True, but the problem is the increasing political bias of major news sources that used to pride themselves on being neutral. CNN is a particularly flagrant example.
Online news sources are just as biased, but the bias is open and the choice is diverse. On any given issue, I can find a spectrum of opinion and make up my own mind.
When a prosecutor cites child porn as a rationale for grabbing our Constitutional rights, you can bet that the real reason is to save a bunch of those ever-lucrative nonviolent drug cases.
"The 1.2mN/kW1.2mN/kW performance parameter is over two orders of magnitude higher than other forms of “zero-propellant” propulsion, such as light sails," I have a question: What the smurf does this mean?
They're talking about technologies that use no reaction mass, not that use no fuel.
"What I'd really like to see is a serious survey to determine if beliefs in this quackery are more common among women than men"
I observe this too, but I don't think it has anything to do with women's brains. It's the common feminine culture that makes women, above all else, incurious. This is why women not specifically trained in a technology tend to reject science and replace it with the 'feelings' of the nearest shaman.
"The question is, would they even be able to breathe, eat or drink without experiencing all sorts of health issues."
For most people brought forward from an earlier time, they would be surprised by the sudden cleanliness of everything. For the first time they would be breathing air not full of wood or coal smoke, and drinking water free of cholera. Even a Los Angeleno brought in from 1955 would be amazed at seeing the snowy San Gabriels for the first time in his life, and in a city that had more traffic than ever.
You might try establishing communication with text. I have found this channel to work with people who are so antisocial that it's like trying to talk to aliens.
The mother who supported and the judge you allowed it are assholes. The father was the only sensible person here.
It's highly unlikely that this girl will ever be revived, but one day somebody is going to solve the cellular bursting problem. When that happens, this tech will be a great way of assuring that luddites die and rot out of the population, removing that particular ring around our species' gene pool.
On the right, the only set of anti-science positions that are part of a culture are the Biblical literalists of Christian fundamentalism. They have always been around, living in a world of their own that has never been able to gather the media influence it takes to become a legislative and legal power. Outside the churches, anti-science sentiment on the right is a scattered series of one-offs: the climate denialists, some "alternative" medicine men, desert conspiracy bloggers, et. al. Climate denialism only thrives as a political reaction to the screechy arrogance of climate activists, who unlike the scientists, embrace climate change only as their latest we're all gonna-die scenario.
It is on the left that being against every application of science it becomes aware of, and most recently against science itself, has become a default setting, with its own standing army of lawyers ready to prevent anything whatever from being built. This culture has even resurrected one of those old right-wing one-offs from circa 1953, the John Birch Society's anti-fluoride movement, and started the long march through the city councils it will take to knock off dental care.
Personally I think that Pluto being the nearest of the KBOs is much more interesting scientifically than if it were merely the most distant planet. Now that we have detailed imagery of it, let's hope that the retargeted New Horizons is able to reach Eris so we can compare the two bodies.
I'm talking about a culture that reflexively jumps to the maximum fear setting when any scientific/technical subject comes up. Anti-genetic engineering, anti-vax, anti-space programs (even when done privately), anti-nuclear (even in the face of their own politically motivated hysteria on carbon). There are towns whose children's' teeth are rotting out of their heads because they stopped fluoridating the water after somebody on the village council read "Dr" Mercola's website.
The latest foreboding movement to come out of this culture is the abandonment of actual science in fighting environmental battles at places like Ivanpah, Maunakea and Standing Rock. Instead of arguing about observable levels of a pollutant or the statistical risk of transportation alternatives, we're being subjected to vague claims that various pieces of land are "sacred" to some group which never took an interesting the area before being whipped up by out-of-state radicals.
Scientists should be more active in standing up for science and its applications. One example: If you're working in California, that would have meant standing up for high-speed rail, and using the rational, scientific part of the climate argument to do it.
I'm with Trump, not Bannon, on this one. If more of the Asians we educate at Stanford and MIT would stay and become a counterforce to the anti-science liberal culture that infests academia, we in particular, as nerds, would be better off. Our position in science compared to Asian countries would improve. We would still have a long way to go before we competed with them in applications, but we would have a better chance of getting there.
Sure it is. It's a social media site that brings together potato enthusiasts around the world. Youtuber features recipes for French fries and stuffed skins, Irish history, and commentary detail on "The Martian."
"Safety regulations don't prevent trains, public aversion to taxes does. "
This is not what happened to the California bullet train, because the money was in place. It was stopped by NIMBYs who kept filing suits until the cost exceeded all foreseeable budgets. There are two factors to Chinese strength: its government is studded with engineers, in the same way that ours is riddled with lawyers; and China ignores NIMBY sentiment and Just Fucking Builds it.
"It's also millions of people who have the potential to make the world worse. And something tells me the people who get this will be your Dick Cheneys, not your Mahatma Gandhis."
This is the Green argument in favor of human extinction.
"We'll probably figure out how to cure cancer shortly before someone unleashes an extinction virus on the world. "
The technology to create something like an extinction virus is also the technology to knock out viruses. There will only be an extinction virus if every country recuses from using tools like CRISPR, because that would leave us vulnerable to the first extinction virus developed through hybridization.
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And if he wasn't, it was discrimination based on religion. Much the same as if someone was denied access to a country for being Christian.
If Torquemada were alive today and in office, we would with good reason not be letting Spanish Christians in either.
I'm led to understand reality has a pretty strong left wing bias, also.
People who keep saying this played a major role in getting you-know-who elected.
True, but the problem is the increasing political bias of major news sources that used to pride themselves on being neutral. CNN is a particularly flagrant example.
Online news sources are just as biased, but the bias is open and the choice is diverse. On any given issue, I can find a spectrum of opinion and make up my own mind.
When a prosecutor cites child porn as a rationale for grabbing our Constitutional rights, you can bet that the real reason is to save a bunch of those ever-lucrative nonviolent drug cases.
"The 1.2mN/kW1.2mN/kW performance parameter is over two orders of magnitude higher than other forms of “zero-propellant” propulsion, such as light sails,"
I have a question: What the smurf does this mean?
They're talking about technologies that use no reaction mass, not that use no fuel.
Let's hope they get flights working so we have a way to get the liberals away from this planet.
No, I would rather that they inherit the Earth. It's all they deserve.
The fda will see to that. Too much money lost by the medical profession
In only a few more weeks, the FDA will no longer be controlled by the Democrat/Republican party donor base. Things are about to get interesting.
Oh look, a Nevada desert conspiracy guy. Just the type I was using as an example the other day in the thread on anti-science attitudes.
This is an opportunity for American manufacturers to step up. Isn't anyone interested in being a domestic display supplier?
"What I'd really like to see is a serious survey to determine if beliefs in this quackery are more common among women than men"
I observe this too, but I don't think it has anything to do with women's brains. It's the common feminine culture that makes women, above all else, incurious. This is why women not specifically trained in a technology tend to reject science and replace it with the 'feelings' of the nearest shaman.
No, what the article is attempting to spread is clickbait FUD.
"The question is, would they even be able to breathe, eat or drink without experiencing all sorts of health issues."
For most people brought forward from an earlier time, they would be surprised by the sudden cleanliness of everything. For the first time they would be breathing air not full of wood or coal smoke, and drinking water free of cholera. Even a Los Angeleno brought in from 1955 would be amazed at seeing the snowy San Gabriels for the first time in his life, and in a city that had more traffic than ever.
You might try establishing communication with text. I have found this channel to work with people who are so antisocial that it's like trying to talk to aliens.
The mother who supported and the judge you allowed it are assholes. The father was the only sensible person here.
It's highly unlikely that this girl will ever be revived, but one day somebody is going to solve the cellular bursting problem. When that happens, this tech will be a great way of assuring that luddites die and rot out of the population, removing that particular ring around our species' gene pool.
"Too bad the judge's heart trumped his brain, and he couldn't say 'no' to the ridiculous request of this precious snowflake"
That could't be what happened to the judge's heart, because this took place in Britain.
Failure of an app is not a failure of the device, or of the operating system.
On the right, the only set of anti-science positions that are part of a culture are the Biblical literalists of Christian fundamentalism. They have always been around, living in a world of their own that has never been able to gather the media influence it takes to become a legislative and legal power. Outside the churches, anti-science sentiment on the right is a scattered series of one-offs: the climate denialists, some "alternative" medicine men, desert conspiracy bloggers, et. al. Climate denialism only thrives as a political reaction to the screechy arrogance of climate activists, who unlike the scientists, embrace climate change only as their latest we're all gonna-die scenario.
It is on the left that being against every application of science it becomes aware of, and most recently against science itself, has become a default setting, with its own standing army of lawyers ready to prevent anything whatever from being built. This culture has even resurrected one of those old right-wing one-offs from circa 1953, the John Birch Society's anti-fluoride movement, and started the long march through the city councils it will take to knock off dental care.
Personally I think that Pluto being the nearest of the KBOs is much more interesting scientifically than if it were merely the most distant planet. Now that we have detailed imagery of it, let's hope that the retargeted New Horizons is able to reach Eris so we can compare the two bodies.
I second!
I'm talking about a culture that reflexively jumps to the maximum fear setting when any scientific/technical subject comes up. Anti-genetic engineering, anti-vax, anti-space programs (even when done privately), anti-nuclear (even in the face of their own politically motivated hysteria on carbon). There are towns whose children's' teeth are rotting out of their heads because they stopped fluoridating the water after somebody on the village council read "Dr" Mercola's website.
The latest foreboding movement to come out of this culture is the abandonment of actual science in fighting environmental battles at places like Ivanpah, Maunakea and Standing Rock. Instead of arguing about observable levels of a pollutant or the statistical risk of transportation alternatives, we're being subjected to vague claims that various pieces of land are "sacred" to some group which never took an interesting the area before being whipped up by out-of-state radicals.
Scientists should be more active in standing up for science and its applications. One example: If you're working in California, that would have meant standing up for high-speed rail, and using the rational, scientific part of the climate argument to do it.
I'm with Trump, not Bannon, on this one. If more of the Asians we educate at Stanford and MIT would stay and become a counterforce to the anti-science liberal culture that infests academia, we in particular, as nerds, would be better off. Our position in science compared to Asian countries would improve. We would still have a long way to go before we competed with them in applications, but we would have a better chance of getting there.
Sure it is. It's a social media site that brings together potato enthusiasts around the world. Youtuber features recipes for French fries and stuffed skins, Irish history, and commentary detail on "The Martian."
"Safety regulations don't prevent trains, public aversion to taxes does. "
This is not what happened to the California bullet train, because the money was in place. It was stopped by NIMBYs who kept filing suits until the cost exceeded all foreseeable budgets. There are two factors to Chinese strength: its government is studded with engineers, in the same way that ours is riddled with lawyers; and China ignores NIMBY sentiment and Just Fucking Builds it.
"It's also millions of people who have the potential to make the world worse. And something tells me the people who get this will be your Dick Cheneys, not your Mahatma Gandhis."
This is the Green argument in favor of human extinction.
"We'll probably figure out how to cure cancer shortly before someone unleashes an extinction virus on the world. "
The technology to create something like an extinction virus is also the technology to knock out viruses.
There will only be an extinction virus if every country recuses from using tools like CRISPR, because that would leave us vulnerable to the first extinction virus developed through hybridization.