Parent is correct here. Before SpaceX can return to flight, it has to have at least a working hypothesis on the cause of the explosion. Otherwise, k customer will trust it.
"For a site about News for Nerds,/. certainly has a lot of luddites."
Because being a nerd about one subject, such as computer networks, does not mean being expansively optimistic about all technologies. You Igbo still be an energy hater or a space hater or a medicine hater.
Let all be reminded that Sam Biddle was the literary genius behind Gawker. This is like having a retired East German bureaucrat opine on Volkswagen's emission problem.
"Why is it important to NOT seed worlds where life is starting? "
Even arguing purely from our own self-interest, we must extract as much science as possible from any local lifeform we come across before replacing it with anything of our own.
This ethic should be as applicable to Mars is it would to a hypothetical extrasolar system.
Haha, but environmentalists have already voiced the concern they will levy against extra-terrestrial factories and settlements: It will spoil the natural desolation.
Which is one good reason for manufacturing in space - the Greens can't reach it, because getting there involves technology they will not use.
" we mine bauxite in the NT desert, put it on a boat and send it several thousand miles south to Victoria"
You used to send it to a fjord in New Zealand, where copious rainfall provided even cheaper electricity (the Manapouri project) to refine it. The Kiwis have now gained the ability to connect the isolated power project to the national grid.
The will and the commitment are there in the private sector, which is willing to tolerate far more personal risk than the public sector and is not saddled by the 'priorities' argument.
Supposedly we could see a black hole against a nebular or, if nearby, against a starry background. Because of lensing, stars close to the limb of the hole would appear to skitter around the edge.
And how is hydroelectric renewable? Can they make it rain? I used 100% renewable money last month, I won the lottery!
Hydro is the most important of the renewables by far, but Greens only count it when they brag about the energy output of rainy countries. At other times, hydro is the energy source they loved to hate the most before nuclear came along.
Insteon devices are one of the unheralded wonders of the IoT world. You connect their proprietary hub to your router, and then buy whatever sensors and actuators you need for the house, any number of each. They are cheap and mesh-linked, so if you have multiple devices they relay status messages through each other to fill in any dead spots ij the house. I have one leak sensor under a radiator behind a metal grating. The hub connects over the Internet with your mobile device.
There isn't actually a cat dish sensor as such. We use the remotely manipulable camera to check on it.
It's only eugenics when a government mandates a given set of genetic goals. So long as parents have choice, it's just a higher-tech version of the sexual selection we have now.
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Parent is correct here. Before SpaceX can return to flight, it has to have at least a working hypothesis on the cause of the explosion. Otherwise, k customer will trust it.
Edit: you could still be an energy hater...
Cue the autocorrect haters.
"For a site about News for Nerds, /. certainly has a lot of luddites."
Because being a nerd about one subject, such as computer networks, does not mean being expansively optimistic about all technologies. You Igbo still be an energy hater or a space hater or a medicine hater.
A 'land tide' of about one meter corresponding to the ocean tides has been noted for years, and so has been the effect on earthquakes.
Global warming denial is a bit like creationist science. Nobody outside the US really takes it serious.
Not quite: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/C...
It can also be used to boil water in an emergency. This will be a boon to backpackers.
Let all be reminded that Sam Biddle was the literary genius behind Gawker. This is like having a retired East German bureaucrat opine on Volkswagen's emission problem.
Otherwise known as a black lab. Let's see if this one can fetch.
"Earlier, everyone could sell headphones for our devices, now we found a way to 'fix' that to 'improve device's water resistance'".
Your existing BT gear will still work with the iPhone 7.
You want your next iPod to cost $2,47 billion dollars and powered by plutonium?
That would be the iPod we would have if electronics were regulated in the same way as medical devices.
This totally looks like home, except for the lack of clueless tourists calling in when they run out of water.
"Why is it important to NOT seed worlds where life is starting? "
Even arguing purely from our own self-interest, we must extract as much science as possible from any local lifeform we come across before replacing it with anything of our own.
This ethic should be as applicable to Mars is it would to a hypothetical extrasolar system.
"I'm always right and get insanely defensive..."
So Slashdot autism, then.
Haha, but environmentalists have already voiced the concern they will levy against extra-terrestrial factories and settlements: It will spoil the natural desolation.
Which is one good reason for manufacturing in space - the Greens can't reach it, because getting there involves technology they will not use.
" we mine bauxite in the NT desert, put it on a boat and send it several thousand miles south to Victoria"
You used to send it to a fjord in New Zealand, where copious rainfall provided even cheaper electricity (the Manapouri project) to refine it. The Kiwis have now gained the ability to connect the isolated power project to the national grid.
The will and the commitment are there in the private sector, which is willing to tolerate far more personal risk than the public sector and is not saddled by the 'priorities' argument.
"The summary makes it sound like - as you put it - they're inviting arm char scientists to solve the issue for them."
Musk haters are intentionally spinning the story this way.
Supposedly we could see a black hole against a nebular or, if nearby, against a starry background. Because of lensing, stars close to the limb of the hole would appear to skitter around the edge.
50 feet is a Chelyabink-sized asteroid. Had it been a direct hit on the city, it could have killed a million people.
And how is hydroelectric renewable? Can they make it rain? I used 100% renewable money last month, I won the lottery!
Hydro is the most important of the renewables by far, but Greens only count it when they brag about the energy output of rainy countries. At other times, hydro is the energy source they loved to hate the most before nuclear came along.
Wasn't this whole "deep linking" battle fought once before?
"I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire!
Try Bank of America. Worst bank I ever dealt with!"
My generation used to burn B of A branches every weekend for weenie roasts. It does not seem to have changed the bank's behavior.
Insteon devices are one of the unheralded wonders of the IoT world. You connect their proprietary hub to your router, and then buy whatever sensors and actuators you need for the house, any number of each. They are cheap and mesh-linked, so if you have multiple devices they relay status messages through each other to fill in any dead spots ij the house. I have one leak sensor under a radiator behind a metal grating. The hub connects over the Internet with your mobile device.
There isn't actually a cat dish sensor as such. We use the remotely manipulable camera to check on it.
"Every Western country will ban it completely."
Thereby falling even farther behind Asia. Eventually the only industry we will have left will be entertaining tourists.
It's only eugenics when a government mandates a given set of genetic goals. So long as parents have choice, it's just a higher-tech version of the sexual selection we have now.