* Posts by stewate4

9 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Mar 2017

Watch as 10 cops with guns and military camo storm suspected Capital One hacker's house…

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Re: A little sensationalism?

Except firstly there's nothing to indicate the police knew about the weapons stash, and secondly the arms stash didn't belong to her and wasn't in the room she was living in. It was in the house owners rooms, ie her landlord.

You might as well justify this sort of police armed response in every situation - just in case.

Sorry, Neil Armstrong. Boffins say you may not have been first life-form to set foot on the Moon

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Arthur C Clarke and 'The Sentinel'

The Arthur C Clarke story 'The Sentinel' (remote 'ancestor' of his film 2001: A Space Odyssey) has moon explorers finding life on the moon

'The only living things that had ever existed there were a few primitive plants and their slightly less degenerate ancestors.'

I remember thinking when I read it as a kid that it was unlikely as the Moon could never have had an atmosphere. Seems I was wrong.

The Solar System's oldest minerals reveal the Sun's violent past

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Hibonite Gems

Is hibonite created in other processes. I see you can get hibonite gems. Are they the same thing?

Annoyingly precocious teen who ruined Trek is now an asteroid

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And that's why IMHO Deep Space 9 was so much better. It did actually have story arc over seasons as well as stand alone episodes.

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Well it made a change from the holodeck going mad and trying to kill everyone

How alien civilizations deal with climate is a measure of how smart they are. Just sayin'...

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Re: Vehicle efficiency

Well it would be rather hard to go beyond 100% efficiency!

That apple.com link you clicked on? Yeah, it's actually Russian

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Checked it for myself, and yes it does (fixed with the same fix as for Thunderbird)

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Does this affect links in Thunderbird email messages?

Move over, Bernie Ecclestone. Scientists unearth Earth's oldest fossil yet: 4bn years old

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Re: Perhaps we haven't heard from anyone else because --

> And what can we detect at, say, 5 or 10 light-years from home?

I think finding an atmosphere around a planet with a high proportion of a reactive gas such as oxygen in it would be a good indication that there was life there.