My relatives have a african grey parrot and they are in fact really smart. They even seem to answer your questions (and complete sentences or phrases). Only thing is that they bite real hard so you might want to keep a distance while talking/playing with them.
I generally avoid relatives who bite while talking/playing. But, um, congratulations on their discovery of grammar!
Although perhaps 'expectation' is too strong of a word and 'unwarranted hope' would be more accurate. Being an ocean away from London, I guess I'm not too worried about either immediately, but there is no doubt in my mind that the U.S. will be just as ready to up the ante again with more restrictive legislation.
I predict a significant lack of sharks (or anything else not equipped to withstand a few million degrees) will be available on Earth once this thing gets started.
3 words:
runaway freight train.
Runways make sense...
but what the heck are these?
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=groom+lake,nv&ll=37. %20129326,-116.051846&sll=36.518555,-115.561924&sp n=0%20.121536,0.170631&sspn=0.127029,0.120678&t=k& hl=en
Just north of Groom Lake ('secret' air testing facility)
If you look at the URL, you'll notice the location is Groom Lake, NV. Groom Lake is a location commonly used to test "black aircraft" (experimental, spy, etc). If you do a bit of research on the name, you'll find a number of books referencing aircraft tests there in the last 50 years. The fact that the planes operated there are mostly experimental accounts for an abnormally long airstrip (in case of mishaps). The whole location is actually just an old dried up lake bed, which is ideally flat for aircraft operations. Lockheed's Skunk Works worked out of Groom Lake several times, though the names of the specific projects escape me.
SpikeTV probably only contracts for a single season of TNG and a single season of DS9 at a time. But a season contains how many episodes? 20-25ish? When the show has a daily time slot, they run out of fresh episodes quick and do a lot of recycling
I'd be far more impressed with commercial orbital flight. Not only could it seriously reduce travel time, but the 'space' threshold is not nearly so discrete as 100km... making the 'weightless' flights of Space Ship One rather comparable to flying in the Vomit Comet, only higher. Orbital flight has potential for relative permanance, on the other hand, and could better foster space tourism by fulfilling our futuristic dreams of hotels in the sky (and probably shopping malls and goodness knows what else). All that IMHO.
Were these people interested in the event or unaware of the broadcast? I think one of the major contributing factors to the 'success' of the broadcast was the wide-spread xenophobia of the time. Americans might be more likely to greet aliens now... that or launch a massive militia attack.... take your pick.
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I generally avoid relatives who bite while talking/playing. But, um, congratulations on their discovery of grammar!
In short, "yes."
Although perhaps 'expectation' is too strong of a word and 'unwarranted hope' would be more accurate. Being an ocean away from London, I guess I'm not too worried about either immediately, but there is no doubt in my mind that the U.S. will be just as ready to up the ante again with more restrictive legislation.
I predict a significant lack of sharks (or anything else not equipped to withstand a few million degrees) will be available on Earth once this thing gets started. 3 words: runaway freight train.
Runways make sense... but what the heck are these? http://maps.google.com/maps?q=groom+lake,nv&ll=37. %20129326,-116.051846&sll=36.518555,-115.561924&sp n=0%20.121536,0.170631&sspn=0.127029,0.120678&t=k& hl=en
Just north of Groom Lake ('secret' air testing facility)
If you look at the URL, you'll notice the location is Groom Lake, NV. Groom Lake is a location commonly used to test "black aircraft" (experimental, spy, etc). If you do a bit of research on the name, you'll find a number of books referencing aircraft tests there in the last 50 years. The fact that the planes operated there are mostly experimental accounts for an abnormally long airstrip (in case of mishaps). The whole location is actually just an old dried up lake bed, which is ideally flat for aircraft operations. Lockheed's Skunk Works worked out of Groom Lake several times, though the names of the specific projects escape me.
yes, but now it's trendy and bears the hip jargony name iCandy!... oh boy, that was bad.
SpikeTV probably only contracts for a single season of TNG and a single season of DS9 at a time. But a season contains how many episodes? 20-25ish? When the show has a daily time slot, they run out of fresh episodes quick and do a lot of recycling
I'd be far more impressed with commercial orbital flight. Not only could it seriously reduce travel time, but the 'space' threshold is not nearly so discrete as 100km... making the 'weightless' flights of Space Ship One rather comparable to flying in the Vomit Comet, only higher. Orbital flight has potential for relative permanance, on the other hand, and could better foster space tourism by fulfilling our futuristic dreams of hotels in the sky (and probably shopping malls and goodness knows what else). All that IMHO.
Were these people interested in the event or unaware of the broadcast? I think one of the major contributing factors to the 'success' of the broadcast was the wide-spread xenophobia of the time. Americans might be more likely to greet aliens now... that or launch a massive militia attack.... take your pick.