Boys from the ignorant South, my people, leave home for an all expense paid trip to their death in a middle eastern country they can't find on a map. For honor and country.
We only need to redirect that boundless tribalism to a mission worthy of their supreme sacrifice.
This will have to do until a space colony can begin the selection for advantageous genetic material to sift out.
All life in this universe is of this universe, and Life's list of things to do begins and ends with survive.
I can see this season's crop of damn dirty apes making the leap to whatever immortality our universe allows. We seem on the brink (40-80 yrs) of genetic manipulation. We send the tardigrades up until we get survivors at Splashdown, we map and extract the immunity trait(s) responsible for survival, booh-yah.... men on the moon. Full Disclosure: holders of political office on the lunar surface will be indistinguishable from their earthly peers.
If we fail as this generation's naturally selected intellectual alpha to propagate the universe, the universe will give life another shot in no more than 200.000 years.
I used to be a space freak, since moderated by more practical concerns.
Translation: My wife doesn't allow that shit any more.
But if there's ever going to be an interstellar flight by a probe, we must understand the hazards of near-relativistic flight. One hazard is the impact of the average interstellar dust grain. We need to understand what the "average interstellar dust grain" is. I've done some calculations on what's understood so far, and a manned flight seems prohibitive, since it would have to be going so fast (0.3-0.8 of c) that the energy delivery of the average dust grain is really catastrophic. I really can't imagine what sort of shield that can be constructed that would allow that sort of energy delivery in such a tiny cross-section to be dispersed in such a way that spares the crew as well as the ship's basic structure. I've been trying to find the early publications of the British Interplanetary Society for certain articles, largely without success (for free or a modest fee, anyway), to locate articles making claims about erosion-shield construction. I find their claims (via other publications quoting them) to be specious and I'm hungry to know more.
And that's too bad, because it sounds like you have something to contribute.
but recognize that most of the bribery here is above board and in full daylight. Most opf our people are too busy with their busy little lives to complain, but it's right there.
Political corruption always exists. The overall effect it will have on people and their private lives is directly linked to government interference in the markets.
If the big players (ATT & Verizon) are allowed to increase their stranglehold on market share, we the people will be the end result losers.
Agreed. I think the law enforcement officers that are charged with this task will arrive at the NSA when they finish arresting the bankers and brokers from the housing bubble derivatives scandal.
You're right that the human element of any contest cannot be completely quantified. The outcome of every contest cannot be predicted by mathematics, but it is possible to identify trends, predispositions, and characteristics that generate more victories over an elongated number of Contests.
It's more about using numbers to gain an edge, often for good value (another quantifiable datum) in sports, over a larger body of work. The 162 game baseball season has been adeptly exploited by sabremetric gurus like Bill James and Billy Bean. And Vegas sports books continue to make money because they do the math better than anyone else over the long haul.
Do the Colleges and Universities bear some of the responsibility for the quality of graduates they're churning out, or are these chickens coming home to roost from a well meant but misguided push to give every child a chance to get an advanced degree?
You do realize these behaviors are so prevalent precisely because they were selected for in earlier versions of the Darwin games?
Every man has murder in him, many sexual assault convictions come down to a he said-she said credibility contest, and there do exist circumstantial thieves who would rather find a job. It would be a task of enormous difficulty to fairly implement a removal policy.
Indeed. The burden of operating a civilized society means you cannot allow any heinous act, no matter how evil, to bring society down to that same malevolent level.
IMHO, the US government has failed in this regard of late with the War on Terror.
I don't pretend to understand what attracts a man to another bloke any more than I get why the current ideal supermodel makes Twiggy look voluptuous.
You're not in charge of what you find attractive. My own tastes have been skewed toward mostly ladies from the discount section who were, to varying degrees, damaged goods. I need to be needed... ye olde false knight syndrome.
That said, we will finally pass beyond base tribal discrimination into enlightened society when an article such as this is discussed with no mention of Turing's sexual preference.
I can see this sort of specialized mission being misused here in the West.
Border security, drug interdiction, search & rescue... certainly a seemingly endless list of plausibly benevolent drone activities.
Now that the cat is out of the bag regarding governmental spying on its own citizens with no serious negative repercussions, I'd bet they're gearing up.
Cheer up. When you begin losing jobs and college entrances to those less qualified, your people have finally made it. Wear as a badge of competence that things need not be set aside for you.
And Jessie? If I were an American of African descent, I wouldn't vote for, er,... never mind.
I am neither a Democrat or Republican in the current state of the Parties, falling into the conservative camp on some issues, into the liberal camp on others, and questioning behavior on both sides of the aisle more and more regularly. If you don't accept the problems with our governance is on the donkeys and the elephants, then I have wasted a post.
Rather than argue ideologies, I'll simply point out the obvious: Ted Cruz is an extremist. He's a Tea Party darling who's not even accepted broadly by his own party. As his ambitions seem Presidential I will leave you with this. Regardless of your political tilt, you do not want extremist candidates for primary winners. They are a tough sell in a national election.
99 out of 100 Democrats surveyed preferred a live Cruz to a dead Washington as the opposition candidate, and the Republicans have some incriminating photos of the lone dissenter.
You'd actually only need an oxidizer to support life as we pretend to know it.
Nitrogen is a poor one that might exist there and flourine is a bit too rich for life as we know it, but see, we just don't know absolutely everything yet.
This is a finite resource that we are squandering at a rate that ensures our grandchildren, great or otherwise, will find in short supply. It occurs to me that might create a market beyond our present ken.
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I'd ride a moped and I'd fuck a fat girl, or whatever it is that makes them a moped to you.
I see what you did there... now I'm the shallow mother-fucker.
Well played.
If I've heard of Docker once before, I don't remember it.
That's what I'd say if Docker was a moped girl.
Boys from the ignorant South, my people, leave home for an all expense paid trip to their death in a middle eastern country they can't find on a map. For honor and country.
We only need to redirect that boundless tribalism to a mission worthy of their supreme sacrifice.
All life in this universe is of this universe, and Life's list of things to do begins and ends with survive.
I can see this season's crop of damn dirty apes making the leap to whatever immortality our universe allows. We seem on the brink (40-80 yrs) of genetic manipulation. We send the tardigrades up until we get survivors at Splashdown, we map and extract the immunity trait(s) responsible for survival, booh-yah.... men on the moon. Full Disclosure: holders of political office on the lunar surface will be indistinguishable from their earthly peers.
If we fail as this generation's naturally selected intellectual alpha to propagate the universe, the universe will give life another shot in no more than 200.000 years.
I used to be a space freak, since moderated by more practical concerns.
Translation: My wife doesn't allow that shit any more.
But if there's ever going to be an interstellar flight by a probe, we must understand the hazards of near-relativistic flight. One hazard is the impact of the average interstellar dust grain. We need to understand what the "average interstellar dust grain" is. I've done some calculations on what's understood so far, and a manned flight seems prohibitive, since it would have to be going so fast (0.3-0.8 of c) that the energy delivery of the average dust grain is really catastrophic. I really can't imagine what sort of shield that can be constructed that would allow that sort of energy delivery in such a tiny cross-section to be dispersed in such a way that spares the crew as well as the ship's basic structure. I've been trying to find the early publications of the British Interplanetary Society for certain articles, largely without success (for free or a modest fee, anyway), to locate articles making claims about erosion-shield construction. I find their claims (via other publications quoting them) to be specious and I'm hungry to know more.
And that's too bad, because it sounds like you have something to contribute.
Political corruption always exists. The overall effect it will have on people and their private lives is directly linked to government interference in the markets.
If the big players (ATT & Verizon) are allowed to increase their stranglehold on market share, we the people will be the end result losers.
Agreed. I think the law enforcement officers that are charged with this task will arrive at the NSA when they finish arresting the bankers and brokers from the housing bubble derivatives scandal.
You're right that the human element of any contest cannot be completely quantified. The outcome of every contest cannot be predicted by mathematics, but it is possible to identify trends, predispositions, and characteristics that generate more victories over an elongated number of Contests.
It's more about using numbers to gain an edge, often for good value (another quantifiable datum) in sports, over a larger body of work. The 162 game baseball season has been adeptly exploited by sabremetric gurus like Bill James and Billy Bean. And Vegas sports books continue to make money because they do the math better than anyone else over the long haul.
Do the Colleges and Universities bear some of the responsibility for the quality of graduates they're churning out, or are these chickens coming home to roost from a well meant but misguided push to give every child a chance to get an advanced degree?
We made a road trip to his grave to piss on it but the line was too long.
Many prefer to keep these leaks in house, lest current disgruntled employees get the -itis.
In the form of a question, Alex, "Which former Microsoft employee is not up for a Snowden award?"
You do realize these behaviors are so prevalent precisely because they were selected for in earlier versions of the Darwin games?
Every man has murder in him, many sexual assault convictions come down to a he said-she said credibility contest, and there do exist circumstantial thieves who would rather find a job. It would be a task of enormous difficulty to fairly implement a removal policy.
IMHO, the US government has failed in this regard of late with the War on Terror.
You're not in charge of what you find attractive. My own tastes have been skewed toward mostly ladies from the discount section who were, to varying degrees, damaged goods. I need to be needed... ye olde false knight syndrome.
That said, we will finally pass beyond base tribal discrimination into enlightened society when an article such as this is discussed with no mention of Turing's sexual preference.
Border security, drug interdiction, search & rescue... certainly a seemingly endless list of plausibly benevolent drone activities.
Now that the cat is out of the bag regarding governmental spying on its own citizens with no serious negative repercussions, I'd bet they're gearing up.
And Jessie? If I were an American of African descent, I wouldn't vote for, er, ... never mind.
Rather than argue ideologies, I'll simply point out the obvious: Ted Cruz is an extremist. He's a Tea Party darling who's not even accepted broadly by his own party. As his ambitions seem Presidential I will leave you with this. Regardless of your political tilt, you do not want extremist candidates for primary winners. They are a tough sell in a national election.
99 out of 100 Democrats surveyed preferred a live Cruz to a dead Washington as the opposition candidate, and the Republicans have some incriminating photos of the lone dissenter.
Perhaps at license renewal they'll now be requiring photos from angles, much like a mug shot.
And our privacy slips away a little bit faster with every innovation.
You are more likely to get a Putin than a Gorbachev, and there are many more Ted Cruz-like asshats out there than there are George Washingtons.
Nitrogen is a poor one that might exist there and flourine is a bit too rich for life as we know it, but see, we just don't know absolutely everything yet.
This is a finite resource that we are squandering at a rate that ensures our grandchildren, great or otherwise, will find in short supply. It occurs to me that might create a market beyond our present ken.
I'm not sure I like your tone.
Seriously, Neil Degrasse Tyson is not unwatchable.