You need a spinning ring to provide artificial gravity or they will literally collapse when they set foot on Mars.
Not necessarily. If you accelerate at 1 g for half of the trip, then do a flip and decelerate at the same rate for the second half of the trip you get the same effect, with the added bonus of getting there faster. The only problem is the energy required to do that, but I'm sure they'll figure that out some day...;)
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The killing to which we (the US and allies, as nations) are currently responding (lethally, as needed) is killing done by organizations that are organized around thuggo-/theo-cratic movements...[snip]
It doesn't matter. There is no justification for killing another person, no matter much you hate them or they hate you.
What makes you think the Arabs don't have nuclear power plants? Just what do you think Iran has been claiming all this time that its nuclear program is for?
It's amazing how many people don't know that Iran is ethnically closer to Americans than to Arabs. The majority of Iranians belong to the Persian ethnic group, which is of indo-european origin. Religion != ethnicity.
We should make companies who make disposable products to pay a tax for clean up. Encouraging customers to throw shit away into land fill is irresponsible. One day we will pay for it.
Nah. We'll just move to another planet and start the process all over again. Recent discoveries indicate that there are many "disposable" planets in our galaxy...
A possible solution is to wear your cards on a cord around your neck or a retractable cord attached to your belt. My company's ID card is like this and it works very well.
When the things you call "crackpot theories" correctly predict what will happen in many astronomical situations where "genuine research" is continuously surprised at results they didn't expect then you have to wonder who is telling the truth.
And when crapot theories fail to make correct predictions it's just an oversight that could be corrected if the mainstream scientists didn't block research funding for "alternative science" projects.
Who is getting it right in the first place? electric universe has the better track record here.
Um, no. The reason why theories like the electric universe are called crackpot science is because they correct only sometimes, and blatantly incorrect most of the time. The reason why mainstream science is, well mainstream, is because it is correct most of the time. Unfortunately, crackpots like to emphasize science's mispredictions and hide their own shorcommings under the rug.
Cows have much bigger brains than humans, but are significantly less intelligent. Some whales have brains larger than an entire human, and they're still less intelligent.
I don't know where you got that from. A whale brain weighs 7.8 Kg while a cow brain is 500 g, compared to 1.5 Kg for humans.
To compare intelligence without the luxury of watching the creature in action, the best plan is to use the ratio of body size to brain size.
By that measure a mouse beats a human. Maybe the Hitchhiker's Gide is right after all.;)
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You need a spinning ring to provide artificial gravity or they will literally collapse when they set foot on Mars.
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Not necessarily. If you accelerate at 1 g for half of the trip, then do a flip and decelerate at the same rate for the second half of the trip you get the same effect, with the added bonus of getting there faster. The only problem is the energy required to do that, but I'm sure they'll figure that out some day...
The killing to which we (the US and allies, as nations) are currently responding (lethally, as needed) is killing done by organizations that are organized around thuggo-/theo-cratic movements...[snip]
It doesn't matter. There is no justification for killing another person, no matter much you hate them or they hate you.
What makes you think the Arabs don't have nuclear power plants? Just what do you think Iran has been claiming all this time that its nuclear program is for?
It's amazing how many people don't know that Iran is ethnically closer to Americans than to Arabs. The majority of Iranians belong to the Persian ethnic group, which is of indo-european origin. Religion != ethnicity.
It's THEM! THEY stole it to hide the truth from us! I told you!
We should make companies who make disposable products to pay a tax for clean up. Encouraging customers to throw shit away into land fill is irresponsible. One day we will pay for it.
Nah. We'll just move to another planet and start the process all over again. Recent discoveries indicate that there are many "disposable" planets in our galaxy...
A possible solution is to wear your cards on a cord around your neck or a retractable cord attached to your belt. My company's ID card is like this and it works very well.
When the things you call "crackpot theories" correctly predict what will happen in many astronomical situations where "genuine research" is continuously surprised at results they didn't expect then you have to wonder who is telling the truth.
And when crapot theories fail to make correct predictions it's just an oversight that could be corrected if the mainstream scientists didn't block research funding for "alternative science" projects.
Who is getting it right in the first place? electric universe has the better track record here.
Um, no. The reason why theories like the electric universe are called crackpot science is because they correct only sometimes, and blatantly incorrect most of the time. The reason why mainstream science is, well mainstream, is because it is correct most of the time. Unfortunately, crackpots like to emphasize science's mispredictions and hide their own shorcommings under the rug.
Cows have much bigger brains than humans, but are significantly less intelligent. Some whales have brains larger than an entire human, and they're still less intelligent.
;)
I don't know where you got that from. A whale brain weighs 7.8 Kg while a cow brain is 500 g, compared to 1.5 Kg for humans.
To compare intelligence without the luxury of watching the creature in action, the best plan is to use the ratio of body size to brain size.
By that measure a mouse beats a human. Maybe the Hitchhiker's Gide is right after all.
So they recalled it because they (the hardware manufacturer) could be held accountable. That's exactly the point.