But you are assuming that the Chinese are lying. The Chinese government people do lie to cover their unpopular and unethical actions, but when there is no reason to lie, they don't.
There is no concrete proof, in fact, there is only speculation, that this is in example of restriciting free speech. You, and many others, have just read that into it.
So, when you judge an action to be wrong, please make sure that it actually happened before you start spouting judgemental rhetoric.
"and one that has specifically stated they hate us all and want to take over"
You might be confusing China with the Soviet Union. Don't worry, it happens to irrational people sometimes.
The Chinese don't mind Americans existing at all, though they do get upset at what they see as double standards for human rights; when the U.S. complains about their treatment of people, they point to the innumerable sweatshops and cartels that fuel many American industries.
Also, in case you're actually worried they might invade, you should get out a map and look at the enormous expanse of blue between them and us that you seem to have forgotten.
[quote]The regular Chinese will do just as much as the Beijing government to deny any wrongdoing by Beijing. Such is the nature of Chinese people.[/quote]
You, sir, should be slapped with a wet fish. You just presumed to tell us all what the "nature" of 1.3 billion individual Chinese men and women is. Open your mind and you might see that the Chinese are people too, and that their feelings about their government are just as complex as our feelings about ours.
What about the various shots that show hands pushing buttons? I assume those were shot with the buttons and hands at 1 G. Do you know anything about that?
Ever considered you were playing below your level? Ever thought of bumping it up to legendary? If you finished that in a day in which you also slept, then you might have something.
Well, that'd work then. Thanks for clearing that up. Although if the module really failed to inflate, you might have some homicides on board in fairly short order.:)
The spaceship inflates, right? So before it inflates the space inside it is very small. I'm assuming you want to put astronauts on your ship. In order to get astronauts onto your ship before it takes off/leaves spacedock/whatever you need to put them into a fairly large area. But if you propose to avoid acceleration damage by not inflating the ship until after the acceleration, how are you going to get astronauts onto the ship before it leaves?
That's what I'm confused about.
The relative motion of the planets and ship aren't what my problem is concerned with.
The FCC a non-partisan organization? Please remember the HUGE big fight the FCC had with basically everyone except the radio industry about 6 months ago. You know, when they wanted to eliminate broadcast laws that kept local radio in business?
Deregulating industries where only monlithic businesses can benefit (Clear Channel) is a clear goal of the Republican party.
So... yeah, telecom companies should not be able to keep their service/outage records secret from the people who PAY for those services, but the FCC isn't the non-partisan organization to give you the facts on this one.
Yeah, I took that course too, but my question was really about nomenclature, not what was physically happening. I just want to know whether Hawaii "counts" as part of the Ring of Fire.
Before this I want to say that I respect your opinion and I'm glad this hasn't descended into a flame war. I can't find anything logically wrong with your arguments.
Okay, so basically your whole point is that Google is editing its service so that search results conform to the Chinese government's idea of what the Chinese should be seeing, and that's wrong. I can't really argue with you there. Yes, that's wrong. You believe that because it is wrong and because they have the option of not doing it, they shouldn't be doing it.
I think that it would be worse for the Chinese people to not have Google at all. I personally use Google all the time. It's my home page. I think it's great that it's free and so useful. I believe that the benefits to the Chinese internet users of this skewed version of Google over having no Google at all outweigh the Google's wrongness in providing the service tailored to China's oppressive regime.
I'm making my value judgement, I can see from our long conversation that you've made yours. So, you'll go on thinking it's wrong, and I'll go on thinking it's not that wrong.
I think you'll want your bubble to be inflated before you try to put anything in it. So you if you accelerate, then inflate, how are you going to put stuff inside?
I don't know what you mean about inflating backwards. Do you mean deflate, then decelerate?
I feel obligated to point out that Timeline was a really fantastically horrible movie. It was a mediocre made-for-tv movie that somehow got put into the A-list box by mistake. Like Underworld. But sadly, Underworld was much better than Timeline.
The scottish guy had a cool accent though. I guess that's one reason to watch it.
As far as putting me in the game, I can't wait until I have enough $$ to buy a new 3d card and Doom 3. Just playing the demo at midnight with the lights off had me twitching in my seat, and almost lunging for the light switch a couple of times. THAT is pulling you into the game.
Does Hawaii count as part of the Ring of Fire? I thought it was just the volcanism around the pacific plate boundaries that were part of the Ring of Fire. Hawaii's volcanoes are entirely independent of plate tectonics.
Did you see that map of 2000 election results in Florida superimposed on the last 3 hurricanes' paths? Avoiding democratic counties? Now the conservative interior of Washington state is going to be covered with ash? What does heaven have to do to get us to vote Kerry? Break out the locusts?
Unfortunately, space travel adds some more complexities to this otherwise nifty idea. Space debris sucks, but space debris while your bubble-ship is hauling major ass is a lot worse. Basically, you take the particle, take your ship, figure out the vectors, and then add the relevent speeds together. Also, tiny bits of stuff orbiting the sun tend to be moving much faster than stuff orbiting the Earth (relative to the Earth)
Also, you're stuck with having to protect your bubble from self-inflicted acceleration damage. I'm not a bubble mathematics expert, but it seems like this would be a limiting factor in acceleration unless you were willing to add rigid structural supports, which defeats the whole purpose anyway.
Just pointing out a few structural problems in this concept. *points to structural problems in concept* See?
If they're already know by NASA to be so much superior to the currently used ISS modules, why not use the much cheaper inflatable kevlar to complete the woefully overbudjet and underbuilt ISS?
You make it sound as if it's a no-brainer. I have the same healthy skepticism of the bureaucrats over at NASA, but a superior design like this couldn't go over the heads of the many excellent engineers NASA (still the largest most successful space agency ever) still attracts.
I'm sure that if it were simply safer, as you seem to be saying, they'd be using it already.
The other reply to this comment is correct in saying that yes, this WOULD require horrendous amounts of fuel. The problem is that it takes time to do that deceleration, and in the time between 17500 mph and 0 mph you've already fallen into the atmosphere. So you'd need a way to slow down so ridiculously fast that gravity's pull hadn't got you by the time you're going 0.
To allow the immortal Douglas Adams to sum up: gravity glances up and demands to know exactly what the hell you think you're doing up there.
Sorry for not being precise. I said plastic as a bit of embellishment, not because I thought the ships were really made out of cheap plastic. Kevlar may be able to stop bullets (in some forms) but space debris can pack as much or more kinetic energy than a rifle bullet, and kevlar "inflated" doesn't seem to have much support behind it.
I also did not mean that the ships would naturally leak, I was referring to puncture events.
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But you are assuming that the Chinese are lying. The Chinese government people do lie to cover their unpopular and unethical actions, but when there is no reason to lie, they don't.
There is no concrete proof, in fact, there is only speculation, that this is in example of restriciting free speech. You, and many others, have just read that into it.
So, when you judge an action to be wrong, please make sure that it actually happened before you start spouting judgemental rhetoric.
Romanized, its something like: "wo (woaa) shi ge yang gui zi"
"and one that has specifically stated they hate us all and want to take over"
You might be confusing China with the Soviet Union. Don't worry, it happens to irrational people sometimes.
The Chinese don't mind Americans existing at all, though they do get upset at what they see as double standards for human rights; when the U.S. complains about their treatment of people, they point to the innumerable sweatshops and cartels that fuel many American industries.
Also, in case you're actually worried they might invade, you should get out a map and look at the enormous expanse of blue between them and us that you seem to have forgotten.
[quote]The regular Chinese will do just as much as the Beijing government to deny any wrongdoing by Beijing. Such is the nature of Chinese people.[/quote] You, sir, should be slapped with a wet fish. You just presumed to tell us all what the "nature" of 1.3 billion individual Chinese men and women is. Open your mind and you might see that the Chinese are people too, and that their feelings about their government are just as complex as our feelings about ours.
What about the various shots that show hands pushing buttons? I assume those were shot with the buttons and hands at 1 G. Do you know anything about that?
Ever considered you were playing below your level? Ever thought of bumping it up to legendary? If you finished that in a day in which you also slept, then you might have something.
So you're saying that they actually used this thing to make Apollo 13!? All this time I thought they were on wires! That is just hellacool.
All this poll proves is that kerry voters are far thristier than their Bush counterparts.
OMFG guys! It's solar warming! Kill the Republicans!
Hopefully by the time we arrive on Titan, there will be interesting things for Space Marines to shoot at.
Where will the Chinse get their porn now? Where? Oh god, it's too painful to think about. Why God, why!!??
Well, that'd work then. Thanks for clearing that up. Although if the module really failed to inflate, you might have some homicides on board in fairly short order. :)
I'm confused too man. Here's what I'm thinking:
The spaceship inflates, right? So before it inflates the space inside it is very small. I'm assuming you want to put astronauts on your ship. In order to get astronauts onto your ship before it takes off/leaves spacedock/whatever you need to put them into a fairly large area. But if you propose to avoid acceleration damage by not inflating the ship until after the acceleration, how are you going to get astronauts onto the ship before it leaves?
That's what I'm confused about.
The relative motion of the planets and ship aren't what my problem is concerned with.
The FCC a non-partisan organization? Please remember the HUGE big fight the FCC had with basically everyone except the radio industry about 6 months ago. You know, when they wanted to eliminate broadcast laws that kept local radio in business?
Deregulating industries where only monlithic businesses can benefit (Clear Channel) is a clear goal of the Republican party.
So... yeah, telecom companies should not be able to keep their service/outage records secret from the people who PAY for those services, but the FCC isn't the non-partisan organization to give you the facts on this one.
Yeah, I took that course too, but my question was really about nomenclature, not what was physically happening. I just want to know whether Hawaii "counts" as part of the Ring of Fire.
Before this I want to say that I respect your opinion and I'm glad this hasn't descended into a flame war. I can't find anything logically wrong with your arguments.
Okay, so basically your whole point is that Google is editing its service so that search results conform to the Chinese government's idea of what the Chinese should be seeing, and that's wrong. I can't really argue with you there. Yes, that's wrong. You believe that because it is wrong and because they have the option of not doing it, they shouldn't be doing it.
I think that it would be worse for the Chinese people to not have Google at all. I personally use Google all the time. It's my home page. I think it's great that it's free and so useful. I believe that the benefits to the Chinese internet users of this skewed version of Google over having no Google at all outweigh the Google's wrongness in providing the service tailored to China's oppressive regime.
I'm making my value judgement, I can see from our long conversation that you've made yours. So, you'll go on thinking it's wrong, and I'll go on thinking it's not that wrong.
I think you'll want your bubble to be inflated before you try to put anything in it. So you if you accelerate, then inflate, how are you going to put stuff inside? I don't know what you mean about inflating backwards. Do you mean deflate, then decelerate?
Would you build your Mars spaceship out of drywall without a stud?
I feel obligated to point out that Timeline was a really fantastically horrible movie. It was a mediocre made-for-tv movie that somehow got put into the A-list box by mistake. Like Underworld. But sadly, Underworld was much better than Timeline.
The scottish guy had a cool accent though. I guess that's one reason to watch it.
As far as putting me in the game, I can't wait until I have enough $$ to buy a new 3d card and Doom 3. Just playing the demo at midnight with the lights off had me twitching in my seat, and almost lunging for the light switch a couple of times. THAT is pulling you into the game.
Does Hawaii count as part of the Ring of Fire? I thought it was just the volcanism around the pacific plate boundaries that were part of the Ring of Fire. Hawaii's volcanoes are entirely independent of plate tectonics.
Did you see that map of 2000 election results in Florida superimposed on the last 3 hurricanes' paths? Avoiding democratic counties? Now the conservative interior of Washington state is going to be covered with ash? What does heaven have to do to get us to vote Kerry? Break out the locusts?
Unfortunately, space travel adds some more complexities to this otherwise nifty idea. Space debris sucks, but space debris while your bubble-ship is hauling major ass is a lot worse. Basically, you take the particle, take your ship, figure out the vectors, and then add the relevent speeds together. Also, tiny bits of stuff orbiting the sun tend to be moving much faster than stuff orbiting the Earth (relative to the Earth)
Also, you're stuck with having to protect your bubble from self-inflicted acceleration damage. I'm not a bubble mathematics expert, but it seems like this would be a limiting factor in acceleration unless you were willing to add rigid structural supports, which defeats the whole purpose anyway.
Just pointing out a few structural problems in this concept. *points to structural problems in concept* See?
If they're already know by NASA to be so much superior to the currently used ISS modules, why not use the much cheaper inflatable kevlar to complete the woefully overbudjet and underbuilt ISS?
You make it sound as if it's a no-brainer. I have the same healthy skepticism of the bureaucrats over at NASA, but a superior design like this couldn't go over the heads of the many excellent engineers NASA (still the largest most successful space agency ever) still attracts.
I'm sure that if it were simply safer, as you seem to be saying, they'd be using it already.
The other reply to this comment is correct in saying that yes, this WOULD require horrendous amounts of fuel. The problem is that it takes time to do that deceleration, and in the time between 17500 mph and 0 mph you've already fallen into the atmosphere. So you'd need a way to slow down so ridiculously fast that gravity's pull hadn't got you by the time you're going 0.
To allow the immortal Douglas Adams to sum up: gravity glances up and demands to know exactly what the hell you think you're doing up there.
Sorry for not being precise. I said plastic as a bit of embellishment, not because I thought the ships were really made out of cheap plastic. Kevlar may be able to stop bullets (in some forms) but space debris can pack as much or more kinetic energy than a rifle bullet, and kevlar "inflated" doesn't seem to have much support behind it.
I also did not mean that the ships would naturally leak, I was referring to puncture events.