Dredging at a depth of two or three miles has an impact on anything we care about? The critters down there aren't even edible and don't impact the biosphere like surface plankton, who gives a shit?
also, time dilation for moving object in the "Twin Paradox" is already proven with atomic clock pairs, one of them carried on airplane. It is not in any way an unproven or untested assertion, it is a reality.
There aren't any elements that undergo fusion? There aren't needed elements for civilization in asteroids or on the moon? There are not new propulsion systems besides chemical rockets being used for space exploration right now? There are not useful devices in space being used for communication?
You are ignorant with neither understanding of engineering nor imagination, no wonder you post AC
A fusion ship of a size within the realm of reality can reach 10% of the speed of light or more. That gets transit time within the human lifespan to near stars.
Also, Dave, your "girlfriend" has external genitalia under those panties. Do you wish me to change the orientation criteria for your porn downloads, or have you made a mistake?
It's not really our "government" so much as those that have it in their pockets. They, the dynastic upper magnates of the banking cartel, big oil, big pharmy, etc., are the ones who worry most of all
No, "junk" refers to all the male genitalia including the scrotum and its contents (sometimes referred to in the colloquial vernacular as the "nutsack" or "family jewels") as well as the penis. Corresponding slang words for the female include the "pud" or "twat".
bigotry against what? liars? politicians in the pocket of mega-corporations? those who continue the evil of Bush and Cheney by taking away even more of my rights? yeah, I'm bigoted against all like that, and my brain sees it quite clearly, no rot here.
why does anyone need to be called "former colonists" if the future is relying on private systems such as the one you linked? Maybe if mankind were more focused on common goals like space exploration and developing technologies to do it right (e.g. fusion power, recycling, mining asteroids and moon) instead of wars and "patriotism" (religion whereby one group of humans believes itself superior to others) the earth would be better place
oooo, devils advocate and troll time. military science drives engineering and science. U.S. liquid rockets came from Nazi missile program, . Solid fuel rockets on shuttle - ICBMs. civilian nuclear power from nuclear weapons research and reactors. Jet engines, electronic computers, integrated circuitry both analog and digital, frequency agile RF transmissions.... thank the waaah machine, baby.
and how is farting around with a few humans in a tin can going to make any progress in that direction? it won't. plenty of problems here on earth require higher priority than human space flight, which strangely enough will also address the problems of meaningful human space colonization. First huge step, fusion power. If we have that, we have interstellar space flight. And robotic mining of moon might be one way of getting that. Plentiful food on earth, solution to that is applicable to space. Sustainable recycling instead of throwing away and burying....the list goes on.
Rocket science not your thing? Goddard's highest and fastest rocket went to 1.6 miles at 550 MPH. The aerodynamic issues alone took a couple decades beyond his knowledge to solve. Then there were solid fuel rockets in the 70s and beyond, and ion and plasma and sail drives.......plenty of progress and development which is still ongoing.
I would argue the USA is a continuation of the Roman Empire, seat of power just moved to Washington D.C. (thank you Frank Herbert for pointing that out)
Both parties in our government are creating poverty by sucking away wealth to line the mega-corporate pocket, including a profitable prison system and laws to fill it (this would include fighting both sides of "the war on drugs" with the growing, guarding and selling narcotics to help fuel it).
don't forget the other time-tested method of using war to steal other people's shit. I'd say the U.S. is getting itself in great shape to do both our wonderful ideas for cutting costs and getting stuff.
fuck pdf, a plain ascii text file would be nice, I can put into whatever font I want to view. Or plain html, ditto. Why is our civilization so hell-bent on making everything done with computers a boated pile of unnecessary layers of and processing to impede our working with information?
that's a laugh, the situation only got worse after Democrats in control, and Obama is even worse than Bush in any and every way when it comes to being a corporate bitch, taking away our rights, building a police state. I was hoping Obama would have at least done some good, but he is an evil lying corrupt SOB.
Companies that buy big iron with 64 processors or more will tend to hold on to them for a little bit longer than 4 years. I've clients with such machines and they seem to use 10 year life cycle
IBM's DB2 has one third the cost and 3x the tcp-c performance per core (and SAP SD) on PPC than oracle on sparc, now that times are tight I would expect many companies would like to get 9x the bang for their buck. Oracle is overpriced crap just riding on their name.
you're funny. PowerPC is used in IBM mainframes and System i (successor to as/400), and System p (successor to RS/6000 that can run AIX or Linux, or both with PowerVM). Billions of dollars in annual sales, and growing revenue for 2011 q1 up from last year.
my geek solution is to let everyone on board carry a stabbing or cutting weapon. Terrorist wannabe holds his box cutter to a flight attendant's throat and makes demands, a dozen other people cut him into chum, assuming the flight attendant doesn't jam the folding knife in her sleeve into the bad guy's vitals first
You mean the times the FBI committed the crime of incitement, to locate punks with neither the brains nor motivation for any type of action let alone terrorism, then filled said delinquent's heads with violent thoughts and grandiose plans of mayhem, and then provide them with fake bombs or weapons right before they arrest the lot? After which, said FBI agents strut on the mass media proclaiming themselves heroes to justify their existence and raise their self esteem?
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Dredging at a depth of two or three miles has an impact on anything we care about? The critters down there aren't even edible and don't impact the biosphere like surface plankton, who gives a shit?
also, time dilation for moving object in the "Twin Paradox" is already proven with atomic clock pairs, one of them carried on airplane. It is not in any way an unproven or untested assertion, it is a reality.
There aren't any elements that undergo fusion? There aren't needed elements for civilization in asteroids or on the moon? There are not new propulsion systems besides chemical rockets being used for space exploration right now? There are not useful devices in space being used for communication?
You are ignorant with neither understanding of engineering nor imagination, no wonder you post AC
A fusion ship of a size within the realm of reality can reach 10% of the speed of light or more. That gets transit time within the human lifespan to near stars.
Also, Dave, your "girlfriend" has external genitalia under those panties. Do you wish me to change the orientation criteria for your porn downloads, or have you made a mistake?
It's not really our "government" so much as those that have it in their pockets. They, the dynastic upper magnates of the banking cartel, big oil, big pharmy, etc., are the ones who worry most of all
No, "junk" refers to all the male genitalia including the scrotum and its contents (sometimes referred to in the colloquial vernacular as the "nutsack" or "family jewels") as well as the penis. Corresponding slang words for the female include the "pud" or "twat".
bigotry against what? liars? politicians in the pocket of mega-corporations? those who continue the evil of Bush and Cheney by taking away even more of my rights? yeah, I'm bigoted against all like that, and my brain sees it quite clearly, no rot here.
why does anyone need to be called "former colonists" if the future is relying on private systems such as the one you linked? Maybe if mankind were more focused on common goals like space exploration and developing technologies to do it right (e.g. fusion power, recycling, mining asteroids and moon) instead of wars and "patriotism" (religion whereby one group of humans believes itself superior to others) the earth would be better place
oooo, devils advocate and troll time. military science drives engineering and science. U.S. liquid rockets came from Nazi missile program, . Solid fuel rockets on shuttle - ICBMs. civilian nuclear power from nuclear weapons research and reactors. Jet engines, electronic computers, integrated circuitry both analog and digital, frequency agile RF transmissions.... thank the waaah machine, baby.
and how is farting around with a few humans in a tin can going to make any progress in that direction? it won't. plenty of problems here on earth require higher priority than human space flight, which strangely enough will also address the problems of meaningful human space colonization. First huge step, fusion power. If we have that, we have interstellar space flight. And robotic mining of moon might be one way of getting that. Plentiful food on earth, solution to that is applicable to space. Sustainable recycling instead of throwing away and burying....the list goes on.
Rocket science not your thing? Goddard's highest and fastest rocket went to 1.6 miles at 550 MPH. The aerodynamic issues alone took a couple decades beyond his knowledge to solve. Then there were solid fuel rockets in the 70s and beyond, and ion and plasma and sail drives.......plenty of progress and development which is still ongoing.
I would argue the USA is a continuation of the Roman Empire, seat of power just moved to Washington D.C. (thank you Frank Herbert for pointing that out)
Both parties in our government are creating poverty by sucking away wealth to line the mega-corporate pocket, including a profitable prison system and laws to fill it (this would include fighting both sides of "the war on drugs" with the growing, guarding and selling narcotics to help fuel it).
don't forget the other time-tested method of using war to steal other people's shit. I'd say the U.S. is getting itself in great shape to do both our wonderful ideas for cutting costs and getting stuff.
fuck pdf, a plain ascii text file would be nice, I can put into whatever font I want to view. Or plain html, ditto. Why is our civilization so hell-bent on making everything done with computers a boated pile of unnecessary layers of and processing to impede our working with information?
that's a laugh, the situation only got worse after Democrats in control, and Obama is even worse than Bush in any and every way when it comes to being a corporate bitch, taking away our rights, building a police state. I was hoping Obama would have at least done some good, but he is an evil lying corrupt SOB.
By all means stay on Slashdot, it's a virtual party
Companies that buy big iron with 64 processors or more will tend to hold on to them for a little bit longer than 4 years. I've clients with such machines and they seem to use 10 year life cycle
they get it even more in their mainframe realm, able to run OS and software from decades ago under z/os
IBM's DB2 has one third the cost and 3x the tcp-c performance per core (and SAP SD) on PPC than oracle on sparc, now that times are tight I would expect many companies would like to get 9x the bang for their buck. Oracle is overpriced crap just riding on their name.
you're funny. PowerPC is used in IBM mainframes and System i (successor to as/400), and System p (successor to RS/6000 that can run AIX or Linux, or both with PowerVM). Billions of dollars in annual sales, and growing revenue for 2011 q1 up from last year.
why the hell would anyone thing I would like that crap on an ARM? less is more, Shuttleworth!
my geek solution is to let everyone on board carry a stabbing or cutting weapon. Terrorist wannabe holds his box cutter to a flight attendant's throat and makes demands, a dozen other people cut him into chum, assuming the flight attendant doesn't jam the folding knife in her sleeve into the bad guy's vitals first
You mean the times the FBI committed the crime of incitement, to locate punks with neither the brains nor motivation for any type of action let alone terrorism, then filled said delinquent's heads with violent thoughts and grandiose plans of mayhem, and then provide them with fake bombs or weapons right before they arrest the lot? After which, said FBI agents strut on the mass media proclaiming themselves heroes to justify their existence and raise their self esteem?