Technically, if you remember the episode where Riker falls in love with the genderless alien woman, Riker was used as a kind of metaphor for a homosexual. Sort of.
All the tangible benefits we've reaped from space travel (tang, velcro, etc) could have been discovered much more cheaply (or if you prefer, in greater abundance for the same price) if we were simply focusing on inventing and not reaching some milestone out in space.
Have you heard the phrase "Necessity is the mother of invention"? I can't help but feel that these things would not have been invented if it was simply a bunch of people sitting round a table going "Hmm, what shall we invent next?" rather than people finding solutions to real, tangible problems in the space program.
"Jim, we need a way of fixing stuff to other stuff, temporarily, without glue!" "Hooks! No, wait; hundreds of tiny hooks!"
This brings to mind Montgomery "Beam me up" Scotty's philosophy. From wikipedia:
This is the episode where Scotty shares with Geordi his philosophy on engineering time estimates. After Geordi tells Captain Picard the *real* time that it would take to complete a task, Scotty remarks, "Oh, laddie. You got a lot to learn if you want the people to think of you as a miracle worker."
For convenience, time is a factor. It may take several weeks to download a whole series of something via p2p, but it can be bought in DVD format, thus paying for the convenience of having it NOW.
That's short term thinking. In the long term , after all the men are extinct, the world will be filled with sexually liberated lesbians, making out at every opportunity. *buys stocks in cryogenic freezing companies*
It's not just the reusability, it's how reuseable it is, in this case measured in turnaround time. The wikipedia article states that it has a turnaround time of 26 hours minimum, which is outstanding compared to the Shuttle.
But surely all social security-type systems can be abused? Even as they are abused, many people use them because they need the money. In my area there is a woman who sels the big issue, and she looks to be a genuine seller, that is one who needs the money not for sports shoes.
But this is just anecdotal evidence from which meaningful conclusions cannot be deduced
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Technically, if you remember the episode where Riker falls in love with the genderless alien woman, Riker was used as a kind of metaphor for a homosexual. Sort of.
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Yes, but nobody wants hot coffee anymore
Huh? You don't want to fit your "micro PC" inside Jessica Alba?
Yes, but how would you target each individual audience? Have them all tagged? Oh, wait
Have you heard the phrase "Necessity is the mother of invention"? I can't help but feel that these things would not have been invented if it was simply a bunch of people sitting round a table going "Hmm, what shall we invent next?" rather than people finding solutions to real, tangible problems in the space program.
"Jim, we need a way of fixing stuff to other stuff, temporarily, without glue!" "Hooks! No, wait; hundreds of tiny hooks!"
This brings to mind Montgomery "Beam me up" Scotty's philosophy. From wikipedia: This is the episode where Scotty shares with Geordi his philosophy on engineering time estimates. After Geordi tells Captain Picard the *real* time that it would take to complete a task, Scotty remarks, "Oh, laddie. You got a lot to learn if you want the people to think of you as a miracle worker."
For convenience, time is a factor. It may take several weeks to download a whole series of something via p2p, but it can be bought in DVD format, thus paying for the convenience of having it NOW.
Use the force, Luke!
Lego mindstorms anyone? Albeit, in this case the technology is not the "hook", it is merely another way of giving lego more creative potential.
IT'S A TRAP!
Forget about beer? Are you insane?
That's short term thinking. In the long term , after all the men are extinct, the world will be filled with sexually liberated lesbians, making out at every opportunity. *buys stocks in cryogenic freezing companies*
They cut the funding for the MMU (manned manouvering unit, ie the jetpack) several years ago, so there are no jetpacks in the ISS.
Everything attracts 17.5% vat except uncooked food, childrens clothing and books.
Everyone, change your names by deedpoll to "Jihad al Zarqawi al Hussein bin Laden" !
That's assuming every single mine works okay. There will be failures. So 99% of the mines are deactivated, that 1% can still maim and kill.
Did you say Senator Osama? Egad, call the NSF!
IIRC, The soviet space shuttle Buran (Snowstorm) had remote landing capabilities from the start of the project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Buran
It's not just the reusability, it's how reuseable it is, in this case measured in turnaround time. The wikipedia article states that it has a turnaround time of 26 hours minimum, which is outstanding compared to the Shuttle.
Yes, but the bad guys will still have nukes. Making statistics that say "they only have 0.1% the number of nukes we have" doesn't fix that.
But surely all social security-type systems can be abused? Even as they are abused, many people use them because they need the money. In my area there is a woman who sels the big issue, and she looks to be a genuine seller, that is one who needs the money not for sports shoes. But this is just anecdotal evidence from which meaningful conclusions cannot be deduced
But I need my fingers for gaming...and other stuff
Yeah, I still have one of my old PC's, not quite 1996 (I didn't even have a PC back then) and if I could gt the thing working I'd try out Quake on it.
The new skype 2.5 also has a video function, and has had it for quite a while http://about.skype.com/2005/12/skype_launches_next _generation.html