In a Hollywood sf movie you get 90 minutes of special effects. In a NASA moon mission you get several years of boredom followed by someone stepping out into a landscape that's by now familiar and uttering some canned line.
It's exciting, but how much advertising space on a spacesuit can you sell?
We look at this, and we see that it is horribly expensive, dangerous, and with very little practical return.
And don't tell me that it's our only chance to survive if earth is destroyed. First of all, it won't be us who survive, it would be _them_, and I care about my own skin first. Second, a few months after earth is gone, so would be any moon colony. You can't live off the land there.
If someone has you believe that the human body is anything less than incredibly sophisticated, they're not a scientist. You're probably thinking of science fiction authors.
Buying StarDivision: $1700 per employee (once, plus paying the employees) Buying StarOffice: $50 per employee (say, yearly)
Even if Sun fired all the employees of StarDivision, they would have seen return on investment starting on the 34th year. That is *not* a good deal.
All of your post is about how StarOffice is better than Office (which may be true or not), whereas the deal should be measured by checking if StarDivision is better than StarOffice.
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In a Hollywood sf movie you get 90 minutes of special effects. In a NASA moon mission you get several years of boredom followed by someone stepping out into a landscape that's by now familiar and uttering some canned line.
It's exciting, but how much advertising space on a spacesuit can you sell?
We look at this, and we see that it is horribly expensive, dangerous, and with very little practical return.
And don't tell me that it's our only chance to survive if earth is destroyed. First of all, it won't be us who survive, it would be _them_, and I care about my own skin first. Second, a few months after earth is gone, so would be any moon colony. You can't live off the land there.
So are the graveyards of history.
first idiot.
The ten commandments were 1500 years old in AD 30.
Clearly, you've yet to fathom the mysteries of log-scale plots.
Because it's controlled.
The lander remained on the moon. The crew returned via its upper stage (using the lander as a launching pad). The footprint might still be there.
Yes, it's just you. No, it does not.
Hopefully not a black one.
If someone has you believe that the human body is anything less than incredibly sophisticated, they're not a scientist. You're probably thinking of science fiction authors.
Okay, if you have a random number along the interval (1,10^X), all the leading digits will be equally likely.
No. In the interval [1, 100], 12 numbers start with 1. The digits 2..9 lead 11 times each. 0 never shows up.
Buying StarDivision: $1700 per employee (once, plus paying the employees)
Buying StarOffice: $50 per employee (say, yearly)
Even if Sun fired all the employees of StarDivision, they would have seen return on investment starting on the 34th year. That is *not* a good deal.
All of your post is about how StarOffice is better than Office (which may be true or not), whereas the deal should be measured by checking if StarDivision is better than StarOffice.
$73 million / 42000 employees = $1700 per employee. Would have been cheaper to buy 42000 StarOffice licenses for $2.1 million.
1. We don't know how to make spaceships that last hundreds of years.
2. We don't know how to communicate over such long distances.
3. Current technology may take us to a star, but forget about making orbit or manuvering.
4. While long-term projects are feasible, hundreds of years is pushing it.
Every single human female capable of bearing a child residing off earth represents a small victory.
No, it represents billions in liabilities to keep that human female alive.
I was addressing the survival of the human species.
You only think you were. If earth goes, every off-planet colony goes, unless they're self-supporting (which we have no idea how to do).
We have the ABILITY to put dozens of people on the moon today.
In twenty years, maybe. But not keep them there.
10gs are survivable by a human in very good condition, for a few minutes. Don't try to get up while you're doing it.