It would certainly be the first hunters I've seen who ever would go after something that could shoot back. (naw, just kidding, the only actual use will be someone shooting down some kid's toy helicopter, and claiming it was legal.)
Yes, and if anyone were presenting their results in percentages, that would be implicitly deceptive. But that would at worst be a reporting problem, and have nothing to do with the science.
I guess Apollo managed to ramp up in 7 years, but that's still an absurdly compact time-table for a tiny venture. I want to see success, and be optimisitic, but this feels like a "too good to be true, so it probably isn't" pipe dream.
Oh man, I didn't think about it until now, but "every 2 years" makes absolutely no sense. They'd be launching at furthest approach. They'll turn year long trips into multi-year trips, and all the provisioning that will require.
I know, I know, everyone is going to be dogpiling Mars One for feasability, but... The shoestring budget they'll get out of crowdsourcing and a TV show will launch people into space just long enough to kill them.
Well, I know what that published unprecedented energy density results in the journal of plasma physics. I'm not aware of any meetings they attended, though.
I value knowledge as essentially my top life priority. I feel it's one of the things that makes us human. That doesn't mean I'm not ignorant of tons of information.
Yeah, I know, but that argument falls on its face because the "what's a hashtable?" crowd actually does have prior experience in the field. Someone is hiring them.
Sending settlers when you have only just barely established where there might be a supply of water could be construed by the more ethical to be jumping the gun.
Except that that will shouldn't necessarily be focused on the Moon. Mars, Venus, and the outer planets all have a lot more to investigate about them. We put enormous multi-focusing telescopes in space to look at planets beyond our own system. It's not unreasonable to say the U.S. has ambitions with regard to space that outpace other nations.
You are mistaken, I'm a 40 hour a week programmer, and I enjoy the code, just not the resulting application. I achieve more in 10 hours a month when I'm making something interesting than I ever could with 40 hours a week on the job.
95% of everything is crap. I don't know if you've tried to interview people for serious programmer positions lately, but about half of applicants seem to outright fabricate their credentials.
Not that fusion is as far off as people think it is. There are some really promising experiments other than the big ones, that seem single digit years away from usable designs.
The majority of CPU cycles in data centers is going to be looking up and filtering specific records in database(or maybe parsing files if you're into that). They can possibly save energy on a few specific kinds of scientific computing.
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It would certainly be the first hunters I've seen who ever would go after something that could shoot back. (naw, just kidding, the only actual use will be someone shooting down some kid's toy helicopter, and claiming it was legal.)
Yes, and if anyone were presenting their results in percentages, that would be implicitly deceptive. But that would at worst be a reporting problem, and have nothing to do with the science.
Er, no, long term sustainable off earth colonization is far from established technology. Landing on mars isn't even a very established technology.
I guess Apollo managed to ramp up in 7 years, but that's still an absurdly compact time-table for a tiny venture. I want to see success, and be optimisitic, but this feels like a "too good to be true, so it probably isn't" pipe dream.
Oh man, I didn't think about it until now, but "every 2 years" makes absolutely no sense. They'd be launching at furthest approach. They'll turn year long trips into multi-year trips, and all the provisioning that will require.
I know, I know, everyone is going to be dogpiling Mars One for feasability, but...
The shoestring budget they'll get out of crowdsourcing and a TV show will launch people into space just long enough to kill them.
Windows doesn't do that anymore either. It gives the user an option to invoke autoruns, but doesn't trigger them.
Attacks on USB tend to target the drivers these days, not the OS.
Well, I know what that published unprecedented energy density results in the journal of plasma physics. I'm not aware of any meetings they attended, though.
Here's a new summary for you:
Tiny fusion project that's functionally pretty cheap wants more money, and publishes some promising, but uncertain results.
I could use that same summary for several different projects today.
And more rapidly perpetuated. And more easily forgiven.
Smug, self-indulgent nonsense.
I value knowledge as essentially my top life priority. I feel it's one of the things that makes us human. That doesn't mean I'm not ignorant of tons of information.
You've forgotten the 600 hours a month of unnecessary meetings, but yeah.
Yeah, I know, but that argument falls on its face because the "what's a hashtable?" crowd actually does have prior experience in the field. Someone is hiring them.
Sending settlers when you have only just barely established where there might be a supply of water could be construed by the more ethical to be jumping the gun.
Except that that will shouldn't necessarily be focused on the Moon. Mars, Venus, and the outer planets all have a lot more to investigate about them. We put enormous multi-focusing telescopes in space to look at planets beyond our own system. It's not unreasonable to say the U.S. has ambitions with regard to space that outpace other nations.
Yes, and when technology supports shipping quintillions of tons, we'll worry about that.
You are mistaken, I'm a 40 hour a week programmer, and I enjoy the code, just not the resulting application. I achieve more in 10 hours a month when I'm making something interesting than I ever could with 40 hours a week on the job.
95% of everything is crap. I don't know if you've tried to interview people for serious programmer positions lately, but about half of applicants seem to outright fabricate their credentials.
Not me, coding for fun and 10 hours a month is way better than 40 hours a week on stuff you don't really care about.
Teslas don't use oil? I didn't know that, I assume there had to be at least a little metal on metal somewhere on the drive train.
No, it's that I can't retroactively change my actions to comply with my principals. That's a very different thing.
Never watch slashdot videos. That's just a rule. It's going to be an advertisment.
In this particular case, I can't engage in my usual "boycott the advertisers" rule, because I already ordered one of these on the kickstarter.
So, you made a donation to organized crime. How charitable.
Not that fusion is as far off as people think it is. There are some really promising experiments other than the big ones, that seem single digit years away from usable designs.
The majority of CPU cycles in data centers is going to be looking up and filtering specific records in database(or maybe parsing files if you're into that). They can possibly save energy on a few specific kinds of scientific computing.