What does it matter what Einstein thought? We all can come to our own conclusions, can't we? Telling people "Einstein believed in God so you should too" is what theists tell dumb people and has no place here.
I'm talking a creator in a very generic system which is a fundamental thought process in the study of Philosophy. Very much like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Descartes arguments. There is no particular Religion involved in the logic.
A creator is plausible. But there is no evidence for one so it's not science. It's pure speculation.
And it gets worse higher up. It really disgusts me that the FBI treated Martin Luther King as a goddamn terrorist. They watched him, they kept a dossier on him, they bugged his phones, and god knows what else - all because he was fighting INJUSTICE in our society. Sure he committed some misdemeanors in his protests, but to be treated and monitored that way?
That's not all that surprising. He was very influential with a huge oppressed population that could have easily started a revolution. Watching him closely was only prudent. It was a no brainer. Not that I'm defending the government, but if you have any instinct for self preservation, you watch out for potential civil uprising and try to prevent them...and there was a massive potential there.
There is no Berlin wall surrounding the USA. You are free to leave.
Countries like mine (Netherlands) would be happy to have skilled workers from the western world.
One person leaving isn't an issue. Mass immigration/emigration is not well tolerated by anybody though...except certain countries that are looking for a cheap, non voting, slave workforce and those countries seem to be going to great lengths to ignore the problem.
Mars is not the Earth. You just don't understand that what you just wrote does not apply to Mars. This is the response I get constantly. Apparently, people just do not yet get that Mars is not an extension of the Earth and the ways we are used to expressing ourselves about the Earth do not apply to Mars. What savannahs? What animals? What anything?
It's about learning to live in environments that we're not already biologically suited to. Wearing animal skins enabled us to live in colder climates. Agriculture and hunting animals with spears allowed us to live in environments that didn't have enough gatherable food to sustain us. Mars is no different. Off planet, we will have to figure out new ways to survive.
It's the endeavor of moving into new territory and figuring our how to survive that keeps us learning and figuring out new ways to survive. Moving into the savannahs forced us to walk on two legs. It forced us to develop tools to cutting up dead animals and transporting the food we found. It forced us to develop fire. It forced us to develop all of the knowledge that we have today. It's that knowledge which makes us what we are. The most adaptable animal on the planet. It's what makes us the ultimate winners in the game of evolution and there's absolutely no reason we should limit it to our own planet.
No. The analogy is perfect. It is about adapting to live in another environment. In the grand scheme of things, the earth will be a dead end eventually...just like the first of our ancestors who wouldn't follow their family members out of the trees and into the savannahs to scavenge. Colonizing the universe is inevitable. You're just one of the animals that won't leave the trees because wandering across the savannah is risky and uses too much energy.
The working theory is that the lack of a strong magentosphere on Mars has allowed the solar wind to cause much of the water that was once present to be lost to space
And the atmosphere itself. Can't have liquid water if the air pressure is too low.
I was an avid user of script kiddie BBSes. We had an acronym to describe the kind of BBSes that specialized in this stuff.
HPAVC
H = Hacking (breaking into networks)
P = Phreaking (hacking the phone system)
A = Anarchy (text files on bomb making)
V = Viruses (virus sources)
C = Cracking (defeating copy protection)
But when I was in highschool in the mid 80s, hacker was the only word we used -- 'cracker' came later.
When I was in jr high and high school (mid 80's to early 90's)...and I BBSed a lot...a hacker was someone who gained unauthorized access to a computer. Cracking was used to describe people who circumvented copy protection.
People want to come here because we have a high standard of living and (for the most part) we don't persecute people based on religion, sex, ethnicity,etc. A high standard of living should NOT give the government the power to do whatever else they want though.
It should be widely known by now that the two main parties are pure garbage. There is no excuse for continuing to vote for them.
Sure there is. We're all convinced they are the only two parties capable of winning elections. And they're probably right, because we each think that everyone else thinks that too.
The US is very proud of being a democracy, the people are ultimately responsible for their leaders actions
No we're not. It's the leaders who are responsible for their own actions. And they are willing participants in a conspiracy to keep on screwing us over by concealing their own actions and making us believe their way is the only way. This is not a democracy. I'm not sure what it is, but it isn't a democracy.
Messing with the fixed wiring in a room that you do not own is not "initiative", especially when you can't turn off the power while you're working on it. In that case it's called "recklessness"
It's actually both. He's a kid, recklessness comes with the territory.
All innovation and initiative must be pre-approved by your faculty sponsor and the department head. In addition, such projects are reserved to graduating seniors with some exceptions granted for juniors who have shown they know how to behave properly.
Well...yes. This is essentially what our society is morphing into. If you show the least little bit technical know-how with electronics, or chemistry, or biology, or anything mechanicky looking (that isn't a car), then you're viewed with suspicion and reported.
And if the government holds the deed because we paid in taxes, it will be even more confined, monitored, censored, gated and metered.
Oh, that wouldn't be so bad. You'd just need to renew your internet user license every few years (and we'll never use it as a global ID card! Promise!). Renew your computer registration...make sure it clears a malware emissions test. Make sure you don't ride the net in an OS that hasn't had several tens of millions of dollars worth of "hack-resistance" collision testing, such as Linux. And submit to periodic traffic-stop hard drive "inspections" from an officer. And if you don't use a antivirus safety restraint software, the "safety" officer will use that as an excuse to inspect your hard drive. Other than that, you can travel the information super highway in complete "freedom" citizen.
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What does it matter what Einstein thought? We all can come to our own conclusions, can't we? Telling people "Einstein believed in God so you should too" is what theists tell dumb people and has no place here.
I'm talking a creator in a very generic system which is a fundamental thought process in the study of Philosophy. Very much like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Descartes arguments. There is no particular Religion involved in the logic.
A creator is plausible. But there is no evidence for one so it's not science. It's pure speculation.
I think a rubber band mini-gun would have been more suitable for this project. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7UIoYGSVoQ
Quick! Do an IPO before people realize how stupid this assessment is!
(fusion-driven radiation emitters)
That doesn't seem to work for white dwarf stars.
What makes everyone think it's the schools that are causing bad test results. Perhaps it's society itself. Maybe the kids just aren't interested.
And it gets worse higher up. It really disgusts me that the FBI treated Martin Luther King as a goddamn terrorist. They watched him, they kept a dossier on him, they bugged his phones, and god knows what else - all because he was fighting INJUSTICE in our society. Sure he committed some misdemeanors in his protests, but to be treated and monitored that way?
That's not all that surprising. He was very influential with a huge oppressed population that could have easily started a revolution. Watching him closely was only prudent. It was a no brainer. Not that I'm defending the government, but if you have any instinct for self preservation, you watch out for potential civil uprising and try to prevent them...and there was a massive potential there.
There is no Berlin wall surrounding the USA. You are free to leave. Countries like mine (Netherlands) would be happy to have skilled workers from the western world.
One person leaving isn't an issue. Mass immigration/emigration is not well tolerated by anybody though...except certain countries that are looking for a cheap, non voting, slave workforce and those countries seem to be going to great lengths to ignore the problem.
You are so missing the point.
Robbing the mass of people scrambling to make a living
That's not NASA doing that. That's our corporate owned government handing out your tax money to banks who carelessly spent your retirement money.
Mars is not the Earth. You just don't understand that what you just wrote does not apply to Mars. This is the response I get constantly. Apparently, people just do not yet get that Mars is not an extension of the Earth and the ways we are used to expressing ourselves about the Earth do not apply to Mars. What savannahs? What animals? What anything?
It's about learning to live in environments that we're not already biologically suited to. Wearing animal skins enabled us to live in colder climates. Agriculture and hunting animals with spears allowed us to live in environments that didn't have enough gatherable food to sustain us. Mars is no different. Off planet, we will have to figure out new ways to survive. It's the endeavor of moving into new territory and figuring our how to survive that keeps us learning and figuring out new ways to survive. Moving into the savannahs forced us to walk on two legs. It forced us to develop tools to cutting up dead animals and transporting the food we found. It forced us to develop fire. It forced us to develop all of the knowledge that we have today. It's that knowledge which makes us what we are. The most adaptable animal on the planet. It's what makes us the ultimate winners in the game of evolution and there's absolutely no reason we should limit it to our own planet.
No. The analogy is perfect. It is about adapting to live in another environment. In the grand scheme of things, the earth will be a dead end eventually...just like the first of our ancestors who wouldn't follow their family members out of the trees and into the savannahs to scavenge. Colonizing the universe is inevitable. You're just one of the animals that won't leave the trees because wandering across the savannah is risky and uses too much energy.
I know. Just look at all that money we waste on science.
We need to find water on Mars in order to support manned missions, bringing it from Earth makes the cargo weight that much heavier.
Um...there's plenty of it...at the poles.
The working theory is that the lack of a strong magentosphere on Mars has allowed the solar wind to cause much of the water that was once present to be lost to space
And the atmosphere itself. Can't have liquid water if the air pressure is too low.
I was an avid user of script kiddie BBSes. We had an acronym to describe the kind of BBSes that specialized in this stuff. HPAVC
H = Hacking (breaking into networks)
P = Phreaking (hacking the phone system)
A = Anarchy (text files on bomb making)
V = Viruses (virus sources)
C = Cracking (defeating copy protection)
At least this is how we classified these things.
But when I was in highschool in the mid 80s, hacker was the only word we used -- 'cracker' came later.
When I was in jr high and high school (mid 80's to early 90's)...and I BBSed a lot...a hacker was someone who gained unauthorized access to a computer. Cracking was used to describe people who circumvented copy protection.
People want to come here because we have a high standard of living and (for the most part) we don't persecute people based on religion, sex, ethnicity,etc. A high standard of living should NOT give the government the power to do whatever else they want though.
It should be widely known by now that the two main parties are pure garbage. There is no excuse for continuing to vote for them.
Sure there is. We're all convinced they are the only two parties capable of winning elections. And they're probably right, because we each think that everyone else thinks that too.
The US is very proud of being a democracy, the people are ultimately responsible for their leaders actions
No we're not. It's the leaders who are responsible for their own actions. And they are willing participants in a conspiracy to keep on screwing us over by concealing their own actions and making us believe their way is the only way. This is not a democracy. I'm not sure what it is, but it isn't a democracy.
Messing with the fixed wiring in a room that you do not own is not "initiative", especially when you can't turn off the power while you're working on it. In that case it's called "recklessness"
It's actually both. He's a kid, recklessness comes with the territory.
All innovation and initiative must be pre-approved by your faculty sponsor and the department head. In addition, such projects are reserved to graduating seniors with some exceptions granted for juniors who have shown they know how to behave properly.
Well...yes. This is essentially what our society is morphing into. If you show the least little bit technical know-how with electronics, or chemistry, or biology, or anything mechanicky looking (that isn't a car), then you're viewed with suspicion and reported.
Shut up, Wesley. That would take weeks of laying out new circuits.
There was one in Canada in 1989. http://www.ips.gov.au/Educational/1/3/12
And if the government holds the deed because we paid in taxes, it will be even more confined, monitored, censored, gated and metered.
Oh, that wouldn't be so bad. You'd just need to renew your internet user license every few years (and we'll never use it as a global ID card! Promise!). Renew your computer registration...make sure it clears a malware emissions test. Make sure you don't ride the net in an OS that hasn't had several tens of millions of dollars worth of "hack-resistance" collision testing, such as Linux. And submit to periodic traffic-stop hard drive "inspections" from an officer. And if you don't use a antivirus safety restraint software, the "safety" officer will use that as an excuse to inspect your hard drive. Other than that, you can travel the information super highway in complete "freedom" citizen.