Atrus6
Re:What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole?
on Thursday September 26, 2019 @07:42AM (#21079999)
Using dummy numbers. But, lets say you need to be going 100mph to escape the suns gravity. The Earth is moving around the sun at 75mph. So you only need to speed up 25mph to leave.
But to fall to the sun, you need to slow down 75mph. And speeding up and slowing down in space take the same amount of energy.
Re:The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable
on Friday June 15, 2012 @11:21AM (#4116949)
Maintaining a supply of spare parts for a line of notebooks could very well use more natural resources than maintaining a supply of working laptops for replacement.
Re:3D Printing: The Game Changer
on Saturday June 09, 2012 @06:55PM (#4089588)
If you redesigned some parts to be all metal, you could probably (maybe) be able to construct it completely out of titanium.
Since Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) titanium has nearly the same properties of cast titanium, you could buy a printer in the sub 50k range.
Re:Take my money, HBO
on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @01:07PM (#4074894)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4074288
Your logic works if you only are going to listen to a song a few times, but after a certain threshold, the artist would receive more money than from a CD or iTunes purchase.
Re:Young File-Sharers Respond To Tough Laws By Buying A VPN
on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @12:55PM (#3915284)
The VPN is the routing around the damaged network.
Re:Make Your Email Hacker Proof
on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @10:34AM (#3858105)
I don't think there is anything wrong with an email provider asking me for my cell number to send me text messages, how else would they send them?
In addition, a cell phone number is NOT required to create a Google account. Sure they ask (and gender is apparently required, I just made an account), but if you leave it blank, they won't complain.
Re:DIY Drones Take on Silicon Valley
on Friday April 13, 2012 @01:19PM (#3837762)
Would you care to elaborate how you'll be able to power a drone for an extended amount of time? I was doing some minor research (I was curious about the pirate bays 'server drone' idea), and the best that I could personally come up with was flight times of about an hour. That doesn't seem all that useful to maintain a constant server, or traffic cam, presence.
Re:Navy tests E-M rail gun - will fire shells 9K kph, 320 km (video)
on Tuesday March 06, 2012 @01:21AM (#3669886)
Not much would survive that sort of acceleration.
Re:How a big movie studio (unfairly) forced a student to give up his s...
on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @11:34PM (#3597399)
From how I read the story, it made it seem like he got permission before the studio did. Wouldn't that make the exclusivity point moot?