I examined the L4 and L5 points. The globs of radioactive material (however packaged) will have to orbit those points. There are dust occupants that have to be considered, but I'm not informed enough to make a call. Thanks for the information. I'm going to do a deeper dive on those.
As for Earth/Moon, I, too, am concerned about things going sideways.
Another reality is that Assange and Wikileaks did not harm just the US.
In the back channels, the Allies are asking each other, "Who wants to step up and get this creep and set an example for all of us that espionage ain't cool?"
The US is very willing to take Assange on.
Look at it:
Sweden don't like him. Australia don't like him. UK don't like him. Ecuador don't like him. Europe don't like him.
Hell, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC would likely fund BOTH sides of the plaintiff/defense circus to get the advertising dollars.
As I was channeling Nowhere Man, peddling in a stationary space dimension and changing time reference, the TV monitor above the bike was tuned to CNN and the crawler quoted someone as saying, "Trump administration has arsonists and firefighters. He's getting rid of the firefighters."
I don't lean political, but this does address your point about lack of appointments.
The arsonists are the holdovers from the Obama administration that the Trump team has no time to replace.
I'm from Beaumont, Texas where the freezing point of male genitalia is 70 degrees fair & height.
I was in Massachusetts at an aircraft hanger (USN) and a blizzard/sleet storm froze water in the tracks of the massive hanger doors so they were stuck open.
That big door stayed open my entire 4 hour shift. I was dressed in a wool pea coat, wool gloves, watch cap-covered protective helmet, boots...
Fuck that. I had them send me to school down in Key West.
Now that I'm out, I don't travel further North the the mall food court.
Another one is the inevitable collapse of civilization on Earth for reasons that have happened in the past, but on a global scale.
Right now, Earth is on a course where each country protects its turf, resources, economy, and national identity.
It's not due to the recent administration of the US. Fuck the US in these calculations.
Look at Brexit, China, Russia, and Japan. It's been the trend starting generations ago. America and the UK have elected, literally, to go down the "Our Country First."
For the good of humanity, it's time to find some vacation real estate, a gated community away from the insanity.
The US has already fallen way behind and many other countries want to be the next king of the hill.
Give unto all of the hill kings that which belongs to the hill kings and get the fuck off the Earth.
Due to its weaker gravity, the moon would hold onto its atmosphere for tens of thousands of years.
Is this fucking goddam "Opposite Day?"
So, Mars lost all of its fucking atmosphere because the goddam thing is too massive?
And do you know why the Moon "spins," as fast/slow as it does? It's because it used to spin much faster, just as you insensitively, in a cloddish way, propose to do again, and for naught.
The Moon is tidally "locked," with the Earth and that's because of the mass ratios of both objects AND the distance between them.
If you're planning to change the rotation rate of the Moon, you're gonna have to push that motherfucker either closer to the Earth or farther away.
IF YOU DO THAT I WILL KICK YOUR ASS FOR FUCKING UP THE TIDES I COUNT ON FOR FISHING, YOU SORRY BASTARD OR BITCH AS MAY APPLY.
Goddam you, that's funny and the only goddam sensible plan I've read so far.
Lookit: It has a historical narrative that eliminates the need for proof of concept and, forward looking, celebs with the charming accent can make the long trip back here to go on world tours, singing about the hard time of being both outcast Folsom Prison blokes, AND "rocket men."
The entertainers can return with goods like Madonna T-shirts and quantum qubit blockchain AWS S3 Bucket Push Technology.
I'm talking quantum qubit blockchain AWS S3 Bucket Push Technology written on a T-shirt.
You know, like the T-shirts we have with rainbows and unicorns and stuff.
I am Captain Dork of the Weenie Patrol, a Space Force Cadet created by Dave Barry back in the Mondale days when he (Mondale, not Barry) donned a helmet that slid down over his eyes as he rode in a patriotic tank to demonstrate that he had some special patriotic attribute that prevented him (Mondale, not Barry) from finding a hat that would fit and stuff.
While I believe that such experimental research is beneficial and may lead to a better understanding of complicated quantum systems, I’m skeptical that these efforts will ever result in a practical quantum computer. Such a computer would have to be able to manipulate—on a microscopic level and with enormous precision—a physical system characterized by an unimaginably huge set of parameters, each of which can take on a continuous range of values. Could we ever learn to control the more than 10^300 continuously variable parameters defining the quantum state of such a system?
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I examined the L4 and L5 points. The globs of radioactive material (however packaged) will have to orbit those points. There are dust occupants that have to be considered, but I'm not informed enough to make a call. Thanks for the information. I'm going to do a deeper dive on those.
As for Earth/Moon, I, too, am concerned about things going sideways.
Again, thanks.
Where does the blockchain-supported game theory come in?
Another reality is that Assange and Wikileaks did not harm just the US.
In the back channels, the Allies are asking each other, "Who wants to step up and get this creep and set an example for all of us that espionage ain't cool?"
The US is very willing to take Assange on.
Look at it:
Sweden don't like him. Australia don't like him. UK don't like him. Ecuador don't like him. Europe don't like him.
Hell, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC would likely fund BOTH sides of the plaintiff/defense circus to get the advertising dollars.
As I was channeling Nowhere Man, peddling in a stationary space dimension and changing time reference, the TV monitor above the bike was tuned to CNN and the crawler quoted someone as saying, "Trump administration has arsonists and firefighters. He's getting rid of the firefighters."
I don't lean political, but this does address your point about lack of appointments.
The arsonists are the holdovers from the Obama administration that the Trump team has no time to replace.
I did admire Assange and Wikileaks at the outset. I like ballsy people and stuff, and whistle blowers, particularly.
The concept of an anonymous repository for documents representing a modern Guernica, I thought, was a much needed service.
I think Manning, Snowden and even Winner moved in that direction.
Your points correctly expose the problems caused by ego on the part of Assange and the need for funding on the part of Wikileaks.
My admiration turned to disgust and disrespect when the vanity kicked in.
I hope Assange gets screwed real good, and it's not because I object in any way to his reveals of sensitive material.
No, I just don't like the sorry asshole.
... provide a goddam car analogy.
I'm a retired IT guy of 28 years and I'm up on blockchain on the business side, but I never took the time to immerse myself in the game world.
Thanks.
... buy a seat?
I sure as hell ain't taking it home with me and you can bet yer ass I'm not gonna ride in it.
Which ones? There are more than Carter has Little Liver Pills.
You got yer Moon/Earth, Earth/Sun, Any one object/Any other object.
The delta-v is different for each, and the closer ones had damn well better be stable or we could Cretaceous our asses.
And the Moon is a harsh one.
I'm from Beaumont, Texas where the freezing point of male genitalia is 70 degrees fair & height.
I was in Massachusetts at an aircraft hanger (USN) and a blizzard/sleet storm froze water in the tracks of the massive hanger doors so they were stuck open.
That big door stayed open my entire 4 hour shift. I was dressed in a wool pea coat, wool gloves, watch cap-covered protective helmet, boots ...
Fuck that. I had them send me to school down in Key West.
Now that I'm out, I don't travel further North the the mall food court.
Neil Degrasse Tyson: We'll Never Get to Mars
Unless we find diamonds or oil.
I agree.
We can't terraform Earth. How the simple fuck can we imagine Mars, or any other place is going to be easier than the goddam place where we live?
Be sure that, for Jupiter, especially the "live ON" part, that the genetic engineering gives great mass to primarily hydrogen, OK.
Getting hit is not the prime mover for migration.
Overpopulation is the better one.
Another one is the inevitable collapse of civilization on Earth for reasons that have happened in the past, but on a global scale.
Right now, Earth is on a course where each country protects its turf, resources, economy, and national identity.
It's not due to the recent administration of the US. Fuck the US in these calculations.
Look at Brexit, China, Russia, and Japan. It's been the trend starting generations ago. America and the UK have elected, literally, to go down the "Our Country First."
For the good of humanity, it's time to find some vacation real estate, a gated community away from the insanity.
The US has already fallen way behind and many other countries want to be the next king of the hill.
Give unto all of the hill kings that which belongs to the hill kings and get the fuck off the Earth.
Due to its weaker gravity, the moon would hold onto its atmosphere for tens of thousands of years.
Is this fucking goddam "Opposite Day?"
So, Mars lost all of its fucking atmosphere because the goddam thing is too massive?
And do you know why the Moon "spins," as fast/slow as it does? It's because it used to spin much faster, just as you insensitively, in a cloddish way, propose to do again, and for naught.
The Moon is tidally "locked," with the Earth and that's because of the mass ratios of both objects AND the distance between them.
If you're planning to change the rotation rate of the Moon, you're gonna have to push that motherfucker either closer to the Earth or farther away.
IF YOU DO THAT I WILL KICK YOUR ASS FOR FUCKING UP THE TIDES I COUNT ON FOR FISHING, YOU SORRY BASTARD OR BITCH AS MAY APPLY.
Goddam you, that's funny and the only goddam sensible plan I've read so far.
Lookit: It has a historical narrative that eliminates the need for proof of concept and, forward looking, celebs with the charming accent can make the long trip back here to go on world tours, singing about the hard time of being both outcast Folsom Prison blokes, AND "rocket men."
The entertainers can return with goods like Madonna T-shirts and quantum qubit blockchain AWS S3 Bucket Push Technology.
I'm talking quantum qubit blockchain AWS S3 Bucket Push Technology written on a T-shirt.
You know, like the T-shirts we have with rainbows and unicorns and stuff.
ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!
I am Captain Dork of the Weenie Patrol, a Space Force Cadet created by Dave Barry back in the Mondale days when he (Mondale, not Barry) donned a helmet that slid down over his eyes as he rode in a patriotic tank to demonstrate that he had some special patriotic attribute that prevented him (Mondale, not Barry) from finding a hat that would fit and stuff.
Mars doesn't have the ability to burn the goddam trash.
That hasn't bothered Earthlings, They just trow it all in their goddam mess kit.
Mars is not a candidate for terraforming, but it would make an excellent radioactive landfill.
Exactly. Look at "quantum computers."
While I believe that such experimental research is beneficial and may lead to a better understanding of complicated quantum systems, I’m skeptical that these efforts will ever result in a practical quantum computer. Such a computer would have to be able to manipulate—on a microscopic level and with enormous precision—a physical system characterized by an unimaginably huge set of parameters, each of which can take on a continuous range of values. Could we ever learn to control the more than 10^300 continuously variable parameters defining the quantum state of such a system?
My answer is simple. No, never.
If we read the literature about serious terraforming and stuff, it's a slow, meticulous process that would take centuries with cost overruns.
You know, kinda like getting Lockheed Martin to build a fucking outdated F-35.
We should terraform Antarctica just to piss Bill Nye off.
Who's up for that?
Ice court tennis, anyone?
And there you have the issue. You don't like his fucking goddam socks, either.
Einstein wore socks only when his wife bitched at him. You don't like Einstein either, do you?
CaptainDork corollary #6: People who are different make a difference.
Apparently you are a fashion critic.
While we welcome all here at /. please stay in your wheelhouse and get a Bill Nye doll and dress him any goddam way you wish.
Point?
Einstein said he wasn't interested in memorizing his own phone number because it was easily retrieved from a book.
He didn't care about his looks and and got goddam pissy about the randomness of quanta and the failure to produce unified theory of everything.
Feynman was as eccentric as they come.
Issac Newton was a nut ball who tasted mercury and dabbled in astrology.
What's important is not the goddam baby shit you can't handle. Focus on the fucking message.
Nye's an asshole. Forget the presentation and concentrate on the goddam message because he's precisely correct.
We could erase your comment and mine.
... I bought a security light for my carport.