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A New Ice Age?
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Too little data, too much speculation. How are you going to predict a system that operates on million year cycles on a few decades of recorded data and indirect inferences such as ice layers and fossils going back a few thousand years? There's always been more panic and fancy with climatologists than there's been Science. With our level of technology all you could do is ride with the flow anyway.
Can you name one CEO that's not an arrogant SOB? To get to the top, you've got to make yourself the number one priority. I'm no Jobs fan, but I find his intolerance much more annoying than his arrogance. Jobs has zero tolerance for anyone with an IQ under 120. I'm sure he would have his own, "final solution", if he had the power.
It's not the personnel, it's the spacecraft. The program can't afford to lose another shuttle or it will be scrapped. Congress will never approve building another one of these old birds and we are a decade away from having a replacement. We have barely started the basic R&D for a suitable replacement. Even with unlimited resources it would take 6 years to get a test flight on a new vehicle.
I over heard a conversation yesterday about the recent Mars Mission. To sum it up the comments where, " All that money for pictures of a bunch of rocks? You could get that in any dessert for nothing". You expect the general public with notions like this to support a multi-decade effort to Mars? This isn't TV or game console instant gratification and special effects. This is decades of hard work and trillions of dollars.
There may be just too much hard radiation to survive several years in space and on the surface of this planet. The only shielding available in our current technology is heavy mass and that requires a lot of propellant. In truth at the current rate of technology growth it may be several hundred years before interplanetary travel by humans is possible. You would probably need some form of reliable nuclear power for such a mission also. In todays political climate you can't even launch a deep space probe with Plutonium batteries like the famous probes of the 70's and 80's.
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Reference to movie, "Aliens" Who could forget Sigourny Weaver getting all bad-assed on the beast. My hands tremble from just thinking about it.
This could create a new fad. Place object of choice in the field of these site cams.
Too little data, too much speculation. How are you going to predict a system that operates on million year cycles on a few decades of recorded data and indirect inferences such as ice layers and fossils going back a few thousand years? There's always been more panic and fancy with climatologists than there's been Science. With our level of technology all you could do is ride with the flow anyway.
Can you name one CEO that's not an arrogant SOB? To get to the top, you've got to make yourself the number one priority. I'm no Jobs fan, but I find his intolerance much more annoying than his arrogance. Jobs has zero tolerance for anyone with an IQ under 120. I'm sure he would have his own, "final solution", if he had the power.
It's not the personnel, it's the spacecraft. The program can't afford to lose another shuttle or it will be scrapped. Congress will never approve building another one of these old birds and we are a decade away from having a replacement. We have barely started the basic R&D for a suitable replacement. Even with unlimited resources it would take 6 years to get a test flight on a new vehicle.
I over heard a conversation yesterday about the recent Mars Mission. To sum it up the comments where, " All that money for pictures of a bunch of rocks? You could get that in any dessert for nothing". You expect the general public with notions like this to support a multi-decade effort to Mars? This isn't TV or game console instant gratification and special effects. This is decades of hard work and trillions of dollars.
There may be just too much hard radiation to survive several years in space and on the surface of this planet. The only shielding available in our current technology is heavy mass and that requires a lot of propellant. In truth at the current rate of technology growth it may be several hundred years before interplanetary travel by humans is possible. You would probably need some form of reliable nuclear power for such a mission also. In todays political climate you can't even launch a deep space probe with Plutonium batteries like the famous probes of the 70's and 80's.
In another 6 or 7 billion years this place will not be fit to live in.