What a crappy name. I say we call them hippie planets. Aimless, shiftless, wandering space with no rhyme or reason and expecting a hard-working star to just show up and carry their dead weight. I bet they're devoid of water (and soap) as well.
AOLers...and those who ruthlessly teased AOLers. Back then, anyone with a "real" reason to be on the internet had serviceable IT skills (and at least one other account than their home access). AOLers were the drooling masses so to speak. They were a clueless and rare sight, like a coyote darting across the highway on your drive to work and our minds, just as oblivious to disaster.
This is a country quick to fear and quick to act. I have zero fear of terrorist bombs when I'm on a plane. You have a better chance being raped by ET than dying in a terrorist attack on a plane. But, OBL made a great boogie man, and when we've got a political system set up to funnel tax revenue to Corporate America at the drop of a hat, you better believe they're going to keep people afraid.
...and in an appropriate way. Say some BS internet rumor gets started. An affected agency will often have a debunking website dedicated to the topic that browsers can easily access. Remember Compean and Ramos, the two border agents the anti-immigration crowd turned into heroes? The DoJ did a great point-by-point debunking of the interwebz myths about their case. Didn't stop a Bush pardon, unfortunately.
You mean the commercial space tourism companies who haven't managed to field any efforts for the 50 years of manned space flight? You're right, there isn't a race. Unless you count Russians selling seats at a loss on our dime.
The point is that given the inevitability of human error and insatiable greed, is nuclear the best option? This is the point the anti-nuke crowd has been making. Yes, it CAN be done safely...in theory. But, what happens when corporation A figures that regulation X hurts profits too much so they lobby to get it waivered, and regulation Y is weakly enforced, so they just ignore it altogether?
Personally, I like the idea of nuclear power. I just don't trust it in the hands of any organization with a profit motive.
Why do people always say that? By your logic, gasoline isn't a fuel either since it took millions of years of pressure to form it. Solar and wind power aren't fuel sources either, since you need a giant ball of fusion to create both, etc. We don't have an energy problem, we have a transportable energy problem.
It was an 80s-ish RPG. One of the background stories was that Word War 3 broke out and because of all the space weapons and counter-weapons blasting each other to bits and throwing up buckshot at each other, Earth's orbit becomes full of so much shrapnel that it's impossible to achieve orbit. When the Chinese tested that laser on a satellite target, that's what I immediately thought of. Space weapons are a stupid, expensive, potentially disastrous idea. Look at how bad space junk is getting and we haven even *tried* to fill orbits with crap.
I'm a single guy living in a 3 bedroom, 2 car garage house. Waste of space? Yes and no. I need the garage to work on vehicles and a once car garage is insanely small for storing tools and having space to move around your car and motorcycle. I've got my office and exercise equipment in the finished basement. One bedroom and the formal dining room are never used. Houses tend to add amenities as price and # of bedrooms increase, and it's those amenities I want. The wasted space just comes with the package. I think this design is awesome, but I can't imagine living in a space so small I had no real estate to spread out a project to work on.
1000 years ago: "Harrumpf! The world is flat! Sail on towards your oblivion, fools!" 100 years ago: "Harrump! If got meant for men to fly, he'd have given us wings!" 75 years ago: "Harrumpf! Faster than the speed of sound? Never!" ~50 years ago: "Harrumpf! There's no way we can get to the moon!" 40 years ago: "Harrumpf! Home computing? I think not!" 30 years ago: "Harrumpf! Who needs more than 64K?" 20 years ago: "Harrumpf! What good is this 'internet' thing for?"
I learned Linux on Slackware, then migrated to Mandrake and Red Hat. After a while, I got tired of having to deal with gruesome package management issues every time I wanted to set up a new installation or upgrade. I slowly stopped using Linux out of frustration because I just wanted a good platform to code on, not one that would become a hindrance.
An IT buddy turned me on to Ubuntu years back and it's been my home networking platform of choice (save the OpenBSD firewall). I even got my boss to install it here in the office for intranetworking. Hey, Ubuntu maybe didn't develop their tools, but as an out-of-the-box experience for a programmer who isn't looking to become a network admin, it's all I've ever wanted!
My high school social studies teacher had the best quote. Communism is the perfect form of government, but only if people are perfect. It's so wildly impractical to implement as we've seen in every country that's tried. On the other side of the equation are the pure Free Market governments that can't sustain themselves either.
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That's because SUVs hate freedom
Yes it does. Unless you're implying that he planned to rape an HIV-positive maid in NYC weeks before his trip?
What a crappy name. I say we call them hippie planets. Aimless, shiftless, wandering space with no rhyme or reason and expecting a hard-working star to just show up and carry their dead weight. I bet they're devoid of water (and soap) as well.
AOLers...and those who ruthlessly teased AOLers. Back then, anyone with a "real" reason to be on the internet had serviceable IT skills (and at least one other account than their home access). AOLers were the drooling masses so to speak. They were a clueless and rare sight, like a coyote darting across the highway on your drive to work and our minds, just as oblivious to disaster.
But, that era birthed one of my favorite memes:
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I sure as heck would have been a solid NO.
Do I need a gay pirate outfit and a Marlon Brando snarl to use it?
This is a country quick to fear and quick to act. I have zero fear of terrorist bombs when I'm on a plane. You have a better chance being raped by ET than dying in a terrorist attack on a plane. But, OBL made a great boogie man, and when we've got a political system set up to funnel tax revenue to Corporate America at the drop of a hat, you better believe they're going to keep people afraid.
If the PNAC guys under Bush didn't decide 9/11 was their excuse to turn Iraq into a hegemony, to hell with the original villains.
...and in an appropriate way. Say some BS internet rumor gets started. An affected agency will often have a debunking website dedicated to the topic that browsers can easily access. Remember Compean and Ramos, the two border agents the anti-immigration crowd turned into heroes? The DoJ did a great point-by-point debunking of the interwebz myths about their case. Didn't stop a Bush pardon, unfortunately.
You mean the commercial space tourism companies who haven't managed to field any efforts for the 50 years of manned space flight? You're right, there isn't a race. Unless you count Russians selling seats at a loss on our dime.
The point is that given the inevitability of human error and insatiable greed, is nuclear the best option? This is the point the anti-nuke crowd has been making. Yes, it CAN be done safely...in theory. But, what happens when corporation A figures that regulation X hurts profits too much so they lobby to get it waivered, and regulation Y is weakly enforced, so they just ignore it altogether?
Personally, I like the idea of nuclear power. I just don't trust it in the hands of any organization with a profit motive.
Just curious why you say that? I'm not an engineer, so maybe I don't appreciate what makes a robotic sub so difficult to pull off.
"Freee Meeee!"
Why do people always say that? By your logic, gasoline isn't a fuel either since it took millions of years of pressure to form it. Solar and wind power aren't fuel sources either, since you need a giant ball of fusion to create both, etc. We don't have an energy problem, we have a transportable energy problem.
How are they supposed to protect it from mynocks chewing on the power couplings?
Apple is raping developers and Google is raping your privacy. Never thought I'd consider moving back to Windows Mobile :(
It was an 80s-ish RPG. One of the background stories was that Word War 3 broke out and because of all the space weapons and counter-weapons blasting each other to bits and throwing up buckshot at each other, Earth's orbit becomes full of so much shrapnel that it's impossible to achieve orbit. When the Chinese tested that laser on a satellite target, that's what I immediately thought of. Space weapons are a stupid, expensive, potentially disastrous idea. Look at how bad space junk is getting and we haven even *tried* to fill orbits with crap.
I'm a single guy living in a 3 bedroom, 2 car garage house. Waste of space? Yes and no. I need the garage to work on vehicles and a once car garage is insanely small for storing tools and having space to move around your car and motorcycle. I've got my office and exercise equipment in the finished basement. One bedroom and the formal dining room are never used. Houses tend to add amenities as price and # of bedrooms increase, and it's those amenities I want. The wasted space just comes with the package. I think this design is awesome, but I can't imagine living in a space so small I had no real estate to spread out a project to work on.
This reminds me of Corbin Dallas' woefully small, but configurable living space in the movie. One of the underappreciated sci-fi movie sets.
Aaaah, to be 23 again. Full of equal amounts of shit and confidence without the wisdom to know it.
Anyone know?
How about donating to the project to give him the funds to travel to more locations?
1000 years ago: "Harrumpf! The world is flat! Sail on towards your oblivion, fools!"
100 years ago: "Harrump! If got meant for men to fly, he'd have given us wings!"
75 years ago: "Harrumpf! Faster than the speed of sound? Never!"
~50 years ago: "Harrumpf! There's no way we can get to the moon!"
40 years ago: "Harrumpf! Home computing? I think not!"
30 years ago: "Harrumpf! Who needs more than 64K?"
20 years ago: "Harrumpf! What good is this 'internet' thing for?"
ACs: shitting on everyone's ideas for 1000 years.
I learned Linux on Slackware, then migrated to Mandrake and Red Hat. After a while, I got tired of having to deal with gruesome package management issues every time I wanted to set up a new installation or upgrade. I slowly stopped using Linux out of frustration because I just wanted a good platform to code on, not one that would become a hindrance.
An IT buddy turned me on to Ubuntu years back and it's been my home networking platform of choice (save the OpenBSD firewall). I even got my boss to install it here in the office for intranetworking. Hey, Ubuntu maybe didn't develop their tools, but as an out-of-the-box experience for a programmer who isn't looking to become a network admin, it's all I've ever wanted!
My high school social studies teacher had the best quote. Communism is the perfect form of government, but only if people are perfect. It's so wildly impractical to implement as we've seen in every country that's tried. On the other side of the equation are the pure Free Market governments that can't sustain themselves either.