Or perhaps you mean Puntland's authorities, who either don't care, have no means to oppose or are in cahoots with the pirates? Or Somaliland who vie for international recognition and are actually trying to deal with the pirates but just do not have the means to do so?
Why look. I just spotted some potential solutions right there.
Note that Somaliland is the closest thing to a functioning nation in the region.
I guffaw'd when I saw a recent job opening which stated specifically that the applicant (working in-house, not a consultant) must have their own Labview license. Huh, that's rich. Not only do they want us to work from home, now they're gonna make us buy all the hardware and software too.
Good grief, what makes you think we know, now, that future tech will never find a way to get to the stars in any reasonable time with a reasonable energy cost?
Going to the stars is either cheap or fast (for very, very relative values of "cheap" and "fast"). The combination is a physical impossibility.
Good grief, whine that current physics knowledge won't allow faster than light travel or even communication.
Please point me towards physics knowledge that suggests faster than light travel or communication. Bonus points if it doesn't require bizarre amounts of energy.
Wormholes? Science fiction without the science.
Wormholes are a way for sci-fi writers to conveniently keep their plot moving. We'll not be using it to conveniently keep our starships moving.
Suppose we could use wormholes to travel. We'd first have to find one, and then travel toward one. The time it would take to do this would make the wormhole completely useless. That's ignoring what happens if you'd travel through it.
You'll find that this is true for all plotdrives.
Science fiction without the science indeed.
107 years ago saw the first controlled (barely) powered (barely) flight (barely). You'd have stopped there even though we have thousands of years ahead of us that will make the last 107 look as slow as those 107 made the prior 107 years look.
People like you would never have even kept a lightning strike fire going "because we don't know how to start one ourselves".
Never would have tinkered with Newcomen's engine to make it better, never would have dreamed of putting it on rails or in a boat, because 5 psi isn't good enough and it burns too much wood and we will never know how to make better metals or find better fuels.
Never would have investigated the speed of light in ether, never would have wondered why it showed no variation, never would have wondered where radiation came from, never would have wondered about anything.
Nothing you describe above is anything that hits hard physical limits.
On and on, whiners like you are left in the dust by those who dream. What a dreary world you live in.
Dreaming is fine. It's also useful to be able to wake up sometimes.
human technology is in its infancy. your limitations are based on a flawed understanding of the universe. its impossible _now_, but that doesn't mean it will be impossible forever.
That's entirely possible. It's also possible that we're very close to the technological peak.
Building stuff is one thing. Keeping it running, especially for long periods (think decades or even centuries) may require an amount of energy we simply can't provide anymore.
Unless the Human Race spreads to other worlds, systems, and galaxies, we are dead as a species.
Have you any idea of the distances involved, and the time it takes to traverse those?
The human species will never ever ever reach other stars and colonize the planets that are found there.
Maybe our descendants will, but they'll not be human. We will die here. Might as well make the best of it while we're still here.
What you are seeing is a lack of respect for others. At its core, respect is fear. Without fear of retribution or consequences, there can be no respect. I believe the short of it is that these situations are increasing in complexity and in boldness. But in the end, there is a path for money to move which can be followed. (There are no cash transactions here.) There must be punishment.
Did your mom ever tell you not to look directly into the son?
She did.
So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood.
1 G field is easy, just spin the craft or have workout center in centrifuge.
A centrifuge (either for workout or spinning the entire craft) would have to be huge to overcome motion sickness caused by the coriolis effect. While I'm sure it could be done technically, it would require several rounds of testing which involves a substantial investment of time and money. More importantly, the centrifuge and everything needed to keep it running adds an enormous amount of mass, all of which has to be accelerated.
There really haven't been any studies conducted on long term exposure to a fractional gravity environment. It is sort of hard to simulate on the Earth, and hasn't been done in space yet.
The Russians have put people in space long enough to know the impact of the effects is significant.
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Yes, but that's because he was a doctor, not en engineer.
We might, but it won't be earth-like. More like mining colonies with gruff marshals with a Scottish accent.
I've been to some of Global Magma Ocean's lectures. They were fascinating. Great storyteller.
Or perhaps you mean Puntland's authorities, who either don't care, have no means to oppose or are in cahoots with the pirates? Or Somaliland who vie for international recognition and are actually trying to deal with the pirates but just do not have the means to do so?
Why look. I just spotted some potential solutions right there.
Note that Somaliland is the closest thing to a functioning nation in the region.
We could try and roll all of it into a giant ball. All while singing a merry song: naaaa na na na na na
Two generals with the same name and the same job, (...)
Yes, but only one of them has an eye patch.
The new Windows Bing Voice(tm) client will be included with (...) Kin and Zune.
One can only hope.
Explained by Peter "Potholer54" Hadfield. (4 minutes in, if you can't stand silly voices)
I guffaw'd when I saw a recent job opening which stated specifically that the applicant (working in-house, not a consultant) must have their own Labview license. Huh, that's rich. Not only do they want us to work from home, now they're gonna make us buy all the hardware and software too.
You haul sixteen tons, and whaddaya get?
Unity would never allow us to send it to Alpha Centauri. It's too busy preventing war and bringing peace.
Good grief, what makes you think we know, now, that future tech will never find a way to get to the stars in any reasonable time with a reasonable energy cost?
Going to the stars is either cheap or fast (for very, very relative values of "cheap" and "fast"). The combination is a physical impossibility.
Good grief, whine that current physics knowledge won't allow faster than light travel or even communication.
Please point me towards physics knowledge that suggests faster than light travel or communication. Bonus points if it doesn't require bizarre amounts of energy.
Wormholes? Science fiction without the science.
Wormholes are a way for sci-fi writers to conveniently keep their plot moving. We'll not be using it to conveniently keep our starships moving.
Suppose we could use wormholes to travel. We'd first have to find one, and then travel toward one. The time it would take to do this would make the wormhole completely useless. That's ignoring what happens if you'd travel through it.
You'll find that this is true for all plotdrives.
Science fiction without the science indeed.
107 years ago saw the first controlled (barely) powered (barely) flight (barely). You'd have stopped there even though we have thousands of years ahead of us that will make the last 107 look as slow as those 107 made the prior 107 years look.
People like you would never have even kept a lightning strike fire going "because we don't know how to start one ourselves".
Never would have tinkered with Newcomen's engine to make it better, never would have dreamed of putting it on rails or in a boat, because 5 psi isn't good enough and it burns too much wood and we will never know how to make better metals or find better fuels.
Never would have investigated the speed of light in ether, never would have wondered why it showed no variation, never would have wondered where radiation came from, never would have wondered about anything.
Nothing you describe above is anything that hits hard physical limits.
On and on, whiners like you are left in the dust by those who dream. What a dreary world you live in.
Dreaming is fine. It's also useful to be able to wake up sometimes.
human technology is in its infancy. your limitations are based on a flawed understanding of the universe. its impossible _now_, but that doesn't mean it will be impossible forever.
That's entirely possible. It's also possible that we're very close to the technological peak.
Building stuff is one thing. Keeping it running, especially for long periods (think decades or even centuries) may require an amount of energy we simply can't provide anymore.
Unless the Human Race spreads to other worlds, systems, and galaxies, we are dead as a species.
Have you any idea of the distances involved, and the time it takes to traverse those?
The human species will never ever ever reach other stars and colonize the planets that are found there.
Maybe our descendants will, but they'll not be human. We will die here. Might as well make the best of it while we're still here.
Do you want to trust everything we've accomplished to that kind of random chance?
That's how it is and that's how it always will be, wherever you go.
The idea that we're somehow in control of our own destiny is laughable.
Thinking everyone around you is scheming to stab you in the back isn't called "ready for the real world". It's called "paranoia".
Its called multi-tasking. I do it all the time.
When you can actually process the information, it's multitasking. When it becomes noise, it's ADD.
What you are seeing is a lack of respect for others. At its core, respect is fear. Without fear of retribution or consequences, there can be no respect. I believe the short of it is that these situations are increasing in complexity and in boldness. But in the end, there is a path for money to move which can be followed. (There are no cash transactions here.) There must be punishment.
Spoken like a true gangster.
Did your mom ever tell you not to look directly into the son?
She did.
So once when I was six, I did. At first the brightness was overwhelming, but I had seen that before. I kept looking, forcing myself not to blink, and then the brightness began to dissolve. My pupils shrunk to pinholes and everything came into focus and for a moment I understood.
They cancelled LISA?! D=
It would appear so. Well, not cancelled, just... well, "resting".
Indeed. This sort of thing has cropped up before and it has always been due to human error.
(Damn, Camperdave beat me to it.)
Like being a good host or source of protein?
I think we're flattering ourselves if we think that's what aliens would travel across the universe to suck on our delicious brain meats.
Or they would be disgusted by that.
At least you'd have 20 seconds to comply.
1 G field is easy, just spin the craft or have workout center in centrifuge.
A centrifuge (either for workout or spinning the entire craft) would have to be huge to overcome motion sickness caused by the coriolis effect. While I'm sure it could be done technically, it would require several rounds of testing which involves a substantial investment of time and money. More importantly, the centrifuge and everything needed to keep it running adds an enormous amount of mass, all of which has to be accelerated.
Possible, perhaps; easy, not really.
There really haven't been any studies conducted on long term exposure to a fractional gravity environment. It is sort of hard to simulate on the Earth, and hasn't been done in space yet.
The Russians have put people in space long enough to know the impact of the effects is significant.