Sounds wonderful! But I hear that things are not as idyllic during Octoberfest. Apparently the beer vendors are setting their prices at ever increasing heights (based, no doubt, on how much the tourists are willing to pay). Needless to say, the locals are not happy because they like to drink their beer at a reasonable price. Personally, I can't wait until the U.S. pulls out its head and starts selling liters instead of those silly little pints.
Terrorism absolutely won because the former occupant didn't recognize, I'm sorry, nobody told him that the entire world was on our side following 9/11. We had one moment in which we could have stopped all this foolishness and made a stand for the freedoms for which the U.S. was founded. I think it was Yogi Berra who said "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." He forgot to add, "Think before you leap, you fucking idiot."
Umm, what is this "post-nuke" era ? There's a reason they have huge computing capability - the nukes haven't gone away, we just don't talk about them anymore. And they don't just sit around gathering dust; they must be carefully maintained and a huge amount of computing power is expended in "improving" them. And you may rest assured that the nuclear establishment is developing new tactical and strategic nuclear weapons for specialized applications, again using vast amounts of computing power.
Metal shavings...seems I've heard the same thing before with the ISS. The bearings for the solar panel structure apparently had an issue with excessive wear, but I don't recall what the resolution was for that problem.
I thought along the same lines; perhaps there is a need to resort to a different style of fastener. They have a space station which should serve as a platform for new technology and once they find that duct tape won't hold forever (does it work at all in space?) I would think that some sort of latch mechanism involving a lever and cam might work. I'm not an engineer, but I was sure scratching my head over why they are continuing to use Earth-based fasteners in a space environment. Of course, flippiing the lever on a cam isn't as sexy as using a multi-thousand dollar ratchet.
This is indeed a sad day as we have lost one of the world's great explorers. The population of this planet has some very tough decisions to make in the course of the next few years; decisions that will make a huge difference in the quality of life, if not the future of our species. Let this moment be a time for inspiration and I hope that it helps us realize that we can recapture that spirit of adventure that led a modest man from Ohio to accomplish one of the greatest accomplishments in human history.
This is just a further step in the evolutionary path of law enforcement. If you have a camera recording a person's face, or in this case, a license plate, you don't have to get off your fat ass and interact with the people you were sworn to protect. And yes, with every step along the way, this country is turning into the totalitarian state that the founding fathers (Benjamin Franklin, in particular, comes to mind) warned us against. Thank goodness our citizens are armed to the teeth so that when push comes to shove we'll have a bloodbath of epic proportions.
Cool, now all we have to do is have various scenes of American adventurism declared tourist areas for us to go in and clean up our land mines, depleted uranium warheads, cluster bomblets...
From my experience, the real threat is from a comet with Earth's name on it. Lead time for "retalliation" would be minimal; the real challenge to civil authorities would be how to put a lid on it to avoid widespread panic. I think part of the problem with Americans dealing with the metric system is that we're generally ignorant of the basic units of measurement and the prefix system. However, we have some of the most completely educated students on the ability to convert from one system to the other - at the expense of their ability to perform in basic math and science.
There were at least two disaster by asteroid/comet movies that came out in 1998. Both of them employed STS on steroids, but Armageddon had more scientifically inacurrate information per second than the other one. And it had NASA trademarks plastered all over it.
It is sad. I loved going to New York when I lived in New Jersey and could get there by bus. I have vowed to never travel by air as long as the overzealous TSA/DHS tactics remain. It's a pity because I would love to see the Cloisters again and spend some time in lower Manhattan just to see the Village and old WTC site, Natural History Museum, Times Square. And it's not progress, it's stupidity.
Given that this lander has a pretty good chance of not landing properly how are we justifying the very real possibility of contaminating the Martian landscape with 4.8 kg of Plutonium-238? I can't wait to hear the justification for this given that we have two rovers up there that have done quite well on solar power.
Well now that they've got the budget balanced our representatives in Washington deserve some well-earned time off. As I recall, this gives them time to go back to their constituents (us) and explain what a bang-up job they've been doing. Yeah, I'm holding my breath too.
The rich and famous should be able to preserve their anonymity when travelling. After all, whose business is it that a certain presidential candidate makes frequent trips to the Cayman Islands?
So the contribution of nuclear weapons research to atmospheric understanding is the justification for billions (trillions?) of dollars spent on nuclear weapons stockpiles and the entire Cold War fiasco? Let's trot out nuclear medicine as the next justification or, gasp, nuclear power. Humanity has been on the brink of extinction through nuclear war for fifty years. If those benificent aliens are going to save us they had better hurry...
They better hurry because within a very short time low Earth orbit is going to be a pretty dangerous place. Once things start running into one another the bits and pieces will multiply, I don't know whether it's geometrically or exponentially, okay, it's got to be astronomically, but there's a hell of a lot of shit out there that is not under anyone's control.
I think the South Koreans have really hit on something here and those of us in Kansas had the opportunity a while ago and dropped the ball... Creationism is just the tip of the iceberg - if people begin really believing this crap let's feed them the whole enchilada! They need to reject long distance travel because it will eventually lead to massive fatalities as ships and planes fly off into space as they reach the edge of the flat Earth. And Galileo and Copernicus were just wrong - the Earth is at the center of the universe and everything revolvles around us. There are millions if not billions of dollars to be made revising all of those nasty science textbooks that have been infecting the minds of our youth for far too long.
There are lots of people getting rich because of ludicrous drug laws in this country. How do you think the CIA finances its nefarious adventures? They'll keep the war going in Afghanistan going just long enough to tidy up the fortunes they're making on the opium trade and then shift their attentions elsewhere. Thousands of lives are shattered each year through the use of a legalized drug - alcohol, yes, damnit, it's a drug and we're still throwing people into jail because they're smoking a weed that turns into a flower in their minds. Stupid country.
It's interesting to me that there's a country in the western hemisphere leading the way to gun control sanity and it's not the good ol' US of A. Yes, guns do kill people and guns don't make anyone more secure. They just make the gun and ammunition producers rich. It's a national tragedy.
Grilling is a great way to get in touch with your primitive self. Personally, the less tech the better and I use the beer method for doneness. Steaks and burgers are done after one or at most two beers while anything requiring smoke is at least a six-pack and may run as much as a case for ribs or brisquit. And God help the person who lifts the lid to see what's happening while the smoke is doin' its thing. Monitor your grill on your I-Phone? - who are you people?
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Sounds wonderful! But I hear that things are not as idyllic during Octoberfest. Apparently the beer vendors are setting their prices at ever increasing heights (based, no doubt, on how much the tourists are willing to pay). Needless to say, the locals are not happy because they like to drink their beer at a reasonable price. Personally, I can't wait until the U.S. pulls out its head and starts selling liters instead of those silly little pints.
Terrorism absolutely won because the former occupant didn't recognize, I'm sorry, nobody told him that the entire world was on our side following 9/11. We had one moment in which we could have stopped all this foolishness and made a stand for the freedoms for which the U.S. was founded. I think it was Yogi Berra who said "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." He forgot to add, "Think before you leap, you fucking idiot."
So it won't make any difference who is in the White House over the next four years? Supreme Court appointments come to mind...
Because they are sheep.
Umm, what is this "post-nuke" era ? There's a reason they have huge computing capability - the nukes haven't gone away, we just don't talk about them anymore. And they don't just sit around gathering dust; they must be carefully maintained and a huge amount of computing power is expended in "improving" them. And you may rest assured that the nuclear establishment is developing new tactical and strategic nuclear weapons for specialized applications, again using vast amounts of computing power.
Metal shavings...seems I've heard the same thing before with the ISS. The bearings for the solar panel structure apparently had an issue with excessive wear, but I don't recall what the resolution was for that problem.
This isn't an English/SI issue is it? Please tell me we have an all metric ISS.
I thought along the same lines; perhaps there is a need to resort to a different style of fastener. They have a space station which should serve as a platform for new technology and once they find that duct tape won't hold forever (does it work at all in space?) I would think that some sort of latch mechanism involving a lever and cam might work. I'm not an engineer, but I was sure scratching my head over why they are continuing to use Earth-based fasteners in a space environment. Of course, flippiing the lever on a cam isn't as sexy as using a multi-thousand dollar ratchet.
This is indeed a sad day as we have lost one of the world's great explorers. The population of this planet has some very tough decisions to make in the course of the next few years; decisions that will make a huge difference in the quality of life, if not the future of our species. Let this moment be a time for inspiration and I hope that it helps us realize that we can recapture that spirit of adventure that led a modest man from Ohio to accomplish one of the greatest accomplishments in human history.
This is just a further step in the evolutionary path of law enforcement. If you have a camera recording a person's face, or in this case, a license plate, you don't have to get off your fat ass and interact with the people you were sworn to protect. And yes, with every step along the way, this country is turning into the totalitarian state that the founding fathers (Benjamin Franklin, in particular, comes to mind) warned us against. Thank goodness our citizens are armed to the teeth so that when push comes to shove we'll have a bloodbath of epic proportions.
Cool, now all we have to do is have various scenes of American adventurism declared tourist areas for us to go in and clean up our land mines, depleted uranium warheads, cluster bomblets...
From my experience, the real threat is from a comet with Earth's name on it. Lead time for "retalliation" would be minimal; the real challenge to civil authorities would be how to put a lid on it to avoid widespread panic. I think part of the problem with Americans dealing with the metric system is that we're generally ignorant of the basic units of measurement and the prefix system. However, we have some of the most completely educated students on the ability to convert from one system to the other - at the expense of their ability to perform in basic math and science.
There were at least two disaster by asteroid/comet movies that came out in 1998. Both of them employed STS on steroids, but Armageddon had more scientifically inacurrate information per second than the other one. And it had NASA trademarks plastered all over it.
I think that the definition of terrorist is changing...
It is sad. I loved going to New York when I lived in New Jersey and could get there by bus. I have vowed to never travel by air as long as the overzealous TSA/DHS tactics remain. It's a pity because I would love to see the Cloisters again and spend some time in lower Manhattan just to see the Village and old WTC site, Natural History Museum, Times Square. And it's not progress, it's stupidity.
Given that this lander has a pretty good chance of not landing properly how are we justifying the very real possibility of contaminating the Martian landscape with 4.8 kg of Plutonium-238? I can't wait to hear the justification for this given that we have two rovers up there that have done quite well on solar power.
Well now that they've got the budget balanced our representatives in Washington deserve some well-earned time off. As I recall, this gives them time to go back to their constituents (us) and explain what a bang-up job they've been doing. Yeah, I'm holding my breath too.
The rich and famous should be able to preserve their anonymity when travelling. After all, whose business is it that a certain presidential candidate makes frequent trips to the Cayman Islands?
So the contribution of nuclear weapons research to atmospheric understanding is the justification for billions (trillions?) of dollars spent on nuclear weapons stockpiles and the entire Cold War fiasco? Let's trot out nuclear medicine as the next justification or, gasp, nuclear power. Humanity has been on the brink of extinction through nuclear war for fifty years. If those benificent aliens are going to save us they had better hurry...
They better hurry because within a very short time low Earth orbit is going to be a pretty dangerous place. Once things start running into one another the bits and pieces will multiply, I don't know whether it's geometrically or exponentially, okay, it's got to be astronomically, but there's a hell of a lot of shit out there that is not under anyone's control.
I think the South Koreans have really hit on something here and those of us in Kansas had the opportunity a while ago and dropped the ball... Creationism is just the tip of the iceberg - if people begin really believing this crap let's feed them the whole enchilada! They need to reject long distance travel because it will eventually lead to massive fatalities as ships and planes fly off into space as they reach the edge of the flat Earth. And Galileo and Copernicus were just wrong - the Earth is at the center of the universe and everything revolvles around us. There are millions if not billions of dollars to be made revising all of those nasty science textbooks that have been infecting the minds of our youth for far too long.
There are lots of people getting rich because of ludicrous drug laws in this country. How do you think the CIA finances its nefarious adventures? They'll keep the war going in Afghanistan going just long enough to tidy up the fortunes they're making on the opium trade and then shift their attentions elsewhere. Thousands of lives are shattered each year through the use of a legalized drug - alcohol, yes, damnit, it's a drug and we're still throwing people into jail because they're smoking a weed that turns into a flower in their minds. Stupid country.
It's interesting to me that there's a country in the western hemisphere leading the way to gun control sanity and it's not the good ol' US of A. Yes, guns do kill people and guns don't make anyone more secure. They just make the gun and ammunition producers rich. It's a national tragedy.
Grilling is a great way to get in touch with your primitive self. Personally, the less tech the better and I use the beer method for doneness. Steaks and burgers are done after one or at most two beers while anything requiring smoke is at least a six-pack and may run as much as a case for ribs or brisquit. And God help the person who lifts the lid to see what's happening while the smoke is doin' its thing. Monitor your grill on your I-Phone? - who are you people?