So, why do you choose this quite safe and comfortable life, for you and your family, instead of being in a place & doing things which, while risky, have a real chance of saving many lives of others?
You can even make that choice under no duress / etc.
Don't introduce more confusion by mixing _specific_ evolutionary mechanisms or models with the general idea of evolution. The latter itself is under attack in this "war"
Somewhat awoken minds tend to wonder more often _by_themselves_ "where do I come from?" - letting intellectual rigor slip in this instance won't help with really waking up.
Truth Cannot Contradict Truth (plus of course: remember how Catholicism in fact forms strong majority of Christianity)
How do the conclusions reached by the various scientific disciplines coincide with those contained in the message of revelation? And if, at first sight, there are apparent contradictions, in what direction do we look for their solution? We know, in fact, that truth cannot contradict truth ...
It is necessary to determine the proper sense of Scripture, while avoiding any unwarranted interpretations that make it say what it does not intend to say. In order to delineate the field of their own study, the exegete and the theologian must keep informed about the results achieved by the natural sciences ...
new knowledge has led to the recognition of the theory of evolution as more than a hypothesis.... It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge. The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated, of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a significant argument in favor of this theory.
What I wonder - why do everybody assume that the people writing Commerce Clause (and adjoining scribblings) were incapable of envisioning how it can be (apparently) easily interpreted...
Heck, the act of locking somebody in the prison has all it takes to encourage inmates to become obsessed with mentally escaping the restrictions of prison life.
Unfortunately and shockingly, there doesn't appear to be (after quick Google search) any "Church of D&D"...not even in the style of ~dozen relatively widespread parody religions.
We're talking about a weird Swedish law regarding sexual impropriety and you're talking about a violent rape. Intentionally muddying the waters...
And yet, the headlines or news summaries almost scream "RAPE!"...don't really even try conveying "what is classified in Sweden also under that term, and doesn't quite fall under non-Swedish term"
It's not only borderline slandering, it's a trivialization of actual rapes (as understood by societies of majority of news sources)
Furthermore, going more directly with the theme of parent posters - from where do people in "higher classes" come from / how come everybody who gets a bump finds the new position very desirable?
It was (and is, all of it) largely a reflection of society.
While graphics, gimmicks, gadgets and gizmos skyrocketed, creativity withered and died
That's the key. They were, IMHO, first person shooters of their time. The background story and gameplay were often simply atrocious.
But their GFX looked shiny. Of course that didn't matter when PCs suddenly could render something nice in real time, and another "show off" type of game took over. Which, funnily enough, deep down has basically the same game mechanics - also revolving around pointing at things...
BTW, while TFS hints a bit at Japan, it doesn't mention one important thing - "graphic adventure games" flourish there, generally. AFAIK they form more than half of PC titles! (but - different mechanics, no pointing, usually menu-driven)
, €, ó, , , , , , ,...great, apparently (in preview, so far) those from across the Oder have now one letter out of nine, o-acute (but at least Euro sign seems to work, it wasn't the case not so long ago...)
I assure you, it's not (if anything - for me the "distracting weird" is when one of my eyes must be covered (or in stereoscopic images...), and lack of parallax effects is probably part of the weirdness) I suspect it might be even useful.
We aren't going out of our way to try doing very many things. That's not merely a matter of choice... (however amusing mass production of particle accelerators would be)
Not really, no - first, the probe can initially put itself into a very elliptical orbit around target star and circularize it gradually (like we already do when arriving at other local planets, with probes having pitiful delta-v budgets); parameters of its orbit don't need to mirror at all those at the start of journey...
Secondly, when I wrote "stellar aerobraking" - I didn't mean using only stellar wind, in the same way as during departure. Actual plunge into relatively dense portions of the stellar atmosphere could bleed off some km/s... yes, expected to hard, but certainly "that would be some sight...";>
Some gas giant might be similarly handy. Or - having some "last ditch" means of active propulsion (a nuclear warhead or two?) - to be used also when extremely close to the target star, exploiting Oberth effect.
At least millennia, and probably millions of years - not centuries. One of CERN pages describes how our total production of antimatter up to this point could power a light bulb for a few minutes (and how an amount for a bomb of fairly normal yield, in the range of typical small thermonuclear one, would take billions of years to produce - since the energy involved would be not too far from the amounts in large orbital launch, I might leave more than enough space for improvement when saying "millennia, and probably millions of years")
Or, in the time and budget much smaller than this thing would swallow, we might be able to build thousands solar or "artificial" (even if not to such extremes) sails. That could give semi-continuous observation even with just flybys... plus some might be able to slow down.
Are we overtaking anytime soon our existing interstellar probes launched over 30 years ago? (mind you, NOT launched in the fastest way possible - a Saturn V with NERVA upper stage and ion engine & reactor borrowed from the Soviets would give Pioneers and Voyagers a heck of a lot more kick - it was not for strictly technical reasons why we didn't do it... but, funnily enough, we couldn't do it the "faster way" now!) Are current planes much faster / different than those from half a century ago? Do we build ships defying Archimedes' principle? (come on, that's over 2 thousands years old! Surely it should pass by now)
You really can't assume a technological scenarios depicted in works of fiction. Look at those airplanes (probably influenced by rapid advances in naval technology, plus an unhealthy doze of wishful thinking) from "our" times, as depicted over a century ago. Vs. what reality actually dictates
Don't bet on new physics; there's really nothing particularly suggestive of the practical limits we stumbled upon not being there. Of our physics being very wrong (it would pretty much have to be, if you wish for practical FTL / time travel), vs. just incomplete.
(that said, yeah, there are almost certainly more practical approaches than Daedalus or Icarus)
Slashdot Mirror
So, why do you choose this quite safe and comfortable life, for you and your family, instead of being in a place & doing things which, while risky, have a real chance of saving many lives of others?
You can even make that choice under no duress / etc.
Don't introduce more confusion by mixing _specific_ evolutionary mechanisms or models with the general idea of evolution. The latter itself is under attack in this "war"
Somewhat awoken minds tend to wonder more often _by_themselves_ "where do I come from?" - letting intellectual rigor slip in this instance won't help with really waking up.
Hm, here's another, working link (either some random fluke with the first... or the fastest Slashdot effect I've seen)
How do the conclusions reached by the various scientific disciplines coincide with those contained in the message of revelation? And if, at first sight, there are apparent contradictions, in what direction do we look for their solution? We know, in fact, that truth cannot contradict truth
...
... ... It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge. The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated, of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a significant argument in favor of this theory.
It is necessary to determine the proper sense of Scripture, while avoiding any unwarranted interpretations that make it say what it does not intend to say. In order to delineate the field of their own study, the exegete and the theologian must keep informed about the results achieved by the natural sciences
new knowledge has led to the recognition of the theory of evolution as more than a hypothesis.
Interesting times, indeed.
Not to worry - only for less than a year (if even that)
What I wonder - why do everybody assume that the people writing Commerce Clause (and adjoining scribblings) were incapable of envisioning how it can be (apparently) easily interpreted...
If the goal of the attacks turns out to be corruption of the new Slashcode / its SF project... is there anybody here who would be really surprised? ;)
Heck, the act of locking somebody in the prison has all it takes to encourage inmates to become obsessed with mentally escaping the restrictions of prison life.
Which surely isn't a requirement, as far as allowance of religious services in prisons is concerned.
Unfortunately and shockingly, there doesn't appear to be (after quick Google search) any "Church of D&D"...not even in the style of ~dozen relatively widespread parody religions.
We're talking about a weird Swedish law regarding sexual impropriety and you're talking about a violent rape. Intentionally muddying the waters...
And yet, the headlines or news summaries almost scream "RAPE!"...don't really even try conveying "what is classified in Sweden also under that term, and doesn't quite fall under non-Swedish term"
It's not only borderline slandering, it's a trivialization of actual rapes (as understood by societies of majority of news sources)
Furthermore, going more directly with the theme of parent posters - from where do people in "higher classes" come from / how come everybody who gets a bump finds the new position very desirable?
It was (and is, all of it) largely a reflection of society.
While graphics, gimmicks, gadgets and gizmos skyrocketed, creativity withered and died
That's the key. They were, IMHO, first person shooters of their time. The background story and gameplay were often simply atrocious.
But their GFX looked shiny. Of course that didn't matter when PCs suddenly could render something nice in real time, and another "show off" type of game took over. Which, funnily enough, deep down has basically the same game mechanics - also revolving around pointing at things...
BTW, while TFS hints a bit at Japan, it doesn't mention one important thing - "graphic adventure games" flourish there, generally. AFAIK they form more than half of PC titles! (but - different mechanics, no pointing, usually menu-driven)
Dubai as a whole seems to be largely a mirage... (which isn't particularly unusual of course; but this one is stronger than usual)
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html (really worth reading)
, €, ó, , , , , , , ...great, apparently (in preview, so far) those from across the Oder have now one letter out of nine, o-acute (but at least Euro sign seems to work, it wasn't the case not so long ago...)
Is Earth uninhabitable after over 500 atmospheric nuclear weapons tests?
I assure you, it's not (if anything - for me the "distracting weird" is when one of my eyes must be covered (or in stereoscopic images...), and lack of parallax effects is probably part of the weirdness) I suspect it might be even useful.
More fun when "disable ads" is available and marked... (though even disabling JS doesn't really improve the feel / how do they manage it?)
We aren't going out of our way to try doing very many things. That's not merely a matter of choice... (however amusing mass production of particle accelerators would be)
Not really, no - first, the probe can initially put itself into a very elliptical orbit around target star and circularize it gradually (like we already do when arriving at other local planets, with probes having pitiful delta-v budgets); parameters of its orbit don't need to mirror at all those at the start of journey...
... yes, expected to hard, but certainly "that would be some sight..." ;>
Secondly, when I wrote "stellar aerobraking" - I didn't mean using only stellar wind, in the same way as during departure. Actual plunge into relatively dense portions of the stellar atmosphere could bleed off some km/s
Some gas giant might be similarly handy. Or - having some "last ditch" means of active propulsion (a nuclear warhead or two?) - to be used also when extremely close to the target star, exploiting Oberth effect.
At least millennia, and probably millions of years - not centuries. One of CERN pages describes how our total production of antimatter up to this point could power a light bulb for a few minutes (and how an amount for a bomb of fairly normal yield, in the range of typical small thermonuclear one, would take billions of years to produce - since the energy involved would be not too far from the amounts in large orbital launch, I might leave more than enough space for improvement when saying "millennia, and probably millions of years")
Or, in the time and budget much smaller than this thing would swallow, we might be able to build thousands solar or "artificial" (even if not to such extremes) sails. That could give semi-continuous observation even with just flybys ... plus some might be able to slow down.
Are we overtaking anytime soon our existing interstellar probes launched over 30 years ago? (mind you, NOT launched in the fastest way possible - a Saturn V with NERVA upper stage and ion engine & reactor borrowed from the Soviets would give Pioneers and Voyagers a heck of a lot more kick - it was not for strictly technical reasons why we didn't do it ... but, funnily enough, we couldn't do it the "faster way" now!) Are current planes much faster / different than those from half a century ago? Do we build ships defying Archimedes' principle? (come on, that's over 2 thousands years old! Surely it should pass by now)
You really can't assume a technological scenarios depicted in works of fiction. Look at those airplanes (probably influenced by rapid advances in naval technology, plus an unhealthy doze of wishful thinking) from "our" times, as depicted over a century ago. Vs. what reality actually dictates
http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
Don't bet on new physics; there's really nothing particularly suggestive of the practical limits we stumbled upon not being there. Of our physics being very wrong (it would pretty much have to be, if you wish for practical FTL / time travel), vs. just incomplete.
(that said, yeah, there are almost certainly more practical approaches than Daedalus or Icarus)