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scottalanmiller

It went with blazing speed!

scottalanmiller

Antarctica fruitcake: 106-year-old dessert 'left by Capt Scott'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40907084

travisdh1

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Antarctica fruitcake: 106-year-old dessert 'left by Capt Scott'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40907084

I always wondered about fruitcake. What is it really made of? Antifreeze?

QuixoticJustin

@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Antarctica fruitcake: 106-year-old dessert 'left by Capt Scott'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40907084

I always wondered about fruitcake. What is it really made of? Antifreeze?

Apparently not, it's been frozen all these years.

mlnews

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/biggest-amateur-built-sub-sinks-owner-is-suspected-of-killing-passenger/

Yup, so this is in the news.

mlnews

http://news.softpedia.com/news/jennifer-lawrence-afraid-of-new-fappening-517373.shtml

mlnews

MOre great news for Samsung...

http://news.softpedia.com/news/samsung-galaxy-phone-explodes-almost-burns-down-the-house-517374.shtml

scottalanmiller

Perseid meteor shower set to peak at weekend
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40909057

scottalanmiller

Saudi singer arrested for dabbing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-40886288

mlnews

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/12/goldfish_carp_oxygen_ethanol/

Goldfish turn to booze... smart fish.

mlnews

Rats take out London Internet...

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/11/rodents_destroy_internet_in_south_london/

JaredBusch

Mainichi Shimbun reporters visited the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant on July 27.

Video is subtitled.

For reference about the various radiation readings mean, XKCD released a very good graphic shortly after the meltdown back in 2013.
http://imgs.xkcd.com/blag/radiation.png

mlnews

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/2017-solar-eclipse-atmosphere

mlnews

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/2017-solar-eclipse-atmosphere

mlnews

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/eclipse_searches.png

mlnews

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/hughes-signs-deal-to-launch-100mbps-satellite-internet-service-in-2021/

Fast satellite coming.

NerdyDad

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/hughes-signs-deal-to-launch-100mbps-satellite-internet-service-in-2021/

Fast satellite coming.

They'll still have latency issues.

coliver

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/hughes-signs-deal-to-launch-100mbps-satellite-internet-service-in-2021/

Fast satellite coming.

Sounds like they are trying to compete with SpaceX's LEO satellites that are supposed to have ~20ms of latency.

NerdyDad

@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/hughes-signs-deal-to-launch-100mbps-satellite-internet-service-in-2021/

Fast satellite coming.

Sounds like they are trying to compete with SpaceX's LEO satellites that are supposed to have ~20ms of latency.

SpaceX would eat my lunch, depending on what they are offering.

Dashrender

@nerdydad said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/08/hughes-signs-deal-to-launch-100mbps-satellite-internet-service-in-2021/

Fast satellite coming.

They'll still have latency issues.

Outside of live things, it's probably not a real problem. yeah, you don't want it if you are a gamer, and you might get some issue with video chat, but general surfing, using of the web, streaming media, should be totally usable.