So you're saying my chances of even getting into to a life-threatening situation as their primary astronaut are good? Sounds like a gravy train job with built-in health care.
/Your estimates are fine if you're thinking like a NASA project manager. The private sector tends to be more efficient. //Though I still agree with you they're underbidding their costs.
Call me insane all you want. The reality I'm faced with is an indeterminate amount worthwhile life to then die of some disease that is incurable, or in some meaningless accident, or in some further meaningless criminal action. In the time I spend until that end of my life I may perhaps barely move myself up a single notch in the middle class of America to gain some wealth. My death will be mostly meaningless to 99.99999% of humanity, and for the tiny fraction to which it means anything, their childre'ns children's children in only about 30 years on from my death will only have archaic media of which to remind themselves of who came before them, and no direct contact. That's effin bleak already.
There is definitely a percentage of humanity that would jump at the chance for an adventure likely ending in a more meaningful death, and that's not insane.
just because of past experience with both on other platforms.
I want a device that I own and can control what goes on it, what it does, and when it updates. Apple all but openly admits it is a walled-garden, so that's out. Microsoft doesn't control the software available on it's OS' as much, but it still flexes it's muscles too much w.r.t. the standards it uses.
Android isn't perfect, it isn't the best. But if I get a phone that runs android I know I have some measure of control of my device as a consumer. I have no such promises from Apple or Microsoft.
An article that treats all opinions equally is biased in favor of the positions that are untrue.
Since when do opinions factor into any logical definition of truth?
We'd best just accept that everyone has a bias in their opinion, and that makes no statement to the validity of their worldview when applied to everyone else.
Salt exists in the oceans in their natural state. It would exist there if humans had never existed. Would you ever call "salt" a "pollutant" of the oceans?
Now, if you're a politician trying to gain regulatory powers over something that exists naturally in the world, what do you have to do?
If you said, "label it as a pollutant" you are correct.
The "pollutant" label was nothing but political games being played to give the EPA regulatory powers and you're swallowing it as if it's a scientifically valid way of looking at the world. Quite sad.
True, but are you calling the salt that is there "pollution"? Labelling CO2 as pollution is basically saying the same thing. It naturally occurs in the oceans, there's nothing mankind can do about that, it will always be there.
It was politicians who wanted to call CO2 a pollution so they could regulate it, nothing more.
Salt in the sea is pollution of the worlds oceans.
You see the stupidity of that statement? There's no way for man to control the salinity of the worlds oceans, and the salt will always be there regardless of what mankind does. So calling something that exists naturally in the environment (and in fact must exist for much of the world's biomass to survive) a pollutant is about as wholly political as you can get.
Did they add the CO2 to the mixture on geologic timescales? If not, they cannot possibly be simulating the earth properly. Biological processes over eons trumps this simple experiment every time.
Sure, if you throw enough CO2 into the experiment in hours or days, you'll kill coral. However there's no possible way to do this to earths oceans within all of mankind's technology. If instead you're adding fractions of a percent of CO2 to the mix per century (as real life behaves), biology responds to neutralize the increase.
CO2 is one of the primary building blocks that coral-algae symbiosis uses to survive and grow. More CO2 dissolved in the water means coral might actually grow faster:
Many corals, as well as other cnidarian groups such as Aiptasia (a sea anemone) form a symbiotic relationship with a class of algae, zooxanthellae, of the genus Symbiodinium. Aiptasia, a familiar pest among coral reef aquarium hobbyists, serves as a valuable model organism in the study of cnidarian-algal symbiosis. Typically, each polyp harbors one species of algae. Via photosynthesis, these provide energy for the coral, and aid in calcification.[14] The algae benefit from a safe place to live and consume the polyp's carbon dioxide and nitrogenous waste.
The ocean is becoming LESS basic on the ph scale. It is (allegedly) moving more towards a neutral chemistry. It is NOT acidic nor is it becoming "more" acidic.
Coral Atolls cannot suffer from sea level rise, they are the result of life living near the surface creating a deposit that itself builds the atoll. The Maldives will never suffer from gradual sea level rise. Charles Darwin himself discovered how Atolls remain above water. If these islands were bedrock, you might be right, but they're not. Atolls are essentially floating islands.
Results show that 86% of islands remained stable (43%) or increased in area (43%) over the timeframe of analysis. Largest decadal rates of increase in island area range between 0.1 to 5.6 hectares. Only 14% of study islands exhibited a net reduction in island area.
Despite small net changes in area, islands exhibited larger gross changes. This was expressed as changes in the planform configuration and position of islands on reef platforms. Modes of island change included: ocean shoreline displacement toward the lagoon; lagoon shoreline progradation; and, extension of the ends of elongate islands. Collectively these adjustments represent net lagoonward migration of islands in 65% of cases.
Results contradict existing paradigms of island response and have significant implications for the consideration of island stability under ongoing sea level rise in the central Pacific.
First, islands are geomorphologically persistent features on atoll reef platforms and can increase in island area despite sea level change....
And asked me if these games work better on touch screens... I found myself for the first time questioning the use of keyboard/mouse combination for MMORPGs.
Surely Slashdot has links to someone who has thought of this?
... in a down economy and the whole industry gets a Tariff? There's some serious backroom "backscratching" going on. Did General Electric just toss out a huge campaign contribution?
...sure it would make no sense to see an educated person associating themselves with what the major media outlets associate with them. After all, all tea party people are nazis and all democrats are communist sympathizers, right? right?
If, on the other hand, you intelligently realize that most American's are actually fairly close in terms of political view and the cartoons presented to you are false on their face, you might see that both sides have rational points that should be listened to, even fought for.
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oops, meant chances are bad.
So you're saying my chances of even getting into to a life-threatening situation as their primary astronaut are good? Sounds like a gravy train job with built-in health care.
/Your estimates are fine if you're thinking like a NASA project manager. The private sector tends to be more efficient.
//Though I still agree with you they're underbidding their costs.
Call me insane all you want. The reality I'm faced with is an indeterminate amount worthwhile life to then die of some disease that is incurable, or in some meaningless accident, or in some further meaningless criminal action. In the time I spend until that end of my life I may perhaps barely move myself up a single notch in the middle class of America to gain some wealth. My death will be mostly meaningless to 99.99999% of humanity, and for the tiny fraction to which it means anything, their childre'ns children's children in only about 30 years on from my death will only have archaic media of which to remind themselves of who came before them, and no direct contact. That's effin bleak already. There is definitely a percentage of humanity that would jump at the chance for an adventure likely ending in a more meaningful death, and that's not insane.
Security through small market.
just because of past experience with both on other platforms.
I want a device that I own and can control what goes on it, what it does, and when it updates. Apple all but openly admits it is a walled-garden, so that's out. Microsoft doesn't control the software available on it's OS' as much, but it still flexes it's muscles too much w.r.t. the standards it uses.
Android isn't perfect, it isn't the best. But if I get a phone that runs android I know I have some measure of control of my device as a consumer. I have no such promises from Apple or Microsoft.
They're going to get a lot of replies on this, they win.
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Since when do opinions factor into any logical definition of truth?
We'd best just accept that everyone has a bias in their opinion, and that makes no statement to the validity of their worldview when applied to everyone else.
Clearly you understand nothing of my simple post.
Salt exists in the oceans in their natural state. It would exist there if humans had never existed. Would you ever call "salt" a "pollutant" of the oceans?
Now, if you're a politician trying to gain regulatory powers over something that exists naturally in the world, what do you have to do?
If you said, "label it as a pollutant" you are correct.
The "pollutant" label was nothing but political games being played to give the EPA regulatory powers and you're swallowing it as if it's a scientifically valid way of looking at the world. Quite sad.
True, but are you calling the salt that is there "pollution"? Labelling CO2 as pollution is basically saying the same thing. It naturally occurs in the oceans, there's nothing mankind can do about that, it will always be there.
It was politicians who wanted to call CO2 a pollution so they could regulate it, nothing more.
Try to live in a room with pure O2. Good luck with turning on the lights.
The components of urine exist in most streams, would you consider water from a mountain stream with deer piss in it a polluted waterway?
Salt in the sea is pollution of the worlds oceans.
You see the stupidity of that statement? There's no way for man to control the salinity of the worlds oceans, and the salt will always be there regardless of what mankind does. So calling something that exists naturally in the environment (and in fact must exist for much of the world's biomass to survive) a pollutant is about as wholly political as you can get.
In honor of the professional and successful police investigation?
//sarcasm^2
Actually yes, and I'm not ashamed of my preference.
There's something "natural" on a completely artificial construct?
I've been waiting for this day.
Did they add the CO2 to the mixture on geologic timescales? If not, they cannot possibly be simulating the earth properly. Biological processes over eons trumps this simple experiment every time.
Sure, if you throw enough CO2 into the experiment in hours or days, you'll kill coral. However there's no possible way to do this to earths oceans within all of mankind's technology. If instead you're adding fractions of a percent of CO2 to the mix per century (as real life behaves), biology responds to neutralize the increase.
CO2 is one of the primary building blocks that coral-algae symbiosis uses to survive and grow. More CO2 dissolved in the water means coral might actually grow faster:
The ocean is becoming LESS basic on the ph scale. It is (allegedly) moving more towards a neutral chemistry. It is NOT acidic nor is it becoming "more" acidic.
Stop spouting baseless fear.
Coral Atolls cannot suffer from sea level rise, they are the result of life living near the surface creating a deposit that itself builds the atoll. The Maldives will never suffer from gradual sea level rise. Charles Darwin himself discovered how Atolls remain above water. If these islands were bedrock, you might be right, but they're not. Atolls are essentially floating islands.
http://www.pacificdisaster.net/pdnadmin/data/original/The_dynamic_response.pdf
And asked me if these games work better on touch screens... I found myself for the first time questioning the use of keyboard/mouse combination for MMORPGs.
Surely Slashdot has links to someone who has thought of this?
How expensive is marketing information per lead these days?
... in a down economy and the whole industry gets a Tariff? There's some serious backroom "backscratching" going on. Did General Electric just toss out a huge campaign contribution?
...sure it would make no sense to see an educated person associating themselves with what the major media outlets associate with them. After all, all tea party people are nazis and all democrats are communist sympathizers, right? right?
If, on the other hand, you intelligently realize that most American's are actually fairly close in terms of political view and the cartoons presented to you are false on their face, you might see that both sides have rational points that should be listened to, even fought for.
Participation means bandwidth. They just want your information, they could care less how often you post.