and folks who self-label as 'geeky' in public are folks who project a willingness to focus and specialize on a small range of subjects that they admire
It should be noted that fly-fishermen are the same way.
Ditto pilots. And sailors. And computer programmers. And...
Different "small range of subjects" for each, of course....
We don't actually need to send people to a far away, dead hostile rock? Just send boxes on wheels, and have them fly back the dead rocks the geeks like to fantasize about, like Luna 16.
Frankly, if people aren't going to go there, why bother sending the box on wheels? Not like the composition of moon rocks matters, really (absent some need to mine them, of course, which pretty much means "people in outer space", since there's no shortage of metals to mine here on Earth).
Hmm, a Federal Council and a Federal Assembly. That doesn't sound like a direct democracy. It sounds a lot like any other parliamentary system (hell, it sounds like the USA, really, though the two systems aren't really very much alike).
Yes, there is a referendum mechanism, but that exists in several of our States, and none of them have a "direct democracy" either.
Just out of curiousity, did you know that each of the biggest three coal mining disasters has produced an order of magnitude more deaths than all of the nuclear accidents (including Chernobyl and Fukushima) combined?
And that routine coal mining deaths are a bigger killer in the 20th century than nuclear power, even if you define "nuclear power" in such a way as to include the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings?
Well, don't have a basement, what with the house being below sea-level and all that, but otherwise, no problem. I used to work at a nuclear plant, and don't have the rabid terror of the word "nuclear" that so many people have.
The best way to deal with terrorism is to neglect them totally. Don't let them on TV or radio, or Internet.
So, you agree with TFA, then? Because "don't let them on the internet" seems to be what TFA is advocating.
Personally, I prefer treating them like common criminals. Don't give them the credit of being "terrorists". Call them what they are: murderers/thieves/whatever. Don't treat their trials as media circuses; instead give them exactly the coverage any other criminal would get....
2. Design flaw making it inherently unsafe (the foam pieces falling during launch).
And yet it had a slightly better safety record than Soyuz.
Do be aware that there were 135 Shuttle launches, of which two were failures. At that time, there had been ~120 Soyuz launches, of which two were failures....
Biggest problem with Shuttle wasn't really a problem with the Shuttle so much as a problem with Congress and NASA. They should have built a dozen or so of the things, and launched every other week doing things that only that honking big booster could do - like life space station parts or Moon/Mars rocket parts.
500 years ago scientists fought with the church wanting to control science, refuting heliocentrism.
Oh? That would be why the guy who came up with the notion of heliocentrism was a Catholic Monk, right? Yes, Copernicus was a Dominican.
You're probably thinking of that Galileo kerfluffle, where Galileo called the Pope an idiot in his book about heliocentrism, and the Pope got in a snit at being called a simpleton? Hint: Galileo got in trouble for calling the Pope an idiot, not for heliocentrism, which idea was developed by that aforementioned Dominican....
Of course, we're talking a century-plus before they rise as much as a meter.
Hardly a problem today. Hardly an issue in a century, really. A meter high floodwall doesn't actually require a century to build (more like a few weeks one summer).
And if worse comes to worst, well, we add a meter to the floodwall every century (that's about four inches a year for the Amis among us), which is hardly a major undertaking....
Because, contrary to popular rumour, there is nothing sacred about SI.
No, the liter (litre, whichever) is not intrinsically superior to the gallon (imperial or otherwise). Likewise the gram, the meter, the joule, etc. They're just another system of measurement, really, with nothing to define them as better or worse other than utility for any specific purpose....
It should be noted that talking about doing illegal things is, in and of itself, not illegal.
In other words, decrypting someone's comments is NOT a function of law enforcement. Law enforcement is about catching people who have committed crimes, not about monitoring everyone to make sure they can't commit crimes....
The only thing all nations seem to agree on is that they need a document about AGW that doesn't have any requirements other than that they produce reports every five years discussing why they haven't done anything to fix the problem.
This isn't a scientific journal, this is a science article for the popular press. So they use units that the average reader of an American magazine will be most familiar with.
Real question is "what's the enforcement mechanism?". Without some means of making sure everyone actually does something other than write reports every five years (a quick read shows that obligations under the agreement are to "make promises" and "write reports on progress of the promises"), it means nothing.
I also find it interesting that this agreement requires absolutely nothing before 2020. So Obama isn't on the hook to do anything, and his successor probably isn't on the hook to do anything (his successor will already have done his second election before we have to do a bloody thing, even assuming we have to do a bloody thing).
In other words, a great deal of light and noise, signifying nothing is what it looks like from my easy chair....
The codes weren't developed by Hitler, and they weren't developed during WW2. The Brits were reading German messages before WW2 started.
And gave us access to the stuff before we entered the war (legally - we were fighting illegally for a year or two before Pearl Harbor - yes, escorting convoys of military supplies to a belligerent was illegal, as well as sinking U-boats), as far as I know.
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It should be noted that fly-fishermen are the same way.
Ditto pilots. And sailors. And computer programmers. And...
Different "small range of subjects" for each, of course....
Frankly, if people aren't going to go there, why bother sending the box on wheels? Not like the composition of moon rocks matters, really (absent some need to mine them, of course, which pretty much means "people in outer space", since there's no shortage of metals to mine here on Earth).
Hmm, a Federal Council and a Federal Assembly. That doesn't sound like a direct democracy. It sounds a lot like any other parliamentary system (hell, it sounds like the USA, really, though the two systems aren't really very much alike).
Yes, there is a referendum mechanism, but that exists in several of our States, and none of them have a "direct democracy" either.
1) The first stage is 2/3 the total cost to launch. Which would be $40 million.
2) They can renovate the first stage for $5 million.
3) They can get five launches from a first stage (original plus four more).
So, $60 million for five launches, plus the $20 million for the second stage x5.
Which comes to $32 million per launch. A bit more than half the current price.
Now, I consider those pessimistic assumptions.
Alternately...
If we replace (3) with 15 launches per first stage, we get $28M per.
If we replace (2) with $1M per launch, we get $29M for five launches, $23.75 per launch for 15 launches.
Big picture: reusing the first stage only will allow them to drop prices by 40-60%.
Now, if they can reuse the second stage also, we're talking some real money....
Just out of curiousity, did you know that each of the biggest three coal mining disasters has produced an order of magnitude more deaths than all of the nuclear accidents (including Chernobyl and Fukushima) combined?
And that routine coal mining deaths are a bigger killer in the 20th century than nuclear power, even if you define "nuclear power" in such a way as to include the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings?
Well, don't have a basement, what with the house being below sea-level and all that, but otherwise, no problem. I used to work at a nuclear plant, and don't have the rabid terror of the word "nuclear" that so many people have.
Signed into law by Obama. He does have a veto, and he's not afraid to use it for things he gives a damn about...
As I recall, a lot of people cheered when Lindbergh's plane landed in France. Your point was?
So, you agree with TFA, then? Because "don't let them on the internet" seems to be what TFA is advocating.
Personally, I prefer treating them like common criminals. Don't give them the credit of being "terrorists". Call them what they are: murderers/thieves/whatever. Don't treat their trials as media circuses; instead give them exactly the coverage any other criminal would get....
And yet it had a slightly better safety record than Soyuz.
Do be aware that there were 135 Shuttle launches, of which two were failures. At that time, there had been ~120 Soyuz launches, of which two were failures....
Biggest problem with Shuttle wasn't really a problem with the Shuttle so much as a problem with Congress and NASA. They should have built a dozen or so of the things, and launched every other week doing things that only that honking big booster could do - like life space station parts or Moon/Mars rocket parts.
Then it might have been worthwhile...
Yeah, I know.."space nutter"...deal.
Oh? That would be why the guy who came up with the notion of heliocentrism was a Catholic Monk, right? Yes, Copernicus was a Dominican.
You're probably thinking of that Galileo kerfluffle, where Galileo called the Pope an idiot in his book about heliocentrism, and the Pope got in a snit at being called a simpleton? Hint: Galileo got in trouble for calling the Pope an idiot, not for heliocentrism, which idea was developed by that aforementioned Dominican....
Yes, sealevels will rise.
Of course, we're talking a century-plus before they rise as much as a meter.
Hardly a problem today. Hardly an issue in a century, really. A meter high floodwall doesn't actually require a century to build (more like a few weeks one summer).
And if worse comes to worst, well, we add a meter to the floodwall every century (that's about four inches a year for the Amis among us), which is hardly a major undertaking....
I see from your link that this guy doesn't think there's a real problem with the NSA hoovering up everything on the web either.
NOT a big advocate of privacy OR free speech.
So, we should care about what this guy thinks why? I mean other than so we can laugh and point, of course....
Jaysus! It's depressing when people don't even recognize the Third Reich references anymore....
Because, contrary to popular rumour, there is nothing sacred about SI.
No, the liter (litre, whichever) is not intrinsically superior to the gallon (imperial or otherwise). Likewise the gram, the meter, the joule, etc. They're just another system of measurement, really, with nothing to define them as better or worse other than utility for any specific purpose....
It should be noted that talking about doing illegal things is, in and of itself, not illegal.
In other words, decrypting someone's comments is NOT a function of law enforcement. Law enforcement is about catching people who have committed crimes, not about monitoring everyone to make sure they can't commit crimes....
And the Democrats are fundamentally different? Or am I mistaken that President Obama is a Democrat?
The only thing all nations seem to agree on is that they need a document about AGW that doesn't have any requirements other than that they produce reports every five years discussing why they haven't done anything to fix the problem.
This isn't a scientific journal, this is a science article for the popular press. So they use units that the average reader of an American magazine will be most familiar with.
In other words, chill....
This sounds just like the silly sorts of thing said by anti-nukes when they're fighting to keep a nuclear power plant from being built.
So, I take it that the problem here is that they're opposed to something that we like, as opposed to something we dislike?
Seems to me I've seen this before....
Odd. Just checked the Lincoln Continental randomly, and its weight is half to three-quarter ton lighter than it was when I was a kid....
No, 15C is NOT 60F. More like 27F.
Real question is "what's the enforcement mechanism?". Without some means of making sure everyone actually does something other than write reports every five years (a quick read shows that obligations under the agreement are to "make promises" and "write reports on progress of the promises"), it means nothing.
I also find it interesting that this agreement requires absolutely nothing before 2020. So Obama isn't on the hook to do anything, and his successor probably isn't on the hook to do anything (his successor will already have done his second election before we have to do a bloody thing, even assuming we have to do a bloody thing).
In other words, a great deal of light and noise, signifying nothing is what it looks like from my easy chair....
The codes weren't developed by Hitler, and they weren't developed during WW2. The Brits were reading German messages before WW2 started.
And gave us access to the stuff before we entered the war (legally - we were fighting illegally for a year or two before Pearl Harbor - yes, escorting convoys of military supplies to a belligerent was illegal, as well as sinking U-boats), as far as I know.