Oh capital idea. Free wi0fi, 1gig speeds, unlimited rice pudding!
It is quite astonishing that erstwhile intelligent people still believe in the concept of "free". You will pay and pay heavily, because the government has no reason or motivation to control the overhead.
Clearly, you have lost the narrative. Human beings are terrible and we should all be ashamed of ourselves for existing. Therefore, anything we do is also wrong. It's particularly wrong when is it done by Western civilization .
This is what has been pounded into people's heads for years, with elements of it starting with the ludicrous "noble savage" concept. Now, we are "thoughtlessly destroying the planet".
Human beings are the only species that destroys it's own environment. Except for all the others that do the same thing dating back 2+ billion years. One species wantonly spewed out a deadly poison, killing almost all incompatible species. That was that dastardly blue-green algae, that spewed out the deadly poison oxygen.
You might be surprised to learn that people managed to get on airplanes before computers existed, and that they used to run entire airlines without a computer or an internet.
The point being that by using centralized control via computer, you create single point failures or at least are vulnerable to single point issues that cripple the entire system, or at least slow it down. If they did it all with typewriters and ink pens, they wouldn't have a single point failure (power interruption) that inconvenienced a lot of people.
I have recently heard that several colleges and private institutions consider quoting the US Constitution to be hate speech and a microaggression. Someone's sensibilities might be offended!
This is how utterly insane this debate has gotten. Yes, the world will starve to death in an economic collapse, but, at least we won't be slightly increasing a trace component in the atmosphere.
Right. The guys who built the Atlas did it for years, too, with *far* more missiles. Then they stopped because there's not much upside. AND, importantly, they usually didn't do it with the *payload* at risk in an accident. They didn't say, "hey, John Glenn, climb up in the capsule while we do a test to see if it will blow up". In this case, that's exactly what happened, they did the static test with the payload on board and at risk from any problem.
It blew during or shortly after a static firing - that is, a test run of the engine with the rocket restrained. That's a *very* unusual procedure in the modern world, but they used to do it all the time. The reason they don't do it any more is that it tends to reduce overall reliability, and the rocket was designed to work in flight, not necessarily with the back-pressure, or acoustic and thermal reflection from the pad/blast deflector/ground.
In this case, I expect, that SpaceX brobdingagian hubris figured that they could get away with it, and it was "designed" for reuse, so it will encounter those effects anyway, and in any case, they have lots of fast computers so they know better than those dinosaur idiots back in the late 50's.early 60's.
"Value Signalling" requires no defense, for the SJW crowd, all you have to do is indicate you have the "correct" opinions. Having a logical justification or rationale for holding the opinion is superfluous. Ut's enough just to show you have the opinion to get your credibility
Every other blimp/helicopter hybrid crashed pretty early on, so this is hardly unexpected. The fundamental problem with all lighter than air craft has been landing, taking off, or being handled on or near the ground. It is an intrinsic weakness that cannot be overcome.
"Leftist" is an insult because leftists are now clearly seen as attempting to destroy the concept of personal liberty that is the hallmark of the United States.
This will shortly be proven by the left's bastions of tolerance modding this post to oblivion.
Utopia of any sort, Plato's or otherwise, is intrinsically wrong, and completely anathema to the concept of individual liberty. I don't want a bunch of supposedly enlightened, supposedly superior masterminds controlling what goes on in *my* life.
OOOH, you'll get done for heresy for that sort of comment. Never, ever, tell the emperor he has no clothes, all those praising him for decades will get very mad.
BTW, the mean sea level was about 100 feet higher for most of Phanerozoic time until an enormous drop in fairly recent (on this scale) times.
We weren't able to see germs until we had a powerful enough micrcoscope - but germ theory predicted that they existed, and that you should look for them and if you looked carefully enough, you would see them Just like the Higgs Boson - it was predicted for many decades before any instrument could detect it, and no one was really sure that it existed until it was detected at the mass predicted.
Much of string theory, as an example, is theoretically unobservable, in that no matter what you do you can never see them at all, That's about like saying germs are not just too small to see with current equipment, they are invisible by their nature.
The entire point of the article is that not being able to prove them experimentally makes some of these ideas no different, conceptually, than religion and magic. This observation is hardy new, the same objections about no testable hypotheses = religion has been around for a very long time,
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Oh capital idea. Free wi0fi, 1gig speeds, unlimited rice pudding!
It is quite astonishing that erstwhile intelligent people still believe in the concept of "free". You will pay and pay heavily, because the government has no reason or motivation to control the overhead.
Clearly, you have lost the narrative. Human beings are terrible and we should all be ashamed of ourselves for existing. Therefore, anything we do is also wrong. It's particularly wrong when is it done by Western civilization .
This is what has been pounded into people's heads for years, with elements of it starting with the ludicrous "noble savage" concept. Now, we are "thoughtlessly destroying the planet".
Human beings are the only species that destroys it's own environment. Except for all the others that do the same thing dating back 2+ billion years. One species wantonly spewed out a deadly poison, killing almost all incompatible species. That was that dastardly blue-green algae, that spewed out the deadly poison oxygen.
Right, they already have enough armchair scientists working on that, for pay.
Until the Andromeda Strain takes hold, that is.
You might be surprised to learn that people managed to get on airplanes before computers existed, and that they used to run entire airlines without a computer or an internet.
The point being that by using centralized control via computer, you create single point failures or at least are vulnerable to single point issues that cripple the entire system, or at least slow it down. If they did it all with typewriters and ink pens, they wouldn't have a single point failure (power interruption) that inconvenienced a lot of people.
And quadrupled the weight.
Gonna get in trouble for that one! I got modded down to "flamebait" for suggesting that we should risk CO2 to keep people alive.
I have recently heard that several colleges and private institutions consider quoting the US Constitution to be hate speech and a microaggression. Someone's sensibilities might be offended!
This is how utterly insane this debate has gotten. Yes, the world will starve to death in an economic collapse, but, at least we won't be slightly increasing a trace component in the atmosphere.
Right. The guys who built the Atlas did it for years, too, with *far* more missiles. Then they stopped because there's not much upside. AND, importantly, they usually didn't do it with the *payload* at risk in an accident. They didn't say, "hey, John Glenn, climb up in the capsule while we do a test to see if it will blow up". In this case, that's exactly what happened, they did the static test with the payload on board and at risk from any problem.
It blew during or shortly after a static firing - that is, a test run of the engine with the rocket restrained. That's a *very* unusual procedure in the modern world, but they used to do it all the time. The reason they don't do it any more is that it tends to reduce overall reliability, and the rocket was designed to work in flight, not necessarily with the back-pressure, or acoustic and thermal reflection from the pad/blast deflector/ground.
In this case, I expect, that SpaceX brobdingagian hubris figured that they could get away with it, and it was "designed" for reuse, so it will encounter those effects anyway, and in any case, they have lots of fast computers so they know better than those dinosaur idiots back in the late 50's.early 60's.
"Value Signalling" requires no defense, for the SJW crowd, all you have to do is indicate you have the "correct" opinions. Having a logical justification or rationale for holding the opinion is superfluous. Ut's enough just to show you have the opinion to get your credibility
Every other blimp/helicopter hybrid crashed pretty early on, so this is hardly unexpected. The fundamental problem with all lighter than air craft has been landing, taking off, or being handled on or near the ground. It is an intrinsic weakness that cannot be overcome.
More likely, it takes about 20 seconds to boot up, at which point it runs the same routine that caused the problem in the first place.
I think what really sends them is the jiggling of his chins!
I'll bet it's two-way, alright!
"Leftist" is an insult because leftists are now clearly seen as attempting to destroy the concept of personal liberty that is the hallmark of the United States.
This will shortly be proven by the left's bastions of tolerance modding this post to oblivion.
Which I had mod point, certainly, you have nailed it.
Right. We are having an election about that in a few months.
Utopia of any sort, Plato's or otherwise, is intrinsically wrong, and completely anathema to the concept of individual liberty. I don't want a bunch of supposedly enlightened, supposedly superior masterminds controlling what goes on in *my* life.
Coined by Barnabas Collins, maybe?
OOOH, you'll get done for heresy for that sort of comment. Never, ever, tell the emperor he has no clothes, all those praising him for decades will get very mad.
BTW, the mean sea level was about 100 feet higher for most of Phanerozoic time until an enormous drop in fairly recent (on this scale) times.
I hope you realize that no one gives a shit about Euro-centrism.
We weren't able to see germs until we had a powerful enough micrcoscope - but germ theory predicted that they existed, and that you should look for them and if you looked carefully enough, you would see them Just like the Higgs Boson - it was predicted for many decades before any instrument could detect it, and no one was really sure that it existed until it was detected at the mass predicted.
Much of string theory, as an example, is theoretically unobservable, in that no matter what you do you can never see them at all, That's about like saying germs are not just too small to see with current equipment, they are invisible by their nature.
The entire point of the article is that not being able to prove them experimentally makes some of these ideas no different, conceptually, than religion and magic. This observation is hardy new, the same objections about no testable hypotheses = religion has been around for a very long time,