I see nothing terribly impressive about this. We (the U.S.) could probably land a probe on an asteroid and grow potatoes there -- inside the probe, using Earth soil, and stored Earth atmosphere. We've been growing plants on the ISS for a while now haven't we? This is just a publicity stunt.
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BLAH BLAH BLAH scare tactics from the internet troll BLAH BLAH BLAH
Oh shut the fuck up. I don't even own a goddamned smartphone or anything that can even be 'locked' in the first place, or that can even access the internet (I specifically disable it's limited ability to do so as a matter of course), there's not even anything of value on it that cops couldn't get from the phone company. However I also know my RIGHTS under the LAW so all your trolling is just more noise to me. Go back to 4chan and lurk more you're not impressing anyone. Better yet get a different hobby, preferably something you do alone, far from other people.
Arguing with a cop over a fingerprint is a great way to end up in a cell, or with a gunshot wound, or in a body bag.
Are you in the U.S.? I am, and I guess I'd be a martyr for civil rights, then, because I would refuse to be bullied into ANYTHING, and just keep repeating "LAWYER" and "PHONE CALL" until I got one, the other, or both, because I'm not a pussy and I won't be bullied, even if you wave a gun in my face. Be my guest, though, officer, and rough me up, intimidate me, and otherwise violate my civil rights. Then I won't have to work again a day in my life after I sue your department, the city/state/federal goverment, and perhaps you, for doing so, and win millions of dollars.
Since it sounds to me like you're not in the U.S.: sorry to hear that your country doesn't have civil rights worth a damn.
If Trump is putting forth an idea like this then he's clearly and objectively a traitor working for Russia to destabilize the United States. Having drones flying all over the place at night will for sure start a civil war.
You so-called 'cord cutters' thought you were being so smart, but in the end we see that you're going to end up spending the same amount of money, if not more, for your 'streaming' media, TV or music. Meanwhile I'm happy with my antenna. I'll be happy to point you all in the direction of how to get set up with one when you're ready.:-)
We're sorry for the inconvenience, can we get you something to drink while you wait?
(Takes the cup or can/bottle from you later, lifts the print(s), uses them to unlock your phone)
Or just plain old intimidation to coerce you into complying. The average person is enough of a wimp, doesn't know their rights, and crumbles in the face of stern-speaking authority figures, that just 'demanding' it is enough for most, just to get the angry guy with a gun and a badge to stop yelling at them.
Ironically China has this right but of course being China they're going about it in the most draconic authoritarian way possible, literally forcing their will on everyone they can. ICEs have to become obsolete sooner rather than later; fossil fuel use needs to end sooner rather than later. Waiting for it to become scarce is too long to wait. Electric ground vehicles are the future and the world needs to embrace it not fight against it. The sooner it's widely adopted as standard the sooner R&D into things like energy storage will be ramped up, facilitating electric vehicle production, adoption, and price reduction.
Note: I've been riding motocycles for over 35 years
Unlike these pesky e-scooters, which require no training or licensing of any kind, no safety equipment, no minimum age, no insurance, and so on, motorcycles require knowledge and training, testing, licensing, insurance, and operate on PUBLIC ROADS. Apples and hand grenades. Try again troll.
Because the average person is pretty dumb, that's why.
These e-scooters are dangerous to begin with. I forsee them being banned universally before too long.
Much of the belief that older people "can't do this" and "can't do that" anymore is societal beliefs and not based in science.
For instance too many people still believe that someone over, say, 40 years of age "can't build muscle" and "can't be physically fit" and "can't lose weight and will just get fat and stay fat" but that's all been disproven over and over again whether anyone wants to believe it or not -- it just requires you to be willing to do the work and suffer through the training to attain a level of fitness, lose excess weight, and so on. Furthermore this myth is perpetuated by older people who are inherently lazy to begin with, who use age as an excuse to not make the effort -- and in the process, become "crabs in a bucket" to their peers as often as not, not wanting others in their age group to better themselves, so making them look bad in the process.
So it logically follows that your brain, being just more protoplasm like the rest of your body, follows the "use it or lose it" rule: if you don't challenge your brain, keep learning new things, keep thinking, and just let it sit there being useless, of course it'll just rot away to nothing.
Also: since the rest of the systems of your body are in essence the support system for your brain, keeping the rest of your body physically fit as a lifestyle will enable your brain to function at a higher level of efficiency -- much as the featured article alludes to:
However, the researchers also noted fewer blood vessels and connections between cells in the older brains, which Ms Boldrini said "may be linked to compromised cognitive-emotional resilience" in the elderly.
Keep the support mechanisms in good working order, and your brain will likely be in better shape as you age.
Better get on that treadmill, or bike, and get into the weight room a few days a week, folks.;-)
Why can a child learn a new language easily while older brains can't?
Says who, exactly?
Of course you can. It may not be quite as easy but you can. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either a liar or a fool.
I was a teenager in the 80's and the first computer I ever owned was one I built myself literally on perfboard and wrote my own code for.
Since then we've got computers you can't 'build' that way, you can only buy pre-made PCBs and install them on a pre-made motherboard, and while there's Linux (which means you can theoretically write your own OS) and you can write your own software, too, for 99.9% of everyone there's no point anymore.
We've also since then got the Internet, which started out as a great thing with incredible potential.
But since then all the above has been subverted by corporations, governments, and criminal organizations, into spying, controlling, and evil things. None of it is really any 'fun' anymore, it's all about either money, control, or both.
If I thought I could make a decent living at it, I'd walk away from all of it and go be a forest ranger or something, and just ride my bikes and forget all about all of it.
True, this isn't news, geologists have known about this for a long time now, and yes a pole flip is theoretically overdue.
What I'm more concerned about is the strength of the magnetic field, since that's what's protecting us from solar radiation. Theoretically during a pole flip the field strength will drop to zero for a period of time. Who knows what sort of chaos that'll cause.
Mod parent up.
There are so many problems with a 'flying car' that it's not practical to build, and the majority of those problems are safety concerns, mainly safety of people on the ground. You could never fly one over populated areas unless there was a failsafe system that more or less guaranteed it couldn't crash into crowds of people or into buildings; unless someone cracks the secret of antigravity technology, it ain't happenin'.
..although I just came up with a bizzarre idea for that: how about a gigantic airbag, or series of airbags, that deploy outside the vehicle? Kind of like the landing system used on that one Mars probe? You're going to crash, they deploy, and you just bounce around until you come to a halt on the ground somewhere.
All he'd have to do is be caught on sovereign Chinese soil with so much as one joint and they'd throw him in prison for drug trafficking, and who knows what demands they'd make of the State Department to get him released back to the U.S..
I think Musk can be fucking awesome, but let's face it, he's a loose cannon. He really needs a tough, competent assistant to keep him out of trouble.
In 2019 we've got much better technologies to detect border crossings than some stupid-ass wall that has to be patrolled anyway because they will get over it or tunnel under it regardless of how high or how deep it goes! Just like everything else Trump does he's trying to use 1940's """technology""" to solve a problem; how can anyone be behind this, are you all dumb, too? For fuck's sake for what his retarded-ass wall would cost we could put a surveillance satellite in geosync orbit that would watch the entire border and not have to take any private citizens' land, and be so much more effective because you wouldn't have to have an entire army of people to physically patrol some damned wall.
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Oh, please.
I see nothing terribly impressive about this. We (the U.S.) could probably land a probe on an asteroid and grow potatoes there -- inside the probe, using Earth soil, and stored Earth atmosphere. We've been growing plants on the ISS for a while now haven't we? This is just a publicity stunt.
It's todays Thing That Will Kill You Dead Clickbait!
Be sure to check back next week, when we'll see the absolute opposite posted by someone else clickbait!
BLAH BLAH BLAH scare tactics from the internet troll BLAH BLAH BLAH
Oh shut the fuck up. I don't even own a goddamned smartphone or anything that can even be 'locked' in the first place, or that can even access the internet (I specifically disable it's limited ability to do so as a matter of course), there's not even anything of value on it that cops couldn't get from the phone company. However I also know my RIGHTS under the LAW so all your trolling is just more noise to me. Go back to 4chan and lurk more you're not impressing anyone. Better yet get a different hobby, preferably something you do alone, far from other people.
I'll probably never find out but in case I do here's what I have to say about that: https://slashdot.org/comments....
Arguing with a cop over a fingerprint is a great way to end up in a cell, or with a gunshot wound, or in a body bag.
Are you in the U.S.? I am, and I guess I'd be a martyr for civil rights, then, because I would refuse to be bullied into ANYTHING, and just keep repeating "LAWYER" and "PHONE CALL" until I got one, the other, or both, because I'm not a pussy and I won't be bullied, even if you wave a gun in my face. Be my guest, though, officer, and rough me up, intimidate me, and otherwise violate my civil rights. Then I won't have to work again a day in my life after I sue your department, the city/state/federal goverment, and perhaps you, for doing so, and win millions of dollars.
Since it sounds to me like you're not in the U.S.: sorry to hear that your country doesn't have civil rights worth a damn.
If Trump is putting forth an idea like this then he's clearly and objectively a traitor working for Russia to destabilize the United States. Having drones flying all over the place at night will for sure start a civil war.
You so-called 'cord cutters' thought you were being so smart, but in the end we see that you're going to end up spending the same amount of money, if not more, for your 'streaming' media, TV or music. Meanwhile I'm happy with my antenna. I'll be happy to point you all in the direction of how to get set up with one when you're ready. :-)
We're sorry for the inconvenience, can we get you something to drink while you wait?
(Takes the cup or can/bottle from you later, lifts the print(s), uses them to unlock your phone)
Or just plain old intimidation to coerce you into complying. The average person is enough of a wimp, doesn't know their rights, and crumbles in the face of stern-speaking authority figures, that just 'demanding' it is enough for most, just to get the angry guy with a gun and a badge to stop yelling at them.
Here's my 'video' and it's free: Get off your fat lazy ASS and MOVE MORE. Repeat daily the rest of your life.
Ironically China has this right but of course being China they're going about it in the most draconic authoritarian way possible, literally forcing their will on everyone they can. ICEs have to become obsolete sooner rather than later; fossil fuel use needs to end sooner rather than later. Waiting for it to become scarce is too long to wait. Electric ground vehicles are the future and the world needs to embrace it not fight against it. The sooner it's widely adopted as standard the sooner R&D into things like energy storage will be ramped up, facilitating electric vehicle production, adoption, and price reduction.
He thinks this is my real name :-)
Are you new to the Internet, newfriend?
You can call me "Sir" and say "please" and "thank you" and speak only when you are spoken to.
Oh fuck you asshole not even the same thing and you goddamned well know it, fuck the fuck off with your troll nonsense.
Note: I've been riding motocycles for over 35 years
Unlike these pesky e-scooters, which require no training or licensing of any kind, no safety equipment, no minimum age, no insurance, and so on, motorcycles require knowledge and training, testing, licensing, insurance, and operate on PUBLIC ROADS. Apples and hand grenades. Try again troll.
Because the average person is pretty dumb, that's why.
These e-scooters are dangerous to begin with. I forsee them being banned universally before too long.
For instance too many people still believe that someone over, say, 40 years of age "can't build muscle" and "can't be physically fit" and "can't lose weight and will just get fat and stay fat" but that's all been disproven over and over again whether anyone wants to believe it or not -- it just requires you to be willing to do the work and suffer through the training to attain a level of fitness, lose excess weight, and so on. Furthermore this myth is perpetuated by older people who are inherently lazy to begin with, who use age as an excuse to not make the effort -- and in the process, become "crabs in a bucket" to their peers as often as not, not wanting others in their age group to better themselves, so making them look bad in the process.
So it logically follows that your brain, being just more protoplasm like the rest of your body, follows the "use it or lose it" rule: if you don't challenge your brain, keep learning new things, keep thinking, and just let it sit there being useless, of course it'll just rot away to nothing.
Also: since the rest of the systems of your body are in essence the support system for your brain, keeping the rest of your body physically fit as a lifestyle will enable your brain to function at a higher level of efficiency -- much as the featured article alludes to:
However, the researchers also noted fewer blood vessels and connections between cells in the older brains, which Ms Boldrini said "may be linked to compromised cognitive-emotional resilience" in the elderly.
Keep the support mechanisms in good working order, and your brain will likely be in better shape as you age.
;-)
Better get on that treadmill, or bike, and get into the weight room a few days a week, folks.
Why can a child learn a new language easily while older brains can't?
Says who, exactly?
Of course you can. It may not be quite as easy but you can. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either a liar or a fool.
I was a teenager in the 80's and the first computer I ever owned was one I built myself literally on perfboard and wrote my own code for.
Since then we've got computers you can't 'build' that way, you can only buy pre-made PCBs and install them on a pre-made motherboard, and while there's Linux (which means you can theoretically write your own OS) and you can write your own software, too, for 99.9% of everyone there's no point anymore.
We've also since then got the Internet, which started out as a great thing with incredible potential.
But since then all the above has been subverted by corporations, governments, and criminal organizations, into spying, controlling, and evil things. None of it is really any 'fun' anymore, it's all about either money, control, or both.
If I thought I could make a decent living at it, I'd walk away from all of it and go be a forest ranger or something, and just ride my bikes and forget all about all of it.
True, this isn't news, geologists have known about this for a long time now, and yes a pole flip is theoretically overdue.
What I'm more concerned about is the strength of the magnetic field, since that's what's protecting us from solar radiation. Theoretically during a pole flip the field strength will drop to zero for a period of time. Who knows what sort of chaos that'll cause.
Mod parent up.
..although I just came up with a bizzarre idea for that: how about a gigantic airbag, or series of airbags, that deploy outside the vehicle? Kind of like the landing system used on that one Mars probe? You're going to crash, they deploy, and you just bounce around until you come to a halt on the ground somewhere.
There are so many problems with a 'flying car' that it's not practical to build, and the majority of those problems are safety concerns, mainly safety of people on the ground. You could never fly one over populated areas unless there was a failsafe system that more or less guaranteed it couldn't crash into crowds of people or into buildings; unless someone cracks the secret of antigravity technology, it ain't happenin'.
All he'd have to do is be caught on sovereign Chinese soil with so much as one joint and they'd throw him in prison for drug trafficking, and who knows what demands they'd make of the State Department to get him released back to the U.S..
I think Musk can be fucking awesome, but let's face it, he's a loose cannon. He really needs a tough, competent assistant to keep him out of trouble.
Stop making excuses for Trump and START THINKING WITH YOUR BRAIN.
Yeah sure I get modded 'funny' because myopic so-called 'conseratives' can't see past the end of their own noses.
In 2019 we've got much better technologies to detect border crossings than some stupid-ass wall that has to be patrolled anyway because they will get over it or tunnel under it regardless of how high or how deep it goes! Just like everything else Trump does he's trying to use 1940's """technology""" to solve a problem; how can anyone be behind this, are you all dumb, too? For fuck's sake for what his retarded-ass wall would cost we could put a surveillance satellite in geosync orbit that would watch the entire border and not have to take any private citizens' land, and be so much more effective because you wouldn't have to have an entire army of people to physically patrol some damned wall.