Deep gravity well, frequent dust storms, weak magnetic field that affords little radiation shielding... if I were choosing outposts I'd go with good old trusty Luna, or maybe one of the larger asteroids.
Much of the allure of Mars lies in the notion that it can one day be terraformed.
What's the problem. With sentence fragments. Separated by periods?
You think. Maybe that they should. Be separated. By semicolons? </WilliamShatnerJazz>
The latest issue of WorldWatch magazine had an interesting piece on the contribution of methane to AGW... the general conclusion was that convincing humans to alter their diet (less/no meat) will have more impact than convincing them to alter their driving habits.
Well from a purely scientific standpoint I'd say there's merit in preserving and studying life forms that have evolved in complete isolation from anything on Earth.
The movie business is facing many of the same challenges that are bedeviling music, but it's not about to go quietly into that good night
Music is going completely away? Wow. After several millenia of human musical composition I would have figured the art form had some staying power, but I guess it was a pretty good run after all. Though I must admit I was kind of looking forward to the idea of hearing new music in the future.
"Here honey, here's a google map of where you're going. Just swing by Kinko's and print out the PDF here on this USB stick... you know, the Kinko's out by highway 50? No, it's past the Wal-Mart... No, not that one... here, I'll put another map on the USB stick to help you find Kinko's."
I can think of literally dozens of things I'm thankful for, without regretting for a moment that I haven't won the Olympics or appeared in a recent newspaper headline.
It's all a matter of degree. I know and have known people who smoke the occasional doobie or bowl, but balance that activity against all the other priorities of life. I have also known people who were chronic, habitual drug users, and basically flushed their lives down the toilet attempting to service their addiction.
I have absolutely no idea how many hours it takes to "beat" WoW, but I have a hunch this guy is not somebody I would consider to be a resounding success in the real world.
Generally around 95% of the pictures attached to these Idle stories are just randomly grabbed from the 'tubes and have nothing to do with the actual weed/prank/crime/loser in question.
Dude - your entire point is based around the idea that "a lot of non science" was being done. None of the other things you said even make sense if we remove your assumption that almost all of the science was bad.
There was a lot of non-science being done at a supposedly scientific institution
... and this is exactly the kind of generalist thinking that the people who leaked those emails were hoping for. Just by exposing a few unkind words exchanged via email (which as the GP mentioned had nothing to do with the soundness of the work actually published) people make the jump to "lots of non-science" being done.
Greenland was never named as such because it was "green." It was named in order to lure colonists who would hear the name and think "Sounds like a nice place. When's the next boat?"
Been years since I ran it as well, but IIRC you had a choice of running either as a screen saver or as a background process. Some people even ran multiple instances of the background process to crank out more WU's.
I would suggest you might want to include multinational corporations (and trade associations) and the massive marketing and information-management efforts they mount as a species of "international body" that bears watching along with governments, treaty organizations, NGOs, lobbyists, and thinktanks.
Wouldn't it be equally if not more foolish for me to believe the "consensus" being pushed by the fossil fuel lobby?
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Age has nothing to do with it. You're just too discerning.
... for certain values of "solved"
What the hell? Is this for real?
I don't know what's freakier - the idea that this is some kind of covert human activity, or that humans aren't involved in any way.
How many homes exactly and how much of a "significantly longer period of time?"
Chain a bunch of OLPCs down and simply turn the kids loose.
As outposts go, Mars is a rather poor choice/
Deep gravity well, frequent dust storms, weak magnetic field that affords little radiation shielding ... if I were choosing outposts I'd go with good old trusty Luna, or maybe one of the larger asteroids.
Much of the allure of Mars lies in the notion that it can one day be terraformed.
Is this where I put the obligatory Xenu reference?
What's the problem. With sentence fragments. Separated by periods?
You think. Maybe that they should. Be separated. By semicolons? </WilliamShatnerJazz>
Fixed that for you.
I wonder if the pattern to the press releases has anything to do with the pace at which scientific research takes place?
The latest issue of WorldWatch magazine had an interesting piece on the contribution of methane to AGW ... the general conclusion was that convincing humans to alter their diet (less/no meat) will have more impact than convincing them to alter their driving habits.
It's not just religious people who attempt to rationalize the fact Earth may be the only place with intelligent life.
Well from a purely scientific standpoint I'd say there's merit in preserving and studying life forms that have evolved in complete isolation from anything on Earth.
Wouldn't you?
The movie business is facing many of the same challenges that are bedeviling music, but it's not about to go quietly into that good night
Music is going completely away? Wow. After several millenia of human musical composition I would have figured the art form had some staying power, but I guess it was a pretty good run after all. Though I must admit I was kind of looking forward to the idea of hearing new music in the future.
oh well
"Here honey, here's a google map of where you're going. Just swing by Kinko's and print out the PDF here on this USB stick ... you know, the Kinko's out by highway 50? No, it's past the Wal-Mart ... No, not that one ... here, I'll put another map on the USB stick to help you find Kinko's."
A few with just pot (coupled with a profound lack of ambition), and a few with pot as "something to do" in between binges of harder stuff.
You have a strange concept of "success."
I can think of literally dozens of things I'm thankful for, without regretting for a moment that I haven't won the Olympics or appeared in a recent newspaper headline.
pics or it didn't happen
It's all a matter of degree. I know and have known people who smoke the occasional doobie or bowl, but balance that activity against all the other priorities of life. I have also known people who were chronic, habitual drug users, and basically flushed their lives down the toilet attempting to service their addiction.
I have absolutely no idea how many hours it takes to "beat" WoW, but I have a hunch this guy is not somebody I would consider to be a resounding success in the real world.
Generally around 95% of the pictures attached to these Idle stories are just randomly grabbed from the 'tubes and have nothing to do with the actual weed/prank/crime/loser in question.
I also didn't address the taxonomy of linguistic subgroups found on the Indonesian islands of Alor and Wetar.
What does that have to do with the price of potatoes in Warsaw?
Dude - your entire point is based around the idea that "a lot of non science" was being done. None of the other things you said even make sense if we remove your assumption that almost all of the science was bad.
There was a lot of non-science being done at a supposedly scientific institution
... and this is exactly the kind of generalist thinking that the people who leaked those emails were hoping for. Just by exposing a few unkind words exchanged via email (which as the GP mentioned had nothing to do with the soundness of the work actually published) people make the jump to "lots of non-science" being done.
Propaganda at its finest.
Greenland was never named as such because it was "green." It was named in order to lure colonists who would hear the name and think "Sounds like a nice place. When's the next boat?"
Been years since I ran it as well, but IIRC you had a choice of running either as a screen saver or as a background process. Some people even ran multiple instances of the background process to crank out more WU's.
Define "international bodies"
I would suggest you might want to include multinational corporations (and trade associations) and the massive marketing and information-management efforts they mount as a species of "international body" that bears watching along with governments, treaty organizations, NGOs, lobbyists, and thinktanks.
Wouldn't it be equally if not more foolish for me to believe the "consensus" being pushed by the fossil fuel lobby?