My company uses ClearCase (as do most Government developers) for revision control and version organizing. The open source community has a similar program called "Git" which can do version control. Both programs have the capability of letting a file be edited on multiple branches by different developers and merged later.
What will NASA do with the silicon after it has liberated the oxygen....will they ship it back? Or will there be a Silicon Valley on the Moon waiting for an Intel mining expedition.
Many great scientists of the past were motivated greatly by religion: Einstien, Pascal, Newton, and Boyle to name a few.
But now that religion is out of the schools and separated in many ways from science what do we have for motivation..
Sure science does not pay well....But Boyle, Einstien, Pascal, and Newton were not looking for wealth.
When James Gleick writes about butterflies flapping their wings and affecting the weather: concluding that nature is chaotic and non-linear; when evolution claims that every living thing is the result of chance; when Scientific American claims that the constants of nature are changing; and when quantum mechanics is based on probability what is there to inspire students? Certainly not the order and beauty other great scientists searched for.
If there is no order in the universe, what is the difference between science and a game of dice? Maybe as a scientist you will discover a great law by accident (if there are laws any more) and maybe you won't.
Similarily maybe you will win the game of dice (if you can win) and a million dollars and maybe you won't.
I am convinced that God does not play dice with the universe--- Einstien
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My company uses ClearCase (as do most Government developers) for revision control and version organizing. The open source community has a similar program called "Git" which can do version control. Both programs have the capability of letting a file be edited on multiple branches by different developers and merged later.
Where I live optics are a bad thing:
Down the road there are optics not coppers so currently I can not get DSL
But I also can't get optics....for some reason
so I have dial-up
What will NASA do with the silicon after it has liberated the oxygen....will they ship it back?
Or will there be a Silicon Valley on the Moon waiting for an Intel mining expedition.
Yes we will all have to live in Geodesic Domes. While some reactor makes oxygen in a vaccuum outside.
Many great scientists of the past were motivated greatly by religion: Einstien, Pascal, Newton, and Boyle to name a few. But now that religion is out of the schools and separated in many ways from science what do we have for motivation.. Sure science does not pay well....But Boyle, Einstien, Pascal, and Newton were not looking for wealth. When James Gleick writes about butterflies flapping their wings and affecting the weather: concluding that nature is chaotic and non-linear; when evolution claims that every living thing is the result of chance; when Scientific American claims that the constants of nature are changing; and when quantum mechanics is based on probability what is there to inspire students? Certainly not the order and beauty other great scientists searched for. If there is no order in the universe, what is the difference between science and a game of dice? Maybe as a scientist you will discover a great law by accident (if there are laws any more) and maybe you won't. Similarily maybe you will win the game of dice (if you can win) and a million dollars and maybe you won't. I am convinced that God does not play dice with the universe--- Einstien