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NASA scientists are exploring a peculiar strategy for building a Moon base and other off-world structures: growing them onsite out of living mushrooms. I think someone's been sampling the moon base again
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Green Cheese stuffed Mushrooms sounds like a good recipe; now if there was some bacon involved...
Director of Transmogrification Services
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Master of Yoda Conditional
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Ridiculous!
Next thing you know, some idiot will be theorising that computers will be genetically melded with and grown in plants!
... Oh, wait...
... That was me.
Um.
Wow! What a great idea!
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Some clueless clickbait writer drooled: NASA scientists are exploring a peculiar strategy for building a Moon base and other off-world structures: growing them onsite out of living mushrooms.
The space agency first considered the possibility of fungal space habitats in 2018, but now scientists are conducting tests to determine how well mycelia fungus might grow in Martian soil, Space.com reports....
The idea is to ship dormant fungus to a Moon base and, once it arrives, give it water and the right conditions to trigger growth, according to a NASA press release. That would also require a supply of photosynthetic bacteria to provide the fungus with nutrients. Once the fungus grows into the shape of a structure, it would be heat-treated, effectively killing it and turning it into a compact brick.
“Right now, traditional habitat designs for Mars are like a turtle...
Nothing says "I don't have an ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing clue what I'm being asked to write about like thinking the Moon and Mars are the same thing.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That's just a thinly veiled disguise at building a Displacement Activated Spore Hub drive so we can traverse the stars on the mycelial network. 
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When users log into Windows 7 today, they should not be surprised if they see a full-screen alert telling them that the operating system is no longer supported, they are vulnerable to viruses, and that they should upgrade to Windows 10 to fix all of these issues. If you can't get them to upgrade, bug them until they install Linux
Yet another great job by the Windows marketing team
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Kent Sharkey wrote: they are vulnerable to viruses .... Windows 10 to fix all of these issues.
Which is a complete lie.
Dumpgrading to winio won't fix anything of the kind.
The shift of malware attacks has already moved over to the winio side of the chart from the weven, so you are more likely to be attacked by malware producers if you use winio. Describing that as "less vulnerable to viruses" is total, crude, and blatant deceptive behaviour.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Describing that as "less vulnerable to viruses" is total, crude, and blatant deceptive behaviour.
IMHO the same as:
Kent Sharkey wrote: Yet another great job by the Windows marketing team
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Yes, you're quite correct. Moving to an OS that has update patches to keep you constantly updated against new threats makes you more vulnerable than using an OS that is no longer updated.
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And standing in the way of bullets is a much more efficient way of getting shot than standing where bullets aren't flying.
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I'd rather be in front of bullets in a tank than slightly to the side in a t-shirt.
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And I'd rather have a computer that works after "security updates".
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My Win10 updates all the time and works after all the time. Suggesting such a fundamental and oft used feature is habitually broken when it clearly isn't is a pretty weak argument.
"I would install Linux but I want a machine that doesn't burst into flames when I turn it on".
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You really miss the soapbox, don't you?
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Where people insist a book says something and then refuses to admit they are wrong despite me literally quoting what the book says, moving to ad hominen accusations that I've never read the book and won't admit they are wrong there either despite being shown a photograph of it in my possession?
Nah, not really. I prefer debating with intelligent people who are open to new information and ideas 
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QED.
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This elephanting thing has had the HDD from the last laptop chucked into it since it decided to do an upgrade one night when unplugged and nearly flat. At least it's immunized against threats.
Though to be honest, it would be nicer if it were both impervious and still functioning correctly... 
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Bleeping Computer wrote: they are vulnerable to viruses, and that they should upgrade to Windows 10 to fix all of these issues.
Kent Sharkey wrote: Yet another great job by the Windows marketing team
and yet... on the other side of the coin:
Microsoft will patch Windows 10 after the NSA quietly told it about a major vulnerability - The insider news[^]
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Where's the response that says "Click here if you don't want to upgrade, because your development tools won't run on Windows 10"?
Seriously, the full page notice is garish and designed to alarm you... I saw it like 5 times the other day due to all my VMs.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Disable the nag screen[^]
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Microsoft released Windows Terminal Preview v.08 today and with it comes useful improvements that include a console search feature, tab sizing, and a new retro option that makes consoles look like an old CRT. So your "all new" Terminal can now look just like the one you used back in 1990. Progress!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: So your "all new" Terminal can now look just like the one you used back in 1990. Progress!
What I don't get is how anyone could label this as a "useful improvement".
It's even less "useful" than a new icon.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: 1990. Progress! What I don't get is how anyone could label this as a "useful improvement".
If your wife looked the way she did back in 1990, wouldn't you call that progress? 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Researchers with Google have published a research paper detailing the machine learning technology behind their newly developed ‘nowcast’ capabilities. It will tell you that it's raining - within minutes of it starting!
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