The relevant question is "How fast would a Martian atmosphere dissipate?" If we could charge it up once and have it last a million years, that would be good enough to make practical use of the Martian surface.
In about 5 billion years, the sun will be a red giant with a diameter about the size of Earth's orbit. Earth will not be a good place to live then; Mars seems like a much better bet.
Earth's moon, Mars, and Titan are the likeliest targets for extraterrestrial colonization. Why choose just one?
In a thousand or ten thousand years technology is going to be a great deal more advanced than it is now. Setting up a civilization in one of those places isn't going to seem as terribly difficult as it does now.
Claiming that for deer a certain area is theirs is just silly. Deer, like most animals, will breed to limit of the food supply and predation, and expand the area they inhabit to get more food or just by purposeless roaming. Deer will repopulate an area that has been open farmland for a century if it's reforested.
It'd called selective breeding. A group in Russia has domesticated foxes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Domesticated_Red_Fox using selective breeding. I'd guess that domestication of wolves by selective breeding would be even quicker because wolves are more social than foxes.
There are several breeds of dog that look not much different from wolves, such as German Shepherd and Husky. People aren't greatly scared by German Shepherds in most cases. Wolves already cross-breed with domestic dogs and many people own the hybrids as pets; some people own wolves as pets.
Fear of wolves is taught or the result of an attack; it's not inherent in human nature.
Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp books are thrillers that are hard to put down. I used to feel bad about reading Pendleton's Executioner series because of all the violence, but they don't hold a candle to Flynn's gore.
Keith Laumer: Bolo (emotional stories about tanks) and some Retief stories. The Great Time Machine Hoax, The Undefeated, and Galactic Odyssey. Fast reads, much in the line of Laumer's emphasis on self-improvement and moral action.
I started Plutarch's Lives over 20 years ago and I'd like to finish it soon. The vision of honor and morality therein stands so far separated from the modern equivalents that it's almost unrecognizable.
Joan Hess: Pride v. Predudice. Hess has been writing funny mysteries for 30 years. If you like Evanovich, Hess is a little less wacky.
Jim Butcher: Fool Moon part of the extensive Dresden Files series, violent mysteries in a universe where magic is real. It gets old rapidly.
I've read that R.A.H. thought the uncut version was better. I prefer the first published version; it's tighter; Heinlein was made to create a more refined tale. Also, the first published version includes Heinlein's definition of love, which is insightful and good for practical application in one's own life.
14 states tax inventory. https://taxfoundation.org/does-your-state-tax-business-inventory/.
Apparently, the US government does not tax inventory (I had believed otherwise), but there may be some subtle tax advantages to minimizing inventory. I don't think you can avoid paying taxes on profits by just using all your profits to buy stuff.
Just as businesses don't pay taxes because taxes are expenses that have to be passed along to the purchaser, the government pays for nothing because government's payments are ultimately made by taxpayers.
Nothing like the experience of having a Rocky Horror fan dumping water on my head. I would cheerfully have punched the jerk if I could have identified him.
You'll never get good sound without superconductor speaker cables and a continuous supply of liquid nitrogen to keep then working. Don't forget the extra virgin olive oil to keep the electrons lubricated.
The bigger memory is, the slower it is. You can't just arbitrarily double the size of L1 or L2 without making it slower. CPU designers go to a lot of trouble to optimize the size, speed, and number of levels of cache for typical workloads.
The WalMarts I've been in have TVs on the back wall, in a big open area where all TVs are visible at once.
The practice of not discounting high-end products is a common. In some cases, like cameras, retailers can't discount high end products because they only have a small profit margin. For instance, the difference between wholesale and retail on high end Canon cameras is only 10%, and that's not much for a retailer to work with.
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The relevant question is "How fast would a Martian atmosphere dissipate?" If we could charge it up once and have it last a million years, that would be good enough to make practical use of the Martian surface.
OK, how about a solar powered superconducting loop magnet around Mars' equator?
In about 5 billion years, the sun will be a red giant with a diameter about the size of Earth's orbit. Earth will not be a good place to live then; Mars seems like a much better bet.
Earth's moon, Mars, and Titan are the likeliest targets for extraterrestrial colonization. Why choose just one?
In a thousand or ten thousand years technology is going to be a great deal more advanced than it is now. Setting up a civilization in one of those places isn't going to seem as terribly difficult as it does now.
Wise young people who want to be able to earn and keep money vote conservative.
Claiming that for deer a certain area is theirs is just silly. Deer, like most animals, will breed to limit of the food supply and predation, and expand the area they inhabit to get more food or just by purposeless roaming. Deer will repopulate an area that has been open farmland for a century if it's reforested.
"Meant" by whom?
You first.
"Better" by what standard?
Your attitude is an excellent illustration of why environmentalists are bad for people.
It'd called selective breeding. A group in Russia has domesticated foxes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Domesticated_Red_Fox using selective breeding. I'd guess that domestication of wolves by selective breeding would be even quicker because wolves are more social than foxes.
There are several breeds of dog that look not much different from wolves, such as German Shepherd and Husky. People aren't greatly scared by German Shepherds in most cases. Wolves already cross-breed with domestic dogs and many people own the hybrids as pets; some people own wolves as pets.
Fear of wolves is taught or the result of an attack; it's not inherent in human nature.
Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp books are thrillers that are hard to put down. I used to feel bad about reading Pendleton's Executioner series because of all the violence, but they don't hold a candle to Flynn's gore.
Keith Laumer: Bolo (emotional stories about tanks) and some Retief stories. The Great Time Machine Hoax, The Undefeated, and Galactic Odyssey. Fast reads, much in the line of Laumer's emphasis on self-improvement and moral action.
I started Plutarch's Lives over 20 years ago and I'd like to finish it soon. The vision of honor and morality therein stands so far separated from the modern equivalents that it's almost unrecognizable.
Joan Hess: Pride v. Predudice. Hess has been writing funny mysteries for 30 years. If you like Evanovich, Hess is a little less wacky.
Jim Butcher: Fool Moon part of the extensive Dresden Files series, violent mysteries in a universe where magic is real. It gets old rapidly.
It's been a long time. I've read Siddhartha (boring) and Demian. There's some racism hidden in one of those.
I've read that R.A.H. thought the uncut version was better. I prefer the first published version; it's tighter; Heinlein was made to create a more refined tale. Also, the first published version includes Heinlein's definition of love, which is insightful and good for practical application in one's own life.
I thought Illuminatus was intentionally comic - in an unfunny way.
No, some problems are still caused by PulseAudio.
14 states tax inventory. https://taxfoundation.org/does-your-state-tax-business-inventory/.
Apparently, the US government does not tax inventory (I had believed otherwise), but there may be some subtle tax advantages to minimizing inventory. I don't think you can avoid paying taxes on profits by just using all your profits to buy stuff.
Just as businesses don't pay taxes because taxes are expenses that have to be passed along to the purchaser, the government pays for nothing because government's payments are ultimately made by taxpayers.
Nothing like the experience of having a Rocky Horror fan dumping water on my head. I would cheerfully have punched the jerk if I could have identified him.
You'll never get good sound without superconductor speaker cables and a continuous supply of liquid nitrogen to keep then working. Don't forget the extra virgin olive oil to keep the electrons lubricated.
Has anybody asked Logan about this?
Tesla is growing rapidly and has a price/sales of 6.98. That may be risky, but it's not out of line for a fast growing company.
It's spring. The snowflakes are melting.
How much could these 9 people produce if they had real jobs?
Well, how much could the 8 produce? Patrick Rose is obviously a waste of protoplasm.
This simulation is based on the global warming model. It has consensus, so it must be true.
Isn't cache-on-RAM part of what made RAMBUS such a disaster?
The bigger memory is, the slower it is. You can't just arbitrarily double the size of L1 or L2 without making it slower. CPU designers go to a lot of trouble to optimize the size, speed, and number of levels of cache for typical workloads.
The WalMarts I've been in have TVs on the back wall, in a big open area where all TVs are visible at once.
The practice of not discounting high-end products is a common. In some cases, like cameras, retailers can't discount high end products because they only have a small profit margin. For instance, the difference between wholesale and retail on high end Canon cameras is only 10%, and that's not much for a retailer to work with.