If you read the article you will see that an operational unit is already producing 800 liters a day consistently. I love this stuff, the energy and raw materials to sustain the human race are all around us, just waiting for the right technique to take advantage of them.
Soooo, that's arid area and probably fresh water shortages licked, what's up next.
While I think nationalism can be a powerful motivating force, the time has come for everyone to shoulder the mantle of new space exploration on an international basis, like the Star Tram guys are trying to do. Open source, not for profit megaengineering. Can it be done? Sure! Its just really hard.
Nuclear power is great, just it demands that people running it not be money-grubbing profit-seekers. Maybe they should be run like non-profits and forced to spend the excess money they have on improvements and new technology.
Yes, only Chernobyl was run by not for profit communists. Nuclear has its place, usually where there are no other available power sources, but what JAXA is working on at the moment is solar power satellites. These won't be useful unless space launch costs drop to 1% of their current amount, but happily the startram team are working on a system which reduces launch costs to 0,4% of their current amount. I don't see a big future for nuclear.
Space junk is a bit different to the normal polluting behaviour though, since it will directly and literally impact the polluter's future operations. Also, its not like publicly funded endeavours have that great a record when it comes to space junk either.
The more additional sources for scientific research there are, the happier I am. Some people genuinely aren't good at going through the hoops to get government funding, or don't function well within the academic political piranha tank. To say nothing of recent serious questions being raised over the quality of some academic research.
Really at this stage its gone well beyond a joke. I have friends in Japan who were quite worried about this, to say nothing of the sheer evil of the regime itself. Maybe its time to bite the bullet and just cut off food aid to North Korea so they are forced to reduce the size of their army and actually feed their own people? Or would Kim go for a full on invasion of the South in reality?
Amino acids mean nothing. I'm not saying it was intelligent agency or anything, but I am saying that we haven't clue one what happened. We have, in short, no evidence that it CAN happen. This "hundreds of millions of years" line is just another god of the gaps. Science!
All the "environment" needs is to be stable enough to foster replication.
Its the bit between "dumb chemicals" and "things actually replicating" where we're a bit wobbly. If a stable environment were all it took we could have recreated the process many times.
Christianity and Islam are boughs of the same tree, but I don't think Buddhism does the whole creation thing. As I recall they have a kind of trillion year long cycle of rebirth which goes on eternally.
You need to learn the difference between Ireland and Northern Ireland. Nobody in the Republic cares or cared what religion you are. British puritan settlers/planters in the north however geleefully embarked on a 400-year long campaign of persecution and genocide, leading to its current unfortunate status as the most racist place on earth, entirely due to the English and Ulster Scots.
The rest of the country meanwhile has several times won the Economist Intelligence Unit's "best place in the world to live", so yeah you can point the finger squarely at typical British mismanagement there. The rest, including the catholic church is a far more complex situation that I'm willing to discuss here, but suffice it to say, once again nobody cares.
No, I'm Irish like all of my kind, quick to anger and quicker to forgive, a man who will give you his last scrap of food and tell you a joke while doing so, a bad enemy but a stout and loyal friend, who takes every man as he comes regardless of colour or creed. Thats my culture.
The Irish civil war had to do with disagreements over the northern 6 counties fostered by the British and political maneuvering. Sectarianism had nothing to do with it. So yes, Ireland as a paradigm of understanding and tolerance.
Sooo, what we have here is a link from another country entirely, Northern Ireland, and two links to the same comment by Michael D, who is as daft as a broom. Topping all this off we have a vitriolic anecdote which I'd wager has no evidence at all to back it up. I especially like the "talking in Gaelic" touch, given the extremely low levels of people in Ireland who actually speak "Gaelic".
Yes indeed, your comment makes it clear that racism is alive and well. But not in Ireland. More towards Ireland.
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If you read the article you will see that an operational unit is already producing 800 liters a day consistently. I love this stuff, the energy and raw materials to sustain the human race are all around us, just waiting for the right technique to take advantage of them.
Soooo, that's arid area and probably fresh water shortages licked, what's up next.
While I think nationalism can be a powerful motivating force, the time has come for everyone to shoulder the mantle of new space exploration on an international basis, like the Star Tram guys are trying to do. Open source, not for profit megaengineering. Can it be done? Sure! Its just really hard.
Is Japan a tropical country? I thought it was too far north to need widespread aircon.
Nuclear power is great, just it demands that people running it not be money-grubbing profit-seekers. Maybe they should be run like non-profits and forced to spend the excess money they have on improvements and new technology.
Yes, only Chernobyl was run by not for profit communists. Nuclear has its place, usually where there are no other available power sources, but what JAXA is working on at the moment is solar power satellites. These won't be useful unless space launch costs drop to 1% of their current amount, but happily the startram team are working on a system which reduces launch costs to 0,4% of their current amount. I don't see a big future for nuclear.
Ah so that explains what Deep Throat was all about. I bought that movie and was mystified to find not a single spy in it.
The reality is we have no good definition for intelligence at the moment, so trying to pin down genes for it seems a bit peculiar.
Space junk is a bit different to the normal polluting behaviour though, since it will directly and literally impact the polluter's future operations. Also, its not like publicly funded endeavours have that great a record when it comes to space junk either.
The more additional sources for scientific research there are, the happier I am. Some people genuinely aren't good at going through the hoops to get government funding, or don't function well within the academic political piranha tank. To say nothing of recent serious questions being raised over the quality of some academic research.
Really at this stage its gone well beyond a joke. I have friends in Japan who were quite worried about this, to say nothing of the sheer evil of the regime itself. Maybe its time to bite the bullet and just cut off food aid to North Korea so they are forced to reduce the size of their army and actually feed their own people? Or would Kim go for a full on invasion of the South in reality?
Forming self replicating DNA and RNA from base chemicals means something. Amino acids are seeded throughout nebulae, so yes they mean nothing.
Amino acids mean nothing. I'm not saying it was intelligent agency or anything, but I am saying that we haven't clue one what happened. We have, in short, no evidence that it CAN happen. This "hundreds of millions of years" line is just another god of the gaps. Science!
All the "environment" needs is to be stable enough to foster replication.
Its the bit between "dumb chemicals" and "things actually replicating" where we're a bit wobbly. If a stable environment were all it took we could have recreated the process many times.
Christianity and Islam are boughs of the same tree, but I don't think Buddhism does the whole creation thing. As I recall they have a kind of trillion year long cycle of rebirth which goes on eternally.
About time! /loads blunderbuss
irrelevant. They have no facts. There oratory skill may be better, but that doesn't make then right.
Enough oratory skill and you don't need to be right. Welcome to the world of politics, where a skillful orator can start world wars!
I have heard a lot of smart Catholics debate this, and their argument boils down to " Nu-uh"
Catholics don't do creationism though. There's plenty wrong with the Catholic church, but that's not among the failings.
Agree completely. Fascinating stuff.
Stereotypes are ok if they are positive?
Now you're getting it. What, did you think there was some sort of cosmic stereotype balance that had to be satisfied?
You need to learn the difference between Ireland and Northern Ireland. Nobody in the Republic cares or cared what religion you are. British puritan settlers/planters in the north however geleefully embarked on a 400-year long campaign of persecution and genocide, leading to its current unfortunate status as the most racist place on earth, entirely due to the English and Ulster Scots.
The rest of the country meanwhile has several times won the Economist Intelligence Unit's "best place in the world to live", so yeah you can point the finger squarely at typical British mismanagement there. The rest, including the catholic church is a far more complex situation that I'm willing to discuss here, but suffice it to say, once again nobody cares.
No, I'm Irish like all of my kind, quick to anger and quicker to forgive, a man who will give you his last scrap of food and tell you a joke while doing so, a bad enemy but a stout and loyal friend, who takes every man as he comes regardless of colour or creed. Thats my culture.
And I still call bullshit on your comment.
Racism is not an Irish tradition.
The Irish civil war had to do with disagreements over the northern 6 counties fostered by the British and political maneuvering. Sectarianism had nothing to do with it. So yes, Ireland as a paradigm of understanding and tolerance.
Sooo, what we have here is a link from another country entirely, Northern Ireland, and two links to the same comment by Michael D, who is as daft as a broom. Topping all this off we have a vitriolic anecdote which I'd wager has no evidence at all to back it up. I especially like the "talking in Gaelic" touch, given the extremely low levels of people in Ireland who actually speak "Gaelic".
Yes indeed, your comment makes it clear that racism is alive and well. But not in Ireland. More towards Ireland.
I'll take that bet.
Er, that was my point. None of those were in Ireland. And they aren't going to be.
The economy has been going south for half of those ten years, believe me if it was going to happen it would have happened.