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NEWS FLASH: Apple is dead. I can confirm that Apple will cease to exist sometime within the next 1000 years so sell your shares now! [ 02-27-2002: Message edited by: Nostradamus ]

in What is up with AAPL? Comment by nostradamus February 2002

There's a simple solution to all of this. Just buy your products during leap years so they are covered on the 366th day.

in Beware the 366 day curse! Comment by nostradamus February 2002

Ancient: Andrew Jackson Modern: William Jefferson Clinton [ 02-12-2002: Message edited by: Nostradamus ]

in Best President of your country ancient and modern age Comment by nostradamus February 2002

[quote]Originally posted by Outsider: Once we develop manned flights that can sustain a relatively high speed and possible introduce some for of artificial gravity for long excursions (centrifugal induced gravity; no star trek technology here) we c…

in Future space travel for the next 100 years Comment by nostradamus February 2002

Magnetoplasmadynamic (MPD) and similar pulsed inductive thrusters (PIT) are nice, but I don't see them going into manned missions. When you have systems with such low thurst and acceleration, a lot of trade-offs are made in terms of mission planning…

in Future space travel for the next 100 years Comment by nostradamus February 2002

We will probably see a return of some sort of the NERVA program in the near future. NERVA has a specific impulse of over 900, which is more than 4 times of conventional chemical rockets, and twice the speicific impulse of the shuttle. NERVA was a…

in Future space travel for the next 100 years Comment by nostradamus February 2002

[quote]Originally posted by Outsider: in 100 years I'll be dead . Technology and medicine has increased exponetially in the last 100 years. Yes, but not in the past 20 years. Seems to me more like a logistic curve than an exponential curve.

in Future space travel for the next 100 years Comment by nostradamus February 2002

You think you have better dreams when the moon is full, so you do. Classic placebo effect. Here's really how you should do a study?lock yourelf inside your house. Destroy all time peices and celestial calenders. Do not try to count the days. S…

in Dreams and the Moon Comment by nostradamus January 2002

[quote]Originally posted by SDW2001: Falcon Writes: Well, it was the TITS for me. I love that word...TITS. We need more TITS around here. Whose a nice pair of TITS here? Sorry...ahem. Anywho, as a Star trek fan since I was a k…

in Enterprise - The verdict? Comment by nostradamus January 2002

Eugene, by "EBay rules", do you mean start a discussion on eBay's rules for such auctions or are you simply stating that eBay is an exemplary instrument of the free enterprise system?

in eBay rules Comment by nostradamus January 2002

Sir Mac o' the Isles, you'll like this. A Englishman was sitting with a Scotsman and a Welshman in Saudi Arabia. They were sharing a smuggled barrel of beer, when all of a sudden, Saudi police entered and arrested them. They were initially sent…

in Joke Thread... Comment by nostradamus January 2002

He'll take the money you give him and "disappear"... [ 01-10-2002: Message edited by: Nostradamus ]

in Thinking about a PowerBook... Comment by nostradamus January 2002

That $300/$600 tax break was heavily pushed by Democrats such as Joe Lieberman into the Bush tax cut and was specifically designed to help the lower and middle classes to bolster the economy. The original massive Bush tax cut had no such intention o…