Being conservative, it costs less than 25c/kg of energy to place something into orbit. One megaton of whatever would cost $250,000 to put into orbit. Being even more conservative and adding in a multiplication fudge factor of 100 (you have to place the container as well as efficiency losses) raises that number to $25million, orders of magnitude less expensive than the development of an asteroid mining colony.
You don't need people for either one of those as shown by our current unmanned satellites that do the same thing. What would a manned version of the HST do better?
Scientists on the project say they are faster, but can only work 4 hours a day for a few months out of the year whereas the robot will work 24 hours/day nonstop so the robot can collect more data and samples per day.
Why should we use price signals to determine knowledge and technology advancement?
Would you support spending billions of dollars on research studying people's eating habits in hopes that something will be found that leads to a stronger alloy of aluminum, would you?
I live in one of those towns. It's not officially a town, more like an extended community, they have a website and everything. I bought it for the cheap land. For as much as the people hate chemicals in their bodies, they do seem really like marijuana.
My $120 delivered-to-the-door self contained raspberry pi, is vastly more powerful and capable the any of the computers I learned on. And 20x less expensive (inflation adjusted).
Never attribute to malice that can be explained by incompetence aside, beginning in grade school, I've long thought this is the goal. I have a background eerily similar to yours BTW, but do have fond memories of walking 4 miles to the mall to learn to program. When I was 10, I made a solo 6 mile bike ride to Radio Shack to buy a technical diagram and programming book on the TRS-80 I wanted one so badly, but by the time I had earned enough money, there were better options.
Not only was I actively encouraged not to use computers, had to buy my own, not such an easy task for a 12 year old when computers cost (inflation adjusted) thousands of dollars. Even then not being allowed to use it until everyone else went to sleep so I could plug it in to the tv set/monitor.
I showed companies that they don't own me by incorporating myself and becoming an independent contract laborer. Choosing not to live in the 'luxury' of the money I was making (and it was substantial). With the money I saved I retired before my 40th birthday.
Michael's Gift To Karen from Brainstorm one of my favorite sounds tracks as a kid. Like John Williams, it's not a coincidence that the movies he scored are the highest grossing of all time.
Last week I watched Wrath of Khan, which I had seen a dozen times over the years. I then listened to the soundtrack for the first time and realized it was the music that made it such a great movie. Looking up James Horner on Wikipedia, I learned that he was only 61 which brought to me comfort that he would likely be around for a while longer bringing such great music.
when I was a kid, my nerd friends and I would spend our summers either building things out of junk (go carts, planes, rockets, forts, boats. To name a few) and/or blow them up (after we discovered how to make gunpowder). Kitchen chemistry was big with us.
One summer was spent building and then destroying a plastic model air force (whatever that plastic is, it burns VERY well). Another was spent recreating the Challenger disaster by drilling holes in model rocket engines. Girls need to be taught to like to like to blow shit up
I became annoyed with some of google's changes a few months ago and moved searching to yahoo (for no other reason than it's default in firefox (I stopped using chrome at the same time)). It works well enough.
As long as there are alternatives that are not too odious, I won't care about any company
in at least some cases the cost of following up is greater than the amount saved by booting those that abuse the system.
This is the same as saying is that the amount saved by booting those that abuse the system is greater than the cost of following up in at least some cases.
From my work in the consumer electronics industry designing embedded chips, fractions of a penny add into big numbers when multiplied by millions or billions of parts. See the PIC. I don't know what the industry is dong today, but 15 years ago people were talking about building hundreds of devices for a penny. An internet connected lightbulb doesn't need to be that capable. ON/OFF/BURNOUT are it's three required states.
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Being conservative, it costs less than 25c/kg of energy to place something into orbit. One megaton of whatever would cost $250,000 to put into orbit. Being even more conservative and adding in a multiplication fudge factor of 100 (you have to place the container as well as efficiency losses) raises that number to $25million, orders of magnitude less expensive than the development of an asteroid mining colony.
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You don't need people for either one of those as shown by our current unmanned satellites that do the same thing. What would a manned version of the HST do better?
Citation, please.
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/ear...
Scientists on the project say they are faster, but can only work 4 hours a day for a few months out of the year whereas the robot will work 24 hours/day nonstop so the robot can collect more data and samples per day.
We need dirt cheap rocket launches, and the willingness to allow a few sacrifices of lives along the way
I don't think that's really the fastest way
Dirt cheap rocket launches gives you cheap fuel in orbit. It also gives you dirt cheap rockets. Dirt cheap fuel + dirt cheap rockets = rapid technological advancement
Why should we use price signals to determine knowledge and technology advancement?
Would you support spending billions of dollars on research studying people's eating habits in hopes that something will be found that leads to a stronger alloy of aluminum, would you?
I'd love to see more towns concentrate
I live in one of those towns. It's not officially a town, more like an extended community, they have a website and everything. I bought it for the cheap land. For as much as the people hate chemicals in their bodies, they do seem really like marijuana.
My $120 delivered-to-the-door self contained raspberry pi, is vastly more powerful and capable the any of the computers I learned on. And 20x less expensive (inflation adjusted).
it hurts the drive and motivation for most people
Never attribute to malice that can be explained by incompetence aside, beginning in grade school, I've long thought this is the goal. I have a background eerily similar to yours BTW, but do have fond memories of walking 4 miles to the mall to learn to program. When I was 10, I made a solo 6 mile bike ride to Radio Shack to buy a technical diagram and programming book on the TRS-80 I wanted one so badly, but by the time I had earned enough money, there were better options.
Not only was I actively encouraged not to use computers, had to buy my own, not such an easy task for a 12 year old when computers cost (inflation adjusted) thousands of dollars. Even then not being allowed to use it until everyone else went to sleep so I could plug it in to the tv set/monitor.
in which case it's meth
Don't knock it until you try it.
Back in the day, insurance adjusters used ladders an took 35mm pictures Then the polaroid camera came out and everything changed. Well, not really.
I showed companies that they don't own me by incorporating myself and becoming an independent contract laborer. Choosing not to live in the 'luxury' of the money I was making (and it was substantial). With the money I saved I retired before my 40th birthday.
Michael's Gift To Karen from Brainstorm one of my favorite sounds tracks as a kid. Like John Williams, it's not a coincidence that the movies he scored are the highest grossing of all time.
Last week I watched Wrath of Khan, which I had seen a dozen times over the years. I then listened to the soundtrack for the first time and realized it was the music that made it such a great movie. Looking up James Horner on Wikipedia, I learned that he was only 61 which brought to me comfort that he would likely be around for a while longer bringing such great music.
but reimagining is on the rise
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Science-Fair-150-in-1-Electronic-Project-Kit-Cat-28-248-/261939294478?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cfccc710e
Transistors and computer chips are black. Maybe painting them pink would help more females go into computer engineering.
Steven Pinker received death threats for writing a book about this, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature.
One summer was spent building and then destroying a plastic model air force (whatever that plastic is, it burns VERY well). Another was spent recreating the Challenger disaster by drilling holes in model rocket engines. Girls need to be taught to like to like to blow shit up
I believe this is how the technological singularity will go (and also why we are in it now).
A pink steam engine trainset for girls.
As long as there are alternatives that are not too odious, I won't care about any company
What does this even mean?
for the rest of the world
in at least some cases the cost of following up is greater than the amount saved by booting those that abuse the system.
This is the same as saying is that the amount saved by booting those that abuse the system is greater than the cost of following up in at least some cases.
From my work in the consumer electronics industry designing embedded chips, fractions of a penny add into big numbers when multiplied by millions or billions of parts. See the PIC. I don't know what the industry is dong today, but 15 years ago people were talking about building hundreds of devices for a penny. An internet connected lightbulb doesn't need to be that capable. ON/OFF/BURNOUT are it's three required states.