Nope, but only migrant muslims will fly jetliners into buildings to kill thousands of innocent men, women, and children. The ones who stay at home in Riyadh will just donate money to brainwash the migrants into these kinds of things.
since there's the dabate about man-made versus geological causes for atmospheric change. We ought to get some data that helps push the argument along. My family (wife, toddler daughter, and I) are flying into Portland in February... Can't wait to see if we make it or have to abandon the trip.
On my puny-human scale of things, 4 cubic meters a second is a LOT.
"successfully launch a French military spacecraft." Unfortunately, I imagine that the French will spend too much time watching North America and not enought time watching the training camps and madrassas that produce the Islamic terrorists that are now pounding continental Europe (Spain, France, Holland so far) as the "soft underbelly" of Christian civilization.
It's an easy laugh to make surrender jokes about the French, but the real tragedy is that their dreams about themselves have always outweighed their ability to influence politics and military matters. We can all cite the Nazis beating a numerically superior French and British force, or the failure of the French to pay attention and lose at Dien Bien Phu... And then sucker us into taking over their colonial war... And then curse us for doing them that favor.
What we forget is that in the late 70s and early 80s, the French declared that their nuclear arsenal covered "Every point on the horizon." This was a direct poke at the United States, and the worst insult the French could think of: after all, it was French troops who pulled out of NATO obligations to cower behind the Americans in when the Soviets threatened all of continental Europe. And it was the French who kicked out United States bases from soil the US had liberated barely 20 years ago. Soil that has the graves of tens of thousands of American men who died to liberate the French from the Germans... Twice. But their vaunted sense of sophistication made likening the liberators of Europe to Stalin's butchers a clever bit of wordplay to them.
Actually, there's not a lot to joke about there at all.
I just hope that the French will stop pretending that their friends are their enemies and their enemies are their friends. For the slower (and French) readers out there, the United States is France's friend. The Islamofascists are France's enemies. The time for make believe in this war is over, si vous plait.
The problem is not with crappy software or rigged machines. The problem we face is that, when a bunch of American voters stood up and protested that they were too stupid to use paper ballots properly, we tried to come up with a pre-school level voting machine instead of saying, "Okay, some people really ARE too stupid to vote."
Taking something that without paying for it is theft. If it's copyright infringement in addition to theft, then you've got a 2fer. If I create a work, and explicitly provide access to it for a fee, and you choose to access the work without paying it, you're stealing. It's not an issue of law, it's an issue of right and wrong.
Wow. Theft is equated to the American Revolution, and thieves equated to victims of Saudi Arabia's sharia enforcement thugs. If anyone ever needed an object lesson in the dangers of grossly inappropriate analogies, they need look no further.
What we are talking about here is THEFT. It doesn't matter if you shoplifted a DVD from Best Buy or download it. You're stealing. "Oh, these movies suck! I wouldn't pay for them!" Then DON'T WATCH THEM.
Illegally downloading copyrighted materials discourages the creation of high-quality materials. It reduces the overall value of the knowledge base our society can develop and provide access to. If that access has a fee, then pay it. Or don't access it.
Slashdot's comment boards would be a WHOLE lot better if each poster was accurately marked with age, employment status, and whether or not the poster is living with his parents.
Yup... And when I was a kid in the late 70s we were going to run out of oil AND food by the mid 1990s. The truth of the matter is that 1) no one has a good estimate of proven reserves and 2) we have so much locked up in oil sands and shale oil here that once it gets above $60 a barrel, we can produce unbelievable amounts from that. But when we do run out, we'll have methane hydrate mining on the bottom of the sea!
And of course, there are tide turbines and the wave-driven-air turbines and lots of other things we can build when it's worth it. With OPEC cutting output, people here will start moving away from heating oil and onto the grid, which will either stimulate green energy investment directly or raise the price of natural gas enough to stimulate green energy investment. Green energy is technologically trivial at this point... It's all economics. Once oil costs enough, this will tip over and we can start moving natural gas from electricity and heating to transportation, and reduce oil demand that way. I don't think we'll be oil free in the next 200 years, but I bet in the next couple of decades we'll have gasoline AND liquid natural gas AND hydrogen at the corner fuel station... Sort of a portfolio approach.
Not at all. We know how to use centrifugal force to counter weightlessness. But, even though we've known this for a very long time (gyroscopes have been around for centuries,) we have yet to incorporate it into a station's design. I'm saying don't go sailing without vitamin C.
I think we can cover most of these issues with the decades of experience we've had with nuclear submarines. They go our and stay submerged for 3 months at a time. Also, I don't know how incredible our planning skills are when we decided to rely on a support vehicle that we knew had a 1 in 50 chance of catastrophically failing. The ISS is supposed to be a platform for science we can't do on Earth or in earlier space stations, and so far, it's not delivering at all.
The ISS has no meaning beyond the political. We've snapped together a crummy space station out of poorly constructed pieces. Huzzah. We COULD have built a station that actually embraced a new construction technology, or a self-sustaining biosphere. But we didn't. We built a rickety Habitrail In The Sky.
And while you're happy trolling on Astronomy, I'm satisfied with: discovering new planets around other stars, determining the source of all the elemental building blocks of our planet, determining that complex organic molecules are cosmically common, determining that the laws of physics apply everywhere we can look. Trivial things like that. The vast majority of people see astronomy as useless? Fine. It doesn't mean the vast majority is right.
Yup. The only justification for manned space travel is colonization. We need self-sufficient colonies so we can survive global cataclysms. As Arthur C Clarke says: "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have space travel." But if the pinnacle of the dino space program was the ISS, they'd still be extinct.
This could be the final straw for the ISS boondoggle. You can't do astronomy from the station that's even a tenth of the precision of Hubble. Why? All the vibrations from all the environmental gear. In fact, you can't do decent science experiments of any type. Why? Two people can't take time from just holding the place together to do the experiments, and we lack the budget (and now - the food!) to have a big enough crew to make the place something other than a multi-billion-dollar Astronaut Habitrail. Right now, it's no better than Mir was in its final days: astronauts spend all their time trying not to die. '"At present, the primary goal of the ISS is unclear," the NRC study observes.' I think it's dangerously close to changing from an investment to a sunk cost.
Our pile of bureaucrats are afraid of losing a shiny toy to some other country's bureaucrats. Governments that have to compete for something can - SURPRISE - do a much better job of not mucking it up too much. If Scaled Composite's design involved specialized launch facilities instead of a flat piece of concrete, you can bet this bill would've been really restrictive... Because the control freaks in congress would've had a better opportunity to control it.
but when this pic surfaced the first time, people speculated that the flat trajectory meant it had to be a tiny meteorite, with the flash resulting from the rock hitting a street light. a 1 in a billion photo, I imagine.
SARS doesn't mutate rapidly. That's why we have a different flu vaccine every year. New strains are always evolving. And remember the "crisis" we had this year with the vaccine? It's only a crisis if the World Health Organization guessed the right strain to innoculate against. Sometimes they don't. In which case, no amount of vaccine matters.
when we find a life form that evolved there from scratch instead of adapting from warmer climes. If there's a beasty of ANY level of complexity there that originated in the icy south, we'll have a MAJOR leg up on looking for life in non-human-friendly biospheres on other planets.
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Heh. "Sometimes you're in Finland. Sometimes, Finland is in you."
Uh... There ARE no minorities in Finland.
self-peeing beer. Please.
Nope, but only migrant muslims will fly jetliners into buildings to kill thousands of innocent men, women, and children. The ones who stay at home in Riyadh will just donate money to brainwash the migrants into these kinds of things.
since there's the dabate about man-made versus geological causes for atmospheric change. We ought to get some data that helps push the argument along. My family (wife, toddler daughter, and I) are flying into Portland in February... Can't wait to see if we make it or have to abandon the trip.
On my puny-human scale of things, 4 cubic meters a second is a LOT.
Awww... Thanks, Precious!
"successfully launch a French military spacecraft." Unfortunately, I imagine that the French will spend too much time watching North America and not enought time watching the training camps and madrassas that produce the Islamic terrorists that are now pounding continental Europe (Spain, France, Holland so far) as the "soft underbelly" of Christian civilization.
It's an easy laugh to make surrender jokes about the French, but the real tragedy is that their dreams about themselves have always outweighed their ability to influence politics and military matters. We can all cite the Nazis beating a numerically superior French and British force, or the failure of the French to pay attention and lose at Dien Bien Phu... And then sucker us into taking over their colonial war... And then curse us for doing them that favor.
What we forget is that in the late 70s and early 80s, the French declared that their nuclear arsenal covered "Every point on the horizon." This was a direct poke at the United States, and the worst insult the French could think of: after all, it was French troops who pulled out of NATO obligations to cower behind the Americans in when the Soviets threatened all of continental Europe. And it was the French who kicked out United States bases from soil the US had liberated barely 20 years ago. Soil that has the graves of tens of thousands of American men who died to liberate the French from the Germans... Twice. But their vaunted sense of sophistication made likening the liberators of Europe to Stalin's butchers a clever bit of wordplay to them.
Actually, there's not a lot to joke about there at all.
I just hope that the French will stop pretending that their friends are their enemies and their enemies are their friends. For the slower (and French) readers out there, the United States is France's friend. The Islamofascists are France's enemies. The time for make believe in this war is over, si vous plait.
The problem is not with crappy software or rigged machines. The problem we face is that, when a bunch of American voters stood up and protested that they were too stupid to use paper ballots properly, we tried to come up with a pre-school level voting machine instead of saying, "Okay, some people really ARE too stupid to vote."
Fujitsu was a martial art practiced during sex.
Taking something that without paying for it is theft. If it's copyright infringement in addition to theft, then you've got a 2fer. If I create a work, and explicitly provide access to it for a fee, and you choose to access the work without paying it, you're stealing. It's not an issue of law, it's an issue of right and wrong.
Wow. Theft is equated to the American Revolution, and thieves equated to victims of Saudi Arabia's sharia enforcement thugs. If anyone ever needed an object lesson in the dangers of grossly inappropriate analogies, they need look no further.
What we are talking about here is THEFT. It doesn't matter if you shoplifted a DVD from Best Buy or download it. You're stealing. "Oh, these movies suck! I wouldn't pay for them!" Then DON'T WATCH THEM.
Illegally downloading copyrighted materials discourages the creation of high-quality materials. It reduces the overall value of the knowledge base our society can develop and provide access to. If that access has a fee, then pay it. Or don't access it.
Slashdot's comment boards would be a WHOLE lot better if each poster was accurately marked with age, employment status, and whether or not the poster is living with his parents.
Intelligent bookmark management: "Now your spouse can PROVE how much porn you look at."
Yup... And when I was a kid in the late 70s we were going to run out of oil AND food by the mid 1990s. The truth of the matter is that 1) no one has a good estimate of proven reserves and 2) we have so much locked up in oil sands and shale oil here that once it gets above $60 a barrel, we can produce unbelievable amounts from that. But when we do run out, we'll have methane hydrate mining on the bottom of the sea!
And of course, there are tide turbines and the wave-driven-air turbines and lots of other things we can build when it's worth it. With OPEC cutting output, people here will start moving away from heating oil and onto the grid, which will either stimulate green energy investment directly or raise the price of natural gas enough to stimulate green energy investment. Green energy is technologically trivial at this point... It's all economics. Once oil costs enough, this will tip over and we can start moving natural gas from electricity and heating to transportation, and reduce oil demand that way. I don't think we'll be oil free in the next 200 years, but I bet in the next couple of decades we'll have gasoline AND liquid natural gas AND hydrogen at the corner fuel station... Sort of a portfolio approach.
Not at all. We know how to use centrifugal force to counter weightlessness. But, even though we've known this for a very long time (gyroscopes have been around for centuries,) we have yet to incorporate it into a station's design. I'm saying don't go sailing without vitamin C.
Mir...
We've got all the long-term data we need on the effects of weightlessness. It's bad and we should avoid it.
I think we can cover most of these issues with the decades of experience we've had with nuclear submarines. They go our and stay submerged for 3 months at a time. Also, I don't know how incredible our planning skills are when we decided to rely on a support vehicle that we knew had a 1 in 50 chance of catastrophically failing. The ISS is supposed to be a platform for science we can't do on Earth or in earlier space stations, and so far, it's not delivering at all.
The ISS has no meaning beyond the political. We've snapped together a crummy space station out of poorly constructed pieces. Huzzah. We COULD have built a station that actually embraced a new construction technology, or a self-sustaining biosphere. But we didn't. We built a rickety Habitrail In The Sky.
And while you're happy trolling on Astronomy, I'm satisfied with: discovering new planets around other stars, determining the source of all the elemental building blocks of our planet, determining that complex organic molecules are cosmically common, determining that the laws of physics apply everywhere we can look. Trivial things like that. The vast majority of people see astronomy as useless? Fine. It doesn't mean the vast majority is right.
Yup. The only justification for manned space travel is colonization. We need self-sufficient colonies so we can survive global cataclysms. As Arthur C Clarke says: "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have space travel." But if the pinnacle of the dino space program was the ISS, they'd still be extinct.
This could be the final straw for the ISS boondoggle. You can't do astronomy from the station that's even a tenth of the precision of Hubble. Why? All the vibrations from all the environmental gear. In fact, you can't do decent science experiments of any type. Why? Two people can't take time from just holding the place together to do the experiments, and we lack the budget (and now - the food!) to have a big enough crew to make the place something other than a multi-billion-dollar Astronaut Habitrail. Right now, it's no better than Mir was in its final days: astronauts spend all their time trying not to die. '"At present, the primary goal of the ISS is unclear," the NRC study observes.' I think it's dangerously close to changing from an investment to a sunk cost.
Our pile of bureaucrats are afraid of losing a shiny toy to some other country's bureaucrats. Governments that have to compete for something can - SURPRISE - do a much better job of not mucking it up too much. If Scaled Composite's design involved specialized launch facilities instead of a flat piece of concrete, you can bet this bill would've been really restrictive... Because the control freaks in congress would've had a better opportunity to control it.
Um... An emotional state that induces self-medication. If you're self-medicating, that's the non-psychological device.
but when this pic surfaced the first time, people speculated that the flat trajectory meant it had to be a tiny meteorite, with the flash resulting from the rock hitting a street light. a 1 in a billion photo, I imagine.
SARS doesn't mutate rapidly. That's why we have a different flu vaccine every year. New strains are always evolving. And remember the "crisis" we had this year with the vaccine? It's only a crisis if the World Health Organization guessed the right strain to innoculate against. Sometimes they don't. In which case, no amount of vaccine matters.
when we find a life form that evolved there from scratch instead of adapting from warmer climes. If there's a beasty of ANY level of complexity there that originated in the icy south, we'll have a MAJOR leg up on looking for life in non-human-friendly biospheres on other planets.