Life has always spread itself out to new environments. If they were capable of it, would the plants who first moved up onto the land debated whether or not they should do it?
Now, we shouldn't go around destroying other life forms we find, but turning sterile environments into healthy biospheres can't be bad thing, whether or not life is rare.
Lancelot: We were in the nick of time, you were in great peril.
Galahad: I don't think I was.
Lancelot: Yes you were, you were in terrible peril.
Galahad: Look, let me go back in there and face the peril.
Lancelot: No, it's too perilous.
We have ways of producing in-situ fuel on Mars. A small tank of hydrogen, a atmospheric processing unit and an RTG will provide enough fuel to launch back to Earth.
My VCR records all the shows I watch and automatically tags the commercials for fast-forwarding. I get to watch an hour long show in 40 minutes, and they get to think I actually watched their commercials.
Pennsylvania just passed a bill like this. I made sure everyone knew about it. My mom works in the local Democratic party and tried to help and raise awareness. My geek coworkers wrote letters.
What happened? The governor still signed it. And you know what? He'll get reelected in spite of the fact that he gave away some control of our municipalities to corporations.
Conservatives are right when they say money is speech. It's the only speech politicians every listen to.
Yes... let's leave a bunch of corporate PCs, each consuming 250W of power *on* all friggin' night just so they can have computing power. Not only that, let's do it in an air conditioned office so that we're heating the very office we're trying to keep cool.
And here I thought we were trying to use less electricity...
If your buttons don't say anything except "Select" and "Okay" your users are going to click them without knowing what they do. Make button labels descriptive, because that's the one thing the user has to look at.
You say "old people" walker like it's a bad thing. My brother-in-law has MD and an exoskeleton that would give him back his independence (imagine going through puberty and having to have your mother help you go to the bathroom) would be worth its weight in gold.
This and successfull space flights by private industry has rekindled my hope in being able to visit space and the moon... and possibly mars, within my lifetime.
You only really have to worry about biodiesel or petroleum products attacking injector pump seals. The methanol they use to get the glycerine out of vegetable oil to make biodiesel is what eats away the seals, which is why you only see 10 or 20% biodiesel fuel mixtures just entering the market.
Vegetable oil is actually better for your fuel pump because the glycerine lubricates better than the synthetic stuff they put in petrodiesel.
That's funny... I left the Dems because they weren't leftist enough. It's not easy being Green, but it's a hell of a lot more satisfying than being Blue.
The problem is that the Internet allows any kook with $75 a year to have a blog and a domain name. And if they're good they can seem quite reputable. It's not like TV where you need several thousand dollars just to run an ad. The New Media is presenting New Problems. Who is the press? What's the difference between a political activist and a shill for a party?
But the solution isn't to enact laws that limit free speech. The solution is to get people to think critically. Failing that, we need to have people who think critically pointing out the kooks.
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Now, we shouldn't go around destroying other life forms we find, but turning sterile environments into healthy biospheres can't be bad thing, whether or not life is rare.
Lancelot: We were in the nick of time, you were in great peril.
Galahad: I don't think I was.
Lancelot: Yes you were, you were in terrible peril.
Galahad: Look, let me go back in there and face the peril.
Lancelot: No, it's too perilous.
The old Battlestar Galactica didn't have bad plots and "badder" [sic] acting?
You really need to read "The Case for Mars."
It's win-win.
You have obviously never used OS X.
Just about the only thing that can change the fact that money doesn't rule everything is a revolution. Got any AK-47s I can borrow?
As opposed to capitalism, where you just give the money to someone else who then pays their CEO $24 million that could be used to provide services.
What happened? The governor still signed it. And you know what? He'll get reelected in spite of the fact that he gave away some control of our municipalities to corporations.
Conservatives are right when they say money is speech. It's the only speech politicians every listen to.
I'm talking about emissions and waste. Solar is the most convenient form of renewable electricity, and it's not available at night. (Last I checked.)
And here I thought we were trying to use less electricity...
If your buttons don't say anything except "Select" and "Okay" your users are going to click them without knowing what they do. Make button labels descriptive, because that's the one thing the user has to look at.
You say "old people" walker like it's a bad thing. My brother-in-law has MD and an exoskeleton that would give him back his independence (imagine going through puberty and having to have your mother help you go to the bathroom) would be worth its weight in gold.
You must be new here...
Don't trust me? Download the source and run it yourself. Or use the Javascript. Or ride the camel.
And I'm suprised they don't make you change the login/password from the defaults when you first set them up...
Or you could use someone's handy-dandy Random Password Generator and come up with something you'll actually remember.
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Capitalism: The belief that the worst of mankind acting on the worst of motivations will somehow work out for the good of everyone.
Vegetable oil is actually better for your fuel pump because the glycerine lubricates better than the synthetic stuff they put in petrodiesel.
That's funny... I left the Dems because they weren't leftist enough. It's not easy being Green, but it's a hell of a lot more satisfying than being Blue.
"Waaa!!! I don't have a laptop and I live downtown!!! I disagree with the use of tax dollars!!!"
Well, I didn't agree with the war in Iraq and I haven't seen benefits. Guess we should just disband the Army.
But the solution isn't to enact laws that limit free speech. The solution is to get people to think critically. Failing that, we need to have people who think critically pointing out the kooks.
(Yes, I know it's an April Fool's joke. A foolish nation and its overpriced, underperforming launch system are not soon parted.)
They're not saying faith is bad. They're saying that people who think faith is enough scientific evidence to validate the unscientific are rediculous.
Nah, that's just Wozniak's weirdness. His phone number used to be 888-8888.