You are aware that the examples you offer are essentially mob rule? Just because you put the mobster into a suit and call him president doesn't make him any less of a criminal.
Improve all you want, in the end you cannot violate the laws of physics. Anything you take to orbit has mass. Every kilogram of mass you wish to take to orbit you have to accelerate by about 10km/s. Note that every kilogram of propellant IS actually also something you have to take into account, i.e. every kilogram of fuel you take with you actually makes you heavier and thus requires more fuel to accelerate it. You can actually calculate that yourself, the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation isn't exactly rocket science and pretty much straight forward.
Now, you might notice that there is a difference of getting a payload into orbit, and getting a payload into orbit that then should go on to the moon. The latter needs to be quite a bit heavier, even with an eventually comparable payload, simply because you also have to lift all the fuel that payload needs to go on to the moon. Yes, that dV budget is already heaps smaller than what you used to get to orbit in the first place (most of the Saturn V's fuel was spent on getting the payload to orbit), but you have to get that ALL into orbit first of all.
You might notice a difference in the size of a Mercury-Atlas and a Saturn V. I'm confident you can figure out what the reason may be. Hint: Look at the mission profile.
Women are often older when they present with their first AMI, at an average age of 71.8 years compared with 65 years for men.
(with AMI meaning Acute Myocardial Infarction)
Now, could it be that the shorter long term survival rate has more to do with age than gender?
Also, there is a very interesting graph on the previous page depicting the AMI-related deaths for both sexes, with female deaths due to cardiovascular faults being in sharp decline since 2000. So either something happened around that time that made women less susceptible to dying from a heart attack, or something else took over as the big lady killer.
And look at the bright side, at least you have voter participation that rivals that of communist Albania with its 105% voter turnout. Ain't that better than the palsy 50% that make it look like nobody gives a fuck about democracy anymore?
Well, maybe we are already fucked and nobody tells us to avoid a panic. I really don't know. What I can see is that the climate gets less and less amiable every year, natural disasters get worse and worse every year, glaciers are melting and I need a new air condition 'cause the one I have can't really cool down my house anymore.
That's certainly just one data point and I doubt that it's gonna convince anyone else, but it sure convinced me that something's amiss.
And also a lot more sensible. Let's be honest here, voting has been reduced to a dog-and-pony show anyway, if people at least got a few bucks out of it it would still serve a meaningful purpose.
There is an even bigger problem. Voting stops being an auditable affair. With pen and paper, anyone (eligible, ok, not just any bozo on the street) can demand a recount and it's actually possible to do one, and whoever should do it does not require any special knowledge or training. Ability to see where the X is and the ability to count is all that's required.
Any kind of machine dependent voting introduces an element that makes auditing the process harder, to the point where it may be completely impossible to actually audit and recount altogether.
And they will rise even more, even if we stop today. Think of an oil tanker, even stopping the engines now means that it keeps moving a few thousand miles before it stops.
The initiatives are exactly why the shit didn't hit the fan. But then again, I'm done caring. Fuck up this world, I'm on the way out anyway.
Hey, I'd actually be in favor of not fucking the world up more than it already is. And if you implement something to make sure the world can be viable for your kids, rest assured I will help you.
I just don't bother trying to convince anyone anymore that their kids need a planet to live on.
The hatred for the US mostly comes from the attitude that the world can kiss their ass, and if they want to screw the world they feel entitled to it. That's basically exactly the reason we hate you.
Thanks for proving the reason to actually exist and not be imaginary.
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I know. And yet, for some odd reason it's still illegal to hunt them down for fun, profit and food.
Effin' liberals and their bleeding heart politics.
We have to find out how they do it. For ... scientific reasons, of course.
This sucks.
You talk too much, human. Go and clean my kitty litter!
Whatever. They die to the same kind of spray.
Too bad it didn't happen in Alabama.
You know something who told you? That's almost hearsay.
No, wait, it is exactly hearsay. You say something you heard.
You are aware that the examples you offer are essentially mob rule? Just because you put the mobster into a suit and call him president doesn't make him any less of a criminal.
The last time I heard a turnout like that from Georgia, it was still part of the Soviet Union.
That's a lot of words for "screw you, I got mine."
Improve all you want, in the end you cannot violate the laws of physics. Anything you take to orbit has mass. Every kilogram of mass you wish to take to orbit you have to accelerate by about 10km/s. Note that every kilogram of propellant IS actually also something you have to take into account, i.e. every kilogram of fuel you take with you actually makes you heavier and thus requires more fuel to accelerate it. You can actually calculate that yourself, the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation isn't exactly rocket science and pretty much straight forward.
Now, you might notice that there is a difference of getting a payload into orbit, and getting a payload into orbit that then should go on to the moon. The latter needs to be quite a bit heavier, even with an eventually comparable payload, simply because you also have to lift all the fuel that payload needs to go on to the moon. Yes, that dV budget is already heaps smaller than what you used to get to orbit in the first place (most of the Saturn V's fuel was spent on getting the payload to orbit), but you have to get that ALL into orbit first of all.
You might notice a difference in the size of a Mercury-Atlas and a Saturn V. I'm confident you can figure out what the reason may be. Hint: Look at the mission profile.
Then I guess we should examine why.
I identify as a Desert Eagle.
Wanna trigger me? FEELING LUCKY, PUNK?
(from the referenced paper in the article, page 918 left side):
Women are often older when they present with their first AMI, at an average age of 71.8 years compared with 65 years for men.
(with AMI meaning Acute Myocardial Infarction)
Now, could it be that the shorter long term survival rate has more to do with age than gender?
Also, there is a very interesting graph on the previous page depicting the AMI-related deaths for both sexes, with female deaths due to cardiovascular faults being in sharp decline since 2000. So either something happened around that time that made women less susceptible to dying from a heart attack, or something else took over as the big lady killer.
The system works!
And look at the bright side, at least you have voter participation that rivals that of communist Albania with its 105% voter turnout. Ain't that better than the palsy 50% that make it look like nobody gives a fuck about democracy anymore?
Well, maybe we are already fucked and nobody tells us to avoid a panic. I really don't know. What I can see is that the climate gets less and less amiable every year, natural disasters get worse and worse every year, glaciers are melting and I need a new air condition 'cause the one I have can't really cool down my house anymore.
That's certainly just one data point and I doubt that it's gonna convince anyone else, but it sure convinced me that something's amiss.
And also a lot more sensible. Let's be honest here, voting has been reduced to a dog-and-pony show anyway, if people at least got a few bucks out of it it would still serve a meaningful purpose.
There is an even bigger problem. Voting stops being an auditable affair. With pen and paper, anyone (eligible, ok, not just any bozo on the street) can demand a recount and it's actually possible to do one, and whoever should do it does not require any special knowledge or training. Ability to see where the X is and the ability to count is all that's required.
Any kind of machine dependent voting introduces an element that makes auditing the process harder, to the point where it may be completely impossible to actually audit and recount altogether.
And they will rise even more, even if we stop today. Think of an oil tanker, even stopping the engines now means that it keeps moving a few thousand miles before it stops.
The initiatives are exactly why the shit didn't hit the fan. But then again, I'm done caring. Fuck up this world, I'm on the way out anyway.
So your launch-weight to payload ratio gets even worse, by about a factor of 20. Are you aware just how far the moon is away?
Fine. Don't do anything.
I can afford air conditioning and real estate on a hill top.
You might see the problem in your argument...
Hey, I'd actually be in favor of not fucking the world up more than it already is. And if you implement something to make sure the world can be viable for your kids, rest assured I will help you.
I just don't bother trying to convince anyone anymore that their kids need a planet to live on.
The hatred for the US mostly comes from the attitude that the world can kiss their ass, and if they want to screw the world they feel entitled to it. That's basically exactly the reason we hate you.
Thanks for proving the reason to actually exist and not be imaginary.
WTF are you talking about? What totalitarianism? What pundits? What kinda cool-aid drinking contest is this?
How to turn it off?