Nerd smack down!
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We have laser guns, but more importantly they didn't use LASER guns in Star Wars.

I sit next to a person who LITERALLY has a droid in his pocket that can act as a translator.
I have one, but it's nexus and not a droid. So it would only figuratively be one.

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All out nuclear war will kill everyone on the planet. The math is pretty simple.
ALso, there would eb a lot of glowing embers for a while; which is what the poster was eluding to.

"Hiroshima took a direct hit by a nuclear weapon."
no. atomic weapon, not nuclear.

"How long did it take before it was perfectly save to live in Hiroshima after the nuke hit?Answer: a couple of months. "

years before it was safe, not months. Of course, you are comparing a tiny air burst atomic weapon to modern nuclear weapons. Amateur mistake.

Will we literally destroy the earth? as in a hunk of rock floating around a star? no, not literally. Can we figuratively destroy the earth? yes.
Run away greenhouse can kill everything on this planet eventually. I'd call that destroyed earth. Just like if you took a Lego building and destroyed it. sure, you still have all the pieces, but it sure as hell isn't the building you had made.

Absolutely we know that.

There was no driving factor for private interest.

NASA never lost it's way. NASA lost it's budget. IN spite of budget reductions, NASA has done amazing things, just without humans sitting in a flight deck.

"-NASA is a Government agency,"
ug, that bogey man.

While pork is an issue, the biggest reason is the NASA does a shit done more stuff.

NASA is not bloated. Most government agencies are not bloated.
Disagree? site some actuals, budgetary, and long term reports and studies, then we can talk.
What's that? you haven't read any and done comparative analysis? well I have.
so STFU until you educate yourself.

Because NASA did all the heavy lifting.
SpaceX build on what NASA did.
SpaceX does 1 thing.
SpaceX still doesn't have a viable way to make a profit.
SpaceX is still at least a decade from getting someone to ISS.

It's like asking why Ford doesn't have the same operating costs as a mechanic shop.

That's stupid, ignorant and wildly inaccurate.

Fucking morons.

Woman is just a subset of mankind. A subset of better people :)

He's another attention starved twit. I suspect an improper amount of praise from his mother.

Except it isn't true at all. Looking at the budgets. government programs are more effcient and produce better results the the private sector by a large margin.Just look at the budget reports, and EOY financials.

NO, it's not true at all. I'm sorry, but I know too any poeple working at NASA.

You got problems with NASA, talk to congress about getting them proper funding to accomplish what ever big goal you have in mind.

NASA generates a ton of revenue for the country. If they got all the tax dollar from industries the created, we would have outpost all through out the solar system ad probably be 2 decades ahead in technology.

You have confused low-skill manual labours with highly skilled tradesmen. This is very easy when you, as a general IT worker, are effectively in the former category.

It all began years ago, when cable companies started offering internet service with unbalanced bandwidth: outgoing speed was (and still is) a small fraction of the incoming speed. So began the process that has led to what we have today.

Personally, I would chart the decline to the widespread adoption of "walled-garden" tablets and smart-phones. The majority of computer users are now accepting of a situation where they have essentially no power to install software on their own devices. Thus the "Personal Computer" was turned into a passive, receive only device from a content and coding perspective.

"getting history or political science degrees?"
funny how the article says STEM, but when people need to find examples no one uses a STEM career as an example.

" I've said for years the real money lies in being a welder, plumber, or an electrician.
nope. facts do not bare that out at all.

average incomes:
welder - 32K
plumber - 26k
electrician - 39K
software - 71k
software engineer - 90k
electrical engineer - 83k
civil engineer - 78k
social scientist - 86k

way less money. You still have that pesky thing where you may have to kill people.

Nope.
College is about an education, not 'job'. The only problem is people are under the delusion that any degree will pay 6 figures and then get an easy degree.
Afterwords they are shocked, Shocked I tell you, that someone who spent 4 year learning music means they get to be a barrista.

It's fine to get a music degree, just don't whine when you have no plan on applying it.

Having a liberally educated populace is good for everyone.
well, cost is an issue to, but I'm a democratic socialist, so I think education should be paid from society. The benefits of this for society is very high.
Or at least a series of colleges that are funded via tax system.