The state is libertarian, not Bible Belt, and yet Idaho police organizations are incensed over pot legalization in neighboring Oregon and Washington. There have been a number of well-publicized cases of Bad Cop behavior exercised against out-of-state pot users, even to the extent of spying by Idaho cops in the pot-legal states in hopes of entrapping legally operating businessmen passing through Idaho.
Idaho has such a large population of anti-government types that I can see it not only legalizing pot, which they regard as basically a side issue, but being the first state to seriously cut back on law enforcement property seizure powers. Based on this year's headlines, this will start an even more popular serious of referenda across the country than pot legalization.
Saturn's gravity well is certainly a factor, but you need to compare lift from Titan to lift from Earth itself, not from Earth orbit. There are no hydrocarbons in Earth orbit.
What threats has North Korea actually delivered on? It's become an international joke for making threats that come to nothing.
But now that the Hollywood studios have to submit their films to it for approval, it may gain some status in the world. I wonder how long before we start to see leaks of the NK review copies of movies?
Actually, today's plethora of space-related articles is a test I suggested several weeks ago: let's design an experiment which will determine whether Space Nutter Troll is a bot or a person. If we can induce a plausible psychotic episode by the end of today, we will have proven it to be a person.
Latin is also a lingua franca, a common language to use among people who speak different languages. All intellectuals know some Latin but because there are no native speakers, nobody's living language is being favored.
I wonder what we could find if we did this to other studios, and their ancillary companies? But let's be careful about overreach. If we penetrated the shielding at Comcast, so many evil spirits could be released at once that the whole world could go Taliban.
But I see a hidden advantage to the manned proposal. For the first time, we would have a ship above a planet that was not in orbit. This would be an ideal base for teleoperated robotic probes to the hellish surface, because latency would be no problem. Consider how much more flexible the missions of our Mars rovers could be if we could control them in real time. We would need to provide for "parking" the probe at times when the dirigible drops below its horizon, or find a wind-free eddy to keep station in.
In space, closeness is defined by the cost of lifting from gravity wells, not just distance. in terms of cost and gravity wells. If we do find highly carbonaceous asteroids, that would be even better.
You raise an interesting point: if you want the government to take an interest in your idea, think of way of weaponizing it. Apollo was sold as an escalation of Cold War rivalry.
No, our argument is that Titanian hydrocarbons will be used locally, to support development of the asteroid belt. Asteroids appear to be rich in metals, but have no hydrocarbons that we can currently detect. Everything we eat is made of hydrocarbons, so we're going to need them.
Because economists are usually wrong about long-term social trends. As petroleum rose past a hundred dollars a barrel they told us this would cause the world to collapse. Now that oil is coming down again they are making the same prediction.
It has been said that physics is king of the sciences. Economics must be its court jester.
Point 1 is an issue today with the small reverse-osmosis plants that several coastal cities have already built. The argument, however, runs: "R-O is expensive and we don't get much water for the size of the plant, so why put up with the ugliness?" But what if the minds of SV could come up with a technology that was ten or a hundred times more efficient than R-O, and a realistic source for city-sized volumes of water? Think of there being a square-cube law for ugliness.
Point 2 is typical swill from "environmentalists" who know nothing about science and have no real appreciation for large-scale systems. Desalination plants to not create salt; they just temporarily separate it from the water. After the water is used by humans, it makes its way back to the sea and is reunited with the salt. In fact, desalination gives us the option of leaving the salt inland, REDUCING the amount of salt in the ocean. Salt has innumerable industrial uses, and has been a prized item in commerce for millennia. Furthermore, being able to build really large desal plants would make it easier to extract all sorts of usable minerals from the concentrated brine at the output. Move enough water, and it becomes practical to do such things as extract uranium from the sea to power the plant.
Point 3: Here in Arizona, we would be glad to add more reactors to our nuclear complex in Phoenix to send more power to California. We're already making a fortune from Californians who refuse to generate their own energy.
Point 4: Yes, NIMBYism and Luddism killed the California bullet train, which all the liberals wanted until the moment construction actually started. But water is an even more vital need than transportation. Watch for thirsty farmers to start shooting lawyers while the whole nation applauds.
Seriously, putting the idea out on social media would be the last thing we want. It would attract Hollywood and Greens, who would automatically come out against it because science, chemicals, energy.
I have a friend who is African but totally white, of German-Dutch ancestry. He is now naturalized American, so he gets to check the "African-American" box on forms.
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The state is libertarian, not Bible Belt, and yet Idaho police organizations are incensed over pot legalization in neighboring Oregon and Washington. There have been a number of well-publicized cases of Bad Cop behavior exercised against out-of-state pot users, even to the extent of spying by Idaho cops in the pot-legal states in hopes of entrapping legally operating businessmen passing through Idaho.
Idaho has such a large population of anti-government types that I can see it not only legalizing pot, which they regard as basically a side issue, but being the first state to seriously cut back on law enforcement property seizure powers. Based on this year's headlines, this will start an even more popular serious of referenda across the country than pot legalization.
Yes, for the worst school shooting in the history of the world (up to yesterday, anyway) you have to go all the way across the channel to Norway.
Saturn's gravity well is certainly a factor, but you need to compare lift from Titan to lift from Earth itself, not from Earth orbit. There are no hydrocarbons in Earth orbit.
Low-energy nuclear reactions - a crazy idea that won't go away.
"Now every terrorist organization around the world will see how easy it is to control North American media."
A lot of Americans have been pointing this out for years.
What threats has North Korea actually delivered on? It's become an international joke for making threats that come to nothing.
But now that the Hollywood studios have to submit their films to it for approval, it may gain some status in the world. I wonder how long before we start to see leaks of the NK review copies of movies?
Actually, today's plethora of space-related articles is a test I suggested several weeks ago: let's design an experiment which will determine whether Space Nutter Troll is a bot or a person. If we can induce a plausible psychotic episode by the end of today, we will have proven it to be a person.
Latin is also a lingua franca, a common language to use among people who speak different languages. All intellectuals know some Latin but because there are no native speakers, nobody's living language is being favored.
If it is a scam, but it's working. I have already put "The Interview" on my Netflix queue.
I wonder what we could find if we did this to other studios, and their ancillary companies? But let's be careful about overreach. If we penetrated the shielding at Comcast, so many evil spirits could be released at once that the whole world could go Taliban.
But I see a hidden advantage to the manned proposal. For the first time, we would have a ship above a planet that was not in orbit. This would be an ideal base for teleoperated robotic probes to the hellish surface, because latency would be no problem. Consider how much more flexible the missions of our Mars rovers could be if we could control them in real time. We would need to provide for "parking" the probe at times when the dirigible drops below its horizon, or find a wind-free eddy to keep station in.
In space, closeness is defined by the cost of lifting from gravity wells, not just distance. in terms of cost and gravity wells. If we do find highly carbonaceous asteroids, that would be even better.
You raise an interesting point: if you want the government to take an interest in your idea, think of way of weaponizing it. Apollo was sold as an escalation of Cold War rivalry.
No, our argument is that Titanian hydrocarbons will be used locally, to support development of the asteroid belt. Asteroids appear to be rich in metals, but have no hydrocarbons that we can currently detect. Everything we eat is made of hydrocarbons, so we're going to need them.
Because economists are usually wrong about long-term social trends. As petroleum rose past a hundred dollars a barrel they told us this would cause the world to collapse. Now that oil is coming down again they are making the same prediction.
It has been said that physics is king of the sciences. Economics must be its court jester.
The wealthy have ALWAYS done stuff like this, which is how they became outrageously wealthy. That's how we got railroads, power grids, and aviation.
Yes! We really do have a Saltwater Nutter Troll! I thought I was just making that up in that earlier thread about colonizing the ocean.
Point 1 is an issue today with the small reverse-osmosis plants that several coastal cities have already built. The argument, however, runs: "R-O is expensive and we don't get much water for the size of the plant, so why put up with the ugliness?" But what if the minds of SV could come up with a technology that was ten or a hundred times more efficient than R-O, and a realistic source for city-sized volumes of water? Think of there being a square-cube law for ugliness.
Point 2 is typical swill from "environmentalists" who know nothing about science and have no real appreciation for large-scale systems. Desalination plants to not create salt; they just temporarily separate it from the water. After the water is used by humans, it makes its way back to the sea and is reunited with the salt. In fact, desalination gives us the option of leaving the salt inland, REDUCING the amount of salt in the ocean. Salt has innumerable industrial uses, and has been a prized item in commerce for millennia. Furthermore, being able to build really large desal plants would make it easier to extract all sorts of usable minerals from the concentrated brine at the output. Move enough water, and it becomes practical to do such things as extract uranium from the sea to power the plant.
Point 3: Here in Arizona, we would be glad to add more reactors to our nuclear complex in Phoenix to send more power to California. We're already making a fortune from Californians who refuse to generate their own energy.
Point 4: Yes, NIMBYism and Luddism killed the California bullet train, which all the liberals wanted until the moment construction actually started. But water is an even more vital need than transportation. Watch for thirsty farmers to start shooting lawyers while the whole nation applauds.
Seriously, putting the idea out on social media would be the last thing we want. It would attract Hollywood and Greens, who would automatically come out against it because science, chemicals, energy.
I have a friend who is African but totally white, of German-Dutch ancestry. He is now naturalized American, so he gets to check the "African-American" box on forms.
But when you live in the Appellations, the upside is that lucrative wine with a well-protected brand name.
If I were you I would quit my job at the casino. It's only natural for the tribe to favor its own people for the good jobs.
A significant number of people were anti-rorture until they got up this morning and watched the news.
Not nearly enough power. I would go with illegal aliens running on treadmills.
Apply some of that massive Silicon Valley brainpower to developing large-scale desalination instead of the next batch of faddish social media apps.