Hacker News: wavesum

New comment by wavesum in "Telomere lengthening via gene therapy in a human individual"

wavesum — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 20:23:44 +0000

I'd be suspicious of an article written by a Company about a study the Company conducted about a miracle cure developed by the Company and tested by the CEO of the Company.

http://bioviva-science.com/2016/04/21/first-gene-therapy-suc...

New comment by wavesum in "Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy?"

wavesum — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:03:16 +0000

This makes sense if you make the assumption that Big Bang theory is correct. In my opinion the theory has quite a few leaps of faith.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-scientific-criticism-of-th...

If we consider the possibility of infinitely old universe with no beginning or end, the answer is yes, most likely, but it's unlikely we ever know. Those strange blobs of light could very well be living, thinking things or parts of them, but everything that happens on their physical scale is so slow that we can only observe a mere snapshot of their state.

New comment by wavesum in "SpaceX Falcon rocket explodes on landing after delivering satellite to space"

wavesum — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 06:20:17 +0000

The booster never reaches orbit as it is on a ballistic trajectory

New comment by wavesum in "Open-Source Watch"

wavesum — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 20:00:07 +0000

compact size.... bwahaha

New comment by wavesum in "A 3-D printer capable of incorporating hydraulics"

wavesum — Sun, 20 Dec 2015 20:06:04 +0000

My first question: Where are the vidyas? :D

New comment by wavesum in "Skype Down"

wavesum — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 20:30:38 +0000

no skype here yet (finland)

New comment by wavesum in "Tesla unveils new car-charging robo-snake"

wavesum — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 05:21:48 +0000

"they were able to hack into the Model S and hit the brakes"

This is bullshit right? They were able to disable the engine, but the onboard logic makes sure that the car comes to a gradual stop.

New comment by wavesum in "OS X BSD System Calls Reference"

wavesum — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 03:01:43 +0000

Why so many duplicates? For expample int nosys() is listed 185 times, each pointing to bsd/kern/subr_xxx.c

New comment by wavesum in "Wow signal"

wavesum — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 02:57:55 +0000

Hmm. Maybe someone can debunk this idea:

Could it have been some harmonic frequency of a terrestial lower frequency radio signal (such as 710MHz) that bounced off ionosphere?

That frequency range is currently assigned to mobile, but I suppose it could have been in TV/Broadcast use back then as it's right next to that spectrum.

TV broadcast truck?

New comment by wavesum in "Why Go is doomed to succeed"

wavesum — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 17:53:31 +0000

Destined to succeed might make better english.

New comment by wavesum in "Full Scale Simulation of SpaceX's Mars Rocket Engine [video]"

wavesum — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 00:44:48 +0000

So where was the engine? All we saw was simulation of flow from a triangular area that wasn't shaped anything like an engine nozzle.

So yeah... was expecting an engine. Saw a 2-dimensional triangle. Dissappoint.

New comment by wavesum in "Avoid the “Apply to Present” and “Angel Pitch Contest” Event Scams"

wavesum — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 07:18:48 +0000

Same experience here. The first they scout you through your website, and act as if they had done some research, and drop the bait of free booth, then they "vet" you over Skype and later let you know you're a winner.

"By charging big companies big money we can offer promising startups like you this opportunity for free"

All you need to do is buy couple of tickets for 1500+ euros and the free booth is yours.

Ouch. But we've come this far, maybe it's worth a shot...

When you get to the place you realize it's 500 startups like you, crammed shoulder to shoulder. Very few investors around...

New comment by wavesum in "Can You Really Anticipate What Profit’s You’ll Make?"

wavesum — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 09:47:33 +0000

Profit's :D cringe at the Grammar's

New comment by wavesum in "Protocycler recycles plastic bottles into 3D-printing material"

wavesum — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 00:54:45 +0000

Wonder if this is some kind of a hoax... Sounds a bit too good to be true to me. I would love to know How does the colouring work and what does it cost? If you throw in legos and whatnot how guaranteed is it to work with manufacturer X printer? Doesn't different plastics have different properties and don't these properties change if the plastic is melted over and over again?

Protocycler recycles plastic bottles into 3D-printing material

wavesum — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 00:50:05 +0000

Article URL: http://www.sciencealert.com/this-new-device-recycles-plastic-bottles-into-3d-printing-material

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9215594

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by wavesum in "Tesla Motors Announces a New Home Battery"

wavesum — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:23:32 +0000

What puzzles me is the timeframe presented. What is the point of starting production in 6 months if the gigafactory is not up yet, and TSLA is production constrained just making the car batteries?

New comment by wavesum in "The Fermi Paradox"

wavesum — Thu, 25 Dec 2014 23:15:17 +0000

I think the biggest fallacy in this rationalization is when it is assumed that advanced civilizations would want to expand like yeast; consuming everything, building dyson spheres... Why would they want that much energy, and why extract it from the sun? Trying to picture myself as one of these superlifeforms, I think would like to have the sun visible... For sunbathing and sh... plants to grow etc... Maybe they have built little fusion reactors wherever they need energy?

New comment by wavesum in "Rosetta finds comet's water vapour to be significantly different from Earth's"

wavesum — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 08:56:12 +0000

This one puzzles me:

"One of the leading hypotheses on Earth’s formation is that it was so hot when it formed 4.6 billion years ago that any original water content should have boiled off. "

So where would it actually have boil to? I thought gravity affected water also in gas state. Just like the atmosphere doesn't "boil off", why would the water?

New comment by wavesum in "Like a tablet but on your skin"

wavesum — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:45:03 +0000

Seems hoaxy to me. I reckon that kind of projection angles, and using sking instead of white projection canvas, would need a lot more juice than what you could store in a bracelet battery... Even if you could cram a projector into that size.

Like a tablet but on your skin

wavesum — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:41:58 +0000

Article URL: http://www.cicret.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8666132

Points: 4

# Comments: 2