As a former Pittsburgh Public Schools student, I don't recall ever having to worry about the 50% minimum grade - but I do remember taking advantage of the 80% mandatory attendance policy that they had when I was there which with careful management allowed me to take 4 * 3-day weekends and a week off every quarter to do more important things.
And Newtonian Gravity isn't even a theory, its just equations derived from observation. While highly accurate and still useful it doesn't actively seek to explain WHY its equations work. We had to wait for Einstein to get that.
My year of Japanese doesn't quite qualify me to make a decent translation of the site, but perhaps before dismissing the claim outright based on a 30 second vid and article we might want to understand what the actual claim is first?
http://www.genepax.co.jp/
GE could basically build a thing like this itself. Run it 4 tracks wide from LA to Denver to Chicago to NYC, have the operating costs basically covered by package and other commercial shipping companies. There are a lot of profitable applications to a system like this I'd imagine. What would stop private industry from doing it?
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As a former Pittsburgh Public Schools student, I don't recall ever having to worry about the 50% minimum grade - but I do remember taking advantage of the 80% mandatory attendance policy that they had when I was there which with careful management allowed me to take 4 * 3-day weekends and a week off every quarter to do more important things.
And Newtonian Gravity isn't even a theory, its just equations derived from observation. While highly accurate and still useful it doesn't actively seek to explain WHY its equations work. We had to wait for Einstein to get that.
My year of Japanese doesn't quite qualify me to make a decent translation of the site, but perhaps before dismissing the claim outright based on a 30 second vid and article we might want to understand what the actual claim is first? http://www.genepax.co.jp/
GE could basically build a thing like this itself. Run it 4 tracks wide from LA to Denver to Chicago to NYC, have the operating costs basically covered by package and other commercial shipping companies. There are a lot of profitable applications to a system like this I'd imagine. What would stop private industry from doing it?