What about the expense? It's still insanely expensive to push pounds into space and bring them back. Until national governments absorb more of the R&D to get us to the point of cheap space travel, Corporate America will not follow. Spare me the Ron Paul rhetoric. If Dow saw profit in it, they would have done so by now. This is not news. We've known this for decades.
lol 33. I just bought the DVDs to watch the entire series from start to finish. The core story for the Macross part was surprisingly mature (one episode was nothing but 2 women recalling their relationships with other characters in the show). There were a lot of implied subtleties and illusions (the dominant World War II themes) that I never got before. The Southern Cross part was so-so, and the Invid Invasion still grew on me (the fighting family going to Reflex Point together), but still more juvenile.
You, of course, you have to make some concessions to enjoy the series (like giant transforming robots and Minmei's singing/sex appeal), but I still liked it much better than most of the old cartoons from my childhood that I've seen as an adult.
Of course, the whole experience might have been tainted with nostalgia, as owning the tapes was a dream of mine from childhood and I'd never seen the whole series. If it's any indication, I gave them to my brother-in-law who's a big anime freak.
I'm hoping you're just throwing out typical blockbuster numbers. The leads aren't that quality of actor, the special effects aren't that good, and the script...I can only hope.
Speed Racer was cool when I was maybe FIVE. I think MTV brought it back in a prime time slot for a while and I was shocked at what a crap-fest it was from a new perspective. Why not remake something that we remember fondly, like Robotech?
Oh yeah. Regularly, they bust people for all sorts of other infractions. So, they've become exactly what the legal arguments against them said they'd be; dragnets. This is my big objection to them.
You should check out your local DUI checkpoint hit rates. Here in Kansas city they're regularly under 3%.
So, dozens of officers erect these 4 hour gestapo roadblocks, employing their new-found right to search every driver, and come up with 2 drivers per hundred driving drunk.
What's with these thinly-veiled blockbuster release promotions in "legitimate" media? Seems like every time a new blockbuster comes out, science shows start doing their "The science of..." specials on the figments of a comic book writer's imagination.
But, according to his theory, the likelihood of swapping bodily fluids between Earth and Mars should MULTIPLY the odds that space-faring life forms will evolve. So, that makes it WORSE not better that we're not detecting them.
But he has provided evidence of what he calls Great Filters. It took 1.8 billion years for prokaryotes (sp) to spin off eukaryotes. It took billions more of trial and error for a sentient species to evolve through essentially a series of dice rolls.
As for light speed, he addresses this clearly. Assuming that a civilization can create self-replicating probes, even at a fraction of the speed of light it would only take 10s of millions of years to populate the galaxy.
You're thinking about a 30 year lull in our space programs. On the time scale this author is talking about, colonization is inevitable assuming the species' population is growing. Need for resources demands it.
Or, more likely, you're saying something to the selectors that marks you outright as a bad juror. It's a far stretch to assume that you're "too smart" to be a juror.
Could you be more pretentious? I'm a techie, not a friggin' chemist. Pounds work just fine for me as these units do for the majority of readers. Now, if this site was mostly European, I'd expect metric units.
And, wise guy, the weight is very important when you're considering the expense of getting one off the ground.
There's a difference between reporting what you think is illegal activity on your property and 1984-ish total information awareness. If you caught people using your blogs or your game's chat channels to trade kiddie porn links, you're saying you wouldn't report it?
I'm big on privacy, and I don't see the problem here compared to phone companies letting the government listen in on whoever it tells them is a terrorist.
A while back I dropped the direct Paypal links to my checking account after years of never using it. I recently got an email after an eBay purchase about a new sending limit. Their solution? Re-add my bank account to Paypal. Why I need to have a middleman for online transactions is beyond me. I could care less about them profiting from sitting on my cash midstream. I'm guessing a lot of people are going to pressure Paypal to change this practice (I hope).
Hope I got the title right, but I think this was the name of a great documentary following the resurgence of wildlife in Chernobyl's exclusion zone. I came away with the impression that the radiation is more of a detriment to humans to the rest of the natural world.
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What about the expense? It's still insanely expensive to push pounds into space and bring them back. Until national governments absorb more of the R&D to get us to the point of cheap space travel, Corporate America will not follow. Spare me the Ron Paul rhetoric. If Dow saw profit in it, they would have done so by now. This is not news. We've known this for decades.
The hot chick on the phone automatically eliminates it from the list.
My all-time favorite euphemism courtesy of Beavis and Butthead; corralling the tadpoles.
With this thing sitting in your living room, you can be guaranteed that it will be the only orifice you'll ever penetrate.
lol 33. I just bought the DVDs to watch the entire series from start to finish. The core story for the Macross part was surprisingly mature (one episode was nothing but 2 women recalling their relationships with other characters in the show). There were a lot of implied subtleties and illusions (the dominant World War II themes) that I never got before. The Southern Cross part was so-so, and the Invid Invasion still grew on me (the fighting family going to Reflex Point together), but still more juvenile.
You, of course, you have to make some concessions to enjoy the series (like giant transforming robots and Minmei's singing/sex appeal), but I still liked it much better than most of the old cartoons from my childhood that I've seen as an adult.
Of course, the whole experience might have been tainted with nostalgia, as owning the tapes was a dream of mine from childhood and I'd never seen the whole series. If it's any indication, I gave them to my brother-in-law who's a big anime freak.
I'm hoping you're just throwing out typical blockbuster numbers. The leads aren't that quality of actor, the special effects aren't that good, and the script...I can only hope.
Speed Racer was cool when I was maybe FIVE. I think MTV brought it back in a prime time slot for a while and I was shocked at what a crap-fest it was from a new perspective. Why not remake something that we remember fondly, like Robotech?
This should definitely revive his career.
Oh yeah. Regularly, they bust people for all sorts of other infractions. So, they've become exactly what the legal arguments against them said they'd be; dragnets. This is my big objection to them.
You should check out your local DUI checkpoint hit rates. Here in Kansas city they're regularly under 3%.
So, dozens of officers erect these 4 hour gestapo roadblocks, employing their new-found right to search every driver, and come up with 2 drivers per hundred driving drunk.
What's with these thinly-veiled blockbuster release promotions in "legitimate" media? Seems like every time a new blockbuster comes out, science shows start doing their "The science of..." specials on the figments of a comic book writer's imagination.
But, according to his theory, the likelihood of swapping bodily fluids between Earth and Mars should MULTIPLY the odds that space-faring life forms will evolve. So, that makes it WORSE not better that we're not detecting them.
Which he does reference in the article.
But he has provided evidence of what he calls Great Filters. It took 1.8 billion years for prokaryotes (sp) to spin off eukaryotes. It took billions more of trial and error for a sentient species to evolve through essentially a series of dice rolls.
As for light speed, he addresses this clearly. Assuming that a civilization can create self-replicating probes, even at a fraction of the speed of light it would only take 10s of millions of years to populate the galaxy.
You're thinking about a 30 year lull in our space programs. On the time scale this author is talking about, colonization is inevitable assuming the species' population is growing. Need for resources demands it.
These are felonies?!
Only if you're not doing it right.
In this day and age, the fact that a juror would be reading a newspaper would put him at the top of the heap.
Or, more likely, you're saying something to the selectors that marks you outright as a bad juror. It's a far stretch to assume that you're "too smart" to be a juror.
Could you be more pretentious? I'm a techie, not a friggin' chemist. Pounds work just fine for me as these units do for the majority of readers. Now, if this site was mostly European, I'd expect metric units.
And, wise guy, the weight is very important when you're considering the expense of getting one off the ground.
There's a difference between reporting what you think is illegal activity on your property and 1984-ish total information awareness. If you caught people using your blogs or your game's chat channels to trade kiddie porn links, you're saying you wouldn't report it?
I'm big on privacy, and I don't see the problem here compared to phone companies letting the government listen in on whoever it tells them is a terrorist.
Assuming the Tomcat is parked in front of a museum aiming at an air base for aircraft still good enough to be in service. Friggin' Navy boys... ;)
I bet you've never read Les Miserables. Sometimes what's in someone's past is best left there.
A while back I dropped the direct Paypal links to my checking account after years of never using it. I recently got an email after an eBay purchase about a new sending limit. Their solution? Re-add my bank account to Paypal. Why I need to have a middleman for online transactions is beyond me. I could care less about them profiting from sitting on my cash midstream. I'm guessing a lot of people are going to pressure Paypal to change this practice (I hope).
Hope I got the title right, but I think this was the name of a great documentary following the resurgence of wildlife in Chernobyl's exclusion zone. I came away with the impression that the radiation is more of a detriment to humans to the rest of the natural world.
That explains the crazy contraptions the Professor came up with.