gStar commented on Scientists Do Extreme Close-Up On Milky Way's Black Hole

"@ps61318: Sagittarius (the constellation) A (standard designator) "star", cuz it's special, pretty much. @lldsandsll: It doesn't suck up all the light."

gStar commented on Hands On With the Microsoft Surface Sphere Prototype

"Whoa, astronomy, FTW."

gStar commented on Why We Still Need the iPhone App Black Market

"While Apple should certainly make the SDK process easier and allow backgrounding (september?), I think there is a truth here about the web data throughput of apps and circumventing AT&T's minutes that needs to be addressed."

gStar commented on iPhone App Review Marathon Liveblog Is Still Going On

"Ok - a bunch of my friends have iPhones, and we were chatting about which location-aware friend-finder, what-are-we-all-doing type app is best."

gStar commented on Help Save the Arecibo Observatory: ET Is Counting on You

"@ps61318: As someone who just completed his astrophysics PhD using Arecibo, I can tell you a hell of a lot of cool stuff continues to come out of Arecibo."

gStar commented on House of Representatives Passes Bill to Protect Us from Asteroids

"@WiglyWorm: A tracking device would increase precision, which is needed in this case. Also, the projected average number of deaths per year caused by asteroids is about 50."

gStar commented on Oh Joy! Stitch CD Player Rocks My Tiny, Childlike Brain

"For those who haven't seen the wonder that is Lilo and Stitch, this is a reference to a scene in which it is demonstrated that Stitch's head (along with his index claw) can play Lilo's Elvis LPs."

gStar commented on How Your Location-Aware iPhone Will Change Your Life

"I would like to see spatially based alerts rather than temporally based alerts."

gStar commented on NASA Scientists Make Magnetic Fields Visible, Beautiful

"You know, I'd be fine with the fakery -- if they did it correctly!"

gStar commented on Barack Obama Throws 'Grand Theft Auto IV' Under The Bus

"whoa, whoa."

gStar commented on Fresnel Telescope Will Spot M-Class Planets 30 Light Years Away

"@Log1c: LISA is what you are looking for, I think. I think two things that make this different from LISA is that LISA is only trying to keep test masses moving in geodesics (free fall), rather than a super-fancy camera, and that a 30 m piece of foil makes a hell of a solar sail, as someone pointed out, so keeping things all nicely squared away would be harder."

gStar commented on The U.S. Military is Looking for a Few Good X-Men

"@Annalee Newitz: Oh, I noticed."

gStar commented on The U.S. Military is Looking for a Few Good X-Men

"Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is the study of plasmas through a form of the hydrodynamic equations that includes magnetism."

gStar commented on Stars Flare Into Life Around A Massive Black Hole

"@Illyr: We don't believe there is a geometrical center of our universe, although there do seem to be massive black holes at the center of most galaxies."

gStar commented on Seekway 3D LED Cube Amazes in Glorious Color Phasing Fashion

"This venture of which you speak has been achieved, en masse. "

gStar commented on Boosted Mobile's DJ Cellphone Headphones Are Pretty Damn Cool

"They sure do look a hell of a lot like the Panasonic headphones."

gStar commented on Supermassive Telescope Hears What the Early Universe Looks Like

"@aarchiba: You don't want them on tracks (at least straight tracks) because that limits the so-called 'UV coverage'."

gStar commented on New Mexico Radio Telescope Hears Jupiter-Area Calls

"@uberfu: Oh yeah. The VLA is part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, which is funded largely by the National Science Foundation."