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NYT on RFID
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So the necessary item is a gamma-emitter what can be used on a couch? I saw a nifty UV flashlight recently, but... Wouldn't it be, not ironic, maybe, but a little *weird* if we wound up getting death-rays and zap-guns and phasers simply out of a need to circumvent things like RFID?
Yep. Space planes look cool, though. Like Roton before they "built" one. For some reason vistas of Mars don't look particularly cool. Maybe it is the hungover seventies influence of the artists conceptions, maybe it is simply that Robert Zubrin alone cannot a coolness invoke, I don't know...but I like the way you think: a concrete goal. For some reason the word "colony" still raises hackles internationally, however.
Every time of of these damn things whips by I hear the same story. "Wah, we're all gonna die hideous cannibal deaths in the freezing dark. Wah, it's going to kill every living being just like the other ones did. Wah, I want my robust space program back." Why be so negative? If we could park this boulder off the Earth's coast somewhere, does anyone have an idea of how much it could be *worth?* I vote for clamping a booster to it, then nudging it into place at one of the L-points. (Distracted by movement, he glances at television monitor set into the wing-shaped ebony desk on his metallic dias.) "Ah, Mr. Bond! So good of you to...join us." Heh heh heh.
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So the necessary item is a gamma-emitter what can be used on a couch? I saw a nifty UV flashlight recently, but... Wouldn't it be, not ironic, maybe, but a little *weird* if we wound up getting death-rays and zap-guns and phasers simply out of a need to circumvent things like RFID?
Yep. Space planes look cool, though. Like Roton before they "built" one. For some reason vistas of Mars don't look particularly cool. Maybe it is the hungover seventies influence of the artists conceptions, maybe it is simply that Robert Zubrin alone cannot a coolness invoke, I don't know...but I like the way you think: a concrete goal. For some reason the word "colony" still raises hackles internationally, however.
Every time of of these damn things whips by I hear the same story. "Wah, we're all gonna die hideous cannibal deaths in the freezing dark. Wah, it's going to kill every living being just like the other ones did. Wah, I want my robust space program back." Why be so negative? If we could park this boulder off the Earth's coast somewhere, does anyone have an idea of how much it could be *worth?* I vote for clamping a booster to it, then nudging it into place at one of the L-points. (Distracted by movement, he glances at television monitor set into the wing-shaped ebony desk on his metallic dias.) "Ah, Mr. Bond! So good of you to...join us." Heh heh heh.