Flight restrictions, both permanent and temporary, are already quite common, there are a few websites that show maps of them (one relatively user friendly is http://tfrvisualizer.com/ ), checking where they are and avoiding them is part of the normal flight routine.
Ok, but how often are they accidentally entered into anyway and how many consist of 10,000' high series of barrage balloons equivalents probably capable to bringing a plane down?
The panel found a number of areas of concern surrounding the Journey to Mars program, virtually all of them stemming from inadequate funding.
They needed a panel to figure this out?
They probably needed a panel to officially tell the public this. If any particular official would happen to call bullshit on the government's claims of wanting to send people to Mars, they'd probably find themselves alone and in hot water. Form a p[anel, collect the facts, dot their i's and cross their t's and announce what everybody knows and see if anybody cares now that official notice has been given.
President puts forward the budget and congress approves.
Yep, and this has been an issue way before Obama. I stopped listening to State of the Union addresses under Bush the Younger because while he would usually bring up going to Mars and other hopeful NASA missions, when I checked, NASAs budget would not even been keeping up with inflation. Presidents and even Congress have been talking about Mars missions for years, but they have just been talking, not actually doing anything. It's all just sound bites for the public and this safety panel is probably just NASA diplomatic way to telling everybody including the public that. Anybody that has been following the effort to get to Mars knows that there has been lots of talk and never a budget to actually do so.
I wondered something similar - How do they know it WILL work? Not being a physicist myself - my uninformed-self wonders if they built a hypothetical system to detect a hypothetical material?
From reading the wikipedia page, I suspect they'll see individual incident(s) (cosmic rays such as neutrons should cause multiple incidents), probably also from not directly above as cosmic rays will be most common from above rather than through the Earth but fairly independent of Earth's sheilding for a WIMP. Then of course make sure that the instruments themselves aren't causing the readings, or other unforeseen causes. From likely incidents, they can figure out an energy to estimate mass and velocity of the WIMP and compare versus suspected models. So far, they have had many incidents, but none they feel is a smoking gun.
I see reference to WIMPs in the article, so in some ways do we consider Dark Matter to be kind of like a neutrino? All around us but not generally interacting with us?
So instead of there being vast tracts of stuff we simply can't figure out where it is, it's spread throughout?
WIMPs, Weakly Interacting Massive Particles is what they suspect dark matter to be. It interacts very weakly, possibly only via gravity which is almost undetectable in the scale of individual particles. Thus it tends to pass right through everything. They are assumed to have some cross section so can possibly interact with themselves and other particles if they hit directly head on which is what this experiment seems to be trying to detect. It's thought when they interact with themselves, they annihilate, so they do not slow each other down and do not form disk shapes such as solar systems or galaxies. Otherwise, they float around, only affected by gravity, so the form a spherical cloud called a halo around other gravitational objects such as solar systems and galaxies in which they fall into orbit.
And lack of vacation just makes that worse. I haven't had a full week off since 1992.
No offence, but you're a fucking idiot then.
They're not an idiot, They're a fictional creation. It's and entire thread of ACs spouting crap to each other. It's probably just one AC who is doing so at his job where they get paid to do no work, be they still feel oppressed.
The whole knives thing is just a red herring. Having a gun or not doesn't determine whether someone is more or less likely to want to kill someone else. But it does make them a lot more effective at it. Which is why they use them. Which is why guns were invented in the first place. They end a life much faster, much more reliably, with much less effort on the part of the attacker, than a knife.
I would put forth that this does not really hold up in developed countries. Where we see gun control enacted, we do see less deaths caused by gun, but we do not see less deaths. As we have a fairly stable society where we're not always on our guard, it seems that the deciding factor seems to be that somebody wants to kill you, not what tools they have at their disposal to do so with. Then there are always possible unintended consequeces. Less guns might mean muggers threaten people with knives instead. Where people usually didn't argue with a gun, they might be willing to with a knife, and thus result in more people getting stabbed and same or more total deaths. True, you don't want to bring a knife to a gun fight, but most people aren't bringing anything as they do not even expect a fight.
The sort of gun control they have in countries that have low murder rate. Certainly not the kind they have in countries with much higher murder rates such as Mexico or Jamaica.
How about the force working without a human guidance? How else do you explain the timing in the motivator blowing in the other droid so Luke must end up with R2, who is one of the most force-attuned robots in the universe?
With all the sequel stuff on the internet in the last couple of weeks, it has been revealed that R2 was filmed sabotaging R5-D4, but that part ended up getting cut out of the film.
Upon actually reading TFA, it does list Luke and force choking somebody. Obviously somebody, let's blame the editor, has a strange definition of "monopoly".
while the dark side has a monopoly on making lightning and choking people.
Actually, didn't Luke force choke on of Jabba's guards at the beginning of RotJ? Then again, I've also read articles talking about how he was probably a darkside force user at that point on some head cannon webpage.
When Kickstarter was just starting out, I saw how even large companies would want to get in on this action. Besides gathering seed money in presales for items, they can determine interest, test the markets, and even back out if the interest is too low to be sufficiently profitable. manufacturing runs could be decided upon ahead of time and done. Even loss leaders might be of interest because if a company produces a small manufacturing run of a limited edition item, besides securing needed funds for production before it has to happen, they also have a mailing list of people who are interested enough in the products to be willing to pay for limited edition items. If dealing with media IP and fans, it could even be made to seem like a good thing, almost like a fan club.
Not to mention that you'd be moving there with a large group desiring to see you get a job and succeed, thus willing to help you find a job and act as references. I'd be surprised if they went through all this trouble and didn't have community job finding assistance even if only a mailing list where everybody can list jobs they know about.
I always suspected that the concept of a singularity was a psychological crutch that made the mathematics easier to visualize for us mere mortals; anything on the other side of an event horizon is undefined, and anything real becoming undefined is psychologically difficult.
It probably gets much more complicated that that. Stars collapse and you've got a neutron star. Eventually, the pressure at the center of the neutron star will equal the energy needed to break down the neutrons into a quark-gluon plasma. Now you've got a question of the transparency of neutron star matter to quark-gluon plasma as the gravitational forces at the center will be zero while the space once occupied by the destroyed neutron is filled and the new neutron in the center is destroyed. I bet somebody a lot smarter and with a lot more info than us has said "Hrrm, that's an interesting situation" many decades ago and has done some math and that we are here using the assumption of a singularity at the middle indicates that the math, and all further studies as we get more info, indicate that the neutrons break down faster than the plasma can escape, preventing any sort of steady state and they are left with a quark-gluon plasma so dense that it can't help to continue to compress. With no reasonably known method for keeping everything from compressing to a singularity, that is the assumption.
And how many exoplanets discovered to date are the result of handling data incorrectly?
And how has that information influenced scientific research?
Depends on what you mean by "discovered". If you mean any instance where somebody suspects there may be an exoplanet, then somewhere over 50% are false positives. That's probably why they typically require multiple confirmations from different sources before they actually consider something an exoplanet.
The sum total of my intellectual property is a somewhat popular Warcraft UI and a few websites (so basically, jack shit), and even I have that data spread across a few different backup mediums. If I had anything even remotely as valuable to fans as pretty much ANYTHING Roddenberry made I'd probably have it in multiple safety deposit boxes in different timezones. How could he let that happen?
Remember that you are talking about a period in time before making backups in case of loss was a thing with the consumer. Also, keep in mind that the idea of copies would be foreign in this time to a lot of writers. Many would type up their manuscripts and papers and then send the only copy in to a publisher with the expectation of it being mailed back if not accepted. Hemingway lost a lot of his work when his wife lost a suitcase carrying a great deal of his stuff. I was in a writer seminar with Harlan Ellison who talked a great deal about how to protect your manuscript with extra coversheets and how to make sure they send it back. Still, I expect that there were copies but they were probably hard copies but only of things that were finished. I wouldn't be surprised if any complete works in these disks match paper print outs that were in his effects.
This fact raises the obvious question: why the hell didn't the Western powers stop him earlier? Why did they try to appease a man who so clearly stated his intentions? Were they, England and France, complete morons?
Post WW1 Europe was a three way war between fascism, communism, and democracy. In that, I mean actual armed fighting in the streets between factions in Germany and other parts of Europe. Communism was in a large part supposed to be an ongoing revolution spreading out from the USSR. Even in Paris, half the resistance if not more were communists and one of the reasons that DeGaul was allowed to lead the way into Paris was fear that those communists would try and fight the Brits and Americans. I would't be half surprised to find out that England and France were half wanting for Hitler to succeed in taking out communist Russia and expecting they could handle the clean up.
the "architectures" are already there, just bore into appropriately shaped asteroid. spin it for near 1G field for people inside. propulsion system left as exercise for student but Orion type within technical possibility now.
Theoretically feasible perhaps. I don't think I'd classify something that is several other "theoretical feasible" steps from ever having been done as "already there".
The point remains. Microsoft had every opportunity to bury apple and Linux. A company which once shit on Apple, is now making apps for Apple devices. Can you not see the irony there? They once looked at Apple as a toy company not worth their time.
They've almost always made apps for Apple. They did the basic for some of the early Apples IIRC. They proudly had a Mac toaster in their museum showing a copy of the first MS Word software and a statement of "The thing that started it all." Office for Mac has been one of their best sellers after Office for the PC.
I think the only viable plan is to prove we can successfully colonize Mars first. Demonstrate the capability of landing and thriving on a non-living rock. Then we can talk about what kinds of modules we need for "deep" space.
You're getting too far ahead. To even get to Mars, it's going to require a space ship that will require habitation on the scale of years independent and outside the magnetic shielding of Earth. This is what we're talking about here. These "deep space" modules are what will be needed to reach Mars and will be required first.
I think asteroid mining is a ridiculous concept. To be economically viable one of two things has to happen. Either 1) you have to bring the materials back to Earth to be refined and utilized or 2) you have to develop technology to refine and utilize them in space. If you choose option 1) you have to drop VERY large rocks onto the surface of the Earth. Do I have to explain that dropping large rocks onto Earth's surface is REALLY destructive? If you choose option 2) you have to replicate entire supply chains in space and we have ZERO technology in the pipeline to do that. We have no smelting or mining equipment that works in space on anything close to an industrial scale. We don't have the robotics. We don't have the control systems. Even if we did we have no power systems adequate to drive them on an industrial scale except maybe nuclear fission and that's pretty dicey even here on Earth.
It will probably be a combination of both. 2 will come first and yes, there is a great deal of work to do. Currently, they're still trying to just land a probe on an asteroid, let alone any attempt to survey it for mining later with as yet undeveloped tech. 1 will come after 2 and they'll just be dropping a few square meters of precious metals back to earth which won't really be any more dangerous than any other capsule re-eantry.
How about just extending the ISS lifetime? It should be possible to make it operate for longer, even if it means building an entire new station bolted on the side and operating them in parallel until the old one can be decomissioned and deorbited.
I suspect that due to design criteria and engineering realities, that may sound good but is something like trying to build a Ford truck out of a Chevy sedan by replacing broken bits over time via 3rd party parts (I was going to use turning a Mac into a PC by replacing parts, but felt a car allegory was needed). First off, they need to do a bunch of deep space testing, and the ISS isn't in deep space. I'm sure some of the initial testing and research can be done there, and probably already has been started if not done. However, eventually, we'll have to put something outside the radiation shielding of our planet and see how it works.
It seems to me that the US really don't have any idea about who's a citizen or not, and to vote a registration is needed.
Understand there is no nationally needed registration to vote. Who gets to vote is left up to the individual states. There are constitutional rules on why states cannot deny people a vote, but the individual states could let anybody, including foreign nationals who just happen to be in the state on vacation vote if they wanted. All elections, except the one held by the Electors of the President, are state affairs, not national ones.
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Is it, though? Haven't we largely thwarted evolution, and replaced it with survival of everyone we like?
No, we're now merely adapting to our new environment.
Flight restrictions, both permanent and temporary, are already quite common, there are a few websites that show maps of them (one relatively user friendly is http://tfrvisualizer.com/ ), checking where they are and avoiding them is part of the normal flight routine.
Ok, but how often are they accidentally entered into anyway and how many consist of 10,000' high series of barrage balloons equivalents probably capable to bringing a plane down?
Let's go back to the moon and stay in high orbit.
Trouble is, the people not paying for a Mars trip don't have any interest in paying for a moon trip either.
The panel found a number of areas of concern surrounding the Journey to Mars program, virtually all of them stemming from inadequate funding.
They needed a panel to figure this out?
They probably needed a panel to officially tell the public this. If any particular official would happen to call bullshit on the government's claims of wanting to send people to Mars, they'd probably find themselves alone and in hot water. Form a p[anel, collect the facts, dot their i's and cross their t's and announce what everybody knows and see if anybody cares now that official notice has been given.
President puts forward the budget and congress approves.
Yep, and this has been an issue way before Obama. I stopped listening to State of the Union addresses under Bush the Younger because while he would usually bring up going to Mars and other hopeful NASA missions, when I checked, NASAs budget would not even been keeping up with inflation. Presidents and even Congress have been talking about Mars missions for years, but they have just been talking, not actually doing anything. It's all just sound bites for the public and this safety panel is probably just NASA diplomatic way to telling everybody including the public that. Anybody that has been following the effort to get to Mars knows that there has been lots of talk and never a budget to actually do so.
I wondered something similar - How do they know it WILL work? Not being a physicist myself - my uninformed-self wonders if they built a hypothetical system to detect a hypothetical material?
From reading the wikipedia page, I suspect they'll see individual incident(s) (cosmic rays such as neutrons should cause multiple incidents), probably also from not directly above as cosmic rays will be most common from above rather than through the Earth but fairly independent of Earth's sheilding for a WIMP. Then of course make sure that the instruments themselves aren't causing the readings, or other unforeseen causes. From likely incidents, they can figure out an energy to estimate mass and velocity of the WIMP and compare versus suspected models. So far, they have had many incidents, but none they feel is a smoking gun.
I see reference to WIMPs in the article, so in some ways do we consider Dark Matter to be kind of like a neutrino? All around us but not generally interacting with us?
So instead of there being vast tracts of stuff we simply can't figure out where it is, it's spread throughout?
WIMPs, Weakly Interacting Massive Particles is what they suspect dark matter to be. It interacts very weakly, possibly only via gravity which is almost undetectable in the scale of individual particles. Thus it tends to pass right through everything. They are assumed to have some cross section so can possibly interact with themselves and other particles if they hit directly head on which is what this experiment seems to be trying to detect. It's thought when they interact with themselves, they annihilate, so they do not slow each other down and do not form disk shapes such as solar systems or galaxies. Otherwise, they float around, only affected by gravity, so the form a spherical cloud called a halo around other gravitational objects such as solar systems and galaxies in which they fall into orbit.
And lack of vacation just makes that worse. I haven't had a full week off since 1992.
No offence, but you're a fucking idiot then.
They're not an idiot, They're a fictional creation. It's and entire thread of ACs spouting crap to each other. It's probably just one AC who is doing so at his job where they get paid to do no work, be they still feel oppressed.
The whole knives thing is just a red herring. Having a gun or not doesn't determine whether someone is more or less likely to want to kill someone else. But it does make them a lot more effective at it. Which is why they use them. Which is why guns were invented in the first place. They end a life much faster, much more reliably, with much less effort on the part of the attacker, than a knife.
I would put forth that this does not really hold up in developed countries. Where we see gun control enacted, we do see less deaths caused by gun, but we do not see less deaths. As we have a fairly stable society where we're not always on our guard, it seems that the deciding factor seems to be that somebody wants to kill you, not what tools they have at their disposal to do so with. Then there are always possible unintended consequeces. Less guns might mean muggers threaten people with knives instead. Where people usually didn't argue with a gun, they might be willing to with a knife, and thus result in more people getting stabbed and same or more total deaths. True, you don't want to bring a knife to a gun fight, but most people aren't bringing anything as they do not even expect a fight.
Care to define 'gun control'?
The sort of gun control they have in countries that have low murder rate. Certainly not the kind they have in countries with much higher murder rates such as Mexico or Jamaica.
How about the force working without a human guidance? How else do you explain the timing in the motivator blowing in the other droid so Luke must end up with R2, who is one of the most force-attuned robots in the universe?
With all the sequel stuff on the internet in the last couple of weeks, it has been revealed that R2 was filmed sabotaging R5-D4, but that part ended up getting cut out of the film.
Upon actually reading TFA, it does list Luke and force choking somebody. Obviously somebody, let's blame the editor, has a strange definition of "monopoly".
Actually, didn't Luke force choke on of Jabba's guards at the beginning of RotJ? Then again, I've also read articles talking about how he was probably a darkside force user at that point on some head cannon webpage.
When Kickstarter was just starting out, I saw how even large companies would want to get in on this action. Besides gathering seed money in presales for items, they can determine interest, test the markets, and even back out if the interest is too low to be sufficiently profitable. manufacturing runs could be decided upon ahead of time and done. Even loss leaders might be of interest because if a company produces a small manufacturing run of a limited edition item, besides securing needed funds for production before it has to happen, they also have a mailing list of people who are interested enough in the products to be willing to pay for limited edition items. If dealing with media IP and fans, it could even be made to seem like a good thing, almost like a fan club.
There is also Low unemployment and plenty of jobs available. Portsmouth is one of the 30th top markets to find a job.
Here are more resources for plenty of jobs in NH - https://freestateproject.org/r...
Not to mention that you'd be moving there with a large group desiring to see you get a job and succeed, thus willing to help you find a job and act as references. I'd be surprised if they went through all this trouble and didn't have community job finding assistance even if only a mailing list where everybody can list jobs they know about.
I always suspected that the concept of a singularity was a psychological crutch that made the mathematics easier to visualize for us mere mortals; anything on the other side of an event horizon is undefined, and anything real becoming undefined is psychologically difficult.
It probably gets much more complicated that that. Stars collapse and you've got a neutron star. Eventually, the pressure at the center of the neutron star will equal the energy needed to break down the neutrons into a quark-gluon plasma. Now you've got a question of the transparency of neutron star matter to quark-gluon plasma as the gravitational forces at the center will be zero while the space once occupied by the destroyed neutron is filled and the new neutron in the center is destroyed. I bet somebody a lot smarter and with a lot more info than us has said "Hrrm, that's an interesting situation" many decades ago and has done some math and that we are here using the assumption of a singularity at the middle indicates that the math, and all further studies as we get more info, indicate that the neutrons break down faster than the plasma can escape, preventing any sort of steady state and they are left with a quark-gluon plasma so dense that it can't help to continue to compress. With no reasonably known method for keeping everything from compressing to a singularity, that is the assumption.
And how many exoplanets discovered to date are the result of handling data incorrectly?
And how has that information influenced scientific research?
Depends on what you mean by "discovered". If you mean any instance where somebody suspects there may be an exoplanet, then somewhere over 50% are false positives. That's probably why they typically require multiple confirmations from different sources before they actually consider something an exoplanet.
The sum total of my intellectual property is a somewhat popular Warcraft UI and a few websites (so basically, jack shit), and even I have that data spread across a few different backup mediums. If I had anything even remotely as valuable to fans as pretty much ANYTHING Roddenberry made I'd probably have it in multiple safety deposit boxes in different timezones. How could he let that happen?
Remember that you are talking about a period in time before making backups in case of loss was a thing with the consumer. Also, keep in mind that the idea of copies would be foreign in this time to a lot of writers. Many would type up their manuscripts and papers and then send the only copy in to a publisher with the expectation of it being mailed back if not accepted. Hemingway lost a lot of his work when his wife lost a suitcase carrying a great deal of his stuff. I was in a writer seminar with Harlan Ellison who talked a great deal about how to protect your manuscript with extra coversheets and how to make sure they send it back. Still, I expect that there were copies but they were probably hard copies but only of things that were finished. I wouldn't be surprised if any complete works in these disks match paper print outs that were in his effects.
This fact raises the obvious question: why the hell didn't the Western powers stop him earlier? Why did they try to appease a man who so clearly stated his intentions? Were they, England and France, complete morons?
Post WW1 Europe was a three way war between fascism, communism, and democracy. In that, I mean actual armed fighting in the streets between factions in Germany and other parts of Europe. Communism was in a large part supposed to be an ongoing revolution spreading out from the USSR. Even in Paris, half the resistance if not more were communists and one of the reasons that DeGaul was allowed to lead the way into Paris was fear that those communists would try and fight the Brits and Americans. I would't be half surprised to find out that England and France were half wanting for Hitler to succeed in taking out communist Russia and expecting they could handle the clean up.
the "architectures" are already there, just bore into appropriately shaped asteroid. spin it for near 1G field for people inside. propulsion system left as exercise for student but Orion type within technical possibility now.
Theoretically feasible perhaps. I don't think I'd classify something that is several other "theoretical feasible" steps from ever having been done as "already there".
The point remains. Microsoft had every opportunity to bury apple and Linux. A company which once shit on Apple, is now making apps for Apple devices. Can you not see the irony there? They once looked at Apple as a toy company not worth their time.
They've almost always made apps for Apple. They did the basic for some of the early Apples IIRC. They proudly had a Mac toaster in their museum showing a copy of the first MS Word software and a statement of "The thing that started it all." Office for Mac has been one of their best sellers after Office for the PC.
I think the only viable plan is to prove we can successfully colonize Mars first. Demonstrate the capability of landing and thriving on a non-living rock. Then we can talk about what kinds of modules we need for "deep" space.
You're getting too far ahead. To even get to Mars, it's going to require a space ship that will require habitation on the scale of years independent and outside the magnetic shielding of Earth. This is what we're talking about here. These "deep space" modules are what will be needed to reach Mars and will be required first.
I think asteroid mining is a ridiculous concept. To be economically viable one of two things has to happen. Either 1) you have to bring the materials back to Earth to be refined and utilized or 2) you have to develop technology to refine and utilize them in space. If you choose option 1) you have to drop VERY large rocks onto the surface of the Earth. Do I have to explain that dropping large rocks onto Earth's surface is REALLY destructive? If you choose option 2) you have to replicate entire supply chains in space and we have ZERO technology in the pipeline to do that. We have no smelting or mining equipment that works in space on anything close to an industrial scale. We don't have the robotics. We don't have the control systems. Even if we did we have no power systems adequate to drive them on an industrial scale except maybe nuclear fission and that's pretty dicey even here on Earth.
It will probably be a combination of both. 2 will come first and yes, there is a great deal of work to do. Currently, they're still trying to just land a probe on an asteroid, let alone any attempt to survey it for mining later with as yet undeveloped tech. 1 will come after 2 and they'll just be dropping a few square meters of precious metals back to earth which won't really be any more dangerous than any other capsule re-eantry.
How about just extending the ISS lifetime? It should be possible to make it operate for longer, even if it means building an entire new station bolted on the side and operating them in parallel until the old one can be decomissioned and deorbited.
I suspect that due to design criteria and engineering realities, that may sound good but is something like trying to build a Ford truck out of a Chevy sedan by replacing broken bits over time via 3rd party parts (I was going to use turning a Mac into a PC by replacing parts, but felt a car allegory was needed). First off, they need to do a bunch of deep space testing, and the ISS isn't in deep space. I'm sure some of the initial testing and research can be done there, and probably already has been started if not done. However, eventually, we'll have to put something outside the radiation shielding of our planet and see how it works.
And what's wrong with a nationally recognized ID?
It seems to me that the US really don't have any idea about who's a citizen or not, and to vote a registration is needed.
Understand there is no nationally needed registration to vote. Who gets to vote is left up to the individual states. There are constitutional rules on why states cannot deny people a vote, but the individual states could let anybody, including foreign nationals who just happen to be in the state on vacation vote if they wanted. All elections, except the one held by the Electors of the President, are state affairs, not national ones.