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  1. Re:Mass Transfer on Europe Plans To Drill the Moon For Oxygen and Water by 2025 (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Are there any concerns of what moving tons of mass over time from our moon to the Earth would do to the orbits? Removing it from the moon to use elsewhere in space would change things too right? Cause it seems like exactly the kind of shortsightedness that's caused a lot of our current man made environmental problems. I get this is a "300 year" problem but like I said, shortsighted.

    The mass of the moon is 7.34767309 × 10^22 kilograms. I think by the time it becomes an issue it will have long since ceased being an issue.

  2. Re:Industrial Age or space age on Europe Plans To Drill the Moon For Oxygen and Water by 2025 (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Robots donâ(TM)t need water and air or paychecks.

    But they do need power, maintenance and repair.

  3. -enabled more ads

  4. Re:HAHAHAHAHAHAHA on Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company To Join the MPAA (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What's that line about dying a hero or living long enough to see yourself become the villain?

  5. The planet and the environment are two different things. The environment and a human friendly environment are also different things. The planet will be fine and it will have an environment long after we've cooked ourselves off.

  6. Netflix could create a lower priced tier with commercials. It could start at $5 a month for 1 concurrent stream for extremely price sensitive customers.

    They can either charge or subscription or have ads. Mixing the two is a bad idea.

  7. Ads or subscription, pick one. Youtube is trying to dip their toe in both pools.

  8. Re: California is too expensive for a billionaire. on SpaceX To Shift Starship Work From California To Texas · · Score: 1

    I suppose that the land next to the chemical plant is dirt cheap after all so what's good for the bottom line...

  9. Re:Rian Johnson killed Star Wars on Is Disney's Star Wars Franchise In Trouble? (cosmicbook.news) · · Score: 1

    Well, she kinda bumps and scrapes it on the ground for a bit after taking off in a craft that hasn't flown in how long? With a pilot who has never flown it, almost definitely never flown anything as big as that, while under fire so you're going to expect a graceful take off but she goes from that, to skimming the ground a little bit once more to loops and the infamous stall flip and go. Which you see her thinking about, she knows exactly what she wants to do and apparently how to do it, she warns finn to get ready and then it happens, ignoring she has zero way to know where that gun is pointing, you could say that bit was a passive force move but the maneuver itself most definitely wasn't. This isn't the basics. This isn't the force guiding her shit, this is active planning, knowledge and ability. And thats ignoring the rest of the bits when shes not even looking where shes going flying at high speed on the deck among debris because you can just put that down to green screen acting.

    Watch it for yourself again. The progression is lightning fast and doesn't stop there https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Then they just happen to meet han and chewie in orbit. The whole film is full of bad writing linking one disjointed bit to the next without any real care or attention, it's not just Rey. They then cover it up with frankly fantastic visuals and effects, because it does look amazing. The VFX and SFX people really put the money in on those films. The writers barely even bothered.

  10. Re: California is too expensive for a billionaire. on SpaceX To Shift Starship Work From California To Texas · · Score: 1

    Who the fucks builds a chemical plant next to a school, or vice versa? That's just a bad idea even if you are technically allowed to do it.

  11. I'm just wondering what desert they're going to name Android Q.

    Give Quiche a chance.

  12. Re:Not going to happen on Android Q Will Include More Ways For Carriers To SIM Lock Your Phone (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    It's almost as though they fail to understand that the government is formalised representation of people and their wishes and a necessary control against well resourced organisations that could otherwise abuse and exploit ordinary people.

    What, are you telling me a business isn't interested in giving me a fair deal and value for money and would rather bleed me dry at every opportunity in every way they can? Well I don't believe you and if you'll excuse I'll be over here waiting for my trickle to come down.

  13. Open source in general maybe but android and google? Not for a long time.

  14. Re:Rian Johnson killed Star Wars on Is Disney's Star Wars Franchise In Trouble? (cosmicbook.news) · · Score: 1

    Yeah so it's a passive thing that's making him better than he should otherwise be rather than him 'using' the force in a more active sense. He's using the actual controls and engines combined with his enhanced intuition or whatever not using the force to move the pod racer beyond its capabilities while he sees the future and plans around it. Ok, I'll give you that is more similar to Rey's Millenium Falcon antics, but remember, she's never flown that ship before, as far as I'm aware she's never flown anything other than the hovercar thingies they have, she day dreams of it and then is all of a sudden able to do it and not only that but do it well. It's not just that one instance though, it's a combination of a lot of things.

    The less said about the being conceived by the force thing the better, but mummy dearest didn't really get even 3/5 of a say in anything.

    Compared to any characters that are considered good. All those arguments have been made a million times though and there's no point going over them again.

  15. Re:144 months left on Ancient Climate Change Triggered Warming That Lasted Thousands of Years (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    What happened to all the people who claimed the world was going to end in 2012?

    They learned how calendars work, even really old ones.

  16. Re:GH Theory Outdated & Incomplete on Ancient Climate Change Triggered Warming That Lasted Thousands of Years (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Genetic Fallacy, much? https://www.logicalfallacies.i...

    So opposite of the boy who cried wolf then?

  17. Re: Here we go again on Ancient Climate Change Triggered Warming That Lasted Thousands of Years (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Less than 1% of sentients survived or less...

    Less than less than 1%? That's pretty low.

  18. Re:The Neantherdals Were Way Ahead of Us on Ancient Climate Change Triggered Warming That Lasted Thousands of Years (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    This not funny, you take thing like environments better than this seriously with rational conscience minds. For without rationality we have no way to continue forward as civiliation. Do it require the carbon credit? Reduce? Reuse? Recycle? There is many option here, joke is not way to make thing better.

    Mash no like joke, mash make people serious, serious people better.

    Or was that the joke?

    It can be tough to tell these days.

  19. Re:T-Minus 2 years on Tesla Model 3 Is Heading To Europe (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Righto then. I suppose you can't expect too much for that kind of money XD

  20. Re:T-Minus 2 years on Tesla Model 3 Is Heading To Europe (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The boot (trunk) leaks badly when it rains

    What do you mean? Is it not water tight?

  21. Re:Most people can't tell the difference in A/B te on Why High-Fidelity Streaming is the Audio Revolution Your Ears Have Been Waiting For (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    And you've backed this up with ABX testing? Because otherwise you're introducing a bias in the results.

    You don't need tests to notice low bit rate cymbals sound like they're underwater.

  22. Re:Most people can't tell the difference in A/B te on Why High-Fidelity Streaming is the Audio Revolution Your Ears Have Been Waiting For (forbes.com) · · Score: 1

    Even digital signals are subject to SNR degradation - a crappy cable will increase the Bit Error Rate, eventually overwhelming the error correction capabilities of the protocol and introducing errors in the data. Remember that, once you put a digital signal on a wire, it's now an analog signal (google "telecommunication eye pattern").

    Unless you have a really bad, damaged wires those 1 and 0 are going to come out the exact way they went in. With cables, always buy the second cheapest option.

  23. Re:Rian Johnson killed Star Wars on Is Disney's Star Wars Franchise In Trouble? (cosmicbook.news) · · Score: 1

    It's been a while but when exactly did Anakin use the force before being trained? Unless you mean his technical gifts like being able to built c3p0 or whatever or his piloting ability which is a fair argument to make I guess but he doesn't just have the ability to do these things off the bat, it's a passive stats buff to int. He was putting stuff together since he was a baby and probably started driving stuff as soon as he was able. Mummy probably wasnt a helicopter parent, what with being a slave and all. Child care probably leaves a lot to be desired in that area, in addition to being a slave himself. He got the job by being child slave with a demonstrated ability to do that stuff. They say about how much better he has got so even though you don't get a montage of it its alluded that it is a skill he has actively developed. I doubt that planet had much in the way of child safety laws and if that alien boss guy sees it as profitable then hes going to make anakin race because he is his slave. He didn't even want to let him race if i recall and qui gon had to force the dice. If anakin could have done that he probably would have by now and be the richest mofo in the joint clearing out gambling dens with his mum with some kind of hustle.

    It's cool if you like Rey, no one wants to take that away from you but you have to see from a technical, objective viewpoint she is a poorly developed, bad character. Subjectively, she can be whatever you want.

  24. Re:Could Trump's shutdown bring about a debt crisi on Shutdown Hits Industries Nationwide (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Where are you getting this $44trillion number from? US GDP is half that.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_States_federal_budget

    Trump isn't even asking for anything like that. Check the budget docs yourself. Page 121. Unless you've somehow taken the budget numbers for 2019-2028 and mixed them up into one thing

    https://www.govinfo.gov/conten...

  25. Re:SCHUMER THE JEW IN A NUTSHELL on Shutdown Hits Industries Nationwide (wsj.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Jew Talmud excerpts (the book that calls Christ's mother a whore & a bastard of a roman soldier):

    Nortius Maximus his name was. Promised me the known world he did. I was to be taken to Rome, House by the Forum. Slaves. Asses' milk. As much gold as I could eat. Then, after having his way with me... boom! Like a rat out of an aqueduct!