Altitude of orbit is irrelevant. The determining factor of whether or not you're in orbit is velocity.
If you ignore air resistance (and intervening terrain), you can orbit the earth at an altitude of five feet. You do have to be going pretty fast. (I'll leave the math as an exercise for the class)
In other words, getting to 100km is easy. Getting to orbital velocity is very, very hard.
Karl Rove? Is that you? Did you seriously just call me a flip flopper?
"Remember what I said about flip-flopping?"
As a matter of fact, I don't. You've said all kinds of nutty things, though, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, and assume that you did. Would you care to enlighten me as to what specifically you're referring to? Go ahead and make up something really crazy. It'll be fun.
I've never really seen somebody argue with themselves before. It's pretty amusing. I mean, you've got this little wind-up fundamentalist in your brain, and you turn the little key, and it spouts out crazy talk (which you attribute to me), and you furiously debate it, throwing up straw men all over the place, and then holler "WHY WON'T YOU ANSWER MY QUESTIONS!?"
Are you having fun? Seriously. Do you even bother to read what I type?
I'm having fun baiting you. You seem to have fun being baited. Win-win.
"You can't defend your beliefs, because you know they're wrong."
Two assertions based on your psychic mojo, bolted together by your assumptions. Good job so far.
"Tell us what you do believe,"
Got a mouse in your pocket? I'm not accountable to you. Any time you wish to have a civil discussion, moderate your tone and we'll have a civil discussion. Until then? Get bent.
"instead of claiming you're a Christian, and then denying everything the bible says."
Uh huh. There aren't any assumptions in that little statement, are there?
That's ridiculous. Every single question you've ever asked me is loaded, and slanted by your preconceptions.
"I'm asking questions you REFUSE to answer."
Yep. I refuse to answer any more of your questions, because answering your last batch didn't make a single dent in your seamless armor of ignorance and bigotry. Why bother?
I assert (and this is, of course, colored by my own personal experience and not much data) that there are large number of Christians who are willing to live and let live, and simply try to be good people without threatening other people with hellfire/damnation/Republican presidents. I think there are a lot more tolerant, open-minded Christians than there are fundamentalist, "You're goin' to the debbil!" Christians.
Most of them can be distinguished by how many syllables are in the name Jesus. If they say "Jesus", you're probably OK. If they say "JAY-sus-SAH!" you're probably in for a bad time.
Yeah, because there are no such thing as after-market parts in the auto industry.
Congratulations, you win this week's Dumbest Car Analogy Award. Please go outside and stare directly into the sun while you wait for your prize to be delivered.
So then all you have to do is call the person who you're sending the document to, and ask them "Hey, what version of Office do you have?" And they'll say "Windows XP", and you'll be FINE!
If "the same" sucks, "more of the same" sucks. If "the same" sucks, "not more of the same" may very well suck.
Microsoft does not know how to execute products. The xBox is the least bad execution they've had recently, but I still don't think it's very good. YMMV.
Not when you are presupposing that I believe the things that you have predetermined to be lies. That is bigotry.
"Asking a member of a religious cult to explain what they believe is open minded, and searching for truth"
If you were asking honest questions, I would have answered them. I attempted to do so before, and failed to get through your preconceptions. I don't care to try again.
"Or are you embarassed about your beliefs because you know they are wrong?"
"I never implied you're afraid of me. You're afraid of your own intellect."
You're the one who's pretending to be psychic, so you've not much of a leg to stand on wrt the supernatural.
"You know that if you continue this discussion and answer my questions, then you will be exposed as a fraud, because you know that you believe things that are provably wrong."
Since you ostensibly don't know what I believe (although I told you several of my principles last week), supposing that I will be exposed as a fraud is a poor hypothesis. If you were truly of a scientific mind (which you're not), you would start from "I do not know. Let's find out." You start from assuming I subscribe to a set of beliefs that you have determined to be wrong. That's bad science.
"but you call yourself a "Christian", then you are a liar, and you know it."
Afraid? Of YOU? That's funny. You don't threaten my faith, so I see no reason to "defend" it. If you wanted to have a discussion, that'd be fine. I know you don't (I've tried before), so I'm not going to bother.
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I don't leave my house without duct tape. The flat-pack stuff is awesome.
If I could get flat-pack gaffer tape, I could take over the universe.
Which is its only true mandate, whether it's on the PR materials or not.
Not that that's necessarily a bad idea...it's just not a very pretty idea.
Altitude of orbit is irrelevant. The determining factor of whether or not you're in orbit is velocity.
If you ignore air resistance (and intervening terrain), you can orbit the earth at an altitude of five feet. You do have to be going pretty fast. (I'll leave the math as an exercise for the class)
In other words, getting to 100km is easy. Getting to orbital velocity is very, very hard.
"price of platinum isn't several billion for a few kilograms of it. "
Then maybe you should keep mining until you have a few (hundred thousand) kilograms.
I happen to think the resource exploitation aspect of Moon and Mars exploration is irrelevant. Colonization is the thing to do. And forget the Moon.
"usually end up as a dead hero when they try to stand up to the gun man or whatever criminal they encounter in life."
That's because the "hero" should have been packing.
Le singe est sur la branch.
"calculate the marginal externality cost and charge it to people."
Here's the problem. Whoever is responsible for that calculation will calculate in a big profit for themselves. Count on it.
Karl Rove? Is that you? Did you seriously just call me a flip flopper?
"Remember what I said about flip-flopping?"
As a matter of fact, I don't. You've said all kinds of nutty things, though, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, and assume that you did. Would you care to enlighten me as to what specifically you're referring to? Go ahead and make up something really crazy. It'll be fun.
I've never really seen somebody argue with themselves before. It's pretty amusing. I mean, you've got this little wind-up fundamentalist in your brain, and you turn the little key, and it spouts out crazy talk (which you attribute to me), and you furiously debate it, throwing up straw men all over the place, and then holler "WHY WON'T YOU ANSWER MY QUESTIONS!?"
Are you having fun? Seriously. Do you even bother to read what I type?
Awww, an internet tough guy! That's just ADORABLE.
At least I put my name on my thoughts.
I'm having fun baiting you. You seem to have fun being baited. Win-win.
"You can't defend your beliefs, because you know they're wrong."
Two assertions based on your psychic mojo, bolted together by your assumptions. Good job so far.
"Tell us what you do believe,"
Got a mouse in your pocket? I'm not accountable to you. Any time you wish to have a civil discussion, moderate your tone and we'll have a civil discussion. Until then? Get bent.
"instead of claiming you're a Christian, and then denying everything the bible says."
Uh huh. There aren't any assumptions in that little statement, are there?
"I'm not presupposing:"
That's ridiculous. Every single question you've ever asked me is loaded, and slanted by your preconceptions.
"I'm asking questions you REFUSE to answer."
Yep. I refuse to answer any more of your questions, because answering your last batch didn't make a single dent in your seamless armor of ignorance and bigotry. Why bother?
I'm not really sure I follow your assertion.
I assert (and this is, of course, colored by my own personal experience and not much data) that there are large number of Christians who are willing to live and let live, and simply try to be good people without threatening other people with hellfire/damnation/Republican presidents. I think there are a lot more tolerant, open-minded Christians than there are fundamentalist, "You're goin' to the debbil!" Christians.
Most of them can be distinguished by how many syllables are in the name Jesus. If they say "Jesus", you're probably OK. If they say "JAY-sus-SAH!" you're probably in for a bad time.
Yeah, because there are no such thing as after-market parts in the auto industry.
Congratulations, you win this week's Dumbest Car Analogy Award. Please go outside and stare directly into the sun while you wait for your prize to be delivered.
You work somewhere without idiots? Are you accepting applications?
Software that is designed with the presupposition that it will not be used by idiots is defective out of the box.
Make me. *sticks out tongue*
So then all you have to do is call the person who you're sending the document to, and ask them "Hey, what version of Office do you have?" And they'll say "Windows XP", and you'll be FINE!
Genius. Don't know why I didn't think of that.
Oh yeah, because it's really stupid. Never mind.
If "the same" sucks, "more of the same" sucks. If "the same" sucks, "not more of the same" may very well suck.
Microsoft does not know how to execute products. The xBox is the least bad execution they've had recently, but I still don't think it's very good. YMMV.
"Calling a liar on his lies is not bigotry."
Not when you are presupposing that I believe the things that you have predetermined to be lies. That is bigotry.
"Asking a member of a religious cult to explain what they believe is open minded, and searching for truth"
If you were asking honest questions, I would have answered them. I attempted to do so before, and failed to get through your preconceptions. I don't care to try again.
"Or are you embarassed about your beliefs because you know they are wrong?"
You're remarkably bad at reading.
"I never implied you're afraid of me. You're afraid of your own intellect."
You're the one who's pretending to be psychic, so you've not much of a leg to stand on wrt the supernatural.
"You know that if you continue this discussion and answer my questions, then you will be exposed as a fraud, because you know that you believe things that are provably wrong."
Since you ostensibly don't know what I believe (although I told you several of my principles last week), supposing that I will be exposed as a fraud is a poor hypothesis. If you were truly of a scientific mind (which you're not), you would start from "I do not know. Let's find out." You start from assuming I subscribe to a set of beliefs that you have determined to be wrong. That's bad science.
"but you call yourself a "Christian", then you are a liar, and you know it."
That's your baggage, not mine. Have a nice day.
"You're just on the wrong end of a losing argument."
Hey, whatever makes you feel good. No skin off my nose.
"You know you're intellectually dishonest,"
I do, do I?
"and your beliefs are self serving bullshit."
Which you know, because...you're psychic. COOL!
"Why don't you tell us what you really do believe, so we can openly discuss it?"
That didn't work last week, so I have no expectation that it would work now. You're a bigot, and there's no point discussing anything with you.
"You're just afraid to defend you faith"
Afraid? Of YOU? That's funny. You don't threaten my faith, so I see no reason to "defend" it. If you wanted to have a discussion, that'd be fine. I know you don't (I've tried before), so I'm not going to bother.
Have a nice day.
OK, again: I'm not getting into this with you. You've got your bigotry to keep you warm at night, so you have no need for my discussion.
"Otherwise you're just purposefully misleading people (and yourself) when you call yourself a "Christian"."
I am not responsible for your false premises.
Try a FIFO sort. IE: The more recently espoused principles are the better ones.
I'm not getting into this with you again. Your discussion has no value.