The idea that there is some kind of conspiracy to stop cancer and AIDS cures from becoming public knowledge is absurd. Whoever comes up with them will be able to retire 20 times on the proceeds.
Think about it. You could get AIDS, cure yourself, GET IT AGAIN, AND CURE IT AGAIN. The irresponsibility of the average idiot alone would be enough to keep the drug companies flush with cash for DECADES.
says this thing never makes it out of 1/3-scale airframe prototypes.
The great thing is that I don't have to have even a tenth of a percent of the experience, knowledge or education of anyone who calls themselves an aerospace engineer in order to make this prediction.
Let's call it StarKruzr's Law: "Any new spacecraft proposal will be massively underfunded, poorly designed, have lukewarm support, or simply not work (pick any three)." This is because God and physics really, REALLY hate human spaceflight. One needs only to browse through Wikipedia to examine the endless parade of failed manned spacecraft projects to come to this conclusion.
Plus, this thing looks way, WAY too cool to actually work.
(tongue inserted mostly in cheek, of course, but you have to admit it really seems to be true)
I actually think C= has potential as a gamer's brand like Voodoo or Alienware.
A lot of people who grew up with C=64s are adults with money now who want high-quality gaming gear.
Just think about the commercials:
Fade in old-style C= logo, maybe some old-skool tv shots of people playing around with something on a C=64. Then an explosion and some new-style C= logo glowing or perhaps crackling with electricity behind it. Caption (or voiceover): "It's Back..."
If the allegations against him are true - and there is every reason to believe they are - then Bush's lies killed over 2000 American soldiers and over 30000 Iraqis for no good reason. Kerry has no such blood on his hands.
Hunting and gathering on the savannah is more elite than knowing how to communicate, and more elite than being a good programmer?
*WHY*? Because it's more in keeping with popular anti-Western, anti-intellectual, BACK-TO-ROUSSEAU'S-MAN-OMG bullshit?
A 4-year degree certifies that you have learned how to think about a subject in a certain kind of considered manner. It is DEFINITELY worth something.
And who the hell knows how to "build a car from scratch" without an engineering degree? What the hell does "scratch" even mean in this context? Iron ore? Rubber trees? Petroleum?
All four people will tell the story of the accident in four differing ways yet they will all be telling the true story.
And this is precisely why witnesses are unreliable, and why you need more than one of them to agree on details in order for their testimony to be solid in court!
Amazing. They don't even realize they're shooting themselves down.
"Frankly, I can't see what religion from a bunch of self aware saline bags on a rock has to offer for an omnicient, omnipotent being"
Yay over-the-top reductionism!
Yes, by all means, let's pretend the human race is nothing more than a bunch of electrochemical reactions in a flexible sack. No significant emergent behavior whatsoever. Right.
Except the difference is that on average (and likely to a very large degree) the "fundamentalist" atheists are much more intelligent and educated than the fundamentalist Christians.
If you choose to deny this, I'd love to hear how you justify it, because you know the above statement is true.
The CXV being tested by t/Space has a lot of promise too. It is less capable than either the CEV or Kliper, but will probably get to production a hell of a lot faster and can do the job the Shuttle is mostly doing now - transferring personnel back and forth between the ISS.
I forgot to mention that a member of the astronaut corps (hasn't earned his wings yet) came to speak at my school not too long ago. He was talking about how Shuttle operations were supposed to stop by 2009-2010. If this really happens (though I'm not sure I buy it), that's a hell of a lot less access to space that the ESA has. As it is now, they rely on us and the Russian Soyuz-TMA for their manned space transport. And since you KNOW they're not going to get the CEV ready on time... the ESA may become de facto supporters of the Kliper.
This was a pretty stupid decision, especially granted the UK's recent statements about wanting to pursue a manned space program. Am I making that up? Google can't find it but I seem to recall at least two stories about it.
Kliper is robust, versatile, cheap, and based on proven technology. What the hell is the problem?
I was hoping you could do exactly that, but have been told by several chem. engineers I know from school that it isn't possible to turn biodiesel into any kind of jet fuel analogue; you simply can't get the same combustion / pressure performance characteristics. I confess to not knowing why.
"European countries generally have more room to cut taxes than North American countries do."
And they don't. Cut them, I mean. A friend of mine lives in the UK and has told me stories about how you can go to jail for using biodiesel you make yourself because it isn't subject to the same exorbitant taxes their petrofuels are.
What apparently goes right over Parliament's heads is that they have a huge opportunity to lead the way in alternative fuels technology, but I guess they just don't think their constituents are interested. Maybe they aren't.::shrug::
"It should be easy to see farmland usage would need to be increased by 1-2 orders of magnitude to make a complete replacement."
This is obviously a large-scale problem. But is it necessarily a difficult one? Surely there are enormous swaths of unused land now that could be utilized for growing soy, peanuts or corn for the purposes of making fuel. Just about the entire crop could be converted with the right engineering - turn oils into biodiesel and turn cellulose into ethanol.
One of my biggest concerns is what we're going to do about aviation. There are no fuel sources I can think of that have the energy density and storability of petroleum-based stuff.
I use this on my Smartphone all the time at school to send people unsolicited "You have just been BlueJacked!" messages every time I walk past their Palm/Powerbook/Nokia phone.
The "lean-in and look around" reactions I get are SO worth it.
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The idea that there is some kind of conspiracy to stop cancer and AIDS cures from becoming public knowledge is absurd. Whoever comes up with them will be able to retire 20 times on the proceeds.
Think about it. You could get AIDS, cure yourself, GET IT AGAIN, AND CURE IT AGAIN. The irresponsibility of the average idiot alone would be enough to keep the drug companies flush with cash for DECADES.
better to not develop them at all, lest they fall into the hands of wealthy people?
wtf, man?
Expensive drugs like AIDS treatments have found their way into the hands of plenty of poor people. What the hell are you talking about?
What life-saving medical procedures are ONLY available to wealthy people?
says this thing never makes it out of 1/3-scale airframe prototypes.
The great thing is that I don't have to have even a tenth of a percent of the experience, knowledge or education of anyone who calls themselves an aerospace engineer in order to make this prediction.
Let's call it StarKruzr's Law: "Any new spacecraft proposal will be massively underfunded, poorly designed, have lukewarm support, or simply not work (pick any three)." This is because God and physics really, REALLY hate human spaceflight. One needs only to browse through Wikipedia to examine the endless parade of failed manned spacecraft projects to come to this conclusion.
Plus, this thing looks way, WAY too cool to actually work.
(tongue inserted mostly in cheek, of course, but you have to admit it really seems to be true)
*shoots self in face*
My work here is done.
I actually think C= has potential as a gamer's brand like Voodoo or Alienware.
A lot of people who grew up with C=64s are adults with money now who want high-quality gaming gear.
Just think about the commercials:
Fade in old-style C= logo, maybe some old-skool tv shots of people playing around with something on a C=64. Then an explosion and some new-style C= logo glowing or perhaps crackling with electricity behind it. Caption (or voiceover): "It's Back..."
because of the huge games market for NT 3.51?
O_o
If the allegations against him are true - and there is every reason to believe they are - then Bush's lies killed over 2000 American soldiers and over 30000 Iraqis for no good reason. Kerry has no such blood on his hands.
But I'm curious - can you tell me why you hate Kerry so much?
I honestly don't understand all the Kerry-loathing that's common even in people of my party (Democrat).
1) "Funny" doesn't get you karma.
2) The mod itself is funny.
Hunting and gathering on the savannah is more elite than knowing how to communicate, and more elite than being a good programmer?
*WHY*? Because it's more in keeping with popular anti-Western, anti-intellectual, BACK-TO-ROUSSEAU'S-MAN-OMG bullshit?
A 4-year degree certifies that you have learned how to think about a subject in a certain kind of considered manner. It is DEFINITELY worth something.
And who the hell knows how to "build a car from scratch" without an engineering degree? What the hell does "scratch" even mean in this context? Iron ore? Rubber trees? Petroleum?
All four people will tell the story of the accident in four differing ways yet they will all be telling the true story.
And this is precisely why witnesses are unreliable, and why you need more than one of them to agree on details in order for their testimony to be solid in court!
Amazing. They don't even realize they're shooting themselves down.
"Frankly, I can't see what religion from a bunch of self aware saline bags on a rock has to offer for an omnicient, omnipotent being"
Yay over-the-top reductionism!
Yes, by all means, let's pretend the human race is nothing more than a bunch of electrochemical reactions in a flexible sack. No significant emergent behavior whatsoever. Right.
But there's more stuff in there that I'm too lazy to look up that says something like "faith without works is barren" or something.
I'm not even TRYING to claim that I can support this with anything other than anecdotal evidence, and you know it.
Are all Southern Baptists (and yourself in particular) Calvinists?
I ask because Calvinism seems to me to be largely irreconcilable with rational thought (and Christian apology specifically).
Except the difference is that on average (and likely to a very large degree) the "fundamentalist" atheists are much more intelligent and educated than the fundamentalist Christians.
If you choose to deny this, I'd love to hear how you justify it, because you know the above statement is true.
I always thought this was a stupid rule.
"It's nothing of which to be ashamed." is a SHITLOAD more awkward than "It's nothing to be ashamed of."
The CXV being tested by t/Space has a lot of promise too. It is less capable than either the CEV or Kliper, but will probably get to production a hell of a lot faster and can do the job the Shuttle is mostly doing now - transferring personnel back and forth between the ISS.
I forgot to mention that a member of the astronaut corps (hasn't earned his wings yet) came to speak at my school not too long ago. He was talking about how Shuttle operations were supposed to stop by 2009-2010. If this really happens (though I'm not sure I buy it), that's a hell of a lot less access to space that the ESA has. As it is now, they rely on us and the Russian Soyuz-TMA for their manned space transport. And since you KNOW they're not going to get the CEV ready on time... the ESA may become de facto supporters of the Kliper.
This was a pretty stupid decision, especially granted the UK's recent statements about wanting to pursue a manned space program. Am I making that up? Google can't find it but I seem to recall at least two stories about it.
Kliper is robust, versatile, cheap, and based on proven technology. What the hell is the problem?
I was hoping you could do exactly that, but have been told by several chem. engineers I know from school that it isn't possible to turn biodiesel into any kind of jet fuel analogue; you simply can't get the same combustion / pressure performance characteristics. I confess to not knowing why.
"European countries generally have more room to cut taxes than North American countries do."
::shrug::
And they don't. Cut them, I mean. A friend of mine lives in the UK and has told me stories about how you can go to jail for using biodiesel you make yourself because it isn't subject to the same exorbitant taxes their petrofuels are.
What apparently goes right over Parliament's heads is that they have a huge opportunity to lead the way in alternative fuels technology, but I guess they just don't think their constituents are interested. Maybe they aren't.
"It should be easy to see farmland usage would need to be increased by 1-2 orders of magnitude to make a complete replacement."
This is obviously a large-scale problem. But is it necessarily a difficult one? Surely there are enormous swaths of unused land now that could be utilized for growing soy, peanuts or corn for the purposes of making fuel. Just about the entire crop could be converted with the right engineering - turn oils into biodiesel and turn cellulose into ethanol.
One of my biggest concerns is what we're going to do about aviation. There are no fuel sources I can think of that have the energy density and storability of petroleum-based stuff.
I use this on my Smartphone all the time at school to send people unsolicited "You have just been BlueJacked!" messages every time I walk past their Palm/Powerbook/Nokia phone.
The "lean-in and look around" reactions I get are SO worth it.
Does that mean the judge says "fuck you" to the jury?