"Orbit we can't get to" now... (and TBH, if a desperate need would arise, we sort of have the ability already - launch Soyuz (limit the crew to 2, life support will be enough for 2+ weeks), launch heavily modified Progress (what some ISS modules are, sort of), dock, off you go)
Or a fight. Also if it's your meat - you might as well relax;p (though I'm not sure how that trait would be passed on - unless relaxing helps in survival of serious wounds, somehow...)
Might be not such a useful thing with shelfs in shopped overfilling with the stuff...
Well sure, some rural areas (but when I witnessed any road works (also unrelated) / digging probably in the last 2 decades, it also involved lying flexible "pipe") - first, not only that was about urban areas (plus - what difference does it make where stuff is not in the ground?), it's also enough if said plastic pipe is common enough (and lying of coax would be almost certainly in times when future-proofing was practiced), especially where digging is a disruption.
Even the walkway in front of my place had it (ok, not the flexible plastic variety) before total overhaul of the road. Which means it was put there probably 50 years ago, during the f****ng People's Republic of Poland. If they could do it in a provincial town...
Greece...probably more Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria...but you miss something important. It's also because people there are poorer. Your assumption that people everywhere are equally likely to get highest speed available to them is faulty. Plus people in the EU seem somewhat more partial to using wireless access... (and what this got to do with the presence of future-proofed cable installations anyway?)
Yeah, such preference might have made evolutionary sense for most of time our species exists (plus those leading to us...), when meat was much more scarce.
Now...it seems like a lot of people still fall into that instinct, of course. Daily, many times a day... (similar with alcohol probably; out of three fruits: fresh, fermented and rotten - two are better. Which means beings with some preference towards alcohol might have slight evolutionary advantage, thanks to additional calories now and then. But now effects of distilled alcohol exploit that preference?)
But iTunes indicates which markets Apple considers to be somewhat "worthwhile"...
Sure, iPods can be found everywhere - question is if they are present in any appreciable numbers (you don't seriously think there's much of anything in Afghanistan, except among foreign forces?)
"Poor music players"? They are perfectly fine, I can assure you (is that about how US handsets were traditionally castrated?), and people are happily using them. Also, you saying "in parts of the world where mobile phone service is spotty at best, iPods are preferable" just shows how you got confused by popular but not accurate anymore conceptions about so called developing world (but in the process you somehow forgot how much less money many people have...). There are over 5 billion mobile subscribers right now... (and other portable players exist; S1 were popular for a long time) Again, in my reasonably prosperous EU country there are hardly any iPods - Latin America, CIS, Middle East, Africa, SE Asia are generally notably less prosperous (BTW, for most of subscribers in those places, for most of those 5 billion, prepaid is the rule and they own their phones...another surprise, huh?)
Did you look at those reports from Opera? Browsing is a different usage scenario, sure, but reveals how Apple products, in this case iPhones (never seen one in the wild locally BTW, and the place has over 100% mobile phone penetration), exist only in few spots - vocal and visible spots, sure, but that's it. Don't project your perceptions from one of them on the whole world (do you also think there was similar SUV craze everywhere? Similar suburbia / urban sprawl? That whole world plays US football?)
The last polls show that, in Europe, "only" around 25% of people listen to music from their phones - but taking into account just that one continent that's already in the range of total number of iPods ever produced!
You think moving to a platform at the equator - which also, if current practices are any indication, operates under some random flag - would be much more straightforward?
That's another myth there BTW - their culture in a century will be most likely much closer to then Chinese (to use your example) one than to current ones, both of them. (as a sidenote: from my dealings with members of my diaspora, especially from some vocal & around century-old concentrations, I must say - to put it mildly - that those people are generally f****ng insane in thinking how we have tremendously many more things in common than some superficiality)
And again, they're reaching the proper conclusion anyway, with estimations of 25% decrease of population over the next 4 decades.
How many aren't? (and you know...here there are many mobile phones used for music listening)
Yes - problem is, we operate here mostly on perceptions; solid and precise regional data are hard to find. But just looking at things like wages throughout the world (NVM how Apple products tend to cost much more where wages are low(*)), how iTunes Store is not available in most of it, how there was an explosive growth in number of mobile phone users in so called developing countries, or looking at geographical breakdown of types of handsets in those stats (from people evidently very open about using their mobile phones as "more than a phone")...does strongly hint at something.
(*)a problem with all "high tech" stuff; disproportionally bigger if it's more "premium"...
That's really how it happens at your place? At least in some (that I'm sure of) parts of the EU, I guess also Netherlands, it's basically a pipe through which stuff can be...wait for it...pulled through.
If only people would snap themselves out of merely 2-centuries old nationalistic myths and impulses... (granted, a different timeline and dynamics is present in the Far East; still)
Though with their population dynamics, Japanese are a bit ahead in realizing the inevitable.
It's not only about "huge swathes of land available", also what is actually needed to support suburbia lifestyles (by taking area from the past, in the form of natural resources storing solar energy; and from the future, by spoiling the future viability of surroundings)
PS. Street lighting is as much about perception of safety (drinking the above helps also with that BTW). Even if I'd like something which impacts night vision less (red light is a very good direction)...many people probably wouldn't. In truth, it could complicate effectiveness of stop lights. Some people could also get the idea that it's a conspiracy to turn everything into red districts...
It's being used very actively (in fact, the way we use fisheries might be overusing it), and is an integral part of the planetary systems (necessarily destabilized even more, if you really think about it in terms of percentages of surface)
But it was about something else, how building there might be not the most efficient way to use resources and technology. Even if operation is "carbon negative" (and why only mention carbon?), I suppose the construction won't be.
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"Orbit we can't get to" now... (and TBH, if a desperate need would arise, we sort of have the ability already - launch Soyuz (limit the crew to 2, life support will be enough for 2+ weeks), launch heavily modified Progress (what some ISS modules are, sort of), dock, off you go)
Or a fight. Also if it's your meat - you might as well relax ;p (though I'm not sure how that trait would be passed on - unless relaxing helps in survival of serious wounds, somehow...)
Might be not such a useful thing with shelfs in shopped overfilling with the stuff...
But some random fermented fruit would most likely give more energy than its alcohol content "burns", don't you think?
I wouldn't be too surprised by their boycott at some point, too - about curious exchange rates.
Well sure, some rural areas (but when I witnessed any road works (also unrelated) / digging probably in the last 2 decades, it also involved lying flexible "pipe") - first, not only that was about urban areas (plus - what difference does it make where stuff is not in the ground?), it's also enough if said plastic pipe is common enough (and lying of coax would be almost certainly in times when future-proofing was practiced), especially where digging is a disruption.
Even the walkway in front of my place had it (ok, not the flexible plastic variety) before total overhaul of the road. Which means it was put there probably 50 years ago, during the f****ng People's Republic of Poland. If they could do it in a provincial town...
Greece...probably more Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria...but you miss something important. It's also because people there are poorer. Your assumption that people everywhere are equally likely to get highest speed available to them is faulty.
Plus people in the EU seem somewhat more partial to using wireless access...
(and what this got to do with the presence of future-proofed cable installations anyway?)
Yeah, such preference might have made evolutionary sense for most of time our species exists (plus those leading to us...), when meat was much more scarce.
Now...it seems like a lot of people still fall into that instinct, of course. Daily, many times a day... (similar with alcohol probably; out of three fruits: fresh, fermented and rotten - two are better. Which means beings with some preference towards alcohol might have slight evolutionary advantage, thanks to additional calories now and then. But now effects of distilled alcohol exploit that preference?)
He also loved dogs and hated cats. Just sayin'...
(otoh - Jesus died a virgin (or so the popular mythology often goes) ... hm, w8, that argument breaks down on /. )
What isn't made of a lumpy plastic nowadays?
But iTunes indicates which markets Apple considers to be somewhat "worthwhile"...
Sure, iPods can be found everywhere - question is if they are present in any appreciable numbers (you don't seriously think there's much of anything in Afghanistan, except among foreign forces?)
"Poor music players"? They are perfectly fine, I can assure you (is that about how US handsets were traditionally castrated?), and people are happily using them. Also, you saying "in parts of the world where mobile phone service is spotty at best, iPods are preferable" just shows how you got confused by popular but not accurate anymore conceptions about so called developing world (but in the process you somehow forgot how much less money many people have...). There are over 5 billion mobile subscribers right now... (and other portable players exist; S1 were popular for a long time) Again, in my reasonably prosperous EU country there are hardly any iPods - Latin America, CIS, Middle East, Africa, SE Asia are generally notably less prosperous (BTW, for most of subscribers in those places, for most of those 5 billion, prepaid is the rule and they own their phones...another surprise, huh?)
Did you look at those reports from Opera? Browsing is a different usage scenario, sure, but reveals how Apple products, in this case iPhones (never seen one in the wild locally BTW, and the place has over 100% mobile phone penetration), exist only in few spots - vocal and visible spots, sure, but that's it. Don't project your perceptions from one of them on the whole world (do you also think there was similar SUV craze everywhere? Similar suburbia / urban sprawl? That whole world plays US football?)
The last polls show that, in Europe, "only" around 25% of people listen to music from their phones - but taking into account just that one continent that's already in the range of total number of iPods ever produced!
How would you like it if we referred to the US using the same word as we do for Canada and thus didn't distinguish between the two of you?
A bit like using (also by its citizens) one of the most standard descriptions when referring only to the US, "America"/"American"?
And you know, if Iceland is European...
You think moving to a platform at the equator - which also, if current practices are any indication, operates under some random flag - would be much more straightforward?
That's another myth there BTW - their culture in a century will be most likely much closer to then Chinese (to use your example) one than to current ones, both of them.
(as a sidenote: from my dealings with members of my diaspora, especially from some vocal & around century-old concentrations, I must say - to put it mildly - that those people are generally f****ng insane in thinking how we have tremendously many more things in common than some superficiality)
And again, they're reaching the proper conclusion anyway, with estimations of 25% decrease of population over the next 4 decades.
How many aren't? (and you know...here there are many mobile phones used for music listening)
Yes - problem is, we operate here mostly on perceptions; solid and precise regional data are hard to find. But just looking at things like wages throughout the world (NVM how Apple products tend to cost much more where wages are low(*)), how iTunes Store is not available in most of it, how there was an explosive growth in number of mobile phone users in so called developing countries, or looking at geographical breakdown of types of handsets in those stats (from people evidently very open about using their mobile phones as "more than a phone")...does strongly hint at something.
(*)a problem with all "high tech" stuff; disproportionally bigger if it's more "premium"...
I think I hinted enough how the Japanese are finding the solution already.
And wait, you can move only between areas which are under one government? Sucks...
That's really how it happens at your place? At least in some (that I'm sure of) parts of the EU, I guess also Netherlands, it's basically a pipe through which stuff can be...wait for it...pulled through.
If only people would snap themselves out of merely 2-centuries old nationalistic myths and impulses... (granted, a different timeline and dynamics is present in the Far East; still)
Though with their population dynamics, Japanese are a bit ahead in realizing the inevitable.
It's not only about "huge swathes of land available", also what is actually needed to support suburbia lifestyles (by taking area from the past, in the form of natural resources storing solar energy; and from the future, by spoiling the future viability of surroundings)
Same thing applies, too often people want to trick themselves into almost daylight-like perception, "the more the better."
Worst case - it can be stored (and is) in pumped-storage hydroelectric facilities.
We are causing sixth extinction event as is anyway; I'm quite willing to accept that such tinkering with city trees won't make much difference.
Unless we're trying to make the world look like Avatar
That might have been the point of this research...
Drinking it won't harm you, too. Well, sort of...
PS. Street lighting is as much about perception of safety (drinking the above helps also with that BTW). Even if I'd like something which impacts night vision less (red light is a very good direction)...many people probably wouldn't. In truth, it could complicate effectiveness of stop lights. Some people could also get the idea that it's a conspiracy to turn everything into red districts...
A bit similar to the BP logo.
Similarly ridiculous effort at message of "green", too...
Yeah, I figure that and some amount of xenophobia is what drives such dreams about building new islands.
There's an easier solution there though...
It's being used very actively (in fact, the way we use fisheries might be overusing it), and is an integral part of the planetary systems (necessarily destabilized even more, if you really think about it in terms of percentages of surface)
But it was about something else, how building there might be not the most efficient way to use resources and technology. Even if operation is "carbon negative" (and why only mention carbon?), I suppose the construction won't be.