From another article: "Silicon dioxide is the most prevalent component in moon rocks." How hard is it to separate silcon dioxide into silicon and oxygen? Water ice may not be necessary to generate oxygen.
Other advantages of Luna: sufficient mass to provide protection from radiation, but gravity still light enough that you can use a rail gun to acheive escape velocity. Main disadvantage: damn dust gets into everything!
You've got it all wrong. The Bush administration is planning on sending "unlawful combatants" to the moon after Guantanamo fills up. They'll have to find their own way home when they're released...
Growing up in Alaska, I've been outside in -60F weather, and it's not so bad (you can always put on more insulation). You just have to keep every part of your body covered, including wearing a face mask. Once you solved the problem of a total lack of oxygen, solving the problem of keeping warm should be trivial.
So what are scientists to do from 2006 until August 2011? Perhaps they could try getting a life instead of staring off into space all the time? If I was a scientist, I might welcome a 5 year break.
Because God knows the 3 million illegal immigrants from Mexico we now have living in the US wouldn't be here if we all had national ID cards! 1) Suicide bombers probably prefer it if you know their identity after the fact. What magic method were you planning on using that only gives ID cards to law-abiding citizens, and makes sure no persons with criminal intent get one? 2) As mentioned again, millions of people enter the country without authorization of any kind. Unless you're going to post armed guards on every corner to demand passerby show thier papers, I don't think mandatory ID will help at all with the problem of 5000 miles of porous borders.
Pacifism only works against an oppressor that has a conscience. Do you really think non-violent resistance would have prevented nazi exterminations? (Actually, it did at one point, where good Aryan women were protesting the arrests of their Jewish husbands, but that's a different story. In general, it wouldn't help.)
Other than that, I agree - extremism breeds extremism, and violence should only be used as a very last resort. However, one negotiates from a position of weakness if one refuses to use even the treat of violence as a bargaining tactic.
Huh?!? What's wrong with games, porn, and sharing of non-copyrighted files? No, sharing of copyrighted data without permission is the only muck they should be trying to clean up.
If you gave her the domain as a gift, then you should turn it over to her, regardless of how much she has pissed you off. Or do you normally make a practice of giving people gifts, then taking them back?
Business types are doomed to only release remakes of games that made money. Nobody will touch the first game in a new, unproven genre. And unfortunately, the time when somebody could design and implement a decent game in their basement is long gone. So I suppose we're stuck with remakes of Doom, Quake, Unreal and Halflife for the forseeable future. Unless some talented group of designers, graphic artists, and programmers is willing to work for free for about a year to come out with a really killer game that isn't a FPS.
What I would like to see is a multiplayer game that rewards cooperative play and good moral judgements, instead of rewarding a "shoot anything that moves" approach.
For example, own... Real Estate, Automobiles, etc. Pay for these things... do not use credit cards, only use cash. Yeah, right. How many houses have you bought lately for cash only? How many cars have you owned whose market value even kept up with inflation? Have you ever tried rent a car (or anything else) for cash only? And where do you intend to keep that gold and silver where it can't be taken from you at gunpoint? Point is, you're screwed if you don't have a credit history, and even if you never use credit, how does that keep someone else from getting credit in your name using information stolen from the DMV, your employer, or your doctor?
Advertising on MTV? Sounds to me like their target market is really clueless people with lots of disposable income... how many people that watch MTV can actually afford an Xbox? Hmm... they must be targetting the kids that can whine until their parents but them one!
Personally, I only have Basic Cable 'cause it is free with my internet connection, so I couldn't watch MTV even if I wanted to... which is ok, since I haven't wanted to for about 20 years now. (Yes, when I was a teen I used to watch MTV because music videos were new and cool and I was hoping some of that coolness would rub off on me. It didn't.)
The reason we need to put a few people into space now is quite simple: the only way to determine the long term health effects of living in space is to have people living in space! We need to start the long-term research now, so we can better design life support systems for the time in the future when it makes more sense to send people into space.
You're forgetting that billions of years of evolution have equiped us to deal quite well with the conditions found here on Earth and nowhere else in the solar system. Now, if you were designing sentient beings from scratch, you could certainly design them to fare much better in space than on earth -- but that sounds like an argument for putting robots in space, not people.
When Europeans moved to North America, they did solve some real problems. Granted, we still have problems, but they are different than the ones Europeans had circa 1000 A.D. It's a fairly trivial exercise to show things are much better now. Depends on your point of view. If you were a native North American, you might tend to think that the European invasion created more problems than it solved, and that things are much worse now! Why take such a Euro-centric view of "progress"???
Most problems that could be solved by putting people into space could be solved much more cheaply and easily by simply not having so many children! The only valid reason to put people out there is that diversity is a survival factor, but again, that is taking a Terran-centric viewpoint. People in space may not be so helpful to other lifeforms potentially out there.
Long black hair, pasty white skin and interchangeable noses! So you're saying Michael Jackson has actually been in space???
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Have the subcontractor just run the wires, then put in your own speakers later. In which case, it wouldn't hurt to run wires for 7.1 even though you probably will only use 5.1.
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Other advantages of Luna: sufficient mass to provide protection from radiation, but gravity still light enough that you can use a rail gun to acheive escape velocity. Main disadvantage: damn dust gets into everything!
Wouldn't it be cheaper to assemble it in China? Where are the complaints about outsourcing assembly jobs off-planet?
You've got it all wrong. The Bush administration is planning on sending "unlawful combatants" to the moon after Guantanamo fills up. They'll have to find their own way home when they're released...
The good news is, you can get a suntan in about 2 minutes... if you can hold your breath that long!
Growing up in Alaska, I've been outside in -60F weather, and it's not so bad (you can always put on more insulation). You just have to keep every part of your body covered, including wearing a face mask. Once you solved the problem of a total lack of oxygen, solving the problem of keeping warm should be trivial.
Huh? Are you sure your not talking about lava tubes on Mars? I don't know of any volcanic activity on our moon...
So what are scientists to do from 2006 until August 2011? Perhaps they could try getting a life instead of staring off into space all the time? If I was a scientist, I might welcome a 5 year break.
Because God knows the 3 million illegal immigrants from Mexico we now have living in the US wouldn't be here if we all had national ID cards! 1) Suicide bombers probably prefer it if you know their identity after the fact. What magic method were you planning on using that only gives ID cards to law-abiding citizens, and makes sure no persons with criminal intent get one? 2) As mentioned again, millions of people enter the country without authorization of any kind. Unless you're going to post armed guards on every corner to demand passerby show thier papers, I don't think mandatory ID will help at all with the problem of 5000 miles of porous borders.
Other than that, I agree - extremism breeds extremism, and violence should only be used as a very last resort. However, one negotiates from a position of weakness if one refuses to use even the treat of violence as a bargaining tactic.
Huh?!? What's wrong with games, porn, and sharing of non-copyrighted files? No, sharing of copyrighted data without permission is the only muck they should be trying to clean up.
If you gave her the domain as a gift, then you should turn it over to her, regardless of how much she has pissed you off. Or do you normally make a practice of giving people gifts, then taking them back?
On a related subject, if I wait until May to buy a Mac Mini, will it come with Tiger and X-code?
What I would like to see is a multiplayer game that rewards cooperative play and good moral judgements, instead of rewarding a "shoot anything that moves" approach.
For example, own... Real Estate, Automobiles, etc. Pay for these things... do not use credit cards, only use cash. Yeah, right. How many houses have you bought lately for cash only? How many cars have you owned whose market value even kept up with inflation? Have you ever tried rent a car (or anything else) for cash only? And where do you intend to keep that gold and silver where it can't be taken from you at gunpoint? Point is, you're screwed if you don't have a credit history, and even if you never use credit, how does that keep someone else from getting credit in your name using information stolen from the DMV, your employer, or your doctor?
So this would be the computer equivalent of putting Formula One racing slicks on a Yugo?
Was the cockroach named archy by any chance?
Perhaps using a keyboard you can clean the "normal" way You mean this keyboard will survive autoclaving? Somehow I don't think so...
Personally, I only have Basic Cable 'cause it is free with my internet connection, so I couldn't watch MTV even if I wanted to... which is ok, since I haven't wanted to for about 20 years now. (Yes, when I was a teen I used to watch MTV because music videos were new and cool and I was hoping some of that coolness would rub off on me. It didn't.)
Make sure you have enough redundancy in your little black book to ensure you never sit at home on Saturday night.
The reason we need to put a few people into space now is quite simple: the only way to determine the long term health effects of living in space is to have people living in space! We need to start the long-term research now, so we can better design life support systems for the time in the future when it makes more sense to send people into space.
You're forgetting that billions of years of evolution have equiped us to deal quite well with the conditions found here on Earth and nowhere else in the solar system. Now, if you were designing sentient beings from scratch, you could certainly design them to fare much better in space than on earth -- but that sounds like an argument for putting robots in space, not people.
Most problems that could be solved by putting people into space could be solved much more cheaply and easily by simply not having so many children! The only valid reason to put people out there is that diversity is a survival factor, but again, that is taking a Terran-centric viewpoint. People in space may not be so helpful to other lifeforms potentially out there.
Long black hair, pasty white skin and interchangeable noses! So you're saying Michael Jackson has actually been in space???
Have the subcontractor just run the wires, then put in your own speakers later. In which case, it wouldn't hurt to run wires for 7.1 even though you probably will only use 5.1.
Gee, how much oil could we save if they just made the fucking CAFE standands apply to SUVs???