Look, this isn't a mind-reading thread, mate. You asked for a reference, I gave you seven. Obviously, you wish to achieve something or call me wrong or whatever. Just spit it out.:)
Man, if I got the 25 body back for a long while I could easily spend 50 years just studying natural sciences in the wild. Wealth means shit when you have health.
More stereotyping. I've two 74-year old friends that think and design software much better than almost all of their contemporaries. I cannot imagine them, nor I for that matter, running out things to do or experience for 10,000 years. This is a vast culture we have on Earth.
Under current solid fuel nuclear fission plant technologies. Liquid salt plants did away with this possibility in the 60's at Oak Ridge. But we needed tons of plutonium and liquid salt plants don't produce plutonium.
Considering the vastness of space, I have doubts that you hypothesis holds weight. Essentially you're arguing that in the very finite period of time we've been able to not be soldiers and peasants that other life should have found us. I, OTOH, would bet that other life follows our social paradigms and rotates around entertainment/news cycles more than giving a crap that we exist.
I cannot even begin to fathom how you come to such a ludicrous position on that comment.
The singular premise that there is "no moral issue on research and less on entertainment" wasn't even a part of the discussion. There is a moral issue on enriching billionaire sports owners with hundreds of billions of dollars of tax-free benefits given out for simply running a sports franchise. Ultimately, gladiatorial activities do nothing for the common man. The activities don't solve disease, don't advance science, do promote dangerous drug use, and promote idiots to all think they can win the big one with their bookie.
I say let them have their franchises at their own expense. As a taxpayer, the only reason I'm paying for their taxes is some politician was bribed to structure the tax code in that manner. The moral thing to do would be to collect those taxes and use them to improve the lives of everyone over the long run. That means energy development, resources development, and education. I'm advocating they be focused on space frontiers so we have a chance (as a species) of not disappearing in the next extinction event.
As for letting governments make your decisions, I can't say I'm surprised.
Bullshit. Sports owners get a sweet deal in exchange (read bribes) for political marketing. I'm not asking for anything extraordinary. Let them pay the same taxes I do. If they cannot survive on those profits, let them fail!
My example was in comparison to the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been given to billionaires so they would somehow not stop national sports teams from playing; which already make billions of dollars. Frankly, I'd take anything for a start. This ISS stuff is fairly pathetic compared to the things governments spend money on.
The tax breaks given to professional sports teams could have financed a complete space station surrounding Saturn with current technology, IMO. Stop giving billionaire gladiator owners tax breaks.
So, are you saying that generating sociology studies will create a better interest in science? So far, it has not. You know what generates more interest in science? Applications.
Yes, but instead of backing it up with further scientific data, or possibly applications, we continue to give a crap about sociology surveys that mean jack shit in the scheme of things. Where's the killer app?
You must be living in Arkansas. $75,000 would barely pay the needs of a single person in southern California. You certainly wouldn't be able to afford that 5 bedroom house anywhere around here on that salary. $75K is nowhere near rich.
Well there's an authority to base your response upon! I especially like the links to payday loans and making sure your H1B sponsor treats you properly. I missed the part where it actually backs up a single thing you assert since the press release it references is not linked.
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Look, this isn't a mind-reading thread, mate. You asked for a reference, I gave you seven. Obviously, you wish to achieve something or call me wrong or whatever. Just spit it out. :)
Sure:
http://www.irpa.net/irpa9/cdrom/VOL.1/V1_46.PDF
http://www.techmetalsresearch.com/2011/03/the-issue-of-residual-thorium-uranium-from-rare-earth-ore-processing/
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/why-safe-nuclear-will-rely-on-rare-earth-minerals/
http://e360.yale.edu/feature/boom_in_mining_rare_earths_poses_mounting_toxic_risks/2614/
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp147-c4.pdf
http://www.resourceinvestor.com/2011/06/29/the-future-of-thorium-as-nuclear-fuel
http://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2016/finalwebsite/problems/disposal.html
http://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2016/finalwebsite/problems/disposal.html
Lolz need mod points!
Man, if I got the 25 body back for a long while I could easily spend 50 years just studying natural sciences in the wild. Wealth means shit when you have health.
More stereotyping. I've two 74-year old friends that think and design software much better than almost all of their contemporaries. I cannot imagine them, nor I for that matter, running out things to do or experience for 10,000 years. This is a vast culture we have on Earth.
and again.. You die first mate.
If I could put the money in the hands of Space X I would.
Because there's a virtual mountain-pile of thorium sitting around as waste from mining right now!
Under current solid fuel nuclear fission plant technologies. Liquid salt plants did away with this possibility in the 60's at Oak Ridge. But we needed tons of plutonium and liquid salt plants don't produce plutonium.
Considering we haven't been allowed to conduct full geological surveys throughout North America, this is no understatement.
Crap loads of thorium sitting outside almost every metal mine in the nation. More thorium than we could use in 100,000 years at current rates, IMO.
That was pretty funny. :)
Considering the vastness of space, I have doubts that you hypothesis holds weight. Essentially you're arguing that in the very finite period of time we've been able to not be soldiers and peasants that other life should have found us. I, OTOH, would bet that other life follows our social paradigms and rotates around entertainment/news cycles more than giving a crap that we exist.
I cannot even begin to fathom how you come to such a ludicrous position on that comment.
The singular premise that there is "no moral issue on research and less on entertainment" wasn't even a part of the discussion. There is a moral issue on enriching billionaire sports owners with hundreds of billions of dollars of tax-free benefits given out for simply running a sports franchise. Ultimately, gladiatorial activities do nothing for the common man. The activities don't solve disease, don't advance science, do promote dangerous drug use, and promote idiots to all think they can win the big one with their bookie.
I say let them have their franchises at their own expense. As a taxpayer, the only reason I'm paying for their taxes is some politician was bribed to structure the tax code in that manner. The moral thing to do would be to collect those taxes and use them to improve the lives of everyone over the long run. That means energy development, resources development, and education. I'm advocating they be focused on space frontiers so we have a chance (as a species) of not disappearing in the next extinction event.
As for letting governments make your decisions, I can't say I'm surprised.
Bullshit. Sports owners get a sweet deal in exchange (read bribes) for political marketing. I'm not asking for anything extraordinary. Let them pay the same taxes I do. If they cannot survive on those profits, let them fail!
Every single one of the dollars we don't charge billionaire sports team owners. How about that?
My example was in comparison to the hundreds of billions of dollars that have been given to billionaires so they would somehow not stop national sports teams from playing; which already make billions of dollars. Frankly, I'd take anything for a start. This ISS stuff is fairly pathetic compared to the things governments spend money on.
The tax breaks given to professional sports teams could have financed a complete space station surrounding Saturn with current technology, IMO. Stop giving billionaire gladiator owners tax breaks.
So, are you saying that generating sociology studies will create a better interest in science? So far, it has not. You know what generates more interest in science? Applications.
Yes, but instead of backing it up with further scientific data, or possibly applications, we continue to give a crap about sociology surveys that mean jack shit in the scheme of things. Where's the killer app?
You must be living in Arkansas. $75,000 would barely pay the needs of a single person in southern California. You certainly wouldn't be able to afford that 5 bedroom house anywhere around here on that salary. $75K is nowhere near rich.
Well hell! Your insight has just destroyed the entire multi-billion dollar cosmetics industry! Cad!
I didn't realize mind reading the random person was a mandatory requirement for participation on Slashdot.
Never made the claim you assert.
More arrests were probably made for Nigerian princes than this pathetic example.
These arrests can't even being to affect the level of job depression flooding America with bullshit wages.
We particularly like the flow of gang members through southern California.
Well there's an authority to base your response upon! I especially like the links to payday loans and making sure your H1B sponsor treats you properly. I missed the part where it actually backs up a single thing you assert since the press release it references is not linked.