Not exactly "fossil", by there's one place with nice quantities of hydrocarbons - Titan. Of course, it presents its own set of problems - there's "fuel" everywhere, sure, but there's not really any oxidizer...except in water, which would need to be broken down by input of energy from some other source / much less point in such case. 90 K temperature in a dense atmosphere (with what is essentially...Zyklon B) doesn't help.
Well, we are working on better understanding of physics after all - though there's no guarantee it will give us anything we would "like" / might be not that much of a "new physics" from now on.
Anything less, and space colonization will be pretty much madness anyway...
Well, that quote would be fine if it weren't so...sensationalist, in a way (sure, might be understandable fora TV series). It won't happen "in a in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years" - the Sun will start giving the Earth real problems in around one billion years (not exactly "grow cold"...).
I strongly suspect that, in such timescale, "Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu, Einstein, Morobuto, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes.. and all of this.." will be at least mostly gone, in any meaningful manner, anyway.
It probably is, but the results would take so long and have so little in common with us, that nobody would give a damn. I suspect it would be like so even with the the most practical, by far, method (out of those which are certainly within our reach) - embryo colonization; "those are our children" works best on the here and now basis, too. And the embryo way, while monumentally less resource consuming than sending few million humans / the same amount of genetic diversity, would still be a bit of a strain on the home system (BTW, multi-million year journeys in a colony ship aren't happening; how do you do something as basic as stop all containers from leaking everything stored inside on such timescales? OTOH, a small & relatively fast embryo ship taking few hundred years...)
Short of a direct hit into the Sun by some other largish body (from our observations - an exceedingly rare event), which would "flame up" the Sun quite a bit and perhaps push it off the main sequence prematurely (most likely not, so it would be at most just atmosphere & part ocean stripping solar flare - which will happen anyway, to much larger degree, in 1 billion years - so would be fine underground, and certainly not much different in other places in the system), what you're saying will happen in 5 BILLION YEARS. Think good about what such timescales mean...
Not really, Germany has quite high number of guns per capita - which, while not translating directly to "percentage of population" (for example: any self-respecting hunter will have minimum two after all), does mean there's quite enough people with guns. Plus since, IIRC, large portion of them are indeed those with hunting licenses - there will be enough guns of most appropriate type.
Still, I wouldn't expect such sillinesss taking place...
Yeah, nice quality (but not "too good" - such drones can't carry really good photographic gear, for starters) aerial photos, frequently updated, lower cost, lesser risk than sending small airplanes for similar shots & in the same places & as frequently; perhaps also a nice way to obtain textures for Google Earth - what's not to like?
Not everything needs to be about 1984; especially since such photos were already being made. Now they can show more places, and be more current, something which people certainly want.
I'm not sure how people ordering assasinations justify it to themselves - but I would probably tell myself how it simply has to be done, and that some other people which "created" the situation are responsible, that they have "blood on their hands"; even if it's their blood.
Also, aren't those circles the ones mostly nodding in unison to "If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide", "rightful owners" of some info/etc. be damned?
Whatever could be done, in the past and in the future, regarding that one war - won't change how the old team manufactured another war in times when those (heck, or small part of) resources could make a big difference for the first one...
...of course the last time "Americans demanded and supported it overwhelmingly" also after being told of lies about WMDs, etc. (not that what the gov was doing isn't some reflection of the society anyway)
Look, in my place the military is slightly impotent overall and generally is as an institution where lazy would-be sportsmen (you need to have absolutelly perfect health, when joining, to be a soldier) can live comfortably. At least, perhaps, with not making it too vital, too big, too entrenched in the society via many of its members, too tech & resource thirsty - the policies aren't influenced by what's good for the military.
If only more of the (sensible) netbooks had a Trackpoint, so as to be really portable - even from the short time I played with it on a Thinkpad of a buddy, I can say it's almost as good as a mouse for FPPs or Diablo II: LoD. Really portable would be important especially for the latter - I have this dream of playing it in a cathedral during some organ concert; or in a train with nuns nearby; or in the middle of 1-2 XI night in a cemetery;p
With touchpad it's not exactly the same... (well, doable with necro, but...)
Though how many people actually realise how many galaxies, stars & almost certainly (we'll find out in a few years, I probably won't be surprised) planets are there? Or how many suspect places we have even in our system? The populace at large isn't really accustomed to such basic ideas, doesn't need to face them...we can't really predict the reaction when it has to face them.
Also... "did the church collapse when they found groups of people who had never heard of God or Jesus" - well, yes and no. On one hand there is some very notable continuity of course (very pure one, according to image adherents have; of any church). But on the other - clash with new areas, new people results in quite notable changes. When it comes to the church in my place (one very dear to Vatican), it's actually not at all obvious if it takes most from Christianity from X century, considering so many elements of local pagan beliefs from the same time (they certainly were very strong for the next 6 or 7 centuries, "national baptism" is in itself a myth of course). That's not at all unique. And Christians from a millenia ago could hardly imagine how far they would be to the present ones (heck, most present ones wouldn't be very safe; heresies and all that...). That's not a sudden collapse of course - but apart from the core of mythology, formalities and buildings, not a lot has survived.
Somebody with PMS was apparently closely watching replies, for some time after the story went live - quite a few of "dissenting" posts of such type were similarly quickly downmodded / meh, whatever.
A bit funny considering that the creators themselves don't describe it as "Wipeout-like", IIRC they mentioned only similarity (due to practical factors) in the general look of the track. Wipeut Recreated seems to come from "journalists"...
It also seems that quite a bit of those encounter reports focus on times when suddenly a lot of much more random people than today took up into the skies, lots of them young and scared / under enormous pressure; when routine high altitude flight was somewhat new, likewise oxygen installations.
Some airplanes even had big-fraking-light for spotting U-Boots...
Since the view is via camera, weapons might as well be overimposed on it, in "augmented reality" style (with proper random effects on speed / direction of the hit vehicle; perhaps also some electromagnet underneath it firing from a big capacitor...). Of course, that starts to bring you "back" towards software...
Slashdot Mirror
...going around like that and showing results possibly pointing also to few early formative years, and surroundings back then.
Not exactly "fossil", by there's one place with nice quantities of hydrocarbons - Titan. Of course, it presents its own set of problems - there's "fuel" everywhere, sure, but there's not really any oxidizer...except in water, which would need to be broken down by input of energy from some other source / much less point in such case. 90 K temperature in a dense atmosphere (with what is essentially...Zyklon B) doesn't help.
Well, we are working on better understanding of physics after all - though there's no guarantee it will give us anything we would "like" / might be not that much of a "new physics" from now on.
Anything less, and space colonization will be pretty much madness anyway...
The only bodies of such size in our system are other planets and dwarf planets, but their orbits appear to be stable & far from us.
Well, that quote would be fine if it weren't so...sensationalist, in a way (sure, might be understandable fora TV series). It won't happen "in a in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years" - the Sun will start giving the Earth real problems in around one billion years (not exactly "grow cold"...).
I strongly suspect that, in such timescale, "Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu, Einstein, Morobuto, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes .. and all of this .." will be at least mostly gone, in any meaningful manner, anyway.
It probably is, but the results would take so long and have so little in common with us, that nobody would give a damn. I suspect it would be like so even with the the most practical, by far, method (out of those which are certainly within our reach) - embryo colonization; "those are our children" works best on the here and now basis, too. And the embryo way, while monumentally less resource consuming than sending few million humans / the same amount of genetic diversity, would still be a bit of a strain on the home system (BTW, multi-million year journeys in a colony ship aren't happening; how do you do something as basic as stop all containers from leaking everything stored inside on such timescales? OTOH, a small & relatively fast embryo ship taking few hundred years...)
Short of a direct hit into the Sun by some other largish body (from our observations - an exceedingly rare event), which would "flame up" the Sun quite a bit and perhaps push it off the main sequence prematurely (most likely not, so it would be at most just atmosphere & part ocean stripping solar flare - which will happen anyway, to much larger degree, in 1 billion years - so would be fine underground, and certainly not much different in other places in the system), what you're saying will happen in 5 BILLION YEARS. Think good about what such timescales mean...
Not really, Germany has quite high number of guns per capita - which, while not translating directly to "percentage of population" (for example: any self-respecting hunter will have minimum two after all), does mean there's quite enough people with guns. Plus since, IIRC, large portion of them are indeed those with hunting licenses - there will be enough guns of most appropriate type.
Still, I wouldn't expect such sillinesss taking place...
Yeah, nice quality (but not "too good" - such drones can't carry really good photographic gear, for starters) aerial photos, frequently updated, lower cost, lesser risk than sending small airplanes for similar shots & in the same places & as frequently; perhaps also a nice way to obtain textures for Google Earth - what's not to like?
Not everything needs to be about 1984; especially since such photos were already being made. Now they can show more places, and be more current, something which people certainly want.
So, OTOH, you think what such "few douchbags" do eveyrwhere is not, more or less, a reflection of given society?
From where do you think they come? Do you think that "ordinary people" despise and distant themselves from such ways, even when given the opportunity?
So essentially - deity model of doing business, if you think about it?
Yup, we have reasons to be scared...
For extra effect, they should put Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" there; also recently frozen.
Such things don't seem to guarantee anything...
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=evilentity
Well, their original form could allow for easier pinpointing of the leak...
I'm not sure how people ordering assasinations justify it to themselves - but I would probably tell myself how it simply has to be done, and that some other people which "created" the situation are responsible, that they have "blood on their hands"; even if it's their blood.
Also, aren't those circles the ones mostly nodding in unison to "If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide", "rightful owners" of some info/etc. be damned?
Whatever could be done, in the past and in the future, regarding that one war - won't change how the old team manufactured another war in times when those (heck, or small part of) resources could make a big difference for the first one...
...of course the last time "Americans demanded and supported it overwhelmingly" also after being told of lies about WMDs, etc. (not that what the gov was doing isn't some reflection of the society anyway)
Look, in my place the military is slightly impotent overall and generally is as an institution where lazy would-be sportsmen (you need to have absolutelly perfect health, when joining, to be a soldier) can live comfortably. At least, perhaps, with not making it too vital, too big, too entrenched in the society via many of its members, too tech & resource thirsty - the policies aren't influenced by what's good for the military.
If only more of the (sensible) netbooks had a Trackpoint, so as to be really portable - even from the short time I played with it on a Thinkpad of a buddy, I can say it's almost as good as a mouse for FPPs or Diablo II: LoD. Really portable would be important especially for the latter - I have this dream of playing it in a cathedral during some organ concert; or in a train with nuns nearby; or in the middle of 1-2 XI night in a cemetery ;p
With touchpad it's not exactly the same... (well, doable with necro, but...)
Though how many people actually realise how many galaxies, stars & almost certainly (we'll find out in a few years, I probably won't be surprised) planets are there? Or how many suspect places we have even in our system? The populace at large isn't really accustomed to such basic ideas, doesn't need to face them...we can't really predict the reaction when it has to face them.
Also... "did the church collapse when they found groups of people who had never heard of God or Jesus" - well, yes and no. On one hand there is some very notable continuity of course (very pure one, according to image adherents have; of any church). But on the other - clash with new areas, new people results in quite notable changes. When it comes to the church in my place (one very dear to Vatican), it's actually not at all obvious if it takes most from Christianity from X century, considering so many elements of local pagan beliefs from the same time (they certainly were very strong for the next 6 or 7 centuries, "national baptism" is in itself a myth of course). That's not at all unique. And Christians from a millenia ago could hardly imagine how far they would be to the present ones (heck, most present ones wouldn't be very safe; heresies and all that...). That's not a sudden collapse of course - but apart from the core of mythology, formalities and buildings, not a lot has survived.
Somebody with PMS was apparently closely watching replies, for some time after the story went live - quite a few of "dissenting" posts of such type were similarly quickly downmodded / meh, whatever.
A bit funny considering that the creators themselves don't describe it as "Wipeout-like", IIRC they mentioned only similarity (due to practical factors) in the general look of the track. Wipeut Recreated seems to come from "journalists"...
It also seems that quite a bit of those encounter reports focus on times when suddenly a lot of much more random people than today took up into the skies, lots of them young and scared / under enormous pressure; when routine high altitude flight was somewhat new, likewise oxygen installations.
Some airplanes even had big-fraking-light for spotting U-Boots...
You assume they would renewe only if that specific work were to generate enough income.
They would be pay as long is it is economically viable to block freeing it; in relation to rest of the portfolio.
Things you envision wouldn't be exactly video games though...
Here, some created using 50's technology:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_for_Two
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OXO
Since the view is via camera, weapons might as well be overimposed on it, in "augmented reality" style (with proper random effects on speed / direction of the hit vehicle; perhaps also some electromagnet underneath it firing from a big capacitor...). Of course, that starts to bring you "back" towards software...