Advanced civilizations that still have royal families.
Hives?
This was covered in the commentary of TFA, which was actually better than the article itself. It was pointed out that the queen of a hive species is a dumb, single-purpose gonad, rather than being the omniscient brain of SF plots. A better plot involving a hive organism would be having the workers collectively do the thinking.
If we can send New Horizons to Eris after it finishes sending the Raw images from the Pluto flyby, that should settle the question of whether Pluto is the outermost planet or the innermost KBO.
When you oppress workers in a company town, they have the option of going elsewhere. After all, they came to your company town in hopes of making a living. To kill and terrorize an immobilized population en masse, you need the regionwide powers of a government,
You're citing a government man whose specialty was slaughtering capitalists, even small farmers who traded their goods in marketplaces, not promoting them. Care to come up with a better example?
"instead of "coming clean" to a newspaper, he should have filed a wrongful termination suit."
Do IT people actually get to do this? And file such a suit without running into 'You'll never get work on this planet again'? Blaring his account to the media might have been the only way to redress this.
When you compare the fiscal antics of Wall Street hedge fund bros like Martin Shkreli with those of Mark Zuckerberg, et.al., I'll take the fiscal antics of Silicon Valley billionaires anytime.
Putting in a sensor to do that would be your job, not the grid's. The grid sees power and loads over a wide area, and responds to changes over distances far larger than a single house. If it's windy in South Dakota this morning, Smart Grid might turn all the AC units in Arizona down by two degrees, absorbing the excess. Later in the hot part of the day with calm air in SD, the AZ air conditioners would be set higher to lighten the load.
Well, golly, as long as we can discount the decades of research, engineering, and implementation that would be required to (a) establish a huge industrial presence on the Moon, (b) extract helium-3 in bulk from the lunar crust, (c) transport that He3 in bulk to Earth's surface, and (d) successfully fuse that He3 on an industrial scale to produce power, why don't we hedge our bets with giant space-constructed solar shades and thorough terraforming of Mars?
And if you accomplish all that, the flat-earth lobby will still hate you and keep filing baseless lawsuits against your projects. Instead, wait for the right point on the economic cycle where lack of jobs is seen by the public as a major issue, and then ram through a fleet of standardized latest-generation fission reactors. The hatred will be the same, but you will get usable carbon-free power a lot sooner.
" In this case Native Hawaiians have their God on the mountain, while the astrologists have their gods of science, guns, bulldozers and the stars. Which side will win. Will Astrology triumph over the Mountain Gods' or will the Mountain God's pull off an upset and waylay the astrologists carefully laid plans to pry open and peer into the sky's nether regions with their big eye ball seeing thing."
Long baseline astronomy is one reason for the Chile-Hawaii pairing of two telescopes of the same size. The other problem is that there are no good sites under the murky tropical skies of the equator.
That list of locations obviously preceded siting of the E-ELT, because the two are designed to work together. It's odd that Gran Canaria was not among them, but San Pedro Mártir is an interesting possibility.
Your objection applied a generation ago, but the path away from Maoism is now firmly entrenched in China. It's today's up-and-coming industrial nation, just as the US was from the Gilded Age through WW II, and as such it appreciates the value of science. Certainly, building the TMT would be a point of national prestige, but we of the nerd community need to think of what's best for the science of astronomy, and the research bonanza that humanity will get from having a TMT as part of a north-south pairing of large scopes.
The Hawaiian natives are being played. The real agenda has nothing to do with native objections to a project that has less impact on the mountain than many things that have already been built on it.
It has been said that if all causes of death other than trauma were eliminated, our lifespan would average about 650 years. What would probably happen is that the population would be stabilized by reducing the birthrate accordingly. The resulting social changes would be major, but not the end of the world. The longer lifetimes we already enjoy have resulted in social changes that have been absorbed over the years.
Yes, UH can theoretically reapply for a permit. The environmental qualification required for this mountain, independent of any native claims, is so intricate that doing it over again would take another fifteen years. Meanwhile, TMT components are already being built. I would rather see China grab the project than see us go through such a long permitting process all over again.
If Maunakea is so sacred, why has the military been able to use it as a bombing range all these years? Could it be that astronomers are just more easily picked on than soldiers?
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Advanced civilizations that still have royal families.
Hives?
This was covered in the commentary of TFA, which was actually better than the article itself. It was pointed out that the queen of a hive species is a dumb, single-purpose gonad, rather than being the omniscient brain of SF plots. A better plot involving a hive organism would be having the workers collectively do the thinking.
"Why does it seem that most "alien" planets have a single climate everywhere?"
This trope has been called 'It was raining on Mongo this morning.'
"Earthican ale. Yeah it sounds cute but Earth does not produce just one type of ale."
The Erthican brew is obviously Spaten Optimator. No other brew is worthy of interstellar export.
If we can send New Horizons to Eris after it finishes sending the Raw images from the Pluto flyby, that should settle the question of whether Pluto is the outermost planet or the innermost KBO.
That would be my local astronomy club.
"the Republicans will never let us have it."
No, the Republicans will just make it ridiculously expensive. But if it involves radiation, it will be the Democrats who won't let us have it.
Hi, Roger! Does this mean you still think that strong AI will never be possible?
When you oppress workers in a company town, they have the option of going elsewhere. After all, they came to your company town in hopes of making a living. To kill and terrorize an immobilized population en masse, you need the regionwide powers of a government,
You're citing a government man whose specialty was slaughtering capitalists, even small farmers who traded their goods in marketplaces, not promoting them. Care to come up with a better example?
"instead of "coming clean" to a newspaper, he should have filed a wrongful termination suit."
Do IT people actually get to do this? And file such a suit without running into 'You'll never get work on this planet again'? Blaring his account to the media might have been the only way to redress this.
"Zuckerberg, Gates and Company are nothing more than 21st century robber barons. "
Yes, and proudly so. Their 19th century counterparts built the industrial age. The Silicon Valley barons have built the information age.
When you compare the fiscal antics of Wall Street hedge fund bros like Martin Shkreli with those of Mark Zuckerberg, et.al., I'll take the fiscal antics of Silicon Valley billionaires anytime.
Putting in a sensor to do that would be your job, not the grid's. The grid sees power and loads over a wide area, and responds to changes over distances far larger than a single house. If it's windy in South Dakota this morning, Smart Grid might turn all the AC units in Arizona down by two degrees, absorbing the excess. Later in the hot part of the day with calm air in SD, the AZ air conditioners would be set higher to lighten the load.
Well, golly, as long as we can discount the decades of research, engineering, and implementation that would be required to (a) establish a huge industrial presence on the Moon, (b) extract helium-3 in bulk from the lunar crust, (c) transport that He3 in bulk to Earth's surface, and (d) successfully fuse that He3 on an industrial scale to produce power, why don't we hedge our bets with giant space-constructed solar shades and thorough terraforming of Mars?
And if you accomplish all that, the flat-earth lobby will still hate you and keep filing baseless lawsuits against your projects. Instead, wait for the right point on the economic cycle where lack of jobs is seen by the public as a major issue, and then ram through a fleet of standardized latest-generation fission reactors. The hatred will be the same, but you will get usable carbon-free power a lot sooner.
" In this case Native Hawaiians have their God on the mountain, while the astrologists have their gods of science, guns, bulldozers and the stars. Which side will win. Will Astrology triumph over the Mountain Gods' or will the Mountain God's pull off an upset and waylay the astrologists carefully laid plans to pry open and peer into the sky's nether regions with their big eye ball seeing thing."
You sound like a typical Virgo.
Long baseline astronomy is one reason for the Chile-Hawaii pairing of two telescopes of the same size. The other problem is that there are no good sites under the murky tropical skies of the equator.
The Tibetan plateau is a huge place, so you're not restricted to locations near the Himalayas. There is already astronomical activity on the Plateau.
That list of locations obviously preceded siting of the E-ELT, because the two are designed to work together. It's odd that Gran Canaria was not among them, but San Pedro Mártir is an interesting possibility.
Your objection applied a generation ago, but the path away from Maoism is now firmly entrenched in China. It's today's up-and-coming industrial nation, just as the US was from the Gilded Age through WW II, and as such it appreciates the value of science. Certainly, building the TMT would be a point of national prestige, but we of the nerd community need to think of what's best for the science of astronomy, and the research bonanza that humanity will get from having a TMT as part of a north-south pairing of large scopes.
This is another possible approach. Another out-of-box solution for getting the TMT built in Hawaii might be for the state to legalize pot.
The Hawaiian natives are being played. The real agenda has nothing to do with native objections to a project that has less impact on the mountain than many things that have already been built on it.
Read this and weep: http://dgrnewsservice.org/2015...
"You're probably thinking of Pohakuloa."
Yes, Pohakuloa on the lower slopes of Maunakea. And are they still running those Enduro 500-mile mud races?
It has been said that if all causes of death other than trauma were eliminated, our lifespan would average about 650 years. What would probably happen is that the population would be stabilized by reducing the birthrate accordingly. The resulting social changes would be major, but not the end of the world. The longer lifetimes we already enjoy have resulted in social changes that have been absorbed over the years.
Yes, UH can theoretically reapply for a permit. The environmental qualification required for this mountain, independent of any native claims, is so intricate that doing it over again would take another fifteen years. Meanwhile, TMT components are already being built. I would rather see China grab the project than see us go through such a long permitting process all over again.
If Maunakea is so sacred, why has the military been able to use it as a bombing range all these years? Could it be that astronomers are just more easily picked on than soldiers?