A few dozen miles north means a few gallons more fuel. There are other locations even further South than Brownsville that don't have much wildlife, but just a little further North there's even more.
Unless you're insisting we give Texas back to the Indians Texans stole it from. Whichever particular phase of Indian immigrants that might be. Which maybe isn't a bad idea, considering Texas didn't get messed up until Texans took it over.
Who's suing to stop geothermal plants over the deposits of the drilling tailings? Give me a citation. Then let's see if this actually existing dumping doesn't actually unnecessarily ruin things there.
Nobody wants the vast majority of the population to starve to death in the dark. Even if people want to dramatically cut energy production, they don't want starvation.
There is no food package that says "no chemicals".
You are making up nonsense.
The problem is that the energy systems we have do create serious, even catastrophic problems for us, and we have to change. Just because you don't like that doesn't mean it's OK to keep blasting ourselves with the byproducts of energy generation.
Because you don't know the amount of environmental degradation produced by industry and other commerce in the US, EU, Japan, Australia, the OPEC countries and the other rich nations? Compared to the degradation produced in the former Soviet republics?
So some specific actual wildlife refuge equals the entire planet is a national park. Of course if they can't put it in this particular park, that's all of Texas that can't be used. There's nowhere in Texas except wildlife refuges.
Of course it's idiots like you who are destroying the planet.
Or just build the launch site in one of the many empty places in giant Texas where it will both advance the space industry and leave local wildlife unmolested.
Except as the post to which you blindly replied pointed out, California is a better place to live and work than Texas is.
Except for the losers who can't even make it in California. Some of them do move to Texas. California is huge, the economy overall sucks, and some of the losers will move to Texas, among other places. Meanwhile, Texas losers move to California. The jobseekers mean nothing about where they came from. What is meaningful is that California's doing great, except that some of its people refuse to pay in taxes what they consume in services.
Those people are Republicans, and are more like Texans than they are different.
Those policies would be the ones that stop the state from raising taxes, but insist on spending vast amounts subsidizing oil corps and taking on debt. Oh, and buying energy from protected monopolists like Houston's Enron.
In other words, what's wrong with California is failing to protect itself from what's most wrong with Texas.
I don't see the people of Brownsville living adjacent to the launchpad, where they'd get blasted with the noise and exhaust of a giant rocket all the time. Even the ones "looking forward to the jobs, tourists and excitement that a spaceport would bring". Well, maybe the ones looking for the excitement.
Nor should they have to suck up exhaust and launch blasts. Neither should the animals in the park. I suppose these people think it's a good idea to put it into the park "because nobody lives there". But plenty of animals do - that's why it's a wildlife refuge.
Texas is huge. There's plenty of places in Texas, and elsewhere in the US, where the launch blasts won't have to blast any species that cares about it. We don't have to choose between launching and being humane.
Is there anything better for making a fairly simple HTML/appserver/DB Web app than Struts2?
No "AJAX", but you can add interactive embedded widgets to the page after you have the Struts2 app basically working. Or is there a way to develop full AJAX backed by Struts2 now? Or maybe that's all too complex. I think it's too complex, but I'm not sure what to use instead.
I don't think even humans were meaningfully intelligent until the time we started broadcasting radio. SETI isn't looking for life, it's looking for intelligence. It takes only one species, in fact only one organism, transmitting recognizable RF for SETI to find it and meet its worthwhile goal. The rest of the planet's life might be interesting in other ways, but as long as it doesn't block RF its lack of RF use of its own doesn't mean anything.
Just because you have demented fantasies about Hilllary Clinton that you insist on injecting into a conversation to which she's totally irrelevant doesn't mean anything about whether "we" are intelligent. Projecting meth heads like you don't subtract from the others of us who are intelligent. Like those of us now communicating with entangled quanta instead of with radio waves.
I will make Clinton relevant by pointing out that she's surely done more to help America's R&D into entanglement than you possibly could have.
They didn't speculate that aliens have planet-wide telepathy. They just said aliens might not have the need to constantly communicate at a distance. In fact that speculation excludes planet-wide anything for communication, because that would be "at a distance".
You're stupid, especially for calling them stupid. Turn off your computer and take a long walk.
Radio signals carry infinitely far, given enough time. Detecting them depends on the sensitivity of the detector. We now detect signals from stars that started out 13 billion years ago, intercepting a tiny spot of power stretched thin on the surface of an expanding sphere that's about as big as our entire universe. Gliese 581 radio signals are far more powerful than that given its proximity (20 light years), unless we're looking for a single cellphone.
And what you just said about "just outside Pluto's orbit"? That's really meaningless. What's so special about Pluto's orbit? Even Pluto isn't anywhere near any one point on it except for a few seconds ever century. It isn't even always the most distant planetary orbit from the Sun, to say nothing of from the Earth; and there's other orbiting matter far beyond it. There's nothing about that arbitrary boundary that means anything, except to Pluto.
You obviously don't have any idea what you're talking about. Why are you saying it in public? Are you a masochist?
If the VLBI scan had found alien intelligence, that would have validated the technique. How does failure validated it? There's no way to distinguish between "no aliens" and "bad test" in this case.
If they're not smart enough to figure that out, would they count as "intelligent" to the aliens scanning us? I sure hope not.
The Congress calls taxes "penalties" all the time.
Of course there are and should be limits on Federal powers. As I said, and as has been pointed out elsewhere in these threads, Congress has been requiring various people to carry health insurance for centuries, with penalties for failing to do so.
Or do you think the Federal government should have no powers anymore? Of course you don't. See how silly that sounds when you read me writing it? I felt the same way about your hyperbolic statement.
If you don't see the disastrous effects of Bush v Gore, at the absolutely very least the part where it's declared nonprecedential, or the diastrous effects of unlimited corporate spending on politics on the basis that corporations are people with rights, then maybe you don't see how silly that sounded. In that case I don't think we share enough worldview to have a meaningful conversation.
I apologize for contradicting you. But you hit a nerve: Republicans routinely prevent people from voting who are most likely Democrats (or just not reliable Republican voters), while accusing "Democratic activists" of stuffing the ballot boxes. I get defensive about it, even though I'm not a Democrat. I just care about justice. Sorry for taking it too far.
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You don't understand that they're for the environment? Which is almost everything.
Why should this US company put its spaceport abroad?
You want one abroad, you build the company. Then it's your call.
That is the entire point of private space industry.
A few dozen miles north means a few gallons more fuel. There are other locations even further South than Brownsville that don't have much wildlife, but just a little further North there's even more.
If they live there, it's their pool.
Unless you're insisting we give Texas back to the Indians Texans stole it from. Whichever particular phase of Indian immigrants that might be. Which maybe isn't a bad idea, considering Texas didn't get messed up until Texans took it over.
Who's suing to stop geothermal plants over the deposits of the drilling tailings? Give me a citation. Then let's see if this actually existing dumping doesn't actually unnecessarily ruin things there.
Nobody wants the vast majority of the population to starve to death in the dark. Even if people want to dramatically cut energy production, they don't want starvation.
There is no food package that says "no chemicals".
You are making up nonsense.
The problem is that the energy systems we have do create serious, even catastrophic problems for us, and we have to change. Just because you don't like that doesn't mean it's OK to keep blasting ourselves with the byproducts of energy generation.
The environmental degradation in poor parts of the world is the outsourced industrial and economic activity of the rich nations.
Because you don't know the amount of environmental degradation produced by industry and other commerce in the US, EU, Japan, Australia, the OPEC countries and the other rich nations? Compared to the degradation produced in the former Soviet republics?
Yep.
Rocket exhaust isn't just water. Or would you like to drink some in your home? Why don't you live near a rocket launch pad?
So some specific actual wildlife refuge equals the entire planet is a national park. Of course if they can't put it in this particular park, that's all of Texas that can't be used. There's nowhere in Texas except wildlife refuges.
Of course it's idiots like you who are destroying the planet.
Or just build the launch site in one of the many empty places in giant Texas where it will both advance the space industry and leave local wildlife unmolested.
Except as the post to which you blindly replied pointed out, California is a better place to live and work than Texas is.
Except for the losers who can't even make it in California. Some of them do move to Texas. California is huge, the economy overall sucks, and some of the losers will move to Texas, among other places. Meanwhile, Texas losers move to California. The jobseekers mean nothing about where they came from. What is meaningful is that California's doing great, except that some of its people refuse to pay in taxes what they consume in services.
Those people are Republicans, and are more like Texans than they are different.
So the entire state of NJ is a suburb of NYC, but NYC and other cities could disappear tomorrow and no one would notice?
You're stupid. No wonder we won't let you live in the civilized states. We should stop subsidizing your demented hedonistic debtor lifestyle already.
Those policies would be the ones that stop the state from raising taxes, but insist on spending vast amounts subsidizing oil corps and taking on debt. Oh, and buying energy from protected monopolists like Houston's Enron.
In other words, what's wrong with California is failing to protect itself from what's most wrong with Texas.
Yes, that's why Northern California never builds anything. And why you live inside a a coal plant.
You corporate power worshippers are suicidal.
You Teabaggers are dumber than a broken record.
I don't see the people of Brownsville living adjacent to the launchpad, where they'd get blasted with the noise and exhaust of a giant rocket all the time. Even the ones "looking forward to the jobs, tourists and excitement that a spaceport would bring". Well, maybe the ones looking for the excitement.
Nor should they have to suck up exhaust and launch blasts. Neither should the animals in the park. I suppose these people think it's a good idea to put it into the park "because nobody lives there". But plenty of animals do - that's why it's a wildlife refuge.
Texas is huge. There's plenty of places in Texas, and elsewhere in the US, where the launch blasts won't have to blast any species that cares about it. We don't have to choose between launching and being humane.
Is there anything better for making a fairly simple HTML/appserver/DB Web app than Struts2?
No "AJAX", but you can add interactive embedded widgets to the page after you have the Struts2 app basically working. Or is there a way to develop full AJAX backed by Struts2 now? Or maybe that's all too complex. I think it's too complex, but I'm not sure what to use instead.
I don't think even humans were meaningfully intelligent until the time we started broadcasting radio. SETI isn't looking for life, it's looking for intelligence. It takes only one species, in fact only one organism, transmitting recognizable RF for SETI to find it and meet its worthwhile goal. The rest of the planet's life might be interesting in other ways, but as long as it doesn't block RF its lack of RF use of its own doesn't mean anything.
George Bush Sr, will you ever stop whining about getting beat? It was 20 years ago!
Just because you have demented fantasies about Hilllary Clinton that you insist on injecting into a conversation to which she's totally irrelevant doesn't mean anything about whether "we" are intelligent. Projecting meth heads like you don't subtract from the others of us who are intelligent. Like those of us now communicating with entangled quanta instead of with radio waves.
I will make Clinton relevant by pointing out that she's surely done more to help America's R&D into entanglement than you possibly could have.
They didn't speculate that aliens have planet-wide telepathy. They just said aliens might not have the need to constantly communicate at a distance. In fact that speculation excludes planet-wide anything for communication, because that would be "at a distance".
You're stupid, especially for calling them stupid. Turn off your computer and take a long walk.
Radio signals carry infinitely far, given enough time. Detecting them depends on the sensitivity of the detector. We now detect signals from stars that started out 13 billion years ago, intercepting a tiny spot of power stretched thin on the surface of an expanding sphere that's about as big as our entire universe. Gliese 581 radio signals are far more powerful than that given its proximity (20 light years), unless we're looking for a single cellphone.
And what you just said about "just outside Pluto's orbit"? That's really meaningless. What's so special about Pluto's orbit? Even Pluto isn't anywhere near any one point on it except for a few seconds ever century. It isn't even always the most distant planetary orbit from the Sun, to say nothing of from the Earth; and there's other orbiting matter far beyond it. There's nothing about that arbitrary boundary that means anything, except to Pluto.
You obviously don't have any idea what you're talking about. Why are you saying it in public? Are you a masochist?
If the VLBI scan had found alien intelligence, that would have validated the technique. How does failure validated it? There's no way to distinguish between "no aliens" and "bad test" in this case.
If they're not smart enough to figure that out, would they count as "intelligent" to the aliens scanning us? I sure hope not.
The Congress calls taxes "penalties" all the time.
Of course there are and should be limits on Federal powers. As I said, and as has been pointed out elsewhere in these threads, Congress has been requiring various people to carry health insurance for centuries, with penalties for failing to do so.
Or do you think the Federal government should have no powers anymore? Of course you don't. See how silly that sounds when you read me writing it? I felt the same way about your hyperbolic statement.
If you don't see the disastrous effects of Bush v Gore, at the absolutely very least the part where it's declared nonprecedential, or the diastrous effects of unlimited corporate spending on politics on the basis that corporations are people with rights, then maybe you don't see how silly that sounded. In that case I don't think we share enough worldview to have a meaningful conversation.
OK, I take your word for it.
I apologize for contradicting you. But you hit a nerve: Republicans routinely prevent people from voting who are most likely Democrats (or just not reliable Republican voters), while accusing "Democratic activists" of stuffing the ballot boxes. I get defensive about it, even though I'm not a Democrat. I just care about justice. Sorry for taking it too far.