It's about time non-US goverments started to do things themselves. They don't need the US to sign up to every treaty. Kyoto could go ahead perfectly well without them (though maybe not the Missile Defence one....). Eventually I think they would just be shamed by their citizens into signing, or at least conforming with, the treaty anyway.
If other governments start to ignore the US they, may start to change their isolationist views: you can't be isolated and still have global influence...
..of course thats still 326054km away from earth, but it saves you landing.
You could take it further and put a piece of string from earth into a GEO, then you only need to fly from the GEO station to the L1 station; still 290000km, but you miss the gravity well.
Easy, huh? all you need is two bits of (strong) rope; one 36000km long and the other 24000km long...
There was an article on Malin Space Systems in the national geographic a few months back (This Page seems to suggest feb 01).
Anyway, basically it was all about how much evidence of water erosion they had found; quite a bit as I remember. Nice pictures too... worth reading if you happen to have the issue lying around
So what's the point of have directories at all? Why not just dump everything into the root? Why not re-work the filesystem to only have files, not directories? Of course after a while you'd find that you needed to put a tag on all the files that belonged to an package, just so your package manager could see which files belonged to which app...
The BBC is also reporting that NASA is considering privatising the entire space shuttle fleet to save money
(as well as having a funky new site design).
This is an example of somebody-or-other's paradox: "We" can't have been chosen to evolve, because "We" have only existed since we evolved sentience. Therefore by definition "We" haven't evolved.
We haven't always been humans, at some point we evolved sentience, but there was no amoeba-to-human line of evolution that was destiny for any particular entity. There can't have been: everything on this planet evolved from a single entity that existed way, waaay back. If this single species had been chosen to evolve into a humanity, there would have been no other creatures, just a straight amoeba-to-human progression.
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It's about time non-US goverments started to do things themselves. They don't need the US to sign up to every treaty. Kyoto could go ahead perfectly well without them (though maybe not the Missile Defence one....). Eventually I think they would just be shamed by their citizens into signing, or at least conforming with, the treaty anyway.
If other governments start to ignore the US they, may start to change their isolationist views: you can't be isolated and still have global influence...
In other words for example, you cant push for a free-open world economy, while raising your tarrifs because your farmers are protesting.
But they do....
You could take it further and put a piece of string from earth into a GEO, then you only need to fly from the GEO station to the L1 station; still 290000km, but you miss the gravity well.
Easy, huh? all you need is two bits of (strong) rope; one 36000km long and the other 24000km long...
There was an article on Malin Space Systems in the national geographic a few months back (This Page seems to suggest feb 01).
Anyway, basically it was all about how much evidence of water erosion they had found; quite a bit as I remember. Nice pictures too... worth reading if you happen to have the issue lying around
So what's the point of have directories at all?
Why not just dump everything into the root? Why not re-work the filesystem to only have files, not directories?
Of course after a while you'd find that you needed to put a tag on all the files that belonged to an package, just so your package manager could see which files belonged to which app...
but if I remember my u/g space science course correctly, the launch costs are a significant percentage of the total costs (like 40-50%)..
The BBC is also reporting that NASA is considering privatising the entire space shuttle fleet to save money (as well as having a funky new site design).
ermm... Aren't the olympics held every four years so the the IOC has time to organize the next one?
Just a thought...We weren't chosen by anyone or anything.
This is an example of somebody-or-other's paradox: "We" can't have been chosen to evolve, because "We" have only existed since we evolved sentience. Therefore by definition "We" haven't evolved.
We haven't always been humans, at some point we evolved sentience, but there was no amoeba-to-human line of evolution that was destiny for any particular entity. There can't have been: everything on this planet evolved from a single entity that existed way, waaay back. If this single species had been chosen to evolve into a humanity, there would have been no other creatures, just a straight amoeba-to-human progression.