Funny you should say that because I was thinking, if this becomes popular and I become a cannibal, does that make everyone who eats food made from my crap a cannibal too?
36 hours over two days? Honestly I'm not impressed, you want to talk about long hours join the military. Every stood a radar watch for 18 hours straight with no break, in a pitch black control room? Yeah and then get four hours down and do it again! If you hate your hours/pay/job at least you can quit at anytime. I got a year and a half left till I can even choose to quit.
Al Gore didn't win. Get over it. I'm am so sick and tired of people saying he didn't win. He did win you know what my proof is? That he is actually in office.
Just a theory. The earth has warmed up 0.6 ± 0.2 Celsius (according to wikipedia) over the last century. People go around like we know exactly why the earth is warming. Ever hear of an ice age? I got news for you, the earth has warmed up on its own before, it doesn't mean that we are necessarily the cause for the increase in temperature. Yes global warming is something to be concerned about, but this alarmist attitude about mass extinctions is not needed.
I'm optimistic aboout the space program. With the new commercial intiatives, and some real goals for the moon and beyond, I'm hopefull that 2007 will be a good year for space.
Exploration aspect gone? That would be like be like comeing to the new world a couple times, trading with the natives and saying, thats it were done. No more to explore! Have we mapped every NEO yet? Do we know the composition of Io's crust? You think its over? Why? The only thing that could lead you to that conclusion is a blinding ignorance of the things we can still find out. When we go out and explore the solar system it will only be done when we have answered ever question we have now and every question we come acrossed while were doing it. And their are plenty of questions I can think of right now on planet earth. What you don't understand is we are at the very beggining, of space exploration. What we have accomplished so far is so miniscule compared to what the next half of century will bring. When people are flipping hamburgers on pluto thinking that their job sucks, then the exploration part will be over, not before.
Have you ever used equipment from lockheed and martin? All the equipment I've ever used breaks all the time. Their stuff sounds good, untill you actually use it. Then the flaws in their design come out.
Well for one most open source programs are free so if you are giving your software away for free and still loseing to microsoft, doesn't that mean there is something seriously wrong with your software?
Little history lesson here from wikipedia: As of November 2004, 439 individuals have flown on spaceflights: Russia/Soviet Union (96), USA (277), others (66). Twenty-two have died while in a spacecraft: Apollo 1 (3), Soyuz 1 (1), X-15-3(1), Soyuz 11 (3), Challenger (7), Columbia (7), totaling 18 astronauts (4.1%) and 4 cosmonauts (0.9% of all the people launched). So actually the americans hold the award. The russians are still using the same rocket (the R-7) that they used to launch sputnik up with. It is a proven, reliable, and cheaper alternative to the space shuttle (in terms of launching people).
The population will never stabilize without help and the best way to stabilize the population is to kill people. World war III would solve a lot of the worlds problems. Think about it, say we kill off 5 billion people leaving only 1 billion. Now people are more spread out, when you rebuild you won't have as much overcrowding. Its a kind of fresh start, where everyone appreciates what they have because they saw how close the came to loseing everything. On the plus side after civilization collapses there will be no health care, allowing people with health problems to die off thus raiseing the health of future generations.
And yet even though c was 200x slower most people now program in C or a "higher" language, why? Portability and ease of use. Isn't that what interpreted languages offer us more of?
I for one hope this will wake up more people to the fact that metorites and near earth objects are a real and present threat to the entire planet. Had this hit a city, millions of people could have died. And thats just from a small meteor. Imagine if one measured in miles had hit the planet. I'm a firm believer that the US should have a manned space program. But I wish the military was more involved in it. Too many people think science is the only thing we can do in space right now and that is far from the truth. We need experience in finding astroids and moveing them if they are a threat to earth. Also I believe that we need enough people living in space so that if the earth is destroyed there will be enough people to continue on without earth.
I don't think they are trying to say it is impossible, I think they are trying to make people more aware that it won't happen anytime soon. I've talked to several people who were under the impression that nasa was wasteing money on rockets when it should be investing in a space elevator. While I agree that a space elevator is a great idea, I think the problems that still need to be overcome will keep it from being made anytime soon.
Thats all you can say? Your goverement will trample your rights as individuals by haveing a standerdized way of telling who is who? I honestly think a national ID would be a good thing (at least here in the US). Every work a cash register and have to card someone with an out of state ID? Its easy to get away with a fake ID if you make it from a state most people are not familiar with.
Once again we see the advantages of an unmanned space program over our manned one. Now I am really for manned exploration of space, I'm just against nasa doing it. They have way more success on their unmanned programs (not to mention more bang for your buck). Look at voyager look at the mars rovers look at their new mission to pluto. I wish the nasa administration would see that they need to stop taking money from our unmanned programs to waste on our shuttle and shuttle derived programs.
Hydrogen blimps were used in WWI, they had to use incienderary bullets to set them on fire. Normal bullets won't set hydrogen on fire its not hot enough. So all shooting it would do was give it an hydrogen leak.
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Here is a clue, greenhouse gases are a small part to global warming. Check this out next time its cold out open your front door and see how much warm air escapes outside. Not a whole lot but between you and the other couple of billion houses out there it adds up. Our cars create greehouse gasses but more importantly they heat up. You use the ambient air to cool your, car your refrigerator, you airconditioner. This is what is causeing global warming. We are heating up the planet! Every electronic and mechanicle device we create produces more heat. So get used to it cause getting rid of greenhouse gasses is not going to stop global warming its just going to slow it down.
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Funny you should say that because I was thinking, if this becomes popular and I become a cannibal, does that make everyone who eats food made from my crap a cannibal too?
36 hours over two days? Honestly I'm not impressed, you want to talk about long hours join the military. Every stood a radar watch for 18 hours straight with no break, in a pitch black control room? Yeah and then get four hours down and do it again! If you hate your hours/pay/job at least you can quit at anytime. I got a year and a half left till I can even choose to quit.
And 640K ought to be enough for anybody right?
Al Gore didn't win. Get over it. I'm am so sick and tired of people saying he didn't win. He did win you know what my proof is? That he is actually in office.
Just a theory. The earth has warmed up 0.6 ± 0.2 Celsius (according to wikipedia) over the last century. People go around like we know exactly why the earth is warming. Ever hear of an ice age? I got news for you, the earth has warmed up on its own before, it doesn't mean that we are necessarily the cause for the increase in temperature. Yes global warming is something to be concerned about, but this alarmist attitude about mass extinctions is not needed.
I'm optimistic aboout the space program. With the new commercial intiatives, and some real goals for the moon and beyond, I'm hopefull that 2007 will be a good year for space.
Exploration aspect gone? That would be like be like comeing to the new world a couple times, trading with the natives and saying, thats it were done. No more to explore! Have we mapped every NEO yet? Do we know the composition of Io's crust? You think its over? Why? The only thing that could lead you to that conclusion is a blinding ignorance of the things we can still find out. When we go out and explore the solar system it will only be done when we have answered ever question we have now and every question we come acrossed while were doing it. And their are plenty of questions I can think of right now on planet earth. What you don't understand is we are at the very beggining, of space exploration. What we have accomplished so far is so miniscule compared to what the next half of century will bring. When people are flipping hamburgers on pluto thinking that their job sucks, then the exploration part will be over, not before.
Have you ever used equipment from lockheed and martin? All the equipment I've ever used breaks all the time. Their stuff sounds good, untill you actually use it. Then the flaws in their design come out.
Well for one most open source programs are free so if you are giving your software away for free and still loseing to microsoft, doesn't that mean there is something seriously wrong with your software?
Because we voted in a conservative not a libertarian?
Little history lesson here from wikipedia: As of November 2004, 439 individuals have flown on spaceflights: Russia/Soviet Union (96), USA (277), others (66). Twenty-two have died while in a spacecraft: Apollo 1 (3), Soyuz 1 (1), X-15-3(1), Soyuz 11 (3), Challenger (7), Columbia (7), totaling 18 astronauts (4.1%) and 4 cosmonauts (0.9% of all the people launched). So actually the americans hold the award. The russians are still using the same rocket (the R-7) that they used to launch sputnik up with. It is a proven, reliable, and cheaper alternative to the space shuttle (in terms of launching people).
The population will never stabilize without help and the best way to stabilize the population is to kill people. World war III would solve a lot of the worlds problems. Think about it, say we kill off 5 billion people leaving only 1 billion. Now people are more spread out, when you rebuild you won't have as much overcrowding. Its a kind of fresh start, where everyone appreciates what they have because they saw how close the came to loseing everything. On the plus side after civilization collapses there will be no health care, allowing people with health problems to die off thus raiseing the health of future generations.
Am I the only person who saw the subject and immediatly thought Star Trek?
And yet even though c was 200x slower most people now program in C or a "higher" language, why? Portability and ease of use. Isn't that what interpreted languages offer us more of?
I for one hope this will wake up more people to the fact that metorites and near earth objects are a real and present threat to the entire planet. Had this hit a city, millions of people could have died. And thats just from a small meteor. Imagine if one measured in miles had hit the planet. I'm a firm believer that the US should have a manned space program. But I wish the military was more involved in it. Too many people think science is the only thing we can do in space right now and that is far from the truth. We need experience in finding astroids and moveing them if they are a threat to earth. Also I believe that we need enough people living in space so that if the earth is destroyed there will be enough people to continue on without earth.
I don't think they are trying to say it is impossible, I think they are trying to make people more aware that it won't happen anytime soon. I've talked to several people who were under the impression that nasa was wasteing money on rockets when it should be investing in a space elevator. While I agree that a space elevator is a great idea, I think the problems that still need to be overcome will keep it from being made anytime soon.
Thats all you can say? Your goverement will trample your rights as individuals by haveing a standerdized way of telling who is who? I honestly think a national ID would be a good thing (at least here in the US). Every work a cash register and have to card someone with an out of state ID? Its easy to get away with a fake ID if you make it from a state most people are not familiar with.
Once again we see the advantages of an unmanned space program over our manned one. Now I am really for manned exploration of space, I'm just against nasa doing it. They have way more success on their unmanned programs (not to mention more bang for your buck). Look at voyager look at the mars rovers look at their new mission to pluto. I wish the nasa administration would see that they need to stop taking money from our unmanned programs to waste on our shuttle and shuttle derived programs.
Fortunately we have conservatives and liberatarins to protect us from democrats.
Someone has the answer and he's buried half way down the page :(
Finally a political related statement on slashdot thats actually intelligent!
Does this mean the slashdot community is getting older too?
Hydrogen blimps were used in WWI, they had to use incienderary bullets to set them on fire. Normal bullets won't set hydrogen on fire its not hot enough. So all shooting it would do was give it an hydrogen leak.
The answer is quite simple, lua. Powerful language who's best feature is its own lack of bloat.
Here is a clue, greenhouse gases are a small part to global warming. Check this out next time its cold out open your front door and see how much warm air escapes outside. Not a whole lot but between you and the other couple of billion houses out there it adds up. Our cars create greehouse gasses but more importantly they heat up. You use the ambient air to cool your, car your refrigerator, you airconditioner. This is what is causeing global warming. We are heating up the planet! Every electronic and mechanicle device we create produces more heat. So get used to it cause getting rid of greenhouse gasses is not going to stop global warming its just going to slow it down.