Yes and no. There is advantage of buying retail as I can examine what I am buying, even small connectors. Yes, you can get stuff cheap on the internet but if it is a "cheap item" that is too cheap, then it becomes useless and goes straight to the trash (why waste time getting something you can't use?). On the flip side especially here in Silicon Valley, traffic is horrible including weekends. It takes ***one hour*** to go to each store (many traffic lights, negotiating parking) but stores don't seem to carry many different items like they use to (at least in my experience). Or there are lots of items but stuff I already have. Certain items I have to buy online. Frys for example doesn't seem to be worth my time, I use to regularly go there for connectors, parts, adapters, DVD printing labels (much of this they no longer carry). I've noticed Frys has become quite empty, easy to find parking but store has nothing
Another is hostile business environment for retail stores. Example is Ham Radio Outlet on Lawrence recently closed, they were not losing sales (in the future they would as their customer base are retirees). Reason is landlord increased lease 20% and will do that every year because they want all those stores to go away so they can tear down and build latest paradigm of shops on first floor, parking underground, and condos above. but those shops will have to pay rates that are not sustainable for a retail or small business.
In fact, Hillary spent a lot of time analyzing what she, personally, did wrong. What she said--direct quote-- was "I go back over my own shortcomings and the mistakes we made. I take responsibility for all of them. You can blame the data, blame the message, blame anything you want, but I was the candidate. It was my campaign. Those were my decisions."
What she missed is was that one quote that squelched all others. A management class had an example where managers talk about all kinds of stuff the company will be doing and what is expected from employees but may say one certain thing in a certain way, everybody will forget everything except that one certain thing. I forgot what that example was, bluefoxlucid maybe you know of examples, there was the famous by Obama in 2010 when he cancelled the Constellation lunar program, "We've already been to the Moon" is what everybody remembers him saying. They forget his request for additional funding for R&D of heavy lift launch vehicle (and those following Constellation saw ever increasing costs and schedule slippage that was not sustainable).
Sounds reasonable to me but like most people point out, "it's socialism and bad!" (but these same people have no problem spending trillions in the Middle East where are returns have not been that great). A functional society needs roads to allow commerce otherwise just another third world country. Private parties are not going to build roads except only from point A to B that is profitable, everyone else wil have to travel by foot. Probably the non-starter is are the people skilled enough to operate equipment? Or if done manually, can those that haven't done manual labor able to cope? Are there funds for material and tools?
Tbf, socialist fire departments haven't been saving them forever.
Back in "the good ol' days" when America was still great, two competing entrepeneurs would show up at your burning house and haggle with you while your house burned. If you didn't pay quick enough, they'd just loot the ruins and be on their way.
I forgot about that. A book author on CSPAN History talked about volunteer fire depts in 1800s of "Fires and Floods during Gold Rush Days" where the group that first arrives is the one that gets paid. This led to all kinds of problems. I talked to a fire capt or battalien chief about this, he mentioned a good example portrayed in the movie "Gangs of New York" where two different fire companies get into a fist fight while the building burns down. This was common back in the days.
There is a reason why professional govt fire departments were created. I wonder if some want to privatize fire depts, probably just one company have monopoly to avoid the problems of back in the days. Still have to be paid by "robbery" tax dollars. Otherwise they'll let the house burn down or deny medical treatment (most fire calls are non-fire event) if fee per service.
There is also push for privatizing ATC but read (in Aviation Week I think) where those plans are stalled. Such a plan will let certain companies "own" the airways, and looking at how they handle reservations doesn't make me confident of same handing controlled airspace.
Who started this pirate meme? I kind of see companies portray people stealing their services as vicious criminals but labeling them as pirates doesn't quite work. Most people's education comes from pirates as portrayed in the movies, this Halloween had several Capt Jack Sparrow costumes. Though in real life pirates were the kind you would never want to encounter even back in the days.
So when media companies complain about "pirates" stealing all their stuff, it seems the opposite happens and many people want to become a pirate (character created by same media) with the eye patch, parrot, flintlock, and ship and go steal stuff from the media. Yes, a goofy comment.
US has done plenty of shenanigans to influence other countries elections or overthrow leaders, kind of sucks when other countries do the same to us. Of course there is no evidence of any of that stuff.
Reminds me of the kind of paranoia ancient kings used to have, thinking everyone was out to get them.
History professor or a book author discussing various political leaders during WWII, Hitler and Stalin signed agreement but later Hitler invaded USSR which just prior Germany was receiving many resources from the Soviets (steel, oil, etc). Germany, Japan, and Italy could have coordinated closer which they could have cut off England of oil from Iraq. However, he said dictators tend to be suspicious of each other.
what about guns? It seems to me these are the only things that will remain untouched by company ownership or govt regulations. though good to see people advocating the right to own/repair personal property like cars and electronics but for some reason nobody can mount a campaign like gun owners do, I guess they can use brief "2nd Amendment" quote, for all other constitutional rights gets muddy or confused like 1st and all the others (must be one of those that says people have the right to repair personally owned items).
Back in the days when you had squadrons of bombers plus lots of support aircraft (escort fighters, tankers, AWACS) because you need a huge package to strike a single target. Nowadays just one plane (or a drone) with a GPS glided bomb will do the job. Problem is getting proper location, and not drop on friendly forces, school, or a hospital.
And with lots of airplanes you need lots of pilots, crews, etc. Plenty of opportunities for people get pilot training then later fly for the airlines, others get technical training and get a real job with real pay. And lots of air bases around the country, with all those airplanes lots of airshows that are free to show civilians where their tax dollars go. Also be able to have formations flying that also demonstrate to enemy nations better not mess with the USA (though all these forces didn't do much stopping logistics on Ho Chi Minh trail).
So if they do gather B52s (from where? quantities are not like what Gen. LeMay had) it seems with me it is mostly grandstanding. Put all the planes in one spot, take some pictures and video. Kind of like in Soviet Russia where they have the same six planes flying multiple passes on May Day to create impression of hundreds of aircraft in the inventory.
Shuttle was hobbled by NASA's extremely high overhead costs, major cutbacks in the design phase that hindered reusability and turnover time...
yep, in those early design phases, Dale Myers (associate administrator or acting admin for NASA) was faced with possibility that after Skylab, the US will no longer have means to put people into space. Apollo Soyuz was not scheduled at that time. OMB kept rejecting plans and then comes 1972 big election year and Nixon is thinking of all those electoral votes of CA and FL (both states with a lot of engineers laid off from aerospace). OK enough, "OMB stop rejecting Shuttle plans, approve it now. Oh, no fully reusable, do the TAOS option."
going on around here. I was thinking this has been happening all the time. US has assisted various parties for various elections in other countries whether it be supporting banana republics or publishing supportive articles and broadcasts for Soviet bloc opposition like Lech Walesa.
Kind of sucks when other countries do the same to us.
jumping in on this thread... if there was a Natl Phone Association meme, "phones don't kill people, people kill people."
Anyway, besides phones, what about these huge screens built into cars that show all kinds of stuff except TV and movies. I heard it is the full duplex of a telephone, unlike 2-way radio, that occupies most brain power (there never was an outcry of CB radios causing driver distraction in 1970s). However, there are some people that can multitask much better than others. i.e. cadets going through the police academy have to demonstrate use of radio, lights/siren, running a cone course. but then they limit use of laptop/MDC when driving (many depts require officers to park when using the laptop).
They may blame the easiest to blame, in many ways I also blame Facebook. There are intersections here in Silicon Valley sensor based which if don't detect vehicles moving in left turn lane, the light will turn red. What's a real pisser is someone surfing FB while the left turn lane light is red, it turns green but they are slow to notice. then they see it is green and proceed on, as they move the light goes yellow which means the following traffic gets screwed. Unless they punch it which could result going through the intersection when light is red for them (i.e. DeAnza and Homestead in Sunnyvale).
also consider when traffic is so bad, there's not much opportunity to go fast so kinetic energy is significantly less if a traffic collision occurs. But the people factor of frustration increases that leads to road rage
I honestly can't think of a single movie I've seen in the theater in the last 5 years that I thought was worth going to the theater for. That's why I rarely go to the theater anymore.
probably longer for me, last time I went to a movie theater was to watch The Aviator. It was the Howard Hughes aeronautical plot, and a big budget actor was indicator they'll do their homework before starting production (let me see the blueprints, let me see the blueprints, let me see the blueprints, let me see the blueprints, )
Perhaps back in the days. Nowadays attitude is "wiretapping" is standard for govt agencies, it seems people complain with private companies do this (govt agencies is a given). Of course the wires are not tapped with alligator clips, unless making connection to the POTS lines.
Speaking of back in the days, I remember when the attitude was police, FBI, etc. better get a court order to wiretap or they really need to keep it secret. Otherwise it will completely tank whatever incriminating evidence. To get a feel of this past attitude, watch "The Anderson Tapes" from early 70s. Police get word of a massive robbery/burglary operation in a upscale townhome complex, while going through the basement, they find a tape recorder, headsets, sound equipment with wires connected to telephone line panel, a police chief says "whoever is doing this, they better have a warrent!" Then later the Snoops who are gathering all these recordings then proceed to erase all of it because they'd be in big trouble if caught. Nowadays, authorities wouldn't care except they want a copy for themselves.
and return him safely to earth then we can talk. Yes, it's been done before but can we do it again? Can we sustain a human(s) in a sealed spacecraft outside the earth's magnetic field? Can we build a spacecraft that can land on another celestial body? And take off again? crashing is easy, getting it to fly again is hard. I admit I haven't thoroughly studied these plans (much of it none of us have access) but so far it doesn't add up. I see lots of flashy graphics, I have yet to see a habitat module that can sustain a crew for months (years) during transition and no lander. Artwork of Red Dragon landing on Mars doesn't convince me. Much of this is funded by tax payer money, some of it is mine. Please make it easy for me to see how this all works. They did it for Apollo, as a child I can see how all the pieces (launch vehicle, TLI, LOR, etc) work together. disadvantage of Apollo is it was specifically made to beat the Reds to the Moon but limited use for anything else.
Something to think about... an accountant friend said IRS like many other agencies are having their budgets cut which means less staff. There was an auditor she has worked with (unlike popular perception many IRS auditors don't shake you down like gang members), occasionally auditor examines the numbers to be sure nothing is extreme. But with congress and the President constantly shaking down many govt agencies, some of the employees get fed up and quit, some retire, there are also early retirement "buy outs" so end result is less staff because they are usually not replaced. A smart young person will see this and think maybe look for some other place to work instead of being abused. IRS will not go away like the EPA but will have less competent people working for them. And result is sloppy operations.
Can't you include training in the weapons-system budget or something? Sneak it in.
I'm thinking back in the days when military had to take hundreds of thousands of millions of men (and women) and train them from shooting, fixing engines, assembling radio stations, etc. when entering WWII. Also had to get lot more officers (a four year degree not necessary) and a lot of NCOs to manage all these privates and sailors. These days the number of people in the military is, what? 1%?, or something small. there are less tanks, ships, planes (but each one these days far more deadly and accurate). Maybe we just can't train lots of people anymore?
Also, the bigger problem with Mars is landing once we get there. We don't have the technology to land anything large (-ish) yet.
what we should ask is what are people going to do there. Starting a colony sounds great for storybooks, unlike back in the days there is not much worthwhile like gold, copper, lumber, furs to bring back to the old world.
I put that right up there with how people claimed that all the air would get sucked out of a train moving faster than 40mph...
I was referring to if the Mars vehicle is what is shown in that picture, there simply is not enough fuel. Now Musk may have a secret spaceship... kind of like the USAF has a secret spaceplane to save the world (old movie plot used in Maroon, Armageddon). Regarding the train, those educated knew the air would not be sucked out.
I generally see Mars as a non-starter, another fantasy but give a great speech to get more guvmint money. I don't see a huge landrush to the Gobi Desert even though it is a thousand times easier to settle on Mars.
Illustration that shows the same type of aerodynamic shaped spaceship on Pad 39, docked to ISS, and sitting on surface of Mars looks so 1950s like Chesley Bonestell paintings from the day. Nice paintings but those don't take into account the Rocket Equation. Yes, Musk demonstrated reusable rockets (with a big boost of govt money) but this Mars fantasy is a huge distraction. For past 50 years they've said we will be on (sending humans) to Mars.
This CSPAN video where Brian Merchant talked about his book "The One Device: the secret history of the iPhone", in which he retraces the creation and development of the iPhone. What I found interesting is comparison of Jobs to Edison where he didn't invent the smartphone (or the light bulb) but many others did. https://www.c-span.org/video/?...
I second you on nothing wrong with three fingers to force quit a program. Hey, I'm old enough to remember one of those early computers (Ohio Scientific Inc) where the keyboard had a single Reset button. This was back in the days where you have to manually type ***everything*** then save it to a floppy disk. Problem is typing away (for those of us who had typewriter classes and learned to use keyboard without looking, not the single finger hunt-and-peck method), but inadvertantly hitting the Reset button POW! everything GONE. Arrrggggg!
I was thinking of the movie "North by Northwest" where characters played by Martin Landau "shoots" James Mason. Referring to earlier where they witnessed when Eve shot Roger in the Mt Rushmore cafe. "She used blanks. It's an old Gestapo trick. Shoot one of your own to not let them get suspicious. They just made it cleaner by using blanks."
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Yes and no. There is advantage of buying retail as I can examine what I am buying, even small connectors. Yes, you can get stuff cheap on the internet but if it is a "cheap item" that is too cheap, then it becomes useless and goes straight to the trash (why waste time getting something you can't use?). On the flip side especially here in Silicon Valley, traffic is horrible including weekends. It takes ***one hour*** to go to each store (many traffic lights, negotiating parking) but stores don't seem to carry many different items like they use to (at least in my experience). Or there are lots of items but stuff I already have. Certain items I have to buy online. Frys for example doesn't seem to be worth my time, I use to regularly go there for connectors, parts, adapters, DVD printing labels (much of this they no longer carry). I've noticed Frys has become quite empty, easy to find parking but store has nothing
Another is hostile business environment for retail stores. Example is Ham Radio Outlet on Lawrence recently closed, they were not losing sales (in the future they would as their customer base are retirees). Reason is landlord increased lease 20% and will do that every year because they want all those stores to go away so they can tear down and build latest paradigm of shops on first floor, parking underground, and condos above. but those shops will have to pay rates that are not sustainable for a retail or small business.
In fact, Hillary spent a lot of time analyzing what she, personally, did wrong. What she said--direct quote-- was "I go back over my own shortcomings and the mistakes we made. I take responsibility for all of them. You can blame the data, blame the message, blame anything you want, but I was the candidate. It was my campaign. Those were my decisions."
What she missed is was that one quote that squelched all others. A management class had an example where managers talk about all kinds of stuff the company will be doing and what is expected from employees but may say one certain thing in a certain way, everybody will forget everything except that one certain thing. I forgot what that example was, bluefoxlucid maybe you know of examples, there was the famous by Obama in 2010 when he cancelled the Constellation lunar program, "We've already been to the Moon" is what everybody remembers him saying. They forget his request for additional funding for R&D of heavy lift launch vehicle (and those following Constellation saw ever increasing costs and schedule slippage that was not sustainable).
Sounds reasonable to me but like most people point out, "it's socialism and bad!" (but these same people have no problem spending trillions in the Middle East where are returns have not been that great). A functional society needs roads to allow commerce otherwise just another third world country. Private parties are not going to build roads except only from point A to B that is profitable, everyone else wil have to travel by foot. Probably the non-starter is are the people skilled enough to operate equipment? Or if done manually, can those that haven't done manual labor able to cope? Are there funds for material and tools?
Tbf, socialist fire departments haven't been saving them forever.
Back in "the good ol' days" when America was still great, two competing entrepeneurs would show up at your burning house and haggle with you while your house burned. If you didn't pay quick enough, they'd just loot the ruins and be on their way.
I forgot about that. A book author on CSPAN History talked about volunteer fire depts in 1800s of "Fires and Floods during Gold Rush Days" where the group that first arrives is the one that gets paid. This led to all kinds of problems. I talked to a fire capt or battalien chief about this, he mentioned a good example portrayed in the movie "Gangs of New York" where two different fire companies get into a fist fight while the building burns down. This was common back in the days.
There is a reason why professional govt fire departments were created. I wonder if some want to privatize fire depts, probably just one company have monopoly to avoid the problems of back in the days. Still have to be paid by "robbery" tax dollars. Otherwise they'll let the house burn down or deny medical treatment (most fire calls are non-fire event) if fee per service.
There is also push for privatizing ATC but read (in Aviation Week I think) where those plans are stalled. Such a plan will let certain companies "own" the airways, and looking at how they handle reservations doesn't make me confident of same handing controlled airspace.
The robber also extinguishes the fire when your house is on fire and tries to save you from the house.
http://i.imgur.com/Vn5o6.jpg
Who started this pirate meme? I kind of see companies portray people stealing their services as vicious criminals but labeling them as pirates doesn't quite work. Most people's education comes from pirates as portrayed in the movies, this Halloween had several Capt Jack Sparrow costumes. Though in real life pirates were the kind you would never want to encounter even back in the days.
So when media companies complain about "pirates" stealing all their stuff, it seems the opposite happens and many people want to become a pirate (character created by same media) with the eye patch, parrot, flintlock, and ship and go steal stuff from the media. Yes, a goofy comment.
US has done plenty of shenanigans to influence other countries elections or overthrow leaders, kind of sucks when other countries do the same to us. Of course there is no evidence of any of that stuff.
Reminds me of the kind of paranoia ancient kings used to have, thinking everyone was out to get them.
History professor or a book author discussing various political leaders during WWII, Hitler and Stalin signed agreement but later Hitler invaded USSR which just prior Germany was receiving many resources from the Soviets (steel, oil, etc). Germany, Japan, and Italy could have coordinated closer which they could have cut off England of oil from Iraq. However, he said dictators tend to be suspicious of each other.
what about guns? It seems to me these are the only things that will remain untouched by company ownership or govt regulations. though good to see people advocating the right to own/repair personal property like cars and electronics but for some reason nobody can mount a campaign like gun owners do, I guess they can use brief "2nd Amendment" quote, for all other constitutional rights gets muddy or confused like 1st and all the others (must be one of those that says people have the right to repair personally owned items).
Back in the days when you had squadrons of bombers plus lots of support aircraft (escort fighters, tankers, AWACS) because you need a huge package to strike a single target. Nowadays just one plane (or a drone) with a GPS glided bomb will do the job. Problem is getting proper location, and not drop on friendly forces, school, or a hospital.
And with lots of airplanes you need lots of pilots, crews, etc. Plenty of opportunities for people get pilot training then later fly for the airlines, others get technical training and get a real job with real pay. And lots of air bases around the country, with all those airplanes lots of airshows that are free to show civilians where their tax dollars go. Also be able to have formations flying that also demonstrate to enemy nations better not mess with the USA (though all these forces didn't do much stopping logistics on Ho Chi Minh trail).
So if they do gather B52s (from where? quantities are not like what Gen. LeMay had) it seems with me it is mostly grandstanding. Put all the planes in one spot, take some pictures and video. Kind of like in Soviet Russia where they have the same six planes flying multiple passes on May Day to create impression of hundreds of aircraft in the inventory.
Shuttle was hobbled by NASA's extremely high overhead costs, major cutbacks in the design phase that hindered reusability and turnover time...
yep, in those early design phases, Dale Myers (associate administrator or acting admin for NASA) was faced with possibility that after Skylab, the US will no longer have means to put people into space. Apollo Soyuz was not scheduled at that time. OMB kept rejecting plans and then comes 1972 big election year and Nixon is thinking of all those electoral votes of CA and FL (both states with a lot of engineers laid off from aerospace). OK enough, "OMB stop rejecting Shuttle plans, approve it now. Oh, no fully reusable, do the TAOS option."
going on around here. I was thinking this has been happening all the time. US has assisted various parties for various elections in other countries whether it be supporting banana republics or publishing supportive articles and broadcasts for Soviet bloc opposition like Lech Walesa.
Kind of sucks when other countries do the same to us.
jumping in on this thread... if there was a Natl Phone Association meme, "phones don't kill people, people kill people."
Anyway, besides phones, what about these huge screens built into cars that show all kinds of stuff except TV and movies. I heard it is the full duplex of a telephone, unlike 2-way radio, that occupies most brain power (there never was an outcry of CB radios causing driver distraction in 1970s). However, there are some people that can multitask much better than others. i.e. cadets going through the police academy have to demonstrate use of radio, lights/siren, running a cone course. but then they limit use of laptop/MDC when driving (many depts require officers to park when using the laptop).
They may blame the easiest to blame, in many ways I also blame Facebook. There are intersections here in Silicon Valley sensor based which if don't detect vehicles moving in left turn lane, the light will turn red. What's a real pisser is someone surfing FB while the left turn lane light is red, it turns green but they are slow to notice. then they see it is green and proceed on, as they move the light goes yellow which means the following traffic gets screwed. Unless they punch it which could result going through the intersection when light is red for them (i.e. DeAnza and Homestead in Sunnyvale).
also consider when traffic is so bad, there's not much opportunity to go fast so kinetic energy is significantly less if a traffic collision occurs. But the people factor of frustration increases that leads to road rage
I honestly can't think of a single movie I've seen in the theater in the last 5 years that I thought was worth going to the theater for. That's why I rarely go to the theater anymore.
probably longer for me, last time I went to a movie theater was to watch The Aviator. It was the Howard Hughes aeronautical plot, and a big budget actor was indicator they'll do their homework before starting production (let me see the blueprints, let me see the blueprints, let me see the blueprints, let me see the blueprints, )
That sounds like a felony wiretapping crime...
Perhaps back in the days. Nowadays attitude is "wiretapping" is standard for govt agencies, it seems people complain with private companies do this (govt agencies is a given). Of course the wires are not tapped with alligator clips, unless making connection to the POTS lines.
Speaking of back in the days, I remember when the attitude was police, FBI, etc. better get a court order to wiretap or they really need to keep it secret. Otherwise it will completely tank whatever incriminating evidence. To get a feel of this past attitude, watch "The Anderson Tapes" from early 70s. Police get word of a massive robbery/burglary operation in a upscale townhome complex, while going through the basement, they find a tape recorder, headsets, sound equipment with wires connected to telephone line panel, a police chief says "whoever is doing this, they better have a warrent!" Then later the Snoops who are gathering all these recordings then proceed to erase all of it because they'd be in big trouble if caught. Nowadays, authorities wouldn't care except they want a copy for themselves.
and return him safely to earth then we can talk. Yes, it's been done before but can we do it again? Can we sustain a human(s) in a sealed spacecraft outside the earth's magnetic field? Can we build a spacecraft that can land on another celestial body? And take off again? crashing is easy, getting it to fly again is hard. I admit I haven't thoroughly studied these plans (much of it none of us have access) but so far it doesn't add up. I see lots of flashy graphics, I have yet to see a habitat module that can sustain a crew for months (years) during transition and no lander. Artwork of Red Dragon landing on Mars doesn't convince me. Much of this is funded by tax payer money, some of it is mine. Please make it easy for me to see how this all works. They did it for Apollo, as a child I can see how all the pieces (launch vehicle, TLI, LOR, etc) work together. disadvantage of Apollo is it was specifically made to beat the Reds to the Moon but limited use for anything else.
go to http://home5.swipnet.se/~w-529... (by a Swede!) though website kind of 1990s.
Something to think about... an accountant friend said IRS like many other agencies are having their budgets cut which means less staff. There was an auditor she has worked with (unlike popular perception many IRS auditors don't shake you down like gang members), occasionally auditor examines the numbers to be sure nothing is extreme. But with congress and the President constantly shaking down many govt agencies, some of the employees get fed up and quit, some retire, there are also early retirement "buy outs" so end result is less staff because they are usually not replaced. A smart young person will see this and think maybe look for some other place to work instead of being abused. IRS will not go away like the EPA but will have less competent people working for them. And result is sloppy operations.
Can't you include training in the weapons-system budget or something? Sneak it in.
I'm thinking back in the days when military had to take hundreds of thousands of millions of men (and women) and train them from shooting, fixing engines, assembling radio stations, etc. when entering WWII. Also had to get lot more officers (a four year degree not necessary) and a lot of NCOs to manage all these privates and sailors. These days the number of people in the military is, what? 1%?, or something small. there are less tanks, ships, planes (but each one these days far more deadly and accurate). Maybe we just can't train lots of people anymore?
Also, the bigger problem with Mars is landing once we get there. We don't have the technology to land anything large (-ish) yet.
what we should ask is what are people going to do there. Starting a colony sounds great for storybooks, unlike back in the days there is not much worthwhile like gold, copper, lumber, furs to bring back to the old world.
I put that right up there with how people claimed that all the air would get sucked out of a train moving faster than 40mph...
I was referring to if the Mars vehicle is what is shown in that picture, there simply is not enough fuel. Now Musk may have a secret spaceship... kind of like the USAF has a secret spaceplane to save the world (old movie plot used in Maroon, Armageddon). Regarding the train, those educated knew the air would not be sucked out.
I generally see Mars as a non-starter, another fantasy but give a great speech to get more guvmint money. I don't see a huge landrush to the Gobi Desert even though it is a thousand times easier to settle on Mars.
Illustration that shows the same type of aerodynamic shaped spaceship on Pad 39, docked to ISS, and sitting on surface of Mars looks so 1950s like Chesley Bonestell paintings from the day. Nice paintings but those don't take into account the Rocket Equation. Yes, Musk demonstrated reusable rockets (with a big boost of govt money) but this Mars fantasy is a huge distraction. For past 50 years they've said we will be on (sending humans) to Mars.
These are proven long term storage methods.
This CSPAN video where Brian Merchant talked about his book "The One Device: the secret history of the iPhone", in which he retraces the creation and development of the iPhone. What I found interesting is comparison of Jobs to Edison where he didn't invent the smartphone (or the light bulb) but many others did. https://www.c-span.org/video/?...
I second you on nothing wrong with three fingers to force quit a program. Hey, I'm old enough to remember one of those early computers (Ohio Scientific Inc) where the keyboard had a single Reset button. This was back in the days where you have to manually type ***everything*** then save it to a floppy disk. Problem is typing away (for those of us who had typewriter classes and learned to use keyboard without looking, not the single finger hunt-and-peck method), but inadvertantly hitting the Reset button POW! everything GONE. Arrrggggg!
I was thinking of the movie "North by Northwest" where characters played by Martin Landau "shoots" James Mason. Referring to earlier where they witnessed when Eve shot Roger in the Mt Rushmore cafe. "She used blanks. It's an old Gestapo trick. Shoot one of your own to not let them get suspicious. They just made it cleaner by using blanks."