This "fascist military junta" is the closest thing to democracy there is in the Arab world. The democratically-elected government they replaced had no intention of allowing anyone else to be elected under their new constitution.
No, not pedantic, simply wrong. What separates acronyms, like GIF, from initialisms, like FS and HDD, is that they are pronounced as words while initialisms are spelled out (eg, eff-ess, aitch-dee-dee). There wouldn't be this distinction if the words were always to be "elongated" as you propose. The only people who would write out the full term are lawyers, who historically got paid by the word and therefore developed the silly, pretentious language of their trade (Lawyer language).
Then where did all the methane and ethane on Titan come from? Do you think there were dinosaurs living there millions of year ago to get smooshed? and were they also living in deep space so they could be formed into the giant clouds of methane in interstellar space?
You may be on to something here. The Giant impact hypothesis remelted a good part of Earth and splashed off the Moon. Instead of a bunch of little watery asteroids, bash it with one big enough to liquify the parts that have cooled and seized up.
You've just described the flaw in the plan: who would buy such a thing? Boeing isn't going to build them out of the goodness of their heart. The people who put satellites up would benefit from clearing out the orbit they want to use, but that is nowhere near as simple as putting one of these sweepers into that orbit, only retrograde, because of all the different orbits of the debris that intersects it. It would be ridiculously expensive to try to clear one orbit for one satellite.
What we have here is an example of a tragedy of the commons because no one owns the valuable space where satellites live. Perhaps an international consortium of space-faring nations could claim it all and put orbits up for auction, then use the proceeds to clean it up?
If the ship you are searching for has been in one spot for more than three minutes when you jump in, then it can be seen immediately. More precisely, for whatever time t it has been sitting, it can be seen at distance d = ct, where c is the speed of light, because light from it has filled a sphere that large. Meanwhile the ship that jumped in starts emitting infrared and reflecting starlight to create the lightsphere in which it is visible.
So the cylons could jump to three light minutes out, shoot beam weapons for 2:59 and then jump away before the Colonials even know they've arrived.
So here's another thing: if the dradis works ftl, then there ought to be a way to use that same technology to create a tight, high-powered beam of "dradis radiation" that works at the same speed as dradis. Then the same equation applies but in which c is the speed of dradis.
The motion of the telescope around the earth is insignificant next to the motion of our sun in its orbit around the Milky Way, and even the 100,000 light-year distance across the galaxy creates negligible parallax at distances of billions of light years. So I don't think it matters where in the telescope's orbit around Earth the pictures are taken.
Really? What kind of government grants are being made to oil, coal or gas companies? All I see are companies paying royalties to governments for the energy they extract from the land they paid the government for the privilege of drilling.
All those mountains and hills are still in someone's back yard. The only place that isn't in someone's back yard is on national and state parks and preserves, and I don't think there's anybody that thinks building wind farms on any of those is going to be allowed soon.
There is still a bit of loose language here, in that it is not perfectly clear whether the last clause "who are captured or arrested in the United States" applies to "United States citizens, lawful resident alens of the United States" or only to "any other persons". Does this apply to an US citizen arrested in Colómbia or not?
I think you are right that people will never go to other stars, but we can never be ready for the next step unless we start making ourselves ready. That means pushing the state of the art in all the technologies needed for long-term, long-distance space travel. The only way to do that is by having a big project, like landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth before the decade is out. Why not go ahead and dream big, and send a probe to Proxima Centauri? Watching it would require a generation mission control, because it would take 100 years of travel and then four more years of waiting for any data to come back confirming it had arrived. Would anyone even be listening after that much time?
But there is another side to this, that there are jobs that need to be done, but it aren't worth paying even minimum wage. But instead of creating more part-time jobs for kids, these things either go undone or divert higher-paid workers from more productive work.These give you either lower quality or higher prices, and fewer jobs. Those are the hidden costs of minimum wage.
The only thing that is going to help many of the poor people is moving them out of the stinking desert. As long as they live in places where they barely fed themselves in the good years and starve in the frequent years of drought or locust plague, they are never going to be self supporting. But where can they move? The better lands are already full, and they, being the poor, don't have the money to buy better land.
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This "fascist military junta" is the closest thing to democracy there is in the Arab world. The democratically-elected government they replaced had no intention of allowing anyone else to be elected under their new constitution.
No, not pedantic, simply wrong. What separates acronyms, like GIF, from initialisms, like FS and HDD, is that they are pronounced as words while initialisms are spelled out (eg, eff-ess, aitch-dee-dee). There wouldn't be this distinction if the words were always to be "elongated" as you propose. The only people who would write out the full term are lawyers, who historically got paid by the word and therefore developed the silly, pretentious language of their trade (Lawyer language).
Spock crushes lemon juice water!
Because paint has mass, so you'd have to remove something else to bring the vehicle mass back down.
No it wouldn't. Escape velocity is a function of the planet's mass; density is irrelevant.
http://money.cnn.com/1998/11/06/economy/japan_bank/
Then where did all the methane and ethane on Titan come from? Do you think there were dinosaurs living there millions of year ago to get smooshed? and were they also living in deep space so they could be formed into the giant clouds of methane in interstellar space?
You may be on to something here. The Giant impact hypothesis remelted a good part of Earth and splashed off the Moon. Instead of a bunch of little watery asteroids, bash it with one big enough to liquify the parts that have cooled and seized up.
Yes, this requires really long-term planning.
Yeah, but first you have to build the cornfield.
You've just described the flaw in the plan: who would buy such a thing? Boeing isn't going to build them out of the goodness of their heart. The people who put satellites up would benefit from clearing out the orbit they want to use, but that is nowhere near as simple as putting one of these sweepers into that orbit, only retrograde, because of all the different orbits of the debris that intersects it. It would be ridiculously expensive to try to clear one orbit for one satellite.
What we have here is an example of a tragedy of the commons because no one owns the valuable space where satellites live. Perhaps an international consortium of space-faring nations could claim it all and put orbits up for auction, then use the proceeds to clean it up?
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/online/1601/why-organic-food-cant-feed-world
If the ship you are searching for has been in one spot for more than three minutes when you jump in, then it can be seen immediately. More precisely, for whatever time t it has been sitting, it can be seen at distance d = ct, where c is the speed of light, because light from it has filled a sphere that large. Meanwhile the ship that jumped in starts emitting infrared and reflecting starlight to create the lightsphere in which it is visible.
So the cylons could jump to three light minutes out, shoot beam weapons for 2:59 and then jump away before the Colonials even know they've arrived.
So here's another thing: if the dradis works ftl, then there ought to be a way to use that same technology to create a tight, high-powered beam of "dradis radiation" that works at the same speed as dradis. Then the same equation applies but in which c is the speed of dradis.
Nope, you can only see 13.8 billion years.
The motion of the telescope around the earth is insignificant next to the motion of our sun in its orbit around the Milky Way, and even the 100,000 light-year distance across the galaxy creates negligible parallax at distances of billions of light years. So I don't think it matters where in the telescope's orbit around Earth the pictures are taken.
Really? What kind of government grants are being made to oil, coal or gas companies? All I see are companies paying royalties to governments for the energy they extract from the land they paid the government for the privilege of drilling.
All those mountains and hills are still in someone's back yard. The only place that isn't in someone's back yard is on national and state parks and preserves, and I don't think there's anybody that thinks building wind farms on any of those is going to be allowed soon.
Define “properly”. There's the source of the fear.
Read 'em and weep:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity#United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleventh_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
No, oxygen is not involved in arc welding. Heat from electrical resistance melts the parts being welded without burning anything.
There is still a bit of loose language here, in that it is not perfectly clear whether the last clause "who are captured or arrested in the United States" applies to "United States citizens, lawful resident alens of the United States" or only to "any other persons". Does this apply to an US citizen arrested in Colómbia or not?
I think you are right that people will never go to other stars, but we can never be ready for the next step unless we start making ourselves ready. That means pushing the state of the art in all the technologies needed for long-term, long-distance space travel. The only way to do that is by having a big project, like landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth before the decade is out. Why not go ahead and dream big, and send a probe to Proxima Centauri? Watching it would require a generation mission control, because it would take 100 years of travel and then four more years of waiting for any data to come back confirming it had arrived. Would anyone even be listening after that much time?
But there is another side to this, that there are jobs that need to be done, but it aren't worth paying even minimum wage. But instead of creating more part-time jobs for kids, these things either go undone or divert higher-paid workers from more productive work.These give you either lower quality or higher prices, and fewer jobs. Those are the hidden costs of minimum wage.
Thank you. It's nice to have someone who has studied the subject in the discussion.
The only thing that is going to help many of the poor people is moving them out of the stinking desert. As long as they live in places where they barely fed themselves in the good years and starve in the frequent years of drought or locust plague, they are never going to be self supporting. But where can they move? The better lands are already full, and they, being the poor, don't have the money to buy better land.
Which must be why the first things all those expeditions were sending back were gold and silver.