I guess that since it is a private company, the government will have to call to the customer service 1-800 number in India to claim their warranty. lol
(ring ring, ring ring) SpaceX recording: "Thank you for calling to SpaceX, Where the sky isn't the limit (tm). If you are calling for customer service press 1, if you are calling for a technical support press 2, if you are..." US Government DTMF: "1336Hz+697Hz" (2) SpaceX recording: "Thank you for calling to SpaceX, Where the sky isn't the limit (tm). If your rocket lost your load or is in the wrong orbit please hang up and call to 1-800-loadmisplacement. If your rocket has mechanical failures, press 1 or say 'Mechanical'. If it is leaking fuel, press 2 or say 'Leakage'. If it exploded in midair, press 3 or say "Explosion". If it is about software problems, press 4 or say "Software". If other, press 0 or say "Other" US Government officer: "Other" SpaceX recording: "I am sorry I didn't quite get that, did you say... 'mangoose'" US Government officer: (getting upset) "No" SpaceX recording: "I am sorry I didn't quite get that, did you say... 'No?'" US Government officer: (getting upset) "Yes" SpaceX recording: I am sorry I couldn't get that either, please hold a moment while I transfer you with a representative. SpaceX recording: (repetitive background music) "Thank you for calling to SpaceX, Where the sky isn't the limit (tm). A representative will be with you shortly, thank you for your patience. There-are---three---customers in the queue before you. Awesome facts! Did you know that the Falcon 1 was the first privately funded rocket in space? Thank you for waiting, a representative will be shortly with you. Awesome offer for a limited time! Get two rockets at the price of one! Only 3.99 (billion dollars), special discount for tax haven countries, only in SpaceX. Thank you for waiting, a representative will be with you shortly US Government officer: "..." SpaceX recording: (music interrupts) US Government officer: "Hello?" SpaceX recording: (the same background music again) "Thank you for calling to SpaceX, Where the sky isn't the limit (tm), A representative will be with you shortly, thank you for your patience... Did you know that..." US Government officer: (heavy breathing) "......" SpaceX recording: "Herow, my name is Suryakant Chattopadhyay, haw can I asidst you torey?" US Government officer: *SIGH*
The real question is not if there were trees on the moon, open your eyes! The question is: IS THE MOON ACTUALLY A TREE? That would be a great revolutionary discovery, a paradigm shift from cheese to trees, now the next relevant question is is the double E between those words a coincidence (wait a minute, coincidences don't exist!) or an evolutionary trait that indicates that we are on the right track? The saddest thing is that while this kind of reasoning it may sound stupid presented just like this, this is how many people in real world reason. (ufologist, religious fanatics, religious leaders, conspirationists, new age, housewives and politicians)
Considering that they learned to lie to survive with this limited AI, I wonder what they could do when they are become really sophisticated.
Damn, When is Terminator gonna come to kill them all?
fermion the question is not if a single baby butterfly dies, the question is how many thousands of eggs are there to compensate that loss. Overall it is efficient and that single flaw doesn't really have an impact for the survival of the species.
Now if that problem affects the sustainability of the species, then the flaw becomes an issue.
"One could have designed us so the interaction was separate from reproduction"
Orgasms are a medium and a necessary lure, otherwise we would extinct very soon. Without the thousands of millions of "mistakes" made by men, our world population would be way lower.
While in the first world countries sex became a ludic recreational device, in third world countries it still has the primordial function as a mean to survival.
Also as you can see comparing the population pyramids of developed countries with higher life expectancies from the third world countries which has a very lower life expectancies, the pyramid is literally inverted.
The lower expectancies of life, people have an outrageous amount of kids... and we have our case of butterflies here, but the flaw in this case is social and economical rather than genetic.
This "reproductive function" of sex becomes very evident after the great wars. The American Baby Boom was a direct influence from the World War II, and that is reflected in every country that had great losses during the wars. It wasn't a state policy that ordered to their citizens to reproduce, it was natural and unconscious, which is very interesting.
Very similarly happens with our primordial need of food. When we are really hungry in the verge of starvation, we don't get picky, we eat whatever is digestible, will be pulling roots eating raw grains and meat. Once you are pretty full our tastes get more sophisticated and try to also satisfy our palate: eating loses the function of nutrition, it becomes a luxury.
In the "civilized world" sex has also became a snack and a gourmet dish for the connoisseurs and we are all the time trying to remove its calories from it while improving its flavor, forgetting the nutritional value of it.
It is funny how evolution allows the existence of gay people, and it is also interesting that this behavior is not only human. Also I am very amused seeing so many people "coming out of the closet" in these days.
If the trend keeps up for the next 500,000 years we will extinct ourselves from lack of reproduction.
Either that or cloning will be a very successful business.
But still, don't you think that these thieves were able to make a fake ATM machine, program it, and get all the needed hardware to imitate an ATM, must have heard or have at least a vague notion of what Defcon is about?
What war was won by the US after World War II?
I mean important modern warfare. Korean war? Technically still in war. Vietnam War? Lost. (although some people are still confused about this fact. YES, the US LOST the Vietnam war) Persian Gulf War? Won. (heh, a last) Afghanistan War? Still ongoing, still spending humongous amounts of money trying to fix a country that it is becoming more and more unstable.
Iraq War? Still ongoing (with horrible results, everybody agrees it is a failure everybody can't help but see the overwhelming parallelism with "Vietnam", some even started to call it "The new Vietnam")
And that's all so far.
So where is the supposedly American supremacy and the enormous success in wars you talk about?
Yeah, now the US has thermonuclear bombs, stealth planes, supersonic planes, robots flying and crawling, and spy satellites all that propagandistic shit that is aired again and again on TV still can't win.
The US is always backed up by its crew at the UN, but even with all the allies and the embarrasingly large coalition with the support of the most powerful nations and with the irrationally largest budget and resources in the world, still can't win a war.
funny thing though, when someday a knowledgeable customer comes in and after he hears your dumbed-down explanation, he says: "so, uhm, it is the hard drive that is broken huh, are really qualified for the job?"
Who cares? whether it is banned/copyrighted/patented/classified/illegal or not, we will get them from China for one tenth of its market price. I imagine in the near future "invisible coats" at 99 cents stores.
Ok, lets see...
What you propose with nuclear bombs is not stupid.
What you think is shared by some scientists.
But there are other alternatives to it, and considering that we are not in an imminent danger there is more than enough time to research and develop better alternatives.
We will discover dangerous asteroids hundred or tens of years before its impact. We know the possibilities of how often a devastating asteroid comes to Earth, and we are keeping track of all the potential Objects that may take a dangerous route towards our planet.
There is a program called Near Earth Object Program from NASA and JPL, and its automated asteroid monitoring system "Sentry" is tracking the trajectory of all the potentially risky asteroids over the next 100 years.
There is another effort from Italy NeoDyS, which uses another methodology to track asteroids with Impact Risk to the Earth.
Another project it is orbit@home, which uses the concept of distributed computing already used on SETI@home, which tries to use the help of idle cpu power of every user in the internet to process the information gathered.
And of course the NASA main competition, the ESA has its own NEO monitoring.
In the worst case scenario we will be alerted one year before its impact, but it is more probable that we will get a trajectory confirmed tens of years before its impact.
Therefore there is still hope.
There are basically two strategies in the case of a oncoming asteroid:
To destroy it or deflect/delay it.
The methodology and its strategy will depend on how much time we have, its trajectory, the mass and its composition, shape, its density, its porosity, the velocity and its rotation.
Your proposal of destroying it with a nuclear blast is one of the possibilities contemplated but it is not actually very welcomed, since its fracture would imply more complications. It can be used most mass is vaporized. If instead large amount of fragments still continues its journey and impacts at a high velocity, it will still have devastating effects on Earth.
That is why it is most often proposed the detonation of nuclear weapons for deflecting effects.
Other proposals of destruction are the usage of focused Solar energy to vaporize it or deflect it by estimulating the rotation of it by amplifying the Yarkovsky effect hopefully making it deviate from its orbit.
Others propose the usage of Kinetic Impact, deflecting it by an impact modifying its momentum. The NASA supports this (although they are more inclined on using nukes by now saying that it is the most affordable and cost efficient) but the ESA (European Space Agency) claims that Kinetic impact is the most efficient method and they are already ready with a whole mission called Don Quijote (no kidding, their two spacecrafts are called Sancho and Hidalgo, the first being the scout that analyzes the asteroid, and the second being the impactor).
Others are favoring the usage of rockets on the surface to propel the asteroid out of its orbit.
And of course the ones cheering for the gravital tractor which is an elegant solution since it doesn't matter neither the composition of the asteroid nor its rotation, but it is expensive, it requires more research and when deployed it requires many years of "tractoring" the asteroid to divert it to a safe trajectory, so a very early detection of the threat is a must in this case.
As always, the usage of any of these methods depend on the scenario and the needed strategy and resources available.
Again, read it. The methodology and its predictability is fully explained.
I won't bother explaining to someone who doesn't bother to read and research a little bit even when I give them the two reliable sources with FAQs.
The Catholic Church has the same resources and wealth ever since?
Spain, England, Portugal, France, Germany, Japan don't exist anymore?
Study your history books please.
By the way you don't get his point. If we start suing for past conquers it would have no end.
Latin America was invaded by Spaniards and Portuguese people which was divided by a Papal Bull, dividing equal surfaces for both countries.
The north was conquered by England.
South American countries should sue Spain for slavery and exploitation, one of the richest silver mines in the world were in Bolivia, Potosà were depleted and everything was taken to Spain.
One of the richest mines in history were absolutely depleted by 1600, leaving Bolivia only with tin. Who is going to claim that?
Who is going to claim the exploitation of the colonies the British, Spanish and Portuguese imperialism?
Lets see Japan, they were the England of Asia, invading pirates of the far east.
Lets go to Asia. They annexed Korea raping and assassinating the Queen of Korea.
They abused Korean girls kidnapping them and making them sex slaves for the japanese army, , taking control of the culture, its economy and attempting to destroy its language (All Koreans were renamed with Japanese names and speaking in Korean was forbidden).
Japanese massacred Chinese people, especially famous the cities of Nanjing and Nanking for the atrocities that the Japanese army did to them. The Japanese had their own concentration camp in Nanking, they experimented with biological weapons and performed medical experiments to live subjects to captured Chinese and American POWS, even with Chinese civilians, dissecting live people, even pregnant women just like it is done nowadays with rat labs. (Google Unit731, also known as the Auschwitz of Asia)
Now, who is going to repair all the damage they did? (And the Japanese government is neither apologizing nor acknowledging that it happened)
And as far as I know these countries still exist.
By the way the Catholic Church lost a lot of influence throughout history, especially since the separation of State and Religion.
During the French Revolution, Catholic Church lands were confiscated in 1790, which was the largest landowner at that time in France, also lost lands in Germany and Spain.
The Papal States were annexed to the Kingdom of Italy 1860 to 1870, which comprised the center and northeast of Italy, reducing to what it is today the Vatican City.
So, it is not precisely "the same" resources and wealth.
Etcetera, etcetera, in secular seculorum...
As you see claiming for what happened in the past is simply stupid, childish and useless. What we can do is to look forward and stop making stupid claims.
Tell me how many Catholic foundations and charitable organizations, churches, convents, monasteries, hospitals, soup kitchens, leprosariums, universities, research centers, technical schools, primary and secondary schools have the Church to maintain.
Yeah, what the hell... lets sell the Vatican City with everything in it everything and give the money to the poor. Why not? Yeah, melt all the "treasures" and make gold bars, burn the library and the archives for the people who are dying of hypothermia. Lets sell Michelangelo's works and recycle the Sistine Chapel into a modern geriatric, that will probably satisfy Jesus more than the frivolous Church He founded by Himself.
Come on people we are forgetting the Chinese proverb: Don't feed them fish, teach them how to fish. And that is what the Catholic Church and any respectable and serious religion is doing, Christian or not.
Do you even know how much money all the most popular protestant pastors (I mean the honest ones) are managing? Considering that protestant churchmen are professionals and usually donate 10% (tithe) of their incomes, they manage a humongous amount altogether. And they are not even a Nation.
Makes me wonder why people are fixated with the Catholic Church. Why people are not asking Protestant churches to sell the "Christian" Churches with all their Bose speakers, mixers samplers, microfones and the last generation robotized lightning systems they installed with the HD camera circuit in their theaters/temples, giving all money that to the poors?
Now please don't bring the paedophilia/homofilia in the Catholic Church since it is offtopic and that is not the point of my post.
Did you even bother on reading the site?
The Sentry monitoring system tracks asteroids that has a potential impact trajectory to Earth over the next 100 years.
There are more programs like that, such as NEODyS and distributed computing like orbit@home.
Just a detail the asteroid 1950DA trajectory is known to be very close to Earth on March 16 2880.
You are so technical with your terminology that really makes me wonder how much of your knowledge comes from sci-fi inspired by "common sense" (or should I say "vulgar sense") or from high school physics class.
That alone makes this debate exasperating and useless. No matter how many scientific explanations you get here you will try to defend your "position" in this debate.
"Next?", what is this? The MMA? Wrestling? Astrophysics deathmatch?
You don't have enough knowledge of even basic physics to discuss this topic, and you are not even willing to reason with its laws since you ignore them.
About the cattle, I heard once from my International Trade course professor that once a cargo ship was sunk because a cow fell from the skies. The containers were All-Risk insured, but insurances don't cover cows falling from the skies, therefore the poor importer lost all his products with no compensation at all.
Heh... imagine the situation... "ok sir... lemme check... yes you are insured for all risks... so how was your merchandise damaged?" "A cow... fell from the sky" "Excuse me? What did you say?" "A cow fell from the sky and smashed my container" "..." "..."
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Will failure be tolerated?
I guess that since it is a private company, the government will have to call to the customer service 1-800 number in India to claim their warranty. lol
(ring ring, ring ring)
SpaceX recording: "Thank you for calling to SpaceX, Where the sky isn't the limit (tm). If you are calling for customer service press 1, if you are calling for a technical support press 2, if you are..."
US Government DTMF: "1336Hz+697Hz" (2)
SpaceX recording: "Thank you for calling to SpaceX, Where the sky isn't the limit (tm). If your rocket lost your load or is in the wrong orbit please hang up and call to 1-800-loadmisplacement. If your rocket has mechanical failures, press 1 or say 'Mechanical'. If it is leaking fuel, press 2 or say 'Leakage'. If it exploded in midair, press 3 or say "Explosion". If it is about software problems, press 4 or say "Software". If other, press 0 or say "Other"
US Government officer: "Other"
SpaceX recording: "I am sorry I didn't quite get that, did you say... 'mangoose'"
US Government officer: (getting upset) "No"
SpaceX recording: "I am sorry I didn't quite get that, did you say... 'No?'"
US Government officer: (getting upset) "Yes"
SpaceX recording: I am sorry I couldn't get that either, please hold a moment while I transfer you with a representative.
SpaceX recording: (repetitive background music) "Thank you for calling to SpaceX, Where the sky isn't the limit (tm). A representative will be with you shortly, thank you for your patience. There-are---three---customers in the queue before you. Awesome facts! Did you know that the Falcon 1 was the first privately funded rocket in space? Thank you for waiting, a representative will be shortly with you. Awesome offer for a limited time! Get two rockets at the price of one! Only 3.99 (billion dollars), special discount for tax haven countries, only in SpaceX. Thank you for waiting, a representative will be with you shortly
US Government officer: "..."
SpaceX recording: (music interrupts)
US Government officer: "Hello?"
SpaceX recording: (the same background music again) "Thank you for calling to SpaceX, Where the sky isn't the limit (tm), A representative will be with you shortly, thank you for your patience... Did you know that..."
US Government officer: (heavy breathing) "......"
SpaceX recording: "Herow, my name is Suryakant Chattopadhyay, haw can I asidst you torey?"
US Government officer: *SIGH*
The real question is not if there were trees on the moon, open your eyes!
The question is: IS THE MOON ACTUALLY A TREE?
That would be a great revolutionary discovery, a paradigm shift from cheese to trees, now the next relevant question is is the double E between those words a coincidence (wait a minute, coincidences don't exist!) or an evolutionary trait that indicates that we are on the right track?
The saddest thing is that while this kind of reasoning it may sound stupid presented just like this, this is how many people in real world reason. (ufologist, religious fanatics, religious leaders, conspirationists, new age, housewives and politicians)
Considering that they learned to lie to survive with this limited AI, I wonder what they could do when they are become really sophisticated. Damn, When is Terminator gonna come to kill them all?
Now if that problem affects the sustainability of the species, then the flaw becomes an issue.
"One could have designed us so the interaction was separate from reproduction"
Orgasms are a medium and a necessary lure, otherwise we would extinct very soon. Without the thousands of millions of "mistakes" made by men, our world population would be way lower.
While in the first world countries sex became a ludic recreational device, in third world countries it still has the primordial function as a mean to survival. Also as you can see comparing the population pyramids of developed countries with higher life expectancies from the third world countries which has a very lower life expectancies, the pyramid is literally inverted.
The lower expectancies of life, people have an outrageous amount of kids... and we have our case of butterflies here, but the flaw in this case is social and economical rather than genetic.
This "reproductive function" of sex becomes very evident after the great wars. The American Baby Boom was a direct influence from the World War II, and that is reflected in every country that had great losses during the wars. It wasn't a state policy that ordered to their citizens to reproduce, it was natural and unconscious, which is very interesting.
Very similarly happens with our primordial need of food. When we are really hungry in the verge of starvation, we don't get picky, we eat whatever is digestible, will be pulling roots eating raw grains and meat. Once you are pretty full our tastes get more sophisticated and try to also satisfy our palate: eating loses the function of nutrition, it becomes a luxury.
In the "civilized world" sex has also became a snack and a gourmet dish for the connoisseurs and we are all the time trying to remove its calories from it while improving its flavor, forgetting the nutritional value of it.
It is funny how evolution allows the existence of gay people, and it is also interesting that this behavior is not only human. Also I am very amused seeing so many people "coming out of the closet" in these days. If the trend keeps up for the next 500,000 years we will extinct ourselves from lack of reproduction. Either that or cloning will be a very successful business.
But still, don't you think that these thieves were able to make a fake ATM machine, program it, and get all the needed hardware to imitate an ATM, must have heard or have at least a vague notion of what Defcon is about?
ROFL
and it's enormously successful at fighting wars
What war was won by the US after World War II?
I mean important modern warfare.
Korean war? Technically still in war.
Vietnam War? Lost. (although some people are still confused about this fact. YES, the US LOST the Vietnam war)
Persian Gulf War? Won. (heh, a last)
Afghanistan War? Still ongoing, still spending humongous amounts of money trying to fix a country that it is becoming more and more unstable.
Iraq War? Still ongoing (with horrible results, everybody agrees it is a failure everybody can't help but see the overwhelming parallelism with "Vietnam", some even started to call it "The new Vietnam")
And that's all so far.
So where is the supposedly American supremacy and the enormous success in wars you talk about?
Yeah, now the US has thermonuclear bombs, stealth planes, supersonic planes, robots flying and crawling, and spy satellites all that propagandistic shit that is aired again and again on TV still can't win.
The US is always backed up by its crew at the UN, but even with all the allies and the embarrasingly large coalition with the support of the most powerful nations and with the irrationally largest budget and resources in the world, still can't win a war.
What does this have to do with the clown?
ain't that the same?
funny thing though, when someday a knowledgeable customer comes in and after he hears your dumbed-down explanation, he says: "so, uhm, it is the hard drive that is broken huh, are really qualified for the job?"
Who cares? whether it is banned/copyrighted/patented/classified/illegal or not, we will get them from China for one tenth of its market price.
I imagine in the near future "invisible coats" at 99 cents stores.
What you propose with nuclear bombs is not stupid.
What you think is shared by some scientists.
But there are other alternatives to it, and considering that we are not in an imminent danger there is more than enough time to research and develop better alternatives.
We will discover dangerous asteroids hundred or tens of years before its impact. We know the possibilities of how often a devastating asteroid comes to Earth, and we are keeping track of all the potential Objects that may take a dangerous route towards our planet.
There is a program called Near Earth Object Program from NASA and JPL, and its automated asteroid monitoring system "Sentry" is tracking the trajectory of all the potentially risky asteroids over the next 100 years. There is another effort from Italy NeoDyS, which uses another methodology to track asteroids with Impact Risk to the Earth.
Another project it is orbit@home, which uses the concept of distributed computing already used on SETI@home, which tries to use the help of idle cpu power of every user in the internet to process the information gathered.
And of course the NASA main competition, the ESA has its own NEO monitoring. In the worst case scenario we will be alerted one year before its impact, but it is more probable that we will get a trajectory confirmed tens of years before its impact.
Therefore there is still hope.
There are basically two strategies in the case of a oncoming asteroid:
To destroy it or deflect/delay it.
The methodology and its strategy will depend on how much time we have, its trajectory, the mass and its composition, shape, its density, its porosity, the velocity and its rotation.
Your proposal of destroying it with a nuclear blast is one of the possibilities contemplated but it is not actually very welcomed, since its fracture would imply more complications. It can be used most mass is vaporized. If instead large amount of fragments still continues its journey and impacts at a high velocity, it will still have devastating effects on Earth.
That is why it is most often proposed the detonation of nuclear weapons for deflecting effects.
Other proposals of destruction are the usage of focused Solar energy to vaporize it or deflect it by estimulating the rotation of it by amplifying the Yarkovsky effect hopefully making it deviate from its orbit.
Others propose the usage of Kinetic Impact, deflecting it by an impact modifying its momentum. The NASA supports this (although they are more inclined on using nukes by now saying that it is the most affordable and cost efficient) but the ESA (European Space Agency) claims that Kinetic impact is the most efficient method and they are already ready with a whole mission called Don Quijote (no kidding, their two spacecrafts are called Sancho and Hidalgo, the first being the scout that analyzes the asteroid, and the second being the impactor).
Others are favoring the usage of rockets on the surface to propel the asteroid out of its orbit. And of course the ones cheering for the gravital tractor which is an elegant solution since it doesn't matter neither the composition of the asteroid nor its rotation, but it is expensive, it requires more research and when deployed it requires many years of "tractoring" the asteroid to divert it to a safe trajectory, so a very early detection of the threat is a must in this case.
As always, the usage of any of these methods depend on the scenario and the needed strategy and resources available.
(I am a little pissed, just a bit)
By the way you don't get his point. If we start suing for past conquers it would have no end. Latin America was invaded by Spaniards and Portuguese people which was divided by a Papal Bull, dividing equal surfaces for both countries. The north was conquered by England. South American countries should sue Spain for slavery and exploitation, one of the richest silver mines in the world were in Bolivia, Potosà were depleted and everything was taken to Spain. One of the richest mines in history were absolutely depleted by 1600, leaving Bolivia only with tin. Who is going to claim that? Who is going to claim the exploitation of the colonies the British, Spanish and Portuguese imperialism? Lets see Japan, they were the England of Asia, invading pirates of the far east.
Lets go to Asia. They annexed Korea raping and assassinating the Queen of Korea.
They abused Korean girls kidnapping them and making them sex slaves for the japanese army, , taking control of the culture, its economy and attempting to destroy its language (All Koreans were renamed with Japanese names and speaking in Korean was forbidden). Japanese massacred Chinese people, especially famous the cities of Nanjing and Nanking for the atrocities that the Japanese army did to them. The Japanese had their own concentration camp in Nanking, they experimented with biological weapons and performed medical experiments to live subjects to captured Chinese and American POWS, even with Chinese civilians, dissecting live people, even pregnant women just like it is done nowadays with rat labs. (Google Unit731, also known as the Auschwitz of Asia)
Now, who is going to repair all the damage they did? (And the Japanese government is neither apologizing nor acknowledging that it happened)
And as far as I know these countries still exist.
By the way the Catholic Church lost a lot of influence throughout history, especially since the separation of State and Religion.
During the French Revolution, Catholic Church lands were confiscated in 1790, which was the largest landowner at that time in France, also lost lands in Germany and Spain.
The Papal States were annexed to the Kingdom of Italy 1860 to 1870, which comprised the center and northeast of Italy, reducing to what it is today the Vatican City.
So, it is not precisely "the same" resources and wealth.
Etcetera, etcetera, in secular seculorum...
As you see claiming for what happened in the past is simply stupid, childish and useless. What we can do is to look forward and stop making stupid claims.
Yeah, what the hell... lets sell the Vatican City with everything in it everything and give the money to the poor. Why not? Yeah, melt all the "treasures" and make gold bars, burn the library and the archives for the people who are dying of hypothermia. Lets sell Michelangelo's works and recycle the Sistine Chapel into a modern geriatric, that will probably satisfy Jesus more than the frivolous Church He founded by Himself.
Come on people we are forgetting the Chinese proverb: Don't feed them fish, teach them how to fish. And that is what the Catholic Church and any respectable and serious religion is doing, Christian or not.
Do you even know how much money all the most popular protestant pastors (I mean the honest ones) are managing? Considering that protestant churchmen are professionals and usually donate 10% (tithe) of their incomes, they manage a humongous amount altogether. And they are not even a Nation.
Makes me wonder why people are fixated with the Catholic Church. Why people are not asking Protestant churches to sell the "Christian" Churches with all their Bose speakers, mixers samplers, microfones and the last generation robotized lightning systems they installed with the HD camera circuit in their theaters/temples, giving all money that to the poors?
Now please don't bring the paedophilia/homofilia in the Catholic Church since it is offtopic and that is not the point of my post.
Exactly! under that criteria even Jesus is Black, oh Lord... ahaha
The Sentry monitoring system tracks asteroids that has a potential impact trajectory to Earth over the next 100 years.
There are more programs like that, such as NEODyS and distributed computing like orbit@home.
Just a detail the asteroid 1950DA trajectory is known to be very close to Earth on March 16 2880.
Recheck the page I gave you before and care to browse it thoroughly since it will answer more of your questions.
By the way i will leave you the site of NEODyS: http://newton.dm.unipi.it/cgi-bin/neodys/neoibo?riskpage:0;main
I suggest you to check NASA's program for tracking asteroids: NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID TRACKING (NEAT). http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/programs/neat.html
That alone makes this debate exasperating and useless. No matter how many scientific explanations you get here you will try to defend your "position" in this debate.
"Next?", what is this? The MMA? Wrestling? Astrophysics deathmatch?
You don't have enough knowledge of even basic physics to discuss this topic, and you are not even willing to reason with its laws since you ignore them.
Have a good day man.
Save the Cheerleader, save the world!
About the cattle, I heard once from my International Trade course professor that once a cargo ship was sunk because a cow fell from the skies.
The containers were All-Risk insured, but insurances don't cover cows falling from the skies, therefore the poor importer lost all his products with no compensation at all.
Heh... imagine the situation...
"ok sir... lemme check... yes you are insured for all risks... so how was your merchandise damaged?"
"A cow... fell from the sky"
"Excuse me? What did you say?"
"A cow fell from the sky and smashed my container"
"..."
"..."
Well, i guess it will happen sooner or later with all the space junk orbiting around us...
Does that mean that they are genetically more apt to survive? are they the next evolutionary step? Is Chuck Norris delta-32? (anomalous)
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