No, you do not understand TrumpWorld. He isn't really interested about getting a man there and back again. If he gets marooned, Trump would be okay with that.
Lots of us are ok with that. The astronauts of Apollo 8 figured they had about a 50/50 chance of coming home alive, and they were willing to take that chance. I'm sure I'm not exactly a prime astronaut candidate, but if NASA offered me the opportunity to go to Mars with those odds, I'd take them up on it.
Life without risk is pretty fucking boring. I'd much rather die doing something amazing than live to be 100 by avoiding all risk.
You could just look for caves. We already know of a few on Mars, so just land close to it.
Or old Lava tubes. We know about a few of those also.
Why dig when nature already did it for you? Build a base in an existing hole, then operate out of those if/when you decide to go construct habitats elsewhere.
Did my math wrong; the closest approach was in 2018. There will be another one in 2020 that's just about as good. After that the closest approach starts to get further away for the next decade or so.
Doesn't change anything, just correcting the details.
Earth and Mars are between 50 and 400 million miles or so apart. Currently they are 150,000,000 miles apart.
So no, this is not a good window to get someone there, even if you are ok with launching tonight, going fast and not slowing down on the way down.
The distance fluctuates on a more or less annual basis. No, tonight wouldn't be a good time to launch, but Trump didn't ask his question yesterday; he asked in early 2017. That means that between the time he asked his question, and the end of his hypothetical second term, there would be some 6 or 7 ideal launch windows. Between time he asked his question and new years 2020 there would be at least 3 or 4.
As a matter of fact the closest approach will occur this year, so if NASA could somehow have put together a mission in 2 years, the alignment would have been ideal to do it a couple months from now.
Because unlike faith, science doesn't need you to believe to affect your life. See gravity.
The problem is that you're hiding the science behind your politics.
Commies are hilarious. Thanks to you guys we've already seen what people eat once you take money out of the equation. Rats and dogs for the people, and caviar for the politically connected.
"once storage is added in they have capacity factors of ~90%"
After saying something that stupid, you really just need to shut up and go hide somewhere. You don't get to pretend that you know what you're talking about after suggesting that solar panels work at night time.
I, for one, would love to play as "Kailyn" Jenner. Storming the trenches in high heels and a ballgown. For added wokeness they could add a level where "Chelsea" Manning heroically leaks Allied invasion plans while trying to expose the bombing of civilians in Berlin. Would be a best seller for sure.
I used to have a firewall app, but no longer need it. The only thing I miss is the ability to disable all connectivity by default and only grant it to apps which I intentionally enable.
Yeah, these days the first thing I look at when deciding on a new phone is whether or not the bootloader can be unlocked. I don't care how good every other aspect of the phone is; if I can't unlock the bootloader, I'm not interested.
Well, the LG V20 when brand new sold for about $700 on average. Two and a half years later you can pick up a refurbished one for $120-$200.
So, obviously the guy is full of shit when he rants about them being "worthless" after 2 years, but no they do not hold value as well as iphones.
Personally I like it that way. I've found that by buying a 1-2 year old android phone and replacing all the factory bloat with LineageOS (or a similar slimmed-down ROM) I end up with a phone that is better in most ways than it would have been when brand new at a cost of about a quarter of what I would spend for a new phone.
You can't do that kind of thing with apple devices. If you buy a used iPhone you are getting dated hardware running stock software (if you're lucky; maybe instead of stock you have a special apple patch which slows down old devices) and you have zero ability to improve it in any way. Plus you're paying double for the privilege.
New versions of android (starting with either nougat or oreo) do give you the ability to block network access to either WiFi or cell networks, or both.
LineageOS (via privacy guard) gives you the option to prevent apps from auto-starting, as well as to prevent them from running in the background.
No, they didn't just go to Tufts, they saw dozens of different doctors in at least 3 different hospitals. Please stop trying to lecture people on a case which you know nothing about.
You can transport stuff by truck, but the locals tend to support the Taliban.
The rest of your comment was fairly insightful, so it's really too bad you had to ruin it with this horseshit. In surveys something like 90% of Afghans say they are afraid of the Taliban. The majority of Afghans support things like educating and voting rights for women; things which the Taliban vehemently opposes. The idea that "the locals tend to support the Taliban" is just blatant nonsense; the vast majority of them want nothing to do with it.
The ratio of locals who support the Taliban in Pashtun areas is quite a bit higher, but your statement would be an unfair characterization even of just those areas, let alone of Afghanistan as a whole.
They went doctor shopping. I don't know how well respected the doctors they found were, but I do know that if you go to enough of them and complain enough you can eventually get just about any treatment you want.
What makes me so sure is that multiple doctors agreed that most of the "treatments" were unnecessary and some were outright harmful, that multiple specialists agreed that her "illness" was psychological, and that doctors at two separate hospitals independently decided to contact CPS out of concern for her welfare.
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SpaceX has it's own astronauts too ... they just haven't flown yet!
The military should be on the border laying landmines and setting up a free fire zone. Walls have historically not worked.
Historically, the times when walls haven't worked, militaries haven't either.
Perfect; then he goes down in the history books as the first man to Tweet from the surface of Mars.
No, you do not understand TrumpWorld. He isn't really interested about getting a man there and back again. If he gets marooned, Trump would be okay with that.
Lots of us are ok with that. The astronauts of Apollo 8 figured they had about a 50/50 chance of coming home alive, and they were willing to take that chance. I'm sure I'm not exactly a prime astronaut candidate, but if NASA offered me the opportunity to go to Mars with those odds, I'd take them up on it.
Life without risk is pretty fucking boring. I'd much rather die doing something amazing than live to be 100 by avoiding all risk.
You could just look for caves. We already know of a few on Mars, so just land close to it.
Or old Lava tubes. We know about a few of those also.
Why dig when nature already did it for you? Build a base in an existing hole, then operate out of those if/when you decide to go construct habitats elsewhere.
Well then use the shielding already present. Send a team to turn an asteroid into a spaceship and send it to mars orbit.
And how do you plan to shield that team? I guess if you use Mexican miners you don't have to worry about it?
Did my math wrong; the closest approach was in 2018. There will be another one in 2020 that's just about as good. After that the closest approach starts to get further away for the next decade or so.
Doesn't change anything, just correcting the details.
Earth and Mars are between 50 and 400 million miles or so apart. Currently they are 150,000,000 miles apart.
So no, this is not a good window to get someone there, even if you are ok with launching tonight, going fast and not slowing down on the way down.
The distance fluctuates on a more or less annual basis. No, tonight wouldn't be a good time to launch, but Trump didn't ask his question yesterday; he asked in early 2017. That means that between the time he asked his question, and the end of his hypothetical second term, there would be some 6 or 7 ideal launch windows. Between time he asked his question and new years 2020 there would be at least 3 or 4.
As a matter of fact the closest approach will occur this year, so if NASA could somehow have put together a mission in 2 years, the alignment would have been ideal to do it a couple months from now.
Because unlike faith, science doesn't need you to believe to affect your life. See gravity.
The problem is that you're hiding the science behind your politics.
You can stop poisoning the water with fluoride for starters. Historically, people weren't as dumb as they are today.
This is always so funny to me. Idiots giving advice on how to make people less stupid. Does that actually count as speaking from experience?
Commies are hilarious. Thanks to you guys we've already seen what people eat once you take money out of the equation. Rats and dogs for the people, and caviar for the politically connected.
Please. In your previous comment you said:
"once storage is added in they have capacity factors of ~90%"
After saying something that stupid, you really just need to shut up and go hide somewhere. You don't get to pretend that you know what you're talking about after suggesting that solar panels work at night time.
I googled it and you're full of shit. The $0.03 per kWh thing wasn't total cost, it was a Renewable Energy Credit.
You "ask questions" the same way 9/11 truthers do.
I would gladly volunteer my back yard, but I know for a fact that at least one of my neighbours would be a cunt about it.
Just like at yucca.
People are starving here in the US, just as they are in Venezuela
lol
Haven't seen this kind of propaganda since the USSR fell ...
I, for one, would love to play as "Kailyn" Jenner. Storming the trenches in high heels and a ballgown. For added wokeness they could add a level where "Chelsea" Manning heroically leaks Allied invasion plans while trying to expose the bombing of civilians in Berlin. Would be a best seller for sure.
On Oreo I have 3 separate toggles for each app:
WiFi data
Mobile data
Background data
I used to have a firewall app, but no longer need it. The only thing I miss is the ability to disable all connectivity by default and only grant it to apps which I intentionally enable.
Yeah, these days the first thing I look at when deciding on a new phone is whether or not the bootloader can be unlocked. I don't care how good every other aspect of the phone is; if I can't unlock the bootloader, I'm not interested.
Well, the LG V20 when brand new sold for about $700 on average. Two and a half years later you can pick up a refurbished one for $120-$200.
So, obviously the guy is full of shit when he rants about them being "worthless" after 2 years, but no they do not hold value as well as iphones.
Personally I like it that way. I've found that by buying a 1-2 year old android phone and replacing all the factory bloat with LineageOS (or a similar slimmed-down ROM) I end up with a phone that is better in most ways than it would have been when brand new at a cost of about a quarter of what I would spend for a new phone.
You can't do that kind of thing with apple devices. If you buy a used iPhone you are getting dated hardware running stock software (if you're lucky; maybe instead of stock you have a special apple patch which slows down old devices) and you have zero ability to improve it in any way. Plus you're paying double for the privilege.
New versions of android (starting with either nougat or oreo) do give you the ability to block network access to either WiFi or cell networks, or both.
LineageOS (via privacy guard) gives you the option to prevent apps from auto-starting, as well as to prevent them from running in the background.
No, he's talking about Ireland.
Yes we've already established that you're confused about that. No need to keep repeating yourself.
No, they didn't just go to Tufts, they saw dozens of different doctors in at least 3 different hospitals. Please stop trying to lecture people on a case which you know nothing about.
You can transport stuff by truck, but the locals tend to support the Taliban.
The rest of your comment was fairly insightful, so it's really too bad you had to ruin it with this horseshit. In surveys something like 90% of Afghans say they are afraid of the Taliban. The majority of Afghans support things like educating and voting rights for women; things which the Taliban vehemently opposes. The idea that "the locals tend to support the Taliban" is just blatant nonsense; the vast majority of them want nothing to do with it.
The ratio of locals who support the Taliban in Pashtun areas is quite a bit higher, but your statement would be an unfair characterization even of just those areas, let alone of Afghanistan as a whole.
They went doctor shopping. I don't know how well respected the doctors they found were, but I do know that if you go to enough of them and complain enough you can eventually get just about any treatment you want.
What makes me so sure is that multiple doctors agreed that most of the "treatments" were unnecessary and some were outright harmful, that multiple specialists agreed that her "illness" was psychological, and that doctors at two separate hospitals independently decided to contact CPS out of concern for her welfare.