That is an incredibly damning report. No prototype. Minimal testing. Rewiring the steering controls (and I mean soldering and unsoldering) while the fueled craft is on the pad. Whatcouldpossiblygowrong? If that report is to be believed, hell, if half of it is to be believed, there is no way that probe would have made it there.
One thing that really bothers me - no description of sterilizing the craft. In fact, if you're rewiring on the pad, that implies that it's not sterile (and your staff isn't particularly sane). It's fine if the Russians want to play around blowing up things around earth. It's what humans do - but it would be much better if they behaved responsibly.
One world government is a horrible, horrible idea.
Yet it seems inevitable. Tribes became villages. Villages became cities became city-states became states became nations became trading blocks. There seems to be a pattern. The real question is will we have any say in the One World Government or will we deny that it is going to happen and allow it to be formed by politicians and CEOs.
You seem to believe that mankind will continue 'forward' in it's attempt to homogenize the planet. It is just as likely, perhaps more likely, that mankind simply cannot manage to create planet spanning governments but will instead devolve into smaller, more manageable groups. Which will later merge together over time, form nation states, form regional cooperatives, fight other regional cooperatives, form larger entities and collapse again.
Wait a sec. You are implying that, as a US citizen, I accept our current Batshit insane governmental leadership? Sorry, I have to disagree. I am finding it quite difficult to come up with a mechanism that fundementally changes who is pretending to run the US. Voting, the classic way of changing government, has a distinctly empty feeling these days. I can't watch more than a few minutes of political posturing by any party without getting nauseated.
What the US brought to the world (again) was the concept of checks and balances, something the current government is doing it's best to eliminate because it's very inconvenient.
Or are you saying that the founders of the United States explicitly recommended occasional revolutions to reset the balance of power? That's not terribly unique either.
Yeah. I'm trying to figure out just who anybody would trust as a cloud provider for sensitive data outside the US. Great Britain? France? Turkmenistan? If international 'cloud' providers are bringing this up then pot, meet kettle.
Really, we've been about this time and time again. Some stuff you can put in 'the cloud'. Other stuff ought to be locked in your basement. Your own basement.
Actually, you were right. I did misread the OOOP (think I got the 'o's right. But to McGrew - JPEG isn't necessarily lossy. At highest 'quality' settings (or whatever particular verbage your pixel management program uses - it doesn't compress the image.
Nobody doing image alteration for anything beyond amusing the droolers at various low end web sites is going to use a lossy compression algorithm. In fact, you can set up any program written in the past 20 years not to compress the image, even using JPEG. So that sort of thing isn't terribly useful.
Think about Alaska, think about the size of Alaska, now, cover it in a layer of mossy stuff several feet thick. That mossy stuff is muskeg [wikipedia.org], and if you've ever stepped in a soft spot in the muskeg and sunk up to your hip in the muck, you can easily imagine the whole thing decomposing into methane when it gets warm.
I, for one, plan to welcome our new Mosquito Overlords.
Doesn't sound a whole lot more reassuring. Especially the 'potentially be marginally stable' part. Especially if the permafrost lid gets opened up. Which is exactly the scenario that TFA is discussing.
Nobody should be concerned about global warming as long as the current data remains manipulated, fabricated and motivated by political agenda.
What a truly idiotic statement. How about "Nobody should be concerned about the financial health of the US / Europe / China / India as long as the current data remains manipulated, fabricated and motivated by political agenda"?
Humans are always manipulating, fabricating and politicizing things. It does make it harder to sort things out, but if it is important that you ignore basic human action and behavior, you might well consider a monastery.
Likely on the basis that you aren't supposed to have programming languages in the iOS App store (stupid of Apple, but it's their sandbox).
Apple hasn't stopped anyone from making HyperCard for OS X and if there was enough of a demand, I should think it would have shown up long ago. Remember, OS X comes with Applescript which, although a bit harder to use, covers much of the functionality of HyperCard.
While you may have a point that people like to be modded 'funny', one doesn't get karma for funny posts. I think that this is appropriate - you can get your jollies but you get to be amusing on your own dime.
'Hey hon...no, you won't get knocked up, I've been carrying a wifi in my pants!!!'
To bad Wifi doesn't seem to be an effective antibiotic or antiviral. Do you know what the test for chlamydia involves? The health care provider sticks a cotton tipped swap about a centimeter up your urethra. A moment you will remember for quite some time.
Wrap the rascal (or go whole hog, break into your local linear accelerator and fry everything to a crisp).
(This message brought to you by various governmental and non governmental agencies who are concerned for your health, well being and wallet).
Pumps work. The mining industry has a lot of experience of digging deep holes and keeping them dry. You just let the water run down to the deepest point, then pump it out.
And then think about the volume of tunnel a mine deals with and the volume of space this project envisions and then calculate the amount of water it's likely to need removed. Then talk to a mining engineer about it. It's likely doable - with a big enough budget.
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Maybe they should let Siri try and talk to it.
That is an incredibly damning report. No prototype. Minimal testing. Rewiring the steering controls (and I mean soldering and unsoldering) while the fueled craft is on the pad. Whatcouldpossiblygowrong? If that report is to be believed, hell, if half of it is to be believed, there is no way that probe would have made it there.
One thing that really bothers me - no description of sterilizing the craft. In fact, if you're rewiring on the pad, that implies that it's not sterile (and your staff isn't particularly sane). It's fine if the Russians want to play around blowing up things around earth. It's what humans do - but it would be much better if they behaved responsibly.
One world government is a horrible, horrible idea.
Yet it seems inevitable. Tribes became villages. Villages became cities became city-states became states became nations became trading blocks. There seems to be a pattern. The real question is will we have any say in the One World Government or will we deny that it is going to happen and allow it to be formed by politicians and CEOs.
You seem to believe that mankind will continue 'forward' in it's attempt to homogenize the planet. It is just as likely, perhaps more likely, that mankind simply cannot manage to create planet spanning governments but will instead devolve into smaller, more manageable groups. Which will later merge together over time, form nation states, form regional cooperatives, fight other regional cooperatives, form larger entities and collapse again.
That's more along what has happened historically.
Wait a sec. You are implying that, as a US citizen, I accept our current Batshit insane governmental leadership? Sorry, I have to disagree. I am finding it quite difficult to come up with a mechanism that fundementally changes who is pretending to run the US. Voting, the classic way of changing government, has a distinctly empty feeling these days. I can't watch more than a few minutes of political posturing by any party without getting nauseated.
What the US brought to the world (again) was the concept of checks and balances, something the current government is doing it's best to eliminate because it's very inconvenient.
Or are you saying that the founders of the United States explicitly recommended occasional revolutions to reset the balance of power? That's not terribly unique either.
So what am I missing here?
Yeah. I'm trying to figure out just who anybody would trust as a cloud provider for sensitive data outside the US. Great Britain? France? Turkmenistan? If international 'cloud' providers are bringing this up then pot, meet kettle.
Really, we've been about this time and time again. Some stuff you can put in 'the cloud'. Other stuff ought to be locked in your basement. Your own basement.
Actually, you were right. I did misread the OOOP (think I got the 'o's right. But to McGrew - JPEG isn't necessarily lossy. At highest 'quality' settings (or whatever particular verbage your pixel management program uses - it doesn't compress the image.
I would certainly not describe the current US government as 'organized'.
The Keystone Cops come to mind as a role model.
I am leading. You are following.
And I like it like that. Eat dust!
Think about it. CarrierIQ is a front for the NSA.
I hope you didn't post that from your cell phone.
I use TIFF, you insensitive clod.
Nobody doing image alteration for anything beyond amusing the droolers at various low end web sites is going to use a lossy compression algorithm. In fact, you can set up any program written in the past 20 years not to compress the image, even using JPEG. So that sort of thing isn't terribly useful.
Why do you hate America?
Think about Alaska, think about the size of Alaska, now, cover it in a layer of mossy stuff several feet thick. That mossy stuff is muskeg [wikipedia.org], and if you've ever stepped in a soft spot in the muskeg and sunk up to your hip in the muck, you can easily imagine the whole thing decomposing into methane when it gets warm.
I, for one, plan to welcome our new Mosquito Overlords.
All one hundred billion of them.
Doesn't sound a whole lot more reassuring. Especially the 'potentially be marginally stable' part. Especially if the permafrost lid gets opened up. Which is exactly the scenario that TFA is discussing.
We're doomed.
Nobody should be concerned about global warming as long as the current data remains manipulated, fabricated and motivated by political agenda.
What a truly idiotic statement. How about "Nobody should be concerned about the financial health of the US / Europe / China / India as long as the current data remains manipulated, fabricated and motivated by political agenda"?
Humans are always manipulating, fabricating and politicizing things. It does make it harder to sort things out, but if it is important that you ignore basic human action and behavior, you might well consider a monastery.
Likely on the basis that you aren't supposed to have programming languages in the iOS App store (stupid of Apple, but it's their sandbox).
Apple hasn't stopped anyone from making HyperCard for OS X and if there was enough of a demand, I should think it would have shown up long ago. Remember, OS X comes with Applescript which, although a bit harder to use, covers much of the functionality of HyperCard.
While you may have a point that people like to be modded 'funny', one doesn't get karma for funny posts. I think that this is appropriate - you can get your jollies but you get to be amusing on your own dime.
Arrh!!! Ip0 on Fire!
What is new, is old.
'Hey hon...no, you won't get knocked up, I've been carrying a wifi in my pants!!!'
To bad Wifi doesn't seem to be an effective antibiotic or antiviral. Do you know what the test for chlamydia involves? The health care provider sticks a cotton tipped swap about a centimeter up your urethra. A moment you will remember for quite some time.
Wrap the rascal (or go whole hog, break into your local linear accelerator and fry everything to a crisp).
(This message brought to you by various governmental and non governmental agencies who are concerned for your health, well being and wallet).
I just posted above about the volatile nature of lithium polymer batteries, a poor choice for consumer electronics.
Perhaps that's why the iPhone battery is Lithium Ion
We're not getting off this planet. We'll kill each other first.
Now you have to ask yourself - is this a feature? Or a bug?
Well gentleman, we can stop this problem in it's tracks.
We will patent the little motherfucker.
Perhaps a bit of world travel and turning off Fox News would do you good.
He's living in the Capitalist's Free Market paradise. He can't afford those sorts of things.
Yeah. Too bad you are all bankrupt and the Euro is collapsing.
Oh. Wait...
Pumps work. The mining industry has a lot of experience of digging deep holes and keeping them dry. You just let the water run down to the deepest point, then pump it out.
And then think about the volume of tunnel a mine deals with and the volume of space this project envisions and then calculate the amount of water it's likely to need removed. Then talk to a mining engineer about it. It's likely doable - with a big enough budget.
Of course if gravity unexpectedly fails this will not work, but then you have bigger problems.
You win the Understatement of the Week award.
Congratulations.