Geeks have essentially zero influence on Apple's sales. Smaller than any arbitrarily-chosen epsilon. If you actually believe what you posted, I feel sad for you.
He still doesn't get it. For whatever reason, he continues to equate incredible special effects with incredible results.
He has made an obscene amount of money and gotten a whole generation of geeks to worship his half-assed "space opera" special effects films and treat them as if they had some deep meaning.
Star Wars (even the originals) are almost completely special effects extravaganzas. It wasn't Shakespeare and it certainly wasn't good science fiction.
So, pray tell, Mr Space Expert, what big improvements would you have made? Nice simple capsule concept, with well-understood characteristics, and adequate for the job. Very similar to something that was close to an operational system and known to be nicely adaptable. Seems like a pretty good idea to me, but please, do wow us!
The era of manned exploration of the cosmos is coming to an end, and the era of unmanned exploration is beginning in a serious way. Neil Armstrong is the old face of space exploration; Spirit is the new face. We'll get to Mars eventually but when we do it will be thoroughly mapped and analyzed and studied by robots. It won't fundamentally be exploration, it will be more like tourism. People talk about the shortcomings of robotic exploration, and how humans are more adaptible and versatile. Maybe that's true, if you ignore the incredible logistic hurdles required to support fragile flesh-and-bone hardware on a hostile planet. And maybe it's true that human hands are still better than metal manipulators... but only for now. The reality is that by the time we overcome the technological hurdles required to put humans on Mars, the technology of robots will have advanced. And they'll be able to move, to work, to do science, and to explore far more effectively in those environments than we will ever be able to do.
I got it on the third attempt. Digging further, I was redirected to 178.162.157.0. Actual site is 184.84.222.83 as I pinged it. First is in germany, second is Akamai and gives the real site.
The entire point of the federal system, and the entire point of the constitution, is to *limit* centralized control. The theory being that people locally know what is better for them than someone off in Washington might. We fought a successful war against the worlds #1 superpower to achieve that.
Bezos is exactly right, and the "Commerce clause" that has been used to grant federal governement sweeping powers has been dreadfully abused in any number of ways.
Don't think that's the way to go? Great! Stay where you are.
And, it won't raise tax revenues. Over and over, it has been demonstrated that raising the tax rate *does not* generally raise revenues, particularly in the long term.
Not a dolt but the capacitance and inductance of even a nice solid wire would prevent any current flow, suck it all up into heat in the first tiny fraction of an inch. Wire doesn't even work well for higher frequency radio waves, it's sure not going to work for this, which is many orders of magnitudes higher. And I would have to do some work on the topic and dig out my old solid-state physics book to know for sure, but I presume the things we consider conductors cease to be when the wavelength of the signal gets to be comparable to the distance between atoms in the lattice of the conductor.
. These micro antennae will effectively absorb midrange IR light and reflect everything else back out as polarized light minus the IR. This is sure to cause skin cancer, retinal damage and other maladies.
You mean that it will spew more UV and other light out than went into it? Making it worse than the same exposure without absorbing the IR?
Go ask your medical school for your money back, *quick*, because even a doctor should understand the fundamentals of thermodynamics.
I think you see the problem - I *am* in a related field and I certainly don't know of any practical or efficient way to rectify it. I can think of absurdly inefficient ways, but we already have a bunch of those.
Given that there are very scientifically sound and obvious limitations on chemical processes involved in known or postulated life, that doesn't seem to outrageously presumptuous.
I have read it, twit. You might have a technical argument, but the first politician to suggest that we make our laws subservient to international treaties will be run out of town on a rail. It's a non-starter, it amounts to yielding sovereignty to someone else, and Americans *will not stand for that* under almost any circumstances.
That's not really much of an argument, the US Constitution is more important that treaties and will certainly trump those, if push comes to shove. No international agreement will ever outweigh the constitution, and if some US politician ever suggests that it does, they will rightfully be run out of office.
It's also probably not constitutional, and it's likely a violation of the 4th amendment, and almost certainly the 10th. That argument might carry some weight.
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Like ghosts and deities, presumably?
It's societies fault.
Geeks have essentially zero influence on Apple's sales. Smaller than any arbitrarily-chosen epsilon. If you actually believe what you posted, I feel sad for you.
He has made an obscene amount of money and gotten a whole generation of geeks to worship his half-assed "space opera" special effects films and treat them as if they had some deep meaning.
Star Wars (even the originals) are almost completely special effects extravaganzas. It wasn't Shakespeare and it certainly wasn't good science fiction.
What doesn't he get?
Yes, actually, from a link on Slashdot (national geographic Area 51 article) I knew enough to get rid of it.
Oy Vey! - you orient the spin axis along true North.
So, pray tell, Mr Space Expert, what big improvements would you have made? Nice simple capsule concept, with well-understood characteristics, and adequate for the job. Very similar to something that was close to an operational system and known to be nicely adaptable. Seems like a pretty good idea to me, but please, do wow us!
And therefore pointless.
I am sure you are welcome to try, but, if the thing is dead, its not a matter of trying harder.
I got it on the third attempt. Digging further, I was redirected to 178.162.157.0. Actual site is 184.84.222.83 as I pinged it. First is in germany, second is Akamai and gives the real site.
The link in TFA leads to some sort of bogus site - it automatically started downloading a zip file of some sort.
Note that the link in the PP has a report on Teddy "Splash" Kennedy's little misadventure, just below the moon landing.
Because it corrects spelling errors.
The entire point of the federal system, and the entire point of the constitution, is to *limit* centralized control. The theory being that people locally know what is better for them than someone off in Washington might. We fought a successful war against the worlds #1 superpower to achieve that.
Bezos is exactly right, and the "Commerce clause" that has been used to grant federal governement sweeping powers has been dreadfully abused in any number of ways.
Don't think that's the way to go? Great! Stay where you are.
And, it won't raise tax revenues. Over and over, it has been demonstrated that raising the tax rate *does not* generally raise revenues, particularly in the long term.
Ah,missed the "DC". I think I will go get an adjustment to cure my appendicitis...
Not a dolt but the capacitance and inductance of even a nice solid wire would prevent any current flow, suck it all up into heat in the first tiny fraction of an inch. Wire doesn't even work well for higher frequency radio waves, it's sure not going to work for this, which is many orders of magnitudes higher. And I would have to do some work on the topic and dig out my old solid-state physics book to know for sure, but I presume the things we consider conductors cease to be when the wavelength of the signal gets to be comparable to the distance between atoms in the lattice of the conductor.
You mean that it will spew more UV and other light out than went into it? Making it worse than the same exposure without absorbing the IR?
Go ask your medical school for your money back, *quick*, because even a doctor should understand the fundamentals of thermodynamics.
I think you see the problem - I *am* in a related field and I certainly don't know of any practical or efficient way to rectify it. I can think of absurdly inefficient ways, but we already have a bunch of those.
Given that there are very scientifically sound and obvious limitations on chemical processes involved in known or postulated life, that doesn't seem to outrageously presumptuous.
They care a lot about that. Wait until 2012 and see what we think of it.
I have read it, twit. You might have a technical argument, but the first politician to suggest that we make our laws subservient to international treaties will be run out of town on a rail. It's a non-starter, it amounts to yielding sovereignty to someone else, and Americans *will not stand for that* under almost any circumstances.
That's not really much of an argument, the US Constitution is more important that treaties and will certainly trump those, if push comes to shove. No international agreement will ever outweigh the constitution, and if some US politician ever suggests that it does, they will rightfully be run out of office.
It's also probably not constitutional, and it's likely a violation of the 4th amendment, and almost certainly the 10th. That argument might carry some weight.
They certainly didn't know that the solid surface is floating in a more-or-less continuous magma lake in the 70's.
You can see a picture of the car on the carousel section from the Nordschleife