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  1. Re: Should read "the intensifying Russia-China spa on China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes - Atlas launched the Mercury project of 1958. The others are a step backwards on Titan, which we no longer have.

  2. Re: China should have been allowed to join the ISS on China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Look up "Mir Space Station" or ask a grown up about it.

  3. Re:Solve problems on Earth first on China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    current administration is and how in bed Hillary is with Saudi Arabia and Qatar

    It's every administration since Reagan at least and is not changing any time soon. I'm not saying it's a good thing, in fact it sucks so much that we even lost the twin towers for being in bed with Saudi Arabia.

  4. Re:Solve problems on Earth first on China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It was said (at the time) that there were no compelling experiments that needed to be done (in long-term weightlessness)

    With respect, that was said by complete and utter fucking idiots. Unless your field is computer science there is stuff in whatever field of science you pick that is going to act differently in microgravity.

    Let's solve a couple of our problems down here on Earth first.

    Microbiological research in space for example seems to be giving us plenty of insight into solving problems down on Earth.

  5. Just shows Wheedon is paying attention on China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Just shows Wheedon is paying attention - the Russian economy is still tied to resources so while they have the technology it's China and the USA that have the money to use it. Russia has had a century to get to where it is now while China has surpassed it starting from a low base around 1970.

  6. Temporary is not equal to 40 years on China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Jesus fucking Christ, it's a temporary situation that will be amended in fairly short order

    Temporary is saying that under the Ford administration and not under the Obama one.

  7. Re:Stop the Mars BS on China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Only in the movies.
    Meanwhile in reality (as shown with a very simple google search) both have been used:
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11538023
    http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0103138

  8. Re:China should have been allowed to join the ISS on China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Russia had the stuff we wanted and were the only ones with more than a few months experience with space stations. We were doing missions with them before they had "materially changed".
    To be honest we wanted their material while we didn't want anything space related from China.

  9. Should read "the intensifying Russia-China space.. on China Just Launched Two Astronauts Into Orbit (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Should read "the intensifying Russia-China space rivalry"
    The USA do not have a way to get people into orbit apart from asking for a lift.
    Can we get back from here or will it be like the British rocket program that just fizzled out and was never restarted?

    All we can do currently is something like the Mercury project of 1958. We don't have the launcher ready for anything bigger and may not for years.

  10. English--you should try learning it some time

    You are the one that pretended not to speak it moonshine boy :)

  11. Because?

  12. No, honey

    Ah yes - the passive agressive shit you keep on laying into the "SJWs" for. Fine if it's in the service of your tribe is it?

    As for your stupid "anyone not for me is against me" shit on the end accusing me of being in your stupid political tribe, I do not have a dog in this fight and can not and should not vote - you, moonshine boy, have a say in your destiny but I should have no more say in this than Putin or his bankers (who are financing Trump - but he'll probably screw them over instead of doing what he is told).

  13. There's a lot written about the gold standard - easiest to get into and most entertaining is Neal Stephenson's fictional "baroque trilogy" where he describes the transition between wealth based on possession of land and metals to wealth based on trade and economic activity.
    It's fiction but in the sense of real events of the being tied together with fictional characters who can explain what is going on.

    It also describes the history of banks - not a government thing until very recently and not strictly under government control even now. Blaming governments is a bit ... simplistic. When governments really fuck up economically (eg. Zimbabwe) economies still function (eg. US dollars used in Zimbabwe after everybody told the government and it's currency to go fuck itself).

    The gold nuts really just want to cement a European style aristocracy in place - all the wealth for the current major landowners and those of us who work for a living and/or have stuff to sell only get the crumbs. It's really pissing in the face of George Washington and the rest IMHO.

  14. What is really funny here is every time Trump is mentioned you go "but Hillary ...".
    Blind tribalism at work.

  15. Ah yes, and the Mafia stuff in the 1980s was also "law breaking, not corruption" - stop pretending to be an inbred idiot on moonshine and act your IQ.

  16. Just as you haven't put up any for Hillary. The newspapers are full instances of both.
    The latest bit of Trump corruption to come to light was in Cuba a few years ago. Stop pretending to be so stupid and open your eyes. If your hero has a chance he is going to fuck you over big time.

  17. Seriously?
    The textbook examples of the Tulip craze and the South Sea Bubble contradict what you have written in every way. See also the many real estate bubbles of the 1800s.

  18. Re: Can we see this evidence? on Top Democrats Request FBI Investigation of Trump Campaign Ties To Russia Over Hacking (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    So your current little bit of pretending to be stupid is suggesting that only people in government can be corrupt!
    Say hi to those spotless gangsters who are somehow paragons of virtue for me will you? And get a dictionary on the way out.

  19. Re:Lose all the Mail for the Win on Senator Wants Nationwide, All-Mail Voting To Counter Election Hacks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you missed the word "independently" - it's the most important one.
    Other countries (and US people when working for the UN) take elections more seriously.

  20. Re: Can we see this evidence? on Top Democrats Request FBI Investigation of Trump Campaign Ties To Russia Over Hacking (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    You really are incredibly funny. While I think Hillary would be a mistake Trump is orders of magnitude worse. Sorry about the big word but you've stopped pretending not to be able to read so I thought I'd try something harder than third grade stuff.
    So you think even Hillary is more corrupt than a casino boss? Stop sampling that moonshine!

  21. I did not say any of the things you suggested.
    I attempted to dumb things down a great deal so please read it and take it as written instead of adding detail between the lines that is not there.

  22. Who knows for sure, only some impartial examination of financial history

    If that was enough he'd look guilty as hell due to his huge recent loans from Russian banks. It needs more than that, even though it looks pretty bad to have a canditate that owes a lot to a nation we have a few problems with.

  23. Sorry but the 1980 thing is just hilarious now even if it wasn't back then. Haven't you noticed what has been happening in Afganistan since 2001? We've been doing exactly what the Russians did for the same reasons they did it, only now there is no cold war and nobody looking so hard for things to point the finger over.
    Russia is doing almost exactly what they did in Afganistan in 1980 in Syria today. Not pretty, wrong in a lot of ways but we are mostly on the same side so we don't make the fuss we made in 1980.

  24. Let's face it: both candidates suck, and Hillary will probably have us at war with Russia halfway through her first term.

    I've seen this a lot over the last couple of months. How did this weird meme start?
    Was Reagan also a menace? Eisenhower?

  25. Re:The source isn't important on Top Democrats Request FBI Investigation of Trump Campaign Ties To Russia Over Hacking (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    And Trump is unstable, yeah fucking sheep.

    Thirteen year olds maybe but nobody is claiming he is fucking sheep yet.