Fought a war over that one. Forgot who won. Do you remember?
Yes — it was people who owned other people, who somehow did not get any representation in government.
Of course, as someone who was born and raised in the South, I saw a lot of rebel flags. I used to enjoy saying to those dumbass rednecks "Fought a war over that one. Forgot who won. Do you remember?"
This particular form of enjoyment led to a lot of running.
"infrared" is not heat. infrared radiation is an EM wave, and EM waves have energy. The way you get heat is from absorbing that radiation.
2)
So the tight infrared laser would diffuse in the atmosphere?
And diffusion is the absorption and scattering of radiation. If you just shoot a laser of some random wavelength into the atmosphere, this is probably true. Presumably the scientists involved know about the IR transparency windows available in the atmosphere.
OBLIGATORY POLITICAL RANT:This, however, would require listening to the scientists, of which my faith diminishes every election cycle. I imagine they will settle on a wavelength that is somehow both compatible with Leviticus (to avoid angering their Ayn Rand-reading Sky Daddy) and managing to assrape the ghost of Karl Marx.
Ever since I got a proper office job, I've tried to temper my profanity. Two things that have helped in this are a) non-English swearing (mostly French), and b) Cockney rhyming slang. I should be okay until HR hires a Francophone that knows what a berk is.
So was I (well, high school). That didn't stop me from seeing the obvious: the solution to our dislike of a country's oppressive government is not to encourage its replacement with an oppressive government theoretically more to our liking. The lack of the Reaganites to heed the then-active lessons of Iran and Lebanon while fucking around in Afghanistan to Fight The Red Menace(TM) was exactly the kind of stupidity I feared from those jackasses.
To use your analogy, the same lens for history may not work well for anticipating the future, but that's no reason to not ignore what you see when you use it on history.
Oh, by the way, the people we displaced from power are Islamic Extremists, who deny basic education to women, recruit children into their armies, and are all around bad guys.
It's a pity you couldn't manifest all of this moral outage when we were funding and arming those Islamic extremists to fight the Rooskies.
Call me back when you find a Republican politician begging the previous president to make a campaign appearance for him. Or hell, promising to bring back whole his brilliant ideas on economic and military policies.
If you (can) read the grandparent comment, you will see that mine was a response to the direct assertion that no Fox commentators had moderated ANY debates. Personally I don't give a rat's turd about who fake moderates a fake debate. I do, however, give a sewer full of shit's worth about dumbasses who make up their own facts. The fact that I have to do so for right-wingers a lot more than left-wingers is, however, telling.
Ahem. The names in bold are commentators on FOX NEWS
May 15, 2007: Republican Debate, moderated by BRIT HUME, with CHRIS WALLACE and WENDELL GOLER
September 15, 2007: Republican Debate, moderated by BRIT HUME, with CHRIS WALLACE and WENDELL GOLER
October 21, 2007: Republican Debate, moderated by BRIT HUME, with CHRIS WALLACE, WENDELL GOLER, and CARL CAMERON.
January 6, 2008: informal Republican debate, moderated by CHRIS WALLACE.
Sorry to ruin your bullshit complaint with, you know, facts and stuff. Do not compound your error further by claiming that any of these FNC tools are NOT commentators. Unless, for example, Brit Hume suggesting that Tiger Woods abandon his Buddhist faith for the warm embrace of Xianity is considered fair and balanced.
If you're going to bump it up to nine, you may as well bump it up to twelve to include Eris, Makemake, and Haumea. Or thirteen, if you hold a favorable opinion of Ceres.
Theoretically though, if you could somehow make an engine constantly add thrust and never plateau due to relativity(where max speed would be the maximum exit speed of the particles being used for propulsion) you could exceed light speed.
Except that it's not the plateau of the exit thrust that stops it, it's the increase in inertia of the rocket as it approaches light speed, which approaches infinity as the rocket speed approaches the speed of light.
To take an optimistic view, time dilation does slow the clock on the ship relative to the Earth, so a passenger on board can get to, say, Alpha Centauri in one day of shipboard time. The guys back at NASA, though, still have to wait eight years to see if you made it (four years for your arrival, four years for your triumphant radio message). Physics is cruel, but it's not arbitrary.
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Yes — it was people who owned other people, who somehow did not get any representation in government.
Of course, as someone who was born and raised in the South, I saw a lot of rebel flags. I used to enjoy saying to those dumbass rednecks "Fought a war over that one. Forgot who won. Do you remember?"
This particular form of enjoyment led to a lot of running.
1)
"infrared" is not heat. infrared radiation is an EM wave, and EM waves have energy. The way you get heat is from absorbing that radiation. 2)
And diffusion is the absorption and scattering of radiation. If you just shoot a laser of some random wavelength into the atmosphere, this is probably true. Presumably the scientists involved know about the IR transparency windows available in the atmosphere.
OBLIGATORY POLITICAL RANT:This, however, would require listening to the scientists, of which my faith diminishes every election cycle. I imagine they will settle on a wavelength that is somehow both compatible with Leviticus (to avoid angering their Ayn Rand-reading Sky Daddy) and managing to assrape the ghost of Karl Marx.
The military *HAS* been infiltrated by dirty commies!
That deserves a neon yer groin. Knock off the funny bismuth.
Headed by a guy whose primary purpose in the years prior was designing delivery systems for explosives to hit London.
Ever since I got a proper office job, I've tried to temper my profanity. Two things that have helped in this are a) non-English swearing (mostly French), and b) Cockney rhyming slang. I should be okay until HR hires a Francophone that knows what a berk is.
Luckily Microsoft has solved this problem, by making a console that self-destructs after a few months of heavy use.
How did you manage to nail it to a tree?
So was I (well, high school). That didn't stop me from seeing the obvious: the solution to our dislike of a country's oppressive government is not to encourage its replacement with an oppressive government theoretically more to our liking. The lack of the Reaganites to heed the then-active lessons of Iran and Lebanon while fucking around in Afghanistan to Fight The Red Menace(TM) was exactly the kind of stupidity I feared from those jackasses.
To use your analogy, the same lens for history may not work well for anticipating the future, but that's no reason to not ignore what you see when you use it on history.
It's a pity you couldn't manifest all of this moral outage when we were funding and arming those Islamic extremists to fight the Rooskies.
Call me back when you find a Republican politician begging the previous president to make a campaign appearance for him. Or hell, promising to bring back whole his brilliant ideas on economic and military policies.
I presume you mean INCUBUS — in which case the dialogue wasn't in French Canadian, it was in Esperanto.
You left out the worst part: they have sex with Chicagoans.
There are plenty of plastic surgeons, liposuction clinics, and tanning salons who would pay then handsomely to model in some "BEFORE" pictures.
If you (can) read the grandparent comment, you will see that mine was a response to the direct assertion that no Fox commentators had moderated ANY debates. Personally I don't give a rat's turd about who fake moderates a fake debate. I do, however, give a sewer full of shit's worth about dumbasses who make up their own facts. The fact that I have to do so for right-wingers a lot more than left-wingers is, however, telling.
Ahem. The names in bold are commentators on FOX NEWS
May 15, 2007: Republican Debate, moderated by BRIT HUME, with CHRIS WALLACE and WENDELL GOLER
September 15, 2007: Republican Debate, moderated by BRIT HUME, with CHRIS WALLACE and WENDELL GOLER
October 21, 2007: Republican Debate, moderated by BRIT HUME, with CHRIS WALLACE, WENDELL GOLER, and CARL CAMERON.
January 6, 2008: informal Republican debate, moderated by CHRIS WALLACE.
Sorry to ruin your bullshit complaint with, you know, facts and stuff. Do not compound your error further by claiming that any of these FNC tools are NOT commentators. Unless, for example, Brit Hume suggesting that Tiger Woods abandon his Buddhist faith for the warm embrace of Xianity is considered fair and balanced.
Stephen Colbert, that is.
If you're going to bump it up to nine, you may as well bump it up to twelve to include Eris, Makemake, and Haumea. Or thirteen, if you hold a favorable opinion of Ceres.
Except that it's not the plateau of the exit thrust that stops it, it's the increase in inertia of the rocket as it approaches light speed, which approaches infinity as the rocket speed approaches the speed of light.
To take an optimistic view, time dilation does slow the clock on the ship relative to the Earth, so a passenger on board can get to, say, Alpha Centauri in one day of shipboard time. The guys back at NASA, though, still have to wait eight years to see if you made it (four years for your arrival, four years for your triumphant radio message). Physics is cruel, but it's not arbitrary.
Fuck you, RIAAssholes.
Maybe this will help.
And Guyana? That fat, sucrose-laden sociopath Fucked those people UP.
You better. These things to go in one year and out the other.
Sperm banks.
Don't forget to give Tomita his due, for the electro-whistling version thereof.