I think you're right. After looking into how much they shook up the old design process, I'm not getting in one until they've flown a few thousand times.
Let me guess: you are European, which means you come from a culture that never invented the wheel, writing, civilization, base 10, gunpowder. But European cultures were close enough to other massive cultures that were able to invent them. And you are going to use that fact to judge an isolated culture trapped in a desert the size of the US that even today with modern technology still only maintains a population of a few million. How many hunters and gatherers did it support. Less than 1 million? A hundred thousand?
And you find it surprising that they didn't match the accomplishments of a continent that spans half the globe and today supports 4 billion people.
Uh, no. From the stand point of trying to set policy, your position is ridiculous. Disregarding that, it's bad science. The first scientific question isn't whether humans are causing the warming or not, it's "What is the proximate cause of the warming?" As far as I know, several possibilities have been looked at: Solar output fluctuations, variations in cosmic rays, increased GHG. Each one gets a Null Hypothesis of "It's not the cause."
Once you're convinced that GHGs are the primary cause, then the next question becomes, "Why are GHGs increasing?" and so on.
What if Julian Jaynes is right? Then the mere act of living with humans and learning to communicate as they do may change the way a bird thinks, perhaps even give it a sentience of a sort.
September 11 was the opening tragedy that sparked off hundreds more tragedies of equal proportion. It holds just as much significance to millions of people around the globe because of what followed from it as it does to the people directly affected that day.
What you ask is the equivalent of not talking about WWII on Dec 7th. The number of people who lost loved ones because of 9/11 is far greater than the number of people who lost loved ones on 9/11. You should forgive them that their perspective is different and necessarily more political than yours.
9/11 can be about remembrance of those who died.... for those who remember them. For the vast majority of the rest of us, the meaning of the day is different.
How about they actually enforce drunk driving laws? If they arrested every drunk driver in my town we'd lose 20% of the adult population each Friday and Saturday night to prisons.
I'll be frank with you, I don't understand how modern science is based on this premise. If, for example, there were a causeless event, it would be science and scientists that would delineate the limitations of the concept of cause and effect through investigation. It seems to me that they've already done so.
But the real question is what, if anything, did Gore actually do to create the modern Internet? According to Vincent Cerf, a senior vice president with MCI Worldcom who's been called the Father of the Internet, "The Internet would not be where it is in the United States without the strong support given to it and related research areas by the Vice President in his current role and in his earlier role as Senator."
Jabbing at Quayle for misspelling potato is also not fair, though he attempted to correct a student who had spelled it correctly. I don't see why one unfair but true media frenzy should justify another unfair and false one. But forget the poatoe incident. The reason so many think of Quayle as a dolt is because he admonished a fictional character for getting pregnant. That, and his obviously shallow understanding of the issues. He was Sarah Palin before Sarah Palin was cool.
Ripping on Gore for picking Lieberman for Veep is totally legitimate.
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I think you're right. After looking into how much they shook up the old design process, I'm not getting in one until they've flown a few thousand times.
Ah HA, Shakespeare used spaces, too.
Let me guess: you are European, which means you come from a culture that never invented the wheel, writing, civilization, base 10, gunpowder. But European cultures were close enough to other massive cultures that were able to invent them. And you are going to use that fact to judge an isolated culture trapped in a desert the size of the US that even today with modern technology still only maintains a population of a few million. How many hunters and gatherers did it support. Less than 1 million? A hundred thousand?
And you find it surprising that they didn't match the accomplishments of a continent that spans half the globe and today supports 4 billion people.
Are you an Iraqi? Yours probably didn't either.
Uh, no. From the stand point of trying to set policy, your position is ridiculous. Disregarding that, it's bad science. The first scientific question isn't whether humans are causing the warming or not, it's "What is the proximate cause of the warming?" As far as I know, several possibilities have been looked at: Solar output fluctuations, variations in cosmic rays, increased GHG. Each one gets a Null Hypothesis of "It's not the cause."
Once you're convinced that GHGs are the primary cause, then the next question becomes, "Why are GHGs increasing?" and so on.
Isn't this settled in most games of VGA Planets?
Merlin, attack!
He was pretty good in that one twilight zone where he falls under the thrall of a fortune telling machine.
I like the analogy, but where does Empire Strikes Back fit into it?
What if Julian Jaynes is right? Then the mere act of living with humans and learning to communicate as they do may change the way a bird thinks, perhaps even give it a sentience of a sort.
September 11 was the opening tragedy that sparked off hundreds more tragedies of equal proportion. It holds just as much significance to millions of people around the globe because of what followed from it as it does to the people directly affected that day.
What you ask is the equivalent of not talking about WWII on Dec 7th. The number of people who lost loved ones because of 9/11 is far greater than the number of people who lost loved ones on 9/11. You should forgive them that their perspective is different and necessarily more political than yours.
If your use of "tangential" was at all accurate, I'd agree with you, but it ain't. There's no time more appropriate than today.
9/11 can be about remembrance of those who died .... for those who remember them. For the vast majority of the rest of us, the meaning of the day is different.
How about they actually enforce drunk driving laws? If they arrested every drunk driver in my town we'd lose 20% of the adult population each Friday and Saturday night to prisons.
Ye of little faith.
Seems like you'd need a pretty big otp.
It would certainly be something you should consider. It seems to me we're already past that point.
I don't think it was meant to be Sci-Fi. It's chiefly a commentary about movies along with some epic trolling, and next to that, a ghost story.
I'll be frank with you, I don't understand how modern science is based on this premise. If, for example, there were a causeless event, it would be science and scientists that would delineate the limitations of the concept of cause and effect through investigation. It seems to me that they've already done so.
So they taught you the parts they had evidence for and didn't teach you the parts they didn't know themselves... what's your point.
'All effects have a cause"
What's a cause and how do you know all effects have them?
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Jabbing at Quayle for misspelling potato is also not fair, though he attempted to correct a student who had spelled it correctly. I don't see why one unfair but true media frenzy should justify another unfair and false one. But forget the poatoe incident. The reason so many think of Quayle as a dolt is because he admonished a fictional character for getting pregnant. That, and his obviously shallow understanding of the issues. He was Sarah Palin before Sarah Palin was cool.
Ripping on Gore for picking Lieberman for Veep is totally legitimate.
NT dammit
More and bigger tits in the Proust competition.
If Plutonium fissioned at the speed of air rushing in, you wouldn't get a very big boom.