Comments on: Science Friday: Martian Methane, Transparent Aluminum, Googling Khan, Klingon Keyboards and more

By: COLFSNIFS

COLFSNIFS — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:50:26 +0000

Nothing seems to be easier than seeing someone whom you can help but not helping.
I suggest we start giving it a try. Give love to the ones that need it.
God will appreciate it.

By: Tiberius

Tiberius — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:42:12 +0000

Yes, but alumina comes from the same source as aluminum — namely bauxite.

By: Parker Kid

Parker Kid — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:18:48 +0000

It is not transparent aluminum. It’s alumina.

By: Oregon Trek Geek

Oregon Trek Geek — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:19:09 +0000

50 – Ben, check this out (regarding liquidation sales), I found it quite interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMiBVlXctM8

By: ben

ben — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:58:02 +0000

Klingon Keyboard: concept: awesome; no USB: FAIL.
The Circuit City sale is greatly overrated. Even with the discounts, their prices are still higher than Best Buy’s regular prices. But then again, there’s a reason they’re going out of business…
(Prices surveyed were on items I wanted, not necessarily representative of all prices.)

By: Grand Lunar

Grand Lunar — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 05:43:02 +0000

I can imagine a no-brainer use for transparent aluminum; spacecraft windows and space helmets.
That should take care of possible micrometeorite impacts.
Radiation might take a different approach…

By: Duncan MacLeod

Duncan MacLeod — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:12:56 +0000

who makes keyboards without a usb connection these days? My parent’s computer doesnt even have PS/2 ports only USB.

By: Scott B. here.

Scott B. here. — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:20:14 +0000

Well, I’ve never been all that hip to naughty slang, but I had no idea that hoo-ha referred to female anatomy. Thanks for clearing that up for me. From the context in the above article, I’d assumed it was the lower GI tract … kinda like the ying-yang … unless I’ve always been wrong about that one too.

I’ll never be able to read another Spider-Girl comic book again with quite the same innocence. Her joyous exclamation of choice is “Hoo-ha!”

Scott B. out.

By: Oregon Trek Geek

Oregon Trek Geek — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:32:18 +0000

8, 12 — you guys on Big Bang Theory? :)

By: S. John Ross

S. John Ross — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:45:34 +0000

#42/43: As part of our conservation efforts to improve the planetary environment and help Earth sustain us until we can warp out into space, Americans conserve wasteful additional vowels like those used in resource-depleting words like aluminium, colour, and armour. To help prevent vowel erosion, we also protect the vowels in words like centre and spectre by moving them inside the hard consonantal shell.