Of course, on the downside, this leaves them more dependent than ever on private contractors
Not really. Big private companies that were contracted worked on infinite budgets, including cost over runs etc., designing space craft and modules for them. The private for profit companies like Virgin, or Space X are working on budgets to make a profit. This I think this will give NASA more bang for the buck.
You don't have to make FRIENDS . I think that the hour spent having lunch with your like minded, or evenyour not so like minded colleagues, will give you insight you didn't have before.
here's an idea, how about you remove those annoying sparkly custom backgrounds, autoplaying songs, pages that look like a 13-year-old girl threw up all over them, incredibly intrusive advertising, the overlapping spaghetti code of multiple scripts, and ridiculous clutter? You know...become Facebook.
Don't be a hater, all those pages were made by a 13 year old girl while throwing up.
I have a 16 year old Nissan minivan and bits and pieces have stopped working or have fallen off. It would be nice to have (even though impossible) a 30 year old car that still worked as well as the day it rolled off the line
Hear is a global map of all known operational hacker spaces. I used to belong to one in Manhattan when I lived in NY City and now that I live in Mexico, I'm looking for one to join here.
And Dyson Spheres. Yeah, that might work. Any civilization that could pull that off would already be HERE, probably farming US.
Not really as any reader of Niven's "Ringworld" novels could attest. The Dyson Sphere would have about a gazillion times the surface area of a planet and with that they really wouldn't need any place else to go.
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I don't know. Have you ever killed someone in real life?
He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither
Oh my god, you killed Wesley!
I would be very careful when applying for a position as a miner
Of course, on the downside, this leaves them more dependent than ever on private contractors
Not really. Big private companies that were contracted worked on infinite budgets, including cost over runs etc., designing space craft and modules for them. The private for profit companies like Virgin, or Space X are working on budgets to make a profit. This I think this will give NASA more bang for the buck.
innuendo the Italian word for anal sex.
You don't have to make FRIENDS . I think that the hour spent having lunch with your like minded, or evenyour not so like minded colleagues, will give you insight you didn't have before.
here's an idea, how about you remove those annoying sparkly custom backgrounds, autoplaying songs, pages that look like a 13-year-old girl threw up all over them, incredibly intrusive advertising, the overlapping spaghetti code of multiple scripts, and ridiculous clutter? You know...become Facebook.
Don't be a hater, all those pages were made by a 13 year old girl while throwing up.
I have a 16 year old Nissan minivan and bits and pieces have stopped working or have fallen off. It would be nice to have (even though impossible) a 30 year old car that still worked as well as the day it rolled off the line
netflix, hulu plus and TED.
Oh my!
Not if you're living in farking Mexico. Netflix, you're in Canada, go global just a little more, down South for example!
To make a profit from humans
Isn't this what the Chinese are good at already?
Hear is a global map of all known operational hacker spaces. I used to belong to one in Manhattan when I lived in NY City and now that I live in Mexico, I'm looking for one to join here.
Besides it costs less than printing stamps and maintaining a postal system.
Ach! It's all bollocks!
Just check out Things That Reportedly Taste Like Chicken (Graph) and add this to the list.
Aye said the Wee Free Men!
Hydrotreated Renewable Jet Fuel is made of people
And Dyson Spheres. Yeah, that might work. Any civilization that could pull that off would already be HERE, probably farming US.
Not really as any reader of Niven's "Ringworld" novels could attest. The Dyson Sphere would have about a gazillion times the surface area of a planet and with that they really wouldn't need any place else to go.
Space X and Virgin Galactic partner in plans to build a velvet rope barrier around the Earth.
They never heard of air tight zip lock bags, or they don't want to know about them.
Bizarre Porn Raid Underscores Wi-Fi Privacy Risks
and I thought I'd see a story about scantily clad women going into somebody's home to collect fees or something
CmdrTaco? I think he is supposed to get his own cartoon on Adult Swim.
I live on Pern, and it's not all that easy, Let Me Tell You!
Too much mud
In later news, Space X also promised "jet packs, hover cars and cold fusion all within 10 to 25 years"