States such the People's Republic of Massachusetts wants to put transponders in every car, ostensibly so they can tax you on the actual miles driven in the state, as if this was not bad enough, but you just know that it will be used against political enemies.
There are microphones in most cities already...
This has everything to do with the political pressure that Houston exerts to fuel their pork-express Space Launch System (SLS), the rocket to nowhere. It is being built (to enrich the Houston contractors) with no mission objective. The moon is the mission they need to keep spending.
Meanwhile they keep stealing from the highly successful unmanned missions...Carl Sagan created the Planetary Society to stop such funds poaching, but Houston is at it again...
The engineered holes spelling out JPL may sound like a great idea, but it is not. Those holes will be a detriment if MSL finds itself in a soft powdery dust dune, i.e. the same stuff that trapped Spirit and Opportunity. Spirit never got out.
The wheels are the one major design flaw in all these rovers. Here on Earth, when you drive through soft sand, you want large soft, and smooth tires-- the exact opposite of what is used on these rovers.
That is the best perk instead of some pointless junk food perk. I worked for a sweatshop where they provided lunch but it was jsut to try to rpevent you from leaving at lunch...screw that...
Didn't the Hitchhiker Guide have an episode in which the all the middle-managers were sent on the first space ship and the rest of the people were to follow? Ha...
The vast majority of meteorites come from "the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter"....eeesh.
And how can they tell; from the spectroscopic studies of asteroid...
The corporate weasels who are pushing this just want to be able to pay their workers less so they can get bigger bonuses at the end of the year. This is bad for the economy and bad for workers.
If MSL could find a fresh crater, it might have a chance to sample potential microbes / organics before the UV and peroxides break them down. The craters left by the tungsten EDL weights would be ideal but their craters are too far away....
Massachusetts will squander any additional tax revenues and be back the next year asking for more taxes. The state has an unlimited capacity spend (waste) tax dollars; the Big Dig construction project was supposed to cost 2 billion but came in at 14 billion and is so defective that it killed a driver a few years ago...
You must work for the "gummint" or a gummint contractor...
Just about the worst choice imaginable
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Right now the church needs deep reforms, but they chose a stubbornly conservative Pope. It is time for the church to get out of the Middle Ages and liberalize its stance on abortion and gay marriage and it is way past due to drop the celibacy requirement for clergy
Well if NASA did not stop throwing billions down the manned spaceflight rathole, it would not be in such a mess. Nobody cares about ISS or SLS and few, if any, scientific discoveries has come from the manned missions. All the science (and excitement) is coming from robotic probes such as Curiousity.
The SLS is the rocket to nowhere; its only purpose is to create jobs.
Unfortunately NASA is run by ex-pilots, not scientists...
Europa is insanely hard to land on because you have to remove all the hardware once the mission is over to avoid contamination (he mission would also have to plutonium powered and you don't want to leave 10 pounds of that nasty stuff on the surface). Speaking of which, it would be insanely hard to sterilize a probe so that zero bugs are brought to Europa from Earth. And the probe would need extreme radiation hardening. Also you have to prevent the probe from melting the ice it is roving / sitting on.
What makes more sense is an orbiting probe, but our President has nuked flagship planetary missions (except one last Mars mission).
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States such the People's Republic of Massachusetts wants to put transponders in every car, ostensibly so they can tax you on the actual miles driven in the state, as if this was not bad enough, but you just know that it will be used against political enemies. There are microphones in most cities already...
Beware the phony posts attacking this book by the Water Army....it has started already
This has everything to do with the political pressure that Houston exerts to fuel their pork-express Space Launch System (SLS), the rocket to nowhere. It is being built (to enrich the Houston contractors) with no mission objective. The moon is the mission they need to keep spending. Meanwhile they keep stealing from the highly successful unmanned missions...Carl Sagan created the Planetary Society to stop such funds poaching, but Houston is at it again...
Although (supposedly) only few hundred are listened to, I suspect that ALL conversations are recorded and stored (to be recalled if needed).
It is scandalous that this took so long to do...
Well duh.... Since when has Occam's Razor been dead? Why do crackpot theories even get mentioned when the simplest explanation (meteor) is ignored?
Stalin would be jealous
If the asteroid is spinning (as it surely must be) then this maneuver is much harder...
The engineered holes spelling out JPL may sound like a great idea, but it is not. Those holes will be a detriment if MSL finds itself in a soft powdery dust dune, i.e. the same stuff that trapped Spirit and Opportunity. Spirit never got out. The wheels are the one major design flaw in all these rovers. Here on Earth, when you drive through soft sand, you want large soft, and smooth tires-- the exact opposite of what is used on these rovers.
That is the best perk instead of some pointless junk food perk. I worked for a sweatshop where they provided lunch but it was jsut to try to rpevent you from leaving at lunch...screw that...
Oooops, can't do that...
Didn't the Hitchhiker Guide have an episode in which the all the middle-managers were sent on the first space ship and the rest of the people were to follow? Ha...
Enough is enough; do the one thing that will get China's attention: import tariffs.
I cannot understand how there would be any "environmental and cultural impact" of such a telescope compared the monstrosities on beaches of Hawaii....
The vast majority of meteorites come from "the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter"....eeesh. And how can they tell; from the spectroscopic studies of asteroid...
The corporate weasels who are pushing this just want to be able to pay their workers less so they can get bigger bonuses at the end of the year. This is bad for the economy and bad for workers.
If MSL could find a fresh crater, it might have a chance to sample potential microbes / organics before the UV and peroxides break them down. The craters left by the tungsten EDL weights would be ideal but their craters are too far away....
X-Ray and, esp, gamma ray cannot travel too for through air....
Massachusetts will squander any additional tax revenues and be back the next year asking for more taxes. The state has an unlimited capacity spend (waste) tax dollars; the Big Dig construction project was supposed to cost 2 billion but came in at 14 billion and is so defective that it killed a driver a few years ago...
Enough is enough. Time for a tariff on all the crap that China is dumping on us. It would solve the budge crisis and bring industry back to the US.
That is the Chinese Water Army at work. The fascists that run that country are insanely sensitive to criticism....
You must work for the "gummint" or a gummint contractor...
Right now the church needs deep reforms, but they chose a stubbornly conservative Pope. It is time for the church to get out of the Middle Ages and liberalize its stance on abortion and gay marriage and it is way past due to drop the celibacy requirement for clergy
Well if NASA did not stop throwing billions down the manned spaceflight rathole, it would not be in such a mess. Nobody cares about ISS or SLS and few, if any, scientific discoveries has come from the manned missions. All the science (and excitement) is coming from robotic probes such as Curiousity. The SLS is the rocket to nowhere; its only purpose is to create jobs. Unfortunately NASA is run by ex-pilots, not scientists...
Europa is insanely hard to land on because you have to remove all the hardware once the mission is over to avoid contamination (he mission would also have to plutonium powered and you don't want to leave 10 pounds of that nasty stuff on the surface). Speaking of which, it would be insanely hard to sterilize a probe so that zero bugs are brought to Europa from Earth. And the probe would need extreme radiation hardening. Also you have to prevent the probe from melting the ice it is roving / sitting on. What makes more sense is an orbiting probe, but our President has nuked flagship planetary missions (except one last Mars mission).