If POTUS were to set up such a group within the government, the Democrats would be able to forum-shop for some municipal night court judge to kill it in its crib.
Claiming that the only position other than global warming denial is global warming alarmism. This position is nothing but a special case of "I'm a liberal, so my brain is bigger than yours!"
Using sustainability as an absolute criterion is another bad idea. Applying it as a rule would mean that environmentalists would have to support Glen Canyon Dam if it were being built today.
When quizzed about why they hate GMOs, the most common answer is that they have heard that other people are afraid of GMOs: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
"Atmosphere generation? How do you propose they keep an atmosphere on Mars in the first place? With its low gravity and no magnetosphere, it would get eroded away just as quickly as it was generated."
So how has Titan (5151 km diameter, vs 6,779 for Mars) managed to keep a thicker atmosphere than Earth for all these years?
"You can't fix biology and evolution" The whole equation changes when you look at man plus machines as one system. Our robot emissaries are already exploring Mars and, by figuring out with increasing precision what is in store for us, enabling the first human visitors to go prepared.
Furthermore, the CRISPR breakthrough means that we will no longer have to sit around and wait for natural selection to improve human biology. The future of man as an organism is intelligent design.
As with anything else, launch costs are driven down by free application of technology in a competitive market, not by whoever happens to be ahead at the moment.
My mom loves her MacBook Pro, latest of my hand-me-down systems, for the same reason. Today, at age 95, she doesn't want the risk of getting ransomware from an errant download.
When a walled garden operator the size of Google or Apple lets malware through, it gains immediate and massive notoriety. The problem gets detected and fixed much faster than it does for that direct-from-developer program you downloaded off her site.
"These exist already. Every home and building is connected. It's just that there is this weird reluctance to use them. They are called Sewers and Storm Drains. "
Because we really want my wife's monthly protein bar delivery to come leaping out of the toilet.
"The supply of utterly clueless morons that do not even understand the most basic things in the human race is endless. This is not the only indicator."
As it always has been. Remember those stories about bank robbers who handed tellers a demand note written on the back of one of their own deposit slips?
"OK, so you get in a train that drops you off in the middle of London. Now, how do you get to where you're going from there?"
In London, there's already a Tube that will take you there. In Los Angeles, you will be able to take autonomous Ubers to your spread-out destinations long before this entirely new infrastructure gets built.
This discovery took place at Cambridge, as in "Oxford and..." That means that our role will not be to make it cost too much, but to sneer "Theranos! Theranos!" until we are assured that none of our venture capitalists will consider funding it.
"Another problem is that due to interbreeding between "Native Americans" and Europeans who arrived within the past 500 or so years, many of today's "Native Americans" actually have significant European ancestry. "
But just try to find a Native American who brags about being one-sixteenth Belgian.
"Not comparable to this situation per sister message, but as far as the first manned plane flight, the definition matters because it was relatively trivial to attach a motor to a propeller and then to a thing with wings and lunge sky-ward for a short period of time. "
What everybody else at the time kept missing is that wing dihedral, angling the wings into the slipstream, was inadequate to attain level powered flight. What made heavier-than-air flight possible was curving the upper wing surface, exploiting the Bernoulli effect.
On a recent hike in the U.K. I saw trail construction in the Lake District. A helicopter was being used to haul slabs o gray slate to a boggy mountaintop at the rate of one tonne per load, or about two slabs This was a job that could have been done in many fewer trips, hence lower cost, with an airship.
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I know that we've reached a tech market top when the number of legal squabble stories starts to exceed the number of innovation stories.
So how long have you been working for the airlines?
"Most assembly is done with robots, and it doesn't matter much where those robots are parked."
Yes, it will be done with robots, but it does matter where they are. We want the development and service jobs that the robots will require.
If POTUS were to set up such a group within the government, the Democrats would be able to forum-shop for some municipal night court judge to kill it in its crib.
Claiming that the only position other than global warming denial is global warming alarmism. This position is nothing but a special case of "I'm a liberal, so my brain is bigger than yours!"
Using sustainability as an absolute criterion is another bad idea. Applying it as a rule would mean that environmentalists would have to support Glen Canyon Dam if it were being built today.
When quizzed about why they hate GMOs, the most common answer is that they have heard that other people are afraid of GMOs:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
"Atmosphere generation? How do you propose they keep an atmosphere on Mars in the first place? With its low gravity and no magnetosphere, it would get eroded away just as quickly as it was generated."
So how has Titan (5151 km diameter, vs 6,779 for Mars) managed to keep a thicker atmosphere than Earth for all these years?
"You can't fix biology and evolution"
The whole equation changes when you look at man plus machines as one system. Our robot emissaries are already exploring Mars and, by figuring out with increasing precision what is in store for us, enabling the first human visitors to go prepared.
Furthermore, the CRISPR breakthrough means that we will no longer have to sit around and wait for natural selection to improve human biology. The future of man as an organism is intelligent design.
As with anything else, launch costs are driven down by free application of technology in a competitive market, not by whoever happens to be ahead at the moment.
My mom loves her MacBook Pro, latest of my hand-me-down systems, for the same reason. Today, at age 95, she doesn't want the risk of getting ransomware from an errant download.
...because of the false sense of security.
There, fixed that for you.
When a walled garden operator the size of Google or Apple lets malware through, it gains immediate and massive notoriety. The problem gets detected and fixed much faster than it does for that direct-from-developer program you downloaded off her site.
And ordinary users are willingly gravitating to walled gardens because of the increased security.
Has Trump commented on this yet?
Trump is still watching the episodes, rooting for "Red" Reznikov.
"These exist already. Every home and building is connected. It's just that there is this weird reluctance to use them. They are called Sewers and Storm Drains. "
Because we really want my wife's monthly protein bar delivery to come leaping out of the toilet.
... some sort of public transport service for deliveries?
Suddenly, the idea of drones to deliver merchandise doesn't sound as crazy as it did when Silicon Valley first suggested it.
"The supply of utterly clueless morons that do not even understand the most basic things in the human race is endless. This is not the only indicator."
As it always has been. Remember those stories about bank robbers who handed tellers a demand note written on the back of one of their own deposit slips?
Is it even possible to "bully" a machine?
Until robots acquire independent consciousness, this depends on the perception of the operator looking at tapes and logs after the event.
"OK, so you get in a train that drops you off in the middle of London. Now, how do you get to where you're going from there?"
In London, there's already a Tube that will take you there. In Los Angeles, you will be able to take autonomous Ubers to your spread-out destinations long before this entirely new infrastructure gets built.
Ir will cost too much to use.
This discovery took place at Cambridge, as in "Oxford and..." That means that our role will not be to make it cost too much, but to sneer "Theranos! Theranos!" until we are assured that none of our venture capitalists will consider funding it.
He will threaten to brick their mining servers unless he sends them US dollars.
There is no economic case for space exploration.
If this is true then we have nothing to worry about when space is exploited by China, and Silicon Valley billionaires will have no interest in it.
"Another problem is that due to interbreeding between "Native Americans" and Europeans who arrived within the past 500 or so years, many of today's "Native Americans" actually have significant European ancestry. "
But just try to find a Native American who brags about being one-sixteenth Belgian.
"Not comparable to this situation per sister message, but as far as the first manned plane flight, the definition matters because it was relatively trivial to attach a motor to a propeller and then to a thing with wings and lunge sky-ward for a short period of time. "
What everybody else at the time kept missing is that wing dihedral, angling the wings into the slipstream, was inadequate to attain level powered flight. What made heavier-than-air flight possible was curving the upper wing surface, exploiting the Bernoulli effect.
On a recent hike in the U.K. I saw trail construction in the Lake District. A helicopter was being used to haul slabs o gray slate to a boggy mountaintop at the rate of one tonne per load, or about two slabs This was a job that could have been done in many fewer trips, hence lower cost, with an airship.