Rich people can be as wrong and deluded as anyone else, see: Howard Hughes.
Someone who's estate was worth $2.5B when he died is probably not the best example to prove your point.
He is a perfect example of how you don't get to be right simply by having a lot of money.
Whatever capitalists like to believe, being rich is not a sign that you are a good, wise, admirable or pleasant human being. It is a sign that you have a lot of money.
What's the goal of large-scale construction in space though ? Wouldn't it be smarter to wait until there's actually a market for the stuff you'd want to mine before going to the moon to get it ?
Maybe building an Interstellar Arc in case there is a large scale planet-wide calamity like a large asteroid, it helps to build something like that before the disater occurs.
But we don't have anywhere to go in our Interstellar Arc. You would simply be condemning the remainder of humanity to futility and madness as they drifted in appalling conditions aimlessly, for ever.
You forget as humans we have a biological need for sunlight lest our mental and physical condition deteriorate to the point of madness. You might be a basement dwelling cockroach but most of us prefer living in the natural daylight.
You're not going to get much sympathy on slashdot with crazy talk like that.
There are plenty of people here who would volunteer for a one way trip to Mars in a windowless tin can and the prospect of living in a cave until they died.
Commercial fusion is a few decades off...and always will be it seems.
No, it's definitely coming within our lifetimes. I read an article the other day which explained how there would be a working prototype fusion reactor within ten to twenty years, and effectively unlimited energy within forty or so.
If the people spending billions on research facilities can't be trusted to predict the future, who can?
"He is also present in the Earth's atmosphere. The natural abundance of 3He in naturally occurring helium gas is 1.38×106 (1.38 parts per million). The partial pressure of helium in the Earth's atmosphere is about 0.52 Pa, and thus helium accounts for 5.2 parts per million of the total pressure (101325 Pa) in the Earth's atmosphere, and 3He thus accounts for 7.2 parts per trillion of the atmosphere. Since the atmosphere of the Earth has a mass of about 5.14×1015 tonnes,[41] the mass of 3He in the Earth's atmosphere is the product of these numbers, or about 37,000 tonnes of 3He."
Give the guy a break, he was only out by a factor of almost four million.
..I think the real question on everyone's mind concerning Earth's moon is: Will the film adaptation of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress be good or bad?
Well, as Starship Troopers showed, you can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, as long as you don't mind upsetting the people who think the sow is perfect as she is.
Seems like the only resource worth bringing down from the Moon would be one that just don't hardly exist down here...
"don't hardly" ?
Your English is pathetic.
Of course the cock-gobbling human waste who make up the majority of users on this
increasingly useless website will mod me down for speaking the truth, so I may as
well give them a reason : I hope all you faggots get AIDS.
Sounds like a lot of money to spend on showing childishly simplistic powerpoint slides to a brain-numbed and apathetic audience desperately trying to hold out until they can take a comfort break and snort some sweet cocaine off the toilet stall floor while their admin assistant jerks them off with a holepunch.
4 or 5 decades ago puts you into periods where racism and legally enforced discrimination was rampant. Take off the rose tinted glasses and you'll realize the past was rife with shittiness.
The subtext in this thread is, of course, that most of the people whining are rich right wing white heterosexual males, who would have been comparatively better off 50 or 200 years ago when the balance of power was even more skewed than it currently is.
Slavery might not have been great for the slaves, but it was perfectly fine for the slave owners, and society has indeed restricted their freedom to own slaves.
When people learn to respect the racist and the crackpot as much as they dislike their remarks then and only then will real progress have been made.
I hope you are just playing with words, and by "respect" mean "respect their right to free speech."
Because I have absolutely no respect for racists at all: they are deliberately stupid human beings, and it is the duty of anyone with a brain to tell them where they are wrong.
If somebody makes a racist comment to somebody, they SHOULD be called out for it. If it was unintentional, then they SHOULD apologize and say so.
If it was unintentional an apology is both meaningless and ridiculous.
The "I apologise if I inadvertently caused offence" line always makes me laugh. Unless you've got Tourette's or something, you know what you're saying.
Racist, homophobic and misogynist "yaks" have generated controversy
It may be distasteful and offensive to some...but it is still protected and free speech, as long as you aren't threatening anyone with direct harm.
As a general rule, if in a democracy you're not prepared to put your name to it, you shouldn't say it.
Especially in this context (late adolescent name calling at college), it's not like you're challenging an evil dictatorship and need to remain anonymous to avoid summary execution.
There are people who genuinely believe that a "Women's Studies" degree, or an Anthropology degree, etc, will help them get a job and prosper
Having a degree in Women's Studies or Anthropology (or Ancient Greek or Medieval Music, or whatever) proves to employers that you are capable of getting a degree. The assumption that you are then limited to jobs in Women's Studies or Anthropology (or Ancient Greek or Medieval Music) is ridiculous.
An undergraduate university course is not the same thing as a vocational training course. Obviously, if you want to be a doctor or something, you're probably not going to do a four year course in Fine Art then start again to do a medical degree and the rest, but that is the exception.
[ * I teach foreigners** English for a living, and I have to keep shrugging my shoulders about the sheer mindlessness of the spelling system. ** "foreign" has nothing to do with "reign", but some idiot a couple of hundred years ago thought it did, so changed its spelling to match. Mindlessness. ]
Maybe, but it means more work for those teaching English.
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Barring government interference, I fully expect to see moon habitation visible from Earth in my lifetime
There is a very high correlation between being a libertarian and being a space nutter.
Your "dream" is basically the past of the USA, but with rockets.
Nice one.
I love science fiction and dream about time travel. That doesn't mean it is ever going to happen.
Well, that was mildly entertaining, and not the craziest thing I've read on the internet. Comes close, though :)
It's really not in the Time Cube league though, as it is actually comprehensible. Sounds like an L Ron Hubbard story to me.
Rich people can be as wrong and deluded as anyone else, see: Howard Hughes.
Someone who's estate was worth $2.5B when he died is probably not the best example to prove your point.
He is a perfect example of how you don't get to be right simply by having a lot of money.
Whatever capitalists like to believe, being rich is not a sign that you are a good, wise, admirable or pleasant human being. It is a sign that you have a lot of money.
What's the goal of large-scale construction in space though ? Wouldn't it be smarter to wait until there's actually a market for the stuff you'd want to mine before going to the moon to get it ?
Maybe building an Interstellar Arc in case there is a large scale planet-wide calamity like a large asteroid, it helps to build something like that before the disater occurs.
But we don't have anywhere to go in our Interstellar Arc. You would simply be condemning the remainder of humanity to futility and madness as they drifted in appalling conditions aimlessly, for ever.
True, it would be difficult to drop a 25 ton shipping container to Earth
Only if you were worried about where it landed.
The only hope of profit from this sort of "expedition" is to come across a few of the fabled solid platinum meteors and come back with a whopper
Space Nutter translation : so, it's not completely impossible then?
You forget as humans we have a biological need for sunlight lest our mental and physical condition deteriorate to the point of madness. You might be a basement dwelling cockroach but most of us prefer living in the natural daylight.
You're not going to get much sympathy on slashdot with crazy talk like that.
There are plenty of people here who would volunteer for a one way trip to Mars in a windowless tin can and the prospect of living in a cave until they died.
Commercial fusion is a few decades off...and always will be it seems.
No, it's definitely coming within our lifetimes. I read an article the other day which explained how there would be a working prototype fusion reactor within ten to twenty years, and effectively unlimited energy within forty or so.
If the people spending billions on research facilities can't be trusted to predict the future, who can?
Your 10kg is completely untrue. From wikipedia
"He is also present in the Earth's atmosphere. The natural abundance of 3He in naturally occurring helium gas is 1.38×106 (1.38 parts per million). The partial pressure of helium in the Earth's atmosphere is about 0.52 Pa, and thus helium accounts for 5.2 parts per million of the total pressure (101325 Pa) in the Earth's atmosphere, and 3He thus accounts for 7.2 parts per trillion of the atmosphere. Since the atmosphere of the Earth has a mass of about 5.14×1015 tonnes,[41] the mass of 3He in the Earth's atmosphere is the product of these numbers, or about 37,000 tonnes of 3He."
Give the guy a break, he was only out by a factor of almost four million.
..I think the real question on everyone's mind concerning Earth's moon is: Will the film adaptation of The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress be good or bad?
Well, as Starship Troopers showed, you can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, as long as you don't mind upsetting the people who think the sow is perfect as she is.
Seems like the only resource worth bringing down from the Moon would be one that just don't hardly exist down here...
"don't hardly" ?
Your English is pathetic.
Of course the cock-gobbling human waste who make up the majority of users on this increasingly useless website will mod me down for speaking the truth, so I may as well give them a reason : I hope all you faggots get AIDS.
Someone forgot to take their happy pills today.
I wonder if there's any way or system to confirm those are not an old hoax/fake.
I'd hazard a guess they come as an appendix to that old favourite The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
WiFi is not the bottleneck, so why would I tie myself to a wire?
What is the real world speed of WiFi in general?
For Apple users it's apparently a gigabit per second as they see no difference between a wired and wireless connection.
Sounds like a lot of money to spend on showing childishly simplistic powerpoint slides to a brain-numbed and apathetic audience desperately trying to hold out until they can take a comfort break and snort some sweet cocaine off the toilet stall floor while their admin assistant jerks them off with a holepunch.
you're a SJW
You lose.
"SJW" is up there with "sheeple" for flagging up that a post is written by a drivelling poltroon.
4 or 5 decades ago puts you into periods where racism and legally enforced discrimination was rampant. Take off the rose tinted glasses and you'll realize the past was rife with shittiness.
The subtext in this thread is, of course, that most of the people whining are rich right wing white heterosexual males, who would have been comparatively better off 50 or 200 years ago when the balance of power was even more skewed than it currently is.
Slavery might not have been great for the slaves, but it was perfectly fine for the slave owners, and society has indeed restricted their freedom to own slaves.
When people learn to respect the racist and the crackpot as much as they dislike their remarks then and only then will real progress have been made.
I hope you are just playing with words, and by "respect" mean "respect their right to free speech."
Because I have absolutely no respect for racists at all: they are deliberately stupid human beings, and it is the duty of anyone with a brain to tell them where they are wrong.
If somebody makes a racist comment to somebody, they SHOULD be called out for it. If it was unintentional, then they SHOULD apologize and say so.
If it was unintentional an apology is both meaningless and ridiculous.
The "I apologise if I inadvertently caused offence" line always makes me laugh. Unless you've got Tourette's or something, you know what you're saying.
It may be distasteful and offensive to some...but it is still protected and free speech, as long as you aren't threatening anyone with direct harm.
As a general rule, if in a democracy you're not prepared to put your name to it, you shouldn't say it.
Especially in this context (late adolescent name calling at college), it's not like you're challenging an evil dictatorship and need to remain anonymous to avoid summary execution.
You can say whatever exteme racist, sexist, homophobic (etc) crap you want. It's just that the majority of people will probably think you're an idiot.
If you're upset because society has changed, that's a different issue from freedom of speech.
The people you meet in college are similar to goodwill in accounting.
Largely fictional and generally worthless?
There are people who genuinely believe that a "Women's Studies" degree, or an Anthropology degree, etc, will help them get a job and prosper
Having a degree in Women's Studies or Anthropology (or Ancient Greek or Medieval Music, or whatever) proves to employers that you are capable of getting a degree. The assumption that you are then limited to jobs in Women's Studies or Anthropology (or Ancient Greek or Medieval Music) is ridiculous.
An undergraduate university course is not the same thing as a vocational training course. Obviously, if you want to be a doctor or something, you're probably not going to do a four year course in Fine Art then start again to do a medical degree and the rest, but that is the exception.
[ * I teach foreigners** English for a living, and I have to keep shrugging my shoulders about the sheer mindlessness of the spelling system. ** "foreign" has nothing to do with "reign", but some idiot a couple of hundred years ago thought it did, so changed its spelling to match. Mindlessness. ]
Maybe, but it means more work for those teaching English.