You happen to live in a civilized country, mate. I don't think you can communicate that notion to the "gubbermint is evil and has the only goal to steal taxes from me as an end in itself"-crowd.
Profanity is a means of emphasis. Just like underlining in written text. However, if your brain is so tainted by American puritanism, i.e. if you got a fucking stick up your arse so far that it titillates your uvula, you might miss the bloody point.
Well, as I said - Germany. The country is rather compact:) On the other hand - I used to live and work on the west coast in my grad student days. What we don't have here are the vast stretches of still untouched land like I have seen in the Mojave, in the Sierra - population density is just to high here to allow for something like that to still exist. Count your blessings:D
Thanks for the tips, mate. I am indeed new in the countryside, but then again, I am a biochemist by trade, so I get the theory. The practice, as you suggest, I get from the neigbors. We are talking about a rather small plot here - just a kitchen garden, basically. But I am moving the zones - what held corn last year will be beans this year. Also sowed some clover as green fertilizer in the autumn, to be dug under as soon as the soil is dry again. Also, compost. As for the bookstores and libraries - we are talking German countryside here, 10 minutes walk to the light rail connection and 30 minutes into the next major town with shops, museums, a philharmony, a decent theater:) best of both worlds.
I do grow corn in my back yard. Actually, moving from the city into the country was somewhat eye-opening. I grow lots of stuff now, I get my eggs from the neighbours hens - for a price way below supermarket standard. Cutting out the middlemen makes for better food and lower prices....
But, but... careful there, brother. It's not the Hellfires shot by Obama personally, who are after you. Don't neglect to watch out for the black FEMA/UN helicopters implementing Agenda 21!!!!
Well, as soon as they can get over this ideological bullshit and act like professionals, then, maybe, the year of linux on the desktop might magically materialize.
You won't get through to them, mate. As (I think) Sinclair said, roughly paraphrased - the average American worker doesn't perceive himself as worker, but as temporarily inconvenienced millionaire.
They'll last you longer than that. The house I am living in has a PV array on the roof. I don't know the exact specs since I am only renting, but I do have access to the power meters. The panels have been installed in 1994, so they are an even older generation. Yet still, I managed to draw nothing from the grid even now in the German winter on sunny days. That is with two computers, two fridges and two freezers running. I just moved in in December, so I haven't seen the summer performance yet - but I expect a LOW electricity bill this year. Happy independence!
Anyone looking to learn the basic techniques should look for the videos by Jacques Pepin on youtube. His basic book on techniques is also excellent - everything from the different classic cutting styles for vegetables up to skinning butchering rabbits.
Word, cayenne. I don't often agree with your posts, but this time, it's 100%. I do my cooking daily, though - but that's a matter of having the time for it, I guess. I am usually out of the office between 5 and 6, so there's ample time to hit a grocery or butcher or fishmonger on the way home. I find that spending half an hour or an hour in the kitchen after work seriously helps me unwind.
Nope, asteroid mining will not solve that issue - the issue is kickstarting it, expending the energy to actually get the necessary mining and refining gear up there in the first place. To get all the minerals out of the ore and to refine it into high quality metals, build the necessary alloys and cast them under microgravity will make it necessary to lift hundreds of thousands of tons of stuff up there. Not to mention that most of our refining techniques, e.g. floatation, will not work in microgravity, so completely new ones will have to be designed. At the moment the startup costs kill the whole endeavour. We need cheaper lifting capacity first. Orders of magnitude cheaper. That's what we have to research before producing vaporware by tagging asteroids.
So a particle the size of a grain of sand that has it's own orbit, clear of other bodies, would be a planet?
Nope, gotta be heavy enough to get roughly spherical under its own gravity, too. No grains of sand in the planet club, we have to keep the riff-raff out, now don't we?
Yup. If only NASA were gone, the crowd funders would have discovered the planet using data from their own frigging telescope, instead of NASA's Kepler. And call me when the "asteroid miners" produce anything but vaporware. Meanwhile, NASA is doing meaningful science.
Because any usable ore refinery would take up just about 1000 times the mass of the ISS and require a daily input of energy and consumables which no one can actually generate in situ respectively lift to orbit at a reasonable cost?
Well, half the thread is about how well revolvers work in space and how to most efficiently shoot someone there.... I don't think that some people have advanced civilizationally in any significant manner, do you?
Yeah. *dons Captain Obvious Cape* Sometimes you have to state the glaringly obvious, because some people don't seem to get it. My work is necessary, citizen!
This could get interesting when coupled with some powerful image recognition. Say, for example, you want to repair something on your car. Load up the repair manual, and let the overlay show you step by step what to do, e.g. a certain screw gets highlighted right were it is and the popup text tells you to now fasten this screw to this-and-that torque.
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But isn't it fun to see the biases collide now?
Fallout shelter. He just realized that pouring the ceiling first wouldn't lead anywhere and abandoned the project :P
You happen to live in a civilized country, mate. I don't think you can communicate that notion to the "gubbermint is evil and has the only goal to steal taxes from me as an end in itself"-crowd.
Profanity is a means of emphasis. Just like underlining in written text. However, if your brain is so tainted by American puritanism, i.e. if you got a fucking stick up your arse so far that it titillates your uvula, you might miss the bloody point.
Well, as I said - Germany. The country is rather compact :) On the other hand - I used to live and work on the west coast in my grad student days. What we don't have here are the vast stretches of still untouched land like I have seen in the Mojave, in the Sierra - population density is just to high here to allow for something like that to still exist. Count your blessings :D
Thanks for the tips, mate. I am indeed new in the countryside, but then again, I am a biochemist by trade, so I get the theory. The practice, as you suggest, I get from the neigbors. We are talking about a rather small plot here - just a kitchen garden, basically. But I am moving the zones - what held corn last year will be beans this year. Also sowed some clover as green fertilizer in the autumn, to be dug under as soon as the soil is dry again. Also, compost. As for the bookstores and libraries - we are talking German countryside here, 10 minutes walk to the light rail connection and 30 minutes into the next major town with shops, museums, a philharmony, a decent theater :) best of both worlds.
I do grow corn in my back yard. Actually, moving from the city into the country was somewhat eye-opening. I grow lots of stuff now, I get my eggs from the neighbours hens - for a price way below supermarket standard. Cutting out the middlemen makes for better food and lower prices....
Get your ass to nullsec and mine something worthwhile ;)
My lawn. Get off it, whippersnapper, will you?
But, but... careful there, brother. It's not the Hellfires shot by Obama personally, who are after you. Don't neglect to watch out for the black FEMA/UN helicopters implementing Agenda 21!!!!
/sarcasm
also...
Well, as soon as they can get over this ideological bullshit and act like professionals, then, maybe, the year of linux on the desktop might magically materialize.
Nah, just mandate the sale of a handgun with every iDevice. Because, as we all know, guns prevent crime, right?
Then again, now I am envisioning the i45 with a slide-to-unlock safety... *shudders*
You won't get through to them, mate. As (I think) Sinclair said, roughly paraphrased - the average American worker doesn't perceive himself as worker, but as temporarily inconvenienced millionaire.
They'll last you longer than that. The house I am living in has a PV array on the roof. I don't know the exact specs since I am only renting, but I do have access to the power meters. The panels have been installed in 1994, so they are an even older generation. Yet still, I managed to draw nothing from the grid even now in the German winter on sunny days. That is with two computers, two fridges and two freezers running. I just moved in in December, so I haven't seen the summer performance yet - but I expect a LOW electricity bill this year. Happy independence!
Also, green beans freeze rather well. At least the frozen ones are still an order of magnitude better than canned.
Anyone looking to learn the basic techniques should look for the videos by Jacques Pepin on youtube. His basic book on techniques is also excellent - everything from the different classic cutting styles for vegetables up to skinning butchering rabbits.
Word, cayenne. I don't often agree with your posts, but this time, it's 100%. I do my cooking daily, though - but that's a matter of having the time for it, I guess. I am usually out of the office between 5 and 6, so there's ample time to hit a grocery or butcher or fishmonger on the way home. I find that spending half an hour or an hour in the kitchen after work seriously helps me unwind.
Nope, asteroid mining will not solve that issue - the issue is kickstarting it, expending the energy to actually get the necessary mining and refining gear up there in the first place. To get all the minerals out of the ore and to refine it into high quality metals, build the necessary alloys and cast them under microgravity will make it necessary to lift hundreds of thousands of tons of stuff up there. Not to mention that most of our refining techniques, e.g. floatation, will not work in microgravity, so completely new ones will have to be designed. At the moment the startup costs kill the whole endeavour. We need cheaper lifting capacity first. Orders of magnitude cheaper. That's what we have to research before producing vaporware by tagging asteroids.
So a particle the size of a grain of sand that has it's own orbit, clear of other bodies, would be a planet?
Nope, gotta be heavy enough to get roughly spherical under its own gravity, too. No grains of sand in the planet club, we have to keep the riff-raff out, now don't we?
Yup. If only NASA were gone, the crowd funders would have discovered the planet using data from their own frigging telescope, instead of NASA's Kepler. And call me when the "asteroid miners" produce anything but vaporware. Meanwhile, NASA is doing meaningful science.
Because any usable ore refinery would take up just about 1000 times the mass of the ISS and require a daily input of energy and consumables which no one can actually generate in situ respectively lift to orbit at a reasonable cost?
To meaningfully own an asteroid you gotta have a way to actually exploit it. That, so far, is pure vaporware. Or vacuumware?
Well, half the thread is about how well revolvers work in space and how to most efficiently shoot someone there.... I don't think that some people have advanced civilizationally in any significant manner, do you?
Yeah. *dons Captain Obvious Cape* Sometimes you have to state the glaringly obvious, because some people don't seem to get it. My work is necessary, citizen!
This could get interesting when coupled with some powerful image recognition. Say, for example, you want to repair something on your car. Load up the repair manual, and let the overlay show you step by step what to do, e.g. a certain screw gets highlighted right were it is and the popup text tells you to now fasten this screw to this-and-that torque.