Everyone seems to be hung up on coffee, as though that were the ONLY liquid that might ever need to be mixed with another ingredient in zero gravity.
Hello, everyone! The same methods used to add cream to coffee will likely work in scientific experiments, or mixing epoxy cements, or, preparing an acid solution, or - just about anything that requires two ingredients to be mixed.
You do realize that a colony on the moon would NOT be in a zero-g environment? The moon has a micro-gravity, which will cause spilled liquids to fall to the floor, where they can be mopped up, much as we mop up spills on earth.
Again - the "scientists" at Bayer performed flawed studies, and rushed their "results" through the approval process. No independent studies were performed prior to agencies such as the US' FDA approval of Bayer's insecticides.
There is zero indication that real science was involved in testing. There is every indication that marketing drove what little "testing" was done.
The hypothesis, basically, is that untested and poorly tested insecticides are responsible and/or contribute to CCD.
The measurable results of this test (removal of neonicotinoids from the food chain) should be easily measurable by an increase of healthy bee colonies within the next decade.
And, yes, it will take a decade to see the results - this pesticide stays in the soil for six years AND MORE.
I had heard that before. I can't say how much of a factor it is in the decimation of bee populations.
I do know that all the "tests" of these insecticides were flawed. And, I do know that Bayer stands up and declares all other studies on the subject are flawed, while declining to perform new tests, and blocking independent tests.
The fact is, approval for Bayer's insecticides were given a bum rush through the original approval process here in the states, with no independent testing. The ONLY testing introduced to the approval process were Bayer's own flawed studies, performed in Canada.
In effect, we took Bayer's word that their product was safe.
Question - should a seasonal insecticide remain in the soil for six years and more? Question - should insecticides spread far beyond the target fields and crops? Question - should the insecticide be systemic, being taken into every part of the plant along with the plant's nutrients?
Many people believe that you can just wash the insecticides off of the produce when you bring it home from the farmer's market. With nonicotinoids, the poison is in every cell of the plant. The only way to "wash it off" is to flush the entire fruit or vegetable down the sewer. You WILL eat the poison if you eat the produce!!
Honey? That's all you think of when the subject of bees is brought up?
With some notable exceptions, all of your vegetables and fruits are pollinated by honey bees. They all come from FLOWERING PLANTS, which require some agent to move pollen from plant to plant flower to flower. No pollen, no fruit - it's that simple.
Mankind has largely killed off butterflies, and any other "pests" that might have performed the job of pollination. All that is left is the honey bee - which, of course, has been the most efficient agent of pollination for all of human history.
If you like eating, especially if you like having any kind of variety in your diet, then you depend on honey bees. Even if you're allergic to all bee products, you still depend on bees. (never heard of anyone being allergic to honey - I just threw that out there)
An expensive firearm locked inside of a safe has zero value. The intruder can come in, shoot you in the back while you're attempting to open the safe, then walk out with the safe, to open it up at his leisure at the auto wrecking yard.
Your statement may be true - but it's far more likely that a defective safety will permit the weapon to fire while the safety is on. I've never heard of a defective safety preventing the weapon from firing when the trigger was pulled.
My nine year old has more sense than you are displaying. And, no, the specifics of this particular lump of protoplasm are not going to be shared with you - ya fuckin' DEVIANT!
I read through your chart - and agreed with most of it. Then, I looked back, searching for the missing entry. Oh, crap - have I blundered that badly? Looking again - hmmmmmm - yep, I screwed up that badly. Io is the most "earthlike" moon, with a gravity of.183. It's probably workable, but not nearly as earthlike as I implied.
To much science fiction, and not enough science?
I guess Mars is the best bet right now. And, that's only going to work with some kind of bio environments for a long time to come.
Wait a moment. I'm an ass because I wouldn't cooperate with some intrusive douchebag fuckwad who thought that he had some God-given right to fuck with my mind?
My mind is MY mind, and not subject to anyone's manipulation, thank you very much. If you wish to lie down and listen to the succubi, feel free, but don't you dare to judge another man for refusing.
Does "Blackwater" ring any bells? There are mercenaries out there who will hire out to ANYONE. Some of those mercs have pretty sophisticated equipment. Without any outside assistance, Blackwater is probably capable of overthrowing a number of smaller country's governments. With outside assistance, it would be hard to judge their capabilities.
Start with gravity. Earth-like gravity means that the moon can be worked with. Micro-gravities are supposed to be unhealthy, and of course multi-gravities will crush us. If a body in space has earth-like gravity, then we can figure out how to use it!
FFS lighten up. My dad was an asshole. I'm an asshole. My kid is an asshole. Unless the kid finds a saint with whom to have a child, I suspect my grandson will be yet another asshole, in a long, long, long line of assholes. What's your problem with assholes, anyway? You're another bigot?
That is NOT in the same league with the texts being discussed. Having been a dad for 25 years now, a LOT of inane discussions have centered around drugs. In those same 25 years, a false plea for help has been rare, and only when all parties were close to each other and in direct contact, making it obvious that help was unneeded and/or unwanted.
"Not to mention not nice to the ones who gave you life."
Seriously? I just emailed the link to my son, telling him that I wanted to watch from the sidelines when he texted his mother. Are you suggesting that I am not nice?
Mankind will never do what you dream of. No matter how far into space, no matter how far into the future mankind goes, he will always be a messy son of a bitch. Wars and fratricide. Drugs and prostitution. Theft and tax evasion. You name it - everything we've ever done wrong, we'll continue to do, to the end of time, and to the extreme edges of the universe. If we ever find alternate realities, or the dimensional doorways - we'll take all our baggage there too.
Apparently, you don't like mankind, as you want to ensure his extinction when that one big rock DOES hit the earth.
I wonder - what does Global Positioning become when you are no longer on the globe? Does it become Orbiting Positioning? Space positioning? Stellar positioning? Galactic positioning? Milky Way positioning - ooops, I'm hungry, be back later!
I thought you were being just a little stupid. For almost two seconds I really thought that. Then - I realized that no matter how carefully you maneuver, no matter how closely you match orbits with the debris you plan on collecting - a frigging magnet isn't going to have any effect on most of the debris. Unless someone has been shooting iron cannonballs up into space.
Bigger mess down here? Just export it. Start colonies on Mars, the Moon, and some of those wonderfully earth-like moons orbiting the gas giants. Use them for penal colonies, so that if a colony is destroyed, we don't lose a whole lot. Just export the messes, like England did so long ago!
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Everyone seems to be hung up on coffee, as though that were the ONLY liquid that might ever need to be mixed with another ingredient in zero gravity.
Hello, everyone! The same methods used to add cream to coffee will likely work in scientific experiments, or mixing epoxy cements, or, preparing an acid solution, or - just about anything that requires two ingredients to be mixed.
You do realize that a colony on the moon would NOT be in a zero-g environment? The moon has a micro-gravity, which will cause spilled liquids to fall to the floor, where they can be mopped up, much as we mop up spills on earth.
Again - the "scientists" at Bayer performed flawed studies, and rushed their "results" through the approval process. No independent studies were performed prior to agencies such as the US' FDA approval of Bayer's insecticides.
There is zero indication that real science was involved in testing. There is every indication that marketing drove what little "testing" was done.
The hypothesis, basically, is that untested and poorly tested insecticides are responsible and/or contribute to CCD.
The measurable results of this test (removal of neonicotinoids from the food chain) should be easily measurable by an increase of healthy bee colonies within the next decade.
And, yes, it will take a decade to see the results - this pesticide stays in the soil for six years AND MORE.
http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Are-Neonicotinoids-Killing-Bees_Xerces-Society1.pdf
No, it won't affect quality of life. It will ONLY affect the profits of pesticide producers - primarily Bayer.
I had heard that before. I can't say how much of a factor it is in the decimation of bee populations.
I do know that all the "tests" of these insecticides were flawed. And, I do know that Bayer stands up and declares all other studies on the subject are flawed, while declining to perform new tests, and blocking independent tests.
The fact is, approval for Bayer's insecticides were given a bum rush through the original approval process here in the states, with no independent testing. The ONLY testing introduced to the approval process were Bayer's own flawed studies, performed in Canada.
In effect, we took Bayer's word that their product was safe.
Some interesting reading here: http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Are-Neonicotinoids-Killing-Bees_Xerces-Society1.pdf
Question - should a seasonal insecticide remain in the soil for six years and more?
Question - should insecticides spread far beyond the target fields and crops?
Question - should the insecticide be systemic, being taken into every part of the plant along with the plant's nutrients?
Many people believe that you can just wash the insecticides off of the produce when you bring it home from the farmer's market. With nonicotinoids, the poison is in every cell of the plant. The only way to "wash it off" is to flush the entire fruit or vegetable down the sewer. You WILL eat the poison if you eat the produce!!
Honey? That's all you think of when the subject of bees is brought up?
With some notable exceptions, all of your vegetables and fruits are pollinated by honey bees. They all come from FLOWERING PLANTS, which require some agent to move pollen from plant to plant flower to flower. No pollen, no fruit - it's that simple.
Mankind has largely killed off butterflies, and any other "pests" that might have performed the job of pollination. All that is left is the honey bee - which, of course, has been the most efficient agent of pollination for all of human history.
If you like eating, especially if you like having any kind of variety in your diet, then you depend on honey bees. Even if you're allergic to all bee products, you still depend on bees. (never heard of anyone being allergic to honey - I just threw that out there)
You're leaving out about 70 years of history in which many companies and leaders emulated Ford's leadership.
"Our most valuable asset is our people."
The trend today is in the opposite direction, yes, and where is our economy headed? Down the drain, of course.
This is why I post everything online with disappearing ink. When I close my browser it all disappears.
Oh - wait - I guess it only works if we all close our browsers at the same time? Dang - that sucks!
An expensive firearm locked inside of a safe has zero value. The intruder can come in, shoot you in the back while you're attempting to open the safe, then walk out with the safe, to open it up at his leisure at the auto wrecking yard.
Your statement may be true - but it's far more likely that a defective safety will permit the weapon to fire while the safety is on. I've never heard of a defective safety preventing the weapon from firing when the trigger was pulled.
There are a few intermediate steps. Going from the speed of sound to the speed of light is more than an order of magnitude, you realize?
Dang, I'm curious now -
299792458 m / s / 340.29 m / s = 880991.089952687
Big number, alright - but not as big as I thought. Hmmm . . .
My nine year old has more sense than you are displaying. And, no, the specifics of this particular lump of protoplasm are not going to be shared with you - ya fuckin' DEVIANT!
I read through your chart - and agreed with most of it. Then, I looked back, searching for the missing entry. Oh, crap - have I blundered that badly? Looking again - hmmmmmm - yep, I screwed up that badly. Io is the most "earthlike" moon, with a gravity of .183. It's probably workable, but not nearly as earthlike as I implied.
To much science fiction, and not enough science?
I guess Mars is the best bet right now. And, that's only going to work with some kind of bio environments for a long time to come.
Wait a moment. I'm an ass because I wouldn't cooperate with some intrusive douchebag fuckwad who thought that he had some God-given right to fuck with my mind?
My mind is MY mind, and not subject to anyone's manipulation, thank you very much. If you wish to lie down and listen to the succubi, feel free, but don't you dare to judge another man for refusing.
"at least the corps don't have armies."
Does "Blackwater" ring any bells? There are mercenaries out there who will hire out to ANYONE. Some of those mercs have pretty sophisticated equipment. Without any outside assistance, Blackwater is probably capable of overthrowing a number of smaller country's governments. With outside assistance, it would be hard to judge their capabilities.
Start with gravity. Earth-like gravity means that the moon can be worked with. Micro-gravities are supposed to be unhealthy, and of course multi-gravities will crush us. If a body in space has earth-like gravity, then we can figure out how to use it!
FFS lighten up. My dad was an asshole. I'm an asshole. My kid is an asshole. Unless the kid finds a saint with whom to have a child, I suspect my grandson will be yet another asshole, in a long, long, long line of assholes. What's your problem with assholes, anyway? You're another bigot?
That is NOT in the same league with the texts being discussed. Having been a dad for 25 years now, a LOT of inane discussions have centered around drugs. In those same 25 years, a false plea for help has been rare, and only when all parties were close to each other and in direct contact, making it obvious that help was unneeded and/or unwanted.
ROFLMAO!!
"I'd rather risk prison rape than people talking to me in soft voices about how I feel."
I've heard those soft voices twice in my life. It took about ten minutes each to make them understand that they were wasting their time.
"Do you love your mother?"
"Do you?"
"Do I what?"
"Do you love my mother?"
"Ahem - maybe we should start over. Do you like your father?"
"No, I can't say that I do - why?"
"Please just answer the questions."
"No - I'm tired of this game."
"But - this isn't a game!"
"Cool, because I'm not playing."
The shrink realizes that he is upset with me, and that I'm playing HIM, rather than the game. So he informs me that the "interview" is over.
The Commander just told me that I had to show up for the appointment. He can't tell me how to answer any questions!
"Not to mention not nice to the ones who gave you life."
Seriously? I just emailed the link to my son, telling him that I wanted to watch from the sidelines when he texted his mother. Are you suggesting that I am not nice?
Speaking of assholes - how have you been?
Mankind will never do what you dream of. No matter how far into space, no matter how far into the future mankind goes, he will always be a messy son of a bitch. Wars and fratricide. Drugs and prostitution. Theft and tax evasion. You name it - everything we've ever done wrong, we'll continue to do, to the end of time, and to the extreme edges of the universe. If we ever find alternate realities, or the dimensional doorways - we'll take all our baggage there too.
Apparently, you don't like mankind, as you want to ensure his extinction when that one big rock DOES hit the earth.
I wonder - what does Global Positioning become when you are no longer on the globe? Does it become Orbiting Positioning? Space positioning? Stellar positioning? Galactic positioning? Milky Way positioning - ooops, I'm hungry, be back later!
I thought you were being just a little stupid. For almost two seconds I really thought that. Then - I realized that no matter how carefully you maneuver, no matter how closely you match orbits with the debris you plan on collecting - a frigging magnet isn't going to have any effect on most of the debris. Unless someone has been shooting iron cannonballs up into space.
Bigger mess down here? Just export it. Start colonies on Mars, the Moon, and some of those wonderfully earth-like moons orbiting the gas giants. Use them for penal colonies, so that if a colony is destroyed, we don't lose a whole lot. Just export the messes, like England did so long ago!