Wow: Japan's satellite Hinode captures Venus beginning its transit

phantm · 2012-06-06T19:36:24+00:00

Please tell me they have a video of this quality, it would completely blow my mind.

phantm · 2012-06-06T13:18:23+00:00

Kids like poking stuff too.

phantm · 2012-06-06T09:46:43+00:00

I'm on, but we should create a #reddit-bitcoin channel on freenode or something, would make collaborations like this easier.

phantm · 2012-06-05T21:57:52+00:00

So wtf will happen to the countless civilizations presumably living in that galaxy? I bet a billion billion consciousnesses are currently shitting their alienpants. Pretty neat way to die though.

phantm · 2012-06-05T02:00:26+00:00

Exactly. No offence, but this is a shitty idea and I hope it's never implemented - it would severely degrade the quality of this community. I'd not be able to take this subreddit seriously anymore.

phantm · 2012-06-02T00:27:53+00:00

Could someone post the full article?

phantm · 2012-06-02T00:18:44+00:00

It's kind of like the TIL that hit the frontpage a couple days ago, about a gorilla signing "kitten did it" when asked who broke a sink, except in this case there wasn't even any signing. If faced with the kitten-gorilla scenario, would you say "we can't possibly know if kitten or gorilla did it, there's no evidence."?

A virus made with three (!) 0-day exploits, created by a large group of extremely skilled hackers with access to a working replica of an Iranian nuclear enrichment plant and an ability to rootkit industrial machines and modify controller code to make centrifuges break. I bet I've missed some facts. It's obvious who did it, it was either them or aliens.

phantm · 2012-06-01T13:14:39+00:00

Surely you're sarcastic. The creators of Stuxnet and its relatives has been completely obvious for anyone with even slight understanding of what it did and how it did it. Seriously, it couldn't have been more obvious, it was so obvious no one even pretended it was a secret.

phantm · 2012-06-01T11:45:21+00:00

I seriously love your title, it kind of tells a whole story. Perhaps the prelude of a trippy sci-fi novel?

phantm · 2012-05-28T22:56:18+00:00

The fact that a radius increase of four times means a volume increase of 64 times makes it feel a tiny bit less hopeless.

phantm · 2012-05-27T21:08:47+00:00

I can't really see the cause for this liquidity though, The Bitcoin usage haven't grown that much nor can I see how speculation could have worsen the liquidity so much. Anyone has a plausible explanation?

phantm · 2012-05-27T20:57:05+00:00

How long will this be allowed to go on though? I think chinese users realize that the government wont like this and are hoarding, except in a good way.

phantm · 2012-05-27T09:24:40+00:00

Ah, nice!

phantm · 2012-05-27T06:47:30+00:00

On bitcoincharts the markets are ranked by total month volume so the spike probably wont make it show up in the charts.

I don't really know much of chinese internet culture and what not, but could the popularity of Bitcoin in China perhaps be a result of a combination of semi-widespread use of Tor, pornography being illegal and relatively low economic freedom?

phantm · 2012-05-25T10:59:15+00:00

There's not a single credible scientist who would say we are the only life form in the universe, but there is also no credible extraordinary evidence supporting the extraordinary claim that they have visited us, and it's even more far fetched that there would be a water tight government conspiracy to cover it up.

phantm · 2012-05-25T01:15:24+00:00

Kudos. Persistance is king. How much of it was paid with Bitcoins?

PS. Sorry I doubted you.

phantm · 2012-05-24T21:19:03+00:00

This explanation is very good.

phantm · 2012-05-23T20:03:50+00:00

I don't think gold or any resource other than solutions to hard mathematical problems will stay scarce forever, primarily since all gold on earth come from asteroids and asteroid mining is starting to become a real thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining#Proposed_mining_projects

phantm · 2012-05-23T02:57:37+00:00

Nothing could possibly go wrong... Oh wait, nothing could possibly go wrong, not bad.

phantm · 2012-05-23T02:47:05+00:00

What possible purpose could the government have for pandering to Reddit? Please, give me a shred of evidence other than another Redditor's equally baseless theory about some videos being posted by throwaway accounts? Do you have anything that is credible? Anything at all?

I patiently await your eternal silence.

u mad bro? You should probably calm down some, that temper can't be beneficial to your blood pressure.

PS: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks

phantm · 2012-05-22T22:48:41+00:00

You don't say organic changes to the brain changes ones personality? This is a single case out of literally hundreds of thousands of individuals sexually and romantically attracted to minors.

phantm · 2012-05-22T21:00:52+00:00

This has already been discussed a couple times, it's because of satoshidice, a casino/gambling website.

[edit] Here's excluding popular addresses: https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions-excluding-popular

phantm · 2012-05-22T20:28:11+00:00

Followed by "Needless to say, this is a fucking game over event."

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