I've gotten, umm.. a dozen or so cease and desist letters over the years.. my response to every single one of them has been to ignore it. No response. They never follow up. Why would they? It's a fishing game, the only way they can get you on the hook is if you take the bait.
As a non-american I still haven't figured out what Glenn Beck has to do with the tea party.. and yet, everytime I hear about one, someone brings up the other.
Wow, I wasn't aware there was any surface-to-air missiles that can fly a payload to high altitude and return it to the same launch pad it took off from, and do it again in under an hour. Who has been making these VTVL marvels that the rest of us completely missed?
Or maybe you don't know what you're talking about.
All the time. The problem is that normally no-one cares because the press is focused on the pork. This is one of the many initiatives that NASA does with "scraps".
What makes this more interesting is that NASA won't actually be paying for the flights until they have flown successfully, and although Armadillo and Masten have been working towards the kind of capability NASA wants, they've mostly been plotting their own course, which means NASA has actually bought something here without specifying the requirements in infinite detail - like they usually do.
Gee, this technology is really underwhelming isn't it? It's almost like theoretical claims rarely match up with reality and creating something that delivers security takes years of dedicated effort in an open environment.
Why do so many people have a grasp of rocketry as "stuff other people have already done". When you think about learning guitar do you ever find yourself saying "nah, they already did that in the '50s".
uh huh. Tell that to Blizzard.. they were delivering unclassified games through Steam and got the same smackdown from the Australian government. It's literally about keeping the fees running into the classification board. You think they aint gunna go after every possible source of income?
You just described my entire schooling. Only difference is that my mother wrote notes, with her telephone number on them, and then yelled at anyone who called the number to question the note.
Hmm.. I suppose I could rewrite the engine to use the original artwork.. the only problem would be getting signoff from whoever owns the ip these days.
Apparently climate change is caused by foreigners and migrants. Dick Smith can see them from his helicopter and he told us. So we're just gunna close our borders and leave you guys to take care it ok? Oh, we'll set up a "citizens' assembly" where we'll talk about climate change like we believe it's a real problem, but ultimately we know it's your problem, not ours.
The designs I saw come out of this workshop, which of course are very preliminary, did indeed have direct return vehicles, but the goal is also to get the "mothership" back to Earth so that it can be used for the next asteroid mission, and the next, and the next. The goal being to develop a capability to visit asteroids of greater and greater travel time / delta-v. This is important because we don't get to choose killer asteroids, they choose us, and as the robotic missions guys said on the first day of the conference, they're all surprised they even managed to get data from their missions, and wouldn't want the fate of the human race resting on it.
Yes, they are carpet bombing villages.. but first they want to try to take those villages. There's no point in controlling unpopulated territory.
In case you missed it, I'll repeat what I posted above regarding my use of 'Taliban'
Alternatively, you could learn what the word means and stop abusing it.
you can't possibly be arguing that the people of Afghanistan would be better off returning to where they were in 2000.
You mean when the Taliban was in power? Notice how it would be ridiculous for me to be saying "You mean when the the very loose coalition of groups that are opposed to the Afghan government was in power"? That'd be nonsense.. thus why I get annoyed every time you use the word Taliban in such a way.
To answer your question: no, I don't think the Taliban should still be in power, but that's doesn't mean I think the Afghan government should be attacking villages to prove they're in charge now, either.
again, I have to question why you keep referring to the Taliban. It's not the Taliban the Afghan government (and the US military) are fighting, it's the *locals*. Words have meanings.
If you're a military hawk, sure. Alternatively you could go into these villages peacefully and convince them that they have more to gain from joining the state government than remaining independent. You might do this by actually making their lives better rather than just exerting your will on them.
In other words: has anyone tried sending the diplomats before sending the soldiers?
Ok, and this is why I suggest people go read the leaked documents. You'll see that almost all of them are of the form: US aids government to push into new territory, resistance is met. Of course, the journalists are only interested in the ones of the form: US commits unspeakable atrocity.
I, personally, think the first one is more telling. The Afghan government is not in control of all of Afghanistan, there's pockets of resistance. The US is aiding the Afghan government in suppressing their own people.
These are not the actions of a democracy, they are the actions of an empire.
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I've gotten, umm.. a dozen or so cease and desist letters over the years.. my response to every single one of them has been to ignore it. No response. They never follow up. Why would they? It's a fishing game, the only way they can get you on the hook is if you take the bait.
until there's an actual organism located and cultured the correct response is skepticism.
I, personally, think life doesn't just inhabit niches.. if there's life on Mars anywhere, there should be life on Mars everywhere.
As a non-american I still haven't figured out what Glenn Beck has to do with the tea party.. and yet, everytime I hear about one, someone brings up the other.
Wow, I wasn't aware there was any surface-to-air missiles that can fly a payload to high altitude and return it to the same launch pad it took off from, and do it again in under an hour. Who has been making these VTVL marvels that the rest of us completely missed?
Or maybe you don't know what you're talking about.
All the time. The problem is that normally no-one cares because the press is focused on the pork. This is one of the many initiatives that NASA does with "scraps".
What makes this more interesting is that NASA won't actually be paying for the flights until they have flown successfully, and although Armadillo and Masten have been working towards the kind of capability NASA wants, they've mostly been plotting their own course, which means NASA has actually bought something here without specifying the requirements in infinite detail - like they usually do.
Gee, this technology is really underwhelming isn't it? It's almost like theoretical claims rarely match up with reality and creating something that delivers security takes years of dedicated effort in an open environment.
I think it's a fair deal, so I gave them a huge amount of money and I won't tell her about the final result.
Ironically, that's the same deal NASA has been operating under for decades.
*rimshot* thank you, I'm here all week, tip your waitress.
Why do so many people have a grasp of rocketry as "stuff other people have already done". When you think about learning guitar do you ever find yourself saying "nah, they already did that in the '50s".
Check out the spacecraft: http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/spacecraft.php
Sven the crash test dummy is in for a wild ride!
The pace at which they've managed to do this work is phenomenal.
uh huh. Tell that to Blizzard.. they were delivering unclassified games through Steam and got the same smackdown from the Australian government. It's literally about keeping the fees running into the classification board. You think they aint gunna go after every possible source of income?
You just described my entire schooling. Only difference is that my mother wrote notes, with her telephone number on them, and then yelled at anyone who called the number to question the note.
He finds it implausible because he's going to close our borders to the skilled immigrants required to build it.
Uhh.. the same way everything becomes fashionable... a hipster said you had to have it.
Hmm.. I suppose I could rewrite the engine to use the original artwork.. the only problem would be getting signoff from whoever owns the ip these days.
GRRRARRAAAHHH!! WTF? Oh, was that a monster? What's going on, why am I losing health?
Doom 3 made me think there was something wrong with my graphics card.
Apparently climate change is caused by foreigners and migrants. Dick Smith can see them from his helicopter and he told us. So we're just gunna close our borders and leave you guys to take care it ok? Oh, we'll set up a "citizens' assembly" where we'll talk about climate change like we believe it's a real problem, but ultimately we know it's your problem, not ours.
I expect they'll be doing aerobraking, and delta-v to return from NEO trajectories is less than 1.5km/s in almost all cases.
wow, it's such a shame you didn't go to the workshop, you could have saved us two days.
The designs I saw come out of this workshop, which of course are very preliminary, did indeed have direct return vehicles, but the goal is also to get the "mothership" back to Earth so that it can be used for the next asteroid mission, and the next, and the next. The goal being to develop a capability to visit asteroids of greater and greater travel time / delta-v. This is important because we don't get to choose killer asteroids, they choose us, and as the robotic missions guys said on the first day of the conference, they're all surprised they even managed to get data from their missions, and wouldn't want the fate of the human race resting on it.
Hehe, more proof you haven't read the documents.
Yes, they are carpet bombing villages.. but first they want to try to take those villages. There's no point in controlling unpopulated territory.
In case you missed it, I'll repeat what I posted above regarding my use of 'Taliban'
Alternatively, you could learn what the word means and stop abusing it.
you can't possibly be arguing that the people of Afghanistan would be better off returning to where they were in 2000.
You mean when the Taliban was in power? Notice how it would be ridiculous for me to be saying "You mean when the the very loose coalition of groups that are opposed to the Afghan government was in power"? That'd be nonsense.. thus why I get annoyed every time you use the word Taliban in such a way.
To answer your question: no, I don't think the Taliban should still be in power, but that's doesn't mean I think the Afghan government should be attacking villages to prove they're in charge now, either.
again, I have to question why you keep referring to the Taliban. It's not the Taliban the Afghan government (and the US military) are fighting, it's the *locals*. Words have meanings.
If you're a military hawk, sure. Alternatively you could go into these villages peacefully and convince them that they have more to gain from joining the state government than remaining independent. You might do this by actually making their lives better rather than just exerting your will on them.
In other words: has anyone tried sending the diplomats before sending the soldiers?
http://quantumg.net/okeefealive.jpg
Too soon?
Ok, and this is why I suggest people go read the leaked documents. You'll see that almost all of them are of the form: US aids government to push into new territory, resistance is met. Of course, the journalists are only interested in the ones of the form: US commits unspeakable atrocity.
I, personally, think the first one is more telling. The Afghan government is not in control of all of Afghanistan, there's pockets of resistance. The US is aiding the Afghan government in suppressing their own people.
These are not the actions of a democracy, they are the actions of an empire.