Why settle for four? If you're gong to step it up, lets do a full cluster of six auxilliary boosters like they discussed early on, and land all seven!
Or, maybe they could design some sort of single "super-heavy" rocket that's the same size as the entire cluster would be - you could fit in even more (or larger!) engines and fuel, while eliminating much of the mass of having several smaller fuel tanks and superstructures...
I think you're being sarcastic, but on the second "super heavy" do you recall the "Sea Dragon"? The ultimate vaporware rocket. That sucker was big!
150 meters tall, 23 meters in diameter 2 stage - first stage 350 MN; 79,000,000 lbf) thrust, second stage 59 MN; 13,000,000 lbf Hydrogen LOX engine. able to carry 550,000 kg (1,210,000 lb) to LEO. RP-1 and LOX burning, and no pumps, this thing was going to use Pressurized Nitrogen to push the fuel to the nozzles.
The beast was going to have to launch from water, the First stage bell was going to have a ballast/shroud attached over it until the rocket was lit.
Cheap was the watchword. The rocket was going to be of 8 mm sheet steel construction. Built in a dry dock, towed to sea, electrolysis used to extract Oxygen for both stages and Hydrogen for the second stage. A nuc aircraft carrier on site for the power needed to do that.
Me? I suspect that weather conditions would make the pre launch activities a pain in the butt. I'm also curious what the LOX would do with regard to freezing the seawater around it. Finally, the idea of using Pressurized Nitrogen as a pumping force, seems a little sketchy. The tank pressure must always exceed the combustion pressure, so a lot of Nitrogen will be needed. Even the pie in the sky concept people conceded that pumps might be needed. http://neverworld.net/truax/Se...
But with the concepts that a lot of people in here have, I'm surprised people haven't latched onto the Sea Dragon as what we should be building.
Yeah, they cut those "profiting from monopoly status" corners. There's a new player, and they cost far less than you do. This is what happens when you stagnate from having no competition.
You've got it now, and they're going to kick your ass.
Let us just pull back a minute from your endorphin buzz.
What Spacex is doing is pretty darn cool, and I am lovin it.
But watching the launch vids, where the screaming and cheering is louder than the flight announcements and reading their syophants, y'all are getting as full of hubris as NASA and the fans before the Challenger accident. That hubris appears to be widespread and becoming more widespread.
This space candle stuff is pretty dangerous stuff. And now we're looking at things like the planned fueling with humans on board. Apparently that will be perfectly safe because Spacex.
Except when it isn't safe. I sincerely hope that they tun the crowdcheering mics down when they start launching actual people into space.
Hubris scares the shit out of me. Only based upon experience.
France is a subset of the EU. However it is not THE EU.
There's 27 other subsets that the EU is comprised of (still counting the UK).
I admit that calling France "The EU" was bait on my part. But that was a large portion of my point.
The most likely scenario is that this is a some kind of 'hacktivism' intended to show how absurd the consequences of such a law could be.
Exactly, exactly, exactly.
Let us take a completely possible scenario. One of the EU members was tha cause of a huge kerfuffle during the last century. With the ability to demand that anything that might be considered "terrorist" encouragement, they could invoke a demand to remove everything they find that references their shady little group. Almost like rewriting history, or the ultimate right to forget.
Couldtheywouldthey? I dunno. But history shows that the same tools imposed by good people can also be used by those with less noble motives.
I look at this, and see some big problems waiting in the wings.
US law applies around the world, even if you aren't a US citizen. The reach of US law enforcement is long, like my dick. You f with the US govt, they will grab you out of the hole you're hiding in half way around the world and drag your ass back to federal district court to face the music.
Exactly, and this is not limited to the US. All nations can call for extradition of (alleged) criminals. That is why extradition treaties exist.
I'm surprised that you are still at +1. The people who support what Assange has done are in a rage these last couple days.
Regardless, a non-US citizen can be charged with crimes involving the dissemination of US classified information, or interference in government activities like voting. and the USA has an extradition treaty with Great Britain. Other nations might do the same if they were involved in similar activities. This is fact. It will be very surprising if GB does not honor this - if they had no plans to do so, they would likely have just left him walk out of the embassy, and find a place to go that is less likely to extradite.
The "hero" was a genocidal mass murderer who actually killed thousands with banned chemical weapons, indiscriminate aerial bombing, and old-fashioned burning, raping, and pillaging - but it somehow didn't count because it was all brown people.
Not a saint for certain. But he was the guy you wanted when old Adolph and his lads came calling.
Of course, that isn't the case if you would rather be under national socialist rule now.
CORRECTION: This post previously identified the sender of the 550 falsely identified URLs as Europolâ(TM)s EU Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU). The sender was in fact, the French national Internet Referral Unit, using Europolâ(TM)s application, which sends the email from an @europol.europa.eu address. The EU IRU has informed us that it is not involved in the national IRUsâ(TM) assessment criteria of terrorist content.
So it's actually just the French, not the EU.
I believe that the French are part of the EU. Or did they do a Frexit? They were following a tool that is part of the EU's tools for control of the Internet.
While you for some odd reason see this as some exoneration of the EU, I see it as just a sneak preview of how the EU's power that it has granted itself is very destructive. All it will take is for the various EU subunits to declare anything they don't like as terrorist, and demand that knowledge be eliminated.
Something tells me that there will be a lot of information stored away from the EU's gentle hands.
Need a better unit here. What weighs more than a stone but less than a Mini Cooper? That's the kind of mass unit the average TV news viewer can understand.
Time to resurrect the witch scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Just avoid the very small rocks
Churchill was not worth respecting. For propoganda and use in defeating Nazism he was useful, but as a person he was a horrible man. Outside of Europe he was a horrible person and very nearly himself a war criminal.
No, the actual DNA is not changed, but it is tagged in certain places, so the cells can adjust the amount of proteins they generate depending on requirement. This happens all the time. If you go exercising or change your diet, then your gene expression is also modified.
I think that answers the questions you asked. Was he on US soil? The he may have committed a crime under US jurisdiction. Maybe not, though: ordinary US citizens don't break any laws by revealing US secrets either. You have to agree to give up some rights before you can be charged for that (which of course you must to to get access to anything secret). I suspect they'll go for a conspiracy charge, which is at least vaguely plausible, but only again if he was on US soil.
Seriously, lgw, do some research on extradition treaties, and come back and tell me that it isn't possible to charge a non-US citizen with a crime if he isn't in the USA.
I make jokes about flat earthers, but dammit - the immunity that you people grant Assange with is more related to your support of what he has done, and your hatred of the USA than it is to actual international law. This is why there is law. You simply support anything that harms your enemy. As I noted before, being in Great Britain, the US can invoke the Extradition treaty with GB. There are certain reasons they can refuse under the treaty, and have a right to do so in any event. But simple refusal makes it less likely that a future request of their own be honored.
IANAL, but I do know some law. Assange's best hope is that the present folks in power refuse to make an extradition request as a payback for the help he has given them.
Are you sure about that? It sounds like you're saying: If a person from a foreign nation tries to rob a store in a US city, the local police would forego arresting and charging that person?
Should have been picked up as sarcasm. Yes, breaking US law can be prosecuted in the US, even if the person is not a US citizen.
Now, they are not always honored, but in a case where Assange is located in Great Britain, it is very likely to be honored. There are some cases where a country might refuse extradition if the country demanding extradition intends to seek the death penalty, and in any event, refusal to extradite rests as a soverign right.
But Assange isn't likely to be charged with anything calling for a death penalty. And while within their rights to refuse Extradition, GB would be playing a game with a future extradition request to the US.
Where the Slashdot Lawyers have got off thinking that there is no recourse, that Assange is unindictable because he isn't a US citizen, is pretty obviously based on their hatred of the US and support of Assange and the people he works for than actual law. Read the replies to my posts. It's more 'Murrica is evil, dammit!" than actual knowledge.
Not my problem, the science says I can tell you the truth and you won't believe it. You gullibly believe evolution has selected for reality perceiving brains, when there is overwhelming evidence from religion most human beings were not. So that means there's inequality in perception and hence inequality in accurate perceptions of reality. You've provided no evidence for your position. The US government is known to be corrupt and has a huge history of corruption and that is well documented in academic circles. But it's obvious from your posts your not educated enough to talk about these things.
I love getting you true cowards spun up. Seems your hero Assange is out of a job, so why don't you troll around for traitors and take up his recently vacated position.
You can think that all you want, people with a brain know Assange has been stalked with trumped up charges from the very corrupt people he's been exposing,
And the earth is flat, the moon landings were a hoax, O'Blama is a Kenyan citizen, and Chemtrails are loaded with chemicals that emasculate males, and Pizzagate is real and ongoing.
Do go on though, I love what you post. Do you have a newsletter, or at least T-shirts.
People from foreign nations are completely above the law here in the USA.
That's nonsense. Try robbing a bank in another country, or hacking into a computer system.
Whoosh - I was being extremely sarcastic towards the Slashdot lawyers who pronounced Assange above the law.
And for the Slashdot lawyers, if an American traitor were to give an ambassador of another nation state secrets, the Ambassador is going to be in trouble as well. And Assange doesn't have a shred of diplomatic immunity to hide behind.
That last sentence wasn't sarcasm, just a statement.
Better call the DOJ to let them know that they can't do that.
People like you can't read between the lines, you can't hold a corrupt government accountable when they can make they can classify their corruption and bad behavior as state secrets.
I love getting you true cowards spun up. Seems your hero Assange is out of a job, so why don't you troll around for traitors and take up his recently vacated position.
What you are saying confirms that governments, the US government in particular, do whatever they please without having to follow any kind of law. It confirms that power and violence are the only "laws". So why should we follow those laws? Why can't we use violence to fight whoever we don't like?
So the US doesn't have laws for interfering with an election, computer fraud and abuse, theft of data, espionage or being an accessory to any of those things?
Interesting.
I guess Assange will simply walk free then.
People from foreign nations are completely above the law here in the USA.
As to Assange, he cannot be held criminally liable for any of the classified data leaked to Wikileaks and published by him on the site. He never agreed to protect the information from release. The traitors that released it, Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden are the ones facing criminal charges, as they both signed lawful contracts to protect the secrets of this nation.
It's cute that people still think the US intelligence apparatus follow any sort of rules or laws.
It's really cute that some people think that you can publish Secret documents from any nation and be revered as some sort of untouchable saint, completely above the laws of earth. People have enjoyed polonium cocktails for less.
Corollary - people who have invested in the future of the gene pool will not be allowed to use flying cars.
That's going to make the ride home from getting lucky at a party suck. You get breakfast, walk down to the street, hail a flying taxi, get into it, fly half way home and the taxi dumps you unceremoniously at the side of the road as the sperm fuses with the egg. And you'll never use a flying car again. And all because the condom ripped, or whatever.
Seriously though, unless these VTOL's are going to have an exceptional glide path - think sailplane numbers or better, they will eventually end up killing a lot of people.
Because they so far resemble drones, and my experience with drones is that if there is a problem, they instantly become a rock. If they have wings, they better be longer than that artist's conception in TFA, because that will be less of a glide path than say, the Space Shuttle, which is a well aimed rock.
Imagine if you will, someone picking someone up after a night at a nice New York restaraunt. Assuming there are multiple spots for the droneplane to land (New York Real Estate prices anyone) if the drone plane suffers any anomaly on the vertical ascent before it gets enough forward velocity to avoid a stall, it will enter rock mode. New York being what it is, the areas where people wealthy enough to afford this means we might be looking at up to 1000 feet before the droneplane can even begin to enter horizontal flight mode. So we're looking at dead rich people, dead mix of people on the ground, likely building damage, and loss of real estate to accomodate landing and takeoff.
This whole idea of urban flying cars is as well thought out as putting screen doors on submarines.
There are a lot of scientists with low or lacking ethics. They believe because they are scientists they can only do good and hence doing anything for grants is quite acceptable. Incidentally, you will also find quite a few that fake results and publish outright lies in this group.
Much better to trust politicians.
No, business leaders are the ones to trust.
Banks are a specially honest subgroup of business leaders, making used car dealers look like saints.
Ubuntu 18.04 then. Copies every new Windows feature.
So we went from all Linux to Ubuntu, which isn't even the most popular version.
Linux is a completely viable desktop. And I've never understood the "famous cigarettes" BS. Being the most popular is something important for fans of Kim Kardashian, it shouldn't be a metric for computer users.
Slashdot Mirror
They are just mad Amazon out-evil'ed them. :D
Wow, can't believe someone marked you troll. Either funny or insightful, but not troll.
Why settle for four? If you're gong to step it up, lets do a full cluster of six auxilliary boosters like they discussed early on, and land all seven!
Or, maybe they could design some sort of single "super-heavy" rocket that's the same size as the entire cluster would be - you could fit in even more (or larger!) engines and fuel, while eliminating much of the mass of having several smaller fuel tanks and superstructures...
I think you're being sarcastic, but on the second "super heavy" do you recall the "Sea Dragon"? The ultimate vaporware rocket. That sucker was big!
150 meters tall, 23 meters in diameter 2 stage - first stage 350 MN; 79,000,000 lbf) thrust, second stage 59 MN; 13,000,000 lbf Hydrogen LOX engine. able to carry 550,000 kg (1,210,000 lb) to LEO. RP-1 and LOX burning, and no pumps, this thing was going to use Pressurized Nitrogen to push the fuel to the nozzles.
The beast was going to have to launch from water, the First stage bell was going to have a ballast/shroud attached over it until the rocket was lit.
Cheap was the watchword. The rocket was going to be of 8 mm sheet steel construction. Built in a dry dock, towed to sea, electrolysis used to extract Oxygen for both stages and Hydrogen for the second stage. A nuc aircraft carrier on site for the power needed to do that.
Me? I suspect that weather conditions would make the pre launch activities a pain in the butt. I'm also curious what the LOX would do with regard to freezing the seawater around it. Finally, the idea of using Pressurized Nitrogen as a pumping force, seems a little sketchy. The tank pressure must always exceed the combustion pressure, so a lot of Nitrogen will be needed. Even the pie in the sky concept people conceded that pumps might be needed. http://neverworld.net/truax/Se...
But with the concepts that a lot of people in here have, I'm surprised people haven't latched onto the Sea Dragon as what we should be building.
Spotted the ULA shill.
Yeah, they cut those "profiting from monopoly status" corners. There's a new player, and they cost far less than you do. This is what happens when you stagnate from having no competition.
You've got it now, and they're going to kick your ass.
Let us just pull back a minute from your endorphin buzz.
What Spacex is doing is pretty darn cool, and I am lovin it.
But watching the launch vids, where the screaming and cheering is louder than the flight announcements and reading their syophants, y'all are getting as full of hubris as NASA and the fans before the Challenger accident. That hubris appears to be widespread and becoming more widespread.
This space candle stuff is pretty dangerous stuff. And now we're looking at things like the planned fueling with humans on board. Apparently that will be perfectly safe because Spacex.
Except when it isn't safe. I sincerely hope that they tun the crowdcheering mics down when they start launching actual people into space. Hubris scares the shit out of me. Only based upon experience.
France is a subset of the EU. However it is not THE EU.
There's 27 other subsets that the EU is comprised of (still counting the UK).
I admit that calling France "The EU" was bait on my part. But that was a large portion of my point.
The most likely scenario is that this is a some kind of 'hacktivism' intended to show how absurd the consequences of such a law could be.
Exactly, exactly, exactly.
Let us take a completely possible scenario. One of the EU members was tha cause of a huge kerfuffle during the last century. With the ability to demand that anything that might be considered "terrorist" encouragement, they could invoke a demand to remove everything they find that references their shady little group. Almost like rewriting history, or the ultimate right to forget.
Couldtheywouldthey? I dunno. But history shows that the same tools imposed by good people can also be used by those with less noble motives.
I look at this, and see some big problems waiting in the wings.
US law applies around the world, even if you aren't a US citizen. The reach of US law enforcement is long, like my dick. You f with the US govt, they will grab you out of the hole you're hiding in half way around the world and drag your ass back to federal district court to face the music.
Exactly, and this is not limited to the US. All nations can call for extradition of (alleged) criminals. That is why extradition treaties exist.
I'm surprised that you are still at +1. The people who support what Assange has done are in a rage these last couple days.
Regardless, a non-US citizen can be charged with crimes involving the dissemination of US classified information, or interference in government activities like voting. and the USA has an extradition treaty with Great Britain. Other nations might do the same if they were involved in similar activities. This is fact. It will be very surprising if GB does not honor this - if they had no plans to do so, they would likely have just left him walk out of the embassy, and find a place to go that is less likely to extradite.
The "hero" was a genocidal mass murderer who actually killed thousands with banned chemical weapons, indiscriminate aerial bombing, and old-fashioned burning, raping, and pillaging - but it somehow didn't count because it was all brown people.
Not a saint for certain. But he was the guy you wanted when old Adolph and his lads came calling.
Of course, that isn't the case if you would rather be under national socialist rule now.
From TFA:
CORRECTION: This post previously identified the sender of the 550 falsely identified URLs as Europolâ(TM)s EU Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU). The sender was in fact, the French national Internet Referral Unit, using Europolâ(TM)s application, which sends the email from an @europol.europa.eu address. The EU IRU has informed us that it is not involved in the national IRUsâ(TM) assessment criteria of terrorist content.
So it's actually just the French, not the EU.
I believe that the French are part of the EU. Or did they do a Frexit? They were following a tool that is part of the EU's tools for control of the Internet.
While you for some odd reason see this as some exoneration of the EU, I see it as just a sneak preview of how the EU's power that it has granted itself is very destructive. All it will take is for the various EU subunits to declare anything they don't like as terrorist, and demand that knowledge be eliminated.
Something tells me that there will be a lot of information stored away from the EU's gentle hands.
Forbidden knowledge and history you know.
Need a better unit here. What weighs more than a stone but less than a Mini Cooper? That's the kind of mass unit the average TV news viewer can understand.
Time to resurrect the witch scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Just avoid the very small rocks
Churchill was not worth respecting. For propoganda and use in defeating Nazism he was useful, but as a person he was a horrible man. Outside of Europe he was a horrible person and very nearly himself a war criminal.
Sometimes the hero is not a saint.
No, the actual DNA is not changed, but it is tagged in certain places, so the cells can adjust the amount of proteins they generate depending on requirement. This happens all the time. If you go exercising or change your diet, then your gene expression is also modified.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yeah, While they write gene expression, probably 75 percent of us think "gene mutation".
I was impressed that after that period in space, that Kelly is back to normal.
enjoy your troll mods, you son of a bitch. Don't waste our time with your fallacious bullshit.
U mad bro?
The jurisdiction of the US is its territory.
I think that answers the questions you asked. Was he on US soil? The he may have committed a crime under US jurisdiction. Maybe not, though: ordinary US citizens don't break any laws by revealing US secrets either. You have to agree to give up some rights before you can be charged for that (which of course you must to to get access to anything secret). I suspect they'll go for a conspiracy charge, which is at least vaguely plausible, but only again if he was on US soil.
Seriously, lgw, do some research on extradition treaties, and come back and tell me that it isn't possible to charge a non-US citizen with a crime if he isn't in the USA.
I make jokes about flat earthers, but dammit - the immunity that you people grant Assange with is more related to your support of what he has done, and your hatred of the USA than it is to actual international law. This is why there is law. You simply support anything that harms your enemy. As I noted before, being in Great Britain, the US can invoke the Extradition treaty with GB. There are certain reasons they can refuse under the treaty, and have a right to do so in any event. But simple refusal makes it less likely that a future request of their own be honored.
IANAL, but I do know some law. Assange's best hope is that the present folks in power refuse to make an extradition request as a payback for the help he has given them.
Active imagination? You are the one renaming people "Boris."
Were there commies under your bed at night during the Cold War? You'd better open up your windows and doors to air out the mustiness.
Did I get the name wrong, Ivan?
Are you sure about that? It sounds like you're saying: If a person from a foreign nation tries to rob a store in a US city, the local police would forego arresting and charging that person?
Should have been picked up as sarcasm. Yes, breaking US law can be prosecuted in the US, even if the person is not a US citizen.
Pretty much the same as any country. That's one of the reasons there are extradition treaties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Now, they are not always honored, but in a case where Assange is located in Great Britain, it is very likely to be honored. There are some cases where a country might refuse extradition if the country demanding extradition intends to seek the death penalty, and in any event, refusal to extradite rests as a soverign right.
But Assange isn't likely to be charged with anything calling for a death penalty. And while within their rights to refuse Extradition, GB would be playing a game with a future extradition request to the US.
Where the Slashdot Lawyers have got off thinking that there is no recourse, that Assange is unindictable because he isn't a US citizen, is pretty obviously based on their hatred of the US and support of Assange and the people he works for than actual law. Read the replies to my posts. It's more 'Murrica is evil, dammit!" than actual knowledge.
Not my problem, the science says I can tell you the truth and you won't believe it. You gullibly believe evolution has selected for reality perceiving brains, when there is overwhelming evidence from religion most human beings were not. So that means there's inequality in perception and hence inequality in accurate perceptions of reality. You've provided no evidence for your position. The US government is known to be corrupt and has a huge history of corruption and that is well documented in academic circles. But it's obvious from your posts your not educated enough to talk about these things.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Pure gold you are posting. Pure gold.
I love getting you true cowards spun up. Seems your hero Assange is out of a job, so why don't you troll around for traitors and take up his recently vacated position.
You can think that all you want, people with a brain know Assange has been stalked with trumped up charges from the very corrupt people he's been exposing,
And the earth is flat, the moon landings were a hoax, O'Blama is a Kenyan citizen, and Chemtrails are loaded with chemicals that emasculate males, and Pizzagate is real and ongoing.
Do go on though, I love what you post. Do you have a newsletter, or at least T-shirts.
The jurisdiction of the US is its territory.
I guess we're just going to have to see how this turns out, to see if Assange is as you indicate, above all law.
To be certain, if Assange was in the United States when he did his work - he would still be 100 percent immune from prosecution?
Seems you have made a fine case for the concept that spying is not only legal, but beyond prosecution. Not a US citizen, so it's all good.
Are you so certain of this that you would try it?
People from foreign nations are completely above the law here in the USA.
That's nonsense. Try robbing a bank in another country, or hacking into a computer system.
Whoosh - I was being extremely sarcastic towards the Slashdot lawyers who pronounced Assange above the law.
And for the Slashdot lawyers, if an American traitor were to give an ambassador of another nation state secrets, the Ambassador is going to be in trouble as well. And Assange doesn't have a shred of diplomatic immunity to hide behind.
That last sentence wasn't sarcasm, just a statement.
It's really cute that some people think that you can publish Secret documents from any nation
Meanwhile, Slashdotlawyers should probably read this https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/1...
Better call the DOJ to let them know that they can't do that.
People like you can't read between the lines, you can't hold a corrupt government accountable when they can make they can classify their corruption and bad behavior as state secrets.
I love getting you true cowards spun up. Seems your hero Assange is out of a job, so why don't you troll around for traitors and take up his recently vacated position.
What you are saying confirms that governments, the US government in particular, do whatever they please without having to follow any kind of law. It confirms that power and violence are the only "laws". So why should we follow those laws? Why can't we use violence to fight whoever we don't like?
You have a very active imagination there, Boris.
We have nothing we can extradite him for.
So the US doesn't have laws for interfering with an election, computer fraud and abuse, theft of data, espionage or being an accessory to any of those things?
Interesting.
I guess Assange will simply walk free then.
People from foreign nations are completely above the law here in the USA.
As to Assange, he cannot be held criminally liable for any of the classified data leaked to Wikileaks and published by him on the site. He never agreed to protect the information from release. The traitors that released it, Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden are the ones facing criminal charges, as they both signed lawful contracts to protect the secrets of this nation.
It's cute that people still think the US intelligence apparatus follow any sort of rules or laws.
It's really cute that some people think that you can publish Secret documents from any nation and be revered as some sort of untouchable saint, completely above the laws of earth. People have enjoyed polonium cocktails for less.
Meanwhile, Slashdotlawyers should probably read this https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/1...
Better call the DOJ to let them know that they can't do that.
Corollary - people who have invested in the future of the gene pool will not be allowed to use flying cars.
That's going to make the ride home from getting lucky at a party suck. You get breakfast, walk down to the street, hail a flying taxi, get into it, fly half way home and the taxi dumps you unceremoniously at the side of the road as the sperm fuses with the egg. And you'll never use a flying car again. And all because the condom ripped, or whatever.
Seriously though, unless these VTOL's are going to have an exceptional glide path - think sailplane numbers or better, they will eventually end up killing a lot of people.
Because they so far resemble drones, and my experience with drones is that if there is a problem, they instantly become a rock. If they have wings, they better be longer than that artist's conception in TFA, because that will be less of a glide path than say, the Space Shuttle, which is a well aimed rock. Imagine if you will, someone picking someone up after a night at a nice New York restaraunt. Assuming there are multiple spots for the droneplane to land (New York Real Estate prices anyone) if the drone plane suffers any anomaly on the vertical ascent before it gets enough forward velocity to avoid a stall, it will enter rock mode. New York being what it is, the areas where people wealthy enough to afford this means we might be looking at up to 1000 feet before the droneplane can even begin to enter horizontal flight mode. So we're looking at dead rich people, dead mix of people on the ground, likely building damage, and loss of real estate to accomodate landing and takeoff.
This whole idea of urban flying cars is as well thought out as putting screen doors on submarines.
There are a lot of scientists with low or lacking ethics. They believe because they are scientists they can only do good and hence doing anything for grants is quite acceptable. Incidentally, you will also find quite a few that fake results and publish outright lies in this group.
Much better to trust politicians.
No, business leaders are the ones to trust.
Banks are a specially honest subgroup of business leaders, making used car dealers look like saints.
Ubuntu 18.04 then. Copies every new Windows feature.
So we went from all Linux to Ubuntu, which isn't even the most popular version.
Linux is a completely viable desktop. And I've never understood the "famous cigarettes" BS. Being the most popular is something important for fans of Kim Kardashian, it shouldn't be a metric for computer users.