It is an easy task--at least much easier than introducing gold nanoparticles into thousands of trees somehow. Bioluminescence genes spliced into the germline will give you completely free lighting, rather than having to spend money on nano-gold.
The funny thing is, you probably think Democrats DO.
If you want REAL change, how about we dump the two corrupt parties that got us into this mess. EVERYONE should vote third party. Don't worry about "throwing your vote away", because the two parties are the same, and things just keep getting worse the longer they stay in power.
That's great, except they STILL aren't doing it, and those attempts they do make, still cost thousands of times as much. Shit, they can't even get a human being into orbit any more. There is absolutely no reason why they shouldn't have made a super cheap, ultra light craft for delivering astronauts to the space station by now, but they haven't.
These guys are the epitome of waste and incompetence. There was a time when NASA was the best of the best, but that seems to have devolved something awful.
Since NASA can't get their shit together, I say we give their budget to those people who can, and have a chance of continuing to exist even in the absence of any government funding. That's all.
They are doing what NASA did in the 60's for 1/1000th the price.
Combine that efficiency with the full NASA budget, and you will rapidly find yourself going places. Once there is some permanent infrastructure in place, prices will be subsidized by industry (specifically mining).
Privatize NASA. Take 100% of the funding that is going to NASA right now, and create a huge series of X-Prizes, and we'll have the rest of the system colonized within a few decades, and we'll likely have our first probes headed toward the nearest star with potentially habitable planets on the same time scale.
Once we confirm "M-class" planets, we'll be ready to send manned probes.
I'd hope not. For most of the papers and grants coming out of our lab, we use the same introduction, and many of the procedures are the same, so many sections are just cut and pasted with a few words changed here or there to fit the particular experiment or project we were working on. It would be a major pain in the ass if we had to start rewriting that crap every time.
This sounds like a theoretical basis for a warp drive. If that which is massless can be made to have mass, one could imagine a strip of graphene that rolls up to form a nanotube further up the strip. Put a charge on the array and you create mass, which will fall back toward the bulk of the ship. when it falls out of the nanotube and back into the graphene, the mass disappears, leaving you with net forward thrust Find a way to dynamically zip/unzip the nanotube, and you should be able to use a flow of current going toward your ship and flowing into and out of the nanotube/graphene transition to produce net thrust. If both materials happen to be superconducting, then you get thrust with NO ENERGY INPUT. With no energy input required, FTL might become possible, as your acceleration is due to gravity rather than thrust, and the increase in mass cancels because the device producing the thrust is gaining mass in direct proportion.
It seems fantastical, but if the theory and math are correct, it might just be true.
Well, there's pretty much only one way you can stop a truck with an F-22, and it doesn't exactly take a rocket scientist to figure it out (though they were instrumental in making it work!).
Also, Dvorak is clearly superior to QWERTY, and Linux and Mac are clearly superior to Windoze, yet you NEVER see a Dvorak keyboard, and Linux and Mac are still a minority against MS's majority. Successful marketing tie-ins with monopolistic organizations != superior product.
In my elementary-high school UIL calculator club, everyone used RPN, because it was, in fact, consistently faster will less chance of mistake. I don't think anyone ever went past the district level using Ti's at any level higher than 6th or 7th grade. After that, ~100% RPN.
Make a game out of it and they'll clamor to learn all about it.
I learned 10x more from Civilization (and the research I did on my own making historically accurate start maps) than I learned from all of the history classes I took K-college. Probably logged more hours on it too.
The only problem with that is that it cuts the amount of time kids need to be in school in half. Can't have 13 year olds entering the workforce. Dey wud tkderjobs if they did.
No, stupid. You get enough energy and you start colonizing the stars.
Take your disproven Malthusian crap and stick it up your ass. You don't know better than everyone else. Compared to the aggregate of individual choices made by everyone, each individual person is just plain stupid, which is why central planning can never work.
If you have enough energy, you can grow an infinite amount of food with grow lamps. You don't even need the sun anymore. Energy is the ONLY limit to life. The amount of energy that exists is practically unlimited. We need only develop the technology to exploit it. That is what Malthus failed to understand when he called for forced abortions and "human downsizing" to prevent a "mass starvation" that never came.
Funny how most people think of using superpowers for frivolous things like saving people caught in bad situations (certainly noble to do if you happen upon them, but not something to spend your life pursuing). If I had the powers of Superman, I would ask that someone construct a gigantic energy sink, which I would expend some of my unlimited energy into, and sell it at an ultra cheap rate to the whole world. No need to use superpowers for much of anything other than that, as the money flowing in from that would let me do anything I wanted to without use of superpowers (though traveling through the galaxy/universe might be fun). With enough cheap/free energy, you would raise the standard of living of the whole world, and could do so in a manner that does not cause over-dependance on you (ie, much of that energy could go into research on how to generate cheap/free power without having superman charging up a giant ultracapacitor once a day--think automated factories that produce nearly free solar cells from sand using the vast amount of free energy from Superman).
Of course, if you couldn't control your power, and an angry table pounding cracks the Earth in two, then of course you should refuse them, or commit to living out in space.
Also, trollmods are trolls. I guess ideologically based murder is hilarious, and I should just get over it. Don't worry, it could never happen here. This time, it'll be different. Americans are exceptional and different from any other people on Earth after all. They would never propose to murder people based on their ideology.
What was that about American citizens being targeted for extra-judicial assassination because of their Islamic beliefs? I think that must have just been an SNL skit.
You must be new to America. There is only one party, with two wings. The name of the greater party is the Fascist party. The left wing talks all about freedom, stopping torture, getting out of wars, etc, but when they get into power, they stop talking about those things, and turn their focus onto nationalizing the economy. The right wing talks about getting government off our backs, lowering taxes, individual freedoms, but when they get into office they concentrate on cracking down on any form of political dissent with brute force.
It is this continuous ratcheting action that has brought us to where we are today.
You know what else makes for great humor? Extraordinary rendition. Free speech zones. Increasing levels of police brutality. The PATRIOT Act. Naked pictures of you and your kids at airports. Suspension of Habeus corpus. The fact that we are still in a "state of emergency" since 9/11.
What the fuck else do you need to see before you understand that we are sliding into full on fascism under BOTH FUCKING POLITICAL PARTIES!? A goddamn tank column rolling down your street with goose-steppers parading alongside? Wake the fuck up.
No, the one where they manipulated the statistical analysis programming to create false results, causing a hockey stick graph to form no matter what the inputs were.
Also, I would like to know by what mechanism carbon dioxide increases the heat retention of the atmosphere, from a physics and/or physical chemistry perspective. I ask this because when I made the calculations, I found that the heat capacity of carbon dioxide is actually BELOW the average of other atmospheric gasses, and significantly below the average when you take water vapor into account. Indeed, the variation in humidity on the surface of the Earth seems to have a much greater effect on heat retention, so much so that any possible effect of carbon dioxide would be nothing more than noise.
That is not to say that increased water vapor isn't caused by human activity, but at least that is something that can be remedied without impoverishing the world, or embarking on a worldwide Manhattan Project to increase the amount of power generated by nuclear reactors 10-fold+. The latter of which, I would support, by the way.
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It is an easy task--at least much easier than introducing gold nanoparticles into thousands of trees somehow. Bioluminescence genes spliced into the germline will give you completely free lighting, rather than having to spend money on nano-gold.
The funny thing is, you probably think Democrats DO.
If you want REAL change, how about we dump the two corrupt parties that got us into this mess. EVERYONE should vote third party. Don't worry about "throwing your vote away", because the two parties are the same, and things just keep getting worse the longer they stay in power.
That's great, except they STILL aren't doing it, and those attempts they do make, still cost thousands of times as much. Shit, they can't even get a human being into orbit any more. There is absolutely no reason why they shouldn't have made a super cheap, ultra light craft for delivering astronauts to the space station by now, but they haven't.
These guys are the epitome of waste and incompetence. There was a time when NASA was the best of the best, but that seems to have devolved something awful.
Since NASA can't get their shit together, I say we give their budget to those people who can, and have a chance of continuing to exist even in the absence of any government funding. That's all.
They are doing what NASA did in the 60's for 1/1000th the price.
Combine that efficiency with the full NASA budget, and you will rapidly find yourself going places. Once there is some permanent infrastructure in place, prices will be subsidized by industry (specifically mining).
Privatize NASA. Take 100% of the funding that is going to NASA right now, and create a huge series of X-Prizes, and we'll have the rest of the system colonized within a few decades, and we'll likely have our first probes headed toward the nearest star with potentially habitable planets on the same time scale.
Once we confirm "M-class" planets, we'll be ready to send manned probes.
I think the scale is about the same as Kitty Hawk to Mars.
I think we can handle it. Especially if there are hot blue and/or green alien women there.
I'd hope not. For most of the papers and grants coming out of our lab, we use the same introduction, and many of the procedures are the same, so many sections are just cut and pasted with a few words changed here or there to fit the particular experiment or project we were working on. It would be a major pain in the ass if we had to start rewriting that crap every time.
This sounds like a theoretical basis for a warp drive. If that which is massless can be made to have mass, one could imagine a strip of graphene that rolls up to form a nanotube further up the strip. Put a charge on the array and you create mass, which will fall back toward the bulk of the ship. when it falls out of the nanotube and back into the graphene, the mass disappears, leaving you with net forward thrust Find a way to dynamically zip/unzip the nanotube, and you should be able to use a flow of current going toward your ship and flowing into and out of the nanotube/graphene transition to produce net thrust. If both materials happen to be superconducting, then you get thrust with NO ENERGY INPUT. With no energy input required, FTL might become possible, as your acceleration is due to gravity rather than thrust, and the increase in mass cancels because the device producing the thrust is gaining mass in direct proportion.
It seems fantastical, but if the theory and math are correct, it might just be true.
Well, there's pretty much only one way you can stop a truck with an F-22, and it doesn't exactly take a rocket scientist to figure it out (though they were instrumental in making it work!).
So you're saying the Earth is flat?
Finally, vindication for the flat Earthers!
What, you've never fallen through a dimensional gateway into a primitive planet, or into the distant past?
Also, Dvorak is clearly superior to QWERTY, and Linux and Mac are clearly superior to Windoze, yet you NEVER see a Dvorak keyboard, and Linux and Mac are still a minority against MS's majority. Successful marketing tie-ins with monopolistic organizations != superior product.
In my elementary-high school UIL calculator club, everyone used RPN, because it was, in fact, consistently faster will less chance of mistake. I don't think anyone ever went past the district level using Ti's at any level higher than 6th or 7th grade. After that, ~100% RPN.
Make a game out of it and they'll clamor to learn all about it.
I learned 10x more from Civilization (and the research I did on my own making historically accurate start maps) than I learned from all of the history classes I took K-college. Probably logged more hours on it too.
The only problem with that is that it cuts the amount of time kids need to be in school in half. Can't have 13 year olds entering the workforce. Dey wud tkderjobs if they did.
No, stupid. You get enough energy and you start colonizing the stars.
Take your disproven Malthusian crap and stick it up your ass. You don't know better than everyone else. Compared to the aggregate of individual choices made by everyone, each individual person is just plain stupid, which is why central planning can never work.
If you have enough energy, you can grow an infinite amount of food with grow lamps. You don't even need the sun anymore. Energy is the ONLY limit to life. The amount of energy that exists is practically unlimited. We need only develop the technology to exploit it. That is what Malthus failed to understand when he called for forced abortions and "human downsizing" to prevent a "mass starvation" that never came.
Funny how most people think of using superpowers for frivolous things like saving people caught in bad situations (certainly noble to do if you happen upon them, but not something to spend your life pursuing). If I had the powers of Superman, I would ask that someone construct a gigantic energy sink, which I would expend some of my unlimited energy into, and sell it at an ultra cheap rate to the whole world. No need to use superpowers for much of anything other than that, as the money flowing in from that would let me do anything I wanted to without use of superpowers (though traveling through the galaxy/universe might be fun). With enough cheap/free energy, you would raise the standard of living of the whole world, and could do so in a manner that does not cause over-dependance on you (ie, much of that energy could go into research on how to generate cheap/free power without having superman charging up a giant ultracapacitor once a day--think automated factories that produce nearly free solar cells from sand using the vast amount of free energy from Superman).
Of course, if you couldn't control your power, and an angry table pounding cracks the Earth in two, then of course you should refuse them, or commit to living out in space.
Also, trollmods are trolls. I guess ideologically based murder is hilarious, and I should just get over it. Don't worry, it could never happen here. This time, it'll be different. Americans are exceptional and different from any other people on Earth after all. They would never propose to murder people based on their ideology.
What was that about American citizens being targeted for extra-judicial assassination because of their Islamic beliefs? I think that must have just been an SNL skit.
Yes, but no-one is making any jokes about drinking water, now are they?
They also killed millions of people occasionally.
You must be new to America. There is only one party, with two wings. The name of the greater party is the Fascist party. The left wing talks all about freedom, stopping torture, getting out of wars, etc, but when they get into power, they stop talking about those things, and turn their focus onto nationalizing the economy. The right wing talks about getting government off our backs, lowering taxes, individual freedoms, but when they get into office they concentrate on cracking down on any form of political dissent with brute force.
It is this continuous ratcheting action that has brought us to where we are today.
You know what else makes for great humor? Extraordinary rendition. Free speech zones. Increasing levels of police brutality. The PATRIOT Act. Naked pictures of you and your kids at airports. Suspension of Habeus corpus. The fact that we are still in a "state of emergency" since 9/11.
What the fuck else do you need to see before you understand that we are sliding into full on fascism under BOTH FUCKING POLITICAL PARTIES!? A goddamn tank column rolling down your street with goose-steppers parading alongside? Wake the fuck up.
Funny. When Bush was in power, people got mad at me because I "sounded like a liberal".
I'm a libertarian. Since I am outside the left-right paradigm, I can see the slide we are taking into fascism.
Uhhh, I hate to tell you, but those people aren't in power.
No, the one where they manipulated the statistical analysis programming to create false results, causing a hockey stick graph to form no matter what the inputs were.
Yes, what do the other 3%, 16%, and 26% think?
Also, I would like to know by what mechanism carbon dioxide increases the heat retention of the atmosphere, from a physics and/or physical chemistry perspective. I ask this because when I made the calculations, I found that the heat capacity of carbon dioxide is actually BELOW the average of other atmospheric gasses, and significantly below the average when you take water vapor into account. Indeed, the variation in humidity on the surface of the Earth seems to have a much greater effect on heat retention, so much so that any possible effect of carbon dioxide would be nothing more than noise.
That is not to say that increased water vapor isn't caused by human activity, but at least that is something that can be remedied without impoverishing the world, or embarking on a worldwide Manhattan Project to increase the amount of power generated by nuclear reactors 10-fold+. The latter of which, I would support, by the way.