NASA says so, we've already found about 19 out of 20 NEO objects over 1km in diameter, any remainders we'd see long before they got here. asteroid extinction is just not a credible threat in the next million years.
some problems still need vector supercomputers, funny Cray has even slapped their label on NEC SX vector supercomputers. Seymore must be doing 10,000 rpm.
wrong, any large enough to be an extinction threat would be found long, long before it arrived. your puny country or city-destroyers are of no import to this thread.
don't be stupid, we don't have the means to build a generation ship. we can't make computers or rocket propulsion systems that even last a few decades.
waste of money to have manned exploration right now, we don't have the means to make sustainable space colony with 1 G field, nor will we for more than a century. as the population peaks in sixty years, we'll have to solve the earth's problems right here, on earth.
there is no end of abundant fossil fuels in sight for centuries. the earth has had higher co2 concentrations than the present and life survived. yellowstone is just a problem to humans on most the n. american continent. sure, the sun will in just 300 million years make multi-cellular life impossible but so what, 60 million years ago there were no monkeys. we don't have the technological means to make any kind of "ark" outside earth's orbit, nor will we for a hundred years or more. therefore manned space exploration is right now a waste of money and resources, robotic exploration is the sensible thing for now.
the last impact of object 10km or more in diameter was 65 million years ago. we track large objects now, and there aren't any heading our way. get real.
yellowstone is not a threat at all to mankind. it might screw up north america for a radius of a thousand miles, but not a show stopper, despite the hype.
is that sarcasm? most of human culture and endeavors and civilization had existed fine before there ever was space travel, and will continue to do so with or without it.
our lawmakers and executive branch are in the pockets of large corporations. federal government buying tons of equipment increases shareholder value and provides certain benefits to those who greased the skids.
a one or ten rock lobbed from moon would be a nuisance, nothing more. would not have yield of nuclear weapon. Iran doesn't even have long range missile, much less anything like Saturn V launch system to get to moon. Stop worrying about Iran, quit swallowing the psychopath murderers propaganda, several hundred thousand Iraqi civilians worth of body count is enough genocide for the USA's 21st century.
nope, that's a plot device in science fiction not backed by the physics. Heinlein, for example, miscalculated yield of multi-ton payloads lobbed to earth, they are not of nuclear weapon magnitude. and there would be no way to correct course during reentry, the sensors would be blind but the trajectory uncertainly becomes too large to be useful, system not able to hit a specific target. the concept is waste of money and energy.
in fact, you have to screw more than one pooch to have a reactor disaster, they are pretty much proof against any single horrible fuck-up. congrats to TEPCO on screwing three (at least) pooches that made this disaster.
jokes on you and my grandparents, I'm old and they're all long dead. hah!
We're talking about "super wifi", and that logo has nothing to do with it. And, as I'm trying to drill into your obtuse head, not everything with that wifi logo will even work together. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to do some super-duper-puper-wifi via packet radio.
Now? I can walk outside with out a jacket. Something is seriously fucked here.
You must be young, the look on weather.com for the record high for this day in history, was 62 degrees F. It's called weather, it isn't climate.
too bad the first few decades of those measurements were made with hand shaped lip blown thermometers, to use them in any kind of argument of less than a tenth of a degree rise per decade is a farce.
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only time can answer that. today's handicap can be tomorrow survival trait. get out there and impregnate.
NASA says so, we've already found about 19 out of 20 NEO objects over 1km in diameter, any remainders we'd see long before they got here. asteroid extinction is just not a credible threat in the next million years.
you are living in a chicken-little fear world between your ears, we've already found 93% of all objects over 1km, look it up.
there is nothing to worry about, really.
some problems still need vector supercomputers, funny Cray has even slapped their label on NEC SX vector supercomputers. Seymore must be doing 10,000 rpm.
sorry, but "mathematics" includes use of things like protractors, which have a limb. funny you think you have encycopedic knowledge of your field.
wrong, any large enough to be an extinction threat would be found long, long before it arrived. your puny country or city-destroyers are of no import to this thread.
don't be stupid, we don't have the means to build a generation ship. we can't make computers or rocket propulsion systems that even last a few decades.
you're a dead end anyway, having sex with your hand does not propagate the species nor confer any advantages to future generations
waste of money to have manned exploration right now, we don't have the means to make sustainable space colony with 1 G field, nor will we for more than a century. as the population peaks in sixty years, we'll have to solve the earth's problems right here, on earth.
there is no end of abundant fossil fuels in sight for centuries. the earth has had higher co2 concentrations than the present and life survived. yellowstone is just a problem to humans on most the n. american continent. sure, the sun will in just 300 million years make multi-cellular life impossible but so what, 60 million years ago there were no monkeys. we don't have the technological means to make any kind of "ark" outside earth's orbit, nor will we for a hundred years or more. therefore manned space exploration is right now a waste of money and resources, robotic exploration is the sensible thing for now.
humans can't survive on the moon long term, bone loss and muscle atrophy would kill them, and god help any fetus grown and born there.
news for you, any manned space exploration we do in the next two centuries will still leave all our eggs in the earth basket.
news for you, we are exploring the solar system and whole universe. we are using robotic probes for now, which is smart.
the last impact of object 10km or more in diameter was 65 million years ago. we track large objects now, and there aren't any heading our way. get real.
yellowstone is not a threat at all to mankind. it might screw up north america for a radius of a thousand miles, but not a show stopper, despite the hype.
congress has not even spent half a trillion on the manned space program in the last 57 years
is that sarcasm? most of human culture and endeavors and civilization had existed fine before there ever was space travel, and will continue to do so with or without it.
our lawmakers and executive branch are in the pockets of large corporations. federal government buying tons of equipment increases shareholder value and provides certain benefits to those who greased the skids.
a one or ten rock lobbed from moon would be a nuisance, nothing more. would not have yield of nuclear weapon. Iran doesn't even have long range missile, much less anything like Saturn V launch system to get to moon. Stop worrying about Iran, quit swallowing the psychopath murderers propaganda, several hundred thousand Iraqi civilians worth of body count is enough genocide for the USA's 21st century.
nope, that's a plot device in science fiction not backed by the physics. Heinlein, for example, miscalculated yield of multi-ton payloads lobbed to earth, they are not of nuclear weapon magnitude. and there would be no way to correct course during reentry, the sensors would be blind but the trajectory uncertainly becomes too large to be useful, system not able to hit a specific target. the concept is waste of money and energy.
in fact, you have to screw more than one pooch to have a reactor disaster, they are pretty much proof against any single horrible fuck-up. congrats to TEPCO on screwing three (at least) pooches that made this disaster.
jokes on you and my grandparents, I'm old and they're all long dead. hah!
We're talking about "super wifi", and that logo has nothing to do with it. And, as I'm trying to drill into your obtuse head, not everything with that wifi logo will even work together. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to do some super-duper-puper-wifi via packet radio.
well, he might be. if there is life after death. however, the Pythons already have definitely settled that matter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Smuij7H5Yk
Now? I can walk outside with out a jacket. Something is seriously fucked here.
You must be young, the look on weather.com for the record high for this day in history, was 62 degrees F. It's called weather, it isn't climate.
yes, action was taken. Tens of billions of euros worth of carbon tax and trade scams, with several billion euros worth of known fraud already.
too bad the first few decades of those measurements were made with hand shaped lip blown thermometers, to use them in any kind of argument of less than a tenth of a degree rise per decade is a farce.