The great thing about age and money is that we don't have to give a crap about how you cave nutters feel. What really galls you is that some of the more successful space nutters have billions to play around with, and are making their dreams happen.
Meanwhile, feel free to pick another lump of charcoal out of your campfire and draw another buffalo on the wall.
Why does every science-illiterate newsreader think that the most amazing part of the mission is that "the comet is moving at thousands of miles an hour?" This was amazing months ago, when Rosetta moved into its station-keeping formation with the comet. Right now, it is stationary with respect to Gerasimenko. What's incredible now is the deployment of Philae and its fight for survival in a totally unknown environment.
If genetically engineered seeds "get weaker by the generation" then why are GMO plants going to tear themselves out of the ground as the flat-earth lobby insists they will any day now, grow to giant size and stomp through Tokyo, tossing subway trains around like toys and flattening tall buildings?
This line of argument rings with the same consistency as the one we hear from the ultraviolet end of the spectrum: government employees are all stupid, which is why government is infinitely powerful and will destroy us all.
This was actually the theme of one of Asimov's humorous short stories: a future America in which political polling had become so advanced that every presidential election was decided by a single voter picked at random. The election commission would ask that person all kinds of questions about cultural attitudes and current events (but not "Who wold you vote for?") and then infer what his/her choice would be.
Because those are places that are conspicuously less attractive than surrounding territory, of course.
Each new wave of human colonization starts from a higher technological base than the ones before it. When mid-19th century Gold Rush miners first developed small areas of the northern California mountains, most of the state was uninhabitable by the standards of that time, even as great wealth was being mined from the gold country itself. San Francisco started as the Gold Rush port, but it was not until the O'Shaughnessy Dam was built in the early 1900s that it could expand into a large city. Even after that, it took generations of infrastructure building to create a California that could hold forty million people.
I'll go with that silly 'spreading out the species' theme. Why don't all humans live in Hawaii, or on the African savanna to which we first adapted?
Mankind has a long history of spreading out from desirable places to places that at first are less desirable. We profoundly misunderstand our own creation myth. We invented clothing not out of shame but because it enabled us to leave our adapted environments and walk into the desert and the mountains and all the other rugged places that we colonized. Space is just the logical next step in that ancient progression. Based on history, I am certain that there are places out there that we will make our own.
Just turn NFC back on while you wait for CurrentC to get off the ground and be tested sometime next year. It's already on your registers, and some of the NFC vendors have high-grade security that sharply reduces the risk of credit card breaches.
Nobody calls iMessage explicitly. Apple users send texts using the regular texting app. It an Apple device is detected at both ends, the app automatically send the text over the Internet using iMessage; if it detects an infidel device at the other end, it falls back to SMS. The sender knows which choice was made by seeing the sent message in a blue or green bubble, respectively. The advantage to the user is that iMessage has no 140-character length limit, included pictures, etc. are faster, and the messages do not count against any SMS plan count limit.
Yes, because it will take at least that long for the USPS breachers to print out millions of fake mortgage and credit card applications, address that many envelopes, and then stamp and mail them. Data breaches involving nineteenth-century technology are not for the faint of heart. Perhaps the ring will be exposed when hackers will be anonymously dumped off at hospitals with serious cases of writers' cramp. Police will then be able to follow trails of horse poop back to their stables.
We're going to need this to get around Hollywood's increasingly weird hash of restrictions on streamed content. Let's see now: one network we can stream TV episodes from the day after air, another network that makes us wait a week, another network with certain shows mysteriously missing, another network whose commercial always freeze and require an app restart, and all those networks that let you stream so long as your cable company is one of their three Verify Your Provider choices.
If Musk doesn't build this network, Pirate Bay will.
This is GOOD news, not bad news. Just frame the question this way: "Why are bats, being mammals that are not that genetically different to ourselves, able to host radically infectious diseases that they do not themselves catch?" If we can figure that out, there may be some big cures in the offing.
A different way of looking at it: if our rapidly advancing information technology is giving us ground-based images this good, imagine what we can do above Earth's wavery atmosphere.
Users overestimate the difficulty of working on an unaccustomed platform and have a powerful tendency to stay with the type of computer they "learned on." Apple once understood this, and gained a powerful sales advantage by giving away their computers to primary and secondary schools. The end of that policy led to such a large drop in sales that the company almost went under in the Nineties.
But the more states legalize, the greater pressure there is for the DEA to back off. Since the public is energized on the police-procedures issue right now, viral videos will bring us the justice that courts won't.
After all, this election was largely about trimming federal power, which is why the Taliban lost on the issues. Last night Colorado expended reproductive rights and Arizona became the fifth state to pass Right To Try, giving terminal patients the right to buy medications that are in the FDA pipeline but which have not been approved yet.
" i doubt the dirt cheap claim will become true anytime soon."
Not because it's patented, but because it's a medical device. You have to go through the FDA grinder, assuring that your device will be years over budget and priced out of patient reach.
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I've heard of moving the goalposts, but in your case the goalposts have gone relativistic.
The weight figure I have heard is: equivalent to one sheet of paper on Earth.
The great thing about age and money is that we don't have to give a crap about how you cave nutters feel. What really galls you is that some of the more successful space nutters have billions to play around with, and are making their dreams happen.
Meanwhile, feel free to pick another lump of charcoal out of your campfire and draw another buffalo on the wall.
Several probes with RTGs have made close Earth passes. As I recall, Cassini happened to pass low over Iran for its final boost outward.
Why does every science-illiterate newsreader think that the most amazing part of the mission is that "the comet is moving at thousands of miles an hour?" This was amazing months ago, when Rosetta moved into its station-keeping formation with the comet. Right now, it is stationary with respect to Gerasimenko. What's incredible now is the deployment of Philae and its fight for survival in a totally unknown environment.
If genetically engineered seeds "get weaker by the generation" then why are GMO plants going to tear themselves out of the ground as the flat-earth lobby insists they will any day now, grow to giant size and stomp through Tokyo, tossing subway trains around like toys and flattening tall buildings?
This line of argument rings with the same consistency as the one we hear from the ultraviolet end of the spectrum: government employees are all stupid, which is why government is infinitely powerful and will destroy us all.
More like an F for Computer Science and an A for Business.
This was actually the theme of one of Asimov's humorous short stories: a future America in which political polling had become so advanced that every presidential election was decided by a single voter picked at random. The election commission would ask that person all kinds of questions about cultural attitudes and current events (but not "Who wold you vote for?") and then infer what his/her choice would be.
Granted! But it's going to be on That Other Network:
http://deadline.com/2014/09/ch...
And because it's federal land, what they build on it won't be subject to poisonous San Francisco politics.
Because those are places that are conspicuously less attractive than surrounding territory, of course.
Each new wave of human colonization starts from a higher technological base than the ones before it. When mid-19th century Gold Rush miners first developed small areas of the northern California mountains, most of the state was uninhabitable by the standards of that time, even as great wealth was being mined from the gold country itself. San Francisco started as the Gold Rush port, but it was not until the O'Shaughnessy Dam was built in the early 1900s that it could expand into a large city. Even after that, it took generations of infrastructure building to create a California that could hold forty million people.
I'll go with that silly 'spreading out the species' theme. Why don't all humans live in Hawaii, or on the African savanna to which we first adapted?
Mankind has a long history of spreading out from desirable places to places that at first are less desirable. We profoundly misunderstand our own creation myth. We invented clothing not out of shame but because it enabled us to leave our adapted environments and walk into the desert and the mountains and all the other rugged places that we colonized. Space is just the logical next step in that ancient progression. Based on history, I am certain that there are places out there that we will make our own.
Just turn NFC back on while you wait for CurrentC to get off the ground and be tested sometime next year. It's already on your registers, and some of the NFC vendors have high-grade security that sharply reduces the risk of credit card breaches.
Nobody calls iMessage explicitly. Apple users send texts using the regular texting app. It an Apple device is detected at both ends, the app automatically send the text over the Internet using iMessage; if it detects an infidel device at the other end, it falls back to SMS. The sender knows which choice was made by seeing the sent message in a blue or green bubble, respectively. The advantage to the user is that iMessage has no 140-character length limit, included pictures, etc. are faster, and the messages do not count against any SMS plan count limit.
Yes, because it will take at least that long for the USPS breachers to print out millions of fake mortgage and credit card applications, address that many envelopes, and then stamp and mail them. Data breaches involving nineteenth-century technology are not for the faint of heart. Perhaps the ring will be exposed when hackers will be anonymously dumped off at hospitals with serious cases of writers' cramp. Police will then be able to follow trails of horse poop back to their stables.
We're going to need this to get around Hollywood's increasingly weird hash of restrictions on streamed content. Let's see now: one network we can stream TV episodes from the day after air, another network that makes us wait a week, another network with certain shows mysteriously missing, another network whose commercial always freeze and require an app restart, and all those networks that let you stream so long as your cable company is one of their three Verify Your Provider choices.
If Musk doesn't build this network, Pirate Bay will.
What they mean by the term is "not fitting existing classifications" of course.
This is GOOD news, not bad news. Just frame the question this way: "Why are bats, being mammals that are not that genetically different to ourselves, able to host radically infectious diseases that they do not themselves catch?" If we can figure that out, there may be some big cures in the offing.
A different way of looking at it: if our rapidly advancing information technology is giving us ground-based images this good, imagine what we can do above Earth's wavery atmosphere.
If PETA were involved they would shoot the same video, but with a naked woman being fed to the anaconda.
Users overestimate the difficulty of working on an unaccustomed platform and have a powerful tendency to stay with the type of computer they "learned on." Apple once understood this, and gained a powerful sales advantage by giving away their computers to primary and secondary schools. The end of that policy led to such a large drop in sales that the company almost went under in the Nineties.
But the more states legalize, the greater pressure there is for the DEA to back off. Since the public is energized on the police-procedures issue right now, viral videos will bring us the justice that courts won't.
After all, this election was largely about trimming federal power, which is why the Taliban lost on the issues. Last night Colorado expended reproductive rights and Arizona became the fifth state to pass Right To Try, giving terminal patients the right to buy medications that are in the FDA pipeline but which have not been approved yet.
" i doubt the dirt cheap claim will become true anytime soon."
Not because it's patented, but because it's a medical device. You have to go through the FDA grinder, assuring that your device will be years over budget and priced out of patient reach.
Obama also printed $17 trillion. Franklin Roosevelt printed a lot of money too, but at least we got some long-term infrastructure to show for it.
Keystone and Yucca Mountain now!