Uh, pretty much anything that's going to incapacitate someone driving a vehicle is "less-lethal".
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If you're ever driven in rural Mexico, you find out a very effictive way to get someone to slow down. 5 inch diameter steel pipe across the road tacked down with tar. You *will* slow down.
Only after the Israelis take their revenge on Germany and China takes theirs on Japan. In WWII the Germans and Japanese were fscking *evil* and, personally, I have no problem with 10 of them dying for every American. They started it, they can reap the whirlwind.
And if you think the Soviet army sacrificed their own troops to spare enemy civilians, you're an idiot. Stalin didn't care about his *troops*, let alone enemy civilians. Feel free to research how many German and Japanese soldiers died in Russian POW camps. Over a million Germans died in Soviet POW camps. In the few days at the end of the war the Soviets captured half a million Japanese (guess when all you do for a decade is bayonet pregnant Chinese women you lose your fighting skills), and most of them died in captivity.
Strip away societal knowledge, etc. and you get a human the way they were ten thousand years ago. Worshipping trees and pissing themselves whenever there's an eclipse. You aren't going to have any Wittgensteins (sic?). You're going to have naked apes that are good at the pointy stick thing. Not creatures of pure logic.
Our ability for rational thought is like our spine adapting to walking upright. It's a good start, but there's still a lot of work to do. Unfortunately, thinking "logically" isn't evolutionarily sound. After all, what man in his right mind would get married and have children?:)
After Jesus told the crowd that "those of you without sin, cast the first stone", a rock wizzed by his head and knocked down the adultress. Jesus turned around and said...
Find a bird with compound (insect) eyes. Or that lays eggs that, when they hatch, have lizards in them.
Find human fossils in a rock layer 100 million years old.
Find an animal incredibly unlike anything currently existing that has no trace in the fossil record (that's why the duck-billed platypus caused a buzz when it was first discovered).
A few years ago Scientific American had an interesting article about people who had the left and right halves of their brains seperated (last ditch treatment for profound epilepsy). The way they responded to some experiments afterwards displayed quite powerfully how we humans go to extraordinary lengths to explain reality, well beyond the use of reason. Humans are *not* logical, and people who can reign in irrational thoughts well enough to calmly engage in scientific reason are, by a long shot, the exception rather than the norm. I mean, seriously, do you think being able to think logically is something that will increase your chances of propogating? This is slashdot, for crying out loud.
So, if the creator/owner didn't want it in a library, libraries aren't allowed to have the book? Or if they don't want you to sell it to a used bookstore, you can't? Or quote from it in a term paper?
As opposed to many, if not most, of the internet users of the world who live in totalitarian governments that think nothing of rolling over college students with tanks?
If you thing the UN is less susceptible to big money influence than the US government, you're wrong.
Don't worry, it's still easy to find pr0n on the net, even without xxx domains:).
It has a significant effect on crystal formation when the lab burns up in the atmosphere:).
IANARS either. Wikipedia has some stuff about how microgravity isn't the same as zero-gee. There's also other factors, like tidal forces (obviously *something's* keeping that tether pulled straight). Don't know how it would affect experiments, but I doubt it would make that big of a difference.
All I know, is when I travel to a foreign land, I always learn the phrase "Don't shoot me, I'm Canadian" in the local language. And I'm pretty sure the converse isn't true for Canadians.
Seriously, any Canadian that says they're American because they live in the Americas is just a retard.
Even better story is the Soviet paratroopers with no parachutes. Liquor them up, fly low and slow over three feet of snow, and out they go. Half of them could still fight. I imagine that's about the time the German troops all crapped their pants.
You're forgetting about higher radiation exposure (isn't geosync above the Van Allen belts?). And the amount of extra fuel needed is pretty significant.
A better option would be to use a tether to give it thrust by pumping current through it. If they give it the right thrust, it can cancel the deceleration caused by the atmosphere. This would have the added advantage of getting them closer to true zero gee. One of the reasons they call it microgravity instead of zero gee when you're in LEO is because of the force imposed by that deceleration.
Or less common. Depends on the distribution of elements in the local region of space, I would imagine. Venus has a crust quite a bit thicker than Earth, and doesn't really have plate tectonics. Pressure just builds up until the planet melts down every hundred million years or so.
The collision 4 billion years ago of a Mars sized body with the proto-Earth resulted in the formation of the Moon, with Earth getting more than its fair share of the metal cores and the Moon getting more than its share of the rocky crust. If that hadn't happened, Earth would likely melt down like Venus every now and then and it would have been impossible for life to evolve here.
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Uh, pretty much anything that's going to incapacitate someone driving a vehicle is "less-lethal".
If you're ever driven in rural Mexico, you find out a very effictive way to get someone to slow down. 5 inch diameter steel pipe across the road tacked down with tar. You *will* slow down.
Only after the Israelis take their revenge on Germany and China takes theirs on Japan. In WWII the Germans and Japanese were fscking *evil* and, personally, I have no problem with 10 of them dying for every American. They started it, they can reap the whirlwind.
And if you think the Soviet army sacrificed their own troops to spare enemy civilians, you're an idiot. Stalin didn't care about his *troops*, let alone enemy civilians. Feel free to research how many German and Japanese soldiers died in Russian POW camps. Over a million Germans died in Soviet POW camps. In the few days at the end of the war the Soviets captured half a million Japanese (guess when all you do for a decade is bayonet pregnant Chinese women you lose your fighting skills), and most of them died in captivity.
Strip away societal knowledge, etc. and you get a human the way they were ten thousand years ago. Worshipping trees and pissing themselves whenever there's an eclipse. You aren't going to have any Wittgensteins (sic?). You're going to have naked apes that are good at the pointy stick thing. Not creatures of pure logic.
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Our ability for rational thought is like our spine adapting to walking upright. It's a good start, but there's still a lot of work to do. Unfortunately, thinking "logically" isn't evolutionarily sound. After all, what man in his right mind would get married and have children?
Sinking their boat when they'r 100 miles offshore . . . priceless.
Sounds like someone needs to turn a merchant ship into a modern day Q-ship and take out some trash.
All you really have to do is force everyone at the company to use an include file with this:
#define gets() DONT_USE_GETS_YOU_MORON()
After Jesus told the crowd that "those of you without sin, cast the first stone", a rock wizzed by his head and knocked down the adultress. Jesus turned around and said...
"Mom, please stay out of this".
Find a bird with compound (insect) eyes. Or that lays eggs that, when they hatch, have lizards in them.
Find human fossils in a rock layer 100 million years old.
Find an animal incredibly unlike anything currently existing that has no trace in the fossil record (that's why the duck-billed platypus caused a buzz when it was first discovered).
A few years ago Scientific American had an interesting article about people who had the left and right halves of their brains seperated (last ditch treatment for profound epilepsy). The way they responded to some experiments afterwards displayed quite powerfully how we humans go to extraordinary lengths to explain reality, well beyond the use of reason. Humans are *not* logical, and people who can reign in irrational thoughts well enough to calmly engage in scientific reason are, by a long shot, the exception rather than the norm. I mean, seriously, do you think being able to think logically is something that will increase your chances of propogating? This is slashdot, for crying out loud.
What do you get when you cross an elephant and a rhino?
'ell if I know.
So, if the creator/owner didn't want it in a library, libraries aren't allowed to have the book? Or if they don't want you to sell it to a used bookstore, you can't? Or quote from it in a term paper?
"I'm going to show you a world without sin..." - Malcolm Reynolds
I've always thought the best way to teach someone young how to code would be by writing a text adventure game.
Wow. The same reason Bush got re-elected.
As opposed to many, if not most, of the internet users of the world who live in totalitarian governments that think nothing of rolling over college students with tanks?
:).
If you thing the UN is less susceptible to big money influence than the US government, you're wrong.
Don't worry, it's still easy to find pr0n on the net, even without xxx domains
It has a significant effect on crystal formation when the lab burns up in the atmosphere :).
IANARS either. Wikipedia has some stuff about how microgravity isn't the same as zero-gee. There's also other factors, like tidal forces (obviously *something's* keeping that tether pulled straight). Don't know how it would affect experiments, but I doubt it would make that big of a difference.
All I know, is when I travel to a foreign land, I always learn the phrase "Don't shoot me, I'm Canadian" in the local language. And I'm pretty sure the converse isn't true for Canadians.
Seriously, any Canadian that says they're American because they live in the Americas is just a retard.
It was put there by an unmanned probe as part of the conspiracy.
Um, they returned in the LEM ascent stage? You know, the one sitting on top of the descent stage? The lower half that was left behind?
We'd need it to fry the giant space ants...
Even better story is the Soviet paratroopers with no parachutes. Liquor them up, fly low and slow over three feet of snow, and out they go. Half of them could still fight. I imagine that's about the time the German troops all crapped their pants.
You mean like pounds and feet?
You're forgetting about higher radiation exposure (isn't geosync above the Van Allen belts?). And the amount of extra fuel needed is pretty significant.
A better option would be to use a tether to give it thrust by pumping current through it. If they give it the right thrust, it can cancel the deceleration caused by the atmosphere. This would have the added advantage of getting them closer to true zero gee. One of the reasons they call it microgravity instead of zero gee when you're in LEO is because of the force imposed by that deceleration.
Or less common. Depends on the distribution of elements in the local region of space, I would imagine. Venus has a crust quite a bit thicker than Earth, and doesn't really have plate tectonics. Pressure just builds up until the planet melts down every hundred million years or so.
The collision 4 billion years ago of a Mars sized body with the proto-Earth resulted in the formation of the Moon, with Earth getting more than its fair share of the metal cores and the Moon getting more than its share of the rocky crust. If that hadn't happened, Earth would likely melt down like Venus every now and then and it would have been impossible for life to evolve here.