"needs to do is go up to 100 miles to do what the space shuttle does "
Not true. You'd still need a pretty sizeable rocket to get up to orbital velocity. Actually, with a functioning space elevator system, I would guess that it would be cheaper to put things into geostationary orbits than LEO, since you wouldn't need any delta-V (once you get to the altitude of a geostationary orbit).
1) An assumption is what you start with. A conclusion is what you end with.
2) Just because you can't imagine how to do it, doesn't mean it can't be done. Brilliance comes from moving from not being able to imagine something, to accomplishing it.
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"Broadly, because we live in a society based on the rule of law and respect for the property and work of others"
You're begging the question. If your statement were true, there would be no discussion. Clearly, some members of society disagree that intellectual property is similar to physical property.
...just like some novels are bound collections of short stories. There was this guy, with a funny name, who used to do that not infrequently...who was he? Oh yeah. Isaac Asimov.
Let's file this next to "If we change the name of "North Dakota" to "Dakota", people won't think it's cold and snowy."
This despite the fact that it's cold and snowy.
I've got an idea. Rather than try to manage peoples' perceptions by choosing clever language, how about we stop worrying so much about what other people think?
The overwhelming majority of religious persons have never had a news story about them. If you think that most people are religious because otherwise they'd commit suicide, I'd say you have a very limited experience with religious people.
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Please tell me you're not serious.
"What if it is in paractical to build them that way?"
Come again?
All the miles that can be supported by balloons are the easy ones. So, in other words, no.
Yup. Now imagine my annoyance when I actually got a degree in the subject, only to find out that nobody cares anymore.
Hold a spool of thread. Grab the end of the thread, and drop the spool. Bingo.
"needs to do is go up to 100 miles to do what the space shuttle does "
Not true. You'd still need a pretty sizeable rocket to get up to orbital velocity. Actually, with a functioning space elevator system, I would guess that it would be cheaper to put things into geostationary orbits than LEO, since you wouldn't need any delta-V (once you get to the altitude of a geostationary orbit).
You're high, aren't you?
"Ceci n'est pas un sig."
Uh, yeah it is.
The picture was funny because a picture of a pipe is not a pipe. Your sig misses the point because it is, in fact, a sig.
Two thoughts.
1) An assumption is what you start with. A conclusion is what you end with.
2) Just because you can't imagine how to do it, doesn't mean it can't be done. Brilliance comes from moving from not being able to imagine something, to accomplishing it.
Just sayin'.
And I'm in the camp that you assert doesn't exist. I've read the books dozens of times, and thoroughly enjoyed the movie.
YMMV.
You forgot that they're giant carnivorous alien spiders FIGHTING WORLD WAR II.
Great book indeed. I need to read it again.
Believe as you wish, but you're totally mistaken. Hiro is musing about Raven in that quote, and neither of those people were in Diamond Age.
"It's not freedom of speech; it's a flame war."
What? People should not be free to have flame wars? How do you figure?
Who is this "we"? Got a mouse in your pocket?
"Broadly, because we live in a society based on the rule of law and respect for the property and work of others"
You're begging the question. If your statement were true, there would be no discussion. Clearly, some members of society disagree that intellectual property is similar to physical property.
The point remains: The overwhelming majority of religious persons have never had a news story about them. The sane people don't get headlines.
...just like some novels are bound collections of short stories. There was this guy, with a funny name, who used to do that not infrequently...who was he? Oh yeah. Isaac Asimov.
Let's file this next to "If we change the name of "North Dakota" to "Dakota", people won't think it's cold and snowy."
This despite the fact that it's cold and snowy.
I've got an idea. Rather than try to manage peoples' perceptions by choosing clever language, how about we stop worrying so much about what other people think?
If we're going to start enforcing interoperability, how about we start with something a little bit more important than our music collections?
Point to you. : )
Who asked you?
Consider this.
The overwhelming majority of religious persons have never had a news story about them. If you think that most people are religious because otherwise they'd commit suicide, I'd say you have a very limited experience with religious people.
Well, gee! Thanks for sharing your inability to manage your own time! We're so glad to hear about it.
Twit.
Why is it important to you that religion dies?
I DON'T claim to believe in Scripture. I claim to believe in God.
I don't need you, or Sam Harris, or my pastor, or the Pope to approve of my relationship with God. Thanks for asking, though.