BlahX3 Report This Comment
Date: February 01, 2012 01:57AM

Oh BTW, the science article I got the pic from said nothing about climate change or global warming. It was about research trying to figure out where all the charged electrons in the earth's radiation belts go when the sun blasts out like it has been lately. It was thought that most of them were swept out into space but now they're saying it looks like a large amount of them come into the upper atmosphere and stick around for a while. That's what the pic is supposed to be showing, all that energy showing up as heat.



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quasi Report This Comment
Date: February 01, 2012 01:44PM

That is so hot I feel like blasting out some electrons.

BlahX3 Report This Comment
Date: February 01, 2012 05:46PM

I know what you mean, I haven't shot off ions in eons.

I think it's a pretty neat looking picture. I'd like to find a higher rez copy of it.

BlahX3 Report This Comment
Date: February 02, 2012 02:01AM

I did find one but be forewarned Quasi, it's 3,000 × 2,625:

[atrain.nasa.gov]

pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: February 02, 2012 04:10AM

...took to the count of 18 mississippi to load for me

pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: February 02, 2012 04:20AM

that was in firefox, chrome took 25 mississippi...

BlahX3 Report This Comment
Date: February 02, 2012 04:37AM

I thought Chrome was supposed to be faster than Firefox.

Took me 25 using FF.

I was kinda disappointed with the hi res pic. I thought it would be much clearer.



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quasi Report This Comment
Date: February 02, 2012 08:58AM

Maybe I'll try it sometime when I want to tie up my computer all day.

GAK67 Report This Comment
Date: February 02, 2012 12:43PM

20sec on Chrome.

BlahX3 Report This Comment
Date: February 02, 2012 03:47PM

Don't bother Quasi. The quality is not worth it on this one.

jgoins Report This Comment
Date: February 05, 2012 11:01AM

It only took 3 seconds on Seamonkey with cable modem.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: February 10, 2012 07:06AM

PJ is a soft cock

jgoins Report This Comment
Date: February 10, 2012 12:02PM

speedtest never made sense to me are larger numbers faster or slower here?

pro_junior Report This Comment
Date: February 10, 2012 05:48PM

hahaha COMCAST is the soft cock, not me...

pulse Report This Comment
Date: February 10, 2012 08:55PM

Bigger numbers for speed, lower numbers for ping are both better

fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: February 10, 2012 09:37PM



damn, i think i may be the soft one.



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pulse Report This Comment
Date: February 11, 2012 03:20AM

Yay I beat it

fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: February 11, 2012 03:37AM

_whimper

jgoins Report This Comment
Date: February 11, 2012 12:28PM



Got me beat as well

BlahX3 Report This Comment
Date: February 11, 2012 03:31PM

I'm sure Pulse cheated. Those numbers are typical of a hard-wired 100Mbs connection on a LAN.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: February 11, 2012 11:00PM

The ping and the upload speed would be terrible for cheating with a lan connection

Actually to be honest I'm disappointed it wasn't higher, especially the upload speed. There's four speedtest servers in Melbourne, I tried all of them and Telstra gave the best results. I might've got better speed from a Sydney one though.

BlahX3 Report This Comment
Date: February 11, 2012 11:41PM

So you're a cheater with a bad cable.

GAK67 Report This Comment
Date: February 12, 2012 11:36AM



Not great speed, but almost at the 90th percentile for NZ - one of the disadvantages of living in the middle of the ocean.

jgoins Report This Comment
Date: February 12, 2012 12:06PM

for me mine is pretty good since I am not paying for the highest speed so I am happy with what I have. $100 a month is just too much to pay for internet in my opinion.

BlahX3 Report This Comment
Date: February 12, 2012 04:05PM

My speed isn't that great either but it is usable and that's all I care about.

jgoins Report This Comment
Date: February 14, 2012 12:16PM

Maybe if I were downloading movies I would want a faster connection but I am not so I am happy with what I have.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: February 14, 2012 08:35PM

Alright, alright fine Those ones above were at work.



Usually I can clock in faster than this, the ping is about right but I actually sync at 22mbps down and 2mbps up so it's not quite representative of the speed, but it's fast enough.

fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: February 14, 2012 09:17PM

bad ass keyboard

jgoins Report This Comment
Date: February 15, 2012 12:07PM

I never used to think a keyboard could have too many functions until I saw that keyboard, way too many functions and too high a price.