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Funny, I thought the language to-go was Fortran?[^] 
Now I'm waiting on a corresponding article about COBOL 
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Oh, there are better languages. I just don't care to name them. 
I care about so few things.
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There is no disscuss!
C is not BETTER. It is just the ONE and the ONLY language for programming! rest languages are for job security.
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After programming for 20+ years (on and off) I have recently come to the disappointing conclusion that I don't have a favorite language. Starting on the C64 and BBC Micro, I liked the way everything was self-contained: it was easy to make sounds or move graphics without importing alien libraries, but it was awkward having to resort periodically to assembly or machine code! Moving on to a bit of C, then C++ and some JS I got to like C++, but all the memory leaks and lack of strict object-orientation led me to C# with all its shiny promises. Trouble is, ASP.NET has changed too fast for me to keep up (I don't have the time) and often it feels like using an intercontinental warhead to crack a nut. As for desktop apps written in C# - who wants to install .NET just to run one small app? By this point I was growing fond of Java - it smoothly implemented interfaces without abstract things like delegates - the syntax of which is so bad they have become increasingly abstract to compensate (i.e. anonymous methods). Java had none of these issues, but then came LINK which made these awkward constructs somehow vital. Anyway, Java isn't as easy to run online as it was originally intended to be (rather like C#) - all that OOP made it a bit clumsy for browsers, so I went back to JS when HTML 5 came along. I still haven't found a satisfactory way of generating simple sounds and playing them back smoothly (double-buffering in C# just didn't work on my machine for some reason) and now I find myself longing for my C64 again! I seem to be back where I started, only slightly disillusioned (and quite a bit older).
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I wonder on how many of those stars/planets there are people saying "Nah there's no life out there"?
Here today gone to Maui...
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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chriselst wrote: 7 42
FTFY
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Exactly the answer is always 42, it's called a SWAG (Sorry Wild Ass Guess)
Here today gone to Maui...
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Your only half right you forgot the " x 6"
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My brain may well be turning to mush, but...doesn't that mean the stars are rather close together?
10E6 stars in a sphere 150LY diameter.
That's a volume of 1.77E6 cubic LY, (according to Google) which would make the average distance between stars around 1/5th LY, wouldn't it?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yes, would be quite toasty 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Not only that, but if life evolved there, you could build a slower-than-light probe that could reach other stars in your own lifetime...and have a huge number of potential life bearing targets to choose from. 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Correct, it's quite a dense cluster (NASA estimate about 1/3 of a light year).
One day I aspire to having a signature.
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Arrg, can't you post something useful for once, like what horse to bet on etc? 
Nice picture though 
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Kenneth Haugland wrote: like what horse to bet on
If I could do that...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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So what you're saying is that we are stuck with the astronomy pictures, right?
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Well, no, I can give you my recommendations for horses but I'm not sure you'd want to follow them...
Best I stick with the pretty pictures.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I can't be the first one to think of this[^], surely?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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No, you can't.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Didn't the Vorlon wipe that place out?
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Took me a while to figure out how he did that.
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I'm sure he "created" energy, didn't he?
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Well, that seems to be the simplest solution: he's broken the laws of physics as we understand them.
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