As soon as you avoid buying a beer for BTC because you think you will get more for your coins later, it stops being a currency. It becomes a speculation, and by now it's tulip time.
Bitcoin is just a sort of an ersatz "fiat Gold". I'm surprised that we aren't seeing those doom and gloom gold investment infomercials on Television get competition with Bitcoin investment infomercials.
This was not even an engine firing. It was during a LOX Drop test, where the engine is tested for leaks. And since pure Oxygen outside of where it is supposed to be is nasty, it could be just about anything in the area.
The post you were replying to was pure did not RTFA classic Slashdot.
You never ever ever take shortcuts with rocket engines. They are channeled explosions or deflagrations if you wish. They might be made cheaper, but shortcuts are instantly punished.
https://arstechnica.com/scienc... here's a nice example of changing an engine. The F1's were a testament to balls to the wall, but hand assembled with so much hand welding. We'd never want to reproduce that today. The F-1B is a nice modern update to a sound concept. No shortcuts allowed in the world of LOX and RP-1. That doesn't have all that much to do with this particular story, but its good reading. Maybe OP will give it a read and learn something.
>I suppose those expensive GSO sats (TV & comm) that SES, largest commercial sat operator, is having launched by SpaceX, even on refurbished SpaceX launchers (SES being first commercial customer), must be cubesats... NOT!
You win today's internet for not getting the point.
Agreed, however if Microsoft do this right and provide support in iOS and Android then they'll have a solution which works for 100% of the mobile market and 83% of the desktop market.
This isn't so so great if you're the 17% on something else - but better than AirDrop today which only works on 13% of desktops and 18% of phones.
Now there was nothing to stop Apple (or even Google) doing the same - however they've had 5 years since AirDrop came out to do something... but chose not to.
This is called the Microsoft instant we are the standard outlook. Microsoft comes late to the game, and their fans complain that Apple isn't compatible with Microsoft's late entry, and it's those damn hipsters at Apple's fault.
When we reach a point where Russia is reflexively blamed for every hack or hack attempt, every piece of questionable news, every disagreeable online posting, and every boogeyman in the closet, it's just a matter of time before the mob reaches a true fever pitch and declares the world would be sunshine and unicorns again without Russia.
Necraft confirms this new Slashdot meme, soon to a Beowulf cluster of Russian interference.
I love how every single US problem these days is insta-mitigated with "blame the russians".
I like how people say everyone is saying all problems are the fault of the Russians.
I don't know that some Russians messed with Mayer's Yahoo or not, because the security breach was just one facet of her remarkable incompetence.
But in a matter involving the internet, and with some group performing the breach, it just might be a group based in Russia. Mayer et al might just be able to figure out who was responsible - this is not impossible to do. You do know that I hope. So I give her a fair possibility of being correct in this matter, hedged with her propensity to make excuses.
But no, all of the US's issues are not "the fault of the Russians". But evidence is accumulating that some of it is related in very interesting and proveable ways, even the information that is in the public sphere. So while you might be tired of hearing that, it does not make it any less true. Unless of course, you are of the bent that declares anything you disagree with as fake news.
By approving to only 20 states, do they really think the mosquitoes will not cross state lines? Or jump to Mexico or Canada?
What if a country like N.Korea starts designing and releasing their own organisms in a "F the world" gesture - then will it be seen as a problem?
I don't know that the concept is to have strict geographic borders. Any borders will be very fuzzy. But the highly focused control methods are not new. Bacillus thuringiensis I is also used to control Mosquitoes. And it does a great job, killing the larvae of just the mosquitoes (also fungus gnat and blackfly larvae) but that's it. In the pond in my backyard, we use it, and doesn't bother the frogs or fish one bit.
Bacillus thuringiensis K a version of the bacteria that goes after Gypsy moths. And it's approved for "organic" status.
Both completely natural, not man made and found on beaches.
And did you know that there are some species of insect that cannot reproduce without Wolbachia, the bacteria in question? It is a very common bacteria, it has the same effect in a male mosquito who picks it up randomly as in a purposely infected one.
We've learned a lot about pest control, and have gone far beyond early and clumsy efforts. While so many Slashdotters are still stuck in the 1960's Andromeda Strain world, we've been using these highly focused controls for many years. might as well rail on about vaccines.
tl;dr version. if Wolbachia is a problem, we're screwed already because it's ubiquitous.
As for NK pulling some insect borne stunt, its them and everyone else. This isn't rocket surgery.
That's why they do these studies, so when people say "oh I only need 5 hours" instead of "I have a sleep disorder, I wonder how much smarter I'd be if I managed to find a way to sleep more" they can read the study and realize how much "I'm different" hogwash people spout on the issue.
The study doesn't say "maybe 5 hours is the same as 8." Do a study and try to prove that; lots of researchers have done studies starting from that idea. Did the results support it?
A person needs what they need. Tell me though, how is the fact that I've only slept 5 hours a night since I was a teenager indicate that I have a sleep disorder?
If I get less than 5, I feel like crap. And aren't sleep disorders supposed to have symptoms? When I get tired, I go to bed, I wake up feeling good. I certanly have none of the problems that are classified as sleep disorder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Most people need more sleep than I do. Some a lot more. Demanding that if a person doesn't act or do like the majority is indicative of a lack of understanding. And as for studies, I don't really care. I'm an outlier. I do what I do, it causes me no harm, certainly less than if I was drugged to get the dictated and no exceptions amount of sleep and be "normal". I'm happy the way I am. if you want, you can be annoyed. Just don't lose sleep over it.
I worked as a water plant operator with rotating shifts and started sleeping four hours at a time. I was always wasted from fatigue and could barely function at work or with friends. One beer or cocktail would knock me out. I would be awake all night when I wasn't at work.
Horrid situation. One of my first jobs was at a electronics manufacturing facility, swing shifting and we worked a 4 day 10 hour day schedule.
I still did my 5 hours, but yeah, it was a bad existence. I recall a friend introducing me to Boilermakers at 7 in the morning (drop a shot of whiskey into a beer for those not familiar.) Some folks can handle it many can't.
I think that shift workers and their messed up sleep habits are probably much worse on a person then the number of hours slept. I know my regular 5 hours a night leaves me feeling good when I wake up, but it is generally during fairly normal times, like go to sleep at 2 am and get up at 7 am, but no matter the sleep when I was on that nasty 10 hour third shift, I felt like I was in a mild fugue state most of the time. Which sounds a lot like what you describe in the water plant job.
That's useful. I usually dream about banging Bayonetta or showing up to my PhD thesis defense stark naked.
I'm a Sophia Vergara guy myself. Most non-problem solving dreams are what I call adventure dreams. I'm wandering around some landscape and finding things. I recall a few naked in public dreams from a long time ago, like teenager years.
I once dreamed, during the Blackhawks 2013 Stanley Cup run, that I had skated out onto the ice in goal in place of Corey Crawford, only to realize I was naked. A psychiatrist could have a field day with me.
Acch! Whatever you do, don't fall down, especially front first! But naked and in goal, I can only figure that you must have been really nervous about something.
The Paradise Paper's contents are exposing many people, Including the Present Secretary of commerce Wilbur Ross who holds investment in deal with Russian oligarchs Leonid Mikhelson and Gennady Timchenko who are . sanctioned by the US and Vladimir Putin's son-in-law Kirill Shamalov. THen there is US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and Gary Cohn of the Economic development council, and FaceBooks Mark Zuckerberg and a mess of others, like 120,000 people.
But hey, Apple is clickbait, and the only miscreant worth mentioning.
I predict this will be marked as a troll around the time some folks wake up. Either by Apple haters or you know who... 3...2...1...
I'm wondering if the people who come up with this stuff are thinking that if they say something sufficiently mind-numbingly obvious, that everyone's brain will still be too numb to realize that what they are saying has actually been common knowledge for generations.
I think its because a lot of people think they can cheat their sleep. A person needs what they need. A good rule of thumb is if you need an alarm clock every day.
What I don't buy into is the idea that everyone needs 8 hours. Most do. I don't. I sleep 5. I go to bed, and 5 hours later I wake up with no alarm clock, feeling refreshed. Only way to get me to sleep 8 is to drug me - or if I have a cold.
The weird thing is not how many people don't believe me, but how their first response is to get pissed off at me.
Seriously, listen up you younger Slashdotters: Do not neglect your sleep. Sleep long enough to get dreams,
I've always been a five hour a night person. And it's five hours after I hit the hay, doesn't matter if I hit it at 9 p.m. or 2 a.m.
Dreaming can be a lot of fun - although in my typical OC form, I dream answers to problems I'm working on. For me "Let me sleep on it" is very literal.
I don't think my mind works the same as 99 percent of humanity.
Anyhow, if my non-healthy sleep habits haven't killed me by now, they either won't or have already done their damage.
Side note - after my better half needed to sleep halfway sitting upward after a shoulder operation, we got a very firm adjustable bed. Great for my old Hockey injuries too. Hightly recommended if you like the good stuff. It was around 5 K, but well worth it.
As a technical employee for the Weather Channel, I'm sad to admit more people believe this than I would like. It would be deeply depressing if they knew how much data comes directly from NOAA.
The first time I heard it - and yes indeed, I did, I was at breakfast with a group I belong to, Our most conservative guy suggested the very thing - no more Government weather satellites. I think it is part of the general disrespect many people have for government and science. So they don't pay attention.
And they probably never thought about the strategic need a government has for good weather. D-Day depended on some crack forecasting.
Anyhow, it's cool working for TWC. I always wondered, those people that get sent to places getting hammered by whatever is happening - I hope they are really well compensated.
I've stayed pretty consistent as a Goldwater Conservative over the years, where you spend the money wisely but once you decide, you make certain the bills are paid,
Sure, that's a conservative value...
that you intrude on people's freedoms as little as possible,
...but that's a liberal one...
Keeping in mind that Goldwater was pro choice and anti-religious fundamentalist, I'm right in step with him:
Fundies:
"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."
Gay Rights:
"The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of people’s private lives. Government governs best when it governs least – and stays out of the impossible task of legislating morality. But legislating someone’s version of morality is exactly what we do by perpetuating discrimination against gays."
Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar"
Abortion:
A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
Environmentalism
While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
I think the problem is that it's so difficult to see just how horribly today's crypto-conservatives have drifted into whatever the hell they have become. It isn't conservatism, but corporatism. And they have found a wicked successful formula. Single issue voters of the Fundamentalist stripe Ex-Dixiecrats who can no more let go of theire racism than the people in the middle east can get over whatever the hell got them started thousands of years ago, And poor people who can be convinced to vote against their own interests. And now they have outside help.
Some people might call Goldwater's tendencies Libertarian, but even today's libertarians are just Republicans that won't take telling. "Don't let the Government tell you what to do - Jaywalk for Jesus!"
Anyhow, Barry was an interesting fellow who is well worth looking into. I don't agree with everything on his agenda, but he respected freedom of individuals. was open to compromise, which is the only way a government can function (today's federal guvmint is exhibit A) Hated Fundamentalists, and we need conservatives like him badly.
you jest, but Accuweather is currently petitioning the government to shut down public weather info from NOAA and NASA so we all have to get ourselves datamined by accuweather and its ilk....
Rick Santorum - yes that Santorum -introduced a Bill http://www.outsidethebeltway.c... that would Block NOAA from using it's own data. Of Course Accuweather is based in the same state, and paid baksheesh to old Frothy.
My guess is if The Commercial entities were told they have to foot the Bill for the next generation of weathersats, the might lose their enthusiasm for this Huge Republican based subsidy program.
Aside from the glory factor, there's no need for people. And while maybe for some countries that's still necessary, for a country like China -- guys, we already believe you.
Hey, now give me a reason for putting anything in space at all, ever.
Today, if we were all living in say Europe, we could use the argument, demanding robot oceangoing ships because there's no need for people to do worldwide exploring - stay at home and let the drones and robot ships do the work. Building ships and planes for meatbags is too expensive, and what's the point? We have to fix the problems in Europe before the expense of sending people to explore new lands that might not be of any use anyhow.
Problem is, you don't understand the psychology of humans. The science is awesome, but what is the point of exploring the moons of Jupiter if we plan to never ever leave earth, stay here forever, never to leave because reasons.
Regardless, there are many of us like myself, who with a manned presence, support an almost unlimited NASA/space exploration budget. Unmanned and manned together.
Without a manned element, I support a budget of $0.00.
Whatever else the guy is, he is monumentally stupid for expressing a forbidden opinion inside the company. I'd fire him as well, for doing something so damn stupid.
To me he seems wise for not working in stupid company. A stupid person would stick to his job at google no matter what.
A smart person would find a new job, and avoid the messiness of getting fired for his opinion.
Slashdot Mirror
As soon as you avoid buying a beer for BTC because you think you will get more for your coins later, it stops being a currency. It becomes a speculation, and by now it's tulip time.
Bitcoin is just a sort of an ersatz "fiat Gold". I'm surprised that we aren't seeing those doom and gloom gold investment infomercials on Television get competition with Bitcoin investment infomercials.
1. This was not a "launch"
This was not even an engine firing. It was during a LOX Drop test, where the engine is tested for leaks. And since pure Oxygen outside of where it is supposed to be is nasty, it could be just about anything in the area.
The post you were replying to was pure did not RTFA classic Slashdot.
You never ever ever take shortcuts with rocket engines. They are channeled explosions or deflagrations if you wish. They might be made cheaper, but shortcuts are instantly punished.
https://arstechnica.com/scienc... here's a nice example of changing an engine. The F1's were a testament to balls to the wall, but hand assembled with so much hand welding. We'd never want to reproduce that today. The F-1B is a nice modern update to a sound concept. No shortcuts allowed in the world of LOX and RP-1. That doesn't have all that much to do with this particular story, but its good reading. Maybe OP will give it a read and learn something.
>I suppose those expensive GSO sats (TV & comm) that SES, largest commercial sat operator, is having launched by SpaceX, even on refurbished SpaceX launchers (SES being first commercial customer), must be cubesats... NOT!
You win today's internet for not getting the point.
Agreed, however if Microsoft do this right and provide support in iOS and Android then they'll have a solution which works for 100% of the mobile market and 83% of the desktop market.
This isn't so so great if you're the 17% on something else - but better than AirDrop today which only works on 13% of desktops and 18% of phones.
Now there was nothing to stop Apple (or even Google) doing the same - however they've had 5 years since AirDrop came out to do something ... but chose not to.
This is called the Microsoft instant we are the standard outlook. Microsoft comes late to the game, and their fans complain that Apple isn't compatible with Microsoft's late entry, and it's those damn hipsters at Apple's fault.
When we reach a point where Russia is reflexively blamed for every hack or hack attempt, every piece of questionable news, every disagreeable online posting, and every boogeyman in the closet, it's just a matter of time before the mob reaches a true fever pitch and declares the world would be sunshine and unicorns again without Russia.
Necraft confirms this new Slashdot meme, soon to a Beowulf cluster of Russian interference.
I don't even recall this happening during the cold war.
We didn't have the internet then.
I love how every single US problem these days is insta-mitigated with "blame the russians".
I like how people say everyone is saying all problems are the fault of the Russians.
I don't know that some Russians messed with Mayer's Yahoo or not, because the security breach was just one facet of her remarkable incompetence.
But in a matter involving the internet, and with some group performing the breach, it just might be a group based in Russia. Mayer et al might just be able to figure out who was responsible - this is not impossible to do. You do know that I hope. So I give her a fair possibility of being correct in this matter, hedged with her propensity to make excuses.
But no, all of the US's issues are not "the fault of the Russians". But evidence is accumulating that some of it is related in very interesting and proveable ways, even the information that is in the public sphere. So while you might be tired of hearing that, it does not make it any less true. Unless of course, you are of the bent that declares anything you disagree with as fake news.
>What happend to good old Blame Canada?
They're not even a real country anyway.
Oh we're still here. We're just keeping politely quiet while the rest of the world wonders WTF is going on with the U.S.
Release the Geese!
lobbyists are just blatant baksheesh in Washington DC
FTFY ;^)
By approving to only 20 states, do they really think the mosquitoes will not cross state lines? Or jump to Mexico or Canada? What if a country like N.Korea starts designing and releasing their own organisms in a "F the world" gesture - then will it be seen as a problem?
I don't know that the concept is to have strict geographic borders. Any borders will be very fuzzy. But the highly focused control methods are not new. Bacillus thuringiensis I is also used to control Mosquitoes. And it does a great job, killing the larvae of just the mosquitoes (also fungus gnat and blackfly larvae) but that's it. In the pond in my backyard, we use it, and doesn't bother the frogs or fish one bit.
Bacillus thuringiensis K a version of the bacteria that goes after Gypsy moths. And it's approved for "organic" status.
Both completely natural, not man made and found on beaches.
And did you know that there are some species of insect that cannot reproduce without Wolbachia, the bacteria in question? It is a very common bacteria, it has the same effect in a male mosquito who picks it up randomly as in a purposely infected one.
We've learned a lot about pest control, and have gone far beyond early and clumsy efforts. While so many Slashdotters are still stuck in the 1960's Andromeda Strain world, we've been using these highly focused controls for many years. might as well rail on about vaccines.
tl;dr version. if Wolbachia is a problem, we're screwed already because it's ubiquitous. As for NK pulling some insect borne stunt, its them and everyone else. This isn't rocket surgery.
Something about Hognoxious, Poperazo, and MightyMartian.
I'm sure an AC will come along and explain it to me.
Don't sell yourself short.
That's why they do these studies, so when people say "oh I only need 5 hours" instead of "I have a sleep disorder, I wonder how much smarter I'd be if I managed to find a way to sleep more" they can read the study and realize how much "I'm different" hogwash people spout on the issue.
The study doesn't say "maybe 5 hours is the same as 8." Do a study and try to prove that; lots of researchers have done studies starting from that idea. Did the results support it?
A person needs what they need. Tell me though, how is the fact that I've only slept 5 hours a night since I was a teenager indicate that I have a sleep disorder?
If I get less than 5, I feel like crap. And aren't sleep disorders supposed to have symptoms? When I get tired, I go to bed, I wake up feeling good. I certanly have none of the problems that are classified as sleep disorder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Most people need more sleep than I do. Some a lot more. Demanding that if a person doesn't act or do like the majority is indicative of a lack of understanding. And as for studies, I don't really care. I'm an outlier. I do what I do, it causes me no harm, certainly less than if I was drugged to get the dictated and no exceptions amount of sleep and be "normal". I'm happy the way I am. if you want, you can be annoyed. Just don't lose sleep over it.
I worked as a water plant operator with rotating shifts and started sleeping four hours at a time. I was always wasted from fatigue and could barely function at work or with friends. One beer or cocktail would knock me out. I would be awake all night when I wasn't at work.
Horrid situation. One of my first jobs was at a electronics manufacturing facility, swing shifting and we worked a 4 day 10 hour day schedule.
I still did my 5 hours, but yeah, it was a bad existence. I recall a friend introducing me to Boilermakers at 7 in the morning (drop a shot of whiskey into a beer for those not familiar.) Some folks can handle it many can't.
I think that shift workers and their messed up sleep habits are probably much worse on a person then the number of hours slept. I know my regular 5 hours a night leaves me feeling good when I wake up, but it is generally during fairly normal times, like go to sleep at 2 am and get up at 7 am, but no matter the sleep when I was on that nasty 10 hour third shift, I felt like I was in a mild fugue state most of the time. Which sounds a lot like what you describe in the water plant job.
That's useful. I usually dream about banging Bayonetta or showing up to my PhD thesis defense stark naked.
I'm a Sophia Vergara guy myself. Most non-problem solving dreams are what I call adventure dreams. I'm wandering around some landscape and finding things. I recall a few naked in public dreams from a long time ago, like teenager years.
I once dreamed, during the Blackhawks 2013 Stanley Cup run, that I had skated out onto the ice in goal in place of Corey Crawford, only to realize I was naked. A psychiatrist could have a field day with me.
Acch! Whatever you do, don't fall down, especially front first! But naked and in goal, I can only figure that you must have been really nervous about something.
But hey, Apple is clickbait, and the only miscreant worth mentioning.
I predict this will be marked as a troll around the time some folks wake up. Either by Apple haters or you know who... 3...2...1...
For fuck sake, I knew that when I was, like, six.
I'm wondering if the people who come up with this stuff are thinking that if they say something sufficiently mind-numbingly obvious, that everyone's brain will still be too numb to realize that what they are saying has actually been common knowledge for generations.
I think its because a lot of people think they can cheat their sleep. A person needs what they need. A good rule of thumb is if you need an alarm clock every day.
What I don't buy into is the idea that everyone needs 8 hours. Most do. I don't. I sleep 5. I go to bed, and 5 hours later I wake up with no alarm clock, feeling refreshed. Only way to get me to sleep 8 is to drug me - or if I have a cold.
The weird thing is not how many people don't believe me, but how their first response is to get pissed off at me.
Seriously, listen up you younger Slashdotters: Do not neglect your sleep. Sleep long enough to get dreams,
I've always been a five hour a night person. And it's five hours after I hit the hay, doesn't matter if I hit it at 9 p.m. or 2 a.m.
Dreaming can be a lot of fun - although in my typical OC form, I dream answers to problems I'm working on. For me "Let me sleep on it" is very literal.
I don't think my mind works the same as 99 percent of humanity.
Anyhow, if my non-healthy sleep habits haven't killed me by now, they either won't or have already done their damage.
Side note - after my better half needed to sleep halfway sitting upward after a shoulder operation, we got a very firm adjustable bed. Great for my old Hockey injuries too. Hightly recommended if you like the good stuff. It was around 5 K, but well worth it.
As a technical employee for the Weather Channel, I'm sad to admit more people believe this than I would like. It would be deeply depressing if they knew how much data comes directly from NOAA.
The first time I heard it - and yes indeed, I did, I was at breakfast with a group I belong to, Our most conservative guy suggested the very thing - no more Government weather satellites. I think it is part of the general disrespect many people have for government and science. So they don't pay attention.
And they probably never thought about the strategic need a government has for good weather. D-Day depended on some crack forecasting. Anyhow, it's cool working for TWC. I always wondered, those people that get sent to places getting hammered by whatever is happening - I hope they are really well compensated.
I've stayed pretty consistent as a Goldwater Conservative over the years, where you spend the money wisely but once you decide, you make certain the bills are paid,
Sure, that's a conservative value...
that you intrude on people's freedoms as little as possible,
...but that's a liberal one...
Keeping in mind that Goldwater was pro choice and anti-religious fundamentalist, I'm right in step with him:
Fundies:
"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."
Gay Rights:
"The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of people’s private lives. Government governs best when it governs least – and stays out of the impossible task of legislating morality. But legislating someone’s version of morality is exactly what we do by perpetuating discrimination against gays."
Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar"
Abortion:
A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right.
Environmentalism
While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.
I think the problem is that it's so difficult to see just how horribly today's crypto-conservatives have drifted into whatever the hell they have become. It isn't conservatism, but corporatism. And they have found a wicked successful formula. Single issue voters of the Fundamentalist stripe Ex-Dixiecrats who can no more let go of theire racism than the people in the middle east can get over whatever the hell got them started thousands of years ago, And poor people who can be convinced to vote against their own interests. And now they have outside help.
Some people might call Goldwater's tendencies Libertarian, but even today's libertarians are just Republicans that won't take telling. "Don't let the Government tell you what to do - Jaywalk for Jesus!"
Anyhow, Barry was an interesting fellow who is well worth looking into. I don't agree with everything on his agenda, but he respected freedom of individuals. was open to compromise, which is the only way a government can function (today's federal guvmint is exhibit A) Hated Fundamentalists, and we need conservatives like him badly.
He made some pretty funny quips at times too
you jest, but Accuweather is currently petitioning the government to shut down public weather info from NOAA and NASA so we all have to get ourselves datamined by accuweather and its ilk....
Rick Santorum - yes that Santorum -introduced a Bill http://www.outsidethebeltway.c... that would Block NOAA from using it's own data. Of Course Accuweather is based in the same state, and paid baksheesh to old Frothy.
My guess is if The Commercial entities were told they have to foot the Bill for the next generation of weathersats, the might lose their enthusiasm for this Huge Republican based subsidy program.
Of what use is a newborn baby?
They are fun to make. And they don't cost billions a piece.
Until you get divorced.
And what's the practical use of having thousands of manhours of zero-G ?
Of what use is a newborn baby?
- W Churchill
Aside from the glory factor, there's no need for people. And while maybe for some countries that's still necessary, for a country like China -- guys, we already believe you.
Hey, now give me a reason for putting anything in space at all, ever.
Today, if we were all living in say Europe, we could use the argument, demanding robot oceangoing ships because there's no need for people to do worldwide exploring - stay at home and let the drones and robot ships do the work. Building ships and planes for meatbags is too expensive, and what's the point? We have to fix the problems in Europe before the expense of sending people to explore new lands that might not be of any use anyhow.
Problem is, you don't understand the psychology of humans. The science is awesome, but what is the point of exploring the moons of Jupiter if we plan to never ever leave earth, stay here forever, never to leave because reasons.
Regardless, there are many of us like myself, who with a manned presence, support an almost unlimited NASA/space exploration budget. Unmanned and manned together.
Without a manned element, I support a budget of $0.00.
No more of these expensive satellites! Free market rules tell us we'll get our weather information from the Weather Channel just like everyone else.
Whatever else the guy is, he is monumentally stupid for expressing a forbidden opinion inside the company. I'd fire him as well, for doing something so damn stupid.
To me he seems wise for not working in stupid company. A stupid person would stick to his job at google no matter what.
A smart person would find a new job, and avoid the messiness of getting fired for his opinion.