Sadly, those attempts will fail due to the fact that males outnumber females 200 to 1, allowing only the strongest to mate. Unfortunately, there aren't any suitable for performing the mating process.
Perhaps programmers are a species doomed for extinction?
Nick,
Buy a game console and ditch Windows. Games for consoles are cheaper, and you're not losing any performance. Heck, you can pick old PSX games up for a song and you can rent console games. It's a much better way to enjoy gaming, and you get to take control of your PC back. And you get your games on a nice, big TV, which are way cheaper than a nice, big monitor.
Trust me; for college you need a PC you can rely on, one that you're not going to be troubleshooting when you should be working. For someone who knows about computers, Linux is already there.
1) We're not talking about a Mars mission here. We're talking about a brand new method of propulsion that makes deep space missions much more feasible.
2) At some point we're going to have to send people to Mars or start a eugenics program before the surface of the planet becomes packed with people. Why not go now when we have resources to spare?
If the goal is to go there and get back in 90 days, I bet you could do it with only enough fuel to get there, then slingshot around Mars and head straight back to Earth.
Now a really good bet would be to get to Mars, pick up a rock or leave something, then return.
As Barry Commoner observed: "Everything must go someplace. Everything is connected to everything else. There is no such thing as a free lunch."
That's the perfect reason to create sustainable industries, as Interface has done. Almost every bit of waste produced by the factory is used for something else. Think of it as an industrialized ecosystem. Read the site I linked to for more information.
We spent $100 billion in a futile race to beat the Soviets to the moon. Surely we could spare $50 billion to develop cold fusion and viable hydrogen storage and transportation systems so we don't produce *any* emissions.
Drugs: Make marijuana legal. Tax it at 100%. Provide free cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamines to those already addicted and help them through drug treatment programs.
Filesharing: Break up the RIAA and MPAA. Let independent filmmakers and musicians license their own works, and make money off of their performances. Yeah, it's less glamorous, but you get better music.
Terror: Switch to non-fossil fuels by creating a new Apollo Program to get controlled nuclear fusion, and switch to hydrogen fuel cells. Pull out of the Middle East and let the ultra-violent fundies there nuke each other. Also, disband all multi-national corporations, which is another thing the fundies don't like.
The war on drugs worked because well-to-do soccer moms were and are scared that their Harvard-bound princesses will end up giving blowjobs for coke, or that their sons will end up slanging yayo in the hood.
Little did they know that the Harvard-bound princesses starting giving their sons blowjobs for alcohol as soon as they got to college.
Just realize that enough is enough. I see all kinds of people, including myself, drooling whenever some new thing comes on the market. Just stop and be happy with what you have. Live a minimally consuming lifestyle.
An executive's nightmare is a populous who realizes they have all they'll need.
Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
I disagree. They are life. Life doesn't have a beginning or an ending, it is a continuum. The sperm in my testicles are alive, as is the egg in my wife. If I go home and get her pregnant, the sperm and egg don't just die and then come back to life; they continue to be alive and react in such a way to make a new thing that is also alive.
The difference is, where do we draw the line for "humanity?" A zygote is not human. It has the potential to be a human. Each one of us must draw the line individually, based on our own beliefs. I believe that if the fetus can live outside the mother and is not a threat to her health, abortion should not be an option. But that's my belief, and only I and my wife need to worry about that.
Airships have far fewer moving parts than aircraft. Also, they have higher payload capacities and can remain on station for longer periods of time. So you have a system that is cheaper to maintain but offers similar or even better performance.
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For every hour of labor sent overseas, force the company to pay $10 to the government for the person who doesn't get the job.
Now *that* will create jobs in America.
Perhaps programmers are a species doomed for extinction?
Buy a game console and ditch Windows. Games for consoles are cheaper, and you're not losing any performance. Heck, you can pick old PSX games up for a song and you can rent console games. It's a much better way to enjoy gaming, and you get to take control of your PC back. And you get your games on a nice, big TV, which are way cheaper than a nice, big monitor.
Trust me; for college you need a PC you can rely on, one that you're not going to be troubleshooting when you should be working. For someone who knows about computers, Linux is already there.
1) We're not talking about a Mars mission here. We're talking about a brand new method of propulsion that makes deep space missions much more feasible.
2) At some point we're going to have to send people to Mars or start a eugenics program before the surface of the planet becomes packed with people. Why not go now when we have resources to spare?
And to keep it from being a gas, you could add a condenser to the exhaust and harness the fuel back.
Heck, with regenerative braking, you could electrolize the water and get more hydrogen back out, extending the range.
Now a really good bet would be to get to Mars, pick up a rock or leave something, then return.
> It will be flying blind through hydrocarbon haze and methane clouds
Interstate 5 near Bakersfield.
After stopping at Taco Bell for a few bean burritos.
That's the perfect reason to create sustainable industries, as Interface has done. Almost every bit of waste produced by the factory is used for something else. Think of it as an industrialized ecosystem. Read the site I linked to for more information.
And there's even a geopolitical reason for it!!!
Is it me or does this sound like the time Homer put all the trash underground.
Drugs: Make marijuana legal. Tax it at 100%. Provide free cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamines to those already addicted and help them through drug treatment programs.
Filesharing: Break up the RIAA and MPAA. Let independent filmmakers and musicians license their own works, and make money off of their performances. Yeah, it's less glamorous, but you get better music.
Terror: Switch to non-fossil fuels by creating a new Apollo Program to get controlled nuclear fusion, and switch to hydrogen fuel cells. Pull out of the Middle East and let the ultra-violent fundies there nuke each other. Also, disband all multi-national corporations, which is another thing the fundies don't like.
Little did they know that the Harvard-bound princesses starting giving their sons blowjobs for alcohol as soon as they got to college.
An executive's nightmare is a populous who realizes they have all they'll need.
Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.
The difference is, where do we draw the line for "humanity?" A zygote is not human. It has the potential to be a human. Each one of us must draw the line individually, based on our own beliefs. I believe that if the fetus can live outside the mother and is not a threat to her health, abortion should not be an option. But that's my belief, and only I and my wife need to worry about that.
Airships have far fewer moving parts than aircraft. Also, they have higher payload capacities and can remain on station for longer periods of time. So you have a system that is cheaper to maintain but offers similar or even better performance.