Relax. It's just a cutesy way of having InSight "speak for itself" to the media. If NASA used the standard protocol of having press conferences beamed from JPL, they would run the risk that somebody might be wearing some shirt that triggers liberals. ESA is not going to make that mistake again.
Space nutter reporting for duty. The point of sending machines like this is to characterize the Martian environment so that by the time humans arrive there will be as few surprises as possible. How hard is the soil? How easy is it to get at ice? Is the soil radioactive (which would be at the same time bad news and good news)? Is the soil differentiated into layers near the surface?
The more of these questions our robots can answer now, the better our design of habitats will be.
Society influences technology influences society...
Exactly. Just take transportation as an example. As our society moved from the horse to the railroad and then to the automobile, our whole style of living, and at the same time numerous other technologies that these enabled, changed in the most basic ways.
"Jim Code" - Betcha that it's a crappy takeoff on the term Jim Crow. Probably another one of those lefty rants about technology destroying our souls, this time by bringing back racism somehow.
People should be free to not wear a seatbelts, and not vaccinate their offspring. To deny this freedom allows more and more of the latter types to reproduce.
If you don't use your seatbelt, you endanger yourself. If you and enough of your hippie-mom friends don't vaccinate, you endanger those around you.
I could go for the idea of being able to see infrared as a new color, but I don’t see the point of transducing IR to an existing color. When you see green, how do you know whether you’re seeing 535 nm or the new wavelength?
Greenhouse theory would be a lot more respected by the general public if were not always expressed in the same apocalyptic terms as all the other environmental problems which turned out to be fixable without demolishing civilization. Remember the 'population bomb', acid rain, the ozone hole and all the extracted resources we were supposedly about to run out of?
isn't confiscating the surplus profit produced by your employees' labor sufficient? do you have a psychological need to be both a sociopathic tyrant in addition to a self-righteous parasite?
There are lots of cushy government jobs waiting for people like this.
I lived there in the mid-Seventies, and Yodobashi Camera had the same ad, which mostly consists of directions to the store, playing on every radio station all the time. The Japanese theory of advertising effectiveness is that constant repetition always works.
A lot of businesses seem to use a Sirius channel as background music. Sirius offers a lot of musical genres and subgenres, but each channel is about a 3-hour loop of the same selections over and over again. And people actually pay for this!
There's nothing to 'hack' because the data is not encoded (digitized) or encrypted in any way. Like the Long Now Foundation language disks, it's just text rendered at minute size. It can be read with any sufficiently good optics.
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-1, Insufficiently alarmist and propagandistic.
The hammering process is probably less likely to jam when it encounters rocks.
Relax. It's just a cutesy way of having InSight "speak for itself" to the media. If NASA used the standard protocol of having press conferences beamed from JPL, they would run the risk that somebody might be wearing some shirt that triggers liberals. ESA is not going to make that mistake again.
And I can renember when Microsoft was the dinky, revered upstart against the hated empire of IBM.
Space nutter reporting for duty. The point of sending machines like this is to characterize the Martian environment so that by the time humans arrive there will be as few surprises as possible. How hard is the soil? How easy is it to get at ice? Is the soil radioactive (which would be at the same time bad news and good news)? Is the soil differentiated into layers near the surface?
The more of these questions our robots can answer now, the better our design of habitats will be.
Society influences technology influences society ...
Exactly. Just take transportation as an example. As our society moved from the horse to the railroad and then to the automobile, our whole style of living, and at the same time numerous other technologies that these enabled, changed in the most basic ways.
"Jim Code" - Betcha that it's a crappy takeoff on the term Jim Crow. Probably another one of those lefty rants about technology destroying our souls, this time by bringing back racism somehow.
People should be free to not wear a seatbelts, and not vaccinate their offspring. To deny this freedom allows more and more of the latter types to reproduce.
If you don't use your seatbelt, you endanger yourself. If you and enough of your hippie-mom friends don't vaccinate, you endanger those around you.
If your video isn't on Youtube, does it really exist?
It could be worse. What if your video were on NBC?
And yet it does:
https://smile.amazon.com/Mein-...
It will be like Vegas: so long as there's a buffet with crab legs, people won't care what is being done to them.
EDIT: "...work in my case."
While it's not possible to see a new colour....
I wouldn't assume that. If our visual range were extended, might we not see new colors? It could be like being a tetrachromat.
Only augment one eye. Your brain would adjust.
This wouldn't work in one case. I only have one eye.
Good. Now the land and labor is available to businesses willing to operate with subsidies.
How anti-business is your city when it takes subsidies to get them to locate there?
I could go for the idea of being able to see infrared as a new color, but I don’t see the point of transducing IR to an existing color. When you see green, how do you know whether you’re seeing 535 nm or the new wavelength?
I wonder what my two posts will get, troll or flamebait.
-1, Insufficient Degree of Alarm.
Greenhouse theory would be a lot more respected by the general public if were not always expressed in the same apocalyptic terms as all the other environmental problems which turned out to be fixable without demolishing civilization. Remember the 'population bomb', acid rain, the ozone hole and all the extracted resources we were supposedly about to run out of?
Argumentum ad monsanteam
This means that if a calm day is predicted for tomorrow, you would know to put off running the oven and the dryer for another day.
ou realize the soil is radioactive on Mars right?
This didn't stop people from settling Colorado or coastal Brazil.
isn't confiscating the surplus profit produced by your employees' labor sufficient? do you have a psychological need to be both a sociopathic tyrant in addition to a self-righteous parasite?
There are lots of cushy government jobs waiting for people like this.
I lived there in the mid-Seventies, and Yodobashi Camera had the same ad, which mostly consists of directions to the store, playing on every radio station all the time. The Japanese theory of advertising effectiveness is that constant repetition always works.
A lot of businesses seem to use a Sirius channel as background music. Sirius offers a lot of musical genres and subgenres, but each channel is about a 3-hour loop of the same selections over and over again. And people actually pay for this!
There's nothing to 'hack' because the data is not encoded (digitized) or encrypted in any way. Like the Long Now Foundation language disks, it's just text rendered at minute size. It can be read with any sufficiently good optics.