Perhaps the fact that we're voting on Tuesday is part of the problem. If all elections were held on a Saturday instead, then 1) Fewer people would have problems getting off from work to vote 2) There would be less traffic 3) There would be no shortage of potential polling places, as all the schools would be empty (personally, I've alway been uncomfortable with voting in somebody's garage). In short, perhaps if we voted on weekends, perhaps more people would turn out to vote, thus cheating in elections would be less effective?
Excuse me, but even listeners to the BBC (British Broadcast Corporation) are assumed to know what "Super Tuesday" means... are Americans more ignorant about the American politcal system than Europeans?
In this case, perhaps we shouldn't attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice... perhaps somebody wanted to make it easier to fix elections?
More troublesome than anticipated by whom? I'd say they were a lot less troublesome than predicted by some of the more paranoid out there... but still, any sort of cloud on a fair election process is troubling indeed... except to Bush; apparently he's only troubled by Gay marriage!
You're saying it doesn't kill them, it just makes them blond, thereby lowering their intelligence to the point where they are less likely to survive? Oh... now I understand.
Speak for yourself. Most of us geek were hot for Bailey instead! And by the way, it's "Loni" not "Lonnie". Lonnie is a guy's name (in fact, it's my boss' name. And no, I don't wish Loni was my boss instead).
In other words, video games really ARE the perfect training ground for the future pilots of the military's UAV (Unmanned Air Vehicle) aircraft! Who cares how much the weigh as long as they're good with a joystick and enjoy fragging people! (Perhaps "Ender's Game" was more prophetic than we would like to think.)
Wouldn't the Hydrogen Peroxide in the atmosphere pretty much kill any bugs we bring from Earth? Besides, what's wrong with survival of the fittest? If our Terran primitive bacteria can kick your Martian primitive bacteria's ass, then I say "Bring it on!" What would you prefer, that we way a few billion years to see if intelligent life evolves on Mars first before exploiting it? I say we stripmine the planet while we've still got a chance... sooner or later our Sun goes bye-bye and it's "hasta la vista, baby!" to all those Martian bacteria anyway...
Although that would make a good movie (humans stranded on Mars stumble upon old Rover and manage to get it working again just in time to carry them off to safety) I don't think it's going to happen in real life. The best we can hope for is that we leave them where they stop working and one or both Rovers become tourist destinations. "Look, it says here on the plaque that this thing travelled ten meters per DAY!!! Darn, Martian vehicles sure were slow way back then before President Arnold Schwarzenegger made Mars into the first extra-terrestrial penal colony!"
Perhaps the water has not been lost at all. Perhaps it was always underground, in a vast network of huge caves, created by early volcanic activity. Couldn't there have been oceans underground? (The water would still occaisionally be sent to the surface during volcanic eruptions... now THAT would be a geyser to see!) Damn... now we're gonna have to send spelunkers to Mars!
Sour Grapes? Still a little upset about the Beagle creating a new crater on Mars? Or perhaps you're still mad about all that tea we dumped in Boston Harbor. Never mind... here in the states, we call them "tires", not "tyres".
Round particles the size of BBs are embedded in the outcrop. Obviously the Martians have been using this outcrop as a backdrop for their target practice. If BB guns are the most powerful weapons they've got, I think we can take 'em... bring it on!
Why Out of Mars and not Out of Asteroids? It's a lot easier for Earth to get pelted with rocks already free is space. I'm skeptical about anything surviving the energies required to knock a chuck of rock loose from Mars and have it fly all the way to Earth. Thermophilic is one thing, surviving intact in both molten rock and near-absolute zero space is another.
Better yet, send a couple microbioligists and then don't bring them back... they can spend the rest of their lives look at sediment! Stupid question: can't sedimentary rock form with liquids other than water? (I suppose carbon dioxide sublimates directly from solid to gas in the low atmospheric pressure of Mars... but what about under the ice caps, where pressure may be much greater?) Are we persisting in looking at mars from an Earth-centric viewpoint?
Interestingly enough, the instructions for my new Amana microwave state roughly that any parts of the food you don't want heated up, just wrap them in alumimum foil... which came as quite as shock to me, as I was always taught that putting metal in a Microwave would destroy it. Has the technology changed, or was I just taught wrong? (This microwave is also smart enough to figure out for itself when popcorn is done popping... can anybody explain to me how THAT works?)
The only Linux using company that is not like to kick their ass in court is... SCO. I predict that tomorrow, in a brilliant PR move, SCO will SUE THEMSELVES for using Linux! A case in which they will almost certainly prevail!
They are using the same equipment as the telcos. Could it be that most of the costs incurred by the telcos is for billing? (Admittedly, teachers are cheaper than union labor too.)
LA, having the first freeway system, also got to have the worst. All other areas have learned from their mistakes. As far as I know, there are still left-lane exits on I10 that go around blind corners that cause several accidents per day. Why in 50 years nobody has bothered to fix the problems is beyond me.
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Perhaps the fact that we're voting on Tuesday is part of the problem. If all elections were held on a Saturday instead, then 1) Fewer people would have problems getting off from work to vote 2) There would be less traffic 3) There would be no shortage of potential polling places, as all the schools would be empty (personally, I've alway been uncomfortable with voting in somebody's garage). In short, perhaps if we voted on weekends, perhaps more people would turn out to vote, thus cheating in elections would be less effective?
Excuse me, but even listeners to the BBC (British Broadcast Corporation) are assumed to know what "Super Tuesday" means... are Americans more ignorant about the American politcal system than Europeans?
In this case, perhaps we shouldn't attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice... perhaps somebody wanted to make it easier to fix elections?
More troublesome than anticipated by whom? I'd say they were a lot less troublesome than predicted by some of the more paranoid out there... but still, any sort of cloud on a fair election process is troubling indeed... except to Bush; apparently he's only troubled by Gay marriage!
You're saying it doesn't kill them, it just makes them blond, thereby lowering their intelligence to the point where they are less likely to survive? Oh... now I understand.
"You know, they say a person's name says a lot about what kind of person they are... what was your name again?"
Speak for yourself. Most of us geek were hot for Bailey instead! And by the way, it's "Loni" not "Lonnie". Lonnie is a guy's name (in fact, it's my boss' name. And no, I don't wish Loni was my boss instead).
Cincinatti is famous for something other than WKRP. And that would be what? Having their municpal airport located in another state?
It was a piece of the airbags, and Nasa didn't destroy it, it blew away... at least that is the most plausible explaination.
In other words, video games really ARE the perfect training ground for the future pilots of the military's UAV (Unmanned Air Vehicle) aircraft! Who cares how much the weigh as long as they're good with a joystick and enjoy fragging people! (Perhaps "Ender's Game" was more prophetic than we would like to think.)
Any dedicated gamer can tell you that video games don't cause violence... and we'll kill anyone who says they do!
Wouldn't the Hydrogen Peroxide in the atmosphere pretty much kill any bugs we bring from Earth? Besides, what's wrong with survival of the fittest? If our Terran primitive bacteria can kick your Martian primitive bacteria's ass, then I say "Bring it on!" What would you prefer, that we way a few billion years to see if intelligent life evolves on Mars first before exploiting it? I say we stripmine the planet while we've still got a chance... sooner or later our Sun goes bye-bye and it's "hasta la vista, baby!" to all those Martian bacteria anyway...
Although that would make a good movie (humans stranded on Mars stumble upon old Rover and manage to get it working again just in time to carry them off to safety) I don't think it's going to happen in real life. The best we can hope for is that we leave them where they stop working and one or both Rovers become tourist destinations. "Look, it says here on the plaque that this thing travelled ten meters per DAY!!! Darn, Martian vehicles sure were slow way back then before President Arnold Schwarzenegger made Mars into the first extra-terrestrial penal colony!"
Perhaps the water has not been lost at all. Perhaps it was always underground, in a vast network of huge caves, created by early volcanic activity. Couldn't there have been oceans underground? (The water would still occaisionally be sent to the surface during volcanic eruptions... now THAT would be a geyser to see!) Damn... now we're gonna have to send spelunkers to Mars!
Sour Grapes? Still a little upset about the Beagle creating a new crater on Mars? Or perhaps you're still mad about all that tea we dumped in Boston Harbor. Never mind... here in the states, we call them "tires", not "tyres".
Round particles the size of BBs are embedded in the outcrop. Obviously the Martians have been using this outcrop as a backdrop for their target practice. If BB guns are the most powerful weapons they've got, I think we can take 'em... bring it on!
Why Out of Mars and not Out of Asteroids? It's a lot easier for Earth to get pelted with rocks already free is space. I'm skeptical about anything surviving the energies required to knock a chuck of rock loose from Mars and have it fly all the way to Earth. Thermophilic is one thing, surviving intact in both molten rock and near-absolute zero space is another.
If the Mars Rovers find Moon rocks -- that would be an amazing discovery!
I thought there were already several thousand pictures of dogs on the internet here
Better yet, send a couple microbioligists and then don't bring them back... they can spend the rest of their lives look at sediment! Stupid question: can't sedimentary rock form with liquids other than water? (I suppose carbon dioxide sublimates directly from solid to gas in the low atmospheric pressure of Mars... but what about under the ice caps, where pressure may be much greater?) Are we persisting in looking at mars from an Earth-centric viewpoint?
They may be thugs and criminals, but they're our thugs and criminals!
Interestingly enough, the instructions for my new Amana microwave state roughly that any parts of the food you don't want heated up, just wrap them in alumimum foil... which came as quite as shock to me, as I was always taught that putting metal in a Microwave would destroy it. Has the technology changed, or was I just taught wrong? (This microwave is also smart enough to figure out for itself when popcorn is done popping... can anybody explain to me how THAT works?)
The only Linux using company that is not like to kick their ass in court is... SCO. I predict that tomorrow, in a brilliant PR move, SCO will SUE THEMSELVES for using Linux! A case in which they will almost certainly prevail!
They are using the same equipment as the telcos. Could it be that most of the costs incurred by the telcos is for billing? (Admittedly, teachers are cheaper than union labor too.)
LA, having the first freeway system, also got to have the worst. All other areas have learned from their mistakes. As far as I know, there are still left-lane exits on I10 that go around blind corners that cause several accidents per day. Why in 50 years nobody has bothered to fix the problems is beyond me.