Except that argument is such a bad one. The space program is not the best way to preserve the human race. Repeat, if you are worried about preserving the human race, space is not the way to do it.
How would you deflect an errant asteroid without a space program?
Litter is an eye-of-the-beholder human concept. It's like junk. People are always saying my yard looks like a junkyard. But they simply don't have a cultivated appreciation for technology.
Someday, should humans survive long enough, the Schiaparelli wreck will become a monument.
...what? Ca you substantiate this with facts or is it just your faith?
There used to be some guys who didn't care about a space program. They just wanted to chase chicks and eat. Then one day, a rock came out of the sky and obliterated them and everybody related to them. That was 65 million years ago.
You didn't give off the thief vibes. Or you didn't look guilty.
I had to break into my car once in a busy parking lot. Nobody questioned me.
On time I was staying with my girlfriend on the 3rd floor apartment, which had a balcony. In violation of the rules, I brought my dog in with me. I parked across the street below the balcony a few spaces away. The sidewalk had some foot traffic. Around 3 AM we awoke to my dog barking, and she wouldn't stop. She went to the balcony, and I followed. I looked out, and, seeing nothing, tried to calm my dog. But then the car alarm went off on the car in front of mine. Two black guys took off running.
I fully agree w/ you - I support Trump, regardless of whether or not what he said or did. The Clinton Foundation taking money from the Saudis and other Gulf emirates is more serious, and what's more - in the WikiLeaks dump, Clinton is shown being aware that the Saudis and the Qataris are secretly backing ISIS. If it is true that they are backing ISIS, then what Clinton is doing is downright treason. She's actively opposing Russia and the Baath regime in Syria for goodness knows why, while looking the other way while her friends back somebody w/ which the US is actively at war
Trump had an opportunity to expose this in the (final) debate, but he missed it. He's probably not even aware of it. http://www.salon.com/2016/10/1... " 2014 email from Hillary Clinton acknowledges, citing Western intelligence sources, that the U.S.-backed regimes in Saudi Arabia and Qatar have supported ISIS."
Of course, anybody who is up on the subject didn't need the email evidence.
Maybe you didn't notice but Bill is not running for President. He is limited via the Constitution to his two terms.
Of course, Trumps ex-wife was an over spender so that somehow means Trump is not responsible with his feduciary obligations, said no one with any common fucking sense ever.
For the last goddamn time, Hillary is not Bill and Hillary has never been indicted for so much as being late paying a parking ticket.
Hillary said she was going to put Bill in charge of the economy.
Clinton said, “My husband who I’m going to put in charge of revitalizing the economy because, you know, he knows how to do it. And especially in places like coal country and inner cities and other parts of our country that have really been left out.”
This is exactly the situation the founders were trying to avoid when they included presidential term limits in the Constitution. The Clintons are just loopholing the clause. At the time the Constitution was drafted, it was impossible for women to attain the office, so the framers failed to include a provision excluding the wife.
The sexual misconduct of either Trump or Bill is insignificant. You may glean something from thier respective methods of clean up, but I'll simplify and excuse everything. Much more serious, and more relevant, regarding the treatment of women is Hillary's mutual support of the Saudi Arabian ruling clan. This is a well-monied group that openly knocks women down (figuratively and actually).
Hillary's right-hand (official title on the campaign is vice chairman) is Huma Abedin. She has ties to the publication Muslim Minority Affairs,The Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood, and The Muslim Sisterhood, all of which are pro-Sharia Law organizations who believe women have a subordinate role in the world.
... The only thing you have to do wrong in NYC to be unlawfully searched is to have the wrong skin color.
I've been stopped and frisked in Chicago an uncountable number of times. They never found anything on me. I'm white. If you walk and are young, you get stopped. There may be a racial element, but, considering my experience, that's not the main issue.
Thanks to the incompetence of the US not being able to figure out the right group to back in Syria, you have drones ending up w/ ISIS, and now the Russians have to figure out a way to get them downed.
A nuke here or there on Raqqa, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, would fix things for good
What do you mean "not being able to figure out the right group to back in Syria"? We (I mean the US) back ISIS and their cannibal associates. Meanwhile, we tell the public we are fighting them. The public isn't sophisticated enough to understand complicated monetary relationships. They don't understand us being allied with the ones who supported the hijackers either. The public is so dumb.
If the US has launched a land invasion of Syria, that's news to me. A few special forces types in an advisory or training role is not what most people call "boots on the ground" even if it is literally true.
The whole idea of the phrase "boots on the ground" is to make it unambiguous. It's not a metaphor for full-scale invasion; it's a factual description of an event.
And since you say you are lacking news, we (the US) just did a 4-jet hour-long attack on Syrian troops. We killed ~83 of them and crippled another 100. They were defending a position against ISIS. When the US planes attacked so did ISIS. ISIS had been trying for months to take that area, and, with the US help, they succeeded.
So what are these 300 or so (Pentagon won't say how many https://goo.gl/K5BVPu) American troops doing in Syria if they are not engaged in combat? They are human shields. We won't tell Russia & Syria where they exactly are, but, of course, Russia knows. We park them next to the moderate cannibals we want to protect.
Just imagine if they started to hold politicians accountable for their claims!
Politicians don't have to stand by their word. Obama said "No boots on the ground in Syria". He simply ignored what he said. His spokespeople explained saying that there was a change in policy would be misleading.
Or are you one of those gullible people who believe that the media is biased against Trump despite the media actually greatly assistingTrump's campaign by repeating every damn stupid thing that he says? He'd never have made it through the primaries if the mainstream media weren't so obsessed with him.
They unconsciously assisted Trump. They were competing with each other for viewership. The media didn't believe its own adage, "Any news is good news" because it gives name recognition.
Now, the main news outlets, and even Google search results, clearly favor Hillary.
It's the same stuff every day: Everybody is SO Appalled by ______ (insert modified v of what he actually said) that Trump said.; Clinton is (destroying, crushing, obliterating, overwhelming) Trump in popularity.
Just look at tomorrow's lead stories. That's what they will say.
This, btw, is why you should vote against Hillary. At least Trump will have a hostile press.
If I got an email with such shit, I would reply with a demand to try again with correct spelling and grammar. And of course I would expect this to be some kind of attack, and report it to others in my company.
People dying while using the Tesla Autopilot is certainly bad publicity.
Idnk, When I see the articles, I entertain the idea of getting one. I estimate by the time I get one, they will have ironed out the problems with the auto-drive. (Actually, I'm just dreaming. At the current prices, someday I may be able to afford an e-bike, but that's about all. I might be able to make one, though. Hobbyking sells batteries a lot cheaper than Tesla.)
The characterization that this is the 6th implies it is an event like the previous 5, but it's not. Unless humans catastrophically destroy themselves, there will be no recovery from this extinction event. And, assuming humans survive, it is not be an event but a transition. The ecosphere of the earth has moved into the human-controlled phase. Humans will determine (volitionally or not) how many humans exist and how many and what other animals exist.
The accepted or legal definition of "endangered" doesn't count for much. The actual list of endangered species is much larger than the official one. The listing is a complicated and political process: https://www.fws.gov/endangered...
... it's virtually guaranteed that we or something like us wouldn't happen again if life had to re-start from scratch on this planet.
How can you be so sure? There's no need to "start from scratch". Some animal below us on the ladder will take our place. 200,000 years ago we were animals, but we were just about the same in most respects. It seems there's plenty of time for some more cycles. I'm betting on the racoons, myself.
You can't reliably predict the result of a large scale nuclear war. Easily, several species, including ourselves, could become extinct. Life would continue, yes. And eventually the raccoons would inherit the earth. Is that the optimistic scenario you envision?
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Except that argument is such a bad one. The space program is not the best way to preserve the human race. Repeat, if you are worried about preserving the human race, space is not the way to do it.
How would you deflect an errant asteroid without a space program?
Litter is an eye-of-the-beholder human concept. It's like junk. People are always saying my yard looks like a junkyard. But they simply don't have a cultivated appreciation for technology. Someday, should humans survive long enough, the Schiaparelli wreck will become a monument.
Splat is reserved for the sound of meatbags smearing across the surface.
Correct. It's an onomatopoeia. This is just a wreck.
There used to be some guys who didn't care about a space program. They just wanted to chase chicks and eat. Then one day, a rock came out of the sky and obliterated them and everybody related to them. That was 65 million years ago.
You mean that it's in *all possible places* - not just two.
On time I was staying with my girlfriend on the 3rd floor apartment, which had a balcony. In violation of the rules, I brought my dog in with me. I parked across the street below the balcony a few spaces away. The sidewalk had some foot traffic. Around 3 AM we awoke to my dog barking, and she wouldn't stop. She went to the balcony, and I followed. I looked out, and, seeing nothing, tried to calm my dog. But then the car alarm went off on the car in front of mine. Two black guys took off running.
I fully agree w/ you - I support Trump, regardless of whether or not what he said or did. The Clinton Foundation taking money from the Saudis and other Gulf emirates is more serious, and what's more - in the WikiLeaks dump, Clinton is shown being aware that the Saudis and the Qataris are secretly backing ISIS. If it is true that they are backing ISIS, then what Clinton is doing is downright treason. She's actively opposing Russia and the Baath regime in Syria for goodness knows why, while looking the other way while her friends back somebody w/ which the US is actively at war
Trump had an opportunity to expose this in the (final) debate, but he missed it. He's probably not even aware of it. http://www.salon.com/2016/10/1... " 2014 email from Hillary Clinton acknowledges, citing Western intelligence sources, that the U.S.-backed regimes in Saudi Arabia and Qatar have supported ISIS."
Of course, anybody who is up on the subject didn't need the email evidence.
Maybe you didn't notice but Bill is not running for President. He is limited via the Constitution to his two terms.
Of course, Trumps ex-wife was an over spender so that somehow means Trump is not responsible with his feduciary obligations, said no one with any common fucking sense ever.
For the last goddamn time, Hillary is not Bill and Hillary has never been indicted for so much as being late paying a parking ticket.
Hillary said she was going to put Bill in charge of the economy.
Clinton said, “My husband who I’m going to put in charge of revitalizing the economy because, you know, he knows how to do it. And especially in places like coal country and inner cities and other parts of our country that have really been left out.”
This is exactly the situation the founders were trying to avoid when they included presidential term limits in the Constitution. The Clintons are just loopholing the clause. At the time the Constitution was drafted, it was impossible for women to attain the office, so the framers failed to include a provision excluding the wife.
The sexual misconduct of either Trump or Bill is insignificant. You may glean something from thier respective methods of clean up, but I'll simplify and excuse everything. Much more serious, and more relevant, regarding the treatment of women is Hillary's mutual support of the Saudi Arabian ruling clan. This is a well-monied group that openly knocks women down (figuratively and actually). Hillary's right-hand (official title on the campaign is vice chairman) is Huma Abedin. She has ties to the publication Muslim Minority Affairs,The Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood, and The Muslim Sisterhood, all of which are pro-Sharia Law organizations who believe women have a subordinate role in the world.
Uh, wouldn't it be an act of war against either the UK or Ecuador if they bombed him that way?
It isn't going to be a hellfire missile through the window of his little room. I'm sure you have the technical imagination to understand.
... The only thing you have to do wrong in NYC to be unlawfully searched is to have the wrong skin color.
I've been stopped and frisked in Chicago an uncountable number of times. They never found anything on me. I'm white. If you walk and are young, you get stopped. There may be a racial element, but, considering my experience, that's not the main issue.
Thanks to the incompetence of the US not being able to figure out the right group to back in Syria, you have drones ending up w/ ISIS, and now the Russians have to figure out a way to get them downed.
A nuke here or there on Raqqa, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, would fix things for good
What do you mean "not being able to figure out the right group to back in Syria"? We (I mean the US) back ISIS and their cannibal associates. Meanwhile, we tell the public we are fighting them. The public isn't sophisticated enough to understand complicated monetary relationships. They don't understand us being allied with the ones who supported the hijackers either. The public is so dumb.
What if they wear sneakers?
A recent news story revealed that US combat boots are actually made in China https://goo.gl/nVgOXz.
Thus, Obama didn't lie when he said he wouldn't put American boots on the ground in Syria.
If the US has launched a land invasion of Syria, that's news to me. A few special forces types in an advisory or training role is not what most people call "boots on the ground" even if it is literally true.
The whole idea of the phrase "boots on the ground" is to make it unambiguous. It's not a metaphor for full-scale invasion; it's a factual description of an event. And since you say you are lacking news, we (the US) just did a 4-jet hour-long attack on Syrian troops. We killed ~83 of them and crippled another 100. They were defending a position against ISIS. When the US planes attacked so did ISIS. ISIS had been trying for months to take that area, and, with the US help, they succeeded.
So what are these 300 or so (Pentagon won't say how many https://goo.gl/K5BVPu) American troops doing in Syria if they are not engaged in combat? They are human shields. We won't tell Russia & Syria where they exactly are, but, of course, Russia knows. We park them next to the moderate cannibals we want to protect.
That us, without a doubt, one of the most idiotic reasons to vote for someone to lead a country and I've heard plenty of stupid ones.
Who's voting *for*? I'm voting *against*.
Just imagine if they started to hold politicians accountable for their claims!
Politicians don't have to stand by their word. Obama said "No boots on the ground in Syria". He simply ignored what he said. His spokespeople explained saying that there was a change in policy would be misleading.
Or are you one of those gullible people who believe that the media is biased against Trump despite the media actually greatly assistingTrump's campaign by repeating every damn stupid thing that he says? He'd never have made it through the primaries if the mainstream media weren't so obsessed with him.
They unconsciously assisted Trump. They were competing with each other for viewership. The media didn't believe its own adage, "Any news is good news" because it gives name recognition. Now, the main news outlets, and even Google search results, clearly favor Hillary.
It's the same stuff every day: Everybody is SO Appalled by ______ (insert modified v of what he actually said) that Trump said.; Clinton is (destroying, crushing, obliterating, overwhelming) Trump in popularity.
Just look at tomorrow's lead stories. That's what they will say.
This, btw, is why you should vote against Hillary. At least Trump will have a hostile press.
If I got an email with such shit, I would reply with a demand to try again with correct spelling and grammar. And of course I would expect this to be some kind of attack, and report it to others in my company.
You're supposed to report bad grammar?
Everyone stands on the shoulders of giants, including Elon. I'll leave you to ponder.
True. He stepped on a lot of people.
People dying while using the Tesla Autopilot is certainly bad publicity.
Idnk, When I see the articles, I entertain the idea of getting one. I estimate by the time I get one, they will have ironed out the problems with the auto-drive. (Actually, I'm just dreaming. At the current prices, someday I may be able to afford an e-bike, but that's about all. I might be able to make one, though. Hobbyking sells batteries a lot cheaper than Tesla.)
The Sixth Mass Extinction...
The characterization that this is the 6th implies it is an event like the previous 5, but it's not. Unless humans catastrophically destroy themselves, there will be no recovery from this extinction event. And, assuming humans survive, it is not be an event but a transition. The ecosphere of the earth has moved into the human-controlled phase. Humans will determine (volitionally or not) how many humans exist and how many and what other animals exist.
BTW, god and Noah are fictional.
The accepted or legal definition of "endangered" doesn't count for much. The actual list of endangered species is much larger than the official one. The listing is a complicated and political process: https://www.fws.gov/endangered...
... it's virtually guaranteed that we or something like us wouldn't happen again if life had to re-start from scratch on this planet.
How can you be so sure? There's no need to "start from scratch". Some animal below us on the ladder will take our place. 200,000 years ago we were animals, but we were just about the same in most respects. It seems there's plenty of time for some more cycles. I'm betting on the racoons, myself.
.. to an advanced space travelling species
There won't be any space traveling species. Before we reach that stage (interstellar, I mean), we will have evolved into machines.
You can't reliably predict the result of a large scale nuclear war. Easily, several species, including ourselves, could become extinct. Life would continue, yes. And eventually the raccoons would inherit the earth. Is that the optimistic scenario you envision?