The planets are in the habitable zone, it doesn't mean they're habitable or even Earth-like.
The filter you mention is distance. Space is too big to allow interstellar travel. We can fantasize about exotic methods of propulsion, but none of the ones we can come up with are feasible. We're stuck to our little planet, just like any other hypothetical civilization is stuck to theirs.
Autocracy is not inevitible under Islamist rule, of course: Turkey remains democratic, and the electorate there can eject the Islamists at the next election if they want.
In Turkey, the Islamists know very well that if they push things too far, the army will step in and remove them from power at gunpoint.
The real fraud here is the way the science media sets up this same straw man every year so their believers can break their arms patting themselves on the back feeling superior to "those stupid pseudoscientific wannabees who believe in astrology".
Astrology has believers. Science doesn't need belief.
I regret that I have to say this but note that I have not expressed an opinion on the merits of astrology in this post. If you reply as if I had, you're only proving your inability to participate in neutral discussion.
Neutral how? Between 2+2=4 and 2+2=6, 2+2=5 is the neutral position. It is also wrong.
Pointed stick? Oh, oh, oh. We want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Fresh fruit not good enough for you eh? Well I'll tell you something my lad. When you're walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of loganberries, don't come crying to me! Now, the passion fruit. When your assailant lunges at you with a passion fruit...
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I thought the password was "espadon"?
Remind me to keep my geiger counter handy.
Without an atmosphere, thrusters aren't an aerodynamical problem.
The planets are in the habitable zone, it doesn't mean they're habitable or even Earth-like.
The filter you mention is distance. Space is too big to allow interstellar travel. We can fantasize about exotic methods of propulsion, but none of the ones we can come up with are feasible. We're stuck to our little planet, just like any other hypothetical civilization is stuck to theirs.
Reality isn't a sci-fi story.
Inverse tachyons? You mean particles that travel forward in time?
A motor can make up for any losses from friction.
Please describe a self contained source of energy that will power this motor for several centuries.
Shields have mass. All that mass needs to be accelerated.
they'll have died from death
Keep going. How else would this happen?
Well, instead of dieing from it, you could be killed by it.
So if we're discussing India we have to post in Hindi or Urdu?
Well, yes, of course. The only reason we don't is /.'s lack of support for the appropriate character sets.
It's like having a loaded gun in the house, except that there are no standard safety procedures to follow for storage and use.
Sure there is. Moving to Scotland would render it perfectly safe.
If you could deflect it towards the atmosphere and then aerobrake it in to a circular orbit around the Earth...
Might be better to try this with the Moon.
Aerobraking around the Moon might prove to be somewhat problematic.
Autocracy is not inevitible under Islamist rule, of course: Turkey remains democratic, and the electorate there can eject the Islamists at the next election if they want.
In Turkey, the Islamists know very well that if they push things too far, the army will step in and remove them from power at gunpoint.
Capital has just as much ability to employ armed force
They don't. They depend on government for enforcement of contracts and laws.
There's plenty of precedence.
This would happen anyway, eventually. Better to be destroyed in a spectacular way, then.
Heh. Go ahead, make my millennium.
It was probably superstition that put 12 months into the calendar
the Babylonians counted to 12 on one hand. Sixty would be less practical.
The real fraud here is the way the science media sets up this same straw man every year so their believers can break their arms patting themselves on the back feeling superior to "those stupid pseudoscientific wannabees who believe in astrology".
Astrology has believers. Science doesn't need belief.
I regret that I have to say this but note that I have not expressed an opinion on the merits of astrology in this post. If you reply as if I had, you're only proving your inability to participate in neutral discussion.
Neutral how? Between 2+2=4 and 2+2=6, 2+2=5 is the neutral position. It is also wrong.
I like warm weather. I like water. Sounds like a win-win situation.
Sure. Then again, maybe not.
Which is precisely why it's a good name for a band.
The anti-matter is probably what made the monster kill.
No, as mentioned elsewhere, the antimatter annihilates with electrons causing gamma rays.
The gamma rays made the monster angry, and the townspeople didn't like the monster when it got angry.
I call bullshit. If this were true, the US, as a primarily monolinguistic society, would be a technological backwater.
The US was built by immigrants who had to learn English at one point.
Pointed stick? Oh, oh, oh. We want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Fresh fruit not good enough for you eh? Well I'll tell you something my lad. When you're walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of loganberries, don't come crying to me! Now, the passion fruit. When your assailant lunges at you with a passion fruit...
When you're in that special place in hell, you have a scrotum, whether you're a man, woman or eunuch.
A year or two back I found dxpc source, dusted it off, and it actually built cleanly. But it didn't work worth spit. I guess X has moved on.
This thread had me looking for dxpc in the Ubuntu repos and whaddayaknow, it's there! I'm tempted to give it a whirl.
Damn my lawn is getting bigger...
You accidentally your lawn?