These Sunflowers have no chance to mutate. Who are you going to belive? A web article or me? Why should you belive me you ask? I replaced every sunflower seed with a Venus Fly-Trap and now those seeds are going to Mutate! Bwahahahahahahaahahahaha! Every discarded cell-phone will create a monster hell-bent on devouring human flesh. Bow down to your Mutant Flesh-Eating Plant Overlords you human scum!
Oh shit! Did I give away my plan to early? Fuck me, the hero hasn't even broken into my secret lair yet! What to do... What to do? Hmmmm consulting the 101 things to do when your an evil villian checklist. Damitt! Just says never run your mouth about your evil plots, but nothing about what to do after you already did. Shit!
et's think about this statistic.. 1 in 455 (or whatever) means that every 455 years some catastrophic event should occur that wipes out humanity... hmmm... weird that nothing like that has happened in a million or so years...
No, he means that every set of fifty to a hundred years has a 1 in 455 chance of a catastrophic event.
One linux kernel 2.6.7 downloaded from kernel.org. This kernel has a value of $612 million and the bidding will start at the low low price of $10 dollars. Bid often for as linux slowly gains more and more marketshare the value will increase substationaly making this a sure-fire proft making investment no matter how high the winning bid.
Great thanks for correcting me. I can always count on the slashdot crowd for correcting my mistakes. It's a shame that I made so many. I had issues during my life man real issues and alot of mistakes were made. Alcholosm, drug abuse, man if it's in the english lanquage and can be conjoined with the word abuse I've had it done to me.
When you deal with crap like that on a daily basis your just not gonna develop right and do stuff like say "Double-odd" when the correct term was "Double-Aught" but that's why we have you slashdot guys for. Slashdot grammer trolls: I SALUTE YOU!
The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
At one time I was a programmer working for the real life equivalant and I was horrified by the apathy the senior managment had for the software's security. All they cared about was having the software ready to sell by the time of the election, not having a fair election.
I spoke up and after rocking the boat to no avail (I even recieved not-so-subtle hints of losing my job). So I wrote a letter to the chairman of the FEC and my state senator and I was granted a hearing by the FEC where I was to be given the chance to present my case.
That was when they had a hitman show up at my house. Appearing like a trenchcoat wearing deamon he calmy walked up to my front stoop and kicked the door in. My doberman pincher tried to fight off the intruder but poor Billy got his head blown off by the Spas-12 shotgun the assasin carried. I was upstairs posting on Slashdot when I heard the noise and ran to the top of my stairs only to see Death empty three rounds of double odd buck into my belly.
I was dead before I hit the floor.
They took my body and dumped it out in Cheasapeake bay with old fashiond cement shoes and there I remain till this day.
Honestly who gives a rat's ass where in the world Carmen Santiago is? C'mon lets get a new sequal in the Oregon Trail series and hunt deer in the all new doom 3 engine.
Also small children will once again experience the joy of writing swear words on the gravestones for other children to find. IN 3-D!!!!!
Age has nothing to do with it. I was trying to point out that SS1 and the X-15 has differnt goals thats all. Senator Glenn went through the same astronaught physicals and checked out ok. He is an exceptionaly fit man for his age. The poster who I was replying to pointed out that SS1 aproached but did not exceed the accomplishement of the X-15 and I was trying to stress that that wasn't the point.
As for the feasability of mother aircraft to launch from, since this whole project ran in the $20-30 million dollar range and has licensed by Virgin I'm sure at first there will be only three or four mothercraft to launch from, but if the business takes off I'm sure they'll add to the fleet.
Dude I'm reading your post here and I have to ask just what are we disagreeing about?
Of course the rich are going to be the first. They're the first consumers for anything because they can drop the cash.
I agree with you totally that the tech is probably safe now and will be even safer when the prices drop to more mainstream comsumers.
And yeah alot of the rich are smart people who know the risks and would go for the thrill of a lifetime that's granted.
I'm refering to the not so smart rich, the Britany Spears and the Jessica Simpsons, the Justin Timberlakes. The dumb ones who are picked out of the unwashed masses by scouts looking for that pretty face who can gyrate their asses on MTV. Not the type of people who start companies in their basements and make millions.
To make this the real next big thing real quick you make it fashionable. If I was doing PR I would want someone high profile like Usher to fly. The more celebrites who do, the more it becomes the thing to do and the cycle of better and cheaper is hastened.
Now try to convince Jennifer Lopez to get on a rocket plane three years from now if the mission fails.
If they don't ride it, then they're out of business. The public dosen't have a say in the boardroom or the production floor. There say is when the service is offered. The public speaks with dollars and if the craft is dangerous nobody is going to ride the thing. It's only common sense to provide the safest vehicle possible. Look at how many people get all uppity everytime a plane crashes.
No, it wouldn't. Rutan's brainchild isn't funded by a single dollar of government money. What the American taxpayer has to say about the matter is irrelevent.
Yeah they do, because they ultimate goal of the project is to convince the public to ride the thing.
While that is well and good, there are also more poor people than ever before as well. Concentration of wealth is foreign to the concept of a Republic.
Since when? There's always going to be people who are poor, So should we shut down our society and not pursue anything worthwhile to free up funds for the poor? Granted the poor need help, but the rest of us shouldn't live our lives in a manner that would reduce our restrict our dreams and endevours because some of us are having a really hard time of it.
Correct there's other's but will Da'Vinci get off in time? Will Armadillo? There's twenty-four other teams, but SS1 has already completed their R&D, shakedown flight and one of the nessesary flights needed for the prize, and are scheduled to fly again in two weeks. That's alot of catch up in a short amount of time.
And my comment about crashing and burning? Well I made that comment while she was still attached to White Knight. SS1 still has to fly one more time to win. We'll see in two weeks. Barring cancelation of the flight for whatever reason that's just about the only hope the other teams have to win at this point. And like the Columbia disaster it would make space-flight seem like a dangerous and costly endevour to the public. (Which it is, but there's never any gain without some sort of risk)
Is there an industry with an exception of entertainment and pharmacuticals that has sustaining value over time? ( There probably is, I just can't think of them at this time)
I will reinforce your arguement with another example before I counter it.
In 1905 detroit there were over two hundred american automotive companies in or surronding detroit. Automobile Startups popped up left and right with entrepenuers opening their wallets to anyone with a neat idea about cars and how they will impact society and how everyone will want one. How many of those companies exist today? Not many. Why? Well there was a big boom in automotives in the early twentieth century and like every other bubble it burst.
Sounds familiar? Well it should be, just replace the words automobile and car with computers and internet and change the dates and we have history repeating itself. Oh yeah and change the location from shitty Detroit to Cali.
It happens it's economic dawrinism, the comapinies that did not have a solid business model, product, poor managment or were founded on some half-baked idea failed. The compainies that did succeded for the most part.
Is that to say that the automotive industry is trivial and nonimportant and becoming an automotive engineer is a waste of time? Of course not.
Same with radios, tv's, movie theaters (just ask your parents about movie theaters in the sixties, alot different from the multiplexes of today). Look up old television design from the fities during it's boom and you'll see some funky cool designs from companies that are not around anymore.
Is the aerospace industry going to have the same bubble? I hope so. All usefull and some not so usefull tech has it's boom but when things settle down where better off for it.
Despite all the bad that has happened about the.com bust think about how much better the world is because of it.
Ok you just reinforced my point. The SS1 dosen't go as high or as fast as the X-15 which was the real trailblazer. The idea has been done before, faster and higher but that was a government project during a cold war where the possibilities of military applications of the technology was at the forefront of the researchers minds.
The speeds of mach 6.7 isn't going to be attained by SS1 as I belive the pilot is in his sixties. Remember this is meant to be a precursor to commericial flights and not a high performance craft flown by a fighter pilot.
Private industry technologily is where the government was in the early 1960's and it only took them another nine years to get to the moon. Now granted there was political motivation to get there (damn ruskies) but the path has been laid and we now need private industry to follow it.
Those missions a rocket plane would detach from a B-52 and fly to suborbit and then glide back to earth and land like a plane.
What is really important is that resently there was an article about there being more billionaire's in the United States then there ever was in the history of the United States.
And now Paul Allen and Burt Rutan are about to prove (I hope!) that these rich kids can have their very own space program for a mere $20 million. Which hopefully will lead to an increase in aerospace start-ups and maybe a boom in aerospace technology similar to the.com boom.
I hope this happens because not only will we finaly start seeing the promises made during the space race come to fruitation, but we can also learn from our past mistakes made during the dot com era and make a shit load of money by bailling out when the getin's good.
It's going to take a few years for this to start, Virgin is (assuming it's true and not a publicity stunt it's libel to be) not planning launches for another three years. That's time enough for everyone to change their major's and hit the books for the next big thing.
Of course if spaceshipone crashes and burns you can just forget about what I just said.
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Why am I not suprised that the review for a Video Game called Burnout 3 was posted by someone who refers to themself as Zonk.
These Sunflowers have no chance to mutate. Who are you going to belive? A web article or me? Why should you belive me you ask? I replaced every sunflower seed with a Venus Fly-Trap and now those seeds are going to Mutate! Bwahahahahahahaahahahaha! Every discarded cell-phone will create a monster hell-bent on devouring human flesh. Bow down to your Mutant Flesh-Eating Plant Overlords you human scum!
Oh shit! Did I give away my plan to early? Fuck me, the hero hasn't even broken into my secret lair yet!
What to do... What to do? Hmmmm consulting the 101 things to do when your an evil villian checklist. Damitt! Just says never run your mouth about your evil plots, but nothing about what to do after you already did. Shit!
et's think about this statistic.. 1 in 455 (or whatever) means that every 455 years some catastrophic event should occur that wipes out humanity... hmmm... weird that nothing like that has happened in a million or so years...
No, he means that every set of fifty to a hundred years has a 1 in 455 chance of a catastrophic event.
No.
I demand a little more proof. How about a link or a torrent or maybe even access to a ftp server with halo2.
One linux kernel 2.6.7 downloaded from kernel.org. This kernel has a value of $612 million and the bidding will start at the low low price of $10 dollars. Bid often for as linux slowly gains more and more marketshare the value will increase substationaly making this a sure-fire proft making investment no matter how high the winning bid.
Have McDonalds started selling girlfirends?
We can only wish my friend, we can only wish
Great thanks for correcting me. I can always count on the slashdot crowd for correcting my mistakes. It's a shame that I made so many. I had issues during my life man real issues and alot of mistakes were made. Alcholosm, drug abuse, man if it's in the english lanquage and can be conjoined with the word abuse I've had it done to me.
When you deal with crap like that on a daily basis your just not gonna develop right and do stuff like say "Double-odd" when the correct term was "Double-Aught" but that's why we have you slashdot guys for. Slashdot grammer trolls: I SALUTE YOU!
Thanks, now I know and I will keep that in mind the next time I get a few slugs into my stomach.
The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
At one time I was a programmer working for the real life equivalant and I was horrified by the apathy the senior managment had for the software's security. All they cared about was having the software ready to sell by the time of the election, not having a fair election.
I spoke up and after rocking the boat to no avail (I even recieved not-so-subtle hints of losing my job). So I wrote a letter to the chairman of the FEC and my state senator and I was granted a hearing by the FEC where I was to be given the chance to present my case.
That was when they had a hitman show up at my house. Appearing like a trenchcoat wearing deamon he calmy walked up to my front stoop and kicked the door in. My doberman pincher tried to fight off the intruder but poor Billy got his head blown off by the Spas-12 shotgun the assasin carried. I was upstairs posting on Slashdot when I heard the noise and ran to the top of my stairs only to see Death empty three rounds of double odd buck into my belly.
I was dead before I hit the floor.
They took my body and dumped it out in Cheasapeake bay with old fashiond cement shoes and there I remain till this day.
This ... is the .... I mean wow! I thought Space Ship One winning the X-Prize was cool but this?
There are no words to describe it, only tears of happiness.
Honestly who gives a rat's ass where in the world Carmen Santiago is? C'mon lets get a new sequal in the Oregon Trail series and hunt deer in the all new doom 3 engine.
Also small children will once again experience the joy of writing swear words on the gravestones for other children to find. IN 3-D!!!!!
Age has nothing to do with it. I was trying to point out that SS1 and the X-15 has differnt goals thats all. Senator Glenn went through the same astronaught physicals and checked out ok. He is an exceptionaly fit man for his age. The poster who I was replying to pointed out that SS1 aproached but did not exceed the accomplishement of the X-15 and I was trying to stress that that wasn't the point.
As for the feasability of mother aircraft to launch from, since this whole project ran in the $20-30 million dollar range and has licensed by Virgin I'm sure at first there will be only three or four mothercraft to launch from, but if the business takes off I'm sure they'll add to the fleet.
extreme sports are athletes looking for thrills by doing cool stuff, not Joe Sixpack looking for something neat to do.
Dude I'm reading your post here and I have to ask just what are we disagreeing about?
Of course the rich are going to be the first. They're the first consumers for anything because they can drop the cash.
I agree with you totally that the tech is probably safe now and will be even safer when the prices drop to more mainstream comsumers.
And yeah alot of the rich are smart people who know the risks and would go for the thrill of a lifetime that's granted.
I'm refering to the not so smart rich, the Britany Spears and the Jessica Simpsons, the Justin Timberlakes. The dumb ones who are picked out of the unwashed masses by scouts looking for that pretty face who can gyrate their asses on MTV. Not the type of people who start companies in their basements and make millions.
To make this the real next big thing real quick you make it fashionable. If I was doing PR I would want someone high profile like Usher to fly. The more celebrites who do, the more it becomes the thing to do and the cycle of better and cheaper is hastened.
Now try to convince Jennifer Lopez to get on a rocket plane three years from now if the mission fails.
If they don't ride it, then they're out of business. The public dosen't have a say in the boardroom or the production floor. There say is when the service is offered. The public speaks with dollars and if the craft is dangerous nobody is going to ride the thing. It's only common sense to provide the safest vehicle possible. Look at how many people get all uppity everytime a plane crashes.
No, it wouldn't. Rutan's brainchild isn't funded by a single dollar of government money. What the American taxpayer has to say about the matter is irrelevent.
Yeah they do, because they ultimate goal of the project is to convince the public to ride the thing.
While that is well and good, there are also more poor people than ever before as well. Concentration of wealth is foreign to the concept of a Republic.
Since when? There's always going to be people who are poor, So should we shut down our society and not pursue anything worthwhile to free up funds for the poor? Granted the poor need help, but the rest of us shouldn't live our lives in a manner that would reduce our restrict our dreams and endevours because some of us are having a really hard time of it.
Correct there's other's but will Da'Vinci get off in time? Will Armadillo? There's twenty-four other teams, but SS1 has already completed their R&D, shakedown flight and one of the nessesary flights needed for the prize, and are scheduled to fly again in two weeks. That's alot of catch up in a short amount of time.
And my comment about crashing and burning? Well I made that comment while she was still attached to White Knight. SS1 still has to fly one more time to win. We'll see in two weeks. Barring cancelation of the flight for whatever reason that's just about the only hope the other teams have to win at this point. And like the Columbia disaster it would make space-flight seem like a dangerous and costly endevour to the public. (Which it is, but there's never any gain without some sort of risk)
Is there an industry with an exception of entertainment and pharmacuticals that has sustaining value over time? ( There probably is, I just can't think of them at this time)
.com bust think about how much better the world is because of it.
I will reinforce your arguement with another example before I counter it.
In 1905 detroit there were over two hundred american automotive companies in or surronding detroit. Automobile Startups popped up left and right with entrepenuers opening their wallets to anyone with a neat idea about cars and how they will impact society and how everyone will want one. How many of those companies exist today? Not many. Why? Well there was a big boom in automotives in the early twentieth century and like every other bubble it burst.
Sounds familiar? Well it should be, just replace the words automobile and car with computers and internet and change the dates and we have history repeating itself. Oh yeah and change the location from shitty Detroit to Cali.
It happens it's economic dawrinism, the comapinies that did not have a solid business model, product, poor managment or were founded on some half-baked idea failed. The compainies that did succeded for the most part.
Is that to say that the automotive industry is trivial and nonimportant and becoming an automotive engineer is a waste of time? Of course not.
Same with radios, tv's, movie theaters (just ask your parents about movie theaters in the sixties, alot different from the multiplexes of today). Look up old television design from the fities during it's boom and you'll see some funky cool designs from companies that are not around anymore.
Is the aerospace industry going to have the same bubble? I hope so. All usefull and some not so usefull tech has it's boom but when things settle down where better off for it.
Despite all the bad that has happened about the
Ok you just reinforced my point. The SS1 dosen't go as high or as fast as the X-15 which was the real trailblazer. The idea has been done before, faster and higher but that was a government project during a cold war where the possibilities of military applications of the technology was at the forefront of the researchers minds.
The speeds of mach 6.7 isn't going to be attained by SS1 as I belive the pilot is in his sixties. Remember this is meant to be a precursor to commericial flights and not a high performance craft flown by a fighter pilot.
Private industry technologily is where the government was in the early 1960's and it only took them another nine years to get to the moon. Now granted there was political motivation to get there (damn ruskies) but the path has been laid and we now need private industry to follow it.
They are essentially recreating the X-15 experiments made in the early sixties.
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.com boom.
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/x15/cov
Those missions a rocket plane would detach from a B-52 and fly to suborbit and then glide back to earth and land like a plane.
What is really important is that resently there was an article about there being more billionaire's in the United States then there ever was in the history of the United States.
http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2004/mft04092701.htm
And now Paul Allen and Burt Rutan are about to prove (I hope!) that these rich kids can have their very own space program for a mere $20 million. Which hopefully will lead to an increase in aerospace start-ups and maybe a boom in aerospace technology similar to the
I hope this happens because not only will we finaly start seeing the promises made during the space race come to fruitation, but we can also learn from our past mistakes made during the dot com era and make a shit load of money by bailling out when the getin's good.
It's going to take a few years for this to start, Virgin is (assuming it's true and not a publicity stunt it's libel to be) not planning launches for another three years. That's time enough for everyone to change their major's and hit the books for the next big thing.
Of course if spaceshipone crashes and burns you can just forget about what I just said.
That's the same broadcast as Nasa tv, so we have redundant web casts of the same footage.
The technology is simply being used for what was originaly envisioned. Worldwide cheap and efficient communication that can change the world.
And since it's changing the world it isn't surprising to me that there are those who would like to see this form of communication restricted.
Heck, soon we might even be able to make real-life versions of the Desert Combat mod for BF1942!
Just join the US military, that's about as real as it's going to get.