To me, the problem isn't so much gravity or technology but radiation.
Space is a NASTY place to try and stay alive in. If you can survive the weightlessness and vacuum with the right technology but the radiation is going to kill you. Providing shielding is theoretically possible, it's just not practical. Some kinds of radiation don't respond to magnetic or electric fields so they cannot be deflected, only blocked by using mass, lots of mass. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out why having lots of mass is a issue for space craft designers...
I've heard them give credit to (AKA advertise for) a number of their large corporate donors who get both favorable mention over the air and a tax write off at the same time..
Haven't heard the local Kebab place mentioned persay, but I have heard local businesses given credit for supporting their local radio station's broadcast of NPR programming..
Do what you like, but be willing to accept the consequences of your choices. There are a LOT of people who think that they can do well in the arts if they just get the one big "break" that never comes. Where I applaud their efforts and a lot of them have the necessary skills, the sad fact remains that in some professions there are simply limited jobs to be had that pay well. Actors, musicians, artists, professional athletes and race car drivers (to name a few) really need to figure out a backup plan, because having skills in their chosen vocation does not often mean there is a job to be found. Sometimes, you have to sideline the dream for a bit and surrender to reality to pay the bills.
STEM majors are not so limited. There are lots of jobs to be had in these fields that pay reasonably well, and actually a few jobs that pay *really* well if you have the right skills and aptitude. Personally, I'd not suggest you go Bill Gates route and finish your degree before jumping out of college. Yea, it worked out well for him, but it was a high risk move that just happened to pay off for him. Most of the others who've tried similar paths didn't do so well. Play the odds, stay in school at least though your undergraduate degree. Once you get a job, make sure to keep pushing on school while you are young. Education means most to your earning potential if you get it sooner rather than later. Maximize your return on the investment by doing it early.
Yea, bussing tables is a poor use of that journalism degree you got half of..;) Don't get me started on Actors, Artist and Musicians who to often don't choose the backstop of a college education and end up running a cash register at a big box store..
I'm glad that my offspring are condemned to STEM careers like their father. Get a one of those degrees and you might buss tables sometimes but it won't be all you can do. I thank my dad all the time for footing the bill and pushing me to finish college.
You think you have it bad.... I purchased 100 of them, tied them to my lawn chair in a RAID 5x5x4 Array configuration and now I'm freezing at 15,000 feet with no way to get down and a cell phone battery that's running out. HELP!!!!
Nor is it smaller than He. Hydrogen gas likes to link up as H2 molecules which are pretty big compared to the inert, "I'll bond to nothing" Helium. You want the smallest thing you can find to fly those disk heads on.
In many ways, it seems that it wasn't a very healthy journalistic environment.
You think? This was a propaganda effort of the Qatar government... They had bias for breakfast, lunch and dinner and topped it off with more as a midnight snack. Qatar is governed by Sharia Law, which is pretty oppressive for women and has strict limits on speech which might be critical of the government or the state religion, how is it a surprise that any of this flowed down into the "American" arm?
Yea, but it's sad to see hundreds of Americans that work for the network ending up on the unemployment lines just because they worked for a propaganda venture of the Qatar government...
Al Jazeera America was a great, unbiased source of news. I will definitely miss it.
This is an attempt at a joke right? Yea, and NPR has less bias because it's not advertisement funded... Don't believe anything you see online, less than half of what a reporter says in print or pictures, and barely half of what you personally observe.
If you own "stock" in a corporation, you have a lot more power over the company with your vote than you can ever hope to have with your vote for government, even if you only own one share..
Corporations/companies cannot legally take anything away from you without a willing or at least complicit government making it legally possible. Government can legally do what it wants with you all on its own...
Thugs can illegally do anything, but the illegal is not what I'm talking about...
A company can never pay you what you are worth because they'd never make a profit doing that.
I think, he was telling me to that I should work for myself if I really wanted to get paid. I think he was right. You don't get rich working for somebody else. It's a good living sometimes, but after 25 years I'm not getting rich doing what I do...
That an ISP is being duped into routing stolen IP's so easily!
Come on, this is Verizon we are talking about here. They don't hire the sharpest knives in the drawer and so they managed to collect a little bit of cash believing the paperwork provided by their customer? Collect the fees, route the IP and should the real owner of the address finally show up and complain, keep the fees, say your are sorry, remove the route and move on to the next prospective customer throwing money at you. Seriously, what's Verizon's incentive to go out of it's way here?
So, these folks want to try and play the "Shame on Verizon" card now? Yea, good luck with making anything change. Verizon doesn't shame that easily or they'd be changing their consumer business practices too..
LOL, Einstein was right, but we have yet to come up with a unified field theory that ties everything up in a nice neat bow. I cannot help this nagging feeling that once we happen on the solution that allows a unified field theory that a lot of this confusing stuff like "dark matter" might just disappear along with a lot of Hawking's musings such as his most recent "Soft hair" idea for black holes to solve the information paradox problem. Like Newtonian physics gave way to Relativity as the math and theory progressed over time, it seems likely our understanding of physics may fundamentally change, where Newton wasn't wrong for slow relative speeds but is an approximation of Einstein's universe, there may be another leap in theory to come which explains where Einstein's theories fail to give us neat and tidy answers anymore.
But hey, I'm no theoretical physicist, just some accomplished programmer type who sometimes thinks on things other than my vocation for their entertainment value and because it helps me sleep at night to think of something other than programming...
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Fixing that one, maybe a collective reboot is needed....
Advocating for another mass extinction event eh? Yea, that's the ticket. Let's wipe civilization off the face of the earth....
To me, the problem isn't so much gravity or technology but radiation.
Space is a NASTY place to try and stay alive in. If you can survive the weightlessness and vacuum with the right technology but the radiation is going to kill you. Providing shielding is theoretically possible, it's just not practical. Some kinds of radiation don't respond to magnetic or electric fields so they cannot be deflected, only blocked by using mass, lots of mass. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out why having lots of mass is a issue for space craft designers...
If you had a "nano" straw to Earth from the moon, could you sip air from it?
No, that takes MEGA MAID and the combination to Druidia's atmosphere.... Be sure to get the switch in the right position...
I've heard them give credit to (AKA advertise for) a number of their large corporate donors who get both favorable mention over the air and a tax write off at the same time..
Haven't heard the local Kebab place mentioned persay, but I have heard local businesses given credit for supporting their local radio station's broadcast of NPR programming..
Do what you like, but be willing to accept the consequences of your choices. There are a LOT of people who think that they can do well in the arts if they just get the one big "break" that never comes. Where I applaud their efforts and a lot of them have the necessary skills, the sad fact remains that in some professions there are simply limited jobs to be had that pay well. Actors, musicians, artists, professional athletes and race car drivers (to name a few) really need to figure out a backup plan, because having skills in their chosen vocation does not often mean there is a job to be found. Sometimes, you have to sideline the dream for a bit and surrender to reality to pay the bills.
STEM majors are not so limited. There are lots of jobs to be had in these fields that pay reasonably well, and actually a few jobs that pay *really* well if you have the right skills and aptitude. Personally, I'd not suggest you go Bill Gates route and finish your degree before jumping out of college. Yea, it worked out well for him, but it was a high risk move that just happened to pay off for him. Most of the others who've tried similar paths didn't do so well. Play the odds, stay in school at least though your undergraduate degree. Once you get a job, make sure to keep pushing on school while you are young. Education means most to your earning potential if you get it sooner rather than later. Maximize your return on the investment by doing it early.
Store something on an array of Seagate drives? What? Are you CRAZY? That's it, the battery is dead, if you don't hear from me again......
Yea, bussing tables is a poor use of that journalism degree you got half of.. ;) Don't get me started on Actors, Artist and Musicians who to often don't choose the backstop of a college education and end up running a cash register at a big box store..
I'm glad that my offspring are condemned to STEM careers like their father. Get a one of those degrees and you might buss tables sometimes but it won't be all you can do. I thank my dad all the time for footing the bill and pushing me to finish college.
You think you have it bad.... I purchased 100 of them, tied them to my lawn chair in a RAID 5x5x4 Array configuration and now I'm freezing at 15,000 feet with no way to get down and a cell phone battery that's running out. HELP!!!!
Nor is it smaller than He. Hydrogen gas likes to link up as H2 molecules which are pretty big compared to the inert, "I'll bond to nothing" Helium. You want the smallest thing you can find to fly those disk heads on.
In many ways, it seems that it wasn't a very healthy journalistic environment.
You think? This was a propaganda effort of the Qatar government... They had bias for breakfast, lunch and dinner and topped it off with more as a midnight snack. Qatar is governed by Sharia Law, which is pretty oppressive for women and has strict limits on speech which might be critical of the government or the state religion, how is it a surprise that any of this flowed down into the "American" arm?
Yea, but it's sad to see hundreds of Americans that work for the network ending up on the unemployment lines just because they worked for a propaganda venture of the Qatar government...
How about just protecting the country borders they currently have and the citizens who reside there? Are you OK with that?
Al Jazeera America was a great, unbiased source of news. I will definitely miss it.
This is an attempt at a joke right? Yea, and NPR has less bias because it's not advertisement funded... Don't believe anything you see online, less than half of what a reporter says in print or pictures, and barely half of what you personally observe.
They only do this legally when the government lets them and I'm not discussing those who break the law....
Guess your "full stop" is a bit too soon, and shows how short sighted folks can be...
They already must have an "Uber Data Center", so what do they call this newer bigger data center?
Somehow "Bigger Uber Data Center" just doesn't seem to convey the proper meaning...
Maybe "S-Uber D-Uber P-Uber SC-Uber" works here...
If you own "stock" in a corporation, you have a lot more power over the company with your vote than you can ever hope to have with your vote for government, even if you only own one share..
Try again....
And what I said is true.... Government can take everything from you including your life, businesses cannot.
Which leads me to the actual point I've been beating around.... We should fear the government more, it can take more....
Corporations/companies cannot legally take anything away from you without a willing or at least complicit government making it legally possible. Government can legally do what it wants with you all on its own...
Thugs can illegally do anything, but the illegal is not what I'm talking about...
A company can never pay you what you are worth because they'd never make a profit doing that.
I think, he was telling me to that I should work for myself if I really wanted to get paid. I think he was right. You don't get rich working for somebody else. It's a good living sometimes, but after 25 years I'm not getting rich doing what I do...
Bankruptcy is a legal action, meaning the government is involved...
So, even in this case, corporations can only legally take what the government allows them too.
Not without the complicity of the government which either looked the other way and let it happen, and/or encouraged the businesses for other reasons.
Ah, well, even in that case the government was complicit.
Yea, but only government can take EVERYTHING you have away and give it to someone else, evil corporations cannot do that alone.
That an ISP is being duped into routing stolen IP's so easily!
Come on, this is Verizon we are talking about here. They don't hire the sharpest knives in the drawer and so they managed to collect a little bit of cash believing the paperwork provided by their customer? Collect the fees, route the IP and should the real owner of the address finally show up and complain, keep the fees, say your are sorry, remove the route and move on to the next prospective customer throwing money at you. Seriously, what's Verizon's incentive to go out of it's way here?
So, these folks want to try and play the "Shame on Verizon" card now? Yea, good luck with making anything change. Verizon doesn't shame that easily or they'd be changing their consumer business practices too..
LOL, Einstein was right, but we have yet to come up with a unified field theory that ties everything up in a nice neat bow. I cannot help this nagging feeling that once we happen on the solution that allows a unified field theory that a lot of this confusing stuff like "dark matter" might just disappear along with a lot of Hawking's musings such as his most recent "Soft hair" idea for black holes to solve the information paradox problem. Like Newtonian physics gave way to Relativity as the math and theory progressed over time, it seems likely our understanding of physics may fundamentally change, where Newton wasn't wrong for slow relative speeds but is an approximation of Einstein's universe, there may be another leap in theory to come which explains where Einstein's theories fail to give us neat and tidy answers anymore.
But hey, I'm no theoretical physicist, just some accomplished programmer type who sometimes thinks on things other than my vocation for their entertainment value and because it helps me sleep at night to think of something other than programming...