Am I the only one who has noticed that their 'business plan' does not involved going to Mars at all, but rather pretending they have authority to sell mining leases for Mars and various asteroids.
They intend to sell these non-existent leases to any who wants to pretend along with them.
I'm sure it will come as a nice glossy certificate that you can frame!
I expect to see their advertorial right after the one about the amazing memory tapes.
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No, that's not reasonable at all. I can see why you posted as an AC though, since you wave the name of science around while evidently not knowing shit about what science is.
Taking 100 anecdotes from people who allegedly had their lived "ruined" by porn does not constitute a scientific study of any kind. It is merely a collection of anecdotes.
Perhaps you remain naively unaware of the process of 'selective reporting' whereby you only report results (and anecdotal evidence is not a scientific result) that suit your preconceived idea of what the outcome should be.
The so-called conclusion in your post is flawed. It should have read "of 100 people who reported their lives as being 'ruined' by porn, 100 percent of them felt their lives had been 'ruined' by porn."
That's the only conclusion that can be drawn, and it has no scientific merit whatsoever. I mean, even the Creationists can come up with better fake science than that.
Still, it was enough to fool you.
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As I understand thing the Democrat line is "it's all Bush's fault!"
The GOP line is "it's the fault of all that bush!!"
Actually I made my profit by simply not buying HL2. Made a nice 'profit' right there.
I won't buy any game that requires me to ask permission from someone to play each time I want to play it.
I'm not swayed at all by any argument that begins, 'STEP 1, connect to Steam'. Sorry, you lost me and plenty of other people just before that first step.
Perhpas this is a cultural difference, but what you are saying sounds strange to me.
You are saying that you wokred extra time, to create a flagship product for your company, for no additional salary or benefit, right?
If you were able to develop this in addition to doing your own work, why didn't you found your own company around it?
Sounds to me like you have just given away, for no compensation, a pretty valuable piece of IP. Not given away in terms of 'to the public domain' but to a company which will make money from it, without compensating you one cent.
This reminds me of when Rome: Total War came out. Unlike all those lazy people who just wanted to play a game, I went back in time to 250BC, and led the German tribes on a bloody rampage through Europe. Much more fun!
Yes, Enceladus is too cold, and too light to maintain an atmosphere.
This means that the water ice either rapidly falls back to the surface, or else is the source of material for Saturn's icy F(I think) ring, which is basically a line of water ice circling Saturn.
What makes this discovery interesting is that in order for there to be a detectable atmosphere on Enceladus, there must be some process as it cannot last by itself.
Hopefully the Cassini mission will reveal that source in time.
Bush is not cutting funding to NASA. What he is doing is steering their priorities away from all that pesky science stuff that contradicts whatever fairy tale the fundamentalists are believing in this week.
So we're seeing a lot less going into exploration, and more money going into the flag waving stuff. So there will be more 'meat puppet to the moon' missions, and no Hubble replacement, or exploration of Europa. And no earth-like planet-detecting telescopes either.
Perhaps other indie developers should spend less time stroking themselves reading their manifestos, and more time working on sustainable business plans and a product that will sell.
It inhibits science because what you have been taught is a lie.
There is no 'controversy' in regards to evolution. It is a fact.
The Earth, and indeed, the universe, is older than 5,000 years.
What you have illustrated here very well is the bastardisation of science that is occurring in American education due to the influence of ant-scientists.
It inhibits science to lie to students about what constitutes a 'theory' in science.
It inhibits science when graduates of science in a country don't even know what the scientific method is.
It inhibits science when dogma is allowed to be presented as a credible alternative to scientific theory. Dogma, unlike science, is not, cannot be falsifiable.
It inhibits science when people such as yourself are taught dogma as if it were science, and then think you have been taught about science, and publicly aver that what you were taught was science.
It was not.
You were lied to. Creationism is a dogma built on and sustained by a long campaign of lies and misinformation.
Go and read some decent science books, there are plenty of them out there. And don't ever call creationism a theory again. It is not.
A detailed search of Europa has been a high priority since the Gallileo mission confirmed what most people though after Voyager- a liquid 'ocean' under an ice layer.
What makes this project different, and why it has actually advanced, is that someone has actually come up with a design that looks like it might work!
It's long been known what you need to do to get under the ice and explore, but the particulars have never before reached even this stage- and it is an early stage.
There won't be a mission to Europa in the next 5-8 years, but the next 10-15 looks more possible. Subject to budgetary constraints, of course.
Why should NASA, a government funded agency, be doing this? The private sector has both the means and the motivation ($$$) to achive this end, and it's something best left to them.
NASA should be rightly concentrating on the science and exploration that the private sector has no interest in. These are best done through unmanned missions, such as Cassini/Huygens, and Deep Impact.
I believe the cheapness is related to the fact that there are no fuel costs once earth orbit has been reached. Solar power gets the craft the rest of the way for free- but very slowly.
The first phase of the mission will be to measure the radiation environment between the Earth and the Moon.
Part of me wonders why this is not known in detail already, plus wouldn't it be related to solar activity anyway? Solar wind and so forth.
They need to know though, since the trip to L1 will take 1 year.
I remember reading in New Scientist about a decade ago now that you can get to the moon using very little energy- an orbital transfer basically. Catch is, it takes 2 years to get there.
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There are no examples of life that doesn't have these requirements.
Am I the only one who has noticed that their 'business plan' does not involved going to Mars at all, but rather pretending they have authority to sell mining leases for Mars and various asteroids.
They intend to sell these non-existent leases to any who wants to pretend along with them.
I'm sure it will come as a nice glossy certificate that you can frame!
I expect to see their advertorial right after the one about the amazing memory tapes.
Taking 100 anecdotes from people who allegedly had their lived "ruined" by porn does not constitute a scientific study of any kind. It is merely a collection of anecdotes.
Perhaps you remain naively unaware of the process of 'selective reporting' whereby you only report results (and anecdotal evidence is not a scientific result) that suit your preconceived idea of what the outcome should be.
The so-called conclusion in your post is flawed. It should have read "of 100 people who reported their lives as being 'ruined' by porn, 100 percent of them felt their lives had been 'ruined' by porn."
That's the only conclusion that can be drawn, and it has no scientific merit whatsoever. I mean, even the Creationists can come up with better fake science than that.
Still, it was enough to fool you.
The GOP line is "it's the fault of all that bush!!"
I won't buy any game that requires me to ask permission from someone to play each time I want to play it.
I'm not swayed at all by any argument that begins, 'STEP 1, connect to Steam'. Sorry, you lost me and plenty of other people just before that first step.
You are saying that you wokred extra time, to create a flagship product for your company, for no additional salary or benefit, right?
If you were able to develop this in addition to doing your own work, why didn't you found your own company around it?
Sounds to me like you have just given away, for no compensation, a pretty valuable piece of IP. Not given away in terms of 'to the public domain' but to a company which will make money from it, without compensating you one cent.
Why would you do this?
Yes, mine too.
This reminds me of when Rome: Total War came out. Unlike all those lazy people who just wanted to play a game, I went back in time to 250BC, and led the German tribes on a bloody rampage through Europe. Much more fun!
If I wanted that, I'd be in church ;)
It sublimes, which means that it goes directly from a solid to a gas.
This is more to do with pressure than temperature-it doesn't mean the ice is melting becasue it's 200 kelvin or anything.
What I mean is there must be a process renewing that atmosphere as what ever is there either goes off to the ring or falls back to the surface.
This means that the water ice either rapidly falls back to the surface, or else is the source of material for Saturn's icy F(I think) ring, which is basically a line of water ice circling Saturn.
What makes this discovery interesting is that in order for there to be a detectable atmosphere on Enceladus, there must be some process as it cannot last by itself.
Hopefully the Cassini mission will reveal that source in time.
http://www.nineplanets.org/mimas.html
So we're seeing a lot less going into exploration, and more money going into the flag waving stuff. So there will be more 'meat puppet to the moon' missions, and no Hubble replacement, or exploration of Europa. And no earth-like planet-detecting telescopes either.
Sports schmorts, we have computers for that now.
Yes, in the Control Panel, change your computer's setting to 'Evil'
A successful one.
Perhaps other indie developers should spend less time stroking themselves reading their manifestos, and more time working on sustainable business plans and a product that will sell.
The scietific debate on global warming was over before the 90s.
The political debate is ongoing, but has as much to do with science as the so-called 'debate' over intelligent design.
I still have mine though.
Yeah, it sounds like the PS3 will have a 10-year life mainly because it will have been on sale for 5 years before anyone sees value in buying it.
There is no 'controversy' in regards to evolution. It is a fact.
The Earth, and indeed, the universe, is older than 5,000 years.
What you have illustrated here very well is the bastardisation of science that is occurring in American education due to the influence of ant-scientists.
It inhibits science to lie to students about what constitutes a 'theory' in science.
It inhibits science when graduates of science in a country don't even know what the scientific method is.
It inhibits science when dogma is allowed to be presented as a credible alternative to scientific theory. Dogma, unlike science, is not, cannot be falsifiable.
It inhibits science when people such as yourself are taught dogma as if it were science, and then think you have been taught about science, and publicly aver that what you were taught was science.
It was not.
You were lied to. Creationism is a dogma built on and sustained by a long campaign of lies and misinformation.
Go and read some decent science books, there are plenty of them out there. And don't ever call creationism a theory again. It is not.
What makes this project different, and why it has actually advanced, is that someone has actually come up with a design that looks like it might work!
It's long been known what you need to do to get under the ice and explore, but the particulars have never before reached even this stage- and it is an early stage.
There won't be a mission to Europa in the next 5-8 years, but the next 10-15 looks more possible. Subject to budgetary constraints, of course.
NASA should be rightly concentrating on the science and exploration that the private sector has no interest in. These are best done through unmanned missions, such as Cassini/Huygens, and Deep Impact.
I believe the cheapness is related to the fact that there are no fuel costs once earth orbit has been reached. Solar power gets the craft the rest of the way for free- but very slowly.
Is there a standard punishment for this?
Part of me wonders why this is not known in detail already, plus wouldn't it be related to solar activity anyway? Solar wind and so forth.
They need to know though, since the trip to L1 will take 1 year.
I remember reading in New Scientist about a decade ago now that you can get to the moon using very little energy- an orbital transfer basically. Catch is, it takes 2 years to get there.