I don't see how asking for evidence for your claim that "people cosplay hockey" is the NTS fallacy.
That's his expert advice as one of the foremost scholars in the field of English literature.
Since English Literature has no actual bearing on Pokemon, I'll throw the Argument from authority fallacy at you.
But then, who am I to prevent someone from being of an opinion
Since my statement was notadults should stop playing games where the hero is prepubescent, but rather it was the questionwhy are adults still playing with Pokemon?, what you could have done is try and convince me.
It is solved - the basic solution is nuclear rockets. - The cleanest nuclear rocket type should be Gas Core Closed Cycle - but these haven't been researched in detail yet.
I do not think "solved" means what you think it means.
You'd have to modify them a bit to (incredibly expensive, if not impossible modification #1), and (incredibly expensive, if not impossible modification #2), (incredibly expensive, if not impossible modification #3), and (Free Market FTW!).
You've forgotten that all the easy stuff which happens in science fiction novels is... fiction handwaved away to propel the story forward, and not future history.
Just accept that you are wrong about lifting huge amounts of fucking LEAD off the Earth's surface being the same or less costly than parking an asteroid there.
Since (1) just parking an asteroid is spectacularly useless as shielding (you've got to actually do something with all that rock once it's at the Lagrange point, and that's going to be ex-pen-sive), and (2) everything that NASA proposes turns out to be 20x more expensive than they say it will be, the only "evidence" that I'm wrong is pie in the sky handwaving.
http://www.adl.gatech.edu/research/tff/radiation_shield.html/ How do present-day astronauts survive? The answer is - they can't for very long. Veteran astronauts caught on Space Stations during such storms must spend their time inside specially-built chambers (generally made of plastic sheets, perhaps with some water bags around them) to ride out the storm - and be brought back to Earth as soon as possible. These are not options for long-term human habitats.
The bottom line is that radically new launch technology (that doesn't spray octillions of radioactive particles into the atmosphere during successful launches, much less during "mishaps") is needed before any science fiction dreams can come true.
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I don't see how asking for evidence for your claim that "people cosplay hockey" is the NTS fallacy.
That's his expert advice as one of the foremost scholars in the field of English literature.
Since English Literature has no actual bearing on Pokemon, I'll throw the Argument from authority fallacy at you.
But then, who am I to prevent someone from being of an opinion
Since my statement was not adults should stop playing games where the hero is prepubescent, but rather it was the question why are adults still playing with Pokemon?, what you could have done is try and convince me.
But you didn't. Instead, you got all defensive.
You're the second person to quote that to me. My reply to you is the same as to him: Amazingly, C.S. Lewis isn't the arbiter of opinion either.
Sporting is what adults do.
Sports change with age.
Hockey team uniforms, now, those are fine to cosplay.
Send me multiple links of many people wearing complete hockey uniforms (including stick) at a hockey-con, since that would be hockey cosplay.
Otherwise, it's just wearing a jersey.
only children write Pokemon games. Adults never do that.
Adults write children's books. That doesn't mean they obsess over them.
Amazingly, C.S. Lewis isn't the arbiter of opinion either.
And what "other, more mature, interests" do you suggest Pokemon players pursue?
Anything who's second-most identifiable character isn't a pre-teen (Ash Ketchum).
Who made you arbiter of what's appropriate?
My opinion is my own, and I have the right to write it. Your opinion is your own, and you have the right to ignore it.
Because they enjoy the game
More specifically, some things you grow out of because you grow into other, more mature, interests.
Because they enjoy the game
Some things you grow out of with age. Reading comic books is another one of those things.
deciding how you want to spend your time?
I never said it should be illegal.
why are adults still playing with Pokemon?
This must be some cultural reference that I'm too old to get.
No, they won't.
Why? Because first launches *never* happen on time...
Cliche to whom?
I knew that bull would never happen...
No VC is going to throw money at a start-up whose business plan is to start suing the government
They would if they thought they had a chance of making money.
Now that Uber's flouted the law and made lots of money
But that money is ill-gotten gains. I'm not sure how that works out.
The problem is the whole corrupt medallion system which limits competition.
The Uber should sue on antitrust grounds instead of blatantly breaking the law.
Another is that it is immoral to obey an unjust law.
What's so unjust about ensuring that a car used for fares has adequate insurance of the right type?
emissions testing involves a chassis dynamometer with rolling drums for the wheels, doesn't it?
I don't know, since my state doesn't have smog bad enough to need CA-style emissions testing.
even when breaking the law, German engineering does not screw around.
Good thing! Made it easy to catch them in 1945, and will also do so 70 years later...
including wheel speed, ... and compares those data against EPA's published testing guidelines.
Wow. That's not some "minor misfeature"....
How the software cheats is to turn off the emission controls if it looks like someone is actually driving.
Does that mean "wheels spinning" as opposed to just "engine revving"?
It is solved - the basic solution is nuclear rockets. -
The cleanest nuclear rocket type should be Gas Core Closed Cycle - but these haven't been researched in detail yet.
I do not think "solved" means what you think it means.
This was on the History Channel, "Band Of Brothers", etc.
The latest generation needs their chance to learn it, just as my generation did.
Not necessarily super-expensive.
This is delusional fantasy.
Automatic mining machines already exist.
Powered by a tad more than some Plutonium RTGs.
You'd have to modify them a bit to (incredibly expensive, if not impossible modification #1), and (incredibly expensive, if not impossible modification #2), (incredibly expensive, if not impossible modification #3), and (Free Market FTW!).
You've forgotten that all the easy stuff which happens in science fiction novels is... fiction handwaved away to propel the story forward, and not future history.
Physics is well known.
Life is more than equations on a whiteboard.
Just accept that you are wrong about lifting huge amounts of fucking LEAD off the Earth's surface being the same or less costly than parking an asteroid there.
Since (1) just parking an asteroid is spectacularly useless as shielding (you've got to actually do something with all that rock once it's at the Lagrange point, and that's going to be ex-pen-sive), and (2) everything that NASA proposes turns out to be 20x more expensive than they say it will be, the only "evidence" that I'm wrong is pie in the sky handwaving.
uh, no.
It's not mass?
Water makes a great shield for radation.
It's a low-density shield. Lots of launches would be required to lift the requisite amount of water.
(lead) causes a great deal of scatter
But it would be scattering the radiation *away* from the station, right? Because otherwise it wouldn't be shielding us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_protection#Shielding/
http://www.adl.gatech.edu/research/tff/radiation_shield.html/
How do present-day astronauts survive? The answer is - they can't for very long.
Veteran astronauts caught on Space Stations during such storms must spend their time inside specially-built chambers (generally made of plastic sheets, perhaps with some water bags around them) to ride out the storm - and be brought back to Earth as soon as possible. These are not options for long-term human habitats.
The bottom line is that radically new launch technology (that doesn't spray octillions of radioactive particles into the atmosphere during successful launches, much less during "mishaps") is needed before any science fiction dreams can come true.
Everyone who knows even the barest amount about space mining knows this.
Space mining engineers have as much practical experience as astrobiologists.