Technically (I know, I know) it's not moving away from us, but the intervening space is expanding at that rate. The fastest you can move through space is C, however, space itself is free to move (expand) at whatever rate it likes.
I am halfway through what is now his final book. Casts a bit of a pall over the remainder. I've loved every book of his I've read. I'm glad I still have quite a few left to go.
The light of the world is diminished this day. Know thee well that today we have lost a truly great man.
So yes, even though some of the "Baby Bells" are back together, you are not forced to use them as the one and only phone company in the US anymore. Care to explain how that isn't a "meaningful effect"? Sure, there's other companies in the country, but how about local markets? In Columbus the choice is AT&T or no phone.
I love it when people with a little knowledge pervert it with a whole lot of supposition and produce utter bullshit. They are more dangerous than the truly stupid.
I've heard it explained as a cosmological censor to block out the horrible violations of natural law that occur inside from the rest of the universe, always amused me
ugh, dude, did you RTFA? this experiment had nothing to do with black holes, singularities, Hawking radiation, or any kind of mass. It was a trick of optics to produce an ANALOGUE of an event horizon
it is currently IMPOSSIBLE to produce any kind of singularity. The LHC has a chance, infinitesimal, to do so, but that's still quite a ways off.
Even though this'll never be read except by the most bored of/.ers being 4 pages deep, here goes (in no particular order)
- Tax churches
- End subsidies to oil industry
- Cut off support to Israel (Jewish terrorists are better than Islamic how?)
- Get rid of PATRIOT Act, DMCA, any other bullshit designed to curtail freedom or give handouts to corporations
- Outlaw lobbyists
- Restore line-item veto
- Push Congressional term limits
- Fire every previous appointee
- Discontinue tax cuts to wealthy, close tax code loopholes that only the top 1% can get away with
- Redistribute "old" money (you can't take it with you, and your useless bastard kids don't deserve it)
- Restore government accountability and credibility (vague, I know, but it needs to happen)
- Use money wasted in war on drugs to expand treatment and rehab, decriminalize illegal drugs, pardon all nonviolent drug convictions
- Cut military spending by 20% and dump it into education, research, NASA, NSF, etc.
That's probably enough to get voted out after 1 term.
You bring up an interesting point. The biggest problem with the ISS though is Congress. Originally it was designed to house I think 7 permanent crew, be about twice the size, and actually be full of laboratories. But Congress whittled away at it for years, cutbacks, redesigns, strip-downs, until all we're left with is a pile of orbital driftwood that's continually breaking down and likely to be decommed before it's even finished. If Congress had actually given a shit, we could have had a pretty kick-ass orbital research station by now.
By the way, they didn't "repair" the mirror, they just gave it glasses.
You know what? Go fuck yourself. I can't stand people who get up on their pedestal and say some research or project is a waste of money. NO PURE SCIENCE IS A WASTE OF MONEY. If it's adding to the Sum of Human Knowledge, then it's worth it. Something doesn't have to provide direct or immediate tangible benefits to be worthwhile. And if it results in a little more understanding than we had previously, I say well done.
Good lord, man, do you not understand the concept of progress? ALL these technologies are getting better every day. The record for solar cell efficiency is approaching 50%, if it hasn't happened already. Storage capacity and duration are increasing as well. SC power line are being installed in New York RIGHT NOW. It'll only be years before the tech is commonplace and cheap, not decades, not centuries, and not never. Lots of ideas that were science-fiction, as you so condescendingly put it, are fact today, such as the box with the blinky-lights that allows you to go to an ethereal realm and profess what an ignorant Luddite you are.
Ellison is hardly the optimist foretelling the bright, shiny future of mankind. Don't get me wrong, I dig me some Ellison. Dystopian cynicism is a great way to spend a weekend. But as much of a cynic as I am, I need something to counterbalance that, something to make me feel that maybe things will get better. That's what Trek has always been for me. I get from Star Trek what the devout get from church; a higher standard to which to hold myself, a way to be, something to aspire to. Fucking HOPE, man. Q knows there's precious little else to be hopeful about in this godforsaken world. Shit man, it's about all that keeps me from walking down the street with an AR-15, popping every stupid, degenerate motherfucker I see, which is a fucking lot. Trek embodies what I want the world to be like, and it saddens me to know that it'll never fucking happen, but we all need our opiates.
Well played clerk. Any response I could give to that would sound like the ravings of a psychotic nerd. You miss the entire point of what I said and just kick in with the same old putdowns your kind always fall back on. It's not about the show you moron. It's about the ideal behind it, Roddenberry's vision, which I think is as good or better a vision as any from more sophisticated fare.
You obviously don't get it, and that's fine. 90% of the population doesn't either. They also don't get things like working together for a better future instead of competing ourselves into oblivion. Or wonderment of the unknown possibilities of existence. Simple curiosity about their environment seems to have abandoned them as well. Star Trek is the only thing that keeps those of us who do get it optimistic, hopeful that the narrow-minded, short-sighted masses will eventually fade away and a better tomorrow will emerge.
none really stand the test of time Name another show from 40 years ago that people still talk about and watch. Derp.
never been particularly relevant
failed to find a timeless relevance
sepulchre to this irrelevance You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The demise of the website is sad, but Trek will continue, despite people like you, as it always has.
Slashdot Mirror
No, dude, just the Republican must lose. Unless they discover decency, then I'll pull for balance.
A. George W. Bush
B. Al Gore
C. Karl Rove
D. The Supreme Court
E. The State of Florida
F. Ralph Motherfucking Douchbag Nader and all the idiot hippies that thought he was a good choice
The Dems need solidarity like the Reps need souls. Else we're going to have another bullshit fiasco of an election.
Technically (I know, I know) it's not moving away from us, but the intervening space is expanding at that rate. The fastest you can move through space is C, however, space itself is free to move (expand) at whatever rate it likes.
The light of the world is diminished this day. Know thee well that today we have lost a truly great man.
these betas have been shit so far, worse than any beta software I've ever used
Here's a reply: That's not scientific.
we need solutions not outlandish fantasies
have a better chance at alchemy
it'd be nice if they got they damn bookmarks to work
I love it when people with a little knowledge pervert it with a whole lot of supposition and produce utter bullshit. They are more dangerous than the truly stupid.
I did, I just felt the commenter's tongue had missed his cheek and went up his nose.
damn, you got me. I gotta go call Hawking.
I've heard it explained as a cosmological censor to block out the horrible violations of natural law that occur inside from the rest of the universe, always amused me
Properties of the medium. C is only in a vacuum, light has variable speeds all the way down to stop depending on what it's traveling through.
you sir, are correct. well done. refreshing to see someone who pays attention and (holy shit!) looks up the occasional factoid
ugh, dude, did you RTFA? this experiment had nothing to do with black holes, singularities, Hawking radiation, or any kind of mass. It was a trick of optics to produce an ANALOGUE of an event horizon
it is currently IMPOSSIBLE to produce any kind of singularity. The LHC has a chance, infinitesimal, to do so, but that's still quite a ways off.
Never give up! The illiterati must be destroyed, or at least beaten with a dictionary.
We obviously didn't bomb them enough
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Where's the tag to turn off the stupidity?
Even though this'll never be read except by the most bored of /.ers being 4 pages deep, here goes (in no particular order)
- Tax churches
- End subsidies to oil industry
- Cut off support to Israel (Jewish terrorists are better than Islamic how?)
- Get rid of PATRIOT Act, DMCA, any other bullshit designed to curtail freedom or give handouts to corporations
- Outlaw lobbyists
- Restore line-item veto
- Push Congressional term limits
- Fire every previous appointee
- Discontinue tax cuts to wealthy, close tax code loopholes that only the top 1% can get away with
- Redistribute "old" money (you can't take it with you, and your useless bastard kids don't deserve it)
- Restore government accountability and credibility (vague, I know, but it needs to happen)
- Use money wasted in war on drugs to expand treatment and rehab, decriminalize illegal drugs, pardon all nonviolent drug convictions
- Cut military spending by 20% and dump it into education, research, NASA, NSF, etc.
That's probably enough to get voted out after 1 term.
By the way, they didn't "repair" the mirror, they just gave it glasses.
You know what? Go fuck yourself. I can't stand people who get up on their pedestal and say some research or project is a waste of money. NO PURE SCIENCE IS A WASTE OF MONEY. If it's adding to the Sum of Human Knowledge, then it's worth it. Something doesn't have to provide direct or immediate tangible benefits to be worthwhile. And if it results in a little more understanding than we had previously, I say well done.
Good lord, man, do you not understand the concept of progress? ALL these technologies are getting better every day. The record for solar cell efficiency is approaching 50%, if it hasn't happened already. Storage capacity and duration are increasing as well. SC power line are being installed in New York RIGHT NOW. It'll only be years before the tech is commonplace and cheap, not decades, not centuries, and not never. Lots of ideas that were science-fiction, as you so condescendingly put it, are fact today, such as the box with the blinky-lights that allows you to go to an ethereal realm and profess what an ignorant Luddite you are.
Ellison is hardly the optimist foretelling the bright, shiny future of mankind. Don't get me wrong, I dig me some Ellison. Dystopian cynicism is a great way to spend a weekend. But as much of a cynic as I am, I need something to counterbalance that, something to make me feel that maybe things will get better. That's what Trek has always been for me. I get from Star Trek what the devout get from church; a higher standard to which to hold myself, a way to be, something to aspire to. Fucking HOPE, man. Q knows there's precious little else to be hopeful about in this godforsaken world. Shit man, it's about all that keeps me from walking down the street with an AR-15, popping every stupid, degenerate motherfucker I see, which is a fucking lot. Trek embodies what I want the world to be like, and it saddens me to know that it'll never fucking happen, but we all need our opiates.
Well played clerk. Any response I could give to that would sound like the ravings of a psychotic nerd. You miss the entire point of what I said and just kick in with the same old putdowns your kind always fall back on. It's not about the show you moron. It's about the ideal behind it, Roddenberry's vision, which I think is as good or better a vision as any from more sophisticated fare.
You obviously don't get it, and that's fine. 90% of the population doesn't either. They also don't get things like working together for a better future instead of competing ourselves into oblivion. Or wonderment of the unknown possibilities of existence. Simple curiosity about their environment seems to have abandoned them as well. Star Trek is the only thing that keeps those of us who do get it optimistic, hopeful that the narrow-minded, short-sighted masses will eventually fade away and a better tomorrow will emerge.
none really stand the test of time Name another show from 40 years ago that people still talk about and watch. Derp.
never been particularly relevant failed to find a timeless relevance sepulchre to this irrelevance You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
The demise of the website is sad, but Trek will continue, despite people like you, as it always has.
Peace and long life.