To get a sense of the energies involved: if you're a light-year way from a supernova, the neutrinos will kill you, even though they barely interact with matter at all. One light year is pretty close, but the gamma ray flux is comparable to the neutrino flux and forty orders of magnitude more deadly,
The numbers you assign here do not match reality, since if neutrinos from a supernova can kill you at 1ly, and gammas from same are 40 orders of magnitude more deadly, then a single supernova would sterilize the universe.
Given that we can SEE supernovae, they obviously haven't sterilized US, much less the entire Universe.
Yeah, they've slowed down a bit, and have some aches and pains they didn't have 20 years ago. But they still walk the dog a mile or so each day. And Dad still mows five acres (give or take, the treeline could have moved some over the last decade) of his yard weekly.
I think this bioethicist bozo is forgetting that "75" is life expectancy at birth. If you make it to 75 today, odds are good you've got another decade or two in you*. And if you're born today, by the time you're 75, you should have four or five decades left*.
* barring unpredictable things like terminal cancer, of course.
Note that my wife's parents were both born in the early 1920's, and both lasted into this decade. Arguably, they'd have both been better off to have died a year earlier than they did (in both cases, their last year was pretty bad), but that still meant 85+ good years starting from before the Great Depression....
the green-white striped rope that connects the beam to the hull - you say mainsheet*.,
* if my English sailing jargon is correct - not a native speaker
I'm impressed. Only thing you got wrong was "beam" (you meant "boom"). So, what's your native language? Or native as far as sailing goes, anyways?
That's why you carry spare parts with you. And why you "design for maintenance". And why you do extensive development and testing beforehand to figure out what parts are most likely to break. And design parts to be reliable. And reinforce the parts where you can. And...
And after you do all of those things, sometimes something breaks that you don't have a spare for. And when the nearest replacement part is nine months away, you're screwed.
Being able to make spare parts is a GOOD thing. And the fewer things you have to carry along to make spare parts with, the better.
3D printing is one of those things that will be pretty much essential for successful manned missions farther away than the moon.
Being unable to fix broken things will be fatal if the nearest spare parts are nine months away, and a 3D printer or two can, conceivably, replace a great many individual spare parts....
What solution that provides universal coverage would you advocate?
1) Leave the private health insurance market completely alone.
2) Lower the age of eligibility of Medicare to zero. Do that gradually (five years per year, for instance) if politics require such a compromise. Raise Medicare taxes as required to cover the increased number of people.
Change Medicaid eligibility so that anyone under 18 is eligible, until such time as they're eligible for Medicare (see caveat previous para.).
Done. Net effect should dramatically lower the cost of private health insurance, since Medicare would cover most (if not all) common problems, leaving private health insurance for edge cases.
Adjust Medicare taxes as required to pay the bills.
Note that this isn't quite a National Healthcare System (see UK), but it could easily transition into one later if it works reasonably well.
Done. Simple law, expanding existing program, so unlikely to meet as much opposition from fanatics. No odd cases like "he makes $XX, so he gets 80% subsidy on his health insurance, she makes $XX-1, so she has to pay 100% cost of her health insurance.
I'm not taking much stock in the overwhelming rise of the majority rule of morning people here
The original comment, that noone is a morning person, was the sort of comment that will only produce responses that contradict it - why would someone bother with "yeah, I can't get things going before noon either"?
So, no, the responses saying, in effect, "I am a morning person you ignorant clod" should not be read as saying anything other than "yeah, there are some people who are morning people. Maybe not many, but some."
For what it's worth, I don't use an alarm to get up. 4:30 to 5:00 is just when I wake up naturally.
Once upon a time, many years ago, I drank a lot of coffee and sodas. I had a hard time waking up, and my ideal was to sleep till 11 or so.
I stopped with the caffeine, and after all the side-effects worked their way through my system, I found that I woke up like switching on a light switch - from fully asleep to fully awake in a second or two....
Yah. If Scotland were a State, it would be the 40th largest State by area (22nd largest by population).
Note that there are 21 States more than twice the size of Scotland, of which eight are more than three times the size of Scotland, of which one each are four times, five times, seven times, and twenty times as big as Scotland.
And, on an unrelated note, for you Texans out there, remember that if Alaska were split into two States, Texas would then be the THIRD largest State....
You might have a point with food supplies and resources, if we were not constantly being accused of wasting so much food feeding an nation of obese gluttons.
Assuming, just for the sake of argument, that every single American were living on 5000 calories per day. They aren't, but let's assume an extreme case.
Let's further assume that every single American could manage nicely on 1200 calories per day. They can't, but let's be extreme again.
In that case (large overestimate of food used, similarly extreme underestimate of food needed), we'd be able to feed approximately 1B more people on the food we "waste".
Which is 25% of the expected growth....
Take the greed of the 1% down a few notches
Note that the income of the 1%, if distributed evenly among the 99% would represent only about a 14% pay raise across the board. The wealth of the 1% would nearly double the wealth of the average American, if uniformly distributed.
So, any serious multinational can have the stock distributed enough to get past your first law....
As to your second, at least in the USA, you're going to be blocked by the First Amendment to some extent. After all, "lobbying" is done by people no matter where the money comes from. As is "political activity".
IN other words, you need to think the problem through a little more carefully...
By the by, are you aware that if Google (for example) were paying ZERO taxes in the USA now, and the laws were changed so that they were taxed at 50% on worldwide revenues, their tax obligation would pay to run the Federal government for a bit less than 16 hours.
Do note that Google is paying some taxes in the USA, and corporate tax rates are rather under 50%. Which means the actual benefit from taxing Google's worldwide income would not be nearly so significant as you might think....
"If you can't save everybody, save who you can" seems like a reasonable addition to the program.
The problem isn't that you can't save everyone.
The problem is that you can save either of two people (hypothetical people, in this case). So, how do you code things to choose between the two, when you can do either, but not both?
Note that the President that got us into WW1 was a Democrat (Wilson).
As was the one that got us into WW2 (Roosevelt).
Then there's the Korean War (Truman).
And the Vietnam War (Kennedy/Johnson).
Carter was the only Democrat President of the 20th Century who didn't get us involved in a war.
And, as of last week, there are no Democrat Presidents this century that haven't gotten us involved in a war (or does anyone really think that this ISIS affair is really going to be a quick bombing campaign?).
So, is this something which actually exists and is being tested? Or is this vapor ware?
A little of both.
Boeing doesn't do development work without a contract. So, when they got a contract to start development of their capsule, they started.
And then they stopped working on it as soon as the contract ran out. They're waiting on a new contract to resume work.
The only way their thing is going to be flying within a year is if you define flying as "unmanned test launch" (note that Dragon has been doing "unmanned test launches to the ISS for a while now in the form of its CRS flights. Another of which is due this week, as I recall.).
It's quite possible they'll have a usable capsule in three years. It's not the way to bet, but it's possible....
This is clear evidence of corruption, because the government is selecting the lowest bidders instead of the most popular companies.
Lowest bidder??
Last time I looked, Boeing was the highest bidder of the various bidders.
Also the one farthest behind in the design process, since Boeing doesn't do development work until they have a contract signed, while SpaceX has been working on Dragon on its own dime.
It's similar to the filter that gets applied to modern music: it always seems to appear that things were better in the past because you forget the bad songs and only remember the good ones.
Just so.
It's why I listen to oldies stations when I'm driving.
90% if everything is crap. But for oldies, the 90% filter has already removed most of the crap before it has a chance of being repeated.
So the oldies stations playlist is taken from the "non-crap" survivors of the era in question. Unlike stations playing modern music, where the crap filters haven't yet engaged effectively.
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The numbers you assign here do not match reality, since if neutrinos from a supernova can kill you at 1ly, and gammas from same are 40 orders of magnitude more deadly, then a single supernova would sterilize the universe.
Given that we can SEE supernovae, they obviously haven't sterilized US, much less the entire Universe.
Just so.
I'm hoping to be him in 30 years....
My parents are both 75+.
And still doing fine.
Yeah, they've slowed down a bit, and have some aches and pains they didn't have 20 years ago. But they still walk the dog a mile or so each day. And Dad still mows five acres (give or take, the treeline could have moved some over the last decade) of his yard weekly.
I think this bioethicist bozo is forgetting that "75" is life expectancy at birth. If you make it to 75 today, odds are good you've got another decade or two in you*. And if you're born today, by the time you're 75, you should have four or five decades left*.
* barring unpredictable things like terminal cancer, of course.
Note that my wife's parents were both born in the early 1920's, and both lasted into this decade. Arguably, they'd have both been better off to have died a year earlier than they did (in both cases, their last year was pretty bad), but that still meant 85+ good years starting from before the Great Depression....
I'm impressed. Only thing you got wrong was "beam" (you meant "boom"). So, what's your native language? Or native as far as sailing goes, anyways?
I'm assuming you're referring to Oklahoma in the 1930's, right?
What, there have been "droughts for years" before now? How can that be???
Like the Mercury and Vostok guys, then?
And after you do all of those things, sometimes something breaks that you don't have a spare for. And when the nearest replacement part is nine months away, you're screwed.
Being able to make spare parts is a GOOD thing. And the fewer things you have to carry along to make spare parts with, the better.
The Deficit has not been as low as $200B since 1985. It hasn't been as low as $500B since 2008.
And isn't expected to be as low as $500B again....
Was that another way of saying "free fall"?
3D printing is one of those things that will be pretty much essential for successful manned missions farther away than the moon.
Being unable to fix broken things will be fatal if the nearest spare parts are nine months away, and a 3D printer or two can, conceivably, replace a great many individual spare parts....
1) Leave the private health insurance market completely alone.
2) Lower the age of eligibility of Medicare to zero. Do that gradually (five years per year, for instance) if politics require such a compromise. Raise Medicare taxes as required to cover the increased number of people.
Change Medicaid eligibility so that anyone under 18 is eligible, until such time as they're eligible for Medicare (see caveat previous para.).
Done. Net effect should dramatically lower the cost of private health insurance, since Medicare would cover most (if not all) common problems, leaving private health insurance for edge cases.
Adjust Medicare taxes as required to pay the bills.
Note that this isn't quite a National Healthcare System (see UK), but it could easily transition into one later if it works reasonably well.
Done. Simple law, expanding existing program, so unlikely to meet as much opposition from fanatics. No odd cases like "he makes $XX, so he gets 80% subsidy on his health insurance, she makes $XX-1, so she has to pay 100% cost of her health insurance.
Well, I know I'd rent from an oligarch's paradise, so I don't see why they wouldn't have a lot of tenants.
Or did you mean "tenets"? Never mind.
The original comment, that noone is a morning person, was the sort of comment that will only produce responses that contradict it - why would someone bother with "yeah, I can't get things going before noon either"?
So, no, the responses saying, in effect, "I am a morning person you ignorant clod" should not be read as saying anything other than "yeah, there are some people who are morning people. Maybe not many, but some."
For what it's worth, I don't use an alarm to get up. 4:30 to 5:00 is just when I wake up naturally.
Once upon a time, many years ago, I drank a lot of coffee and sodas. I had a hard time waking up, and my ideal was to sleep till 11 or so.
I stopped with the caffeine, and after all the side-effects worked their way through my system, I found that I woke up like switching on a light switch - from fully asleep to fully awake in a second or two....
Well, me, for one. Get up between 4:30 and 5:00 AM every morning, walk several miles before breakfast.
Note that there are 21 States more than twice the size of Scotland, of which eight are more than three times the size of Scotland, of which one each are four times, five times, seven times, and twenty times as big as Scotland.
And, on an unrelated note, for you Texans out there, remember that if Alaska were split into two States, Texas would then be the THIRD largest State....
Ditto.
After all, what's the point of a poll other than to amuse yourself at the expense of the pollster?
Assuming, just for the sake of argument, that every single American were living on 5000 calories per day. They aren't, but let's assume an extreme case.
Let's further assume that every single American could manage nicely on 1200 calories per day. They can't, but let's be extreme again.
In that case (large overestimate of food used, similarly extreme underestimate of food needed), we'd be able to feed approximately 1B more people on the food we "waste".
Which is 25% of the expected growth....
Note that the income of the 1%, if distributed evenly among the 99% would represent only about a 14% pay raise across the board. The wealth of the 1% would nearly double the wealth of the average American, if uniformly distributed.
So, any serious multinational can have the stock distributed enough to get past your first law....
As to your second, at least in the USA, you're going to be blocked by the First Amendment to some extent. After all, "lobbying" is done by people no matter where the money comes from. As is "political activity".
IN other words, you need to think the problem through a little more carefully...
By the by, are you aware that if Google (for example) were paying ZERO taxes in the USA now, and the laws were changed so that they were taxed at 50% on worldwide revenues, their tax obligation would pay to run the Federal government for a bit less than 16 hours.
Do note that Google is paying some taxes in the USA, and corporate tax rates are rather under 50%. Which means the actual benefit from taxing Google's worldwide income would not be nearly so significant as you might think....
The problem isn't that you can't save everyone.
The problem is that you can save either of two people (hypothetical people, in this case). So, how do you code things to choose between the two, when you can do either, but not both?
Let me guess - a PRN?
Interesting...
Note that the President that got us into WW1 was a Democrat (Wilson).
As was the one that got us into WW2 (Roosevelt).
Then there's the Korean War (Truman).
And the Vietnam War (Kennedy/Johnson).
Carter was the only Democrat President of the 20th Century who didn't get us involved in a war.
And, as of last week, there are no Democrat Presidents this century that haven't gotten us involved in a war (or does anyone really think that this ISIS affair is really going to be a quick bombing campaign?).
A little of both.
Boeing doesn't do development work without a contract. So, when they got a contract to start development of their capsule, they started.
And then they stopped working on it as soon as the contract ran out. They're waiting on a new contract to resume work.
The only way their thing is going to be flying within a year is if you define flying as "unmanned test launch" (note that Dragon has been doing "unmanned test launches to the ISS for a while now in the form of its CRS flights. Another of which is due this week, as I recall.).
It's quite possible they'll have a usable capsule in three years. It's not the way to bet, but it's possible....
Lowest bidder??
Last time I looked, Boeing was the highest bidder of the various bidders.
Also the one farthest behind in the design process, since Boeing doesn't do development work until they have a contract signed, while SpaceX has been working on Dragon on its own dime.
Just so.
It's why I listen to oldies stations when I'm driving.
90% if everything is crap. But for oldies, the 90% filter has already removed most of the crap before it has a chance of being repeated.
So the oldies stations playlist is taken from the "non-crap" survivors of the era in question. Unlike stations playing modern music, where the crap filters haven't yet engaged effectively.
You ought to try N'Awlins, then. Drive-Through Daiquiri Shops FTW.