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  1. Re: They think small on Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars, New Research Says (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    And? What has that to do with the topic?

    There is no magical-not-invented-yet technology needed to terra form Mars.

  2. Re: nutrition value and environmental impact? on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The point of argument was never suplements.
    The point of argument is: only animal sources provide B12 is plain wrong.

  3. But you do know that power need more or less follows the course of the sun?
    Hence you do know that the CF is completely irrelevant?

    So why starting an argument about power with the dreaded CF?

    Oh, my mistake!? You did not know?

  4. Re:Venus has always been a better target on Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars, New Research Says (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    I simply don't get why people like you, no offense, have no natural feeling how mindboggeling huge the amount of gas is, you need to transfer from Venus to Mars and how mindboggeling many crafts you would need to make that in a reasonable time span (1000 years?) and how absolutely absurd the energy requirements for that would be.

  5. Re:I thought it was solar wind+no magnetic field on Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars, New Research Says (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes and no.
    If we could magically set up an atmosphere over night, it would last for millions of years.
    There are ideas how to place a magnetic field generator between the planet and the sun, so the radiation (particles) get deflected by a simple to set up field.

  6. Re:A really hard problem on Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars, New Research Says (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Mars has no magnetic field, not because it is not iron rich, but because the iron core is solid, unlike the molten earth core.

    Mars can easily a human breathable atmosphere for several million years.

  7. Re: They think small on Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars, New Research Says (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    The engineering of terraforming Mars is way beyond our current capabilities.
    Actually: no.

    https://www.universetoday.com/...

  8. The headline reads feedback and I read again facebook

  9. Re: Apple doesn't have market share to push Metal on Autodesk Drops Support For Alias, VRED In macOS Mojave Over OpenGL Deprecation (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    A Mac Book with touch bar has no ESC key.
    Which you clearly can see on the article you linked ...

    It might have an "ESC - area" on the touchbar, though.

    As a 'vi' user: that is out of the question.

    Having no F-keys is out of the question as well for heavy game play.

    Yes: I have a Mac, and yes, I play games on it, and yes, I map commands to function keys.

  10. Re: nutrition value and environmental impact? on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I only listed B12 plants.

    Why would I list others?

    Plants do not produce B12.
    So mushrooms, nuts and kelp are not plants?

  11. Re: Intel is so far behind on Intel's 10nm 'Cannon Lake' Processors Won't Arrive Until Late 2019 (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    We are unhappy because:
    a) the OS sucks
    b) the UI sucks more and more
    c) the hardware, e.g. the touchpad sucks ... or for some even the keyboard

    We are in no way concerned about the CPU, who cares about fuck like that? IMHO they should go straight to RISC V ...

  12. I never met a vegetarian who made that distinction.
    Either they eat cheese and are "vegetarians" or they don't and are "vegan".

    Natural cheese is not made with rennet anyway ... it ferments naturally.

  13. Re: nutrition value and environmental impact? on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Everybody has to make up his own mind about nutrition.
    The claim that B12 is only in meat is wrong.
    Period. (A no brainer: how would it end up in meat if there was no source from which it is accumulated from? Humans consist of meat, too. BTW.)

    And that is my only point.

    If you are not interested in the topic, then leave us alone, but stop insulting others.

  14. Re:Power on Are There Dangers in a Cashless Society? (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the debt e.g. of whole Greece is less than the debt of a medium sized city in Germany or any other part of Europe ...
    The point is: they could not pay. Hence there was a big fuzz made about it. And of course the problems Greece has are unique greek problems which they have to fix them selves. Our money wont fix it, it makes it only worse. Before the EURO a coffee in Parsi was like 80cents (because Paris would riot if the price would be significant above that) a coffee in Germany was about 150cents. In Athens, Greece, it was 40cents. For some reason Greece decided to "join" or "embrace" the EURO by simply setting every price of every thing to the most highest they could find in the EU, but forgot to adjust wages, pensions etc. Obviously that does not work. Who who was used to make vacations in a cheap country is going to Greece and paying more for coffee, meals, rent, taxi than he pays at home?

    If it was for me or most other Germans or West Europe: they had got nothing. The point is: they are a society of tricksters. They cheat each other. Look at the forrest fires now. Everything burning are illegal constructions in areas where there was a reason to forbid it. But if the building stands 10 years it is "suddenly legal". You pay the bribes (to skip the 10 years) and all is fine. Big cash out for everyone. But some people where not smart enough to build like their neighbours did.
    So they started forest fires, with hundreds of deaths.
    Now there is no reason anymore to declare the areas as forbidden construction zones. I bet it is less than a year until the law is changed, and now they rebuild everything officially and the murderers become rich ...

  15. Re:Power on Are There Dangers in a Cashless Society? (slate.com) · · Score: 0

    if Spain, Italy, or Greece defaulted on their debts, basically economically collapsing, then the cascading consequences would bring down the entire global economy.
    That is nonsense.

    We were in the absurd position where economies as small as the afore mentioned could cause a global distaster.
    That is nonsense ...

  16. Re: nutrition value and environmental impact? on Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you eat strictly vegetables you end up getting sick and dying
    False.
    Beer contains B12, Sauerkraut does, Carrots do - at least organic grown ones - and I bet most roots like radish and potatoes do as well (organic grown food grows on different soil bacteria, they produce B12 [amoung other things] and the roots of the plants absorb it). Kelp does, asian people like kelp, fermented Soy does, actually it is believed that nearly all fermented "dishes" contain noticeable amounts of B12 (because yeast produces B12, so that would include wine and sake, and traditional made bread, that is bread made from sourdough see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ).

    And most importantly: mushrooms contain more B12 than meat, except for liver.

    Plenty of nuts, especially almonds and peanuts contain B12.

    And bottom line: the amount of B12 the body needs is so absurdly low and the storage capacity of your liver so absurdly high: you easy last 2 or 3 years before you would notice anything if you actually would not take in any B12 during those 2 - 3 years.

    In other words: go to the cinema and eat a pack of peanuts and you are set for month. Or eat an asian vegetarian dish with peanuts :D

    Anyway, I'm not a vegetarian or vegan. I'm just pissed about the wrong information in america where web sites claim only meat contains B12. What about fish?

  17. It does not mean "Year of the Lord".
    It translates to "Year of the Master", or more precisely, the "owner of the slaves". A servant would address his master as "domus" or the wife of his master/owner as "domina".

  18. Most of east Asia, and that includes China is using the Gregorian calendar only for international business uses.
    They all use either Moon calendars or other Buddhist/Hinduist influenced calendars.

    Of course they have "no problem" using the Gregorian one, I never claimed that.

    But perhaps you remember that the article and those comments here are not about 2018 or 2019 but specifically about Japan, which is in the year Heisei 30.

    The muslim world is in the year 1440 AH, and the asian world that has abandoned "counting emperors" is in the year 2562 B.E.

    China "officially" - and that means: the government - is using the Gregorian calendar. However in wide spread use, is the traditional/rural calendar which is in the year 4713 at the moment.

    So: schedules of air planes and trains use the gregorian calendar. Schedules for holidays, planting and harvests and marriages etc. use the traditional ones.

    Hope that helps.

  19. Re:Contrast is excellent on What OpenStreetMap Can Be (systemed.net) · · Score: 2

    Both Google maps and the Apple map have two, actually three, majour flaws:
    a) they don't show the scale, which makes it useless to guess a distance
    b) depending on zoom level names of streets or places fade in or fade out and are invisible or to small to read
    c) public transport fades in and out on the map depending on zoom level

    b) and c) are super annoying, because you have e.g. a zoom level where you see a street name or public transport, you zoom in a bit deeper, it vanishes, you zoom even more deep and it shows up again.

    Must be an american thing, not being able to grasp how important public transport in Europe is ...

  20. Re:Compare the result with other theories of gravi on Star's Black Hole Encounter Puts Einstein's Theory of Gravity To the Test (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Oh? Someone designed an experiment that involved putting a star into an orbit around our central black hole in our galaxy? How did they do that?

  21. I hope you deleted the documentation?
    Or there never was one in the first place?

    Or ...

    You wrote a missleading one?

  22. I fixed about 1M LOC cobol code and crosschecked about 600k LOC PL1 code.
    If the software systems had not been fixed, they compldtely had failed around 1999/2001.
    And yes, all data was stored in obscure yy/dd/mm formats or julian dates or other obscure ways. No one was using 'unix time'.

  23. Because right now most of the world uses it.
    If you want to call "something around 45% of the world population 'most'" ...
    Never heared about the muslim calendar or asian calendars? The article you posting to is actually about the japanese calendar ... 130M people ... Moron.

  24. There is no "our lord" in BC or AC ...

  25. I guess you got that reversed.
    No one - except some idiots- is using BCE and CE anymore.