That takes nothing away from them. In a way, it adds to them. Ask Scott Crossfield, Chuck Yeager, or a hundred other test pilots whose name you'll never know.
These people sign up knowing the risk. It's their business, and no one else's, whether they so choose. Godspeed to them.
Moby Dick is fiction, but was highly influenced and factually informed by the tragic events and wreck of the whaleship Essex. Melville was consumed by the stories of the surviving crew, and was inspired by them to write Moby-Dick. It's a fictional work immersed in a strong, accurate nonfiction document.
The following book about the Essex is superb, for those with further interest. It won a nonfiction National Book Award. You will stay up very late reading it.
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick.
I will join you in the eye roll, but directed to your post.
I assumed anyone reading my OP would understand I was talking about a specific engineering and exploration *project* rolled up from scratch (which is a colloquial term, with the literary license customary for such usage). Take the logic of your post far enough, and I would have to credit Australopithecus for the discovery of fire.
We all, to paraphrase Newton, stand on the shoulders of giants. So too did the engineers at NASA. This should not require further explanation.
Meanwhile, judging by the serial explosive failures of the 50s rocket tech you mentioned, and the weak tea served up by Mercury vs. the superior Russian tech, Apollo did not have the kind of technological base you've implied, anyway.
If you read a good history of the Apollo effort, you'll find that the engineers *desperately* wanted a clean sheet approach. And they got it. Along with a government that cut red tape and cleared the way for them to do what they were there to do.
It took 8 years from Kennedy's speech in 1961 to a human on the moon in 1969. Not only did NASA get a moon rocket designed, tested, and launched in that time, it also got an intermediate rocket program (Gemini) designed, tested, and launched prior to the moon program.
From scratch.
Now we're looking at (maybe) 11 years to develop a working rocket to go to an asteroid. Oh boy, journey to an, umm, space rock. Really stirs the heart, doesn't it? And this after willingly withdrawing from manned spaceflight capacity altogether for at least six years, and counting. Yep, just folding the cards and walking away from the table.
Sure, go ahead and tell me how technically challenging the space rock odyssey will be. But the call of space comes from the same place the call of the sea arose from in the past. To Terra Incognita, where "Here Be Dragons." Sorry, there be no dragons around the space rock.
The technical wizardry missions could and should be handled by robots. Humans should be reserved for missions which stir the soul, or the people who pay for such things (you and me) will stop paying.
It's hard to think of a better demonstration of how the US used to get things done, and how it does things now, than to compare the space program we had 50 years ago to the current version.
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood, and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Everyone has an agenda. Government is the most powerful entity in our mixed society. It is (and has amply proven itself to be) capable of corruption, graft, and political pursuit of goals contrary to the interests of those who are taxed to fund it.
Concentration of power is the problem. Politically, big corporations and big government are a difference without a distinction. They both pursue their own agendas in service to the elites who are stakeholders, and then use propaganda to claim otherwise.
Yes, the phonemaker gets more revenue. However, the money used to fund those replacements comes from an increased levy on all phone purchasers who have coverage. So everyone with coverage pays more for phones. The extra money that everyone pays for phones means less money spent on all other possible purchases. So Apple's revenue increase is Krogers' or Target's or Shell's decrease.
We usually disregard widely-distributed costs and look at local effects. This is especially true of politicians. But those effects are real and directly affect the aggregate economy numbers.
what you bought actually only has a 2 year shelf life, I don't care what their marketing department tells you.
The supplier's website says that with mild, dry storage conditions, the food is good for up to 25 years. My guess is their estimate is closer to the truth than yours.
Of course, you realize that NO ONE predicted the impact that the internet would have a scant 30 years ago.
True Names was published in 1981, which is a scant 31 years ago. Read it first of all to see that someone DID envision the impact of the global internet, and its resultant creation of cyberspace. But more importantly, read it because it is a brilliant example of what science fiction can be.
My money is on the exfoliation of a huge strip of coastal land followed by massive runoff as the culprit. There's still 20 million tons of debris floating. Imagine how much more either dissolved or sank.
JK - Sounds like you have low blood sugar this morning. Have a Captain 'n Coke or two while you steal something from your nephew's candy bag, and you'll feel the love again.:)
The principle that we each should be in charge of the release of our personal information is a protection for you and me as well as for aging actresses.
As for determining which information about someone is "trivial," I suggest not outsourcing that either.
I teach group fitness classes at the gym. Actually, at four of them.
There is no greater motivation to work out than to enjoy it, and if you find a good instructor and fun, vigorous class, you will stop thinking of exercise as something you have to do, and start looking forward to it as something you get to do.
If you try a class and don't like it, then try another one until you do. Good instructors keep the format evergreen and ever-changing, and the music fresh. They engage the class the way an emcee engages an audience. It's not about the workout, it's about the experience.
Be sure to pick a class where the scenery is good, too. No kidding, that can be immensely motivating. After 7,000 classes, it still is for me.:)
Also, pick a class that's challenging. Not overwhelming, but definitely hard. I learned that early on - people come back again and again when they know they will be challenged. A successful regime of exercise provides a sense of accomplishment over time, a sense that one has taken back control. It's heady. Plus, it reliably provides stress relief each time you do it. Finally, working out in group classes provides easy avenues to meeting women who are a significant cut above the usual fare at bars, etc.
To a certain point, working out doesn't cost time, either. You won't use the time you "save" by skipping exercise, you'll fritter it away. But if you exercise, you'll get that gym hour back through increased energy, efficiency, better sleep, and sharper thinking. Your mood will be better, too, as well as your self-confidence.
There is no downside. Find a way to socialize your workouts.
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That takes nothing away from them. In a way, it adds to them. Ask Scott Crossfield, Chuck Yeager, or a hundred other test pilots whose name you'll never know.
These people sign up knowing the risk. It's their business, and no one else's, whether they so choose. Godspeed to them.
Moby Dick is fiction, but was highly influenced and factually informed by the tragic events and wreck of the whaleship Essex. Melville was consumed by the stories of the surviving crew, and was inspired by them to write Moby-Dick. It's a fictional work immersed in a strong, accurate nonfiction document.
The following book about the Essex is superb, for those with further interest. It won a nonfiction National Book Award. You will stay up very late reading it.
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, by Nathaniel Philbrick.
I will join you in the eye roll, but directed to your post.
I assumed anyone reading my OP would understand I was talking about a specific engineering and exploration *project* rolled up from scratch (which is a colloquial term, with the literary license customary for such usage). Take the logic of your post far enough, and I would have to credit Australopithecus for the discovery of fire.
We all, to paraphrase Newton, stand on the shoulders of giants. So too did the engineers at NASA. This should not require further explanation.
Meanwhile, judging by the serial explosive failures of the 50s rocket tech you mentioned, and the weak tea served up by Mercury vs. the superior Russian tech, Apollo did not have the kind of technological base you've implied, anyway.
If you read a good history of the Apollo effort, you'll find that the engineers *desperately* wanted a clean sheet approach. And they got it. Along with a government that cut red tape and cleared the way for them to do what they were there to do.
Those days are gone.
It took 8 years from Kennedy's speech in 1961 to a human on the moon in 1969. Not only did NASA get a moon rocket designed, tested, and launched in that time, it also got an intermediate rocket program (Gemini) designed, tested, and launched prior to the moon program.
From scratch.
Now we're looking at (maybe) 11 years to develop a working rocket to go to an asteroid. Oh boy, journey to an, umm, space rock. Really stirs the heart, doesn't it? And this after willingly withdrawing from manned spaceflight capacity altogether for at least six years, and counting. Yep, just folding the cards and walking away from the table.
Sure, go ahead and tell me how technically challenging the space rock odyssey will be. But the call of space comes from the same place the call of the sea arose from in the past. To Terra Incognita, where "Here Be Dragons." Sorry, there be no dragons around the space rock.
The technical wizardry missions could and should be handled by robots. Humans should be reserved for missions which stir the soul, or the people who pay for such things (you and me) will stop paying.
It's hard to think of a better demonstration of how the US used to get things done, and how it does things now, than to compare the space program we had 50 years ago to the current version.
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood, and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
This should be modded up.
Fed doesn't even bother with the paper - just pushes some buttons, and *magically* $4 billion pops out into the system *every day.*
Except they call it Quantitative Easing instead of its actual name, counterfeiting. Cuz they're economists, you know.
wow
Everyone has an agenda. Government is the most powerful entity in our mixed society. It is (and has amply proven itself to be) capable of corruption, graft, and political pursuit of goals contrary to the interests of those who are taxed to fund it.
Concentration of power is the problem. Politically, big corporations and big government are a difference without a distinction. They both pursue their own agendas in service to the elites who are stakeholders, and then use propaganda to claim otherwise.
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is."
Yes, the phonemaker gets more revenue. However, the money used to fund those replacements comes from an increased levy on all phone purchasers who have coverage. So everyone with coverage pays more for phones. The extra money that everyone pays for phones means less money spent on all other possible purchases. So Apple's revenue increase is Krogers' or Target's or Shell's decrease.
We usually disregard widely-distributed costs and look at local effects. This is especially true of politicians. But those effects are real and directly affect the aggregate economy numbers.
I'm curious about what the equivalent term for "mileage" is.
All out of mod points or I would do it myself.
well, it's better than "First Post!"
Damn,he was fun to watch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catfish_Hunter
what you bought actually only has a 2 year shelf life, I don't care what their marketing department tells you.
The supplier's website says that with mild, dry storage conditions, the food is good for up to 25 years. My guess is their estimate is closer to the truth than yours.
Thoughtful analysis untainted by political correctness is getting scarce these days. Which by definition means it's getting more valuable.
Followed quickly by a headless king.
This does not require an elaborate analysis, only a cursory reading of history.
Of course, you realize that NO ONE predicted the impact that the internet would have a scant 30 years ago.
True Names was published in 1981, which is a scant 31 years ago. Read it first of all to see that someone DID envision the impact of the global internet, and its resultant creation of cyberspace. But more importantly, read it because it is a brilliant example of what science fiction can be.
My money is on the exfoliation of a huge strip of coastal land followed by massive runoff as the culprit. There's still 20 million tons of debris floating. Imagine how much more either dissolved or sank.
https://www.google.com/search?q=japanese+tsunami+ocean+debris&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=23L&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=g38jT9K2II74gAf_tvzxCA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1343&bih=891
About a lot of things, actually.
JK - Sounds like you have low blood sugar this morning. Have a Captain 'n Coke or two while you steal something from your nephew's candy bag, and you'll feel the love again. :)
The principle that we each should be in charge of the release of our personal information is a protection for you and me as well as for aging actresses.
As for determining which information about someone is "trivial," I suggest not outsourcing that either.
Given that acting involves portraying emotions and actions that are by definition not real, I would say yes.
Addressing the larger point, it's hard to argue against wanting to maintain control over one's personal information. Very hard.
Sorry, it's been redacted.
You made my day. Seriously.
I teach group fitness classes at the gym. Actually, at four of them.
There is no greater motivation to work out than to enjoy it, and if you find a good instructor and fun, vigorous class, you will stop thinking of exercise as something you have to do, and start looking forward to it as something you get to do.
If you try a class and don't like it, then try another one until you do. Good instructors keep the format evergreen and ever-changing, and the music fresh. They engage the class the way an emcee engages an audience. It's not about the workout, it's about the experience.
Be sure to pick a class where the scenery is good, too. No kidding, that can be immensely motivating. After 7,000 classes, it still is for me. :)
Also, pick a class that's challenging. Not overwhelming, but definitely hard. I learned that early on - people come back again and again when they know they will be challenged. A successful regime of exercise provides a sense of accomplishment over time, a sense that one has taken back control. It's heady. Plus, it reliably provides stress relief each time you do it. Finally, working out in group classes provides easy avenues to meeting women who are a significant cut above the usual fare at bars, etc.
To a certain point, working out doesn't cost time, either. You won't use the time you "save" by skipping exercise, you'll fritter it away. But if you exercise, you'll get that gym hour back through increased energy, efficiency, better sleep, and sharper thinking. Your mood will be better, too, as well as your self-confidence.
There is no downside. Find a way to socialize your workouts.