Put yourself in the shoes of an Englishmen during the late 1690's. The voyage to America would take months and be very dangerous. Survival is not assured. A return journey is virtually out of the question.
Of course, with the DoHS to deal with, the situation is radically different now.
An advanced, non-FTL traveling, alien civilization is most likely going to put very good telescopes around their own star, at the solar foci, before they send probes to other stars.
Well, I'll admit I had not thought of that case and I should have - but even in that case, the solution (given by economics) was to move to other areas that had more resources. The civilizations were not really wiped out - they merged into nearby ones that still had those resources.
Easter Island. When they cut down the last tree (for moving those carved heads around on rollers), they couldn't build boats to go fish with, or leave. Invoking economics will not always get you out of a man-made catastrophe - global warming anyone?
"lightly armed and not authorized to open fire"
-- You're missing some basic military tactics here - you open fire, and then call in air support after claiming the Serbs opened fire *first*. Job done.
"Shows how interesting I found it. Thinking about it, we're responsible for Big Brother as well."
-- Big Brother was originally a Dutch TV production, shot literally just up the road from me. At least if you mean the TV series. Not that I have any interest in it, I find it doubleplusungood.
My first computer was an Atari 400 (hence the moniker), and I had a lot of fun with it, first learning Atari Basic, then moving on to 6502 Assembler (Assembler/Editor cartridge, then the bliss of Mac65). I upgraded the RAM from 16K to a massive 48K, then got an Atari 1050 disc drive, then a Happy/US-doubler chip for the drive so I could make "backups" of my legitimately purchased software.
The only code I wrote that got in to the wild was some disk based copy protection. I wrote the loader using an interpreted C compiler (Deep Blue C), and some 6502 code - stored in duplicate sectors on a certain track. For example, track 5 would contain two sectors 7s, one sector 7 with valid 6502 code, the other with bogus code. The only way to read in the correct sector 7 was by reading the track sectors in reverse sequence, something no disk copy program would do, but the Deep Blue C code did (the code took advantage of the order in which sectors on a track were placed so as to optimize read times). The 6502 code was the loader (and de-mangler) for the rest of the program.
Of course, if I knew then what I know now, I'd have written Tetris and retired...
Universities should use waterboarding. Not only would the exams be over quickly, and favor those who know the subject, but it would encourage only the most motivated student to apply.
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I wondered about this too, but then I thought people modding it +5 Insightful was funnier than +5 Funny. Ironic eh.
It's not irony, it's phosphorousy!
OK, which idiot packed the grenades?
Also, bubble-wrap is a much better idea than a single bubble.
Of course, with the DoHS to deal with, the situation is radically different now.
No, they come with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the comfort capsules...
An advanced, non-FTL traveling, alien civilization is most likely going to put very good telescopes around their own star, at the solar foci, before they send probes to other stars.
chunkylover53 is going to be most displeased.
You seem a little....
Easter Island. When they cut down the last tree (for moving those carved heads around on rollers), they couldn't build boats to go fish with, or leave. Invoking economics will not always get you out of a man-made catastrophe - global warming anyone?
-- I am interested in your views and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
E=MC^2 has livened things up a bit for mankind
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg18925423.600-three-cosmic-enigmas-one-audacious-answer.html
Would it be OK to talk about a tea bet?
Shouldn't that be "greatest *observed* bang since the big one?" /nitpick
"lightly armed and not authorized to open fire" -- You're missing some basic military tactics here - you open fire, and then call in air support after claiming the Serbs opened fire *first*. Job done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcYvv4PI-Ns (Blue Danube)
Did anyone else laugh when they saw this comment modded as "Flamebait"?
-- Big Brother was originally a Dutch TV production, shot literally just up the road from me. At least if you mean the TV series. Not that I have any interest in it, I find it doubleplusungood.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(TV_series)
The only code I wrote that got in to the wild was some disk based copy protection. I wrote the loader using an interpreted C compiler (Deep Blue C), and some 6502 code - stored in duplicate sectors on a certain track. For example, track 5 would contain two sectors 7s, one sector 7 with valid 6502 code, the other with bogus code. The only way to read in the correct sector 7 was by reading the track sectors in reverse sequence, something no disk copy program would do, but the Deep Blue C code did (the code took advantage of the order in which sectors on a track were placed so as to optimize read times). The 6502 code was the loader (and de-mangler) for the rest of the program.
Of course, if I knew then what I know now, I'd have written Tetris and retired...
Universities should use waterboarding. Not only would the exams be over quickly, and favor those who know the subject, but it would encourage only the most motivated student to apply.