Worse than blistering mid-day... a boiling midday. Though the silver lining is that the 240 day rotational period is the sidereal day. The solar day is closer to 120 days.
The truth is that neither Mars nor Venus are good candidates for "terraforming," but Mars is far more viable for settlement.
SETI is the science of extra-terrestrial static. SETI hopes that static will contain information from ET life. With fusion and cancer you are confusing an end result with a hypothesis. There are many hypotheses on the way from discovering cancer to curing it and the same with producing a stable, self-sustained fusion reaction. SETI has one hypothesis and and the assumption that IT MUST WORK. That isn't scientific method.
What you postulate is simply cowardice
I can tell from this statement that you know nothing about science. Nothing. I could be wrong... you could be wrong. It is not cowardice to have an opinion people disagree with. Go bang rocks together and save your insults for someone who cares.
Bullshit. SETI can never come to a conclusion until we find the aliens. There is no criteria for failure, no litmus test. We have no idea if we have the ability to find life with our current methodology and no way to test anything one way or another. The only way we will know if it works is if it does. Constant failure and wasted money is no concern to believers. We can never search everything so their hypothesis still stands, and thus SETI approaches faith, and that is a horrible thing for any scientist to have.
Distributed computing worked before SETI. Hope? What a crock. I assume we are not alone, but I also assume it doesn't do us a bit of good unless we can communicate. No one is going to divert military money to fund SETI, but people will divert science grants and telescope time to it.
We should not be trying to play the lottery with our limited scientific money.
So many slashdot readers and even astronomers buy into this because of fanciful dreams of Wookies, Klingons, and Monoliths, but in the real world, the cost far outweighs any possible benefit. The odds are low. Hell, the odds are almost negligible. This is not a matter of not trying to find life elsewhere. This is a matter of funding better science to do it. We should work on propulsion, communication, space travel. In its current state, NASA is nearly worthless. Maybe we should focus on that.
You are wrong. Why would Nintendo bail on the the most popular handheld and home console this generation?
I think that he is mostly talking about not updating the DS. The DS would be "due" for the introduction of its successor next year for a 2009 launch. I don't see that happening.
I think the problem it that we see NO ONE with your kind of opinions out there. They won't hire people who have opinions like that, and if they do, the sites assign them to games that they will score "appropriately" or force them to find the silver lining.
Those of us allergic to penicillin will simply evolve and grow gills. So while you all cling to your antibiotics and inhibitors on the poisoned land, me and my brothers and sisters will be ruling the sea!
Nintendo has you click through a warning that tells you that the update may disable a modded Wii, and it also informs you that you can turn off the machine now to avoid the update.
You tell me what other hardware maker will do that for its customers.
"Corrected" is irony. Yes, it is snotty, and I have people do it to me, but it was the most succinct way to get my point across. I have no sympathy for Hussein, but his death was not worth our soul.
Nope. It was perfectly correct as it stood. You made it a mess! I made a comparison between unnamed problems and the DMCA. That is why it needed the "than." Without that, no comparison is made and the words "bigger problems" look foolish. Bigger problems than what? Who knows?
A grammatically correct sentence for your opinion would look like this:
We have big problems that include the DMCA.
First I removed the "I think," because you cannot speak for my thoughts. Then I removed the "than" and replaced "bigger" with "big" to put the DMCA on the same logical level as the unnamed problems.
I hope this helps you to become a better troll in the future.
The grandfather post would be right, if one assumes that scientific research has no value. However, that is very seldom the case. Research is almost always valuable, even if it turns up nothing. Negative results are also knowledge. If we find no sign of extraterrestrial intelligence in our search we will know more than we did before about the abundance or scarcity of intelligence in our galaxy.
This is not scientific research. This is more like a lone nomad sifting through the Sahara looking for the Eternal Tome of Wisdom. He would be much more likely to find a copy of the Di Vinci Code, but even that would be hopelessly unlikely. About the only scientific value SETI has is in improvement of sifting methods. Hopefully some real scientist will find some way to use this aimless collection of noise to do some real work.
As someone who doesn't have enough money to see many events at regular price, let me be the first to say: I don't care. Let the scalpers make a buck. They bought the ticket. They own the ticket. They can resell the ticket for whatever price they want to.
If you want to clamp down on this, prepare for the day when you are not allowed to resell your CDs, games, books, hell even furniture, because every company will want a piece of that action. If Ticketmaster wants to stop it, they should protect themselves better. I'm not going to bend my principles because I can't get a ticket to a playoff game.
2) European is NOT a racial group. "European" denotes location as does "American."
3) You're not racist. You're not ignorant. You, good sir, are a moron.
I freely admit I am ignorant of things. Everyone is to some degree. I do not know everything. I do know, however, that I have had Shredded Wheat more insulting than that rather old joke.
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Nothing, because the correct answer was "The Aqueduct."
I would have also accepted "Sanitation."
Worse than blistering mid-day... a boiling midday. Though the silver lining is that the 240 day rotational period is the sidereal day. The solar day is closer to 120 days.
The truth is that neither Mars nor Venus are good candidates for "terraforming," but Mars is far more viable for settlement.
SETI is the science of extra-terrestrial static. SETI hopes that static will contain information from ET life. With fusion and cancer you are confusing an end result with a hypothesis. There are many hypotheses on the way from discovering cancer to curing it and the same with producing a stable, self-sustained fusion reaction. SETI has one hypothesis and and the assumption that IT MUST WORK. That isn't scientific method.
What you postulate is simply cowardice
I can tell from this statement that you know nothing about science. Nothing. I could be wrong... you could be wrong. It is not cowardice to have an opinion people disagree with. Go bang rocks together and save your insults for someone who cares.
Bullshit. SETI can never come to a conclusion until we find the aliens. There is no criteria for failure, no litmus test. We have no idea if we have the ability to find life with our current methodology and no way to test anything one way or another. The only way we will know if it works is if it does. Constant failure and wasted money is no concern to believers. We can never search everything so their hypothesis still stands, and thus SETI approaches faith, and that is a horrible thing for any scientist to have.
Distributed computing worked before SETI. Hope? What a crock. I assume we are not alone, but I also assume it doesn't do us a bit of good unless we can communicate. No one is going to divert military money to fund SETI, but people will divert science grants and telescope time to it.
We should not be trying to play the lottery with our limited scientific money.
So many slashdot readers and even astronomers buy into this because of fanciful dreams of Wookies, Klingons, and Monoliths, but in the real world, the cost far outweighs any possible benefit. The odds are low. Hell, the odds are almost negligible. This is not a matter of not trying to find life elsewhere. This is a matter of funding better science to do it. We should work on propulsion, communication, space travel. In its current state, NASA is nearly worthless. Maybe we should focus on that.
I could have down-modded you for flamebait, because you suggested that those of us who think Cheney has committed high crimes believe in UFOs.
While it probably wouldn't have worked, it would not have been a waste of time.
If by "word" you mean "Patcher" and by "has it" you mean "stuffed a floating, nuclear, space penis into his cavern of ego."
You are wrong. Why would Nintendo bail on the the most popular handheld and home console this generation?
I think that he is mostly talking about not updating the DS. The DS would be "due" for the introduction of its successor next year for a 2009 launch. I don't see that happening.
I think the problem it that we see NO ONE with your kind of opinions out there. They won't hire people who have opinions like that, and if they do, the sites assign them to games that they will score "appropriately" or force them to find the silver lining.
Does that make K-Fed the father of all bombs? If that is the case, are we really safer if he has custody?
You'll see. You'll all see.
Those of us allergic to penicillin will simply evolve and grow gills. So while you all cling to your antibiotics and inhibitors on the poisoned land, me and my brothers and sisters will be ruling the sea!
We are talking about a man who became a Jehovah's Witness.
I'm surprised that he learned to use a mouse.
Do you have a Wii? Have you updated it?
Nintendo has you click through a warning that tells you that the update may disable a modded Wii, and it also informs you that you can turn off the machine now to avoid the update.
You tell me what other hardware maker will do that for its customers.
"Corrected" is irony. Yes, it is snotty, and I have people do it to me, but it was the most succinct way to get my point across. I have no sympathy for Hussein, but his death was not worth our soul.
Nope. It was perfectly correct as it stood. You made it a mess! I made a comparison between unnamed problems and the DMCA. That is why it needed the "than." Without that, no comparison is made and the words "bigger problems" look foolish. Bigger problems than what? Who knows?
A grammatically correct sentence for your opinion would look like this:
We have big problems that include the DMCA.
First I removed the "I think," because you cannot speak for my thoughts. Then I removed the "than" and replaced "bigger" with "big" to put the DMCA on the same logical level as the unnamed problems.
I hope this helps you to become a better troll in the future.
All the best,
Joe
I don't know about anyone else here, but I think we have bigger problems than the DMCA.
9/11 had the effect of temporarily reducing the USA's willingness to put up with that bullshit. Too bad for us.
Corrected.
Yes. Nintendo regularly takes a critical hit due to a nostalgia bias. Look at Wind Waker.
We have no chance to survive, make our time.
Is my DS. I remember similar fears at this time in its life.
The grandfather post would be right, if one assumes that scientific research has no value. However, that is very seldom the case. Research is almost always valuable, even if it turns up nothing. Negative results are also knowledge. If we find no sign of extraterrestrial intelligence in our search we will know more than we did before about the abundance or scarcity of intelligence in our galaxy.
This is not scientific research. This is more like a lone nomad sifting through the Sahara looking for the Eternal Tome of Wisdom. He would be much more likely to find a copy of the Di Vinci Code, but even that would be hopelessly unlikely. About the only scientific value SETI has is in improvement of sifting methods. Hopefully some real scientist will find some way to use this aimless collection of noise to do some real work.
Shhh! Speak too loud and you may scare that cat out of its bag.
If you laugh, it's not the Onion.
As someone who doesn't have enough money to see many events at regular price, let me be the first to say: I don't care. Let the scalpers make a buck. They bought the ticket. They own the ticket. They can resell the ticket for whatever price they want to.
If you want to clamp down on this, prepare for the day when you are not allowed to resell your CDs, games, books, hell even furniture, because every company will want a piece of that action. If Ticketmaster wants to stop it, they should protect themselves better. I'm not going to bend my principles because I can't get a ticket to a playoff game.
1) I'm American.
2) European is NOT a racial group. "European" denotes location as does "American."
3) You're not racist. You're not ignorant. You, good sir, are a moron.
I freely admit I am ignorant of things. Everyone is to some degree. I do not know everything. I do know, however, that I have had Shredded Wheat more insulting than that rather old joke.