Comment Re:Why not? (Score 2) 292
If we had the ability to build anything of this scale on the Moon and keep it habitable, sending back 25 PB/year would be trivial in comparison.
If we had the ability to build anything of this scale on the Moon and keep it habitable, sending back 25 PB/year would be trivial in comparison.
How many children died last year in car crashes? Will you give up your car for the children?
When a driverless alternative exists, I would gladly give up my "freedom" to drive. We kill the shit out of ourselves with cars, and just about any driverless system would greatly reduce casualties.
this is why we need oversight or regulation or unions (or all 3).
Unfortunately, we'll have to drag the reactionary wingnuts in the U.S. kicking and screaming every step of the way. Unions and labor rights are a part of the constitution of many other first-world nations; that's how far behind the curve the U.S. currently is.
We have too many people in the U.S. that blame the government for things their employers do to them. You would think they'd learn by now...
Atheist world leaders...
Don't forget mustaches. World leaders with mustaches commit atrocities in the name of facial hair.
I've seen too many University grads who assume that a piece of paper means they are more intelligent, wise, and skillful than someone without one even if that person has years of experience; not understanding that such an attitude belies those assumptions.
More specifically, employers think a piece of paper is everything and they have absolute control of decent wages.
In the U.S., experience still seems to mean something.
Unfortunately, with zero experience, there are hardly any employers that will hire you without a degree. Employers need to start taking responsibility for workforce training again.
Most of the world isn't participating in the U.S. elections*.
*Unless they're trans-national corporations, courtesy of the Citizens United decision.
Yer gonna need a nerd diode for that.
I prefer a passive-aggressive design; it can be arrogant in more extreme conditions.
However, I don't think this is a "solution" to the problem of energy in the future. It will produce some, but not all of our needs, and there will be significant energy inputs required to make it work.
The era of plentiful natural fossil fuel reserves will end. With that in mind, we have to start thinking about liquid fuels like ethanol as energy storage. It will take significant energy input to make any highly-energy-dense substance, but we can use that process to capture vast amounts of energy (solar, nuclear fission, fusion?!?) for use in those internal-combustion clunkers.
That said, we will be far more worried about the abysmal efficiency of internal combustion engines if we think of the fuel as chemical energy storage.
The only question I
ever thought was hard
is "Do I like Kirk?
Or do I like Picard?"
If I had to place my bets on the effectiveness of fighting a pandemic with science or "personal responsibility", I'd choose science.
Show me ONE climate model that has accurately predicted anything, ever.
With impossibly high standards like yours, it's a wonder any other physical model still holds up.
QED, for instance, will never accurately predict where a photon is going to land, but it will give you the probability of a photon hitting a specific area. Probability is a huge part of science and no scientist will tell you anything is 100% certain. Very high certainty for a range of conditions is what a model is intended to provide.
Do the letters FO mean anything to you?
Faroe Islands...? Is there a conspiracy between them and Halliburton I'm not in on? I can't keep up with the mentally ill and their wacky conspiracy theories these days.
So does that mean my Adblock Plus/NoScript combo is killing jobs?
If so, I'm too satisfied with my ad-free internet to really give a damn.
I heard that Stallman once killed a girl in 1990 (He never specifically denied it.) This reflects very poorly on Linus as a FOSS contributor.
If everybody reading this goes in and makes a dislike of that video and others of that so called religion then at least we made a statement.
A statement too easily reversed if the uploader just decides to disable comments and voting.
"Who alone has reason to *lie himself out* of actuality? He who *suffers* from it." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
