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Requiem for the Once-Imagined Future
Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "The underwhelming Discovery mission has the Wall Street Journal Online's Real Time columnists lamenting the space program's failure to realize the sort of intergalactic exploration they once imagined as kids through the works of Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein. Considering the Viking landers were digging around Martain soil back in 1976, 'we figured the place would be necklaced with orbiters and cris-crossed by rovers by now. Maybe there'd even be astronauts (or cosmonauts or taikonauts) tracing the courses of unimaginably ancient rivers.' Instead, we get a mission whose highlights were 'a) it came back; and b) an astronaut pulled bits of cloth out from between tiles.' At this rate, the columnists fear the innovations of the future won't be much more exciting: 'Maybe Real Time 2030 will fret about how our college kids do little more than steal full-res holographic porn when they're not getting their financial identities stolen by cyber-jihadists eager to build more backpack nukes.'"
Please go see a psychologist. I think you need your dosage changed.
On behalf of the generation you are accusing, let me be the first to greet you with a most uncivil "fuck you." Seriously, this generation, like all others has its bright and its stupid, and to judge us by the entertainment you see on TV would be a serious mistake. Every generation has its celebrities, whether they be rockstars or movie stars or rappers. After the age of twelve or so, most people stop wanting to grow up to be somebody else and start making something of their own. At least that's been my experience.
Oh. What's my opinion of the currently middle-aged generation? You guys didn't do so hot yourselves. A generation that hoped to change the world so much has, in the end, settled for buying much. You are, in full adulthood more viciously miopic in your consumption than our generation is in the peak of its youth. You can't stand each other so you surround yourselves with 6 mpg armored air bubbles while you drive the freeway to a job you hate, but took only because it pays more than the last one. That's not everyone, but if we are going to judge each generation by its worst, then it is only fair.
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Crudely Drawn Games
No, real the energy density limit is E=mc^2.
If idiots and bought-and-paid-for "scientists" hadn't worked so hard to kill off the atomic age we'd probably be all over the solar system by now.
The truth is that most people have been conditioned by lies and the media to be afraid of HEALTHY amounts of radiation! If the true health risks were given the media coverage they deserve then the multi-billion dollar radiation protection industry would be destroyed. We spend billions of dollars annually to "clean up" radoactive materials with levels already so low that the would only be healthy for people.
Read more here.