I can guarantee the video i saw (i'm assuming we're talking about the one that made the news here the past couple days...not the Falcon rocket thing) is deffinately a UFO. I can't identify it, and clearly the pilot couldn't either.
Identifying this kind of observation is part of the Pentagon's job. If it represents a new military capability by Fat Boy or anyone else in the world, we want to know what it is. But claiming that the Pentagon has a stockpile of alien alloy is something else again.
Even if we assume an all-electric future, cars will still drip lubricant and slough off rubber dust, much of which will stick to the solar panels and have to be cleaned with whatever special techniques they have to devise. Electric cars will be on the average lighter than IC cars, but the weight will still require ruggedized, super-expensive panels.
If we want to harvest energy from roads, concentrate on the solar heating of those matte black surfaces. Is there some some cheap thermocouple material that we could embed in the pavement?
As a red blooded American, I support the hidden hand of the marketplace to pick the best technology.
Except for ideas that the marketplace is not allowed to test because of those endless idiot lawsuits filed by the Luddite lobby. We will be able to make progress again when we figure out a way of keeping them out of our court system.
This does give them the ability to experiment with ideas that we won't even try. I'm highly dubious about the solar roadway idea, but because China will build at least one of these wacky things, they have a better chance of making some technology work that we wouldn't even test.
That WAS the first stage. The 625-mi orbit required use of all the first stage fuel, so this time there was no plan to bring it back. It was a used stage.
How is this any different than being herded like fucking cattle?
They'll have to pry my cold, lifeless hands off of my steering wheel.
"Manual driving" will acquire hipster nostalgia, like those vinyl records they're always on about. Georgia and Tennessee will set up State Driving Parks, where after your Uber drops you off at the visitor center you will be able to rent classic Corvettes and drive yourself around a loop of imitation small villages with classic Main Streets, drag strips, drive-in theaters, Sonic Drive-Thrus, and some "inspiration Points" in view locations.
If you've travelled in the US, you will encounter casino buses. These offer the identical free service to city people willing to spend a comped weekend at their casino/hotel. You have to pinky swear to stay in their casino, but this is not closely monitored.
Almost all password errors are caused by those infernal masked entry fields. Today your user ID is most often your email, because this is pretty much guaranteed to be unique as well as being a code you can always remember. Because passwords are intended to be obscure, a good one is hard to enter correctly unless you can see what you're typing. Let there be a Mask This Field checkbox option for that one time in a hundred when someone might actually be looking over your shoulder.
There are several plants in the state that do nothing but make electricity for California.
Arizona is also heavily into the business of generating the power that California won't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Look at the list of "Owners" And this project is a large renewable but not renewable by the fake California definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Under "Distribution of power" note that the city of Los Angeles alone gets almost as much of the output as all of Arizona.
Yet when you look at power generation around the world, hydro is the king of renewables. All the other renewables are a rounding error compared to hydro. In California political correctness trumps (sorry!) mere science and engineering.
"Subsidies for renewables... are used so that people will have an incentive to adopt renewables, thus creating an economy of scale whereas renewables become commonplace. It's not just "for looks"
If the subsidy doesn't automatically come off as the amount of subsidized construction reaches specified goals, then it's for looks.
A beter approach might be yo allow Americans to shop the global market for compounds that meet the standards of European or Asian equivalents of the FDA. This would prevent US suppliers from monopolizing the market.
Goverment regulations cause this problem. Now that we are getting rid of NObamacare, this problem will go away. GUARANTEED.
This new administration could have been an opportunity to bring open-market forces to medicine. But so far, I see no indication of this happening. If anything, the swamp is getting deeper.
Parent is not arguing for insurance protection, but that the premium on a trillion-dollar policy would be too much for any researcher to afford, and that therefore the research does not get done. What would actually happen if we passed such a law is that no legal research of this type would get done.
You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. Just as with nuclear technology, if we recuse from using CRISPR, all that means is that if and when bad guys use it, we will be unable to defend ourselves with it.
Just as with cellular telephony, packaging started as a first world problem that spread to having a global impact. We are mankind's early adopters, experiencing problems like this first so that the solutions we evolve can eventually benefit everybody.
Everything stops until the lone employee can scurry over and key in an approval. She also has to be called has produce or something very light, like a packet of gravy browning, which after being scanned will elicit "Unexpected item in bagging area!"
It's holiday season and the store, in Big Box Row next to a Home Depot and a Kroger, is packed. It has about thirty checkout stations up front, but only two are ever manned (okay, personned). The customers are stacked in line for those and the self-check area.
>where it would arrive in November 2038 (mark your calendars!).
Everybody knows the end of the world is January 19, 2038 as was foretold in 1970.
Oh yes, isn't that the date after which all the remaining computers will be running Windows? Better start wiring the custom mission control software right now.
Laser printers, even color ones, are cheap enough these days for anyone who needs good professional output without having to go through the inkjet cycle of cursing/running the Clean utility/cursing/running the Deep Clean utility every time you want a few pages.
If your needs are more plebeian and monochrome only and you don't mind Snapfishing all your photos, there's the HP 1102W. It even supports Apple AirPrint. The only downside for this application is that occasional pages randomly take fifteen minutes of formatting time before they print.
We have already been blindsided by the unexpected ability of computers to drive road vehicles, a task at which they are already doing better than human drivers on on-road beta testing. We can call this the big driving problem.
The small, simpler driving problem is automating the piloting of trains. Many city fixed-rail systems already use automated train operation. We can be certain that a computer wouldn't do anything as boneheaded as driving at 81 mph on a 30-mile curve.
The term economists have for this is ‘regulatory capture ‘. The law was lobbied for and written by Yellow Cab, and it is now being interpreted for their benefit. Now we see why Britain is pulling out of the EU.
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I can guarantee the video i saw (i'm assuming we're talking about the one that made the news here the past couple days...not the Falcon rocket thing) is deffinately a UFO. I can't identify it, and clearly the pilot couldn't either.
Identifying this kind of observation is part of the Pentagon's job. If it represents a new military capability by Fat Boy or anyone else in the world, we want to know what it is. But claiming that the Pentagon has a stockpile of alien alloy is something else again.
Even if we assume an all-electric future, cars will still drip lubricant and slough off rubber dust, much of which will stick to the solar panels and have to be cleaned with whatever special techniques they have to devise. Electric cars will be on the average lighter than IC cars, but the weight will still require ruggedized, super-expensive panels.
If we want to harvest energy from roads, concentrate on the solar heating of those matte black surfaces. Is there some some cheap thermocouple material that we could embed in the pavement?
As a red blooded American, I support the hidden hand of the marketplace to pick the best technology.
Except for ideas that the marketplace is not allowed to test because of those endless idiot lawsuits filed by the Luddite lobby. We will be able to make progress again when we figure out a way of keeping them out of our court system.
This does give them the ability to experiment with ideas that we won't even try. I'm highly dubious about the solar roadway idea, but because China will build at least one of these wacky things, they have a better chance of making some technology work that we wouldn't even test.
That WAS the first stage. The 625-mi orbit required use of all the first stage fuel, so this time there was no plan to bring it back. It was a used stage.
The second stage firing right after separation created a 3-D fan of lighted vapor that many observers interpreted as a transparent blimp.
Nothing new. Already being done. It's called Kaffeefahrt. Seems there's no english wikipedia page for that one.
In English we're definitely going to have to name it something else, even if we open one in say, a Schlitterbahn.
How is this any different than being herded like fucking cattle?
They'll have to pry my cold, lifeless hands off of my steering wheel.
"Manual driving" will acquire hipster nostalgia, like those vinyl records they're always on about. Georgia and Tennessee will set up State Driving Parks, where after your Uber drops you off at the visitor center you will be able to rent classic Corvettes and drive yourself around a loop of imitation small villages with classic Main Streets, drag strips, drive-in theaters, Sonic Drive-Thrus, and some "inspiration Points" in view locations.
If you've travelled in the US, you will encounter casino buses. These offer the identical free service to city people willing to spend a comped weekend at their casino/hotel. You have to pinky swear to stay in their casino, but this is not closely monitored.
Almost all password errors are caused by those infernal masked entry fields. Today your user ID is most often your email, because this is pretty much guaranteed to be unique as well as being a code you can always remember. Because passwords are intended to be obscure, a good one is hard to enter correctly unless you can see what you're typing. Let there be a Mask This Field checkbox option for that one time in a hundred when someone might actually be looking over your shoulder.
California Electricity that is.
There are several plants in the state that do nothing but make electricity for California.
Arizona is also heavily into the business of generating the power that California won't:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Look at the list of "Owners"
And this project is a large renewable but not renewable by the fake California definition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Under "Distribution of power" note that the city of Los Angeles alone gets almost as much of the output as all of Arizona.
Yet when you look at power generation around the world, hydro is the king of renewables. All the other renewables are a rounding error compared to hydro. In California political correctness trumps (sorry!) mere science and engineering.
"Subsidies for renewables... are used so that people will have an incentive to adopt renewables, thus creating an economy of scale whereas renewables become commonplace. It's not just "for looks"
If the subsidy doesn't automatically come off as the amount of subsidized construction reaches specified goals, then it's for looks.
A beter approach might be yo allow Americans to shop the global market for compounds that meet the standards of European or Asian equivalents of the FDA. This would prevent US suppliers from monopolizing the market.
Goverment regulations cause this problem. Now that we are getting rid of NObamacare, this problem will go away. GUARANTEED.
This new administration could have been an opportunity to bring open-market forces to medicine. But so far, I see no indication of this happening. If anything, the swamp is getting deeper.
Parent is not arguing for insurance protection, but that the premium on a trillion-dollar policy would be too much for any researcher to afford, and that therefore the research does not get done. What would actually happen if we passed such a law is that no legal research of this type would get done.
You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. Just as with nuclear technology, if we recuse from using CRISPR, all that means is that if and when bad guys use it, we will be unable to defend ourselves with it.
Just as with cellular telephony, packaging started as a first world problem that spread to having a global impact. We are mankind's early adopters, experiencing problems like this first so that the solutions we evolve can eventually benefit everybody.
Everything stops until the lone employee can scurry over and key in an approval. She also has to be called has produce or something very light, like a packet of gravy browning, which after being scanned will elicit "Unexpected item in bagging area!"
It's holiday season and the store, in Big Box Row next to a Home Depot and a Kroger, is packed. It has about thirty checkout stations up front, but only two are ever manned (okay, personned). The customers are stacked in line for those and the self-check area.
that we already have a cometary probe planned, funded and soon to be launched I think: OSIRIS-rex.
OSIRIS-rex will be launched on September 8, 2016. The world as you know it will come to an end exactly two months later.
>where it would arrive in November 2038 (mark your calendars!).
Everybody knows the end of the world is January 19, 2038 as was foretold in 1970.
Oh yes, isn't that the date after which all the remaining computers will be running Windows? Better start wiring the custom mission control software right now.
Laser printers, even color ones, are cheap enough these days for anyone who needs good professional output without having to go through the inkjet cycle of cursing/running the Clean utility/cursing/running the Deep Clean utility every time you want a few pages.
If your needs are more plebeian and monochrome only and you don't mind Snapfishing all your photos, there's the HP 1102W. It even supports Apple AirPrint. The only downside for this application is that occasional pages randomly take fifteen minutes of formatting time before they print.
We have already been blindsided by the unexpected ability of computers to drive road vehicles, a task at which they are already doing better than human drivers on on-road beta testing. We can call this the big driving problem.
The small, simpler driving problem is automating the piloting of trains. Many city fixed-rail systems already use automated train operation. We can be certain that a computer wouldn't do anything as boneheaded as driving at 81 mph on a 30-mile curve.
The term economists have for this is ‘regulatory capture ‘. The law was lobbied for and written by Yellow Cab, and it is now being interpreted for their benefit. Now we see why Britain is pulling out of the EU.