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  1. Re:What has the ISS accomplished? on Commercial Space Crew Supporters Posit a Conspiracy Theory Involving Funding Shortages · · Score: 1

    It accomplished sucking up enough money to kill the SCSC.

  2. Re:Guess this just shows on Commercial Space Crew Supporters Posit a Conspiracy Theory Involving Funding Shortages · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many space nutters actually work in the industry. On things other than simulated Mars colonization plans.

  3. Re:cause Alaska's huge in resources, not in popula on Alaska: The Only US State Where Everyone Gets Free Money · · Score: 1
    Texas spends $9,094/year/student.

    http://www.governing.com/gov-d...

  4. Re:Not free money on Alaska: The Only US State Where Everyone Gets Free Money · · Score: 1

    It's the result of having passed the event horizon of a technological singularity according to a book that I once read.

  5. Re:Not free money on Alaska: The Only US State Where Everyone Gets Free Money · · Score: 1

    Good and bad times will always be subjective.

  6. Re:My neighbors get free money every month on Alaska: The Only US State Where Everyone Gets Free Money · · Score: 1

    They can receive far less than they paid in, or far more.

    This is where Actuarial science is important.

  7. Re:Comment on Alaska: The Only US State Where Everyone Gets Free Money · · Score: 1

    Denmark is not socialist.

  8. Re: What could go wrong? on Robot Submarine Poisons Sea Stars To Save Coral Reefs · · Score: 1

    ^about everything.

  9. Re:Gravitational slingshot on NASA To 'Lasso' a Comet To Hitchhike Across the Solar System · · Score: 1

    On the mountain maybe, but thin`k of the dog.

  10. Re:Calculations on NASA To 'Lasso' a Comet To Hitchhike Across the Solar System · · Score: 1

    You can cram an awful lot into a microsatellite these days. Remember, you don't need very much processing power (that can be done elsewhere), only sensors and a transmitter.

  11. Re:They should know better on NASA To 'Lasso' a Comet To Hitchhike Across the Solar System · · Score: 1

    Then it's an engineering economics problem. Is the weight/complexity/reliability and ultimately cost more or less than using a similar probe with a larger fuel tank?

  12. Re:ZTE... on Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US · · Score: 1

    What kind of idiot would pay Rich people maybe

  13. Re:Needed: Cast-iron QA on An Idea For Software's Industrial Revolution · · Score: 2
  14. Re:Remember "The Last One"? on An Idea For Software's Industrial Revolution · · Score: 1

    It works well in some domains. You can turn code automatically into hardware fr example (vhdl, bsdl off the top of my head).

  15. Re:Yes on An Idea For Software's Industrial Revolution · · Score: 1

    NASA does it. The FAA accepts it for use on commercial airliners.

  16. Re:If we just use some buzzwords on An Idea For Software's Industrial Revolution · · Score: 1
  17. Re:hurrrudururrururur on Ada Lovelace and Her Legacy · · Score: 2

    With stuff like this, we wonder why women complain or feel harassed?

    If someone said something like this about me, I wouldn't feel harassed or complain. But I'm not a woman. I usually complain about things like having seven bosses all telling me to do opposite things.

  18. I have close to 1,000 full grown trees on my property. Every spring, around March, I have literally hundreds more trees than I did a few months earlier. They're really cute, bonsai looking midget trees. Sadly, most of them are dead by the end of summer.

  19. Re:Regeneration on Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose · · Score: 1

    You can fit all 7 billion people on Earth in less than half the area of the US with a population density similar to Dallas, TX. Studies have shown that all seven billion people could be fed with the arable land of only Africa.

  20. Re:Paper goods on Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose · · Score: 1

    Whatever happened to the digital paperless world promised in the 90's? Personally I rarely touch or see paper. Back in the 80's and 90's I would consistently generate a few pounds of printouts every week at work. Anyone remember line printers?

  21. Mammals have a species lifespan of about 10 million years. And the homo sapiens sapiens is 200k years, so we have a ways to go.

  22. Re:Bad article. on Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose · · Score: 3, Informative

    We are in an ice age (in the interglacial period). Ice Age

  23. Re:Bad article. on Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose · · Score: 1

    The Story of B (good book), is a story about how humanity has gone downhill since the first agricultural revolution and dawn of civilization.

  24. Re:Reading is fundamental on Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose · · Score: 1

    They increased the number of trees by 0.17%.

  25. Re:Regeneration on Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose · · Score: 1
    I live in the sticks and have only filled once since November. A lot of food is grown out here to take to the city, supposedly so they can eat locally grown food despite being a few hours away.

    It would definitely be an inconvenience, but I'd do fine if all gasoline went away. At least until the throngs of hungry zombies showed up.