Re:How much did it really cost?
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No, I don't have a car, nor eat at McDonalds.
How much did it really cost?
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Okay, so $165M isn't so much. But how much is the real total cost of a mission like this, including:
environmental cost of processing materials for the probe and launcher
cost of gathering and processing fuel for the launcher
future cost of dealing with the flotsam that the mission will have left orbiting the planet
Until we take the full external costs of "leaving home" in to account, there's no point in polluting our only planet trying to get somewhere less hospitable.
MAD was also the first place that Don Knuth was published, with his wacky weights and measures system. It's a shame that the other Don has gone; I've got my feet folded over the edge of the sidewalk in mourning.
But speeding cars limit my freedom to enjoy a car-free, bicycle-based life. I'm all for the scheme; anything that makes a car more expensive must be good.
We have a culture of speeding here that doesn't seem to be the case in the US. It's got to be stopped.
It was actually the sharp corners on the star navigation window in the roof (remember, back then, radar wasn't so good) that caused the failure.
While Britain became world experts in metal fatigue from the resultant investigation, we also lost the jet airliner industry. Oh well. We know we were first...
He better not try to come to Britain. While tattoos and piercings are legal, any form of under-skin implant is deemed to be self-mutilation. This is likely to get you grabbed on entry on an unsound mind charge.
There are huge advances that could be made to car technology; the trouble is they take huge investments of capital to work on and bring to market.
Internet technology is currently providing the most efficient return on investment. Capitalism is, at best, amoral; money doesn't go where it would have the greatest benefit to society. It merely goes where it would be of the biggest benefit to the investor. It tends to self-serve; there may be some side-benefits to wider society, but they are incidental.
Yes, this patent is as stupid as the Apple Look & Feel nonsense that got them left out of the free software movement for years. I'm taking my business elsewhere until they get some sense.
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No, I don't have a car, nor eat at McDonalds.
Until we take the full external costs of "leaving home" in to account, there's no point in polluting our only planet trying to get somewhere less hospitable.
MAD was also the first place that Don Knuth was published, with his wacky weights and measures system. It's a shame that the other Don has gone; I've got my feet folded over the edge of the sidewalk in mourning.
But speeding cars limit my freedom to enjoy a car-free, bicycle-based life. I'm all for the scheme; anything that makes a car more expensive must be good.
We have a culture of speeding here that doesn't seem to be the case in the US. It's got to be stopped.
While Britain became world experts in metal fatigue from the resultant investigation, we also lost the jet airliner industry. Oh well. We know we were first...
What a weird little island this is.
There are huge advances that could be made to car technology; the trouble is they take huge investments of capital to work on and bring to market.
Internet technology is currently providing the most efficient return on investment. Capitalism is, at best, amoral; money doesn't go where it would have the greatest benefit to society. It merely goes where it would be of the biggest benefit to the investor. It tends to self-serve; there may be some side-benefits to wider society, but they are incidental.
Yes, this patent is as stupid as the Apple Look & Feel nonsense that got them left out of the free software movement for years. I'm taking my business elsewhere until they get some sense.