Science classes promote critical thinking, fact checking, and knowledge about the world. English and other "soft" classes promote creativity, expressive thinking, and knowledge about people. You can't be a productive member of society unless you're both productive (science) and an actual member of society (English, etc).
In other words, both sides need to stfu. The current system works fine.
This sounds shockingly similar to the (possibly still-ongoing, I'm not sure) controversy over 36-hour shifts for doctors. The only real justification is "We did it when we were young, so today's young'uns should do it too! Never mind what the data says!"
In English, you don't have to pull out the fancy Latin grammar if you don't want to. How often do people talk about penises, not penes? Or their Facebook statuses, instead of their Facebook status (preferably with a long mark over the u)?
It's about signals processing time. It doesn't matter how long it takes your brakes to stop your car if it takes you too long to figure out that you're supposed to brake in the first place.
Skip Tolstoy. War and Peace was awful. Just awful. I like long, slow, epic-scale novels. But W&P wasn't a novel, it was a diatribe. It was a rant against historians, generals, and politicians, all the while lauding the societies that produced them. The characters were less interesting than Attack of the Clones, and the battle scenes were so vague and undescriptive as to be bewildering (much of this last may have been translation problems, but I was using Maude's translation, which was supposedly approved by Tolstoy).
Also, I realize it was the culture at the time, but godDAMN that man was sexist. I was going to read Anna Karenina after W&P, but after the treatment Natasha and Mary got, I don't even want to know how the man would handle a novel whose entire focus is on a woman. An entire book where the author thinks of the main character as subhuman? It'd be like Forrest Gump, only not endearing.
I always preferred The Screwtape Letters to Lewis' other works. It's a fun read, and an interesting look at the psychological nature of temptation even if you don't go in for the religious aspects of it.
They're don't exist yet. We're only what, three generations removed from the $6,000,000 man? The gene pool needs more time for the value to spread around.
Dieppe was World War 2, not World War 1. And Bishop's 72 victories puts him at #4 in the war, and #2 of those who survived. The Red Baron had 80, and France's Rene Fonck (who also survived) had 75.
In World War I, a war where battles would often be counted as a loss by both sides, the Canadians never lost a battle. By the end of the war, the Germans had a network of spies dedicated to finding out what part of the line the Canadians were being sent to, because that was where the next attack would come from.
In World War II, the influx of volunteer Canadian pilots kept the RAF from being attritted into nothingness during the Battle of Britain. On D-Day, the Canadians at Juno Beach faced stiffer resistance than any other beachhead except Omaha - by day's end they had penetrated deeper into France than any of the other four beachheads. Later, it was the Canadians who drove the German Fifteenth Army, at that time the last fully cohesive German unit in the region, off their superbly-fortified position overlooking (and denying naval access to) the port of Antwerp, which the Allies desperately needed for supplies and which the British had failed to open.
You can joke all you want, but you seriously don't want to fuck with the Canadian military (and no, I'm not Canadian).
"Wants to know what building on the base would be the best target to drive his truck loaded with explosives into" does not necessarily require "has the capability to launch spy satellites"
Yes, now. At first we were kept in balance by birth rate. Few of us were ever born, less than a handful each year. Then, I think, the Universe decided that to appreciate life, for there to be change and growth, life had to be short. So the generations that followed us grew old and infirm, and died. But those of us who were first went on. We discovered the Vorlons and the Shadows when they were infant races and nourished them, helped them and all the other races you call the First Ones. In time most of them died, or passed beyond the rim to whatever lies in the darkness between galaxies. We've lived too long, seen too much. To live on as we have is to leave behind joy and love and companionship, because we know it to be transitory, of the moment. We know it will turn to ash. Only those whose lives are brief can imagine that love is eternal. You should embrace that remarkable illusion; it may be the greatest gift your race has ever received.
TFA only tells half the story. MSNBC has more. Dragon is fine, but it's possible that the launch's secondary objective, which was to put the first of an 18-satellite telecom array into a tricky high-inclination orbit, went a little screwy as well, and the sat isn't in the proper orbit at the moment. Details are still being dug out.
Do you people realize the significance of this? If this Project 1794 was the saucer that crashed 27 miles outside Roswell and was taken to Area 51...1794/(51+27)=
So what? Nobody cared about lunar geology or the LEM's stability problems, either. They cared about astronaut ice cream and a guy playing golf on the moon. If it weren't for stunts like this, nearly everyone would forget that we landed an SUV on Mars at all. When Curiosity tweets, or releases a Will.i.am single, or does something else that the public actually cares about, it reminds people how NASA can do awesome things.
Like it or not, the way to get more space funding is to put popular fads in space.
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In other words, both sides need to stfu. The current system works fine.
This sounds shockingly similar to the (possibly still-ongoing, I'm not sure) controversy over 36-hour shifts for doctors. The only real justification is "We did it when we were young, so today's young'uns should do it too! Never mind what the data says!"
Worse: they're running the simulations in ANSYS.
They've got 72,000 cores, but their software license only allows them to use 2 at a time.
In English, you don't have to pull out the fancy Latin grammar if you don't want to. How often do people talk about penises, not penes? Or their Facebook statuses, instead of their Facebook status (preferably with a long mark over the u)?
It's about signals processing time. It doesn't matter how long it takes your brakes to stop your car if it takes you too long to figure out that you're supposed to brake in the first place.
Nah. The next version of the Driverless software will target bad human drivers and run them off the road, increasing safety for everyone else!
Also, I realize it was the culture at the time, but godDAMN that man was sexist. I was going to read Anna Karenina after W&P, but after the treatment Natasha and Mary got, I don't even want to know how the man would handle a novel whose entire focus is on a woman. An entire book where the author thinks of the main character as subhuman? It'd be like Forrest Gump, only not endearing.
http://xkcd.com/1070/
I always preferred The Screwtape Letters to Lewis' other works. It's a fun read, and an interesting look at the psychological nature of temptation even if you don't go in for the religious aspects of it.
What about when I choked on a pretzel?
They're don't exist yet. We're only what, three generations removed from the $6,000,000 man? The gene pool needs more time for the value to spread around.
Dieppe was World War 2, not World War 1. And Bishop's 72 victories puts him at #4 in the war, and #2 of those who survived. The Red Baron had 80, and France's Rene Fonck (who also survived) had 75.
In World War II, the influx of volunteer Canadian pilots kept the RAF from being attritted into nothingness during the Battle of Britain. On D-Day, the Canadians at Juno Beach faced stiffer resistance than any other beachhead except Omaha - by day's end they had penetrated deeper into France than any of the other four beachheads. Later, it was the Canadians who drove the German Fifteenth Army, at that time the last fully cohesive German unit in the region, off their superbly-fortified position overlooking (and denying naval access to) the port of Antwerp, which the Allies desperately needed for supplies and which the British had failed to open.
You can joke all you want, but you seriously don't want to fuck with the Canadian military (and no, I'm not Canadian).
"Wants to know what building on the base would be the best target to drive his truck loaded with explosives into" does not necessarily require "has the capability to launch spy satellites"
I thought for a minute that we were getting more hilarious news out of the Kentucky Department of Education.
Nothing lives forever.
Yes, now. At first we were kept in balance by birth rate. Few of us were ever born, less than a handful each year. Then, I think, the Universe decided that to appreciate life, for there to be change and growth, life had to be short. So the generations that followed us grew old and infirm, and died. But those of us who were first went on. We discovered the Vorlons and the Shadows when they were infant races and nourished them, helped them and all the other races you call the First Ones. In time most of them died, or passed beyond the rim to whatever lies in the darkness between galaxies. We've lived too long, seen too much. To live on as we have is to leave behind joy and love and companionship, because we know it to be transitory, of the moment. We know it will turn to ash. Only those whose lives are brief can imagine that love is eternal. You should embrace that remarkable illusion; it may be the greatest gift your race has ever received.
That would ban most middle-aged mothers as well.
Dragon is fine, but...
Did you miss that part of my post? The telecom satellite is separate from the resupply mission.
TFA only tells half the story. MSNBC has more. Dragon is fine, but it's possible that the launch's secondary objective, which was to put the first of an 18-satellite telecom array into a tricky high-inclination orbit, went a little screwy as well, and the sat isn't in the proper orbit at the moment. Details are still being dug out.
Do you people realize the significance of this? If this Project 1794 was the saucer that crashed 27 miles outside Roswell and was taken to Area 51...1794/(51+27)=
THE NUMBER TWENTY-THREE!!
I feel it would be awesome to be married to a national-champion level karateka. What's the most badass thing you've ever seen your wife do?
Your anus is a spiral? You should get that looked at. If not by a doctor, then by a porn producer.
Like it or not, the way to get more space funding is to put popular fads in space.