

Apple revises iPad ship date

price

in line with previous Apple currence conversion rates...$499 in US means £499 sterling...

that is all.

Apple yanks Wi-Fi detectors from iTunes

re: Whiny Little Maggots Hit With Cluebat

i like you...my kida sysadmin:)

Brits blame Apple, Nokia, RIM et al for smartphone woes

news?

HOLY SHIT STOP PRESS!!!

Computer software has glitches/security issues! this like NEVER happened before in 40+ years of computing. And to top it all off the lusers are whining...what should we do!

cDc come back all is forgiven

Welcome to the out-of-control decade

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Aliens more likely to live on moons than planets, say boffins

thanks

@Nur Ab Sal, thanks for your comments. Your right i did make a few assumtions yes.

Point 1 and 2:

I made this assumtion based on the wildly varying sizes of moon orbiting our own gas giants.

Because of the variation in sizes (thought to be dependant of the chemical conposistion of elemts during formation) gravity would also wildly vary.

Point 3: Theories harbour yet more speculation and assumtions. TBH though, this has been in comic books since the fiffties. If it really was techincally possible we'd be throwning money at it not just for space exploration but for deep sea exploration too. I'm sure the oil companies would love it.

Point 4: possible epscially if their home plant suffers regualr shifts in gravity...non circular orbits of the gas giant for example.

Point 5: thanks for pointing this out to me, i hadn't seen this. However I was talking about developed/organised life. It's quite possible that europa could contain life very simlar to that found around hydrothermal vents in our own dep seas, underneath that crust of ice sheet. Thanks to the gravity forces of Jupiter the core of Europa is generating lots of heat which means volcanic activity.

Mars is a good example of life on another planet but i meant "organised" life such as fish, clams, tube worms and crabs etc. If Mars does harbour life, sadly its like to be no more a few organised cells.

@ Tom_ intelligent input!

Care to quantify what exactly you mean by that or did you just prefer to flame?

i see his point but it doesn't really hold

This articial really just doesn't hold any water at al,l other than mere hopeful speculation.

The main (be all and end all) driving force in this universe is gravity. Of all of the laws of physics gravity is the one that makes this universe work and it controls every aspect of it.

Without gravity this universe/galaxy/sun/planet/moon could not / would not exsist.

All life forms (carbon based) build their structure based on the gravitational force put upon them.

We have spines for very good reason. Our own bodies are build around a gravitational force of one G and our on travel to our planets relies heavy on our own ability to withstand the gravitational forces put upon us when we get there.

These same rules would apply to ETs one would assume.

Assuming that a planet such as jupiter-like sustains 5 or 6 moons. They will all be in different gravitational orbits and as such there will be different forces on the surface.

ET could see those moons, send probes to them, but could not visit for fear of being crushed to death.

In fact the human race is incrediably lucky to have a moon of our only to fuel our own space endevours.

A good example would be put a human on jupiters surface (if there was on) would be a little bit pointless as the human would be a smoothy in seconds. Aslo if we visited Europa (widely thought to harbour the only chance of life in this solar system) again we'd be crushed by the gravitational forces put upon it by jupiter.

The only way life could move from one moon to another would be if the two moons were in exactly the same orbit of the same planet thereby having the same gravitational forces. Highly unlikely but possible. Then however, the planet would be on the perceved "Dark Side" of the planet and Et wouldn't know it exsisted until they started ther eown space race.. ergo muting the point!