Are you kidding me? You guys think the left is anti-exploration? The right is the side that hates science/NASA because they're afraid science/NASA might prove that god isn't real and trickle down economics is a scam.
This is the Greens on their reasons for opposing a pure science research telescope in Hawaii. An exploration program that takes place entirely in Earth and which involves not a dime of public money: https://dgrnewsservice.org/civ...
Japan is one of the only countries that still has a racial criterion for citizenship, but I was in no way "despised." I was just considered "different." They were shocked that I could learn kanji, a system which actually has a lot more internal logic, which assists learnability, than outsiders give it credit for.
After a few months of having to go to the library (remember those?) and look things up on paper - or worse, using Bing, Europeans will be clamoring to have the government let Google back in.
"However the 60s CND hippie generation have managed to turn it into a bogieman (not helped of course by Chernobyl..."
But the most wondrous thing about space from a human culture standpoint is that there are no liberals up there to prevent us from diverting asteroids, operating nuclear reactors, and using bioengineering to modify humanity itself for improved survival in non-terrestrial environments.
Why would NASA put effort into Uranium reactors when Thorium is so much more promising? It doesn't get more "do-over" than an entire fucking planet.
Because thorium designs have to be developed and proven out on Earth first. The ORNL work was just a proof of concept, not an operating commercial reactor.
If there ever was simple life on Mars at one time, then there might be coal. And by the time we settle the planet carbon could be a major construction material, making coal a valuable resource once again.
That drawing off of heat is not just "to prevent a meltdown." The heat represents the output energy itself, which to be efficiently converted into electricity has to be dumped into as low-temperature a heat sink as possible. We use large bodies of water as heat sinks on Earth for ALL thermal power plants because the temperature differential is the greatest.
Have you seen Tokyo's population? That city could definitely use a decrease. Who the fuck wants to live in such close proximity to that many people?
I found it more tolerable to live close t that many people than to live close to any other people, including my own. The Japanese nature is ideally suited to living in close quarters. Even though it's not overall a crowded country - it's all small villages and unpopulated wilderness when you go out of town - they enjoy living close to each other.
Yes: what percentage of the "predation" cited in this complaint is really being asked out by a socially unsure, nerdy man the complainant considers below her station?
You're wrong. Taxi rides usually don't end in rape.
In traditional taxi service paid for with cash, there is no way of telling which driver carried which passenger. If the ride ends in robbery of the driver, as many do, or if it ends in the passenger leaving some vital object in the cab, as often happens, either victim is SOL.
In traditional taxi service paid for with credit cards, the CC reader is always "broken", so the outcome is the same.
But if you people are going to campaign on behalf of "settled science" in any discipline, there has to be a presumed authority on what is settled, and hence teachable at the primary levels.
Journal page charges of $2,500 aren't too far out of line for an article that includes some color figures.
What you mean is that $2,500 for a page with color figures is what you can charge when there's no competition. Putting that paper on an open website would cost far less than that.
At least in this case, the piracy charge came from the author of the paper, who is the rightful owner of the IP. The problem we have in the US is researchers being forced, often by their schools, to sign over their IP to the publisher of their paper.
I know this wasn't what you meant to say, but that's unwittingly the best way of putting it. The ACS is a knowledge horde, in the same sense as Mongol horde.
A doctoral thesis proposing a radical departure from known science is, however, not something you would teach in elementary schools. Do the legwork, be open to the peer review and if your thesis ever goes mainstream, then it could make it into the curriculum.
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Are you kidding me? You guys think the left is anti-exploration? The right is the side that hates science/NASA because they're afraid science/NASA might prove that god isn't real and trickle down economics is a scam.
This is the Greens on their reasons for opposing a pure science research telescope in Hawaii. An exploration program that takes place entirely in Earth and which involves not a dime of public money:
https://dgrnewsservice.org/civ...
Japan is one of the only countries that still has a racial criterion for citizenship, but I was in no way "despised." I was just considered "different." They were shocked that I could learn kanji, a system which actually has a lot more internal logic, which assists learnability, than outsiders give it credit for.
After a few months of having to go to the library (remember those?) and look things up on paper - or worse, using Bing, Europeans will be clamoring to have the government let Google back in.
For regular women yes, but axe-grinding feminists don't think like "anyone." All men are predators.
"However the 60s CND hippie generation have managed to turn it into a bogieman (not helped of course by Chernobyl..."
But the most wondrous thing about space from a human culture standpoint is that there are no liberals up there to prevent us from diverting asteroids, operating nuclear reactors, and using bioengineering to modify humanity itself for improved survival in non-terrestrial environments.
Why would NASA put effort into Uranium reactors when Thorium is so much more promising? It doesn't get more "do-over" than an entire fucking planet.
Because thorium designs have to be developed and proven out on Earth first. The ORNL work was just a proof of concept, not an operating commercial reactor.
The left's only concern about wealth is that somebody else might get it. That is their fundamental reason for hating exploration programs.
If there ever was simple life on Mars at one time, then there might be coal. And by the time we settle the planet carbon could be a major construction material, making coal a valuable resource once again.
That drawing off of heat is not just "to prevent a meltdown." The heat represents the output energy itself, which to be efficiently converted into electricity has to be dumped into as low-temperature a heat sink as possible. We use large bodies of water as heat sinks on Earth for ALL thermal power plants because the temperature differential is the greatest.
Have you seen Tokyo's population? That city could definitely use a decrease. Who the fuck wants to live in such close proximity to that many people?
I found it more tolerable to live close t that many people than to live close to any other people, including my own. The Japanese nature is ideally suited to living in close quarters. Even though it's not overall a crowded country - it's all small villages and unpopulated wilderness when you go out of town - they enjoy living close to each other.
Yes: what percentage of the "predation" cited in this complaint is really being asked out by a socially unsure, nerdy man the complainant considers below her station?
You're wrong. Taxi rides usually don't end in rape.
In traditional taxi service paid for with cash, there is no way of telling which driver carried which passenger. If the ride ends in robbery of the driver, as many do, or if it ends in the passenger leaving some vital object in the cab, as often happens, either victim is SOL.
In traditional taxi service paid for with credit cards, the CC reader is always "broken", so the outcome is the same.
But if you people are going to campaign on behalf of "settled science" in any discipline, there has to be a presumed authority on what is settled, and hence teachable at the primary levels.
It isn't like shooting up one marijuana is going to make you drink heroin.
Besides, when you shoot up marijuana the leaves tend to clog up the syringe.
"Haven't we already observed this about people walking down the street while... looking at a map... "
Muggers in touristy areas have known to watch for this for years.
How many researchers are going to drop ACS membership because of this?
Journal page charges of $2,500 aren't too far out of line for an article that includes some color figures.
What you mean is that $2,500 for a page with color figures is what you can charge when there's no competition. Putting that paper on an open website would cost far less than that.
At least in this case, the piracy charge came from the author of the paper, who is the rightful owner of the IP. The problem we have in the US is researchers being forced, often by their schools, to sign over their IP to the publisher of their paper.
"...ACS for their knowledge horde"
I know this wasn't what you meant to say, but that's unwittingly the best way of putting it. The ACS is a knowledge horde, in the same sense as Mongol horde.
Wasn't that where the long-standing vanity plate GRABHER, the owner's name, was suddenly classified as a gender slur?
Protip: Cherry picking is not a valid way of selecting a data set, not even in politics.
When the hovercraft fills with eels, it would automatically lift off and transport the next batch.
A doctoral thesis proposing a radical departure from known science is, however, not something you would teach in elementary schools. Do the legwork, be open to the peer review and if your thesis ever goes mainstream, then it could make it into the curriculum.
And in northern California, this alternative group of religious nutjobs has warped the science curriculum:
https://geneticliteracyproject...
I'm all for a Teach Real Science Act at the federal level, if necessary.
This isn't even a new Darwin. This one was already awarded years ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...