it's not just funding that is an obstacle of our total occupation of all space, no matter how many people we send, they quickly get spread out too thin to do any effective occupying. Even if every U.S. person occupies 1,000 cubic light-years, we would then need 39 billion people to occupy the Milky Way. Clear we need a much higher level of unprotected sex among the fertile portion of our populace if we are to ever achieve the goal.
most human knowledge is not on the internet. Most electronics component and design knowledge of the 1960s and 1970s is not on the internet (I was alive at the time, there are references I wish I could retrieve, but the only possible store of such is technical libraries usually at colleges and universities)
higher frequencies use smaller antennae and also smaller dish diameter. There are also fractal antenna designs that work at all frequencies independent of its size. A laser or maser wouldn't need antenna at all, just resonant cavity with material undergoing stimulated emission and a focusing element.
Ignorance is on your side. Killer viruses like ebola, rabies, SARS (yes, originated in bats), lyssavirus, henipavirus all fester in your beloved bats.
Plenty of other less filthy less disease ridden creatures also eat those insects. We can have more of them and no bats for a better world with less deadly viral diseases.
actually, more than 20 years, past the time the children are at home. yup, am doing that. have no desire to be with another woman and have never been with another woman since married. Wife and kids great investment for disposable (and non-disposable too, of course) income, I think. not for everyone, but I'd never change my past choice.
note I said "many real men".
basing our economy on a stupid premise is different than needing good solutions for the very few amount of growth decades left for the human race. Our economic structure is very flawed anyway, we allow a very small elite to have our lawmakers in their pockets. That's the core issue facing the human race. It causes pollution in lieu of using clean abundant energy, wars, poverty, slavery and imprisonment (for profit rather than punishment, and of largely victimless crimes), unemployment, etc.
Oral birth control is 98% effective when used properly, maybe you won that 2% lottery. Birth control pill plus condom has less than 1 in 999 rate of pregnancy
yes, even quality condoms can fail, however, the effectiveness goes from 83% to over 96% when used properly. The main problem with condoms not doing their intended function is improper use, not failure. UIDs are not 100% effective either (I did say near 100%, for some definition of "near"), and of course don't protect against STD.
This has been known and demonstrated since the early 1990s. Moreover, Tom Clancy used this type of attack as plot device in one of his novels, in the 90s.
many real men enjoy having the children in their family. If you have two or less, you're not contributing to population growth, as it takes 2.1 to do that.
by the way, the world population will peak around 2075 and then decline, it's quite clear from the second derivative of the population growth curve. so, if you're straight and have found the ideal woman, man up, take care of a woman and her and your offspring for life.
modern IUD properly secured in the uterus don't do that, there is no protrusion from the cervix into the vagina. trust me on this, my wife has such. what medieval model did your partner use?
Good news for you, plenty of much more effective alternatives to bathing your genitalia in microwaves exist, research an ancient technology known as Birth Control. Effective versions of the condom, diaphram, IUD, and oral contraceptives have existed for millennia. You too can prevent your little swimmers from reaching an ovum!
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A PT boat full of disk has even more bandwidth and capacity! Hell, that sounds like a good Black Lagoon story arc
surely storage and transmission can't be an issue, the capacity and bandwidth of a mini-van full of 2TB disks from RAID sets should be sufficient
and the useful extensions don't pass. that mantra of yours is getting old....
the point is the PET of 1977's keyboard was called the "chiclet keyboard" first, the PC Jr came out six years later and that sarcastic name used again
The heavy metal is still around, the hardware more reliable than ever. the 360 code still be run on their evolved descendants of the System/360.
System 360 -> System Z
DOS -> Z/VSE
it's not just funding that is an obstacle of our total occupation of all space, no matter how many people we send, they quickly get spread out too thin to do any effective occupying. Even if every U.S. person occupies 1,000 cubic light-years, we would then need 39 billion people to occupy the Milky Way. Clear we need a much higher level of unprotected sex among the fertile portion of our populace if we are to ever achieve the goal.
most human knowledge is not on the internet. Most electronics component and design knowledge of the 1960s and 1970s is not on the internet (I was alive at the time, there are references I wish I could retrieve, but the only possible store of such is technical libraries usually at colleges and universities)
higher frequencies use smaller antennae and also smaller dish diameter. There are also fractal antenna designs that work at all frequencies independent of its size. A laser or maser wouldn't need antenna at all, just resonant cavity with material undergoing stimulated emission and a focusing element.
yeah, watch out for those damn pervert protophiles
Let me help make your ignorant head a little more fact filled:
The Commodore PET 2001 article which mentions its chiclet keyboard, pictured here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PET_Keyboard.svg
The "killer poke" for the Commodore PET later models:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke#The_Commodore_PET
I was born before the IBM 360 was introduced, sonny boy.
I'm willing to try that experiment on this planet. death to bats!
Indeed, curse the chiclet keyboard of the old models; and the video circuits destroyable by POKE 59458,62 on the newer.
it's that little bit of comment-fodder under the ads and above the comments. ad-block doesn't seem to work on it
Ignorance is on your side. Killer viruses like ebola, rabies, SARS (yes, originated in bats), lyssavirus, henipavirus all fester in your beloved bats. Plenty of other less filthy less disease ridden creatures also eat those insects. We can have more of them and no bats for a better world with less deadly viral diseases.
We have a couple of medical terms for that 0.15%: Mommy! Daddy!
actually, more than 20 years, past the time the children are at home. yup, am doing that. have no desire to be with another woman and have never been with another woman since married. Wife and kids great investment for disposable (and non-disposable too, of course) income, I think. not for everyone, but I'd never change my past choice.
note I said "many real men". basing our economy on a stupid premise is different than needing good solutions for the very few amount of growth decades left for the human race. Our economic structure is very flawed anyway, we allow a very small elite to have our lawmakers in their pockets. That's the core issue facing the human race. It causes pollution in lieu of using clean abundant energy, wars, poverty, slavery and imprisonment (for profit rather than punishment, and of largely victimless crimes), unemployment, etc.
I don't think its a tad excessive, just an engineering problem with known solutions.
Oral birth control is 98% effective when used properly, maybe you won that 2% lottery. Birth control pill plus condom has less than 1 in 999 rate of pregnancy
yes, even quality condoms can fail, however, the effectiveness goes from 83% to over 96% when used properly. The main problem with condoms not doing their intended function is improper use, not failure. UIDs are not 100% effective either (I did say near 100%, for some definition of "near"), and of course don't protect against STD.
This has been known and demonstrated since the early 1990s. Moreover, Tom Clancy used this type of attack as plot device in one of his novels, in the 90s.
*Proper use* of quality condoms, *proper use* of quality birth control pills, well designed IUD.
many real men enjoy having the children in their family. If you have two or less, you're not contributing to population growth, as it takes 2.1 to do that.
by the way, the world population will peak around 2075 and then decline, it's quite clear from the second derivative of the population growth curve. so, if you're straight and have found the ideal woman, man up, take care of a woman and her and your offspring for life.
modern IUD properly secured in the uterus don't do that, there is no protrusion from the cervix into the vagina. trust me on this, my wife has such. what medieval model did your partner use?
Good news for you, plenty of much more effective alternatives to bathing your genitalia in microwaves exist, research an ancient technology known as Birth Control. Effective versions of the condom, diaphram, IUD, and oral contraceptives have existed for millennia. You too can prevent your little swimmers from reaching an ovum!