What's amazing to me is that we have achieved so much in the area of scientific discovery and we're still pushing to see how far we can go until the home planet makes an "adjustment." Compared to some other species we've been here less than a blink of an eye in cosmic time and yet we've done a splendid job of fouling the nest.
And the dark ages wouldn't have been quite so dark if "The Church" hadn't insisted on things like Galileo being wrong about heliocentrism until nine years ago.
The nightmare for me is when the Chief Executive Officer spots some new "toy" and wants it to work seamlessly in the corporate environment. The CEO has the weight to throw around to make it happen - then their administrative assistant needs to have the same new "toy," but it has to synch with the CEO's toy...
Instant insomnia!
Nuclear power's unpopularity should be based on a number of things, but foremost should be the fact that they can't find anywhere to put the damned waste products. And that's not just this country's problem anymore.
Gee, I don't seem to need a web browser to install Firefox in Kubuntu. Of course I needed a browser to download the OS, but I seem to almost have too many choices on how I want to configure the system to behave. Seems that Microsoft is just taking a different course to try to arrive at the level of control exerted by that other non-free OS.
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I've only been using Mint for one day, but it sure is nice to be rid of that bar of icons on the left side of my desktop. I really enjoyed using Ubuntu until they set Unity as the default desktop. The nice thing about Linux is that there are still choices and hell, the price is right!
Why send a human to do a robot's job? Robotic interplanetary probes should be assembled and sent out from low earth orbit and then we wouldn't need to re-invent the Saturn V. We actually can overcome the mistaken thinking that led to the billions wasted on programs like the shuttle and ISS.
Not a bad idea - perhaps there should be a reduction in the coach price if the passenger agrees to be food in the case of a crash. Perhaps airlines could also have a course in how best to dispatch, butcher and cook your fellow passengers. All in good TASTE, of course!
In lots of jurisdictions a pedestrian can be run over in a crosswalk and it will be their fault - laws have been changed to favor the fossil-fuel burners. And God help you if there isn't a crosswalk available...
NPR has been running interviews concerning NYPD's climbing into bed with the CIA post-9/11. People who live in New York City accept a certain level of inconvenience just to live there, but NYC is now definitely the poster child for Big Brother in America. I can't say that I'm really surprised after everyone sat back and let Homeland Security and the Patriot Act become reality. What I'm really wondering though, is what has Barack Obama so frightened that he won't do anything about it.
NASA is trying desperately to hang on to its past glory and the accomplishments of the past 50 years. But it is time to move on and embrace the challenges of the future. It is time to dump the pipe dream of returning to the Moon and using it as a base from which to travel to Mars. At the same time we need to assess what it is exactly that we want to accomplish with continued funding and support of ISS.
And the whole country, not just NASA, should be embracing the SI system as a step to take into the future. But NASA should be leading the way, not looking for excuses to continue using the Imperial System. When will they ever learn?
So the same species that has brought us to the brink of destruction by fouling its own nest has so polluted the near-space environment that it is no longer safe to send humans up there. What a shock! When's the last time you looked up to see if you could see anything "up there?" Like a star or a planet or, shudder, a neighboring galaxy? Relatively few people do that anymore because of all of the f'ing lights we think are so important and make us so secure!
We have been loyal Time Warner customers for about five years. For the past 18 months we have been victims of their incompetent roll out of their new cable navigation system, which for want of a better term, sucks. Now they want to put caps on the amount of data that we download over our internet connection, which has been very good until now.
We have made the decision to dump their cable product and go to the dreaded digital box, but we thought we were going to keep the Road Runner service. We'll be taking a look at DSL since we could still get our bill from one provider (phone and internet).
The consumer is at the mercy of these media giants because they operate with little or no oversight from regulators. Hmmm, that reminds me of something that happened recently...
When the new guy assumes office, how in hell is he going to take apart the monument to fascism that the Current Occupant (thank you Garrison, it helps to not have to type his name) has foisted on this nation of sheep?
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It's great to celebrate NASA's 50th; but don't forget what its origins were.
Nazi war criminals, the Cold War, a Space Transportation System based on the perceived need to have a reusable launch vehicle for military cargo (it proved unreliable and its mission (ISS) needed to be re-invented), and the militaristic race to the Moon.
Yes, we're well aware now that we're on tiny little spaceship with dwindling resources and the circumstances that have put us here are beyond anyone's imagination to explain. We wouldn't have that perspective without the space program.
Let's quit pissing our planet away on our addiction to fossil fuels and actually change the way we live.
Before we all are just a memory.
I think they've hit on something here. If you can't get an operating system to work properly just revert to smoke and mirrors. At the same time turn the business model that has served you so well on its head. And the brains behind the company is where?
Aren't they measuring the distance to stars within a three-dimensional object? I would guess that they could pick two stars that appear close together along our line of sight and come up with wildly different distances. Now perhaps if they measured the distance to one of the Trapezium stars (a very bright formation thought to lie at the "heart" of the nebula) they could come up with some meaningful measurement of distance.
Just thought of something else. Let's find a really large repository for data and create a three-dimensional map of the nebula. Don't try to shove this single star data down my throat!
Many portions of the U.S. infrastructure are crumbling away in front of our eyes. To silence those who could help the less technically inclined understand some of the details of what is going on reflects the worst kind of censorship. The public deserves to know why we our lives are being placed at risk in spite of being one of the world's "superpowers."
Full and open disclosure, along with rational discussion about the best way to put our country back on track, is what we need. Unless they are trying to protect some awful secret...
I believe that all of the flights have been to add parts/change out crew on the ISS. The only "research" flight in the current shuttle schedule is a visit to the Hubble Space Telescope to change out gyro(s) and other electronics systems. There are pretty tight schedule parameters built into the HST flight; if the ISS flights don't fly according to schedule the HST flight never happens.
So the concept of the Shuttle as a vehicle for space research is another in its list of "can't do" missions. IMOHO the shuttle would never have flown if the military hadn't backed it as a way to launch "sensitive" cargo. After Challenger the military seemed to lose interest.
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Yes, there are assholes piloting bicycles. You just never hear about them killing anyone.
What's amazing to me is that we have achieved so much in the area of scientific discovery and we're still pushing to see how far we can go until the home planet makes an "adjustment." Compared to some other species we've been here less than a blink of an eye in cosmic time and yet we've done a splendid job of fouling the nest. And the dark ages wouldn't have been quite so dark if "The Church" hadn't insisted on things like Galileo being wrong about heliocentrism until nine years ago.
Meat, it's what is not for dinner for me. Ever.
The nightmare for me is when the Chief Executive Officer spots some new "toy" and wants it to work seamlessly in the corporate environment. The CEO has the weight to throw around to make it happen - then their administrative assistant needs to have the same new "toy," but it has to synch with the CEO's toy... Instant insomnia!
Nuclear power's unpopularity should be based on a number of things, but foremost should be the fact that they can't find anywhere to put the damned waste products. And that's not just this country's problem anymore.
Gee, I don't seem to need a web browser to install Firefox in Kubuntu. Of course I needed a browser to download the OS, but I seem to almost have too many choices on how I want to configure the system to behave. Seems that Microsoft is just taking a different course to try to arrive at the level of control exerted by that other non-free OS.
I've only been using Mint for one day, but it sure is nice to be rid of that bar of icons on the left side of my desktop. I really enjoyed using Ubuntu until they set Unity as the default desktop. The nice thing about Linux is that there are still choices and hell, the price is right!
Why send a human to do a robot's job? Robotic interplanetary probes should be assembled and sent out from low earth orbit and then we wouldn't need to re-invent the Saturn V. We actually can overcome the mistaken thinking that led to the billions wasted on programs like the shuttle and ISS.
Not a bad idea - perhaps there should be a reduction in the coach price if the passenger agrees to be food in the case of a crash. Perhaps airlines could also have a course in how best to dispatch, butcher and cook your fellow passengers. All in good TASTE, of course!
Sony's reaction to the loss of customer information has been less than splendid. I will simply never log into my account again.
In lots of jurisdictions a pedestrian can be run over in a crosswalk and it will be their fault - laws have been changed to favor the fossil-fuel burners. And God help you if there isn't a crosswalk available...
NPR has been running interviews concerning NYPD's climbing into bed with the CIA post-9/11. People who live in New York City accept a certain level of inconvenience just to live there, but NYC is now definitely the poster child for Big Brother in America. I can't say that I'm really surprised after everyone sat back and let Homeland Security and the Patriot Act become reality. What I'm really wondering though, is what has Barack Obama so frightened that he won't do anything about it.
NASA is trying desperately to hang on to its past glory and the accomplishments of the past 50 years. But it is time to move on and embrace the challenges of the future. It is time to dump the pipe dream of returning to the Moon and using it as a base from which to travel to Mars. At the same time we need to assess what it is exactly that we want to accomplish with continued funding and support of ISS. And the whole country, not just NASA, should be embracing the SI system as a step to take into the future. But NASA should be leading the way, not looking for excuses to continue using the Imperial System. When will they ever learn?
So the same species that has brought us to the brink of destruction by fouling its own nest has so polluted the near-space environment that it is no longer safe to send humans up there. What a shock! When's the last time you looked up to see if you could see anything "up there?" Like a star or a planet or, shudder, a neighboring galaxy? Relatively few people do that anymore because of all of the f'ing lights we think are so important and make us so secure!
Not with a bang but a whimper.
We have been loyal Time Warner customers for about five years. For the past 18 months we have been victims of their incompetent roll out of their new cable navigation system, which for want of a better term, sucks. Now they want to put caps on the amount of data that we download over our internet connection, which has been very good until now.
We have made the decision to dump their cable product and go to the dreaded digital box, but we thought we were going to keep the Road Runner service. We'll be taking a look at DSL since we could still get our bill from one provider (phone and internet).
The consumer is at the mercy of these media giants because they operate with little or no oversight from regulators. Hmmm, that reminds me of something that happened recently...
One question:
When the new guy assumes office, how in hell is he going to take apart the monument to fascism that the Current Occupant (thank you Garrison, it helps to not have to type his name) has foisted on this nation of sheep?
It's great to celebrate NASA's 50th; but don't forget what its origins were. Nazi war criminals, the Cold War, a Space Transportation System based on the perceived need to have a reusable launch vehicle for military cargo (it proved unreliable and its mission (ISS) needed to be re-invented), and the militaristic race to the Moon. Yes, we're well aware now that we're on tiny little spaceship with dwindling resources and the circumstances that have put us here are beyond anyone's imagination to explain. We wouldn't have that perspective without the space program. Let's quit pissing our planet away on our addiction to fossil fuels and actually change the way we live. Before we all are just a memory.
I think they've hit on something here. If you can't get an operating system to work properly just revert to smoke and mirrors. At the same time turn the business model that has served you so well on its head. And the brains behind the company is where?
Aren't they measuring the distance to stars within a three-dimensional object? I would guess that they could pick two stars that appear close together along our line of sight and come up with wildly different distances. Now perhaps if they measured the distance to one of the Trapezium stars (a very bright formation thought to lie at the "heart" of the nebula) they could come up with some meaningful measurement of distance. Just thought of something else. Let's find a really large repository for data and create a three-dimensional map of the nebula. Don't try to shove this single star data down my throat!
Many portions of the U.S. infrastructure are crumbling away in front of our eyes. To silence those who could help the less technically inclined understand some of the details of what is going on reflects the worst kind of censorship. The public deserves to know why we our lives are being placed at risk in spite of being one of the world's "superpowers."
Full and open disclosure, along with rational discussion about the best way to put our country back on track, is what we need. Unless they are trying to protect some awful secret...
I believe that all of the flights have been to add parts/change out crew on the ISS. The only "research" flight in the current shuttle schedule is a visit to the Hubble Space Telescope to change out gyro(s) and other electronics systems. There are pretty tight schedule parameters built into the HST flight; if the ISS flights don't fly according to schedule the HST flight never happens. So the concept of the Shuttle as a vehicle for space research is another in its list of "can't do" missions. IMOHO the shuttle would never have flown if the military hadn't backed it as a way to launch "sensitive" cargo. After Challenger the military seemed to lose interest.
I'm thinking they've had that "secret weapon" for years at Presidential new conferences cause every time I see that little son of a bitch...
That's great! We can't figure out what to do with the nuclear waste on our own planet...
Well, I've got to think that some fat cat lawyers are their real clients now...
Well thank goodness that man hid the bomb in his shoe and didn't have a C4 suppository up his ass. Things could have been very interesting!