the previous post said where a lot of planes don't fly not where no planes fly i'm sure a company which can build a 30000km elevatorcan arrange several well piloted flights a month with few disasters if any.
Did you see that? that was me placing my thumb to my nose with my fingers in the air and wriggling them sarcastically. "won't stick with you in a meaningful way"? I don't know about you but the "wierd al show theme song" has played in my head whenever i have needed to get a more annoying song ("Locomotion" anyone?) out of my head and i have never forgotten the words or tune despite not having heard it for several months. Nya!
Ok i really have no idea about Plasma or LCD and frankly i don't care i'm waiting for OLEDs and i can wait, my trusty CRT isn't likely to let me down before those wonderful devices arrive, both Plasma and LCD are simply stopgap measures til something truly useful arrives. and by the way it doesn't matter which is Beta and which is VHS because OLED is DVD.
I don't know about you either but i'm just thinking that perhaps it gives you a "hard-on" because like all rockets it in some superficial way resembles a giant penis.
I too disagree, the Russian space program has not been stagnant despite their budgetary shortfalls they are now designing the Klipper space craft and despite the EUs decision not to help fund the program in spite of its advantages over the CEV, they are both able to reach the moon eventually and expanded versions can reach further afield, however the Klipper is significantly cheaper and has the Russians nearly spotless record behind it. And let's not forget the joint venture between Russia and Space Adventures which aims to send the lowly Soyuz to the moon, Soyuz's original mission anyway, with paying customers aboard. Does that that not count as "phenominal" for an agency with a budget of $1 billion?
I'm in complete aggreement, there is a reason it's called a "Paper Trail" damnit. Who in their right mind goes for a machine which can be hacked or designed crooked from the start by a biased agency over an impartial piece of paper which can be counted and recounted for days and the only risk is a fraudulent ballot counter. Electronic voting is what you'd see in a banana republic if they could afford it.
a deterrent to whom i would ask? to the US? not likely if the US gov't felt it could attack another country without incurring such a death toll among its own forces it would be starting a new war every week. but this is all kind of off topic, engineering is a wonderful thing but beaurocracy is not and the two should never occur at the same time. for a good example of what happens when they do just look at the space shuttle.
indeed few would claim it's altruism but my point was that there must be a better example, why not the X-prize? and given the number of failures leading up to the eventual success of even such a minor accomplishment as a slightly self navigating vehicle would be entirely impractical when scaled up to such a magnitude as the Big Dig. though his general idea is sooo very true if gov't cared more about the voters than the campaign contributers the trouble would never have occured in the first place. Love to you all
well the Grand Challenge is not such an altruistic pursuit as it may seem let's remember that the advances in AI are at least in part intended to make automated vehicles capable of killing people without endangering american personel. at least if the Big Dig kills anyone it will be through incompetence rather than cowardice.
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the previous post said where a lot of planes don't fly not where no planes fly i'm sure a company which can build a 30000km elevatorcan arrange several well piloted flights a month with few disasters if any.
Did you see that? that was me placing my thumb to my nose with my fingers in the air and wriggling them sarcastically. "won't stick with you in a meaningful way"? I don't know about you but the "wierd al show theme song" has played in my head whenever i have needed to get a more annoying song ("Locomotion" anyone?) out of my head and i have never forgotten the words or tune despite not having heard it for several months. Nya!
Umm... perhaps you mean "lose" the race for president. As for fake environmentalist even a fake one is preferable to none at all.
Ok i really have no idea about Plasma or LCD and frankly i don't care i'm waiting for OLEDs and i can wait, my trusty CRT isn't likely to let me down before those wonderful devices arrive, both Plasma and LCD are simply stopgap measures til something truly useful arrives. and by the way it doesn't matter which is Beta and which is VHS because OLED is DVD.
I don't know about you either but i'm just thinking that perhaps it gives you a "hard-on" because like all rockets it in some superficial way resembles a giant penis.
I too disagree, the Russian space program has not been stagnant despite their budgetary shortfalls they are now designing the Klipper space craft and despite the EUs decision not to help fund the program in spite of its advantages over the CEV, they are both able to reach the moon eventually and expanded versions can reach further afield, however the Klipper is significantly cheaper and has the Russians nearly spotless record behind it. And let's not forget the joint venture between Russia and Space Adventures which aims to send the lowly Soyuz to the moon, Soyuz's original mission anyway, with paying customers aboard. Does that that not count as "phenominal" for an agency with a budget of $1 billion?
I'm in complete aggreement, there is a reason it's called a "Paper Trail" damnit. Who in their right mind goes for a machine which can be hacked or designed crooked from the start by a biased agency over an impartial piece of paper which can be counted and recounted for days and the only risk is a fraudulent ballot counter. Electronic voting is what you'd see in a banana republic if they could afford it.
Wow you're at SFU awesome i toured the Eng dept. a while ago soo freakin' nice, party on dude
a deterrent to whom i would ask? to the US? not likely if the US gov't felt it could attack another country without incurring such a death toll among its own forces it would be starting a new war every week. but this is all kind of off topic, engineering is a wonderful thing but beaurocracy is not and the two should never occur at the same time. for a good example of what happens when they do just look at the space shuttle.
indeed few would claim it's altruism but my point was that there must be a better example, why not the X-prize? and given the number of failures leading up to the eventual success of even such a minor accomplishment as a slightly self navigating vehicle would be entirely impractical when scaled up to such a magnitude as the Big Dig. though his general idea is sooo very true if gov't cared more about the voters than the campaign contributers the trouble would never have occured in the first place. Love to you all
well the Grand Challenge is not such an altruistic pursuit as it may seem let's remember that the advances in AI are at least in part intended to make automated vehicles capable of killing people without endangering american personel. at least if the Big Dig kills anyone it will be through incompetence rather than cowardice.