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    eBay users, how's your experience lately?

    It is the only way I bid. If there is something that I want to buy on ebay then I wait until seconds before the auction closes and place a single bid for the maximum amount I am willing to pay.
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    Data Backup Question

    +1 except that I wouldn't consider it particularly expensive. Acronis TrueImage V10 is $50.00 : http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/ I use V7. Whatever you use, you need to actually perform a disk restore to insure that it will work when you need it.
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    Name your fave vintage sci-fi movie...

    One I haven't seen mentioned is "Lathe of Heaven". Edit: Looking at the Wikepedia entry; the version I saw and liked must be the 1979 PBS version titled "The Lathe of Heaven".
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    Name your fave vintage sci-fi movie...

    You call Forbidden Planet a B movie and put it in the same class as something called Teenagers From Outerspace? Remind me to never listen to your opinion on anything.
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    Nobel Laureate Attacks Medical Intellectual Property

    Yes, the US Patent Office has not been doing a good job of rejecting intellectual property patents based on prior common knowledge. I was thinking I should patent the value of Pi, then anytime someone uses it in a calculation they would have to pay me a penny.
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    Quantum Mechanics and Immortality

    People keep working on it I guess because currently it is the only viable hope for unifying quantum theory with relativity. But, yes, the days of using particle accelerators to verify theory seem to be over. No particle accelerator built on earth could provide energies sufficient for testing...
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    Argh, dropped a fluorescent bulb!

    Yes and especially in the metallic form used in fluorescent tubes, the small amount in a tube is no worry. After all, most people have mercury/silver amalgam dental fillings in their teeth. The environmental danger of mercury is when it accumulates and is converted in waterways by microrganisms...
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    Argh, dropped a fluorescent bulb!

    When I was a kid I used to keep metallic mercury in my bedroom to play with. If you pour a bit in your hand and rub a penny in it you will get a silver colored penny.
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    Argh, dropped a fluorescent bulb!

    Same principal is used in both - electrical discharge through mercury vapor produces UV light that then makes a phosphor glow. In a fluorescent light the electrical discharge through the mercury vapor occurs in the same tube that is coated with phosphor. In the mercury vapor light the...
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    Mount Hood Rescue

    A headlamp using Lithium AA batteries. Also a UK4AA handlamp with the 4-watt lamp module and using Lithium AA batteries.
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    Why a hydrogen economy doesn't make sense

    Well, it makes a lot of sense if you are a big Agribusiness growing corn.
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    Why a hydrogen economy doesn't make sense

    It is hard for me to see how the infrastructure to produce and transport hydrogen would cost less than the infrastructure to transport electricity.
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    Why a hydrogen economy doesn't make sense

    There still is some off-peak time where it is desirable to store energy but there are much better/easier ways of doing this than hydrogen.
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    Why a hydrogen economy doesn't make sense

    Sure, but the other methods of converting electricity into stored energy would still be more economical than hydrogen.
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    Why a hydrogen economy doesn't make sense

    It is typical how people have picked up on hydrogen fuel, at best just a niche fuel, and elevated it into some miracle that is going to solve all the worlds energy and pollution problems.
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    More people missing in Oregon

    Yeah, I really like my Jetboil, the only problem is that they still need to be shielded from the wind to work. MSR has a new competitor to the Jetboil. There is a review in the latest "Rock and Ice" magazine. In even a 6-7 mph wind the Jetboil had trouble bringing water to boil but the MSR was...
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    More people missing in Oregon

    Anyone who goes into grizzly country should be heavily armed, that is not allowed in a National Park.
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    A sad but important lesson this week

    That is an interesting thought. Having 2-way comms capability might be a bit harder since the equipment could potentially interfere with the fixed cellphone system but even just getting an alert if you receive a ping from a cellphone of interest would be very valuable. Some SAR groups already...
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    A sad but important lesson this week

    Yes, if you know where you are and where you are going. The problem is that they were lost. In fact, the logging road they ended up on may have been after they had turned around and were trying to retrace their path only to make a wrong turn onto the logging road. I have had the same thing...
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    A sad but important lesson this week

    The thing with mountainous areas such as the West Coast is that a wrong turn can quickly take you from driving on a main highway in temperate weather to either a desert or blizzard. This is sort of what happened in this case. The family had planned to take a main road over the mountains but...

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