They couldn't build half the stuff they do if they only used junk. They have to seed the junk...
Hey, glad to see you're on top of things there, Captain Wonder. Of course, this is like annoucing you have perceived the sky to be blue, or that you are almost certain water flows downhill.
The show admits it seeds the junkyard. I think they even showed the techs placing the rocket motors you mentioned. Please try to pay attention. Reality is much more enjoyable when you do.
I really don't understand the vitriol against the American version. I watch both shows and enjoy both shows. Yeah, Lewellyn's probably the best host, and we all miss Cathy, but, geez, I don't understand all the huff & puff over Tlyer and Karyn. It's just plain weird. I watch to see the stuff built and pitted against one another. The US version has had some great teams and good builds this season. Seriously, folks, you need to lighten up a bit.
BigDuud: Anyone here?
(20 minutes pass)
BarsoomGirl: Just me it seems.
(20 minutes pass)
BigDuud: Wassup! I'm at Tycho City, Moon. Where you at?
(20 minutes pass)
BarsoomGirl: Utopia Planita base, Mars.
(20 minutes pass)
BigDuud: Cool! Are you nekkid?
(20 minutes pass)
BarsoomGirl: Yes, but only under my spacesuit.
(20 minutes pass)
BigDuud: Bummer.
(20 minutes pass)
BarsoomGirl: Yeah. We had a failure in the Windows2150 installation, and it caused a pressure imbalance that blew out the mail seals. I was in the shower when it happened. I'm all wet and soapy in here.
(20 minutes pass)
BigDuud: How long before it's fixed?
(20 minutes pass)
BarsoomGirl: Who knows? They admins are downloading the patch from the Redmond Arcology, but it's suposedly 50 billion terabytes for the copyright notice alone.
(20 minutes pass)
BigDuud: Bummer.
(20 minutes pass)
BarsoomGirl: This suit has a seismic vibrator, though.;-)
(20 minutes pass)
BigDuud: Wicked! So, do you have big barsooms?
You've been watching too many movies. Or Braves games.
A few years ago I accidently made a cab stop just by loitering too close to the curb in downtown Chicago. Right by the side of the Sears Tower.
And then three more pulled up, and the drivers all got out and fought to the death over who'd get the fare. Boy, was *MY* face red when I had to inform the bloody, barely alive victor that I didn't need a cab.
No, I made that last bit up. I've been watching too many movies, too.
"We will beat them all to orbit," said T. P. Ruddygore of Big Tyme Space Endeavors & Travelling Faire Of Wondrous Misfits. "All that tinkering with rocketships this and fuel oxygen ratios that... Bah! That newfangled rot will get them a one way ticket to oblivion."
Ruddygore then announced his partner in the space business, Larry Fineburg, owner and operator of the Fineburg Rubber Company in Hope, Arkansas.
Both Ruddygore and Fineburg were evasive on the precise nature of the launch technology behind their astro-endeavor until a an exasperated reported asked, "What are you going to do? Build a giant rubber band?" At which point Ruddygore tromped off the stage, dragging Fineburg with him, and was quoted as saying, "That goddamned Sally Spinfeld gots a blabbermouth on her like the Devil hisself! I hired her as a secretary as a favor to ol' Skeetch, but I warned him she'd be a sek-ruity risk!"
BTSETFOWM public relations officer Jeb "Hound" Pulver then took the podium to answer questions about their goals in space.
"Let me put it this way," said Pulver, "Think chickens, barbed wire and country music. That should make it obvious." After he stared at the baffled reporters for several minutes, Pulver said, "Chickens. You know... *chick*-*ens*... Barbed *wye*-*err*? What part of this are you not understanding?"
While I am all for free enterprise, I am not yet convinced that the technology exists to make space travel inexpensive enough for any organization that does not have the capability to spend hundreds of millions without seeing a return.
This, of course, assumes you don't consider scientific knowledge, new technologies and the sheer inspirational wonder of exploration to be returns.;-)
Wishing someone interesting times is a curse. Noting that you're living in them is not.
I know, but he seemed to imply that it has become an interesting time because of his company's grotty new software pile, thus he implies that his software will curse the world.
"I will no longer be performing the monkey dance," said a sweaty, flatulent Steve Ballmer on Friday morning to a confused crowd at a Redmond Dunkin' Donuts. "I have decided to adopt the 'Iraqi Two-Step' as my favorite mode of expressing my inner funkitude." He then proceeded to bounce up and down, slap his chest and slice his head with a small sword.
"It his outer funk that worries me," said Randy Jarvis, a FedEx deliveryman who stopped a moment to watch the early morning spectacle. He held his nose against the olfactorius assault. "Geez, my eyes are watering. Does this count as a chemical weapon? Will I need to be decontaminated?"
Neither Geroge Clinton nor Tarik Aziz could not be reached for comment.
PS: I love how he said, "This is an interesting time." You think he knows that's a curse in many cultures?
Yes, really. Regardless of what Greenpeace would have you believe.
What I find amazing is that so many of the *founding* memebers of these enviromentalist groups have quit becuase the groups have become too left wing. I think even one of the founders of Earth First! left due to it becoming too extreme even for him.
I saw the same Penn & Teller show, but it was all stuff I already knew. I really wish they'd tone it down and bring that show to the mainstream networks, because it's stuff people need to hear, and the abusive approach drives people away.
I actually became friends with some of these Earth Day types in college, and went to some of the marches and protests as a goof (I was also a semi-regular columnist for the school paper, so I was looking for stuff to write about). They really are the way the show depicted. These people are some of the stupidest, most worthless mothereffers you will ever meet. And, yeah, they tend to be pampered upper/middle class kids with too much time on their hands and too much empty space in their skulls.
I kept wishing a small asteroid would hit the area (after *I* reached minimum safe distance, of course). I think that was the beginning of my journey toward complete misanthropy. It's all just ideology. I am convinced that ideology will some day be recognized as a treatable mental disorder, but until then it afflicts about 95% of the worlds population.
And they think SARS is a threat. How many billions has ideology killed?
As for the athletes, I think we need to wait and see if we can ever treally tweak things to the point depicted in the movie Gattaca. Great film, BTW. On of the few movies that can really claim to be true science fiction.
They're looking for more market penetration, don't ya know.
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You don't need an accident. The Hubble is periodically pointed at the Earth as part of calibration procedures for the planetary camera, and for half of it's orbit because it points in a constant direction as it revolves.
I'm not a big optics expert, so I'm not sure if there are different optimizations for the optical systems of the Hubble's instruments versus those of a spy satellite. They are both Cassegrian optical systems. I beleive the diffraction limit is the limiting parameter.
One thing I'm mildly sure of is that the mirrors in the more recent spysats are *larger* and higher quality that that of the Hubble, so using the Hubble might actually be coinsidered "slumming" over at the NRO.;-)
I stopped caring about about the US's image long ago. We could be the biggest, bestest favorite uncle to everyone in the world, and we'd still be hated. The global community does not work like a junior high school class- playing the popularity contest game will only get you frustrated misery. There's billions of people out there who only understand one thing: "mess with me or mine, and pay the consequences." Pacifists get eaten for lunch. The human animal is basically rabid even in areas where the thin veneer of civilized society is more than one coat thick.
I don't like it, but I'm an engineer and a scientist. I have to accept reality as it is, and act accordingly. It blows white hot chunks of suckiness that the world is like this, but ignoring it won't change it. Clinging to "can't we all get along" will fail. Those "million Bin Ladens" would have come about anyway despite the hand-wringing of the various peanut galleries of thew world.
I hate to break it to everyone, but these are the early shots of a a WWIII that has been brewing for a very long time- since before either President Bushes were even born. The first real shots were fired (IMHO) in Munich in 1972. This is a knock-down, drag-out fight for the future of civilization itself. By the end of this century, theology, ideology, economics and everything else we know today will unrecognizable to contemporary eyes.
Yeah, it stinks, but people who like science and would rather tinker with a computer or their car are hugely outnumbered by those who would rather poke their nose into other people's business, or those that can't get through a day without controlling someone else's life- be they a Western politician or an Eastern imam.
I'd rather be researching nuclear fusion and building industrial complexes out at L5 and peering through 50 meter lunar farside telescopes. Problem is the world has other ideas.
the U.S. sent everything they had available to 'liberate' Iraq
Now, you see, there you go again.;-) Do you remember the complaints after week one of the war that we hadn't sent ENOUGH to Iraq? Turned out we had plenty, but we didn't come near to sending everything we had. We were fighting a government, not a nation, which might be a historical first.
I thought about using Captain Video, but that's REALLY going way back.
Face it, they're rocketting around in technology that's 25+ years old. It's time to redesign from the ground up.
So glad you're on top of things, there, Tom Corbett! What would we do without your deep insight?
The U.S. just paid 75 billion on a war in Iraq, most of which was wasted money.
Well, no, 20 billion is the current price tag. Try reading beyond the headlines. You will learn many interesting things and begin to avoid superficial analyses.
I mean the fuel bill alone to send an aircraft carrier to the Gulf would set me for life.
Maybe, but that's assuming your life is worth setting.:-P
Maybe they don't spend more money on Nasa is because in space there's nobody to kill.
Too bad, because no one could hear them screm. Wow, what a great, um, amazing, er... yeah. Whatever.
Good Lord, I'm in a crappy mood for a Friday! Don't take any of this personally Angry White Guy.
For myself and other Mac user I know, it's really very very simple:
The Mac is more fun to use. Far from perfect, but smooth and fun in its operation. The new Unix underpinning have only made it more so. Maybe it's more a case of what the Mac ISN'T than what it is.
As an engineer, I use PCs and Unix all day at work, and they are NOT fun and NOT smooth to use by any stretch of the imagination. There are things on these systems that are frustrating even after years of use.
It's a mystery to me how all these educated adults sit around and put up with the BS that Windows and Unix delivers on a daily basis. I've zero comprehension of people who claim to *like* Windows, as opposed to just preferring it for more pragmatic reasons, such as software availability or simply it's ubiquitousness- that I can understand fine. True cases of the former are actually kind of rare, so I guess there's a sliver of hope for our species.;-)
But you've got to be in some sort of moment by moment denial if you actually *like* Windows. I have coworkers who claim they never have problems, yet if watch them use a PC, I see them running into the same frustrations that I experience. They just pretend it doesn't happen. It's spooky, actually. I try to be honest, at least. Apple was actually close to losing me near the end of OS 9's life because I was really tired of cooperative multitasking and some other limitations of the old paradigm.
And on the Unix side, it's a nightmare. Sorry, Unix fans, but the software I use on our Suns has some of the worst user interfaces ever created. I get flaky scroll bars galore. I get text selection highlighting that DOES NOT PREDICT WHICH TEXT WILL BE REPLACED WHEN I TYPE (Mentor Graphics is a BIG one for this unforgivable GUI crime). I get printing that appears to be a bolt-on afterthought. I get menu bar titles that have little or no discernable connection to the contents of the menus that appear. I get attempts to mimic a Windows look and feel that are about 1/20th the speed of just implementing basic X-Windows stuff, making them useless when connecting to work via a cable modem through a VPN link. It's a complete mess.
The saving grace to the Unix side is that I can write Perl and shell scripts to do an end run around the rotten GUIs. I do all my FPGA development using command line scripts.
My private computer projects tend to be more artistic and more creative, so I want a computrer where the GUI is clean and fun to use. I want the computer to become just a tool to pursue a hobby rather than be the hobby itself. The loyalty from Mac users doesn't come out of a vacuum, and it's not from stpuidity as some net.assholes like to believe. It's a quality product that's fun to use.
Of course, someone has to pay for it. Preferably stockholders...
Exactly, hence my plan to develop the orbital industries first.:-)
I just fear another Apollo build up and blow out. If we had started incrementally and carefully in the 1950's, and not gotten paranoid about the Russian's little beeping ball in the sky, we'd *have* the moonbase by now, and a significant presence in space.
Try to dig up the plans and ideas that Von Braun and his peers were tossing about at the time. Ambitious stuff- rotating wheel stations, for one- more ambitious that NASA's current plans.
Ok, you can stay home, then. The rest of us have places to go.
Oh, so you'll be paying for it yourself then?;-)
I'm a big space advocate, but I'd like to see some serious development of our own backyard first. Get some self-sustaining orbital indistries going, and a large, modularly expanding moonbase (with a giant, farside optical telescope as the first main science tool).
There's just something wrong with Opera's CSS handling on the Mac. I used to think it was IE5 that was wrong, but Netscape, Mozilla, Chimera (Camino) and now Safari all render things near identically with Opera the odd man out.
There's a major font size issue and something mildly wonky with margins.
They claim it is faster, but I just don't see how that is possible. The bottleneck in most all browsing I do is the network.
I think it's a case of just an efficient rendering algorithm versus the retarded code inside Internet Explorer for the Mac (or the PC for that matter). It renders much faster, so with a fast site it feels faster overall.
Yeah, with a slow site Safari is slow, but that's not what people are talking about. We know the bottleneck is ultimately the network- that's not a newsflash. Safari makes the user end as quick as possible.
I just wish some browser maker would do better caching. I'm so tired on clicking "Back" and the browsers sits and spins for a long time. It's in the freaking cache, you dimwit pile of crap! It's only one page back! I've seen this stupid behavior in every browser on Macs, PCs and Suns regardless of user settings.
The antics of Bush's daughters have been debated endlessly on Fox News on shows like O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, Beltway Boys, etc. In general, most people took a dim view of their behavior. As for the non-opinion shows, I remember Shepard Smith reporting on it multiple times.
I mean, seriously, you know the complete Fox News coverage of that story? The fact that you didn't see it when you happend to watch is utterly meaningless. C'mon, youread SlashDot. I assume you're of a geeky mindset. You should know the statisical value (or lack thereof) of a smaple size of one, or anecdotal evidence in general.
As for the famous getting away with crimes, well, what's the big news there? Left, right and center all get away with that crap.
As for jail for the Bush daughters, I'm opposed to jail terms for drug users, and opposed to the Drug War in general.
When the sex robots arrive, then the home robot industry will grow (pun not intended). Especially if they use polymorphic-metasilicone to reform into whatever shape one might desire. Turn the knob from "Wynona" to "Brittney". I guess you could do "Oprah" with refill packs.
Does sex with geeks come under "tasks too dangerous for humans"?
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Hey, glad to see you're on top of things there, Captain Wonder. Of course, this is like annoucing you have perceived the sky to be blue, or that you are almost certain water flows downhill.
The show admits it seeds the junkyard. I think they even showed the techs placing the rocket motors you mentioned. Please try to pay attention. Reality is much more enjoyable when you do.
I really don't understand the vitriol against the American version. I watch both shows and enjoy both shows. Yeah, Lewellyn's probably the best host, and we all miss Cathy, but, geez, I don't understand all the huff & puff over Tlyer and Karyn. It's just plain weird. I watch to see the stuff built and pitted against one another. The US version has had some great teams and good builds this season. Seriously, folks, you need to lighten up a bit.
Pffft! Shame on *you* for not already having it!
BigDuud: Anyone here? ;-)
(20 minutes pass)
BarsoomGirl: Just me it seems.
(20 minutes pass)
BigDuud: Wassup! I'm at Tycho City, Moon. Where you at?
(20 minutes pass)
BarsoomGirl: Utopia Planita base, Mars.
(20 minutes pass)
BigDuud: Cool! Are you nekkid?
(20 minutes pass)
BarsoomGirl: Yes, but only under my spacesuit.
(20 minutes pass)
BigDuud: Bummer.
(20 minutes pass)
BarsoomGirl: Yeah. We had a failure in the Windows2150 installation, and it caused a pressure imbalance that blew out the mail seals. I was in the shower when it happened. I'm all wet and soapy in here.
(20 minutes pass)
BigDuud: How long before it's fixed?
(20 minutes pass)
BarsoomGirl: Who knows? They admins are downloading the patch from the Redmond Arcology, but it's suposedly 50 billion terabytes for the copyright notice alone.
(20 minutes pass)
BigDuud: Bummer.
(20 minutes pass)
BarsoomGirl: This suit has a seismic vibrator, though.
(20 minutes pass)
BigDuud: Wicked! So, do you have big barsooms?
[Connection terminated. Link eclipsed by Phobos.]
A few years ago I accidently made a cab stop just by loitering too close to the curb in downtown Chicago. Right by the side of the Sears Tower.
And then three more pulled up, and the drivers all got out and fought to the death over who'd get the fare. Boy, was *MY* face red when I had to inform the bloody, barely alive victor that I didn't need a cab.
No, I made that last bit up. I've been watching too many movies, too.
That's still less than buying all the CDs over at Tower Records. ;-)
Ruddygore then announced his partner in the space business, Larry Fineburg, owner and operator of the Fineburg Rubber Company in Hope, Arkansas.
Both Ruddygore and Fineburg were evasive on the precise nature of the launch technology behind their astro-endeavor until a an exasperated reported asked, "What are you going to do? Build a giant rubber band?" At which point Ruddygore tromped off the stage, dragging Fineburg with him, and was quoted as saying, "That goddamned Sally Spinfeld gots a blabbermouth on her like the Devil hisself! I hired her as a secretary as a favor to ol' Skeetch, but I warned him she'd be a sek-ruity risk!"
BTSETFOWM public relations officer Jeb "Hound" Pulver then took the podium to answer questions about their goals in space.
"Let me put it this way," said Pulver, "Think chickens, barbed wire and country music. That should make it obvious." After he stared at the baffled reporters for several minutes, Pulver said, "Chickens. You know... *chick*-*ens*... Barbed *wye*-*err*? What part of this are you not understanding?"
This, of course, assumes you don't consider scientific knowledge, new technologies and the sheer inspirational wonder of exploration to be returns. ;-)
I know, but he seemed to imply that it has become an interesting time because of his company's grotty new software pile, thus he implies that his software will curse the world.
Or something...
"I will no longer be performing the monkey dance," said a sweaty, flatulent Steve Ballmer on Friday morning to a confused crowd at a Redmond Dunkin' Donuts. "I have decided to adopt the 'Iraqi Two-Step' as my favorite mode of expressing my inner funkitude." He then proceeded to bounce up and down, slap his chest and slice his head with a small sword.
"It his outer funk that worries me," said Randy Jarvis, a FedEx deliveryman who stopped a moment to watch the early morning spectacle. He held his nose against the olfactorius assault. "Geez, my eyes are watering. Does this count as a chemical weapon? Will I need to be decontaminated?"
Neither Geroge Clinton nor Tarik Aziz could not be reached for comment.
PS: I love how he said, "This is an interesting time." You think he knows that's a curse in many cultures?
What I find amazing is that so many of the *founding* memebers of these enviromentalist groups have quit becuase the groups have become too left wing. I think even one of the founders of Earth First! left due to it becoming too extreme even for him.
I saw the same Penn & Teller show, but it was all stuff I already knew. I really wish they'd tone it down and bring that show to the mainstream networks, because it's stuff people need to hear, and the abusive approach drives people away.
I actually became friends with some of these Earth Day types in college, and went to some of the marches and protests as a goof (I was also a semi-regular columnist for the school paper, so I was looking for stuff to write about). They really are the way the show depicted. These people are some of the stupidest, most worthless mothereffers you will ever meet. And, yeah, they tend to be pampered upper/middle class kids with too much time on their hands and too much empty space in their skulls.
I kept wishing a small asteroid would hit the area (after *I* reached minimum safe distance, of course). I think that was the beginning of my journey toward complete misanthropy. It's all just ideology. I am convinced that ideology will some day be recognized as a treatable mental disorder, but until then it afflicts about 95% of the worlds population.
And they think SARS is a threat. How many billions has ideology killed?
As for the athletes, I think we need to wait and see if we can ever treally tweak things to the point depicted in the movie Gattaca. Great film, BTW. On of the few movies that can really claim to be true science fiction.
Think anyone at Yahoo! has had to deal with a lion stalking around their server farm? Ha!
Hey, you know those clicking noises in the Bushman language? Are there HTML codes for those?
They're looking for more market penetration, don't ya know.
I'm not a big optics expert, so I'm not sure if there are different optimizations for the optical systems of the Hubble's instruments versus those of a spy satellite. They are both Cassegrian optical systems. I beleive the diffraction limit is the limiting parameter.
One thing I'm mildly sure of is that the mirrors in the more recent spysats are *larger* and higher quality that that of the Hubble, so using the Hubble might actually be coinsidered "slumming" over at the NRO. ;-)
I don't like it, but I'm an engineer and a scientist. I have to accept reality as it is, and act accordingly. It blows white hot chunks of suckiness that the world is like this, but ignoring it won't change it. Clinging to "can't we all get along" will fail. Those "million Bin Ladens" would have come about anyway despite the hand-wringing of the various peanut galleries of thew world.
I hate to break it to everyone, but these are the early shots of a a WWIII that has been brewing for a very long time- since before either President Bushes were even born. The first real shots were fired (IMHO) in Munich in 1972. This is a knock-down, drag-out fight for the future of civilization itself. By the end of this century, theology, ideology, economics and everything else we know today will unrecognizable to contemporary eyes.
Yeah, it stinks, but people who like science and would rather tinker with a computer or their car are hugely outnumbered by those who would rather poke their nose into other people's business, or those that can't get through a day without controlling someone else's life- be they a Western politician or an Eastern imam.
I'd rather be researching nuclear fusion and building industrial complexes out at L5 and peering through 50 meter lunar farside telescopes. Problem is the world has other ideas.
Now, you see, there you go again. ;-) Do you remember the complaints after week one of the war that we hadn't sent ENOUGH to Iraq? Turned out we had plenty, but we didn't come near to sending everything we had. We were fighting a government, not a nation, which might be a historical first.
I thought about using Captain Video, but that's REALLY going way back.
So glad you're on top of things, there, Tom Corbett! What would we do without your deep insight?
The U.S. just paid 75 billion on a war in Iraq, most of which was wasted money.
Well, no, 20 billion is the current price tag. Try reading beyond the headlines. You will learn many interesting things and begin to avoid superficial analyses.
I mean the fuel bill alone to send an aircraft carrier to the Gulf would set me for life.
Maybe, but that's assuming your life is worth setting. :-P
Maybe they don't spend more money on Nasa is because in space there's nobody to kill.
Too bad, because no one could hear them screm. Wow, what a great, um, amazing, er... yeah. Whatever.
Good Lord, I'm in a crappy mood for a Friday! Don't take any of this personally Angry White Guy.
The Mac is more fun to use. Far from perfect, but smooth and fun in its operation. The new Unix underpinning have only made it more so. Maybe it's more a case of what the Mac ISN'T than what it is.
As an engineer, I use PCs and Unix all day at work, and they are NOT fun and NOT smooth to use by any stretch of the imagination. There are things on these systems that are frustrating even after years of use.
It's a mystery to me how all these educated adults sit around and put up with the BS that Windows and Unix delivers on a daily basis. I've zero comprehension of people who claim to *like* Windows, as opposed to just preferring it for more pragmatic reasons, such as software availability or simply it's ubiquitousness- that I can understand fine. True cases of the former are actually kind of rare, so I guess there's a sliver of hope for our species. ;-)
But you've got to be in some sort of moment by moment denial if you actually *like* Windows. I have coworkers who claim they never have problems, yet if watch them use a PC, I see them running into the same frustrations that I experience. They just pretend it doesn't happen. It's spooky, actually. I try to be honest, at least. Apple was actually close to losing me near the end of OS 9's life because I was really tired of cooperative multitasking and some other limitations of the old paradigm.
And on the Unix side, it's a nightmare. Sorry, Unix fans, but the software I use on our Suns has some of the worst user interfaces ever created. I get flaky scroll bars galore. I get text selection highlighting that DOES NOT PREDICT WHICH TEXT WILL BE REPLACED WHEN I TYPE (Mentor Graphics is a BIG one for this unforgivable GUI crime). I get printing that appears to be a bolt-on afterthought. I get menu bar titles that have little or no discernable connection to the contents of the menus that appear. I get attempts to mimic a Windows look and feel that are about 1/20th the speed of just implementing basic X-Windows stuff, making them useless when connecting to work via a cable modem through a VPN link. It's a complete mess.
The saving grace to the Unix side is that I can write Perl and shell scripts to do an end run around the rotten GUIs. I do all my FPGA development using command line scripts.
My private computer projects tend to be more artistic and more creative, so I want a computrer where the GUI is clean and fun to use. I want the computer to become just a tool to pursue a hobby rather than be the hobby itself. The loyalty from Mac users doesn't come out of a vacuum, and it's not from stpuidity as some net.assholes like to believe. It's a quality product that's fun to use.
Exactly, hence my plan to develop the orbital industries first. :-)
I just fear another Apollo build up and blow out. If we had started incrementally and carefully in the 1950's, and not gotten paranoid about the Russian's little beeping ball in the sky, we'd *have* the moonbase by now, and a significant presence in space.
Try to dig up the plans and ideas that Von Braun and his peers were tossing about at the time. Ambitious stuff- rotating wheel stations, for one- more ambitious that NASA's current plans.
Oh, so you'll be paying for it yourself then? ;-)
I'm a big space advocate, but I'd like to see some serious development of our own backyard first. Get some self-sustaining orbital indistries going, and a large, modularly expanding moonbase (with a giant, farside optical telescope as the first main science tool).
There's a major font size issue and something mildly wonky with margins.
I think it's a case of just an efficient rendering algorithm versus the retarded code inside Internet Explorer for the Mac (or the PC for that matter). It renders much faster, so with a fast site it feels faster overall.
Yeah, with a slow site Safari is slow, but that's not what people are talking about. We know the bottleneck is ultimately the network- that's not a newsflash. Safari makes the user end as quick as possible.
I just wish some browser maker would do better caching. I'm so tired on clicking "Back" and the browsers sits and spins for a long time. It's in the freaking cache, you dimwit pile of crap! It's only one page back! I've seen this stupid behavior in every browser on Macs, PCs and Suns regardless of user settings.
And the answer is - the powerful protect one another, even across ideological boundaries. This has been true for 5000 years. Where have you been? ;-)
I mean, seriously, you know the complete Fox News coverage of that story? The fact that you didn't see it when you happend to watch is utterly meaningless. C'mon, youread SlashDot. I assume you're of a geeky mindset. You should know the statisical value (or lack thereof) of a smaple size of one, or anecdotal evidence in general.
As for the famous getting away with crimes, well, what's the big news there? Left, right and center all get away with that crap.
As for jail for the Bush daughters, I'm opposed to jail terms for drug users, and opposed to the Drug War in general.
Does sex with geeks come under "tasks too dangerous for humans"?