Depends how you do it. The US Air Force had plans for "Dark Horse", which was a manned aerospace plane that could put a few tons in orbit. It would fuel up at 50,000 feet from a modified tanker with hydrogen peroxide (yes, that would probably be dangerous as all hell). Taking off from an airstrip with dry main propellant tanks let them cut the weight way down.
If it takes significant time and expense to "educate" a robot, you'd have to be a fool to not design in the capability to take a snapshot of the robot brain's state. Then you could make as many copies as you need.
The alternative to advertising is paying more for things. No ads on TV, you'll have to get cable and the basic cable rates would be higher. Don't even ask how much a magazine or a newspaper would cost; the subscription price for a newspaper doesn't even pay for the newsprint, let alone ink and payroll. I've no interest in paying more because other people think drinking Bud will make the ladies like them.
A better solution would be to teach children how to think critically, but that's not gonna happen.
I don't think you understand the deal with "Mitochondrial Eve". In no way whatsoever does the existence of "Mitochondrial Eve" imply that all humans descended from one woman. Is your mother's mother's mother your only female great-grandparent? No. But she's where your mitochondria came from.
You do know that people who own rental properties pay property tax on those properties, right? And that they pass that cost onto the renter as part of the rent?
What's going to happen is that a lot of seniors will outsource themselves. Already plenty of places in Mexico catering to US retirees; you can have a decent standard of living for less than a thousand a month.
The asteroid/meteor doesn't need to be ionized itself. It's going to ionize quite a bit of the atmosphere on the way in, and if it comes in during bad weather when conditions are right for lightning, there'll be a very nice ionized discharge path all the way from the ground to the upper atmosphere.
In the part of the world I live in, you get a good hailstorm quite a bit more often than every twenty to forty years. I have no great desire to replace 50K worth of solar cells every four or five years.
The US wants regime change. China wants to not have to deal with millions of starving, mentally stunted North Korean refugees. Those are mutually incompatible goals. China would have no problem going with the plan if the goal were to improve and open North Korea's economy (which would improve the lives of its people) and not regime change, which would almost certainly cause a humanitarian disaster on a mind-numbing scale. And BTW, the US stated goal of regime change is a major factor in why Iran and NK are doubling down on their efforts to get the bomb.
Given that OPEC member nations agree to set their production levels to some fraction of their estimated reserves, the level of trust you should have in those estimates should be somewhere between jack and shit.
My first computer was a 286-12, and the first software I bought was DR-DOS, Windows 3.1, and Leisure Suit Larry.
Windows 3.1 wouldn't randomly fail. It just wouldn't start under DR-DOS. A few months later DR-DOS sent out a patch and then it worked; never had a problem after that.
Not enough sunlight gets through your skin, your body doesn't make enough vitamin D and you get rickets. Too much, and folic acid in your bloodstream degrades and, if you're pregnant, increases chance for birth defects. Skin color is an adaptation to moderate the amound of UV penetrating your skin.
Have a machine on the way out that lets you print out whatever receipt(s) you want. One to give to your boss so you don't get fired, one to give to your priest so you don't get excommunicated, and one to give to your girlfriend so she'll . . .
A general insult? He learned it from his mom, who knew what it meant. You think he never asked her what it meant, or noticed that she only directed it against certain people?
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Whoops. Dark Horse used H202 and kerosene.
Depends how you do it. The US Air Force had plans for "Dark Horse", which was a manned aerospace plane that could put a few tons in orbit. It would fuel up at 50,000 feet from a modified tanker with hydrogen peroxide (yes, that would probably be dangerous as all hell). Taking off from an airstrip with dry main propellant tanks let them cut the weight way down.
They don't hire their own technical and scientific consultants. They get their scientific advice from lobbyists.
Employees at his company, of the cities of Vienna and Munich, and of the French Parliament don't need to be viewing protected content at work.
We'd make great pets.
If it takes significant time and expense to "educate" a robot, you'd have to be a fool to not design in the capability to take a snapshot of the robot brain's state. Then you could make as many copies as you need.
Maybe he's divorced or widowed and carries pictures of his children?
You can't fold a dollar coin in half and stick it behind a G-string.
The alternative to advertising is paying more for things. No ads on TV, you'll have to get cable and the basic cable rates would be higher. Don't even ask how much a magazine or a newspaper would cost; the subscription price for a newspaper doesn't even pay for the newsprint, let alone ink and payroll. I've no interest in paying more because other people think drinking Bud will make the ladies like them.
A better solution would be to teach children how to think critically, but that's not gonna happen.
I don't think you understand the deal with "Mitochondrial Eve". In no way whatsoever does the existence of "Mitochondrial Eve" imply that all humans descended from one woman. Is your mother's mother's mother your only female great-grandparent? No. But she's where your mitochondria came from.
Independents vs. Feds vs. Reavers. Hmmm. Maybe a variation of Starcraft :)
You do know that people who own rental properties pay property tax on those properties, right? And that they pass that cost onto the renter as part of the rent?
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What's going to happen is that a lot of seniors will outsource themselves. Already plenty of places in Mexico catering to US retirees; you can have a decent standard of living for less than a thousand a month.
The asteroid/meteor doesn't need to be ionized itself. It's going to ionize quite a bit of the atmosphere on the way in, and if it comes in during bad weather when conditions are right for lightning, there'll be a very nice ionized discharge path all the way from the ground to the upper atmosphere.
You seem to think that most wealthy people are that way because they inherited it. Less than 20% of millionaires inherited their wealth.
A far more relevant factor is, did their parents read them bedtime stories and make them do their homework?
In the part of the world I live in, you get a good hailstorm quite a bit more often than every twenty to forty years. I have no great desire to replace 50K worth of solar cells every four or five years.
Given that David was on a spaceship halfway to Jupiter, there was probably a reason he wasn't reading a non-electronic newspaper.
The US wants regime change. China wants to not have to deal with millions of starving, mentally stunted North Korean refugees. Those are mutually incompatible goals. China would have no problem going with the plan if the goal were to improve and open North Korea's economy (which would improve the lives of its people) and not regime change, which would almost certainly cause a humanitarian disaster on a mind-numbing scale. And BTW, the US stated goal of regime change is a major factor in why Iran and NK are doubling down on their efforts to get the bomb.
Given that OPEC member nations agree to set their production levels to some fraction of their estimated reserves, the level of trust you should have in those estimates should be somewhere between jack and shit.
My first computer was a 286-12, and the first software I bought was DR-DOS, Windows 3.1, and Leisure Suit Larry.
Windows 3.1 wouldn't randomly fail. It just wouldn't start under DR-DOS. A few months later DR-DOS sent out a patch and then it worked; never had a problem after that.
Good thing I didn't need Windows 3.1 for LSL.
Not enough sunlight gets through your skin, your body doesn't make enough vitamin D and you get rickets. Too much, and folic acid in your bloodstream degrades and, if you're pregnant, increases chance for birth defects. Skin color is an adaptation to moderate the amound of UV penetrating your skin.
Or put it closer to the sun than the L1 point, and have the sun's gravity compensate for solar wind/photon pressure.
Have a machine on the way out that lets you print out whatever receipt(s) you want. One to give to your boss so you don't get fired, one to give to your priest so you don't get excommunicated, and one to give to your girlfriend so she'll . . .
A general insult? He learned it from his mom, who knew what it meant. You think he never asked her what it meant, or noticed that she only directed it against certain people?