Up to now the gating factors in getting to space have been the cost of getting out of Earth's gravity well and dependence on government programs. Now that both of these barriers have fallen, we no longer have to listen to that 'priorities' argument.
Wind, solar and grid storage have already trashed coal and are in the process of out competing natural gas.
Then why, in spite of your country's massive spending and subsidies on wind and sun, its carbon output crept steadily upward as coal and Russsian gas replace nuclear? By now, the sheer weight of Euros was supposed to be making the sun shine all winter.
i.e. rplacing fossil fools with fossil farts. What the US should be doing is building nuclear power plants and electrifying roads ("Supercharger" stations every few miles) and railroads. Get rid of fossil fool use for transport.
That would be the logical next step, but try to explain this to either the clueless perpetually frightened Democrats or to King Coal Trump.
The article, presumably written by a liberal arts major, extols the importance of "critical thinking", yet is just a string of conjectures based on no evidence, displaying a clear lack of critical thinking.
If we re-introduced critical thinking into today's liberal arts curriculum, this area of study could become popular again. Good students have been driven away from it because of the ideological shenanigans of the current professoriat.
Still nothing taller than in San Francisco. When I lived there in the Seventies the tallest building was 55 stories, and there is still nothing over 63 floors. The tallest structure in town, Tokyo Skytree, is a broadcasting tower with a restaurant and observation deck, like the CN Tower in Toronto.
The tallest building in town is the Salesforce Tower at 61 stories, and it was blisteringly expensive to satisfy the city earthquake code at that height. The situation is rough;y the same in Tokyo.
Parenthetically, why is the tallest building in every city suddenly the Salesforce Tower? What are they doing that's all that important?
Printing a microfilm copy of everything as a backup and storing it in two or more safe places is the essential step. The aliens millennia from now can worry about re-inventing microfilm readers when they dig out the lunar vault where our backups are saved.
I lived in Orange County when Prop 13 was passed. It doesn't lower property taxes, but just limits the rate at which they can be increased until you sell the property, whereupon the assessed valuation is marked up to current market for the next owner.
It was passed because at the time property taxes were rising to an insane degree. Now other taxes are rising to an insane degree.
Yeah, the thing is, those areas are undesirable because they are shitty places to live. I lived in Bernal Heights (in SF) and my IROC got stolen because it's up the hill from an outright ghetto.
And don't forget to apply San Francisco logic. if you refuse to move into the ghetto, you're a racist. If you do move into the ghetto and fix a place up to make it livable, you're a 'gentrifier', therefore a racist.
It seems big money and globalists corporations are already scared to hell by the election of an unsanctioned potus. Just look at the utterings of their press whores.
Now what we need is an unsanctioned POTUS who has a coherent strategy of his/her own. Nominations, anyone?
Both the Rs and Ds are gibbering away about their favorite apocalypses right now while still being wholly owned by major lobbyists. It's time for a new party.
I would like to see one built around not denying science - any of the disciplines - while at the same time letting engineers build the discoveries science makes, this being what motivates us to spend money on it.
Then we shall say, it is the most selfish thing to do.
But nonetheless, that is the entire motivation for those anti-housing laws. They are dreamed up by people who own existing housing in an area, clothed in whatever "environmental" swill they think will appeal to simpletons, and passed by reflex action.
No, a company town is a town built by and owned by one business, to house its workers in the middle of nowhere. That's why it's coercive. If an arcology is built in a dense existing urban area, people can choose to live there.
It's even got a name, coined by architect Paolo Soleri: Arcology. n.
The place to build one of these should have been downtown Tokyo, not whatever empty spot in central Arizona where Paolo Soleri and a band of hippies could buy cheap land.
It wasn't housing, but a product demo site that, like so many other good Google projects, was abandoned before it really got going. But since there is nothing specifically Googlish about the idea of barge apartments, why isn't anyone building these? This would be housing that could easily be moved from place to place as needed.
The cancer drug I will take when the time comes will be the new one announced by China that US and European pharma will angrily call a theft of its own IP. That's how I will know it's not just another bullshit folk remedy.
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Up to now the gating factors in getting to space have been the cost of getting out of Earth's gravity well and dependence on government programs. Now that both of these barriers have fallen, we no longer have to listen to that 'priorities' argument.
Wind, solar and grid storage have already trashed coal and are in the process of out competing natural gas.
Then why, in spite of your country's massive spending and subsidies on wind and sun, its carbon output crept steadily upward as coal and Russsian gas replace nuclear? By now, the sheer weight of Euros was supposed to be making the sun shine all winter.
i.e. rplacing fossil fools with fossil farts. What the US should be doing is building nuclear power plants and electrifying roads ("Supercharger" stations every few miles) and railroads. Get rid of fossil fool use for transport.
That would be the logical next step, but try to explain this to either the clueless perpetually frightened Democrats or to King Coal Trump.
The US drop in emissions is a one-time bonus from replacement of coal by natural gas. It's a good start, but just a start.
The article, presumably written by a liberal arts major, extols the importance of "critical thinking", yet is just a string of conjectures based on no evidence, displaying a clear lack of critical thinking.
If we re-introduced critical thinking into today's liberal arts curriculum, this area of study could become popular again. Good students have been driven away from it because of the ideological shenanigans of the current professoriat.
Still nothing taller than in San Francisco. When I lived there in the Seventies the tallest building was 55 stories, and there is still nothing over 63 floors. The tallest structure in town, Tokyo Skytree, is a broadcasting tower with a restaurant and observation deck, like the CN Tower in Toronto.
So what researchable facts about the universe, specifically, are you not going to allow the people to know about?
The tallest building in town is the Salesforce Tower at 61 stories, and it was blisteringly expensive to satisfy the city earthquake code at that height. The situation is rough;y the same in Tokyo.
Parenthetically, why is the tallest building in every city suddenly the Salesforce Tower? What are they doing that's all that important?
Printing a microfilm copy of everything as a backup and storing it in two or more safe places is the essential step. The aliens millennia from now can worry about re-inventing microfilm readers when they dig out the lunar vault where our backups are saved.
better luck next time to rid the earth if this scum
Missed him by that much! We'll try again.
Dammit, I already need more shoe fax paper.
Can I get one with a flamethrower mounted on it? This would be great for those Hawaiian surf spots where they won't let in outsiders.
I lived in Orange County when Prop 13 was passed. It doesn't lower property taxes, but just limits the rate at which they can be increased until you sell the property, whereupon the assessed valuation is marked up to current market for the next owner.
It was passed because at the time property taxes were rising to an insane degree. Now other taxes are rising to an insane degree.
Yeah, the thing is, those areas are undesirable because they are shitty places to live. I lived in Bernal Heights (in SF) and my IROC got stolen because it's up the hill from an outright ghetto.
And don't forget to apply San Francisco logic. if you refuse to move into the ghetto, you're a racist. If you do move into the ghetto and fix a place up to make it livable, you're a 'gentrifier', therefore a racist.
Slideouts also tell the world it's a home. You want something like this to be as anonymous as possible.
California personal property tax is why Arizona, which has only one natural lake, has the nation's largest number of small boat registrations.
It seems big money and globalists corporations are already scared to hell by the election of an unsanctioned potus. Just look at the utterings of their press whores.
Now what we need is an unsanctioned POTUS who has a coherent strategy of his/her own. Nominations, anyone?
Both the Rs and Ds are gibbering away about their favorite apocalypses right now while still being wholly owned by major lobbyists. It's time for a new party.
I would like to see one built around not denying science - any of the disciplines - while at the same time letting engineers build the discoveries science makes, this being what motivates us to spend money on it.
Build 50 stories underground and 5 above - oh wait, earthquakes.
Actually, the safest place to be in an earthquake is a man-made underground structure. The most dangerous place to be is in a natural cave.
Then we shall say, it is the most selfish thing to do.
But nonetheless, that is the entire motivation for those anti-housing laws. They are dreamed up by people who own existing housing in an area, clothed in whatever "environmental" swill they think will appeal to simpletons, and passed by reflex action.
We have one of these too, called Minneapolis.
No, a company town is a town built by and owned by one business, to house its workers in the middle of nowhere. That's why it's coercive. If an arcology is built in a dense existing urban area, people can choose to live there.
It's even got a name, coined by architect Paolo Soleri: Arcology . n.
The place to build one of these should have been downtown Tokyo, not whatever empty spot in central Arizona where Paolo Soleri and a band of hippies could buy cheap land.
You can't build those in an earthquake zone, but San Francisco Bay would be an ideal place for barge housing.
This is what happened to the Google Barge: https://www.pressherald.com/20...
It wasn't housing, but a product demo site that, like so many other good Google projects, was abandoned before it really got going. But since there is nothing specifically Googlish about the idea of barge apartments, why isn't anyone building these? This would be housing that could easily be moved from place to place as needed.
Better yet, make them turn their space ship campus into apartments.
The renters would still bitch about there not being anywhere to plug in their 1975 model headphones.
"Duh...wazzat blue teeth thing?"
The cancer drug I will take when the time comes will be the new one announced by China that US and European pharma will angrily call a theft of its own IP. That's how I will know it's not just another bullshit folk remedy.