Putin, for all of his shortcomings, knows a weakling when he sees one. And that a vastly superior military (that would be the US military) means nothing when headed by a weakling.
He also knows that North Korea wasn't going to repay those debts anyway, so why not try to make some lemonade out of those lemons.
You mean the algorithms that were developed in the 1950's and are unchanged to this day? I suspect any C2 code used by SpaceX would be rather useless to them... but then again that has never stopped them from stealing it anyway.
All Russia has to do is be cheaper. So they make their craft lighter or some such.
China will have their 40 years in the sun, at which point they will be surpassed by Brazil or possibly Canada... who will have a good 25 years of dominance.
Computers are part of the reason the space program collapsed, also why a fighter jet now costs almost a trillion dollars to develop, and why 60 year ols planes are still flying while their 6 year old brethren are hangar queens.
That is true - Della Lu even found a sole survivor "Centaur" guarding his post singularity world.... "he" had technology roughly equivalent to hers. But they didn't come to earth.
Of course it will end. The sun will consume it eventually. This is on a time scale that is of no consequence to us.
Could a big rock come along and smack us? Yup. But we don't have to leave here to be able to stop it.
Could we one day leave and have every single colony wipe itself out? Damn straight. Maybe something/someone will come along and wipe out the colonies. Who knows. Maybe a plague could travel between them on ship and take everyone out.
No he didn't - the nature of the Singularity was never really described. The nuking found on the planet was done by a high tech human Juan something or another so as to fool the others into thinking that aliens were to blame.
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Putin, for all of his shortcomings, knows a weakling when he sees one. And that a vastly superior military (that would be the US military) means nothing when headed by a weakling.
He also knows that North Korea wasn't going to repay those debts anyway, so why not try to make some lemonade out of those lemons.
The irony is that most of the people they pissed off are long dead, and half of Cuba now lives in Miami.
Note they weren't (and still aren't) lining up to go to the Arctic... which is a hell of a lot more accommodating than space is.
You mean the algorithms that were developed in the 1950's and are unchanged to this day? I suspect any C2 code used by SpaceX would be rather useless to them... but then again that has never stopped them from stealing it anyway.
All Russia has to do is be cheaper. So they make their craft lighter or some such.
China will have their 40 years in the sun, at which point they will be surpassed by Brazil or possibly Canada... who will have a good 25 years of dominance.
I doubt that. Competition will force them to upgrade their proven design. (To an unproven design, the irony.)
Computers are part of the reason the space program collapsed, also why a fighter jet now costs almost a trillion dollars to develop, and why 60 year ols planes are still flying while their 6 year old brethren are hangar queens.
Perhaps instead of reading about government mismanagement on various websites you should actually familiarize yourself with NASA.
That is true - Della Lu even found a sole survivor "Centaur" guarding his post singularity world.... "he" had technology roughly equivalent to hers. But they didn't come to earth.
Out accelerate the first, you mean. once you get close enough to the speed of light there is no outrunning anything.
That didn't happen in Forever War - however it did in his short story follow up (A Second War).
Well, I know the pond is there... but are there fish in it? I don't know until I see one jump.
Of course it will end. The sun will consume it eventually. This is on a time scale that is of no consequence to us.
Could a big rock come along and smack us? Yup. But we don't have to leave here to be able to stop it.
Could we one day leave and have every single colony wipe itself out? Damn straight. Maybe something/someone will come along and wipe out the colonies. Who knows. Maybe a plague could travel between them on ship and take everyone out.
That said, leaving Earth != insured survival.
No he didn't - the nature of the Singularity was never really described. The nuking found on the planet was done by a high tech human Juan something or another so as to fool the others into thinking that aliens were to blame.
Fool. The future of humanity depends on figuring out how to properly steward the resources we have.
Anything less, and we are simply a cosmic horde of locusts, nothing more.
If we are quiet, maybe we'll get lucky and they won't notice us....
It costs about $2 including stamp, envelope, paper, and ink.
Let's see, wife having a baby in the ruins. To deliver the baby I get to choose between a general practitioner and.... you.
I'll go with the GP, thanks.
Let kids remain deaf so that we can have our own little group.
Wow. Just listen to yourself for a moment... (ducks)
They don't cherry pick, they vacuum up every bit of data they can find, on every single human being they can find. This is their job.
And I must say it is far simpler and clear to use.
Two cents complete.
After 20 years in C++ land I have been writing a lot of Java lately, and it is pretty nice.
...why haven't they been doing this from the start?
Yen.
Next question.
In this case, microwaved spam.