No, it didn't. The OP was correct but incomplete: Being delicious to humans *and being able to be efficiently domesticated by humans* ensures your success as a species as long as humans exist.
Reminds me of that old joke about the US spending millions of dollars to develop a pen which can write in space, and the Soviet cosmonauts simply using a pencil.
Which, as it turns out, is completely false. Before the introduction of the space pen, both the US and the Soviets used pencils, but, in fact, pencils aren't good in zero-g; graphite bits break off and can contaminate electronics. What's more, the space pen was developed at zero cost (that's $0) to the government. A private individual created it at his own expense, and sold them to NASA at a modest cost, asking only that he be allowed to advertise its use by NASA when he also sold them to the general public. He made a mint. If that's the best argument you can come up with for not using technology to improve people's lives, it's not good enough.
Then it's a good thing that the Vita TV will also play PSP and PSOne games.
Only selected PSOne games. And you'll have to buy them again. Got a PSOne game on CD? Got a PSP game on UMD? Vita don't play that. Here, buy it all over again to get the download.
"Fix poverty". Which immediately leads to the question, *how* do you fix poverty? Don't you fix poverty by giving the poor more opportunity to grow and make what they need?
That works with submarines because they actually do change their mass-inside-the-hull (and therefore their density) by taking in or dumping out water from the environment around them.
And it works here because they actually do change their mass-inside-the-hull (and therefore their density) by taking in or dumping out *air* from the environment around them.
That's nice. It's also irrelevant. The Fukushima reactor did not use heavy water. The problem here is coolant/moderator ordinary light water that is heavily contaminated with dissolved radioactive materials.
the Chinese government has for a long time had an active policy of protecting minorities, their cultures and languages.
Just ask the happy and contented people of Tibet. Oh, you can't, the Chinese government doesn't let them talk to foreigners. Well, they're happy and contented. Just take our word for it.
The War Department didn't become the Defense Department. It became the Department of the Army and was removed from the cabinet, as was the Department of the Navy (which didn't get a name change). The Defense Department was, by necessity, a new department because it was created to oversee the Army, Navy and the new formed Air Force, whereas the War Department had been responsible for only the Army since 1798 (nine years after its founding).
Henry Campbell-Bannerman was the first elected leader (1905) to popularly use the "prime minister" title.
Not really. The term "Prime Minister" has a long and rather obscure history. It was used as far back as Robert Walpole, generally considered England's first PM, although it was not used widely and Walpole himself denied the title. and this reluctance to claim the title continued for some time. By the mid-19th century it had come into wide use, although not officially recognized. In 1878, Disraeli signed the Treaty of Berlin as "First Lord of the Treasury and Prime Minister of her Britannic Majesty". In 1905, it was recognized for the first time in the official British Order of Precedence. The title was first mentioned in an official piece of legislation in 1917, but only in an incidental manner. It was not officially recognized in legislation until 1937.
Until the end of the 19th century, about half the Prime Ministers were from the House of Lords. Technically, there's no reason why one can't be so now; it's just that it's not done any more. In fact, there is technically no reason a Prime Minister even has to be a Member of Parliament at all. It's all just another one of those unofficial rules that seem to be everywhere in British government.
Unless they are doing full body searches to ensure nobody brings money in, I can assure you that, yes, there is money at burning man and people buy and sell things.
No, it won't. This is not a large asteroid. If they succeeded in vectoring it directly into the Earth, it would make a pretty light as it burned up in the atmosphere. It wouldn't even reach the ground.
IIRC, attaining orbit is mostly about escape velocity, which is measured from the center of mass.
Yes, moving towards the equator doesn't do much to cut your escape velocity (it does do some, since the Earth bulges at the equator). The big advantage, however, is the Earth's rotational velocity. If you lanch eastwards, you get to add that velocity to your own in trying to make escape velocity. This increases from zero at the pole to 1670 km/h at the equator. 1670 km/h is better than 4% of escape velocity. Getting closer to the equator is significant boost to any launch.
Yep, exploration, dreams, achievement, that's all old hat, gramps! All the cool kids know that breathlessly following the circle jerks of the latest reality show is where it's at!
Yes it is, but you posted it anyways. There was *more* of an outcry when this stuff happened under Bush, because the press hated him. Not enough to get it stopped, alas. But we have to keep trying. Focusing on somebody almost six years gone will be a great way to ensure that nothing continues to get done.
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No, it didn't. The OP was correct but incomplete: Being delicious to humans *and being able to be efficiently domesticated by humans* ensures your success as a species as long as humans exist.
Which, as it turns out, is completely false. Before the introduction of the space pen, both the US and the Soviets used pencils, but, in fact, pencils aren't good in zero-g; graphite bits break off and can contaminate electronics. What's more, the space pen was developed at zero cost (that's $0) to the government. A private individual created it at his own expense, and sold them to NASA at a modest cost, asking only that he be allowed to advertise its use by NASA when he also sold them to the general public. He made a mint. If that's the best argument you can come up with for not using technology to improve people's lives, it's not good enough.
Only selected PSOne games. And you'll have to buy them again. Got a PSOne game on CD? Got a PSP game on UMD? Vita don't play that. Here, buy it all over again to get the download.
"Fix poverty". Which immediately leads to the question, *how* do you fix poverty? Don't you fix poverty by giving the poor more opportunity to grow and make what they need?
Eureka is semi-rigid. It doesn't have a framework around the entire gas envelope.
And it works here because they actually do change their mass-inside-the-hull (and therefore their density) by taking in or dumping out *air* from the environment around them.
That's nice. It's also irrelevant. The Fukushima reactor did not use heavy water. The problem here is coolant/moderator ordinary light water that is heavily contaminated with dissolved radioactive materials.
Just ask the happy and contented people of Tibet. Oh, you can't, the Chinese government doesn't let them talk to foreigners. Well, they're happy and contented. Just take our word for it.
The War Department didn't become the Defense Department. It became the Department of the Army and was removed from the cabinet, as was the Department of the Navy (which didn't get a name change). The Defense Department was, by necessity, a new department because it was created to oversee the Army, Navy and the new formed Air Force, whereas the War Department had been responsible for only the Army since 1798 (nine years after its founding).
Marines tend to object violently to being called "soldiers". Soldiers are in the Army.
Actually, the thought that came to my mind was, "Where there's muck, there's brass."
...will it drain all the mana in vicinity?
But why does it have a steering wheel?
Until the end of the 19th century, about half the Prime Ministers were from the House of Lords. Technically, there's no reason why one can't be so now; it's just that it's not done any more. In fact, there is technically no reason a Prime Minister even has to be a Member of Parliament at all. It's all just another one of those unofficial rules that seem to be everywhere in British government.
Let's just say that your phone should be waterproof...
What's cute is that you actually believe that.
Unless they are doing full body searches to ensure nobody brings money in, I can assure you that, yes, there is money at burning man and people buy and sell things.
But if none of the poseurs showed up, the festival would be empty and then were would we be?
No, it won't. This is not a large asteroid. If they succeeded in vectoring it directly into the Earth, it would make a pretty light as it burned up in the atmosphere. It wouldn't even reach the ground.
Yes, moving towards the equator doesn't do much to cut your escape velocity (it does do some, since the Earth bulges at the equator). The big advantage, however, is the Earth's rotational velocity. If you lanch eastwards, you get to add that velocity to your own in trying to make escape velocity. This increases from zero at the pole to 1670 km/h at the equator. 1670 km/h is better than 4% of escape velocity. Getting closer to the equator is significant boost to any launch.
Yep, exploration, dreams, achievement, that's all old hat, gramps! All the cool kids know that breathlessly following the circle jerks of the latest reality show is where it's at!
Well, since the flags are all white now, I guess we surrendered it all.
(Truth! The unfiltered solar radiation on the Moon has long since bleached all the flags we left up there pure white.)
Depends on how long the whalesong aliens stay up there, I guess.
Yes it is, but you posted it anyways. There was *more* of an outcry when this stuff happened under Bush, because the press hated him. Not enough to get it stopped, alas. But we have to keep trying. Focusing on somebody almost six years gone will be a great way to ensure that nothing continues to get done.