Like Christianity's praise for martyrdom & viewing it as compelling evidence of sainthood?
Uh, if I'm not mistaken, Christianity's reverence for saints has to do with dying because you refuse to compromise your faith, not killing yourself and taking as many "infidels" as possible along for the ride. That, to my mind, is a huge difference.
If you have a choice between being killed and compromising your faith, by refusing to compromise your faith you are effectively committing suicide.
The difference is that you're not taking anyone with you, but it's not that dissimilar otherwise. You choose death because you believe in some sort of glorious Afterlife.
Simple - make it illegal for NASA to exist
Sell off all its assets to highest bidders.
Privatize the lot.
Shocking what happens next.
Thousands of space faring companies spring up everywhere.
You know what's stopping thousands of space faring companies springing up everywhere now?
The cost/benefit analysis.
Even if a consortium could raise the $100bn (or whatever) to get a manned mission to Mars, where's the payback?
MDMA is fairly benign (at least when not used heavily)
That's true with most drugs. But the whole point about taking drugs is that you tend to over-use them because they are enjoyable. (This is equally true with legal drugs like alcohoil).
most psychedelics are also fairly benign
Except when they cause psychoses, which are (or should be) very expensive to treat as they have long term effects.
If you cannot see the value in making humanity a multi planetary species, I cannot see the value in you.
None of the planets in our solar system are worth considering as long term homes for humanity, unless we miraculously discover a way of terraforming them.
A lot of people would like to visit Mars, but only the truly dedicated or insane would want to live there for ever.
A planet worth properly colonising would require a breathable atmosphere, human-tolerable gravity, easily available water and so on. It's not going to be anywhere in our Solar System.
Of course, you could have a sort of mining/research outpost where people lived and worked for a year or two at a time, like an extended version of Arctic research scientists or oil rig workers, but who else is going to want to live on Mars permanently?
With a world population of 7 billion, there's plenty of people that want to go to Mars, and yet are not so crazy they can't be allowed to go.
But when you're talking about people who would willingly take a one way ticket to Mars, I think you can legitimately speculate on their suitability and level of craziness.
Anyone who chose to live in a cramped cave/dome for the rest of their lives working in discomfort and surrounded by danger at all times would only be making a sane choice if the alternative was the death penalty.
And it's not a lot different if you're talking about a 10 or 20 year stretch. Madness.
Astronauts volunteering for a three year round trip is a different matter.
It's been the convention to mark an arithmetic expression with = since Visicalc. Visicalc is older than many Slashdotters.
Exactly, it's a piece of software not a magical mind reader. People on here keep complaining about Excel not saving long numbers properly, but that's because you need to tell it you want "123456789012345678901234567890.6666666" to be text and not a number (by putting it in quotation marks) Spreadsheets will assume that something in numerical form is a number, just like they will assume +2+3 is a formula and calculate it as 5 unless you type "+2+3"
Answer: no. I'm always amazed that people can still use Excel. I only use it a relatively small amount and run into nasty bugs. Is there really no one out there who can write a working spreadsheet?
Let me guess, you're using Excel to analyse your daily 42 PB data feed from the LHC and solve the mysteries of the cosmos?
Because no one's interested in people who just use spreadsheets to keep a record of their monthly expense claim, or whatever.
I use it every day to cumulate sales, hours, "normal" calculation such as adding number, date, multiplication and division between rows. Do I qualify as non-import task?
The problem is that if we hadn't, those fuckers would have consolidated power and brought the fight here. It's much cheaper to fight at home, if you're a bean counter. It's much better to figth in some other fuckers country if you're a dad.
If you really believe that either Sadaam Hussein or the Taliban were capable of invading the US, you are deranged.
There's several hundred satellites and unmanned missions beyond the Van Allen belts. And we had seven manned trips from Apollo (1 lunar orbit and 6 lunar landings). I don't really see the point of saying stuff that is so easy to disprove.
I imagine OP was one of those moon landing hoax guys, as they've "proved" that it would be impossible to send a man to the moon without him dying of radiation poisoning. Or the bites of venomous space bats. Something like that.
Watching paint dry, to me, is boring. $100B is a cheap price to pay to do something different. Besides, in the future, money is just a footnote in a history book.
Yes, once we work out how to generate infinite free energy and faster than light travel the universe will become a much more interesting place.
Imagine for 500 years a farmers would pile rocks and stumps found in their field along the borders of that field. Trees and shrubs start to grow in the piles. This turns into the 20ft tall hedgerows over time.
Yes, I think people here are confusing the Normandy hedgerows with ornamental shrubbery.
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Like Christianity's praise for martyrdom & viewing it as compelling evidence of sainthood?
Uh, if I'm not mistaken, Christianity's reverence for saints has to do with dying because you refuse to compromise your faith, not killing yourself and taking as many "infidels" as possible along for the ride. That, to my mind, is a huge difference.
If you have a choice between being killed and compromising your faith, by refusing to compromise your faith you are effectively committing suicide.
The difference is that you're not taking anyone with you, but it's not that dissimilar otherwise. You choose death because you believe in some sort of glorious Afterlife.
Crowdsourcing, 3d printers, and Elon Musk. Managed by Donald Trump using software written by Lennart Poettering.
And with a supporting commentary by regular slashdot contributor Bennet Haselton.
The private sector is quite capable of investing things that do not show immediate profit.
Case in point: All tech start ups.
They may not expect immediate profit, but they certainly expect profit at some point.
And in that case, they're quite capable of investing in things that never show a profit.
That is no longer a rational decision.
Social Security and Medicare are financed separately from discretionary spending.
It's all basically government money raised from borrowing and/or taxes.
Simple - make it illegal for NASA to exist Sell off all its assets to highest bidders. Privatize the lot. Shocking what happens next. Thousands of space faring companies spring up everywhere.
You know what's stopping thousands of space faring companies springing up everywhere now?
The cost/benefit analysis.
Even if a consortium could raise the $100bn (or whatever) to get a manned mission to Mars, where's the payback?
MDMA is fairly benign (at least when not used heavily)
That's true with most drugs. But the whole point about taking drugs is that you tend to over-use them because they are enjoyable. (This is equally true with legal drugs like alcohoil).
most psychedelics are also fairly benign
Except when they cause psychoses, which are (or should be) very expensive to treat as they have long term effects.
If you cannot see the value in making humanity a multi planetary species, I cannot see the value in you.
None of the planets in our solar system are worth considering as long term homes for humanity, unless we miraculously discover a way of terraforming them.
A planet worth properly colonising would require a breathable atmosphere, human-tolerable gravity, easily available water and so on. It's not going to be anywhere in our Solar System.
Of course, you could have a sort of mining/research outpost where people lived and worked for a year or two at a time, like an extended version of Arctic research scientists or oil rig workers, but who else is going to want to live on Mars permanently?
With a world population of 7 billion, there's plenty of people that want to go to Mars, and yet are not so crazy they can't be allowed to go.
But when you're talking about people who would willingly take a one way ticket to Mars, I think you can legitimately speculate on their suitability and level of craziness.
Anyone who chose to live in a cramped cave/dome for the rest of their lives working in discomfort and surrounded by danger at all times would only be making a sane choice if the alternative was the death penalty.
And it's not a lot different if you're talking about a 10 or 20 year stretch. Madness.
Astronauts volunteering for a three year round trip is a different matter.
It's been the convention to mark an arithmetic expression with = since Visicalc. Visicalc is older than many Slashdotters.
Exactly, it's a piece of software not a magical mind reader. People on here keep complaining about Excel not saving long numbers properly, but that's because you need to tell it you want "123456789012345678901234567890.6666666" to be text and not a number (by putting it in quotation marks) Spreadsheets will assume that something in numerical form is a number, just like they will assume +2+3 is a formula and calculate it as 5 unless you type "+2+3"
Have you ever met a person that will say that they love spreadsheets?
If you say that you have, you are crazy, or they are crazy.
Anyone who ever had to add up multiple pages of multiple columns of figures with an electronic calculator loves spreadsheets.
They're like dishwashers or washing machines: they save time and produce better results than doing it by hand.
Do I love my washing machine? No, but I wouldn't want to get rid of it and go back to chucking rocks at my socks in a bucket.
Answer: no. I'm always amazed that people can still use Excel. I only use it a relatively small amount and run into nasty bugs. Is there really no one out there who can write a working spreadsheet?
Let me guess, you're using Excel to analyse your daily 42 PB data feed from the LHC and solve the mysteries of the cosmos?
Because no one's interested in people who just use spreadsheets to keep a record of their monthly expense claim, or whatever.
I use it every day to cumulate sales, hours, "normal" calculation such as adding number, date, multiplication and division between rows. Do I qualify as non-import task?
Yes.
You should bottle your smug and sell it.
Technically, I do like my beer and whiskey, but I do not do drugs. Enjoy your sleep.
Anti-psychotic medicines count as drugs. If you are the original AC, you appear to have FORGOTTEN to take them befor posting.
The post is far better to read than the gay nigger one any day.
Well, it's shorter , I'll give you that.
I differ with the idea of bringing ppl back from Mars. At the very least, they should be required to stay a minimum of 10 years, if not 20.
In other words, you'd have to crew your Mars spacecraft with convicts or psychotics.
The problem is that if we hadn't, those fuckers would have consolidated power and brought the fight here. It's much cheaper to fight at home, if you're a bean counter. It's much better to figth in some other fuckers country if you're a dad.
If you really believe that either Sadaam Hussein or the Taliban were capable of invading the US, you are deranged.
We can't even get past the Van Allen radiation.
There's several hundred satellites and unmanned missions beyond the Van Allen belts. And we had seven manned trips from Apollo (1 lunar orbit and 6 lunar landings). I don't really see the point of saying stuff that is so easy to disprove.
I imagine OP was one of those moon landing hoax guys, as they've "proved" that it would be impossible to send a man to the moon without him dying of radiation poisoning. Or the bites of venomous space bats. Something like that.
First, while Mars requires a longer journey, it actually isn't substantially harder to send a rocket to than the Moon. If you use aerobraking
Stop right there fella!
There's no aero in space, it's a vacuum. Amateur.
With state of the art technology we have an breathable atmosphere on Mars in less than 100 years.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
"...it's bullocks to go to Mars." bullocks to both Mars and Moon.
Where's the cow troll guy when you need him?
Watching paint dry, to me, is boring. $100B is a cheap price to pay to do something different. Besides, in the future, money is just a footnote in a history book.
Yes, once we work out how to generate infinite free energy and faster than light travel the universe will become a much more interesting place.
"Worst president of all time" sounds like a statement that needs a little bit of backup. Care to actually have evidence for the things you say?
1. He's black.
2. Er, that's it.
I think that's all the evidence most of the Trumpeteers need.
Imagine for 500 years a farmers would pile rocks and stumps found in their field along the borders of that field. Trees and shrubs start to grow in the piles. This turns into the 20ft tall hedgerows over time.
Yes, I think people here are confusing the Normandy hedgerows with ornamental shrubbery.
Like most generals involved in actual wars, Monty was arrogant, stubborn and fallible. But he was pretty good at winning campaigns and battles.