Funny you mention Subs. I was thinking about that this morning.
Subs are built for very hostile environments, and that's without people shooting at them. Take the principals of sub building and modify them appropriately...aluminum instead of steel, structures to hold air in instead of water out, etc. and you have a pretty good game plan for building an actual space ship instead of a soda can with windows.
Nothing will happen until you can build and loft a real power source that can generate hundreds of megawatts of energy to drive the ships and once there, power the outposts.
Solar can be part of that but putting up a solar farm to generate enough power to provide for an actual colony would take hundreds of tons of material as compared to a compact nuke or a fusion device like recently discussed by Lockheed. Think Nuke Sub reactors.
Kids have cell phones at younger and younger ages. You can argue if this is good or not but if they do have them, then it would be a nice feature and provide some peace of mind if you could call up their location (OK, the location of the phone) via a web app.
Are they late getting home and not answering their phone? If the locations service says they are at a friends house, then fine. If it says they are on I-35 traveling north at 80 MPH....not so fine.
What sick and twisted reasoning are people using to claims that restricting travel in the face of epidemic won't work? Sure, it won't help 100% of the time, but it will , the author's own admission, reduce risks for the U.S. by 50% for a while. That is better than nothing.
I suspect it has some kind of political correctness thing involved or some geopolitical maneuvering.
Blocking direct commercial traffic would go a long way towards preventing cases from flying in. Forcing people to tak connecting flights from some other country would not only lengthen their trip and therefore increase the chance they start showing symptoms, but they would also go through multiple screenings.
There is no good reason to allow direct flights from infected countries.
Just because a there is no 100% solution is no excuse for not making the effort. I'd rather prevent 80% of potentially infected people be blocked than 0%. Restrictions on commercial flights is a common sense solution until the outbreak in those countries is dealt with.
Not to mention that just about everyone who is up to speed on Ebola is in West Africa or shining some seat in Washington D.C. with their ass.
When you have the President and the CDC claiming on National Television that it is highly unlikely that Ebola will come to the U.S., how can you fault hospitals for not spending the time and money to train large numbers of people and purchasing expensive equipment, reconfiguring valuable floor space, upgrade airs systems, etc?
It's called an irresponsible Administration allowing people from countries with active Ebola outbreaks to waltz on into the U.S. as if they were going to Disney World. Basic flight restrictions should have been in place since the beginning of the outbreaks.
Hospitals in the U.S. have had little training in such virulent diseases and very few have the high level isolation units and gear required to prevent further infections.
Why is it so fucking hard to get a team of reputable people, using a well designed experiment, test this thing? MIT? Cal Tech? Who the fuck are these "six (reputable) researchers from Italy and Sweden"?
All we have is secrecy and vagueness from one side and snark and arrogance from the other.
After your return to the United States If you were exposed to Ebola during your trip, call your doctor even if you do not have symptoms. Your doctor should evaluate your exposure level and symptoms if you have them and consult with public health authorities to determine whether actions, such as medical evaluation and testing for Ebola, monitoring, or travel restrictions are needed.
Pay attention to your health after you return, even if you were not exposed to Ebola during your trip.
Monitor your health for 21 days if you were in an area with an Ebola outbreak.
Take your temperature every morning and evening.
Watch for other Ebola symptoms: severe headache, muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, or unexplained bleeding or bruising.
If your temperature is above 101.5F (38.6C) and you have any other Ebola symptoms, seek medical care immediately.
Tell the doctor about your recent travel and your symptoms before you go to the doctor’s office or hospital. Advance notice will help the doctor care for you and protect other people who may be in the doctor’s office or hospital.
Limit your contact with other people when you travel to the doctor; avoid public transportation.
Do not travel anywhere except to the doctor’s office or hospital.
During the time that you are monitoring your health, you can continue your normal activities, including work. If you get symptoms of Ebola, it is important to stay apart from other people and to call your doctor right away.
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So the Mona Lisa doesn't exist because you aren't able to paint it?
A place to keep everyone infected with Ebola. :-)
Funny you mention Subs. I was thinking about that this morning.
Subs are built for very hostile environments, and that's without people shooting at them. Take the principals of sub building and modify them appropriately...aluminum instead of steel, structures to hold air in instead of water out, etc. and you have a pretty good game plan for building an actual space ship instead of a soda can with windows.
Nothing will happen until you can build and loft a real power source that can generate hundreds of megawatts of energy to drive the ships and once there, power the outposts.
Solar can be part of that but putting up a solar farm to generate enough power to provide for an actual colony would take hundreds of tons of material as compared to a compact nuke or a fusion device like recently discussed by Lockheed. Think Nuke Sub reactors.
Kids have cell phones at younger and younger ages. You can argue if this is good or not but if they do have them, then it would be a nice feature and provide some peace of mind if you could call up their location (OK, the location of the phone) via a web app.
Are they late getting home and not answering their phone? If the locations service says they are at a friends house, then fine. If it says they are on I-35 traveling north at 80 MPH....not so fine.
Lojack for your kids.
What sick and twisted reasoning are people using to claims that restricting travel in the face of epidemic won't work? Sure, it won't help 100% of the time, but it will , the author's own admission, reduce risks for the U.S. by 50% for a while. That is better than nothing.
I suspect it has some kind of political correctness thing involved or some geopolitical maneuvering.
Blocking direct commercial traffic would go a long way towards preventing cases from flying in. Forcing people to tak connecting flights from some other country would not only lengthen their trip and therefore increase the chance they start showing symptoms, but they would also go through multiple screenings.
There is no good reason to allow direct flights from infected countries.
Just because a there is no 100% solution is no excuse for not making the effort. I'd rather prevent 80% of potentially infected people be blocked than 0%. Restrictions on commercial flights is a common sense solution until the outbreak in those countries is dealt with.
He should not have been able to get here in the first place.
Not to mention that just about everyone who is up to speed on Ebola is in West Africa or shining some seat in Washington D.C. with their ass.
When you have the President and the CDC claiming on National Television that it is highly unlikely that Ebola will come to the U.S., how can you fault hospitals for not spending the time and money to train large numbers of people and purchasing expensive equipment, reconfiguring valuable floor space, upgrade airs systems, etc?
It's called an irresponsible Administration allowing people from countries with active Ebola outbreaks to waltz on into the U.S. as if they were going to Disney World. Basic flight restrictions should have been in place since the beginning of the outbreaks.
Hospitals in the U.S. have had little training in such virulent diseases and very few have the high level isolation units and gear required to prevent further infections.
So now Fusion Power will only be a decade away...for the next 60 years.
Language usage rises and falls with the dominate civilizations. French, German, Latin, Greek, Arabic (of some kind) all had a go at it in the past.
English will probably give way to Chinese at some point.
They list all the things they don't like and arbitrarily assign some value to it and claim it as a cost.
If you have to make shit up in order to justify your cost benefit, there must be no real benefit.
Just like the Terminator's nuclear battery.
Who the fuck is "they"? You mean the "six (reputable) researchers from Italy and Sweden"? Like I said, who the fuck are they?
Why is it so fucking hard to get a team of reputable people, using a well designed experiment, test this thing? MIT? Cal Tech? Who the fuck are these "six (reputable) researchers from Italy and Sweden"?
All we have is secrecy and vagueness from one side and snark and arrogance from the other.
yet medical people where full suit outfits with masks
And some health care professionals have still managed become infected.
After your return to the United States
If you were exposed to Ebola during your trip, call your doctor even if you do not have symptoms. Your doctor should evaluate your exposure level and symptoms if you have them and consult with public health authorities to determine whether actions, such as medical evaluation and testing for Ebola, monitoring, or travel restrictions are needed.
Pay attention to your health after you return, even if you were not exposed to Ebola during your trip.
Monitor your health for 21 days if you were in an area with an Ebola outbreak.
Take your temperature every morning and evening.
Watch for other Ebola symptoms: severe headache, muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, or unexplained bleeding or bruising.
If your temperature is above 101.5F (38.6C) and you have any other Ebola symptoms, seek medical care immediately.
Tell the doctor about your recent travel and your symptoms before you go to the doctor’s office or hospital. Advance notice will help the doctor care for you and protect other people who may be in the doctor’s office or hospital.
Limit your contact with other people when you travel to the doctor; avoid public transportation.
Do not travel anywhere except to the doctor’s office or hospital.
During the time that you are monitoring your health, you can continue your normal activities, including work. If you get symptoms of Ebola, it is important to stay apart from other people and to call your doctor right away.
The Spell Checker (technology) didn't work.
Whale: Me no likey fishy. Me likey seals. You likey fish? capiche?
Dolphin: Shit, where's this guy from?
Yep...it's pretty much
1. Step one
2. Step two
3. Make the whole Fusion thing work.
4. Cheap Energy!
It was a question, not a statement.
Are all the owners beginning to sell just prior to the batteries reaching the end of their life?
Management doesn't know shit.