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Um, is this a bad idea?
2011-11-02
Posted by:Skidmark

#12  This has 'ACME' written all over it.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2011-11-02 22:59  

#11  Professor Wolfgang Sandner...said: "We are taught to think of the vacuum as empty space, but it seems even a true vacuum is filled with pairs of molecules that come into our universe for an extremely short time."

Oh, I'll bet he didn't. Molecules?
Posted by: Angie Schultz   2011-11-02 20:58  

#10  Yes, a bad idea.
Posted by: newc   2011-11-02 15:30  

#9  This laser is now the ultimate power in the universe! I suggest we use it...
Posted by: DarthVader   2011-11-02 10:22  

#8  "Dantooine is too remote for an effective demonstration."
Posted by: Korora   2011-11-02 09:23  

#7  ...anticipating Daleks or Reapers?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-11-02 08:30  

#6  FYI RUMORMILLNEWS > [Video] RICHARD C. HOAGLAND SAYS ASTEROID 2005 YU55 MAY HIT/IMPACT THE MOON ON 11/09th. Asteroid path updates leads Hoagland to conclude that YU 55 may come as close as 50,000 from Earth, between the Earth + Moon, + NOT 250,000 as originally forecasted.

D *** NG IT, HOAGLAND, 2011 = NOT 2030!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-11-02 06:36  

#5  cost an estimated £1 billion. Although the location for the facility will not be decided until next year, the UK is among several European countries in the running to host it.

I makes $ sense for depressed economies esp. if others are paying the majority of the cost.
Posted by: Water Modem   2011-11-02 04:10  

#4  Capable of producing a beam of light so intense that it would be equivalent to the power received by the Earth from the sun

I hates science reporters!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2011-11-02 03:54  

#3  They're going to have to assure an absolute vacuum for success. How about using the space between Obean's ears?
Posted by: gorb   2011-11-02 03:08  

#2  Guam Taotamonas + Nostradamus strike again.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-11-02 01:44  

#1  I don't see anything wrong wi...VOOOOOSH!
Posted by: tu3031   2011-11-02 00:06  

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