They spearheaded it and that was great - but most of their scientists are in the private sector now. The private sector can do it cheaper, likely much safer and more efficiently while turning a profit and bringing back resources to justify that profit on a scale NASA could never hope to achieve. This isn't to say NASA should be closed, on the contrary they should have more funding to pursue projects like those in Eagleworks, some of the LENR and similarly fringe-physics projects. We need to be able to get to other solar systems, come up with technologies to grow food in space, protect against radiation, determine the best ways to scan and mine, etc. NASA is amazing at literal "moonshots" - things so outlandish people don't think they are possible until they happen and the private sector is equally bad at those same things. Everyone just needs to play to their strengths, leave colonization and exploration to the private sector but by all means throw public funding at R&D of new tech.
We know physics is wrong. It is the one thing about physics we know without a doubt because we can prove it does not correlate with itself. It is a good set of rules for engineering things but to try drawing truth from it about anything beyond very well defined usage scenarios or as a singular tool in a bucket for gaining knowledge (with ALL other tools involving experimentation and reiterative feedback) is absurd.
They have been able to show measurement error is about an order of magnitude lower than thrust. The Eagleworks guys are focused on completely negating the measurement error to determine the exact thrust being generated so they can have better data to test against. Meanwhile the original creator of it doesn't appear to be moving forward with it, he just retired and said "use a superconducting cavity" and nobody has built one yet.
If ET were there, couldn't there be other E-M methods that would attenuate before reaching earth? Not saying there are beings there, but just because radio waves aren't there doesn't mean they aren't.
If ET were there, transmitting on RF with the same power we use for radio/TV signals - our detectors aren't even good enough to hear it over noise.
Also, FDA approvals. It's genuinely the government's fault that drugs cost what they do and are poorly expanded upon. FDA trials are a bitch and a bad result means a stock price that plummets.
Are you willing to pay lots of money for broadcast TV, or basic cable channels? Advertising is the only viable source of income for most media outlets. What you want isn't relevant if it's totally unrealistic.
This is an absolute lie. Movies and shows make millions on on-demand viewers, merchandising, etc. The truth is advertising is just an additional revenue stream.
No system can account for every case and trying will result in a totalitarian government long before it will have anything remotely symbolizing "fair." By the time everything is "fair" the inhabitants of such a system wouldn't even resemble Humans today, they would be more like farmed animals in their ability to think - just look at the British lower class.
End the drug war. Free its non-violent victims. That'd be a great start.
Yeah...because when someone does something horrendously fucked up ruining the lives of tens of thousands of people in the process the best thing to do is what they wanted you to do to begin with. I'm sure adopting that strategy will really make us "progress" in the future.
...to be so incompetent and complacent as to expect the government to put any of his potential rivals out of business. It's that kind of thinking that cost them an empire and landed them in a two-class system consisting of an idiotically hopeless complacent lower class and an idiotic complacent stagnant upper class.
The British aren't even Human anymore.
A system is based in whole on the constituent components comprising that system. We've only just recently discovered quantum effects play a role in the processing of information within the dendrites of the brain, it seems outlandish from both a logical and metaphysical standpoint to believe our cells could have around 4 billion years to evolve with the only bounds of "grow things that better exploit the rules which govern you" and not harness any possible effects within their reach. If there is a quantum effect in existence it is almost a certainty that our cells are taking advantage of it by this point. There are plenty of examples in nature of learned behavior reflecting upon physical abilities to more fully harness them (in fact most of our abilities as Humans stem from this concept) - to suggest anything is impossible without an absolute grasp of all of physics is as absolutely anti-science as to suggest you only get held down by gravity because you aren't loving hard enough or something similarly hippyish.
True, though if for instance The Gates Foundation were to invest in it instead of pissing away money on the third world the amount of usable area available to civilization would multiply for the first time in centuries.
Or life is everywhere and we're among a handful of mentally-challenged species that build a big enough telescope to spot someone before inventing warp drive.
Feynman would routinely fly into a fit of rage and beat his wife for interrupting his solo bongo practice, according to files recently declassified by the FBI.
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Some redneck wisdom for you: you can't fix stupid.
They spearheaded it and that was great - but most of their scientists are in the private sector now. The private sector can do it cheaper, likely much safer and more efficiently while turning a profit and bringing back resources to justify that profit on a scale NASA could never hope to achieve. This isn't to say NASA should be closed, on the contrary they should have more funding to pursue projects like those in Eagleworks, some of the LENR and similarly fringe-physics projects. We need to be able to get to other solar systems, come up with technologies to grow food in space, protect against radiation, determine the best ways to scan and mine, etc. NASA is amazing at literal "moonshots" - things so outlandish people don't think they are possible until they happen and the private sector is equally bad at those same things. Everyone just needs to play to their strengths, leave colonization and exploration to the private sector but by all means throw public funding at R&D of new tech.
We know physics is wrong. It is the one thing about physics we know without a doubt because we can prove it does not correlate with itself. It is a good set of rules for engineering things but to try drawing truth from it about anything beyond very well defined usage scenarios or as a singular tool in a bucket for gaining knowledge (with ALL other tools involving experimentation and reiterative feedback) is absurd.
They have been able to show measurement error is about an order of magnitude lower than thrust. The Eagleworks guys are focused on completely negating the measurement error to determine the exact thrust being generated so they can have better data to test against. Meanwhile the original creator of it doesn't appear to be moving forward with it, he just retired and said "use a superconducting cavity" and nobody has built one yet.
If ET were there, couldn't there be other E-M methods that would attenuate before reaching earth? Not saying there are beings there, but just because radio waves aren't there doesn't mean they aren't.
If ET were there, transmitting on RF with the same power we use for radio/TV signals - our detectors aren't even good enough to hear it over noise.
Also, FDA approvals. It's genuinely the government's fault that drugs cost what they do and are poorly expanded upon. FDA trials are a bitch and a bad result means a stock price that plummets.
Are you willing to pay lots of money for broadcast TV, or basic cable channels? Advertising is the only viable source of income for most media outlets. What you want isn't relevant if it's totally unrealistic.
This is an absolute lie. Movies and shows make millions on on-demand viewers, merchandising, etc. The truth is advertising is just an additional revenue stream.
Just pass some retroactive laws legalizing drug use. Problem solved.
Except that would mean showing the world terrorism works to achieve desired ends.
No system can account for every case and trying will result in a totalitarian government long before it will have anything remotely symbolizing "fair." By the time everything is "fair" the inhabitants of such a system wouldn't even resemble Humans today, they would be more like farmed animals in their ability to think - just look at the British lower class.
End the drug war. Free its non-violent victims. That'd be a great start.
Yeah...because when someone does something horrendously fucked up ruining the lives of tens of thousands of people in the process the best thing to do is what they wanted you to do to begin with. I'm sure adopting that strategy will really make us "progress" in the future.
...to be so incompetent and complacent as to expect the government to put any of his potential rivals out of business. It's that kind of thinking that cost them an empire and landed them in a two-class system consisting of an idiotically hopeless complacent lower class and an idiotic complacent stagnant upper class. The British aren't even Human anymore.
A system is based in whole on the constituent components comprising that system. We've only just recently discovered quantum effects play a role in the processing of information within the dendrites of the brain, it seems outlandish from both a logical and metaphysical standpoint to believe our cells could have around 4 billion years to evolve with the only bounds of "grow things that better exploit the rules which govern you" and not harness any possible effects within their reach. If there is a quantum effect in existence it is almost a certainty that our cells are taking advantage of it by this point. There are plenty of examples in nature of learned behavior reflecting upon physical abilities to more fully harness them (in fact most of our abilities as Humans stem from this concept) - to suggest anything is impossible without an absolute grasp of all of physics is as absolutely anti-science as to suggest you only get held down by gravity because you aren't loving hard enough or something similarly hippyish.
what are the underlying assumptions for making a calculation of the value of that strength?
The same ones underpinning the notion of "climate change" as a catastrophic thing, of course.
True, though if for instance The Gates Foundation were to invest in it instead of pissing away money on the third world the amount of usable area available to civilization would multiply for the first time in centuries.
Or life is everywhere and we're among a handful of mentally-challenged species that build a big enough telescope to spot someone before inventing warp drive.
The amount of material required to build such a thing exceeds what's available in a solar system.
Depends on the thickness.
That's beside any issue regarding building this structure which wouldn't collapse on itself.
Why? Just spin it.
Feynman would routinely fly into a fit of rage and beat his wife for interrupting his solo bongo practice, according to files recently declassified by the FBI.
As a man of science, that was also his right.
#2 suggests you aren't a professor of anything relevant.
There's also the glaringly overwhelming truth that feminists don't produce anything for society aside from feminist propaganda.
Weighted against even the shittiest most senile and offensive scientist I'm going to have to lean on the side of the scientist.
I honestly wouldn't even trust a concrete containment wall - maybe a hole 20-40ft down with a very heavy coverstone over top.
Couldn't we just make salt guns big enough to shoot down asteroids too?
Vasectomy Launch Building.
Japan should really keep it's distance from anything nuclear.
Flywheels are amazingly dangerous.
Did anyone else read the headline as "advanced lego"?
You aren't one of us.