That planet has been circling there for billions of years. Nasa sends one probe to it and they break it. It's not as if we've planets to waste. Please handle them with care.
If you would think for a little longer than 10 minutes and with a education in history, you could see this isn't the first impossible thing we solved.
Building a boat to cross an ocean wasn't a trivial thing and many didn't return from those expeditions.
Get a history book and see how long it took to go from an small river boat to a sea worthy ship.
And keep in mind we've only spend half a century on space travel.
Be thankful, before Dalton turned chemistry into an exact science, it was a big collection of recipes.
Memorizing 80 recipes would be a lot harder than those 80 names and abbreviations.
Fear of freedom (Eleutherophobia) - Er, don't play video games
I would recommend settlers 2. Not too much freedom there. Moving to Soviet Russia might also be a good idea.
I have a phobia about needles. Some one with a needle freaks the hell out of me. But I found a cure for it. I simply carry a nice sharp katana around.
I'm still scared of needles, but no one dares pointing one at me anymore.
I don't bash Gods. Because I don't believe and therefore "God" is a meaningless word. I however do like to bash believers.
Now who's asking you to have faith? God? Or some practical joker who figured out he could get a nice amount of power by convincing people to believe his far fetched stories?
I got to admit, religion is one impressive example of social engineering.
I don't mind people wasting perfectly good sunday mornings in a church, but I really can't stand those people who try to make me feel bad because I don't believe the same fairy tales as they do.
and some way to ban sabotaging users. You know, those lusers who upload corrupted files (virii, trojans, corrupted MP3s,...). I really hate downloading the same file 4 times and ending up with 4 corrupted files and all because some infidel sabotages me while I try to steal some music. There just isn't any decency left in those people.
Why not? Sound moves through air at 340m/s, but you can move air inside a jetplane at much higher speeds.
The same thing could apply to the universe as well (in a much more weird and complicated way) assuming that the universe itself is the medium.
Hmm, suppose you download the bible (of anyother manual of mass suppresion) and they include those all famous penis enlargement ads in it. Damn, I should have gone to law school.
Why couldn't we put this lab in orbit? That way we wouldn't have to compensate for so much extraneous gravitational noise.
That wouldn't matter. The amount of gravity affecting a orbiting spacecraft isn't much lower than on earths surface. The whole concept of orbiting requires gravity (the craft falls around the planet).
Even far away from the planet the lab would still be inside the gravitational field of the sun.
So to compensate for gravity you would need to place the lab in interstellar space, however it's much more practical to leave the lab on earth and compensate for the planet's gravity in the equations.
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The only advantage I see in this, is the warmer weather as a result of global warming.
I want a fusion powered electric car. (pref. a flying one).
That planet has been circling there for billions of years. Nasa sends one probe to it and they break it. It's not as if we've planets to waste. Please handle them with care.
If you would think for a little longer than 10 minutes and with a education in history, you could see this isn't the first impossible thing we solved.
Building a boat to cross an ocean wasn't a trivial thing and many didn't return from those expeditions.
Get a history book and see how long it took to go from an small river boat to a sea worthy ship.
And keep in mind we've only spend half a century on space travel.
What has Reactant Injection Molding to do with this?
Be thankful, before Dalton turned chemistry into an exact science, it was a big collection of recipes.
Memorizing 80 recipes would be a lot harder than those 80 names and abbreviations.
I have a phobia about needles. Some one with a needle freaks the hell out of me. But I found a cure for it. I simply carry a nice sharp katana around.
I'm still scared of needles, but no one dares pointing one at me anymore.
Now who's asking you to have faith? God? Or some practical joker who figured out he could get a nice amount of power by convincing people to believe his far fetched stories?
I got to admit, religion is one impressive example of social engineering.
I don't mind people wasting perfectly good sunday mornings in a church, but I really can't stand those people who try to make me feel bad because I don't believe the same fairy tales as they do.
and some way to ban sabotaging users. You know, those lusers who upload corrupted files (virii, trojans, corrupted MP3s, ...). I really hate downloading the same file 4 times and ending up with 4 corrupted files and all because some infidel sabotages me while I try to steal some music. There just isn't any decency left in those people.
How to uninstall Kazaa spyware addons:
1) power down your PC and pull the plug from the outlet.
2) open case and disconnect HD IDE and power cable.
3) unscrew HD and remove HD.
4) Remove the 6 screws at the top of the HD and open HD.
5) unscrew the 4 screws holding the platters on the axis of the motor.
6) remove platters.
7) use a rough file to remove all traces of the spyware from the platters.
8) clean platters with a soft cloth.
9) Re-assemble the HD.
10) trow defective HD to a random Kazaa-employe
11) buy new HD.
note: sufficently annoyed users may wish to skip steps 2 to 9.
note: following these instructions may cause permenant damage to HD, computer and Kazaa-employees.
Why not? Sound moves through air at 340m/s, but you can move air inside a jetplane at much higher speeds.
The same thing could apply to the universe as well (in a much more weird and complicated way) assuming that the universe itself is the medium.
oh please! And if we don't put stricter control over Monopoly we get more Bill Gatesses
Nah, Duke Nukem Forever to beat Half-Life 2 to market.
Now that's scary.
I bet that money isn't spend on recycling as much as on paying our ministers VISA bills.
"The Surprising Benefits of Not Having a Girlfriend"
* No one complains about your lack of showers! (well, nobody important that is.)
* More money available for important things!
* No risks for pregancy!
* Plenty of room in bed!
* No need for showing your feelings!
When are the English going to learn? Use metres to measure and feet to walk.
Magnetisme is electromagnetic radiation. So its force particle would be the photon.
Hmm, suppose you download the bible (of anyother manual of mass suppresion) and they include those all famous penis enlargement ads in it. Damn, I should have gone to law school.
Even far away from the planet the lab would still be inside the gravitational field of the sun.
So to compensate for gravity you would need to place the lab in interstellar space, however it's much more practical to leave the lab on earth and compensate for the planet's gravity in the equations.
In Engrish every word can have every function you want it to have.
A 13 ton payload doesn't add much mass to a multi Mton rock. I guess they'll need to do a few course correction every nth time some cargo goes up.