Factoring in all the extra weight for return equipment (booster rocket, fuel, fuel, fuel) the solar engine takes longer to accelerate.
Of course it does. A one minute burn at one G (9.81 m/s^2) would produce a velocity of over 2100 km/hr. But try steering at that speed.
Also consider that returning to a stop would require as much fuel as accelerating. It's best to go slow in-system, so you can see what to avoid, and save the top speeds for outside the solar system where there is, theoretically, less junk to run into.
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...but as I recall, Federal Regs allow you to opt of out their sharing of your information with other companies for the purpose of marketing. Now, this opt out can, and should, be extended to include TiVo's partners; this is, if you say TiVo can't sell your info, then neither can their partners.
Of course, that's the idealist in me speaking again...
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As those cells divide, the baby will have a serious deficity as an entire source or exponential division is missing!! I mean, that baby is going to divide strangely, and probably develop a cleft pallet or something!
At the 8-cell stage, there is no cell differentiation. The embryo just continues along. IIRC, differentiation doesn't set in for another 10 or so divisions.
It's at that point the cells start deciding what they will be. This exact process by which this happens is not really understood. Scientists can take such cells and tweak them into becoming certain things, but there is still a lot of trial and error.
Unfortunately, stem cell research is under fire here in the States because of the Right to Life crowd...
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I wonder if the NRO would be upset if someone launched such a nanosat and then wandered over to one of their spysats and started taking video. ..
Not as upset as they would be if another bot came over and starting cutting into it with a radial saw blade. (Yes, I watched Battle Bots last night.)
Even more amusing would be a sat-bot that kept repositioning itself in front of a spybot so that the only pics the spybot got were of the blocker... I bet then we'd find out if those spybots had any weaponry...:)
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What are they going to call real nano-satelites when the technology can get us down to the atomic scale?
I don't think they will ever get them down that small. You're talking about absolutely huge volumes of space... I mean, this would be beyond needle in a haystack, you're looking at single grain of sand on a beach.
Besides, at true nano size, you're not talking about enough size or power to actually do anything. Not in the scale of space you're looking at, anyway...
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If we even plan on having permanent orbital habitations, something like this is definately needed, both for removing debris from orbit, and to ensure the safety and integrity of such a habitat.
Of course, part of me wishes they looked more like the repair bots from Babylon-5...
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Um, there is no online trading going on at the nasdaq.com website. Its a pure information source.
Right, but people go there to check their stocks. If they see inaccurate numbers, they will act on them, thus producing whatever effect the person who supplied the incorrect information wanted.
Remember the old saying, "Possession in nine tenths of the law" ?
Well, here's a new one for you:
"Perception is nine tenths of reality."
Think about it... If a stock (or whatever) is seen as uncertain or shaky, then it really doesn't matter how well it actually is doing, it becomes uncertain and shaky...
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...Microsoft will use Word to produce it's briefs... I just wonder if they fixed that 'feature' in the word count where it didn't count the footnotes/endnotes.
I remember seeing an article a while back about this, and how one Appeals circut court said briefs couldn't be filed if they were written with Word because of said incorrectness of the word count.
Apparantly, those judges are right anal about how long legal briefs can be; supposedly they've rejected briefs that were one word over...
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You can call TiVo and opt out of their data collection. People always forget about the opt-out policies most of these companies have. And before someone jumps on me about trusting some company, my company does marketing data collection and believe me, we do EVERYTHING we can to make sure we follow our privacy policy or else we get in real trouble. I expect someone like TiVo to do the same.
Good point. Companies are required to have opt out options. Now, they can make it difficult, but it is there. And no matter what they may imply, opting out does not void your warrenty or service agreement.
And even if you didn't opt out, think how much fun you could have messing with the data... Turn the picture and sound down, and leave the box on the Cartoon channel for a long weekend. Or get the TV guide, some Lego Mindstorms, and program a robot to switch the TV over to every episode of Gunsmoke you can find, while you're at work... (What? You don't think the Nielson people aren't going to want in on this data?) The humor possibilties are endless...
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Armey: We have little choice in this matter. Summon the Independent Counsel!
Amusing, but the Independant Counsel law was not renewed by Congress. The Attorney General appoints someone to investigate things now (I think that they are called Special Prosecutors, but I don't recall clearly.)
Of course, this is the same AG that doesn't see any reason to appoint one to look into Gore's fund raising efforts (even though all her underlings think she should), and since the current Adminstration likes Carnivore, I don't see it happening here either...
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I still don't believe in voting for the least objectionable candidate who has a certain percentage chance of winning. I believe in voting for someone who represents me... even if that's me, and I'm the only one who votes for me (which I haven't actually done yet, by the way, but I might).
Well, like most people, I like being on a winning side. Nobody really likes saying 'I voted for some schmuck who didn't even place third in our state', they like voting for the winner, or a loser who at least put in a good show.
And I did consider not voting, but that's a cop out, because then I would have no right to bitch when whichever batch of idiots that gets elected screws things up...
The only thing I don't get, though, is that you say you don't agree with a lot of what Dubya says... but somehow the promise to be responsible for his actions resonates with you (say, speaking of which, whatever happened to that cocaine question?). Man, I just don't get it.
I forgot about that coke thing... Hmmm...
But my take on his 'responsibility' promise is that when he screws up, he'll take the heat for it, unlike the Clintons and Gore who blame all their problems on other people, or a "right wing conspiracy".
And who cares about the South Carolina flag (unless, uh, you live there, I guess, and even then it's a pretty goddamn goofy-ass issue to elect a president on)?
Ahhh, but I'm not electing him on that. When the four candidates (Bush, McCain, Gore, and whatshisname) came to South Carolina, both of the Democrats said the flag should come down; whereas both the Republicans said it was for the people of South Carolina to decide. (McCain later recanted this.)
Now, I'm not a racist. I lived across the street from where the flag was flown for a year without even knowing it was there. I honestly could care less about the damn thing. However, I look at the decision, as well as the viewpoints of the candidates, as a state's rights issue. Which power is subserviant to the other? State or federal? The Constitution says that the federal government is subserviant to the states, but for the last few decades, those state's rights have been eroded by a federal government that believes that it knows best.
I would guess that most South Carolinians don't honestly care about the flag either; they just aren't the ones that get on the news.
But! I will say this... Al Gore is nowhere near as funny as Bush, so for sheer entertainment value I suppose you can't go wrong with Dubya.
I think that the best quote I've heard concerning this was that "Gore talks to people like he's a second grade special education teacher dealing with an exceptionally slow class."
Ah, but who am I kidding. I'm writing in Jesse Ventura for president this year. And Hulk Hogan for vice-president.
Please... Rick Flair would be a far better VP choice...:)
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My point was, if you hate Gore, that does not mean you have to vote for Bush. It's a false dichotomy. It's phony. It's a cheap way to try to excuse yourself of the fact that you are voting for a total moron.
Well, let's take a look at the candidates:
Gore - Dislike his politics, dislike his wife's politics (I like rock music), dislike Clinton's politics (which Gore is the inheritor of), so he's a no go.
Bush - Disagree with a lot of what he says, but he promises to take responsibility for his own actions, and after the last 8 years, we need someone who will say that. Also the only candidate (from a major party) who said that the South Carolina Confederate Flag issue was for South Carolinians alone to decide.
Nader - This is America damnit! If we want to drive big, unsafe cars, that's our right! Ok... Honestly, don't know enough about him to make a truely informed decision. Tho, my mother likes him, and since we disagree on everything, that may be a strike against him.
Buchanan - Sorry, I like my Nazis in Germany, in a ditch, on fire... Now, that's fun... I mean, that's funny. (Bonus points if you identify the quote.) As you can tell from the above, I don't like the man, or his politics. And before anyone asks, I do actually
consider myself Christian....
A vote for Bush is not a vote against Gore, it's a vote for an idiot.
So? So was a vote for Reagan. His presidency worked because he knew what he didn't know. And got good people in to help him cover his ass in that regard.
When you pick your candidate, you are choosing someone to represent you. There aren't any boxes on the ballot that say "I hate Al". You pick who you want. If you want to pick "I'm with stupid", that's fine, but don't play like that's not what you're doing.
I know exactly what I'm doing. I'm voting for the person I see as the least objectionable candidate.
If you really don't want to vote for an asshole, then pick someone else... write yourself in if you have to.
And how do you know I'm not an asshole? By saying that I'm not, you're disagreeing with most of my family.
Likewise, I don't know that Bush is an asshole. I've never met him or had an in-depth conversation with the man. I don't trust first impressions, after all, I thought that Clinton might be good president that first six months or so...
It'd be nice if there were a "None of the above" option, but we don't have that, and voting for one wanker "against" the other wanker is hardly a substitute.
But at least I get to choose which wanker... If I didn't have a choice, then it might be different.
I'm voting the way I am because there really isn't a viable third party candidate. Hell, I don't think that Nader or Buchanan are even on the ballot in my state...
But, having said that, if there were a third party candidate, who I thought had at least a one in ten chance of winning, I would not only vote for them, I would probably campaign for them. But I want that one in ten. (Bonus points for that quote, too.)
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I second this. You know, I don't consider myself a sandal wearing tree-hugging nut, but I do really think it is stupid that environmentalism is considered radical. It really is dumb. Environmental soundness should not be percieved as radical, but should be the *default* modus operandi.
P.J. O'Rourke talked about this in his books, Parliment of Whores and All the Trouble in the World.
Environmentalism is a special interest group. However, it tries to go beyond that by appeals such as "the environment affects everyone", which is true. I don't disagree with environmentalism per se, but when the environmental groups make statements such as, "...the environment must be preserved, regardless of cost..." you have to wonder what part of it they are smoking.
Now, as far a global warming, and the like goes, does anyone here remember what the big environmental scare of the 70s was?
Global cooling.
And guess what you could do then to prevent global cooling, and stop those glaciers from crashing down on us? The exact same things that are being touted as the cures for global warming.
And Gore's one of the worst of the bunch. In one of his books, I think it was Earth in the Balance, he advocated raising the taxes on fossil fuels so high that no one would use them.
(Of course, he's also advocated moving all chemical companies out of the US, to help the environment...)
By the way, for those wondering, I'm not voting for Bush... I'm voting against Gore...
Yeah that will be much easier that cleaning up the one we have now.
Actually it might be. Given the toxicity and lifespan of some the garbage we've produced on this planet, moving could be considered an option.
However, before that could happen, we'd have to have a much less expensive system of getting goods to orbit; such as the various SSTO projects that made the news a couple years ago.
Unfortunately, there isn't a lot of 'local' real estate that's any good nearby...
BTW, anyone got an english translation of the article? For some reason, the Fish is blocked from where I am.
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Wow... An AC with a good point.
Had to happen eventually.
I'd be happy if everything in the Office Suite
(which I'm forced to use at work) would just talk to each other...
I mean, is there any real reason that Access can't export a report in Word format???
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Factoring in all the extra weight for return equipment (booster rocket, fuel, fuel, fuel) the solar engine takes longer to accelerate.
Of course it does. A one minute burn at one G (9.81 m/s^2) would produce a velocity of over 2100 km/hr. But try steering at that speed.
Also consider that returning to a stop would require as much fuel as accelerating. It's best to go slow in-system, so you can see what to avoid, and save the top speeds for outside the solar system where there is, theoretically, less junk to run into.
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The article didn't go into this, but how would a vessel equiped with such a propulsion system return to Earth?
Could it tack back into the solar wind for the return trip?
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...but as I recall, Federal Regs allow you to opt of out their sharing of your information with other companies for the purpose of marketing. Now, this opt out can, and should, be extended to include TiVo's partners; this is, if you say TiVo can't sell your info, then neither can their partners.
Of course, that's the idealist in me speaking again...
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A human body that has never developed a brain cannot possibly be a person, so who is there to worry about?
Thus explaining 98% of the Anonymous Cowards...
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As those cells divide, the baby will have a serious deficity as an entire source or exponential division is missing!! I mean, that baby is going to divide strangely, and probably develop a cleft pallet or something!
At the 8-cell stage, there is no cell differentiation. The embryo just continues along. IIRC, differentiation doesn't set in for another 10 or so divisions.
It's at that point the cells start deciding what they will be. This exact process by which this happens is not really understood. Scientists can take such cells and tweak them into becoming certain things, but there is still a lot of trial and error.
Unfortunately, stem cell research is under fire here in the States because of the Right to Life crowd...
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However, Perl isn't "shakey language". It's fairly versitile, and stable.
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I wonder if the NRO would be upset if someone launched such a nanosat and then wandered over to one of their spysats and started taking video. . .
:)
Not as upset as they would be if another bot came over and starting cutting into it with a radial saw blade. (Yes, I watched Battle Bots last night.)
Even more amusing would be a sat-bot that kept repositioning itself in front of a spybot so that the only pics the spybot got were of the blocker... I bet then we'd find out if those spybots had any weaponry...
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What are they going to call real nano-satelites when the technology can get us down to the atomic scale?
I don't think they will ever get them down that small. You're talking about absolutely huge volumes of space... I mean, this would be beyond needle in a haystack, you're looking at single grain of sand on a beach.
Besides, at true nano size, you're not talking about enough size or power to actually do anything. Not in the scale of space you're looking at, anyway...
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If we even plan on having permanent orbital habitations, something like this is definately needed, both for removing debris from orbit, and to ensure the safety and integrity of such a habitat.
Of course, part of me wishes they looked more like the repair bots from Babylon-5...
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Um, there is no online trading going on at the nasdaq.com website. Its a pure information source.
Right, but people go there to check their stocks. If they see inaccurate numbers, they will act on them, thus producing whatever effect the person who supplied the incorrect information wanted.
Remember the old saying, "Possession in nine tenths of the law" ?
Well, here's a new one for you:
"Perception is nine tenths of reality."
Think about it... If a stock (or whatever) is seen as uncertain or shaky, then it really doesn't matter how well it actually is doing, it becomes uncertain and shaky...
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Sorry, but Jobs is not the Walrus.
(Yes, I know, different album, but you get the point.)
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...Microsoft will use Word to produce it's briefs... I just wonder if they fixed that 'feature' in the word count where it didn't count the footnotes/endnotes.
I remember seeing an article a while back about this, and how one Appeals circut court said briefs couldn't be filed if they were written with Word because of said incorrectness of the word count.
Apparantly, those judges are right anal about how long legal briefs can be; supposedly they've rejected briefs that were one word over...
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You can call TiVo and opt out of their data collection. People always forget about the opt-out policies most of these companies have. And before someone jumps on me about trusting some company, my company does marketing data collection and believe me, we do EVERYTHING we can to make sure we follow our privacy policy or else we get in real trouble. I expect someone like TiVo to do the same.
Good point. Companies are required to have opt out options. Now, they can make it difficult, but it is there. And no matter what they may imply, opting out does not void your warrenty or service agreement.
And even if you didn't opt out, think how much fun you could have messing with the data... Turn the picture and sound down, and leave the box on the Cartoon channel for a long weekend. Or get the TV guide, some Lego Mindstorms, and program a robot to switch the TV over to every episode of Gunsmoke you can find, while you're at work... (What? You don't think the Nielson people aren't going to want in on this data?) The humor possibilties are endless...
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Anyway, as the King of the World, I should know about these things. What am I missing? Why are people so against targeted advertising?
Are people seeing the 'targeted commercial' stuff as another invasion of privacy?
Dunno... I'd probably buy one of these things if it meant never having to sit through another bad homemade commercial for a used car lot.
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Armey: We have little choice in this matter. Summon the Independent Counsel!
Amusing, but the Independant Counsel law was not renewed by Congress. The Attorney General appoints someone to investigate things now (I think that they are called Special Prosecutors, but I don't recall clearly.)
Of course, this is the same AG that doesn't see any reason to appoint one to look into Gore's fund raising efforts (even though all her underlings think she should), and since the current Adminstration likes Carnivore, I don't see it happening here either...
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I still don't believe in voting for the least objectionable candidate who has a certain percentage chance of winning. I believe in voting for someone who represents me... even if that's me, and I'm the only one who votes for me (which I haven't actually done yet, by the way, but I might).
:)
Well, like most people, I like being on a winning side. Nobody really likes saying 'I voted for some schmuck who didn't even place third in our state', they like voting for the winner, or a loser who at least put in a good show.
And I did consider not voting, but that's a cop out, because then I would have no right to bitch when whichever batch of idiots that gets elected screws things up...
The only thing I don't get, though, is that you say you don't agree with a lot of what Dubya says... but somehow the promise to be responsible for his actions resonates with you (say, speaking of which, whatever happened to that cocaine question?). Man, I just don't get it.
I forgot about that coke thing... Hmmm...
But my take on his 'responsibility' promise is that when he screws up, he'll take the heat for it, unlike the Clintons and Gore who blame all their problems on other people, or a "right wing conspiracy".
And who cares about the South Carolina flag (unless, uh, you live there, I guess, and even then it's a pretty goddamn goofy-ass issue to elect a president on)?
Ahhh, but I'm not electing him on that. When the four candidates (Bush, McCain, Gore, and whatshisname) came to South Carolina, both of the Democrats said the flag should come down; whereas both the Republicans said it was for the people of South Carolina to decide. (McCain later recanted this.)
Now, I'm not a racist. I lived across the street from where the flag was flown for a year without even knowing it was there. I honestly could care less about the damn thing. However, I look at the decision, as well as the viewpoints of the candidates, as a state's rights issue. Which power is subserviant to the other? State or federal? The Constitution says that the federal government is subserviant to the states, but for the last few decades, those state's rights have been eroded by a federal government that believes that it knows best.
I would guess that most South Carolinians don't honestly care about the flag either; they just aren't the ones that get on the news.
But! I will say this... Al Gore is nowhere near as funny as Bush, so for sheer entertainment value I suppose you can't go wrong with Dubya.
I think that the best quote I've heard concerning this was that "Gore talks to people like he's a second grade special education teacher dealing with an exceptionally slow class."
Ah, but who am I kidding. I'm writing in Jesse Ventura for president this year. And Hulk Hogan for vice-president.
Please... Rick Flair would be a far better VP choice...
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Those cute chimes by CmdrTaco et all are usually bad enough, but they're nothing compared to this gem from Wired:
"The CueCat is a cheapo bar-code scanner that looks like a marital aid and plugs into a computer's keyboard socket."
You know, I was going to hook one of these readers up to some Lego Mindstorms right up until I saw this...
I just can't do it now... I have this sick image of Lego robots trying to mate with each other...
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Well, let's take a look at the candidates:
Gore - Dislike his politics, dislike his wife's politics (I like rock music), dislike Clinton's politics (which Gore is the inheritor of), so he's a no go.
Bush - Disagree with a lot of what he says, but he promises to take responsibility for his own actions, and after the last 8 years, we need someone who will say that. Also the only candidate (from a major party) who said that the South Carolina Confederate Flag issue was for South Carolinians alone to decide.
Nader - This is America damnit! If we want to drive big, unsafe cars, that's our right! Ok... Honestly, don't know enough about him to make a truely informed decision. Tho, my mother likes him, and since we disagree on everything, that may be a strike against him.
Buchanan - Sorry, I like my Nazis in Germany, in a ditch, on fire... Now, that's fun... I mean, that's funny. (Bonus points if you identify the quote.) As you can tell from the above, I don't like the man, or his politics. And before anyone asks, I do actually consider myself Christian....
A vote for Bush is not a vote against Gore, it's a vote for an idiot.
So? So was a vote for Reagan. His presidency worked because he knew what he didn't know. And got good people in to help him cover his ass in that regard.
When you pick your candidate, you are choosing someone to represent you. There aren't any boxes on the ballot that say "I hate Al". You pick who you want. If you want to pick "I'm with stupid", that's fine, but don't play like that's not what you're doing.
I know exactly what I'm doing. I'm voting for the person I see as the least objectionable candidate.
If you really don't want to vote for an asshole, then pick someone else... write yourself in if you have to.
And how do you know I'm not an asshole? By saying that I'm not, you're disagreeing with most of my family.
Likewise, I don't know that Bush is an asshole. I've never met him or had an in-depth conversation with the man. I don't trust first impressions, after all, I thought that Clinton might be good president that first six months or so...
It'd be nice if there were a "None of the above" option, but we don't have that, and voting for one wanker "against" the other wanker is hardly a substitute.
But at least I get to choose which wanker... If I didn't have a choice, then it might be different.
I'm voting the way I am because there really isn't a viable third party candidate. Hell, I don't think that Nader or Buchanan are even on the ballot in my state...
But, having said that, if there were a third party candidate, who I thought had at least a one in ten chance of winning, I would not only vote for them, I would probably campaign for them. But I want that one in ten. (Bonus points for that quote, too.)
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I second this. You know, I don't consider myself a sandal wearing tree-hugging nut, but I do really think it is stupid that environmentalism is considered radical. It really is dumb. Environmental soundness should not be percieved as radical, but should be the *default* modus operandi.
P.J. O'Rourke talked about this in his books, Parliment of Whores and All the Trouble in the World.
Environmentalism is a special interest group. However, it tries to go beyond that by appeals such as "the environment affects everyone", which is true. I don't disagree with environmentalism per se, but when the environmental groups make statements such as, "...the environment must be preserved, regardless of cost..." you have to wonder what part of it they are smoking.
Now, as far a global warming, and the like goes, does anyone here remember what the big environmental scare of the 70s was?
Global cooling.
And guess what you could do then to prevent global cooling, and stop those glaciers from crashing down on us? The exact same things that are being touted as the cures for global warming.
And Gore's one of the worst of the bunch. In one of his books, I think it was Earth in the Balance, he advocated raising the taxes on fossil fuels so high that no one would use them.
(Of course, he's also advocated moving all chemical companies out of the US, to help the environment...)
By the way, for those wondering, I'm not voting for Bush... I'm voting against Gore...
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Yeah that will be much easier that cleaning up the one we have now.
Actually it might be. Given the toxicity and lifespan of some the garbage we've produced on this planet, moving could be considered an option.
However, before that could happen, we'd have to have a much less expensive system of getting goods to orbit; such as the various SSTO projects that made the news a couple years ago.
Unfortunately, there isn't a lot of 'local' real estate that's any good nearby...
BTW, anyone got an english translation of the article? For some reason, the Fish is blocked from where I am.
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Off-topic, I know, so go ahead and mod me down, but...
I saw a quik-shop clerk taking twinkies off the shelf the other day, and when I asked him why, he said that,
"They were too old"
Isn't that a sign of the apocolypse or something? If it isn't, it should be...
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I never thought I'd be old enough to see Twinkies expire.
But what has he done recently? (Programming wise...)
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Not yet... :)
Doing a web search now for it...
The name comes from a LARP I used to play; it was a nickname given to my budding young Necromancer character...
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Nope. In fact, it's already been installed, and your home is now considered a propritary database by CueCat.
Any attempt to use the bathroom will be met with legal action.
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Wow... An AC with a good point.
Had to happen eventually.
I'd be happy if everything in the Office Suite (which I'm forced to use at work) would just talk to each other...
I mean, is there any real reason that Access can't export a report in Word format???
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