Should we have preemptively struck N Korea and violated international laws?
What you're hopefully calling 'international law' in this case is a series of multinational conventions adhered to by the hopeful. And when applied to North Korea, they have been a total failure.
From the visible first paragraph, I gather that it's something to do with a putative shortage of email addresses on the part of those without the creative imagination it takes to use the full power of a 26-character alphabet to come up with an email handle more memorable than phil179485@gmail.com.
He's right. When you buy stock, the worst that can happen is that it goes to zero. But when the market moves against your short position, there is no limit to how much you can lose.
So yes, letting everyone use FaceTime would bring a quick end to Skype. The exclusivity FaceTime has right now is why despite its simplicity, nobody uses it.
The most sensitive indicators of global temperatures change are glaciers, because each glacier flows downhill, melting as it gets to warmer altitudes, until in most cases a point is reached where the melt rate exactly matches the flow rate. This glacial endpoint is extremely sensitive to temperature changes. And they are moving uphill in unison.
And those glaciers that do not melt totally before reaching the sea, ending up as pooped icebergs, are throwing off fewer icebergs than they used to.
Suicide because of pessimism about the state of the world is actually a good thing. To make the world a better place, we need all the hard-working, non-substance-abusing optimists we can find. The more of you existential pessimists we can get to autodarwinate, the better off the rest of us are.
The people who deserve the most sympathy are those who have personal problems. We need a better mental health system. Small wonder that the closure of state mental hospitals nationwide has given us homelessness and suicide rising in tandem.
Multiple private companies are involved in space, specifically because of the potential for profit. Private-sector space communications and sensing has already made a ton of money, generating investor interest in heading farther out.
Relax. It is physically impossible to open an exit door in flight because of differential air pressure. This has been tried by very strong crazy people.
This first-class suite is a psych test by Emirates to see if passengers would accept a windowless environment. If they do, it opens up blended-wing designs for commercial use.
Because of the presence of water, Europa and Enceladus are better possible places to look. We’re focusing on Mars right now because it’s the easiest candidate place to reach.
Organic compounds are not life. The discovery just points in that direction. The seasonally varying methane (natural gas to us) is just as interesting.
Space is so expensive that if an asteroid in the asteroid belt was made of pure gold, it would not be profitable to go get it.
It would be even more expensive to lug Earthly water, iron, aluminum and hydrocarbons out of our gravity well when those things will be available "locally" for building colonies. But once the colonies are built, sending asteroidal material back to Earth will be cheaper than underground mining for terrestrial uses. The deepest gold mine is already pushing four kilometers straight down. Just filing environmental impacts for base industrial metals is becoming exponentially harder.
Eliminating poverty within your borders is a far more noble pursuit than exploring space. Let's cure problems down here first and then worry about up there.
Had we waited to do that, Columbus himself would never have sailed.
I see two major reasons why we want to colonize space privately:
1. Going beyond LEO will require assuming major personal risk. Only private advanturers can undertake that risk. 2. The "priorities" argument does not apply in the private sector, and the violent and dystopian folks who hate science have no input to the process. It will go ahead whether they want it or not.
Why use nukes? Solar is bright and plentiful in space, and can power ion thrusters.
Because ion thrust is too low for this application. It might take 25 years to colonize, but we wouldn't want a single heavy-cargo flight to take that long.
Yes, forward motion of the stormis exactly what they are talking about. I maintain that faster net wind speeds are more dangerous than longer duration of a storm in a given place.
Very slow storms can cause devastation by increased rainfall, as Harvey did, but because hurricane damage increases exponentially with wind speed: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/t......faster storms get increasingly dangerous more quickly with the extra wind speed that the leading quarter gets from hurricane speed added to ground speed than any "savings" from decreased time to pass by. The great New York hurricane of 1938 was only a Category 2 when it struck Long Island, but was moving unusually fast because of being squeezed between two adjacent weather systems that shot it forward like a watermelon seed. The summed wind velocity at the point of landfall made it as destructive as a Category 5.
The expensive part of the mission is already behind it. Since the science return so far has been excellent, why not monitor it for another three years to get bonus data?
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We of the dark side freely admit that Obama was a better golfer than Trump. He had more practice.
Should we have preemptively struck N Korea and violated international laws?
What you're hopefully calling 'international law' in this case is a series of multinational conventions adhered to by the hopeful. And when applied to North Korea, they have been a total failure.
From the visible first paragraph, I gather that it's something to do with a putative shortage of email addresses on the part of those without the creative imagination it takes to use the full power of a 26-character alphabet to come up with an email handle more memorable than phil179485@gmail.com.
Yes, in sexting sessions of the day many a young swell hanging around the telegraph office got confused by the line OOOOH DONT STOP STOP.
Part of the reason they have to wake it up this early is that the data rate from that far out is approaching telegram speeds.
HELLO NASA STOP
GETTING TOO CLOSE TO MU69 STOP
PLEASE ADVISE STOP
This is why sexting in Victorian London was so hilarious.
He's right. When you buy stock, the worst that can happen is that it goes to zero. But when the market moves against your short position, there is no limit to how much you can lose.
Fuck you and all Musk supporters. Your day is coming. It wont end well for any of you.
And furthermore, when I come to the cemetery to piss on your grave, I will be taking an Uber.
So yes, letting everyone use FaceTime would bring a quick end to Skype. The exclusivity FaceTime has right now is why despite its simplicity, nobody uses it.
One enjoyable thing I often see is when I get email notices on some of my posts that get yo-yo'd up and down between Insightful and Troll.
When that happens, you know you are on to something real.
This happens to me all the time. I’ve had some posts elicit an entire Slashdot page of yo-yos.
The most sensitive indicators of global temperatures change are glaciers, because each glacier flows downhill, melting as it gets to warmer altitudes, until in most cases a point is reached where the melt rate exactly matches the flow rate. This glacial endpoint is extremely sensitive to temperature changes. And they are moving uphill in unison.
And those glaciers that do not melt totally before reaching the sea, ending up as pooped icebergs, are throwing off fewer icebergs than they used to.
Suicide because of pessimism about the state of the world is actually a good thing. To make the world a better place, we need all the hard-working, non-substance-abusing optimists we can find. The more of you existential pessimists we can get to autodarwinate, the better off the rest of us are.
The people who deserve the most sympathy are those who have personal problems. We need a better mental health system. Small wonder that the closure of state mental hospitals nationwide has given us homelessness and suicide rising in tandem.
Multiple private companies are involved in space, specifically because of the potential for profit. Private-sector space communications and sensing has already made a ton of money, generating investor interest in heading farther out.
Relax. It is physically impossible to open an exit door in flight because of differential air pressure. This has been tried by very strong crazy people.
This first-class suite is a psych test by Emirates to see if passengers would accept a windowless environment. If they do, it opens up blended-wing designs for commercial use.
Because of the presence of water, Europa and Enceladus are better possible places to look. We’re focusing on Mars right now because it’s the easiest candidate place to reach.
Organic compounds are not life. The discovery just points in that direction. The seasonally varying methane (natural gas to us) is just as interesting.
Space is so expensive that if an asteroid in the asteroid belt was made of pure gold, it would not be profitable to go get it.
It would be even more expensive to lug Earthly water, iron, aluminum and hydrocarbons out of our gravity well when those things will be available "locally" for building colonies. But once the colonies are built, sending asteroidal material back to Earth will be cheaper than underground mining for terrestrial uses. The deepest gold mine is already pushing four kilometers straight down. Just filing environmental impacts for base industrial metals is becoming exponentially harder.
Eliminating poverty within your borders is a far more noble pursuit than exploring space. Let's cure problems down here first and then worry about up there.
Had we waited to do that, Columbus himself would never have sailed.
I see two major reasons why we want to colonize space privately:
1. Going beyond LEO will require assuming major personal risk. Only private advanturers can undertake that risk.
2. The "priorities" argument does not apply in the private sector, and the violent and dystopian folks who hate science have no input to the process. It will go ahead whether they want it or not.
Why use nukes? Solar is bright and plentiful in space, and can power ion thrusters.
Because ion thrust is too low for this application. It might take 25 years to colonize, but we wouldn't want a single heavy-cargo flight to take that long.
But beware the danger of moon rocks!
Brianna can be my harsh mistress whenever she wants.
Yes, forward motion of the stormis exactly what they are talking about. I maintain that faster net wind speeds are more dangerous than longer duration of a storm in a given place.
Very slow storms can cause devastation by increased rainfall, as Harvey did, but because hurricane damage increases exponentially with wind speed: ...faster storms get increasingly dangerous more quickly with the extra wind speed that the leading quarter gets from hurricane speed added to ground speed than any "savings" from decreased time to pass by. The great New York hurricane of 1938 was only a Category 2 when it struck Long Island, but was moving unusually fast because of being squeezed between two adjacent weather systems that shot it forward like a watermelon seed. The summed wind velocity at the point of landfall made it as destructive as a Category 5.
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/t...
Spelling in Troll English does not correspond to either language.
The expensive part of the mission is already behind it. Since the science return so far has been excellent, why not monitor it for another three years to get bonus data?
Didn't the libel reform of 2013 establish truth as an absolute defense, as in the US?