I just can't help but wonder how many Master and PhD degrees were accomplished with the aid of Z library.

Many books simply were/are not available anywhere else. Not from a library even let alone purchasable digital form.

Truth be known the story is probably not as cut and dry as perhaps that the DOJ would let you believe. At least in the era of Napster someone could always dig up a hardcopy of music. Not so with many academic books.

Use more 747s which carry more people i.e. more people per pilot and consolidate lesser routes until the pilot shortage eases.

It will certainly be a lot quicker than going through the rigamarole of creating and approving new tech that doesn't exist. And rushing said tech could produce the same results as a 737Max situation.

There are countless 747s ready to haul passengers tomorrow.

Let's keep Trump stories off from Slashdot. We're not really adding to the discussion about anything and I'm pretty sure we can all agree that he's a divisive personality.

Nothing really is being gained at this point other than beating dead horses.

Sure. Also to reduce population we could institute a one child only policy. Look at what China did. Proving the worth of both such a policy and the communist system that forced it on people

In case those too young don't know, both are miserable failures.

Well said. Sadly though, rather than invest and encourage the very best to apply and study at colleges no matter their sex, gender, or ethnicity liberals seem to be doing the exact opposite.

To conquer the problems associated with climate change, you're going to need to produce (I e. educate) many more engineers and scientists to create better and more efficient technologies.

What if that meant a bunch of just Asian and white men scientists in the engineering rooms at large companies??

We can't have that, now can we? That's not "diverse" enough.

Another crazy idea. Instead of a two worker household that both parents have to commute to go to work, why don't we remove 1/2 of them from the roads immediately and have them stay at home and make house instead??

But instead of doing that, liberal's energy policy is forcing the cost of goods to rapidly increase forcing more people to commute to work.

Electric cars are wonderful but expensive. A tanking economy is the last thing you want if you need people to transition to electric cars. Because people will not be able to do so if groceries increase in cost 2x. And of course there's the fantasy around generating and delivering all that non-nuclear electric energy on a grid that won't work which will come from burning nat-gas.

Also, I have not heard a peep from those controlling Congress to standardize all batteries somehow (including car batteries) and make things repairable. That'd certainly make big tech uncomfortable and that's another thing that apparently nobody wants to do.

I could have a list like this as long as my arm. But at the end of the day it really feels like that many liberals talk out of both side of their mouths. It seems they only want *their* one solution (e.g. stop drilling oil and have Santa deliver renewables) but not entertain any others.

If Democrats are truly serious that climate is the number one priority, then they'd entertain some wildly unpopular non-Democrat ideas. Instead they are working hard to make the ground fertile to plant the seeds for climate change denial and inaction.

A lot of companies are supposedly "ESG" compliant and planting forests worth of trees but yet fail to make their products not disposable. The CEA representing the worse of them!

Let's tax the h-ll out them if batteries are not consumer replaceable or at the least don't have standard screws to compartments. Or if not that then third party qualified technician repairable. Let's standardize display replacement while we're at it. Use the tax collected to fund the NIST to standardize and increase electronic repairability!

Even the conservative climate deniers in congress would go along with this because it'd finally call out the BS that the corporations and the ESG groups are beating people over the head with!

Bottom line, corporations especially electronics based need to eat their own climate change dog food!

Labor shortages are everywhere, especially in the area of pilots. By consolidating routes and carrying.twice as much using 747s airlines could alleviate their pilot shortage. Boeing, with their 747 infrastructure now in place from building Air Force One, could capitalize on this if airlines were to do so.

It would also help the airlines using 747 as freighters, because it would ease part availability problems there and also make upgrades available.

It certainly would be better than the current environment that's having airlines cancel flights due to the continuing lack of pilots.

The problem is when you blame everything and their cat and dog on worsening climate change (incorrectly) people's brains have already shut off. It has become a political agenda versus a scientific one. When it really needs to remain in the realm of science.

The other problem is the people who want to fix climate change were the ones who were in charge of Covid response. I'm quite sure there are valid questions on how that went. There are those that think the cures were worse than the disease in many respects.

There. I said it already. Does anybody remember who the second person was after Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Everest?? No, of course not. It just doesn't carry the meaning that it once had nor will it ever. Besides that, if you're looking to leave the Earth and colonize space because Earth is or will become a bad place and hence uninhabitable, anywhere in the solar system is far, far worse. The low gravity by itself will reak havoc on human biological systems faster than evolution could compensate for. And there's no fixing that with any technology I know about.

I will not even go into the fact of systems eventually going wrong and everyone listening to astronauts dying. Uneccessarily. If there's a reason to go we can send a machine to do anything a human can. And to all the space cultists out there who chant the tired refrain "but it's not the same" I'd say no it's not the same. *It's better*.

I've been a big booster of NASA my entire life. But I'm done with the so called send a man to Mars claptrap. All it is is another government agency justifying a yearly budget. Not accomplish anything great. Alternative and more meaningful projects would include increasing the size of the next generation of space telescopes, better rocket engines that would decrease probe travel time to planets (e.g. making it to Pluto in a year), and expanding the search for earth colliding asteroids and expanding the engineering to mitigate them.

The days of hassling unessarily with manned space travel need to draw to a close so that it can stop hindering real science!! It's time to send the ISS into the drink too. All astronauts are doing is chewing bubblegum and marking off orbits there now!

And this sadly is an example of liberal slander propaganda foisted on people hoping to get them to gobble it up. Don't get me wrong, Pai sure had his fair of stinkers like many political entities do.

But this isn't one of them, as it was under his leadership that the Commission moved forward to get Shaken/Stir protocol implemented that is now bringing carriers to heel.

Shaken/stir isn't the be all to end all but it's a needed start.

Unless they can fix the gyroscopes just boosting the telescope gives poor ROI. It's interesting that the telescope was engineered to be serviced by humans and not really machines. Maybe they could attach gyroscopes externally to the Hubble to use after the others fail.

Regardless, while it would be nice to save Hubble, it's unlikely to be done just by only shoving it to a higher orbit.

If women want to receive true praise and be like everybody else, maybe they could get it like men do. Which is by doing a better job than everybody else. Rather than getting praise for happening to have a va-jay-jay.

Besides that, hasn't a woman been in practically every role now that a man has yet?? When do we run out of "firsts" so we can stop with the fake accolades?? Just do your job and be good at it already whatever it might happen to be!!

Suddenly to justify the rank cash outlay countless Democrats are shouting from the roof the virtues of what is essentially "trickle down economics". A policy that has been heavily and continually lambasted since forever.

Back in the day Democrats would work with a few Republicans and actually fix the problem which created the school debt problem in the first place e.g. overpriced schools who liked sucking on government teats to buy a thick administrative layer. It just shows the complete ineptitude that the only thing Biden et al can think of is shoveling cash out. They have control of government, they could do *something" now!

This also makes me wonder what other policy from the right they might want to steal. Maybe ignoring problems with healthcare?? Again, they control Congress but I see no real progress in that area!

Let's be honest stop voting for the Democrat "cheap imitation" and vote for the real deal. A red Republican!! At least they think twice before they give money to your neighbor but not you!!

It's going to take a huge amount of traditional carbon releasing industries/transportation to both build, maintain and operate the giant wind farm. Further more, most windmail blades need to be replaced after 10 years or risk failure. In fact, many windmails are not refitted with new blades because the cost to do so is simply not economical for the ROI and that's without making hydrogen!. And let's not forget all the things that need refitting back in Germany in order to burn the hydrogen produced - which has its own giant carbon footprint.

Is this 'greenwashing' (more like greenscamming) i.e. a way to siphon money from people in order to save the planet but not really, or is it really net zero at the end of the day? As I said, I need to see the math from now on!

You can't kill something that doesn't have a soul.