Sadly, something like this is probably inevitable. All it will take is a handful of cyber-attacks that actually harm the average Joe in a way that he can easily see, like taking out the local cable service.
If you look at the actual data, instead of a column written by a political hack, you can see that the mean global temperatures have risen during the 2000s.
That is not correct. Mean global temperatures have been rising throughout the 2000s. The only way to make it look like temperatures have dropped over the past decade is to assume that 1998 was a normal year for temperature and use it as a baseline. It was not. It was one of the hottest on record, so using it as a baseline will give wildly erroneous results.
This is because NASA is badly underfunded for the current lunar programme. At least now there has been a public acknowledgement of that by the Augustine Commission, so perhaps something will be done about it.
It is hard to imagine a situation where enough organic or pre-organic material is knocked of the Earth that it would leave that much material on a single comet. Still, there probably some exchange back into space when Earth is hit by a large meteoroid.
No, all it means is that some of the chemicals needed for Earthly life are also found in elsewhere in the Solar System. Given that the entire Solar System formed out of the same molecular cloud that is not very surprising.
>Humans vs Aliens? You mean what Star Trek is all about? >(Granted, it's actually Aliens vs Humans with the help of Aliens).
Star Trek was never about aliens vs humans. It was a hopeful (and a bit naive) programme about the expansion of humanity into the Galaxy. For the most part the conflict was driven by human conflict, not wars with aliens.
>DS9 actually got interesting when they stopped dicking about on Bajor and had them some wars...
I found that DS9 got tedious when they stopped dealing with the political and social situation on Bajor and turned it into yet another humans vs aliens war story.
The last few decades have seem personal electronics, the internet, mobile phones, global communications, and many other advances that make the '50s and 60s' seem primitive in comparison.
I would recommend against going to the Kennedy Space Centre. It was very expensive to get in. The queues tended to be long, and exhibits were disappointing. The bus drivers were interesting to talk to though.
Many people have one directory (perhaps called My Documents) that they use for everything. The files that they download are mixed in with their bank statements, Christmas card lists, and everything else.
No, they do not. Many people think that they are searching some sort of repository of files that was set up specifically to be searched. They do not realize that they are searching other people's hard drives, and other people are searching theirs. Even when they realize that people are downloading from them many people think that the downloading is restricted to music files. The idea that their entire hard drive may be open for searching is alien to some people.
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Oh, grow up.
That is good. Negative incompetence would be a big improvement.
Unfortunately, there is a real chance that some of those passwords have not been changed.
Sadly, something like this is probably inevitable. All it will take is a handful of cyber-attacks that actually harm the average Joe in a way that he can easily see, like taking out the local cable service.
>If I recall correctly, the scheduling problem (or at least some
>variants of it) is NP-complete.
Phew. That means that there is no hope of it accidentally summoning Yog Sothoth.
I suspect that this is a modern problem, and that depressed people did not commit suicide as often in pre-firearms societies.
time to go off my meds...
That has long since been discredited.
>>Considering the ROI of the moon landing, ti was WELL worth our investment.
>Virtually all the ROI of the moon landings was from the technology developed for the program, not from going to >the moon itself.
It was the technology development that cost the money. If we had not gone to the Moon much of that technology may not have been developed.
If you look at the actual data, instead of a column written by a political hack, you can see that the mean global temperatures have risen during the 2000s.
That is not correct. Mean global temperatures have been rising throughout the 2000s. The only way to make it look like temperatures have dropped over the past decade is to assume that 1998 was a normal year for temperature and use it as a baseline. It was not. It was one of the hottest on record, so using it as a baseline will give wildly erroneous results.
>give the RIAA a license to kill!
I am confident that the RIAA lobbyists are working on this as I type.
Yes, but can you tell what parts of the hard drive that those bits were from?
This is because NASA is badly underfunded for the current lunar programme. At least now there has been a public acknowledgement of that by the Augustine Commission, so perhaps something will be done about it.
I suspect that there are people who would pay extra for a flight where they had the opportunity to shoot something down.
Having made your post, if you now shoot a Verizon technician it would probably be interpreted as premeditated.
It is hard to imagine a situation where enough organic or pre-organic material is knocked of the Earth that it would leave that much material on a single comet. Still, there probably some exchange back into space when Earth is hit by a large meteoroid.
No, all it means is that some of the chemicals needed for Earthly life are also found in elsewhere in the Solar System. Given that the entire Solar System formed out of the same molecular cloud that is not very surprising.
>Humans vs Aliens? You mean what Star Trek is all about?
>(Granted, it's actually Aliens vs Humans with the help of Aliens).
Star Trek was never about aliens vs humans. It was a hopeful (and a bit naive) programme about the expansion of humanity into the Galaxy. For the most part the conflict was driven by human conflict, not wars with aliens.
>DS9 actually got interesting when they stopped dicking about on Bajor and had them some wars...
I found that DS9 got tedious when they stopped dealing with the political and social situation on Bajor and turned it into yet another humans vs aliens war story.
One would hope so, but the reality is that one does not need to know anything about the biology of reproduction in order to have a baby.
The last few decades have seem personal electronics, the internet, mobile phones, global communications, and many other advances that make the '50s and 60s' seem primitive in comparison.
I would recommend against going to the Kennedy Space Centre. It was very expensive to get in. The queues tended to be long, and exhibits were disappointing. The bus drivers were interesting to talk to though.
Many people have one directory (perhaps called My Documents) that they use for everything. The files that they download are mixed in with their bank statements, Christmas card lists, and everything else.
No, they do not. Many people think that they are searching some sort of repository of files that was set up specifically to be searched. They do not realize that they are searching other people's hard drives, and other people are searching theirs. Even when they realize that people are downloading from them many people think that the downloading is restricted to music files. The idea that their entire hard drive may be open for searching is alien to some people.