The goals for the next series of lunar missions are very different than the goals for Apollo.
The point of Apollo was to prove that it could be done. We sent 2 men at a time down to the surface in a tin can, with a computer no more powerful than a graphing calculator. They walked around for a few hours collecting rocks and taking pictures, spending a couple days at most on the moon.
What we want to do now is send 6 people at a time in relative comfort, have them do real science, and figure out how to actually live on the moon. These missions should culminate with a permanently staffed base akin to the ISS, in 6 month crew rotations.
The latter might take a little more research time.
BTW it isn't "the government's money". They didn't sweat and labor to earn it. I did.
Come on, it's not like "the government" is some guy who's taking all your money and using it to sip margaritas on the beach. "The government" is using your money, and my money, to operate schools, hospitals, roads, police, fire, the military, help out people who are in need, etc.
BTW - did you know that if you save a large percentage of your income (~60-70%, easy to do if you're anti-materialism), you can save enough to retire within 5 years? Imagine being retired in your 20s.
I gave one hundred. I'd give more if the government had not sucked-away almost $25,000 in taxes last year.
Wait a second. The government only sucked away $25,000 in taxes, not $30,000. Doesn't that mean you have an extra $5,000 to give? Are you asking us to believe you wouldn't be giving us the same line if your tax bill was only $20,000? Or does $25,000 just happen to be the a priori number at which you can't afford to give any more.
Not knocking your donation at all; that was very generous of you. I'm just saying don't blame the government for you not being able to give more.
This sounds exactly like a company I spent three years in. Was it a two word name, the first of which started with E and the second of which started with A?
Dvorak does have some significant advantages, imho, the most important of which to me is the reduced wrist and arm pain. Since switching I can type all day, every day, without any pain.
It took close to a month of not being able to get anything done, but it's all rainbows and butterflies and ponies on this keyboard.
Yeah, I can't figure this out. I just typed your text on a crappy Nokia flip phone and did it in 2 minutes, 10 seconds. And that's with pauses while I read the next bit of the message.
I rarely text either; that was almost a hunt-and-peck exercise for me. Obviously I'm not faster than the world record holder, but 264 words in 2 minutes is over 130 wpm. That's faster than nearly everyone can type on an actual keyboard, and there's no way you can type that fast with just thumbs.
Fuck the telephone. God damn, it's a damn piece of wire and you can say things on it that other people can hear. That's all it is and ever was. Get the fuck over it already.
Hey, I said hello by telephone! Oh yeah, well I said good morning by telephone! Oh shit, that's new and interesting because it happened on the telephone!
I'm Canadian (west coast) and I'd never heard of this until I met a guy from Ontario. I think it's an eastern thing. I wonder if any of the north eastern states have bagged milk.
It doesn't really scale that way - you also have to take the density into account. The planet would likely have a larger radius, meaning you're higher up in the gravitational field when you stand on the surface.
Consider that Mars has a mass around 10% of Earth's, but a surface gravity of nearly 0.4g.
Hell, Uranus has a mass 14.5 times Earth's but surface gravity is still less than 1g. (As much as Uranus can be considered to have a "surface" as opposed to just a really thick atmosphere)
The North Pole for a body is the pole that lies in the Northern hemisphere.
That's tautologous. There are two common definitions of a body's North Pole. The first (and the International Astronomical Union's) is the pole of rotation that lies on the same side of the ecliptic plane as the Earth's north pole. This implies that Venus rotates "backwards".
The second definition is more local - it defines the North Pole as the pole around which the body rotates counterclockwise.
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It's not the substances themselves that are valuable, it's the not-being-in-a-gravity-well that's valuable.
The goals for the next series of lunar missions are very different than the goals for Apollo.
The point of Apollo was to prove that it could be done. We sent 2 men at a time down to the surface in a tin can, with a computer no more powerful than a graphing calculator. They walked around for a few hours collecting rocks and taking pictures, spending a couple days at most on the moon.
What we want to do now is send 6 people at a time in relative comfort, have them do real science, and figure out how to actually live on the moon. These missions should culminate with a permanently staffed base akin to the ISS, in 6 month crew rotations.
The latter might take a little more research time.
Sorry I wasn't clear. GGP made the point that 264 characters in 2 minutes is pretty slow, and I agree, given that we both seem to have just beaten it.
However, the article couldn't have mistakenly meant to say "264 words" instead of "264 characters", since that's impossibly fast.
BTW it isn't "the government's money". They didn't sweat and labor to earn it. I did.
Come on, it's not like "the government" is some guy who's taking all your money and using it to sip margaritas on the beach. "The government" is using your money, and my money, to operate schools, hospitals, roads, police, fire, the military, help out people who are in need, etc.
BTW - did you know that if you save a large percentage of your income (~60-70%, easy to do if you're anti-materialism), you can save enough to retire within 5 years? Imagine being retired in your 20s.
I gave one hundred. I'd give more if the government had not sucked-away almost $25,000 in taxes last year.
Wait a second. The government only sucked away $25,000 in taxes, not $30,000. Doesn't that mean you have an extra $5,000 to give? Are you asking us to believe you wouldn't be giving us the same line if your tax bill was only $20,000? Or does $25,000 just happen to be the a priori number at which you can't afford to give any more.
Not knocking your donation at all; that was very generous of you. I'm just saying don't blame the government for you not being able to give more.
This sounds exactly like a company I spent three years in. Was it a two word name, the first of which started with E and the second of which started with A?
At first my interest was peaked, but then I realised it was a mute point.
Maybe, but your link reads like an apologist.
Dvorak does have some significant advantages, imho, the most important of which to me is the reduced wrist and arm pain. Since switching I can type all day, every day, without any pain.
It took close to a month of not being able to get anything done, but it's all rainbows and butterflies and ponies on this keyboard.
Yeah, I can't figure this out. I just typed your text on a crappy Nokia flip phone and did it in 2 minutes, 10 seconds. And that's with pauses while I read the next bit of the message.
I rarely text either; that was almost a hunt-and-peck exercise for me. Obviously I'm not faster than the world record holder, but 264 words in 2 minutes is over 130 wpm. That's faster than nearly everyone can type on an actual keyboard, and there's no way you can type that fast with just thumbs.
This is Africa. There is a lot of folk religion and superstition there, and they don't really understand how technology works.
This is also America.
Yes, hence my comment wondering whether I was missing something. GP was an (admittedly veiled) attempt at pointing out the illogic of GGP.
1. The Drake Equation is about aliens.
2. Some SF is about aliens.
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3. Therefore, the Drake Equation is SF.
Did I miss something?
Well, at least they're less of a loser than the people who can't find a girlfriend through the internet.
So?
When you're going back in time, it doesn't matter how long you procrastinate.
It if were transparent then it would be clear
Transparent means the objects behind the glass are in focus, which they are in this case.
The amount of light the glass lets through is a separate consideration from the transparency/translucency distinction.
Fuck the telephone. God damn, it's a damn piece of wire and you can say things on it that other people can hear. That's all it is and ever was. Get the fuck over it already.
Hey, I said hello by telephone! Oh yeah, well I said good morning by telephone! Oh shit, that's new and interesting because it happened on the telephone!
Sure you can - at least any given finitely long string of repeating digits. There is a repeating string of 6 "9"s in pi between digits 762 and 767.
Both of which are relatively small populations, . I certainly wouldn't call 33 million "totally enormous".
Did you stop reading right there? I don't know how else you could come to the conclusion that "size" refers to area and not population.
I'm Canadian (west coast) and I'd never heard of this until I met a guy from Ontario. I think it's an eastern thing. I wonder if any of the north eastern states have bagged milk.
Well, most people have a general idea of how much pizza they can eat in one sitting, and it doesn't involve getting out the protractor.
Not to mention that pizza is so calorie-dense most people eat way more than they actually need - smaller pieces forces them to slow down a bit. :)
This thread is going nowhere.
It doesn't really scale that way - you also have to take the density into account. The planet would likely have a larger radius, meaning you're higher up in the gravitational field when you stand on the surface.
Consider that Mars has a mass around 10% of Earth's, but a surface gravity of nearly 0.4g.
Hell, Uranus has a mass 14.5 times Earth's but surface gravity is still less than 1g. (As much as Uranus can be considered to have a "surface" as opposed to just a really thick atmosphere)
Oh, to be young and naive again...
The North Pole for a body is the pole that lies in the Northern hemisphere.
That's tautologous. There are two common definitions of a body's North Pole. The first (and the International Astronomical Union's) is the pole of rotation that lies on the same side of the ecliptic plane as the Earth's north pole. This implies that Venus rotates "backwards".
The second definition is more local - it defines the North Pole as the pole around which the body rotates counterclockwise.