Don't know about you, but my kid was never assigned six+ hours of homework a night, and it would take that much to keep her from getting nine or ten hours of sleep if she wanted to.
You are aware that pretty much all of us get to set our own bedtimes, right? If you want an extra hour of sleep every night, noone is stopping you from going to bed an hour earlier.
Hell, even if you're a kid living with your parents, I'm willing to bet that your parents won't get upset with you wanting to go to bed an hour earlier....
GOVERNMENT spies who are spying on POTENTIAL ENEMY GOVERNMENTS are okay.
ALL governments are potential enemy governments.
BLOCKQUOTE>GOVERNMENT spies who are spying on ALLIES are not okay.
Let's see. First the Brits were our enemies and the French were our friends.
Then the Brits were our enemies and the French were our enemies too.
Later on, the Brits were our friends, the French were our friends, and the Germans were our friends. And the Japanese didn't think much of us.
Then the Brits were our friends, the French were our friends, the Russians were our friends, the Japanese were our friends, and the Germans were our enemies.
Then the Russians became our enemies, and the Germans became our friends.
Then the Russians became our friends (in the Atlantic), our enemies (in the Pacific), the Japanese became our enemies, and the Germans became our enemies
Then the Russians became our enemies and the Germans and Japanese became our friends.
Then the Russians became our friends.
Then the Russians became our enemies.
I won't even get into Italy, Austria, and China.
TL;DR - friends change into enemies and vice versa. Spy on everyone, so you won't be surprised when friends become enemies.
So, the NSA is doing foreign signals intelligence, eh?
As it is mandated by law to do...
Somehow, I can't get really excited that the NSA is actually doing its job. And yes, spying on foreign leaders is part of the job of the NSA, as it is for EVERY espionage organization in history....
If you want to see how to build proper dikes, look at how its done in the Netherlands. They build very deep embankments rather than thin vertical concrete panels
Oddly enough, if you actually drive around the peripheries, you'll find exactly that sort of levees. Some of which have vertical concrete panels atop them (mostly as sound/sight barriers, not to stop floods).
So, if someone said to you, "your house is likely to catch fire in the future", and then your house caught fire 15 years later, you'd be thinking "damnit! I was warned this would happen, I should have listened to that guy 15 years ago and moved"??
And I hate it when they say "scientists". They don't say "celebrities", "politicians", "football players" - no, they use names. But scientists always remain nameless. Scientists are not amorphous magicians, they are people like you and me.
Why? If they'd said "Robert Johnson said...", would you think it more plausible?
They use celebs, pols, and ballplayers names because they expect that a large fraction of the populace would recognize the name.
They skip the scientists' names because (with a few exceptions - Hawking, Einstein, people like that) most everyone wouldn't recognize the name. Calling them "scientists" at least gives their pronouncements a cachet of respectability that they wouldn't have if the announcement were "David Caulton announced today that..."
New Orleans, Miami, to name but two cities that will be gone in 100 or so years from rising sealevels.
Umm, no. At least for New Orleans. We already have levees around the city to deal with hurricane flooding. Raising the levees a foot or so per century really isn't that big a deal.
This is the problem Obama has had with Gitmo - most, if not all, of them are not wanted at home. If we ship them to Afghanistan, the Afghan government will either say "not just no, but fuck no!", or kill them out of hand.
Since we can't ship them off to someplace where they'd be killed out of hand (the ACLU, among others, wouldn't like it), we have to keep them, till we find someone who will accept them, and promise not to kill them.
What, you don't think that maintenance people know how to screw?
Or for that matter, if you're carrying a million people, you can wake 100 of them every year for maintenance duties, and then each of them will have spent three years awake for the voyage.
Note that this assumes that 30K years is correct. At 0.1% of lightspeed, the trip would be closer to 4300 years than 30,000.
Yes, we don't know how to get to 300 km/s now. We will before we consider going to alphacent. And if we decide to go to alphacent before we can do 300 km/s, well, we'll have 25000 years to figure out how to go 300 km/s and still get to alphacent first with a ship that's going 300 km/s.
Radically better thrust/weight ratios than chemical fuels? Potentially better behaved than 'Project Orion' style nuclear propulsion?
Thrust/weight ratios are pretty much meaningless for interplanetary travel. What you are no doubt thinking of is "Specific Impulse", which should be radically greater with fusion (or gaseous fission) drives.
As far as Orion goes, it's likely that the first nuclear spacecraft (whether fission or fusion) will be some variation on the Orion concept - laser fusion will likely be the easiest way to develop a fusion drive, and laser fusion is just Orion with tiny bombs....
You don't need to build multiple ships (except for redundancy).
The beauty of suspended animation is that you can carry millions of people stacked up like cordwood (asleep), plus a maintenance crew (awake), plus all the machinery required, all in a much smaller space than would be required if everyone were awake the whole voyage.
For all that Ben Franklin suggested DST, it made no headway whatsoever until WW1.
Then, the unthinkable happened - blackouts were required in England, and the pubs had to close at sunset.
Even worse, the pubs were closing before people got off work...
So, political pressure was applied, and they changed the clock so that the pubs could stay open an hour after people got off work (but still in daylight - couldn't get around that blackout).
Even if true, unless it was being done at school, why is the school involved?
Apparently the school thinks it has some moral obligation to deal with "cyberbullying", and since the parents (of the hypothetical other kid) complained, they (the school) had to investigate to determine if "cyberbullying" had occurred.
It should be noted that the school did NOT search her cell phone because of what she said about the Hall Monitor (at least according to the school), but rather because the girl had been sexting with some other kid, whose parents complained to the school.
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Don't know about you, but my kid was never assigned six+ hours of homework a night, and it would take that much to keep her from getting nine or ten hours of sleep if she wanted to.
If you LET them sleep more???
You are aware that pretty much all of us get to set our own bedtimes, right? If you want an extra hour of sleep every night, noone is stopping you from going to bed an hour earlier.
Hell, even if you're a kid living with your parents, I'm willing to bet that your parents won't get upset with you wanting to go to bed an hour earlier....
ALL governments are potential enemy governments.
BLOCKQUOTE>GOVERNMENT spies who are spying on ALLIES are not okay.
Let's see. First the Brits were our enemies and the French were our friends.
Then the Brits were our enemies and the French were our enemies too.
Later on, the Brits were our friends, the French were our friends, and the Germans were our friends. And the Japanese didn't think much of us.
Then the Brits were our friends, the French were our friends, the Russians were our friends, the Japanese were our friends, and the Germans were our enemies.
Then the Russians became our enemies, and the Germans became our friends.
Then the Russians became our friends (in the Atlantic), our enemies (in the Pacific), the Japanese became our enemies, and the Germans became our enemies
Then the Russians became our enemies and the Germans and Japanese became our friends.
Then the Russians became our friends.
Then the Russians became our enemies.
I won't even get into Italy, Austria, and China.
TL;DR - friends change into enemies and vice versa. Spy on everyone, so you won't be surprised when friends become enemies.
So, the NSA is doing foreign signals intelligence, eh?
As it is mandated by law to do...
Somehow, I can't get really excited that the NSA is actually doing its job. And yes, spying on foreign leaders is part of the job of the NSA, as it is for EVERY espionage organization in history....
Oddly enough, if you actually drive around the peripheries, you'll find exactly that sort of levees. Some of which have vertical concrete panels atop them (mostly as sound/sight barriers, not to stop floods).
So, if someone said to you, "your house is likely to catch fire in the future", and then your house caught fire 15 years later, you'd be thinking "damnit! I was warned this would happen, I should have listened to that guy 15 years ago and moved"??
Why? If they'd said "Robert Johnson said...", would you think it more plausible?
They use celebs, pols, and ballplayers names because they expect that a large fraction of the populace would recognize the name.
They skip the scientists' names because (with a few exceptions - Hawking, Einstein, people like that) most everyone wouldn't recognize the name. Calling them "scientists" at least gives their pronouncements a cachet of respectability that they wouldn't have if the announcement were "David Caulton announced today that..."
Umm, no. At least for New Orleans. We already have levees around the city to deal with hurricane flooding. Raising the levees a foot or so per century really isn't that big a deal.
This is the problem Obama has had with Gitmo - most, if not all, of them are not wanted at home. If we ship them to Afghanistan, the Afghan government will either say "not just no, but fuck no!", or kill them out of hand.
Since we can't ship them off to someplace where they'd be killed out of hand (the ACLU, among others, wouldn't like it), we have to keep them, till we find someone who will accept them, and promise not to kill them.
So far, no takers....
So, your solution to Baidu censoring searches to to censor MY access to Baidu?
Sorry, missed the post you were replying to. I assumed that when you said "can't", you meant "can't", as opposed to "pointless".
What, you don't think that maintenance people know how to screw?
Or for that matter, if you're carrying a million people, you can wake 100 of them every year for maintenance duties, and then each of them will have spent three years awake for the voyage.
Note that this assumes that 30K years is correct. At 0.1% of lightspeed, the trip would be closer to 4300 years than 30,000.
Yes, we don't know how to get to 300 km/s now. We will before we consider going to alphacent. And if we decide to go to alphacent before we can do 300 km/s, well, we'll have 25000 years to figure out how to go 300 km/s and still get to alphacent first with a ship that's going 300 km/s.
Even better, ten men and ninety women....
Thrust/weight ratios are pretty much meaningless for interplanetary travel. What you are no doubt thinking of is "Specific Impulse", which should be radically greater with fusion (or gaseous fission) drives.
As far as Orion goes, it's likely that the first nuclear spacecraft (whether fission or fusion) will be some variation on the Orion concept - laser fusion will likely be the easiest way to develop a fusion drive, and laser fusion is just Orion with tiny bombs....
NO, two hours after they're dead, it's pointless - they're dead. They're not going to get better.
Two hours before they're dead, and they can extend that two hours for an arbitrarily long period.
Just so. Reduce lifesupport requirements significantly, and a trip to Mars by a 100-man study team becomes (relatively) trivial.
Or a hundred-man colonization team, for that matter.
The beauty of suspended animation is that you can carry millions of people stacked up like cordwood (asleep), plus a maintenance crew (awake), plus all the machinery required, all in a much smaller space than would be required if everyone were awake the whole voyage.
So, if the driver talks to someone, he is so distracted as to be unable to pay proper attention to the road..
But if a passenger talks, he can still pay attention to the road.
Something is inconsistent here....
For all that Ben Franklin suggested DST, it made no headway whatsoever until WW1.
Then, the unthinkable happened - blackouts were required in England, and the pubs had to close at sunset.
Even worse, the pubs were closing before people got off work...
So, political pressure was applied, and they changed the clock so that the pubs could stay open an hour after people got off work (but still in daylight - couldn't get around that blackout).
The rest, as they say, is history.
Apparently the school thinks it has some moral obligation to deal with "cyberbullying", and since the parents (of the hypothetical other kid) complained, they (the school) had to investigate to determine if "cyberbullying" had occurred.
It should be noted that the school did NOT search her cell phone because of what she said about the Hall Monitor (at least according to the school), but rather because the girl had been sexting with some other kid, whose parents complained to the school.
She said that a Hall Monitor was mean, according to TFA.
2.5 - 3 million, estimated Muslims in the USA.
As to "muslim names", remember that Cat Stevens is Muslim.
My blind??
Whatever does the place I hunt ducks from have to do with this?
I don't object to characterizing congresscritters as idiots, but there are 100 idiots in that other chamber.
Which, along with the rest of your post, makes for a wonderful example of "pot, meet kettle".
Obviously, I live a sheltered life, since I have never heard "knob-gobbler" before...
That said, knob-gobbler is too funny to be a swear word, and I think everyone should use it instead of cocksucker.
Before the neutrino results came in, the correct phrase would be "scientists believe...".
Now, it's "scientists know..."