That's the best possible thing that could happen for air transport in North America. I've been through airports in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Russia, Italy, and all across North America, and LAX is the worst clusterfuck of an airport that I have ever seen in my life. Leave it to the legless lizards and start over somewhere else, the new airport can't possibly be worse.
If you look at it from the perspective of most tribal peoples it makes more sense. The world is divided into "US", who are human beings, superior from all the tribes of "THEM", who probably aren't fully human unless we share an ancestor. They don't talk correctly, don't decorate themselves right, worship wrong, eat the wrong animals, dress funny, and probably smell strange. Of course we're superior, we're descended from our deity. They're just animals.
Cain would have found a wife among the inferior tribes. His parents were created by deities, hers were animals. Yet another reason why men are superior to women too, the divine origin was carried in the male seed.
Adam and Eve may not have been the first people on the planet, but Cain and his descendents would claim that they were the first REAL human beings, created by god to be superior to the animals that lived in the nearby cities and villages and to rule over them.
The experiment is currently being carried out on several thousand other planets in the Milky Way, with chemical, gravitational, radiological and temperature variables covering a wide range of values. We'll get back to you in a billion years or so as to whether any of the attempts have been successful, or whether we need to wait another billion years.
A communist uprising in the US in 1919 not only isn't in the history books, it isn't even in the first six pages of a Google search. The liberal mind control machine must be at work. I didn't bother searching further, since there wasn't even a Communist Party in the US until the second half of the year anyway.
BTW, a "pure fact" would have said "Democratic Party", rather than the wingnut "democrat party".
You cannot ignore the current political hatred for socialism and socialist policies in the US by some political ideologies
I'm sorry, but WTF does a minor political clash in Germany have to do with events in the US over a decade later?
The democrat congress
Ah. You're a Rush Limbaugh listener. Logic isn't really your strong point then.
The socialist (sic) of the time were not seen as being bad
They're still not seen as being bad. All of the most stable economies of today are run by socialist-leaning governments, who also tend to have the highest standard of living. I don't see either of those two things as having negative connotations.
Bush should be (but won't, he's far too rich to suffer consequences
Obama will be too by the time he leaves office, the same as Reagan was. In 1979 Reagan was wealthy, but not tremendously rich. By 1989 he was worth over $100 million and had received a ranch and other property gifted to him worth several tens of millions more. This is in addition to inflated book deals and speaking engagements that pay upwards of six figures for a few minutes of reading someone else's text.
There's a reason why the first black president came out of Chicago, the dirtiest political machine left in the US. He would never have made it into the Senate in the first place if he hadn't already proved he was sufficiently corruptible to the PTB in Illinois.
A number of years ago there was a politician in Peru who was bravely standing up to some of the excesses of the military in their anti-terrorism campaign. He retired from politics when he received a photo of his daughter leaving her school, taken through a rifle scope. There are a lot of players in the game, not all of them play nice.
Fucking hell SlashDot, when the first poster or two corrected me about the B-52 being subsonic I thought, "Must have been the escort fighters." They would do mock attack runs on the bombers, we could see the contrails loop and spiral around the generally straight contrail of the main aircraft. Now that I've been corrected for the sixth time the only thing that I can think is, "Two thirds of the respondents have utterly missed the entire point of what I wrote." It's prissy pedantic shit like this which has gradually eroded the Online Forum format over the last few years. It's too bad, it really is my favorite format for discussion and learning. Even the trolls are disappointing now./rant
A former co-worker's father worked on one of the disarmament treaty teams on the US side in the '80s. He said that another reason for using the nukes in Japan was to show the Soviets what the US could do. Hiroshima, a mostly wooden city, flat, cut into sections by rivers, most closely resembled the large Siberian cities. Nagasaki, hilly, industrialized, and with a large amount of western-style buildings, more closely resembled the cities of eastern Europe.
BTW, he also said that his father told him that Wolfowitz was every bit as looney toons as he appears.
My nieces and nephews really can't comprehend what it was like to grow up with the constant knowledge that at any moment civilization and perhaps all multi-cellular life on the planet could end. To have 'Duck And Cover' drills in grade school and be sent home with maps for your parents showing what buildings were listed as Fallout Shelters (even though our small town was two hours from the closest reasonable target). Hearing the sonic boom of the B-52s based out of McCord AFB as they passed overhead, and seeing the radar dome of the inner-most ring of the DEW line every time we drove to Empire.
In some ways I'm glad, but at the same time it has left them without a sense of how real the danger still is.
I take it you haven't spent much time looking at bones beyond the one in your pork chop. There's actually a **LOT** of information there if you know what you're looking at. Take three upper leg front bones, one from a white tailed deer, another from a pronghorn antelope, and the third from a bighorn sheep. Three similar North American animals, you probably wouldn't be able to guess which went to which. A biologist on the other hand would be able to tell at a glance which was optimized for running, which for jumping, and which for climbing, and assign them correctly. With a little background data they could probably also tell you the approximate size, age, and maybe sex of the animal, its state of health at time of death, and what happened to it after death. With the correct equipment they could tell you what time of year it died, perhaps the cause of death, maybe its rank in the herd, and probably the area where it lived.
With a collection of related bones from different time periods it is fairly easy to figure out which animals would have been related to it, and how closely. We have very, very complete records for many animals, such as horses and elephants, that go back millions of years. Complete enough that a single ankle bone of an eohippus is sufficient to definitively establish that species' presence in a particular place and time, or when found in the body cavity of the fossilized remains of a predator to prove that a predator/prey relationship existed between them.
There is a lot you can tell from bones, if you know what you're looking at.
I'd be next in line after you to sign up. We're not alone, the group that wants to send people on a one-way trip to Mars has several tens of thousands of serious applicants. Short term thinking and the 'greed is good' ethic has taken over our culture, I miss big projects that take a decade to accomplish, risky endeavors and exploration for the sheer joy of exploring.
Do you remember WHY Columbus crossed the ocean? There were quite a lot of things that were worth shipping across that ocean or around the planet. Pepper, cloves, silk, porcelain, ivory, bronze, tobacco, coca, feathers, opium. As marine technology improved the bar moved lower, to whale oil, dried fish, sandalwood, ginseng, livestock. Today cargo containers of plastic toys and frozen dinners are in transit this moment.
Our "current technology" has barely advanced above what it was at the time of the Moon missions. The reason is because killing people has such a higher priority above anything else. If we (the 'we' of 'any government or organization on the planet') had spent 1/10 of the money wasted on just (for example) the cancelled Crusader program we would probably have developed a self-sustaining life support system by now.
You do realize that there hasn't been a left-leaning government in the Untied States since Roosevelt dragged us out of the Great Depression the business class had caused, don't you? Even then Roosevelt had moved considerably to the right by the time he died, because of the War. The only one before that during the 20th century was his cousin, the other President Roosevelt.
Several space craft with RTGs have suffered launch failures. For the most part they were fished out of the ocean or dug out of the tundra, refurbished, and launched on a later mission. The only way to "atomise" the plutonium in an RTG would be to to take that out that slug of metal, grind it into powder, mix it with something like magnesium and then burn it. A simple explosion won't turn it into dust. You really should listen to engineers rather than professional protesters and documented liars like Helen Caldicott when it comes to technology.
Up until this point it was too expensive computationally. Each set of images require 10^11 computations to process, a non-trivial amount of processing even for a big cluster of GPUs. Asteroids are really, really dim, and small ones are even harder to detect. The signals that they're trying to process are below the noise threshold.
My mom was a legal secretary for many years. Of the half dozen judges of various types in our small town there was only one who might have been able to withstand a close look at his legal/financial/personal dealings. By the time someone gets high enough in the judicial hierarchy to be anointed to the FISA court you can pretty much guarantee that there is sufficient dirt in their background to keep them pliable. Rather like being a politician from Chicago . . .
Well, since it's a Soviet design licensing the patents to re-start production should be fairly inexpensive, but to my (admittedly limited) knowledge no one is standing in line to build new ones for some reason. They're a popular engine, already integrated into the designs of several vehicles so there would be a guaranteed market, does anyone know why?
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Then it shouldn't be hard to get colonists lined up. There should be plenty from the Falklands and Utah.
It's too bad that movie didn't get a wider distribution. We might have been spared much of Kevin Bacon's subsequent 'acting' career.
That's the best possible thing that could happen for air transport in North America. I've been through airports in Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Russia, Italy, and all across North America, and LAX is the worst clusterfuck of an airport that I have ever seen in my life. Leave it to the legless lizards and start over somewhere else, the new airport can't possibly be worse.
If you look at it from the perspective of most tribal peoples it makes more sense. The world is divided into "US", who are human beings, superior from all the tribes of "THEM", who probably aren't fully human unless we share an ancestor. They don't talk correctly, don't decorate themselves right, worship wrong, eat the wrong animals, dress funny, and probably smell strange. Of course we're superior, we're descended from our deity. They're just animals.
Cain would have found a wife among the inferior tribes. His parents were created by deities, hers were animals. Yet another reason why men are superior to women too, the divine origin was carried in the male seed.
Adam and Eve may not have been the first people on the planet, but Cain and his descendents would claim that they were the first REAL human beings, created by god to be superior to the animals that lived in the nearby cities and villages and to rule over them.
The experiment is currently being carried out on several thousand other planets in the Milky Way, with chemical, gravitational, radiological and temperature variables covering a wide range of values. We'll get back to you in a billion years or so as to whether any of the attempts have been successful, or whether we need to wait another billion years.
A communist uprising in the US in 1919 not only isn't in the history books, it isn't even in the first six pages of a Google search. The liberal mind control machine must be at work. I didn't bother searching further, since there wasn't even a Communist Party in the US until the second half of the year anyway.
BTW, a "pure fact" would have said "Democratic Party", rather than the wingnut "democrat party".
You cannot ignore the current political hatred for socialism and socialist policies in the US by some political ideologies
The US isn't the only country in the world.
despite the Communist uprising in 1919
I'm sorry, but WTF does a minor political clash in Germany have to do with events in the US over a decade later?
The democrat congress
Ah. You're a Rush Limbaugh listener. Logic isn't really your strong point then.
The socialist (sic) of the time were not seen as being bad
They're still not seen as being bad. All of the most stable economies of today are run by socialist-leaning governments, who also tend to have the highest standard of living. I don't see either of those two things as having negative connotations.
Bush should be (but won't, he's far too rich to suffer consequences
Obama will be too by the time he leaves office, the same as Reagan was. In 1979 Reagan was wealthy, but not tremendously rich. By 1989 he was worth over $100 million and had received a ranch and other property gifted to him worth several tens of millions more. This is in addition to inflated book deals and speaking engagements that pay upwards of six figures for a few minutes of reading someone else's text.
There's a reason why the first black president came out of Chicago, the dirtiest political machine left in the US. He would never have made it into the Senate in the first place if he hadn't already proved he was sufficiently corruptible to the PTB in Illinois.
A number of years ago there was a politician in Peru who was bravely standing up to some of the excesses of the military in their anti-terrorism campaign. He retired from politics when he received a photo of his daughter leaving her school, taken through a rifle scope. There are a lot of players in the game, not all of them play nice.
Fucking hell SlashDot, when the first poster or two corrected me about the B-52 being subsonic I thought, "Must have been the escort fighters." They would do mock attack runs on the bombers, we could see the contrails loop and spiral around the generally straight contrail of the main aircraft. Now that I've been corrected for the sixth time the only thing that I can think is, "Two thirds of the respondents have utterly missed the entire point of what I wrote." It's prissy pedantic shit like this which has gradually eroded the Online Forum format over the last few years. It's too bad, it really is my favorite format for discussion and learning. Even the trolls are disappointing now. /rant
Sorry, just grumpy this morning.
A former co-worker's father worked on one of the disarmament treaty teams on the US side in the '80s. He said that another reason for using the nukes in Japan was to show the Soviets what the US could do. Hiroshima, a mostly wooden city, flat, cut into sections by rivers, most closely resembled the large Siberian cities. Nagasaki, hilly, industrialized, and with a large amount of western-style buildings, more closely resembled the cities of eastern Europe.
BTW, he also said that his father told him that Wolfowitz was every bit as looney toons as he appears.
My nieces and nephews really can't comprehend what it was like to grow up with the constant knowledge that at any moment civilization and perhaps all multi-cellular life on the planet could end. To have 'Duck And Cover' drills in grade school and be sent home with maps for your parents showing what buildings were listed as Fallout Shelters (even though our small town was two hours from the closest reasonable target). Hearing the sonic boom of the B-52s based out of McCord AFB as they passed overhead, and seeing the radar dome of the inner-most ring of the DEW line every time we drove to Empire.
In some ways I'm glad, but at the same time it has left them without a sense of how real the danger still is.
I take it you haven't spent much time looking at bones beyond the one in your pork chop. There's actually a **LOT** of information there if you know what you're looking at. Take three upper leg front bones, one from a white tailed deer, another from a pronghorn antelope, and the third from a bighorn sheep. Three similar North American animals, you probably wouldn't be able to guess which went to which. A biologist on the other hand would be able to tell at a glance which was optimized for running, which for jumping, and which for climbing, and assign them correctly. With a little background data they could probably also tell you the approximate size, age, and maybe sex of the animal, its state of health at time of death, and what happened to it after death. With the correct equipment they could tell you what time of year it died, perhaps the cause of death, maybe its rank in the herd, and probably the area where it lived.
With a collection of related bones from different time periods it is fairly easy to figure out which animals would have been related to it, and how closely. We have very, very complete records for many animals, such as horses and elephants, that go back millions of years. Complete enough that a single ankle bone of an eohippus is sufficient to definitively establish that species' presence in a particular place and time, or when found in the body cavity of the fossilized remains of a predator to prove that a predator/prey relationship existed between them.
There is a lot you can tell from bones, if you know what you're looking at.
I'd be next in line after you to sign up. We're not alone, the group that wants to send people on a one-way trip to Mars has several tens of thousands of serious applicants. Short term thinking and the 'greed is good' ethic has taken over our culture, I miss big projects that take a decade to accomplish, risky endeavors and exploration for the sheer joy of exploring.
few other things were
Do you remember WHY Columbus crossed the ocean? There were quite a lot of things that were worth shipping across that ocean or around the planet. Pepper, cloves, silk, porcelain, ivory, bronze, tobacco, coca, feathers, opium. As marine technology improved the bar moved lower, to whale oil, dried fish, sandalwood, ginseng, livestock. Today cargo containers of plastic toys and frozen dinners are in transit this moment.
Our "current technology" has barely advanced above what it was at the time of the Moon missions. The reason is because killing people has such a higher priority above anything else. If we (the 'we' of 'any government or organization on the planet') had spent 1/10 of the money wasted on just (for example) the cancelled Crusader program we would probably have developed a self-sustaining life support system by now.
You do realize that there hasn't been a left-leaning government in the Untied States since Roosevelt dragged us out of the Great Depression the business class had caused, don't you? Even then Roosevelt had moved considerably to the right by the time he died, because of the War. The only one before that during the 20th century was his cousin, the other President Roosevelt.
Several space craft with RTGs have suffered launch failures. For the most part they were fished out of the ocean or dug out of the tundra, refurbished, and launched on a later mission. The only way to "atomise" the plutonium in an RTG would be to to take that out that slug of metal, grind it into powder, mix it with something like magnesium and then burn it. A simple explosion won't turn it into dust. You really should listen to engineers rather than professional protesters and documented liars like Helen Caldicott when it comes to technology.
We've had two US presidential administrations in the past three decades run by guys with double digit IQs. I wouldn't be throwing stones.
Up until this point it was too expensive computationally. Each set of images require 10^11 computations to process, a non-trivial amount of processing even for a big cluster of GPUs. Asteroids are really, really dim, and small ones are even harder to detect. The signals that they're trying to process are below the noise threshold.
Well, hardware shops with really big shelves in the corner, anyway.
Blue Wales, or Pilot Wales?
Neighbor with a clean driving record started dating a cop's ex-wife. Within six months he had racked up enough tickets to get his license suspended.
My mom was a legal secretary for many years. Of the half dozen judges of various types in our small town there was only one who might have been able to withstand a close look at his legal/financial/personal dealings. By the time someone gets high enough in the judicial hierarchy to be anointed to the FISA court you can pretty much guarantee that there is sufficient dirt in their background to keep them pliable. Rather like being a politician from Chicago . . .
Well, since it's a Soviet design licensing the patents to re-start production should be fairly inexpensive, but to my (admittedly limited) knowledge no one is standing in line to build new ones for some reason. They're a popular engine, already integrated into the designs of several vehicles so there would be a guaranteed market, does anyone know why?