Want to know what's even more precious than energy these days? Fresh water.
Fresh water is only precious in major cities, which comprise less than 1% of the Earth's land area. In many other places it's ridiculously over-abundant.
Let's get those newborn babies and geriatrics into full-time employment. Remember, work is a moral obligation and we cannot let any human resources go unmaximized.
There's probably no life on planets in the solar system, but there's a good chance of life in many planets and moons. Even Pluto may have a subsurface ocean teaming with life (though it's not the best candidate). Keep in mind most of Earth's life is below the surface too.
Crew Dragon has not yet flown. You're complaining about NASA not certifying something that hasn't flown? Their requirement to fly a few missions in the same configuration seems perfectly reasonable to me, and perfectly reasonable to SpaceX too.
Free software is great -- but free services always have a catch. Unless it's a registered charity organization, the odds that someone is donating their time to a random stranger are quite low.
No, you can't say that. Because it's not state mandated, in fact it costs $700 + $7 a month so almost no private citizens are going to jump at the opportunity.
What it is, is a city of Sacramento mandated tracking device for city of Sacramento employees while driving city cars. They expect it to reduce fleet tracking costs. I have no problem with that form of surveillance.
Because the difficulty with school shootings is law enforcement figuring out how to outsmart the advanced military tactics of a child?
The game is tasteless and useless. Of course, I'm all for tasteless and useless things being available to buy. That's what freedom is about, if you only want freedom for the things you like that's simply wanting to be the dictator of a tyrannical society. If it gets into the hands of a kid who decides shooting up his school is a cool idea because of it, and people die, then at least they'll die free. Better than outlawing the game as a thought crime.
Do you wring your hands over the possibility of being killed by a deer, and hold marches to demanding the deer population be controlled?
Yes, I worry a lot about the possibility of hitting a deer whenever I'm driving because there are a lot of them around here. I appreciate the deer crossing warning signs where they're especially common. And there's no need for marches because we already have a very advanced deer population control system called deer hunting season, which is vital to keeping the ecosystem in balance since humans have already killed off most of the natural predators.
The problem is confirmation bias. Michael Moore didn't convince anyone who didn't already agree with him, but he convinced idiots that their opponents had just been disproved. Today's fake news works the same way, it doesn't really fool anybody of a different ideology but it strengthens the partisan echo chamber so that fewer people ever step outside of it. Kind of like religious dogma in that the more absurd it is the more your faith is enhanced by believing and the less likely you are to question anything in the future.
(For the record, I'm as liberal as non-communists come but could never stand Moore.)
The problem is, the whole reason Facebook is popular (like Myspace before it) is that everybody else is there. Consumers will pick one or the other, and then go to where all their friends are.
I know you're trying to shut all facts out of your mind in favor of vapid political progranda, but anti-vaxxers are no more likely to be liberal than conservative (http://theconversation.com/anti-vaccination-beliefs-dont-follow-the-usual-political-polarization-81001) and the NIMBY natives in Hawaii are of course neither a liberal group nor supported by the vast majority of liberals.
Politics is as distinct from science as religion is.
Back in the real world, religious people pursue anti-science political agendas vigorously every day. Religion, politics and science ought to be distinct but unfortunately they cannot be as long as certain forms of religion persist which make faith-based scientific assertions (on creation, medicine, etc) and as long as special interests attempt to politically sabotage science for personal profit (a game nearly every large industry with damaging effects has played).
In a few years Vesta, Juno, Ceres, Pallas and Pluto might be considered planets again. Then, in conjunction with this new discovery, we'll be up to 13 planets.
Not possible. If we start considering dwarf planets as full planets, we'll have dozens to hundreds or maybe thousands in time -- never 13.
Thankfully we've got salaried "management" employees working unlimited unpaid overtime, tech workers pulling 80 hour weeks, kids in unpaid internships, and of course a steady supply of prison labor. A bit more of these and we can bring down the 50% unemployment levels that unions caused for so many decades.
There's no reason for another state to give California water, when a large percentage of California gets tons of rain. It's simply a matter of internal distribution.
It proves that 52 senators are funded by the companies that have a vested interest in net neutrality. The three republicans who broke ranks... well, they took an actual risk of alienating a major source of party funding and of facing a future primary challenge, so I'll give them credit. But I'm not giving credit to democrats who voted party line when google et all will reward them for it.
The main reason no booster has flown 3 times yet is that they've been obsoleted by new versions before they've had a chance. They have to improve launch cadence. If they can do 100+ missions a year then it starts to make sense to re-fly a booster 10 times. Probably have to have a thousand launches a year for 24 hour turnaround to make sense, so that won't be happening for a long time.
The expectation with Block 5 is 10 launches with minimal inspection/refurbishment (because risk is considered low for the first 10) and up to 100 with major refurbishments every 10 launches.
The rest of us don't care how much it costs to put yet another communication satellite in orbit.
You don't have internet? You don't have TV, phone service, etc? Or you don't want those things to become better and cheaper? You don't even want better communication in disaster recovery situations? Pretty sure you're in the minority, the rest of us are pretty excited about cheaper communications satellites.
The goal is actually to vastly grow the market by lowering the price to a point that many more companies become interested in a launch. If they're right about the demand that would materialize at lower prices, they can give up a lot of profit on each flight by vastly underbidding their nearest competitor but still make more profit overall on volume.
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Fresh water is only precious in major cities, which comprise less than 1% of the Earth's land area. In many other places it's ridiculously over-abundant.
Let's get those newborn babies and geriatrics into full-time employment. Remember, work is a moral obligation and we cannot let any human resources go unmaximized.
There's probably no life on planets in the solar system, but there's a good chance of life in many planets and moons. Even Pluto may have a subsurface ocean teaming with life (though it's not the best candidate). Keep in mind most of Earth's life is below the surface too.
Crew Dragon has not yet flown. You're complaining about NASA not certifying something that hasn't flown? Their requirement to fly a few missions in the same configuration seems perfectly reasonable to me, and perfectly reasonable to SpaceX too.
Free software is great -- but free services always have a catch. Unless it's a registered charity organization, the odds that someone is donating their time to a random stranger are quite low.
No, you can't say that. Because it's not state mandated, in fact it costs $700 + $7 a month so almost no private citizens are going to jump at the opportunity.
What it is, is a city of Sacramento mandated tracking device for city of Sacramento employees while driving city cars. They expect it to reduce fleet tracking costs. I have no problem with that form of surveillance.
Because the difficulty with school shootings is law enforcement figuring out how to outsmart the advanced military tactics of a child?
The game is tasteless and useless. Of course, I'm all for tasteless and useless things being available to buy. That's what freedom is about, if you only want freedom for the things you like that's simply wanting to be the dictator of a tyrannical society. If it gets into the hands of a kid who decides shooting up his school is a cool idea because of it, and people die, then at least they'll die free. Better than outlawing the game as a thought crime.
Yes, I worry a lot about the possibility of hitting a deer whenever I'm driving because there are a lot of them around here. I appreciate the deer crossing warning signs where they're especially common. And there's no need for marches because we already have a very advanced deer population control system called deer hunting season, which is vital to keeping the ecosystem in balance since humans have already killed off most of the natural predators.
The problem is confirmation bias. Michael Moore didn't convince anyone who didn't already agree with him, but he convinced idiots that their opponents had just been disproved. Today's fake news works the same way, it doesn't really fool anybody of a different ideology but it strengthens the partisan echo chamber so that fewer people ever step outside of it. Kind of like religious dogma in that the more absurd it is the more your faith is enhanced by believing and the less likely you are to question anything in the future.
(For the record, I'm as liberal as non-communists come but could never stand Moore.)
Regulations are only bad if they lower profits. If they imprison and execute people that's okay.
The problem is, the whole reason Facebook is popular (like Myspace before it) is that everybody else is there. Consumers will pick one or the other, and then go to where all their friends are.
I know you're trying to shut all facts out of your mind in favor of vapid political progranda, but anti-vaxxers are no more likely to be liberal than conservative (http://theconversation.com/anti-vaccination-beliefs-dont-follow-the-usual-political-polarization-81001) and the NIMBY natives in Hawaii are of course neither a liberal group nor supported by the vast majority of liberals.
Back in the real world, religious people pursue anti-science political agendas vigorously every day. Religion, politics and science ought to be distinct but unfortunately they cannot be as long as certain forms of religion persist which make faith-based scientific assertions (on creation, medicine, etc) and as long as special interests attempt to politically sabotage science for personal profit (a game nearly every large industry with damaging effects has played).
Not possible. If we start considering dwarf planets as full planets, we'll have dozens to hundreds or maybe thousands in time -- never 13.
Thankfully we've got salaried "management" employees working unlimited unpaid overtime, tech workers pulling 80 hour weeks, kids in unpaid internships, and of course a steady supply of prison labor. A bit more of these and we can bring down the 50% unemployment levels that unions caused for so many decades.
Gee, that could never help the economy. The last thing a country wants is to remove major impediments to commerce.
There's a solution to this already: have a common name. If your parents didn't have the foresight, legally change your name to a common one.
There's no reason for another state to give California water, when a large percentage of California gets tons of rain. It's simply a matter of internal distribution.
It proves that 52 senators are funded by the companies that have a vested interest in net neutrality. The three republicans who broke ranks... well, they took an actual risk of alienating a major source of party funding and of facing a future primary challenge, so I'll give them credit. But I'm not giving credit to democrats who voted party line when google et all will reward them for it.
There are very few museums with the space or the monetary resources to buy, transport and house a 230 foot booster. So no need to save up dozens.
The main reason no booster has flown 3 times yet is that they've been obsoleted by new versions before they've had a chance. They have to improve launch cadence. If they can do 100+ missions a year then it starts to make sense to re-fly a booster 10 times. Probably have to have a thousand launches a year for 24 hour turnaround to make sense, so that won't be happening for a long time.
The expectation with Block 5 is 10 launches with minimal inspection/refurbishment (because risk is considered low for the first 10) and up to 100 with major refurbishments every 10 launches.
You don't have internet? You don't have TV, phone service, etc? Or you don't want those things to become better and cheaper? You don't even want better communication in disaster recovery situations? Pretty sure you're in the minority, the rest of us are pretty excited about cheaper communications satellites.
The goal is actually to vastly grow the market by lowering the price to a point that many more companies become interested in a launch. If they're right about the demand that would materialize at lower prices, they can give up a lot of profit on each flight by vastly underbidding their nearest competitor but still make more profit overall on volume.
In other news, about 3500 other people were murdered by their cars today alone. The drivers disclaim all responsibility.
If there's an earthquake, underground is definitely where you want to be. It doesn't shake down there like it does on the surface.