Given the stupendously ginormous -- but, since we've done it, conceivable -- distances between stars, it doesn't matter how many high tech civilizations there are. We aren't going to see any of them. Ever.
Democrats aren't the ones worried about JADE HELM, chemtrails and liking FB posts about a company Jennifer Aniston supposedly is creating to support Trump.
I know leftists have their own stupidity, but I don't know as many of them.
Really? Such a fear should be instant ground for removal from the voter roles. Possibly permanently, since even if you stop being afraid of that, there will probably be some other bit of stupidity you're now afraid of.
Let them first establish a profitable business using privately raised money. (We wouldn't have had the Dot Com Bubble if people had acted in this responsible manner.)
If your statement Actually given the fact that they are in court, I think the only correct statement is that the evidence is being disputed RIGHT NOW was designed to build upon my sarcasm, then it did so horribly.
Brilliant nut air-headed fools may have thought it was the dawn of an egalitarian utopia, but spam is 40 years old. There's no way it would ever be what they hoped.
There's a difference between a TCP/IP network and its funders, isn't it?
A TCP/IP network made by egalitarian, pluralistic utopians is completely different from a TCP/IP network created for the Military Mndustrial Complex and the purpose of withstanding nuclear war.
How many billions has Xerox wasted on acquisitions and mergers in the past 10 years?
I worked for a company that Xerox bought, and then three years later Xerox sold most of us to a different company, and spun off the rest to a new company.
Ursula Burns, just like Meg Whitman, ruined a great company.
You can't send more up later. Because you just have the one spot, on the one test launch.
That wasn't part of your original assertion, which is Filling the same space with enough electronics, power generation and communications equipment to actually be useful would've weight _A LOT_ more, and cost millions if not billions in development cost _AND_ would have had to be pushed into a much higher orbit.
Which is patently absurd on three fronts:
1a. Maximum mass of CubeSat is 1.33 Kg. 1b. Size is 10cm^3
2. Minimum cost: $50K.
3. It's my business whether or not I'm ok with my cubesat being up for 9 months.
You have a 1 meter sphere worth of cubesat, and an orbit that'll swing it over your C&C twice a month,
Relay stations, you numbnut: relay stations Launch enough of them and they can form a mesh network where one are more are always in contact with your omnidirectional antennae.
and degrade in ~90 days.
This disco ball will be up for 9 months, not 3 months.
if you're Good, you'll have it in one way laser LoS maybe 8 days a month.
If you can't negotiate any relay stations or launch enough for a mesh, then buffer it all in flash RAM (or whatever they use for storing data before transmission) until you're able to transmit it down.
What useful function can you perform?
What do current cubesats do? At the very least, Earth monitoring if you point the "camera" down, and possibly astronomy/physics experiments in all sorts of wavelengths if you point a suitable "camera" upwards.
But, you say, it'll only be in orbit for 9 months!!!
Well, cubesats are cheap. Launch another one (or ten) in 6 months (in case the launch gets delayed). And six months after that, etc, etc ad nauseum.
Again, you whine, but I might miss some coverage!!!
It's on the cheap, dude. Live with what you have, and be happy.
the humanity star actually takes a LOT of space with a 3 foot diameter
Sigh.
It's a good thing you're posting AC, so as to not get associated with something so idiotic as a geek not knowing that these things are folded during launch, and then "unfold" once ejected.
But... think of Humanity while you stare up at the sky and sing "Kumbaya", holding hands with your neighbors. Results don't matter, only whether or not you mean well.
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Stop reading so much science fiction.
Given the stupendously ginormous -- but, since we've done it, conceivable -- distances between stars, it doesn't matter how many high tech civilizations there are. We aren't going to see any of them. Ever.
Vladimir Putin wants to live to a ripe old age, and not in a fall out bunker deep underground. Thus, I'm not terribly worried about them.
AGW *is* a world-destroying worry, but it's not staring us right in the face.
Democrats aren't the ones worried about JADE HELM, chemtrails and liking FB posts about a company Jennifer Aniston supposedly is creating to support Trump.
I know leftists have their own stupidity, but I don't know as many of them.
Really? Such a fear should be instant ground for removal from the voter roles. Possibly permanently, since even if you stop being afraid of that, there will probably be some other bit of stupidity you're now afraid of.
But how much damage will they do until that factor is encountered?
It's the first sign of the matriarchal utopia...
Let them first establish a profitable business using privately raised money. (We wouldn't have had the Dot Com Bubble if people had acted in this responsible manner.)
I do, in fact, know the difference. Does TFA mention whether or not CF disputes the evidence, or are you assuming that they don't?
your sarcasm was not only noted but built upon.
If your statement Actually given the fact that they are in court, I think the only correct statement is that the evidence is being disputed RIGHT NOW was designed to build upon my sarcasm, then it did so horribly.
Hear that whooshing noise? It's sarcasm zooming over your head.
There's zero chance that Snowden will get a Medal of Honor.
And, of course, "The evidence is undisputed". No need for a trial; just seize CF's bank accounts now...
Brilliant nut air-headed fools may have thought it was the dawn of an egalitarian utopia, but spam is 40 years old. There's no way it would ever be what they hoped.
There's a difference between a TCP/IP network and its funders, isn't it?
A TCP/IP network made by egalitarian, pluralistic utopians is completely different from a TCP/IP network created for the Military Mndustrial Complex and the purpose of withstanding nuclear war.
the kind of egalitarian, pluralistic ideas they say the internet initially embodied
Completely ignores who developed the Internet, and for what purpose...
Gah,you're absolutely right. It's was Carly "I Wanna Be President" Fiorina.
How many billions has Xerox wasted on acquisitions and mergers in the past 10 years?
I worked for a company that Xerox bought, and then three years later Xerox sold most of us to a different company, and spun off the rest to a new company.
Ursula Burns, just like Meg Whitman, ruined a great company.
You can't send more up later. Because you just have the one spot, on the one test launch.
That wasn't part of your original assertion, which is Filling the same space with enough electronics, power generation and communications equipment to actually be useful would've weight _A LOT_ more, and cost millions if not billions in development cost _AND_ would have had to be pushed into a much higher orbit.
Which is patently absurd on three fronts:
1a. Maximum mass of CubeSat is 1.33 Kg.
1b. Size is 10cm^3
2. Minimum cost: $50K.
3. It's my business whether or not I'm ok with my cubesat being up for 9 months.
You have a 1 meter sphere worth of cubesat, and an orbit that'll swing it over your C&C twice a month,
Relay stations, you numbnut: relay stations Launch enough of them and they can form a mesh network where one are more are always in contact with your omnidirectional antennae.
and degrade in ~90 days.
This disco ball will be up for 9 months, not 3 months.
if you're Good, you'll have it in one way laser LoS maybe 8 days a month.
If you can't negotiate any relay stations or launch enough for a mesh, then buffer it all in flash RAM (or whatever they use for storing data before transmission) until you're able to transmit it down.
What useful function can you perform?
What do current cubesats do? At the very least, Earth monitoring if you point the "camera" down, and possibly astronomy/physics experiments in all sorts of wavelengths if you point a suitable "camera" upwards.
But, you say, it'll only be in orbit for 9 months!!!
Well, cubesats are cheap. Launch another one (or ten) in 6 months (in case the launch gets delayed). And six months after that, etc, etc ad nauseum.
Again, you whine, but I might miss some coverage!!!
It's on the cheap, dude. Live with what you have, and be happy.
Shame on you for not imagining what useful stuff a cubesat could do in *very* LEO.
the humanity star actually takes a LOT of space with a 3 foot diameter
Sigh.
It's a good thing you're posting AC, so as to not get associated with something so idiotic as a geek not knowing that these things are folded during launch, and then "unfold" once ejected.
But... think of Humanity while you stare up at the sky and sing "Kumbaya", holding hands with your neighbors. Results don't matter, only whether or not you mean well.
They wasted nothing to get it in orbit, since it was a secondary payload on what was -- to begin with -- a test launch.
Oh. Well... shit. "Only being allowed access to resources that you have need" is as old as the fucking hills.
Mainframes were doing it in the 1970s and Multics has the idea in the 1960s.
This -- especially "costs too much" -- is so effing true.