I doubt my personal contribution will be very useful. Why don't you get off slashdot and study exoplanets, so the NASA earth scientists can continue their focus on earth ?
I'm sure the experts are aware of the Gaia hypothesis. If they ignore it, they do that because they think it's rubbish, whether they paid for it or not.
So you're arguing that humans should have more ownership rights over something they did not create, land, and less ownership rights over something they did create, copyrighted content? Hmmm.
No, they should have ownership over things that cost money to reproduce. And they should not have ownership over an idea their parents created.
Just imagine when they find 100 Earthlike rocky planets orbiting at 1AU and discover what weather is like in such systems
If you can't even see the topography from here it will be very hard to build a useful model. And even if you build a model, you don't have any climate history to verify that it's remotely correct.
OMG I'm so sick of people phrasing scientific questions in terms of "ROI".
It's a perfectly valid approach. Of course, "satisfying curiosity" is a perfectly valid "R", so that doesn't mean you should stop doing this kind of stuff. It just needs to be prioritized.
1) In this case, they are exclusive, because they are taking away resources from earth sciences and are deploying them for exoplanet work. 2) While I agree that any work may result in practical applications, some things are more likely to have practical value than others. Given limited resources, it would be smart to direct them based on expected results. 3) The information from exoplanets will be very sparse, so it's unlikely that it will tell us more about the earth than simply looking at the earth.
What's that? Not everybody works on the same problems or has to wait until all other problems are solved first?
In this case, we are talking about the exact same people, and the same limited budget. Unless they are getting an extra budget that I'm not aware of, and are using that to hire additional experts.
I'd rather see people working on Earth's climate, where their work has many important applications, than on exoplanets, which are a scientific curiosity with little practical value.
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Sounds good. The colorado river is drying up anyway, so they won't be needed that canyon for anything else.
Why can't we grow plants in domes in the Martian atmosphere?
With less effort you can grow plants in domes on Earth.
Yeah, so we know that the sun will burn out in ~5 billion years. Get cracking.
Luckily we'll all be dead long before that.
Want to be safe from them, colony is space is the only real solution. Just the way it is.
Life on earth has survived worse things than Yellowstone eruptions. I'll stay here, if you don't mind.
Legal skills just move money around.
They only make that distinction when speaking to others. When nobody's looking they hate all jews the same.
is it OK for Pakistan to bomb America? Because the level of "because we're special" which happens here is mind boggling.
Political power grows out of a barrel of a gun. The US has a bigger gun.
Since far more people died on the highways during that measles outbreak than even got measles
Just because there are causes of death that are more common doesn't mean we should stop the ones that can be prevented trivially.
I hate that legislation is allowed to force people into something the state mandates
Where it says 'state', you should read 'other people'.
You're not telling me that I'm NOT ALLOWED to vaccinate, you're telling me that I HAVE TO DO IT.
You also HAVE to pay taxes, HAVE to wear a seatbelt, and HAVE to wear clothes in public, among other things.
I doubt my personal contribution will be very useful. Why don't you get off slashdot and study exoplanets, so the NASA earth scientists can continue their focus on earth ?
I'm sure the experts are aware of the Gaia hypothesis. If they ignore it, they do that because they think it's rubbish, whether they paid for it or not.
So you're arguing that humans should have more ownership rights over something they did not create, land, and less ownership rights over something they did create, copyrighted content? Hmmm.
No, they should have ownership over things that cost money to reproduce. And they should not have ownership over an idea their parents created.
Just imagine when they find 100 Earthlike rocky planets orbiting at 1AU and discover what weather is like in such systems
If you can't even see the topography from here it will be very hard to build a useful model. And even if you build a model, you don't have any climate history to verify that it's remotely correct.
OMG I'm so sick of people phrasing scientific questions in terms of "ROI".
It's a perfectly valid approach. Of course, "satisfying curiosity" is a perfectly valid "R", so that doesn't mean you should stop doing this kind of stuff. It just needs to be prioritized.
1) In this case, they are exclusive, because they are taking away resources from earth sciences and are deploying them for exoplanet work.
2) While I agree that any work may result in practical applications, some things are more likely to have practical value than others. Given limited resources, it would be smart to direct them based on expected results.
3) The information from exoplanets will be very sparse, so it's unlikely that it will tell us more about the earth than simply looking at the earth.
Most people won't benefit from interstellar travel, assuming it's even practically possible.
What's that? Not everybody works on the same problems or has to wait until all other problems are solved first?
In this case, we are talking about the exact same people, and the same limited budget. Unless they are getting an extra budget that I'm not aware of, and are using that to hire additional experts.
I'd rather see people working on Earth's climate, where their work has many important applications, than on exoplanets, which are a scientific curiosity with little practical value.
Judging if one song sounds sufficiently like another is an endless opportunity for debate. Much simpler to have a clear expiration of copyrights.
Please try an analogy that actually makes sense. Putting physical properties on the same level as intellectual properties is just stupid.
Does real estate become public domain after 100 years of ownership?
I wouldn't want to pay indefinite royalties to the construction company/architect for a cookie cutter house design. Would you ?
But if you're already have the power cord plugged in, it should be easy to provide a wired network connection right next to it.
Ohhhh, multicast video over LED?
That's called a TV.
First off, there are still a LOT of devices without 5ghz support.
There are even less with optical network support.
Second, 5ghz gives you 9 channels instead of 3, true.
No, there are 23 channels.