1. I knew it! Aliens are hiding behind the sun. They just stole Jupiter's belt!!
2. Opps! We caught Jupiter with its pants down. How embarrassing.
3. You wouldn't have lost your belt if you had fastened it right.
1. Start an open source project to write an auotmous Surveyor/Miner/Constructor Robot(S) control software.
2. Start Paypal account to collect donations to pay for materials for construction and launch fees
3. Wait 5yrs. Visit Moon Base!
I agree. Have the robots setup habitats/structures/buildings(/farms?) first so that you don't need to haul the oxygen, temporary structures, & etc in one trip. It is a similar at least one of the reasons as to why the ISS exists, because it would cost too much to haul up and bring down the living environments/labs/solar power panels every time a mission was scheduled in space.
I would also recommend starting with the moon. Use the moon as a testing ground for use later on mars. Any discovery of what does/doesn't work with the robots can be used to make a better version for mars, where we would have less direct control. Additionally, the moon is much closer should human intervention be needed. Plus as an end result you have a staging platform for missions into deeper space once the habitat/moon base is setup.
See Mars Trilogy. The mars mission started off with sending construction vehicles, gas collectors, and air tight living spaces to mars before the humans were sent.
The point is to have fuel that does not need to be lifted out of the Earth's gravity well. By dropping it on Earth to get gravity for easier processing would defeat that purpose. Not to mention the ice evaporating during atmospheric re-entry(entry? since it wasn't on earth before) and we have plenty of water already on Earth.
I agree that the PC will stick around. Business' don't just drop everything on a dime and invest $$$$ in the "new thing" for their employees.
Not only that but the majority of users are slow to change. There was an interview on a/. article that talked about the "trailing edge"(see What will browsers look like in 5 years). Paraphrasing: major shifts in technology are caused by the "trailing edge" not the "bleeding edge".
So in essesance the "death" of pcs wont happen until the "trailing edge" decides that mobiles suit their needs better. See Death of Foppies for more evidence of this. People are still buying floppies so the death knell keeps ringing but floppies still keep going.
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What's a signature?
What ever happened to those chains of floats used to encircle a spill and contain it?
True, it is huge now but what about earlier when it could have been manageable?
The society in the book had a social structure so that purposefully damaged embryos became the less intelligent working class. This class did all the hard labor and jobs the educated alpha class did not want to do.
Our society is not bad enough to the point where we engineer brainless people. However, the comparison I would like to make for instance is the United States would not have enough food, if illegal immigrants didn't farm for us.
So if everyone was educated who would do the hard labor? Robots? We are not yet to the point of a complete set of autonomous robots that do everything.
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Born July 1985
Still living May 2010
A few months older than Atlantis and still ticking...
Would have been nice to say for every important mission/launch of Atlantis I had a milestone event in my life...oh well.
1. I knew it! Aliens are hiding behind the sun. They just stole Jupiter's belt!!
2. Opps! We caught Jupiter with its pants down. How embarrassing.
3. You wouldn't have lost your belt if you had fastened it right.
+1 mod point if I had one.
1. Start an open source project to write an auotmous Surveyor/Miner/Constructor Robot(S) control software.
2. Start Paypal account to collect donations to pay for materials for construction and launch fees
3. Wait 5yrs. Visit Moon Base!
I agree. Have the robots setup habitats/structures/buildings(/farms?) first so that you don't need to haul the oxygen, temporary structures, & etc in one trip. It is a similar at least one of the reasons as to why the ISS exists, because it would cost too much to haul up and bring down the living environments/labs/solar power panels every time a mission was scheduled in space.
I would also recommend starting with the moon. Use the moon as a testing ground for use later on mars. Any discovery of what does/doesn't work with the robots can be used to make a better version for mars, where we would have less direct control. Additionally, the moon is much closer should human intervention be needed. Plus as an end result you have a staging platform for missions into deeper space once the habitat/moon base is setup.
See Mars Trilogy. The mars mission started off with sending construction vehicles, gas collectors, and air tight living spaces to mars before the humans were sent.
The point is to have fuel that does not need to be lifted out of the Earth's gravity well. By dropping it on Earth to get gravity for easier processing would defeat that purpose. Not to mention the ice evaporating during atmospheric re-entry(entry? since it wasn't on earth before) and we have plenty of water already on Earth.
See Virus splits water. Though you would need to setup some system to maintain a sutiable enviroment for the virus to operate.
At least surfers would be happy with the [insert surfer vocabulary similar to "awesome"] waves it might cause.
I agree that the PC will stick around. Business' don't just drop everything on a dime and invest $$$$ in the "new thing" for their employees. Not only that but the majority of users are slow to change. There was an interview on a /. article that talked about the "trailing edge"(see What will browsers look like in 5 years). Paraphrasing: major shifts in technology are caused by the "trailing edge" not the "bleeding edge".
So in essesance the "death" of pcs wont happen until the "trailing edge" decides that mobiles suit their needs better. See Death of Foppies for more evidence of this. People are still buying floppies so the death knell keeps ringing but floppies still keep going.
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What's a signature?
What ever happened to those chains of floats used to encircle a spill and contain it? True, it is huge now but what about earlier when it could have been manageable?
Although I do admit that universal college education is needed, I would like to refer you to the book Brave New World http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060929871/qid=11 38068687/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-6170400-1980812?s=b ooks&v=glance&n=283155.
The society in the book had a social structure so that purposefully damaged embryos became the less intelligent working class. This class did all the hard labor and jobs the educated alpha class did not want to do.
Our society is not bad enough to the point where we engineer brainless people. However, the comparison I would like to make for instance is the United States would not have enough food, if illegal immigrants didn't farm for us.
So if everyone was educated who would do the hard labor? Robots?
We are not yet to the point of a complete set of autonomous robots that do everything.